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Sugat Dabholkar – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation is about designing learning environments that foreground students' epistemic agency as they "do science" in a science classroom. I build on the prior work that combines two important strands in learning sciences - agent-based modeling of complex systems and constructionism to design learning environments. I call such…
Descriptors: Science Education, Curriculum Design, Educational Environment, Active Learning
Alvarez, Anthony M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation is the product of several individual multi-disciplinary investigations that cover a variety of topics in mathematics, physics, geology, and geoscience education. The first chapter formulates a better understanding of the timings, magma source, and relationships between dikes and associated magmatic bodies of the Red Bluff…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Science Education, Physics, Geology
Mills, Kelly – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The ubiquitous use of social media by children offers a unique opportunity to view diverse funds of knowledge. Connecting learning to students' funds of knowledge is particularly important for non-dominant learners, who experience tensions between home, community and school science cultures. This study is embedded in a research project which…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, After School Programs, Social Media, Science Education
Zecca, Mark S. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Business managers who look for ways to cut costs face difficult questions about the efficiency and effectiveness of software engineering practices that are used to complete projects on time, on specification, and within budget (Johnson, 1995; Lindstrom & Jeffries, 2004). Theoretical models such as the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) have linked…
Descriptors: Models, Computer Software, Programming, Engineering
Lecusay, Robert A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
For several decades improvement of science education has been a major concern of policy makers concerned that the U.S. is a "nation at risk" owing to the dearth of students pursing careers in science. Recent policy proposals have argued that provision of broadband digital connectivity to organizations in the informal sector would…
Descriptors: Mentors, Telecommunications, Computer Mediated Communication, Physics
White, Elizabeth K. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
As the number of publications in the biomedical field continues its exponential increase, techniques for automatically summarizing information from this body of literature have become more diverse. In addition, the targets of summarization have become more subtle; initial work focused on extracting the factual assertions from full-text papers,…
Descriptors: Cues, Persuasive Discourse, Figurative Language, Natural Language Processing
Clegg, Tamara Lynnette – ProQuest LLC, 2010
My research centers upon designing transformative learning environments and supporting technologies. Kitchen Science Investigators (KSI) is an out-of-school transformative learning environment we designed to help young people learn science through cooking. My dissertation considers the question, "How can we design a learning environment in which…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Computer Software, Educational Technology, Educational Environment
Lauwers, Tom – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This thesis is about a design process for creating "educationally relevant" tools. I submit that the key to creating tools that are educationally relevant is to focus on ensuring a high degree of alignment between the designed tool and the broader educational context into which the tool will be integrated. The thesis presents methods and processes…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Alignment (Education), Educational Technology, Instructional Design
Brown, Linda Lou – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Federal educational policy, "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001", focused attention on America's education with conspicuous results. One aspect, "highly qualified classroom teacher" and "principal" (HQ), was taxing since states established individual accountability structures. The HQ impact and use of data-informed…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Campuses, Methods Research, Federal Legislation
Jennifer Tennille Pinder Ellis – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study was designed to evaluate the effects of the proprietary science education software, "Conversionoes," on students' conceptual and visual understanding of dimensional analysis. The participants in the study were high school general chemistry students enrolled in two public high schools with different demographics (School A and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Science, Chemistry, Concept Formation
Ryoo, Kihyun – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The significant increase of English Language Learners (ELLs) in the United States raises complex questions about how to provide these students with access to high quality education that can improve both their content knowledge of school subjects and their English proficiency, particularly their academic English proficiency. The development of…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Curriculum Design, Computer Simulation, Second Language Learning