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Cuddy, Lucas Stebbins – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Using a primarily experimental design, this study investigated whether discussion boards in online community college philosophy classes can be designed in the Blackboard course management system to lead to higher order thinking. Discussions were designed using one of two teaching techniques: the activation of prior knowledge or the use of peer…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Thinking Skills
Dache-Gerbino, Amalia; White, Julie A. – Community College Review, 2016
Objective: This study illustrates how external factors of urban and suburban racializations contribute to criminalization and surveillance of an urban community college campus and bus shelters surrounding it. Method: A postcolonial geographic research design is used to analyze geographic and qualitative data. Results: Results show that an urban…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Urban Schools, Suburban Schools
Nguyen, Giang-Nguyen T. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
This paper examines data from a larger study that focused upon students' experiences and motivations in a college algebra course. The study revealed that students failed this course because of various factors and continued to view this course as a "gatekeeper" class. Through a stepwise multiple regression, the analysis of the ARCS…
Descriptors: Algebra, College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Case Studies
Singer-Freeman, Karen; Bastone, Linda; Skrivanek, Joseph – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2016
We evaluate the extent to which ePortfolios can be used to assess applied and collaborative learning and academic identity among community college students from underrepresented minority groups who participated in a summer research program. Thirty-eight students were evaluated by their research sponsor and two or three naïve faculty evaluators.…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Portfolios (Background Materials), Cooperative Learning, Self Concept
Oppezzo, Marily; Schwartz, Daniel L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Four experiments demonstrate that walking boosts creative ideation in real time and shortly after. In Experiment 1, while seated and then when walking on a treadmill, adults completed Guilford's alternate uses (GAU) test of creative divergent thinking and the compound remote associates (CRA) test of convergent thinking. Walking increased 81% of…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Experimental Psychology, Physical Activities, Motion
Moore, Tracy Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The study attempted to determine whether the use of a series of reading and response assignments decreased students' perceptions of chemistry difficulty and enhanced students' perceptions of the relevance of chemistry in their everyday lives. Informed consent volunteer students enrolled in General Chemistry II at a community college in the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Relevance (Education), Two Year College Students
Snyder, Jill – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This qualitative case study was designed to explore students' perceptions of online learning at a small rural community college to understand what factors impacted their persistence in coursework. The research problem dealt with retention rates in online courses, which were lower than in face-to-face courses. Despite extensive quantitative…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Student Attitudes, Online Courses
Mitchell, Daniel E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
For this study, the researcher sought to implement a visual arts-based Afrivisual to help inspire, motivate and empower African American students in gaining a culturally relevant education in Euro-American-centered schools. Using the Afrivisual in this work as an action-oriented tool the researcher sought to expose African American students to an…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Afrocentrism, African American Students, Culturally Relevant Education
Gruich, Madelon Reed – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This quantitative research study explores the correlation between instructional formats and the measurement of knowledge retention, as well as subsequent course mastery and whether other factors such as age, ethnicity, gender, number of study hours, number of work hours, and family responsibilities influence learning outcomes. The healthcare data…
Descriptors: Retention (Psychology), Medicine, Vocabulary, Statistical Analysis