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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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To Group or Not to Group: A Qualitative Study of Middle School Principals' Decision Making Processes Concerning Ability Level Grouping.

Stroud, Linda B. 04 May 2002 (has links)
The topic of ability level grouping of students for instructional purposes is one of the most studied areas of research in educational literature. However, because of the inconclusive findings in the literature, no clear answer to the question of whether homogeneous or heterogeneous grouping is in the best educational interest of students has been established. Middle level administrators play a particularly important role in the debate concerning the use of ability grouping in individual schools because the pattern for future educational tracks of students is established at the middle level. An exploration of the factors that affect the decision making processes of middle school principals concerning whether to implement homogeneous versus heterogeneous grouping was deemed to be important in lending understanding to practitioners in the field faced with the responsibility of implementation of middle school programming. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the factors that influence middle level principals in the east Tennessee region when deciding to implement homogeneous or heterogeneous grouping of students in their schools. Data were collected through a series of audio taped interviews and transcribed for inductive analysis. Themes that emerged from the data analysis of the open-ended interviews were deducted into findings presented within the context of reviewed literature. The impact of student achievement, standardized test accountability, social factors that affect students, the perceptions of teachers and parents, programming for special education and gifted students, the impact of educational research, and the personal philosophies of the research participants concerning homogeneous versus heterogeneous instruction emerged as influential themes that affected principals' decisions to implement ability level grouping. Specific recommendations for educational practice included the implementation of ability grouping at the middle level exclusively in the areas of mathematics, language, and reading, flexible scheduling that allows for movement of students between groups, and changing the yearly assignment of teachers to a specific ability group for instruction. The need for additional quantitative and qualitative research was also suggested.
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Fångarnas kör : Musikgymnasiets obligatoriska körsång och dess påverkan på de köroerfarna eleverna

Aaron Johansson, Elias January 2022 (has links)
Detta examensarbete har, inspirerat av diskursteori, syftat till att fördjupa kunskaper om körmetodik för erfarenhetsmässigt blandade körgrupper. Utgångspunkterna har varit ämnena motivation, frivillig kontra obligatorisk musikundervisning, enskilt och kollektivt musicerande, Self Determination Theory, nivågruppering, gamifiering, skolans roll i samhället, körmetodik, genrer, relationellt arbete och musikens potential till emotionella uttrycksformer, om hur stor vikt det har för unga och vuxna musikutövare. Sex musikgymnasieelever med skilda genreinriktningar och huvudinstrument har intervjuats i två halvstrukturerade gruppintervjuer. Några av samtalsämnena var vad som var mest respektive minst stimulerande i sin obligatoriska körundervisning, och hur eleverna har påverkats som musiker av kören. Resultatet visar på att eleverna har blivit bättre notläsning och gehör, och att de har upplevt undervisningen som musikaliskt givande och lärorik när repertoaren varit stimulerande, repetitionstempot väl avvägt och när repetitioner och konserter har varit roliga att vara med om, på grund av en hög musikalisk nivå. Eleverna har upplevt väntan på andra stämmor som repeterar, ostimulerande repertoar, lektionstid på sena fredagar och för snabbt repetitionstempo i större icke nivågrupperade körgrupper som några av de största problemen. I diskussionen och slutsatserna fastställs, utefter detta examensarbetes omfattning, att ämnesdidaktiskt kompetenta körpedagoger, gott relationellt arbete, nivågruppering, välanpassade repertoarval, inslag av fysisk aktivitet, samt improvisation och komposition är några av verktygen som kan bidra till stärkt motivation och lärande i körsångsundervisning.

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