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Lori Anne Palmer – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Art Appreciation is often a course that undergraduate students take to meet their general education requirements. However, many students have little interest or value of art due to a lack of previous art experiences and often choose the course because they feel it will be relatively easy. This qualitative, naturalistic inquiry focused on students'…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Appreciation, Teaching Methods, Aesthetics
Carter, Hannah M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Examinations of adolescent literacy practice over the last 10 years have illuminated the significance of an integrated approach to literacy and content area instruction (Bean, 2000; Applebee & Langer, 2013; IRA, 2012). Considering writing specifically, writing in the content areas has positively impacted both students' writing quality and…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Writing Instruction
Sizemore, Mary L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this two-phase, explanatory mixed methods study was to understand the benefits of teaching grammar from three different learning methods: face-to-face, online personalized learning lab and a blended learning method. The study obtained quantitative results from a pre and post-tests, a general survey and writing assignment rubrics…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Educational Benefits, Conventional Instruction, Electronic Learning
Eckhardt, Scott C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In recent years, statistics have displayed a consistent increase in the enrollment in college programs of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research has explained that ASD college students currently face academic and social barriers as they transition to the college setting. There is reason to believe that the use of online…
Descriptors: Social Media, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Autism
Gerke, Philip James – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The study adapted an existing instrument to examine perspective transformation and its associated factors in participants of evangelical faith-based adult nonformal education in the Midwestern United States. Stratified random one-stage cluster sampling of 11 churches produced a nonprobability sample ( N = 597) that was significantly (p < 0.05)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Religious Education, Christianity, Transformative Learning
Zheng, Binbin – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Over the last decade, the number of one-to-one laptop programs in U.S. schools has steadily increased. Though technology advocates believe that such programs can assist student writing, there has been little systematic evidence for this claim, and even less focused on the benefits of specific technology use by diverse learners. This dissertation…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Social Media, Writing (Composition), Educational Technology