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Appendices...
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perspective about the HLEs of ELLs from low-SES families. The instruments used to collect
data for this study are located in Appendices A through D.
The tasks that were completed in sequential order to accomplish the purpose of the...
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Appendix B
Home-Visit Appointment Letters in English and Spanish
February 22, 2011
Dear Parents,
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to conduct a home visit! What I learn from this experience will enhance
your child’s learning in the...
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Table of Contents
Abstract i
Acknowledgements ii
Chapter
1) Rationale 7
a) Background 10
2) Review of Literature 25
a) Polygamy 25
b) Power Differentiation 28
c) Co-cultural Theory 34
3) Method 39
a) Ethnography 39
b)...
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Chapter 2: Review of Literature
In order to clearly organize the literature to be reviewed, I organized the literature into three categories, (a) polygamy, (b) power differentiation, and (c) co-cultural...
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Chapter 6: References Anderson, J. M. (1979). The polygamy story: Fiction and fact (first ed.). N.p.: Publishers Press.
Ardener, E. (1978). Some outstanding problems in the analysis of events. In G. Schwinner (Ed.), The...
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Darger, J., Darger, A., Darger, Va., Darger, Vi., & Adams, B. (2011). Love times three: Our true story of a polygamous marriage. New York, NY: HarperOne.
Davis, A. D. (2010, December). Regulating polygamy: Intimacy, default...
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Levitt, S. D., & Dubner, S. J. (2005). Freakonomics: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything (Revised and Expanded ed., pp. 163-188). New York, NY: William Morrow.
Littlejohn, S. W., & Foss, K. A. (2011)....
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Philipsen, G. (1992). Speaking culturally: Explorations in social communication. Albany, NY: State University of New York.
Philipsen, G. (1997). A theory of speech codes. In G. Philipsen & T. Albrecht (Eds.),
Developing...
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (2001). Doctrine and covenants student manual (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City, UT: Church Educational System. Utah/Arizona Attorney General's Offices. (2009). The primer: A...
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction 1
Chapter 2: Literature Review 7
The Successful and Unsuccessful Student 7
Hardships and Solutions of Math Homework 10
Effective Math Teachings 14
The Importance of Communication between Schools,...
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parents end up doing the bulk of the homework assignments in order to simply just get it
done (Simplicio, 2005).
Policies and practices that have formed consistent positive results regarding math
homework are: “(a) Homework must help students...
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In this chapter the researcher will compare performance characteristics during
three units of math instruction. The first unit of math instruction is focused on observing
the academic behavior of the selected students with basic in-class...
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Table 1
Percentage improvement on basic skills test from end of 5th grade to the end of 1st quarter
of 6th grade
Basic Skills Test
Student A Student B Student C Student D
Percentage improvement 1.0 7.0 -1.0 -3.0
On basic skills test
Homework
The...
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Figure 2. Daily Homework Assignments
Table 2
Individual Student Improvement On Homework Assignments Over Three Units Of Math
Instruction
Daily Homework Assignments
Student A Student B student C Student C
Percentage improvement 41.0 62.0 45.0...
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During the first unit of math the researcher provided no extra help after class on
the concept that was being taught during the day. The second and third units taught were
done in conjunction with an extra math class for those four students...
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Assessments
At the end of each unit the researcher administered an assessment to evaluate the
level of proficiency students had on the current concept. Throughout the first unit the
researcher did not provide any additional math instruction....
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multiplying, and dividing of decimals, number sense, basic algebraic understanding, and
simple adding and subtracting of fractions.
The fifth grade basic skills results were high in relation to the scores of their
initial sixth grade test, and...