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Alexander Card – ProQuest LLC, 2022
One approach to teaching game design to students with a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds is through team game projects that span multiple weeks, up to an entire term. However, open-ended, creative projects introduce a gamut of challenges to novice programmers. My goal is to assist game design students with the planning stage of their…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods
Qian, Yizhou – ProQuest LLC, 2018
With the expansion of computer science (CS) education, CS teachers in K-12 schools should be cognizant of student misconceptions and be prepared to help students establish accurate understanding of computer science and programming. This exploratory design-based research (DBR) study implemented a data-driven approach to identify secondary school…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Data, Decision Making, Computer Science Education
Hicks, Andrew Gregory – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Games-Based Learning systems, particularly those that use advances from Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) to provide adaptive feedback and support, have proven potential as learning tools. Taking their lead from commercial games such as Little Big Planet and SuperMarioMaker, these systems are increasingly turning to content creation as a learning…
Descriptors: Data, Decision Making, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Educational Games
Munn, Carol A. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This research study explored robotics as the catalyst for computational thinking (CT) by sixth-grade students as they are engaged in a science lesson. The interactions, understandings, and applications are discussed, along with the participants' connections and implementations of CT concepts (decomposition, abstraction, pattern recognition, and…
Descriptors: Robotics, Grade 6, Units of Study, Science Instruction
Li, Weifeng – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Social media analytics is a critical research area spawned by the increasing availability of rich and abundant online user-generated content. So far, social media analytics has had a profound impact on organizational decision making in many aspects, including product and service design, market segmentation, customer relationship management, and…
Descriptors: Social Media, Information Security, Role, Crime
Hatton, Holly – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Principals in rural schools lead with an awareness of multiple contingent factors that influence their decisions every day regarding programming for students. The purpose of this research is to examine how rural elementary school principals conceptualize programs in their schools, the processes used to connect students to these programs, and their…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Elementary Schools, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
Alodhaibi, Khalid – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Recommender systems aim to support users in their decision-making process while interacting with large information spaces and recommend items of interest to users based on preferences they have expressed, either explicitly or implicitly. Recommender systems are increasingly used with product and service selection over the Internet. Although…
Descriptors: Information Processing, Decision Support Systems, Decision Making, Preferences
Rives, Ann Guidry – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The importance of school counselors in influencing positive change in students is well established. Far less research is available documenting school counselor use of data driven decision making to positively impact identified groups of at risk students. Hispanics represent the largest and fastest growing student population for academic…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Underachievement, Standardized Tests, Social Change
Yahav, Inbal – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In this dissertation we develop a framework that combines data mining, statistics and operations research methods for improving real-time decision support systems in healthcare. Our approach consists of three main concepts: data gathering and preprocessing, modeling, and deployment. We introduce the notion of offline and semi-offline modeling to…
Descriptors: Operations Research, Research Methodology, Identification, Programming
Olsen, Michelle D. Hunt – ProQuest LLC, 2010
A study was conducted to propose a research-based model for a longitudinal data research system that addressed recommendations from a synthesis of literature related to: (1) needs reported by the U.S. Department of Education, (2) the twelve mandatory elements that define federally approved state longitudinal data systems (SLDS), (3) the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Data Processing, Research Design
Voss, Terri B. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The decisions rural elementary school principals make related to special education programming at their building sites are influenced by a variety of factors. This study employed a qualitative research methodology to investigate the perspectives of four rural elementary school principals concerning the decision-making processes they use as they…
Descriptors: Programming, Values, Special Education Teachers, Rural Environment
Harrison, Louis, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 1997
The most recent Surgeon General's report underscores the need for increased levels of regular physical activity in the general population, and in women and minorities in particular. Variations in participation patterns in particular sports and physical activities may provide insight into the reasons for differing activity levels in women and…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Gender Differences, Factor Analysis, Physical Activity Level