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Nguyen, Mai Nhu; Fichten, Catherine; King, Laura; Barile, Maria; Mimouni, Zohra; Havel, Alice; Raymond, Odette; Juhel, Jean-Charles; Jorgensen, Shirley; Chauvin, Alexandre; Gutberg, Jennifer; Budd, Jillian; Hewlett, Maureen; Heiman, Tali; Gaulin, Chris; Asuncion, Jennison – Online Submission, 2013
Junior / community college students who have learning disabilities (LD), such as dyslexia, often do not maximize their use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for school work. They do not use many of these technologies nor do they know as much about them as other students. These are the results of an Adaptech Research Network…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Needs Students, Learning Disabilities, Questionnaires
Tualla, Larry Tech – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation reports on an action research study that sought to discover how a new WiFi, tablet computing device, the Apple iPad, affected, enhanced, and impacted student engagement in an English Honors course at Scottsdale Community College. The researcher was also the instructor in the two semester, first-year, college composition sequence…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Honors Curriculum, Educational Technology, Action Research
Morris, Terry Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Successful completion of online courses by community college students is an issue both at the national and local level. The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to explore community college student perceptions of online learning within the theoretical construct of the Community of Inquiry model, which describes the manner in…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Feedback (Response), Online Courses, Data Analysis
Regalado, Maria Carmen – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study investigates how community college students' current levels of computer technology competence, confidence and attitudes toward technology in learning at a community college are affected by current access to technology and by demographic characteristics as well as by past experiences with computer technology. The research questions…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Ethnicity, Student Attitudes, Troubleshooting
Emig, Christa – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The study sought to test the hypotheses that effective, guided discussions that facilitate meaningful dialogue about math anxiety would reduce levels of math anxiety in college algebra students, and would enhance course performance and course retention at a large community college in South Texas. The study was quantitative with a qualitative…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Mathematics Anxiety, Effect Size
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Petrides, Lisa A.; McClelland, Sara I. – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 2007
This study examines the impact of a new Decision-Support System (DSS) on decision making in a community college in California. It looks at how attitudes and behaviors about data and their use were impacted by the implementation of a new DSS. The study found that the decentralization of data, through the DSS, produced a shift in terms of an…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Decision Making, Data, Decision Support Systems