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The Effect of Online Discussion Board Frequency on Student Performance in Adult Learners
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Selhorst, Adam L.; Bao, Mingzhen; Williams, Lorraine; Klein, Eric – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2017
Classroom discussion boards are a vital part of the online educational experience, providing a venue for peer to peer and student to faculty interactions. However, institutional feedback from students at a large open enrollment university has shown that excess focus on online discussions may lead to fatigue, resulting in lower student…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Computer Mediated Communication, Adult Students, Feedback (Response)
Effects of Increased Parental Knowledge of Development of Children with Disabilities
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Susman, Louisa – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research addresses the link between parental competence, specifically the characteristic of parental knowledge, and its influence on their child with a disability's participation in age-appropriate activities through their influence on the physical and social home environment. This study examined pathways through which parents mediate…
Descriptors: Competence, Knowledge Level, Parents, Disabilities
A Study of Prior Learning Assessment in Degree Completion
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Chappell, Jean Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of prior learning assessment (PLA) in postsecondary degree completion for adult community college students at Mountwest Community and Technical College (MCTC). The study group consisted of 339 MCTC graduates, who applied PLA credits toward degree completion between the academic year 2006 and 2011.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Prior Learning, Adult Students, Two Year College Students
English Learning Predictors of Listening and Speaking Self-Efficacy for Adult Second Language Learners
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Grafals, Zoraida – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was twofold. First, this study was conducted to compare English communicative competency achievement between two different models of instruction. Adult English language learners (AELLs) participated in either the communicative task-based (CTB) or in a more traditional (MT) language instructional approach. The goal of the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Control Groups
You Can Teach Old Dogs New Tricks: The Factors that Affect Changes over Time in Digital Literacy
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Eshet-Alkalai, Yoram; Chajut, Eran – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2010
The expansion of digital technologies and the rapid changes they undergo through time face users with new cognitive, social, and ergonomic challenges that they need to master in order to perform effectively. In recent years, following empirical reports on performance differences between different age-groups, there is a debate in the research…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Computer Literacy, Information Skills, Cognitive Development
Tongue Measures in Individuals with Normal and Impaired Swallowing
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Stierwalt, Julie A. G.; Youmans, Scott R. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2007
Purpose: This investigation sought to add to the extant literature on measures of normal tongue function, to provide information on measures of tongue function in a group of individuals with oral phase dysphagia, and to provide a comparison of these 2 groups matched for age and gender. Method: The Iowa Oral Performance Instrument was utilized to…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Investigations, Student Evaluation