The purpose of this study was to examine the impacts of job-embedded professional development on teacher perception of student achievement. The measurement tools were two surveys. One done prior to the implementation of ...

The purpose of this study was to determine if participation on an intercollegiate men’s lacrosse team would impact the academic performance of students. Data was gathered from the 2012, 2013 and 2014 academic years and ...

The purposes of this study were to determine whether a relationship exists between students’ goal orientation (performance or mastery) and their performance on written English Language Arts (ELA) responses to reading ...

The purpose of this study is to describe parent perceptions of school involvement with their ninth grade students. The tool used to measure involvement was the Parent Involvement Survey created by the researcher. The parents ...

This study examined the impact of two interventions, Accelerated Math (AM) and Response to Intervention (RTI), on at-risk 6th grade students’ mathematics achievement. Participants with similar mathematics skills and who ...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether third grade students identified as gifted or highly able would have higher levels of achievement on unit tests in mathematics if they were instructed in small groups as ...

This study focused on the effect of in-class exercise prior to a lesson on first graders’ attention span. The null hypothesis was that exercise would not significantly alter the student’s ability to maintain a longer ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of teaching select reading strategies on academic achievement of fifth grade students in the area of reading comprehension. For this quasi-experimental study, students ...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the impact of instruction using technology influenced the math achievement of fourth grade students. The measurement tool was the Baltimore County Public Schools Grade 4 ...

This correlational study examined the relationships between perceptions parental involvement, beliefs about work and achievement, and students’ academic achievement. Previous research indicates that parental involvement ...