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Reimer, Lynn Christine – ProQuest LLC, 2017
First-generation, low-income, underrepresented minority (URM) and female undergraduates are matriculating into science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) majors at unprecedented levels. However, a disproportionate number of these students end up graduating in non-STEM disciplines. Attrition rates have been observed to spike in conjunction…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, First Generation College Students, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students
Bentz, David T. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Teaching presence is one of three components of the Community of Inquiry Model proposed by Garrison, Anderson, and Archer (2000). This study examined teaching presence, as measured by the instructional design and organization, and directed facilitation (Shea, Li, Swan, and Pickett, 2005), in a large undergraduate science course, contrasting two…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Instructional Design, Comparative Analysis, Lecture Method