This study first identifies the areas of greatest perceived difficulty for native English speakers learning Mandarin Chinese at the secondary level. Then, the study identifies commonly used Chinese character learning ...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether parent involvement would improve reading comprehension of prekindergarten students over a four week period. The measurement tool was an informal reading inventory assessment. ...

One of the major problems athletes face when entering college is athletic eligibility. Many perspective college athletes do not have the necessary minimum 2.0 grade point average (GPA) that the National Collegiate Athletic ...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether reading articles about careers of interest versus general careers would be related to secondary students’ reading comprehension or affect their interest in pursuing ...

The purpose of this study was to determine if augmenting the Houghton Mifflin reading program with a Reader’s Theater program would improve the fluency of fourth grade students . The measurement tool was the Fountas & ...

The purpose of this study was to determine if the method of instruction has an effect on the phonics achievement of kindergarten students. Group one (2012–2013) received instruction which focused on learning letter names ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of a prior school experience on the academic achievement of kindergarten students at the beginning of the school year. Using a causal-comparative design, the study examined ...

The purpose of this study is was to determine whether fifth -grade students can improve upon their social skills by participating in an intervention in which their physical education teacher explaining explains the game ...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether an after school tutoring session had an impact on standardized test scores for 7th grade students. The study used a quasiexperimental pretest/posttest design to determine ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of teaching encoding instruction during spelling lessons in comparison to also integrating decoding instruction in order to strengthen the word attack skills of ...