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Donna Holly Park – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Finding ways to motivate learners in online courses can be difficult when the interaction between the instructor and the learner is conducted through written text. The use of syllabi is an important component to help guide learners and provide them with course expectations. A poorly written or misinterpreted syllabus can contribute to a negative…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Course Descriptions, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation
Marc David Holmes – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In 1964, Deaf and hearing stakeholders convened at Ball State Teachers College in Muncie, Indiana, to discuss the state of signed language interpreting in the United States. One topic of discussion was the competencies these interpreters should exhibit. Four decades later, Witter-Merithew and Johnson (2005) described American Sign Language…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Accreditation (Institutions), Standards, Second Language Learning
Noyes, Julie Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2019
One of the greatest challenges in veterinary education is adequately preparing students with the clinical skills they need to be successful healthcare providers. Integration of simulation-based medical education (SBME) approaches into the veterinary curriculum can help address challenges to clinical instruction. The SBME model of learning aims to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Medical Education, Simulation
Jones, Lois Tellefsen – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study was conducted to understand the influence of individual mindfulness, and the impact of motivation in the form of positive language on mindset, with students who have deficiencies in math. Students with academic deficiencies enrolled in co-requisite statistics courses, with required workshops attached to the course to remediate the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Mathematics, Learning Problems, Learning Motivation
Tippett, Stephen H. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The Arcadia University Preview Program for First Year and Transfer Students (Preview) is a program design built into the university curriculum to allow all First Year and Transfer Students the opportunity to study abroad. The Previews are an institution-wide strategy of academic and administrative procedures to provide an action to meet the…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Course Descriptions, Instructional Design, Questionnaires
Feinberg, Daniel A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined the supports that female students sought out and found of value in an online database design course in a health informatics master's program. A target outcome was to help inform the practice of faculty and administrators in similar programs. Health informatics is a growing field that has faced shortages of qualified workers who…
Descriptors: Females, Student Attitudes, Databases, Information Systems
Baker, Peter B. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The research project described herein was designed to measure teacher education students' epistemological beliefs. Teacher education students' epistemological beliefs were compared according to participants' academic and demographic characteristics as well as characteristics of the courses in which students are enrolled at the time of study data…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics, Course Descriptions
Hertel, Nichole L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation dually explores the topics of classroom management theory as it occurs in teacher preparation programs in American colleges of education and of curriculum syllabus design of undergraduate education classes teaching such. It begins with the classroom management and teaching pedagogical knowledges gained through my experience as a…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Course Descriptions, Educational Change, Undergraduate Students
Prior, Susan Vivienne – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Effective writing skills are important for success in college, work, and for society. Although there is little argument about the importance of communication skills, there is more debate about whether or not students and graduates are actually attaining these skills. An examination of the impact of completing the college composition course on…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Writing Skills, Writing (Composition), Freshman Composition
Mitchell, Sarah Kathleen – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Dual-enrollment programs allow high school students to enroll in college-level classes to gain college and high school credit concurrently. Research on how online, dual-enrolled high school students (DES) construct knowledge when compared with online community college students (CCS) is needed to help administrators determine the design,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dual Enrollment, High School Students, Cognitive Processes
Pruitt, Rebecca J. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Scope and Method of Study. This study examined two sections of a course in child development, one online and one face-to-face, to determine similarities and differences between the two related to constructivist education and constructivist processes. Course documents, instructor reflections, online discussion forum text, student-instructor…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Epistemology, Females, Teacher Student Relationship
Peters, Susan A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This phenomenological study investigates conceptions of statistical variation that secondary mathematics teachers who are recognized leaders in AP Statistics exhibit. This study also investigates perceptions and recollections of activities and actions that teachers who exhibited robust understandings of variation suggest contributed to their…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Expectation, Course Descriptions, Comparative Analysis