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students’ short attention spans” (Furner, et. al., 2005, p. 16). If educators understand how
students learn and take advantage of the knowledge gained it encourages the pupils to be better
students. So what is a better student? A better...
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Strongly disagree
Neither
Strongly agree
March May
18. I worry my math classes
will be hard
Males
Females
Both
Figure 4.27. Comparison between March and May, “I worry math classes will be hard”, Males,
Females, Both.
Males’ attitudes...
98
The final learning style surveyed, intrapersonal, showed fewer males with a preference of
working alone. The educator, during her years of teaching, has observed that boys chose to work
alone rather than with other students. After the...
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Table 3
How Barriers to School Gardens were Overcome for Garden Success
A Likert scale was used to test this thesis’ hypothesis that the barriers to school
gardens in public, suburban school districts were lack of (a) growing time or climate,...
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Table
2
Percentage
of
Student
Engagement
After
Physical
Education
Color
group
Number
of
minutes
into
the
lesson
Blue
Red
Green
Yellow
5
minutes
100%
96.5%
96.5%
96.5%
10
minutes
92%
93%
96.5%
100%
15
minutes
96%
96.5%
100%
100%
20
minutes
92%
93%...
Commitment 44
I thought she was not only pretty, but a neat person.” Taryn provided greater clarity to the
gradual process that occurred in their relationship when she said the following:
Just looking back through all those qualities that I had...