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Thevenin, Benjamin – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2020
This article describes "Dark Ride: Disneyland" - a mobile game that encourages Disneyland guests to critically consider Disney's representations of history, culture, and technology. The game was the creation of a group of faculty, students and professionals associated with Brigham Young University. The article contextualizes the game and…
Descriptors: Corporations, Educational Games, Media Literacy, Handheld Devices
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Zheng, Robert; Hicken, Bret L.; Hill, Robert D.; Luptak, Marilyn; Daniel, Candice M.; Grant, Marren; Rupper, Randall – Educational Gerontology, 2016
This research project included two studies that investigated (a) differences between technology use in tech-knowledgeable and less tech-knowledgeable older persons, (b) cognitive and affective variables and their association with the application of technology, and (c) the implications of these variables on the design of remote-delivered caregiver…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Older Adults, Technology Uses in Education, Technological Literacy
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Bateman, Blair E.; de Almeida Oliveira, Desirée – Hispania, 2014
Although previous literature has discussed ways of promoting the study of Portuguese, to our knowledge no study has ever directly surveyed students to ascertain why they chose to learn the language. This study reports on a survey of the motivations of first- and second-year Portuguese students to study the language, and contrasts their motivations…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Career Choice, Portuguese, Student Surveys
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Forsyth, Alfred S., Jr.; Maier, Joan N. – Journal of Geography, 2006
Affective goals and objectives, rarely stated in geographic education standards, textbooks or course syllabi, include improving students' attitudes toward other people. World geography courses expose students to other parts of the world and to people different from themselves. Although affective goals may not be stated for such courses, could it…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, World Geography, Geography Instruction, Outcomes of Education
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Carpenter, Don A., Ed. – Focus, 1989
The purpose of "Focus" is to present articles by Utah community college faculty on various curricular and administrative concerns. This issue contains: (1) "Predicting Student Retention," by Nancy M. Smith, which discusses the importance of student assessment as a variable in student retention and presents findings from a study…
Descriptors: Action Research, Affective Objectives, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction
Ellison, Robert L.; And Others – 1978
As part of Utah's 1978 statewide assessment, a number of tests were administered to over 4,000 fifth grade students from 64 elementary schools and over 2,000 eleventh graders from thirty high schools. This report presents the results in each of the areas tested: (1) intellectual maturity--measured by reading and mathematics achievement on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aesthetic Education, Affective Objectives, Classroom Environment