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Abernathy, Frederick Douglas – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this research was to assess the attitudes of administrators in a medium sized school district in the Southeastern region of the United States. The researcher used a quantitative descriptive comparative pre-test and post-test design with a convenience sampling of the district administrators. There were 21 administrators at the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Learning Modules, Intervention
Wilbanks, Jammie T. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Research has been conducted on the effectiveness of formative assessments and on effectively teaching medical terminology; however, research had not been conducted on the use of formative assessments in a medical terminology course. A quantitative study was performed which captured data from a pretest, self-assessment, four module exams, and a…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Computer Assisted Testing, Medicine, Vocabulary
Walsh, Robert Lester – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this disquisition is to add to the body of educational research through practitioner, quantitative, and qualitative inquiry on the topic of academic debate. In a three-tiered study, the author conducted research for this dissertation with the intent to examine argumentation and debate in higher education. The settings for this…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Universities, Universities, Persuasive Discourse
Fox, Kenneth D. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
It is not well understood how specific design practices and strategies affect learning for students engaged in online coursework. While various instructional design practices that are claimed to be effective can readily be found in diverse educational contexts, some suggest that most have been perpetuated primarily through unchallenged tradition…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Experimental Groups, Quasiexperimental Design, Instructional Design
Huang, Kai-Yi Clark – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to measure the difference in achievement between those students enrolled in a beginning-level, university Algebra course in southeastern Idaho university the spring semester of 2012 who received an Algebra Exponents and Polynomials instructional unit in a traditional face-to-face setting and those students who…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, College Students, College Mathematics, Algebra
Lehnert, Alina Black – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study explored the influence of strengths-based development on leadership practices among undergraduate college students while controlling for gender, years of leadership experience, and number of completed leadership courses using a quasi-experimental approach with a randomized control-group pretest-posttest research design. The sample…
Descriptors: Research Design, Pretests Posttests, Learning Modules, College Students
Risner, Mary E. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The need to increase US competitiveness in the world economy is a driving factor in the recent push to internationalize university campuses across the country. Technical and subject area expertise are no longer sufficient to succeed in the 21st-century global workplace. Intercultural competence is becoming more valued as part of the desired…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Intercultural Programs, Intercultural Communication, Interpersonal Competence