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• Ambiguity resolution of adults with low literacy 

  Steen, Allison Ann (2016-12-07)

  Considerable evidence from lexical decision and speeded recognition paradigms has suggested that (a) even in sentence context, multiple meanings of ambiguous words (i.e., homographs) are activated, but quickly suppressed, ...

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• A comparative study of the traditional Calculus course vs. the Calculus & Mathematica course 

  Park, Kyungmee (1993)

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• Generations: a tapestry of literacy traditions in an African-American family 

  Byrd, Kelly M (2015-12-03)

  Definitions of literacy conform to a model that views literacy as a set of skills reflected by a child’s scores on large-scale tests, which are favored in public schools (Street, 1995). Children from culturally diverse ...

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• Scientia est propentia: school personnel perceptions of their role in empowering a college-going culture among low-income African-American students in a mid-size, public school district 

  Baker, Gianina Renee (2015-12-04)

  Few studies have conducted research examining how the contextual layers that inform an organization’s habitus influence a school district’s college-going culture for its low-income African American students. This qualitative ...

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• Snapshots to re-imagine teacher quality in southern Chile 

  Hidalgo Standen, Maria Carolina (2015-11-25)

  Considering the important role of teachers in improving learning outcomes, teacher evaluation is considered a priority for educational policy makers. This dissertation addresses three issues related with teacher quality ...

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