The findings in this study are headed by the research questions under
investigation. The answer to each question is presented by compiling participants’
statements, synthesizing the data, and at times includes exact participant(s)
statements (shown in italics) to assist in clarification.
Research Question 1: What do teachers of high school-level business courses
perceive to be the defining characteristics of integration, literacy and interventions?
Participants indicated that integration was characterized by bringing, combining,
or adding content-knowledge like MLA format, APA format, the mathematical
order of operations (included as a result of the order of interview questions, the
study had not yet focused on reading literacy), and/or constructing complete
sentences into business content such as the teaching of keyboarding, computer
technology, and consumer economics. Integration might also be characterized by
bringing, combining, or adding content-skills like addition and/or skills needed to
write a multi-page paper.