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Learning Styles, Subject Matter, and Effectiveness in Undergraduate Distance Education
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Wu, Darren C. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Are potential relationships among students' learning styles and effectiveness in online education moderated by subject matter for undergraduate students at a private higher education institution? This causal relationship correlational study evaluated the effects of subject matter as a moderating variable between students learning styles and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Online Courses, Undergraduate Students, Distance Education
A Quantitative Examination of Critical Success Factors Comparing Agile and Waterfall Project Management Methodologies
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Pedersen, Mitra – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigated the rate of success for IT projects using agile and standard project management methodologies. Any successful project requires use of project methodology. Specifically, large projects require formal project management methodologies or models, which establish a blueprint of processes and project planning activities. This…
Descriptors: Correlation, Comparative Analysis, Information Technology, Decision Making
Investigating the Impact of Interactive Applets on Students' Understanding of Parameter Changes to Parent Functions: An Explanatory Mixed Methods Study
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McClaran, Robin Rudd – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The technology principle in the "Principles and Standards for School Mathematics" (NCTM, 2000) states that technology plays an important role in how teachers teach mathematics and in how students learn mathematics. The purpose of this sequential explanatory mixed methods study was to examine the impact of interactive applets on students'…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Sequential Learning, Sequential Approach, Mixed Methods Research
Exploring Students' Mapping Behaviors and Interactive Discourses in a Case Diagnosis Problem: Sequential Analysis of Collaborative Causal Map Drawing Processes
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Lee, Woon Jee – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of students' mapping and discourse behaviors while constructing causal maps to articulate their understanding of a complex, ill-structured problem. In this study, six graduate-level students were assigned to one of three pair groups, and each pair used the causal mapping software program,…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Graduate Students, Maps, Computer Uses in Education
Analysis of the Effect of Sequencing Lecture and Laboratory Instruction on Student Learning and Motivation Towards Learning Chemistry in an Organic Chemistry Lecture Course
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Pakhira, Deblina – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Exposure to organic chemistry concepts in the laboratory can positively affect student performance, learning new chemistry concepts and building motivation towards learning chemistry in the lecture. In this study, quantitative methods were employed to assess differences in student performance, learning, and motivation in an organic chemistry…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, College Science, Science Instruction, Lecture Method
A CS1 Pedagogical Approach to Parallel Thinking
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Rague, Brian William – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Almost all collegiate programs in Computer Science offer an introductory course in programming primarily devoted to communicating the foundational principles of software design and development. The ACM designates this introduction to computer programming course for first-year students as CS1, during which methodologies for solving problems within…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Introductory Courses, Sequential Approach, Programming Languages