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Stephanie Wilborne – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative interview study was to examine the current pedagogical use of high-fidelity patient simulation (HFPS) by nursing and simulation faculty in the northeastern part of the United States, as reported by those faculty members. The National League of Nursing/Jeffries Theory (Jeffries, 2021) was the conceptual framework for…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Patients, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
Matthew Sterner-Neely – ProQuest LLC, 2021
At Ciudad Community College (pseudonym) and across the Colorado Community College System, the course competencies for Technical Writing I (ENG 131) have more than tripled to accommodate ENG 131 as a guaranteed transfer course equivalent to ENG 121: English Composition I. Unfortunately, this has had the effect of increasing the workload for…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Technical Writing, Writing (Composition), Authentic Learning
Mariia Khorosheva – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Digital multimodal projects (DMPs) are both common and popular. Adolescents and young adults compose digitally and multimodally in their daily lives, and digital multimodal composition projects are incorporated in K-12 (Smith, 2017, 2018) and university settings (Balaman, 2018; Dzekoe, 2017), including writing programs (Blakely, 2016; Ericsson et…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Harrington, Irronda M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Service learning has grown in popularity within higher education as a teaching pedagogy shown to foster student engagement as well as strengthen the relationships between the community and community college. Research has demonstrated that service learning places a focus on students gaining the hands-on experience tied closely to course objectives…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Liberal Arts, Service Learning
Racelis, Juval V. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This project examines how writing teachers of multilingual students conceptualize their pedagogical practices. Specifically, it draws on work in teacher cognition research to examine the nature of teacher knowledge and the unique characteristics of this knowledge specific to the teaching of second language writing. Seeing teacher knowledge as…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers, Feedback (Response)
Dennis, Karen Kae – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Given the current trends of physical inactivity, overweight and obesity rates, and chronic disease prevalence, understanding appropriate levels of physical activity, healthful nutrition, and risk reduction for chronic-disease is crucial. The purpose of this study was to identify perceptions of the effectiveness of an online personal health and…
Descriptors: Prevention, Program Effectiveness, Risk, Physical Activities
Kyger, Jackie W. – ProQuest LLC, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine existing data to determine if a significant difference existed between student evaluations from an online asynchronous and an online synchronous learning environment, as well as their impact on retaining students. The data available were from a national online university that serves students across the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation, Distance Education