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  • Graphing calculators in college calculus : an examination of teachers' conceptions and instructional practice

    Creator:
    Barton, Susan Dale
    Abstract:
    The study examined classroom instructional practices and teacher's professed conceptions about teaching and learning college calculus in relationship to the implementation of scientific-programmable-graphics (SPG) calculators. The study occurred at a university not affiliated with any reform project. The participants were not the catalysts seeking to implement calculus reform, but expressed...
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    Dissertation
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    Introduction This study will investigate teachers' conceptions about teaching and learning and actual

  • Writing a feminist position in the classroom

    Creator:
    Forrest, Dodie A.
    Abstract:
    Like other social institutions, universities have been created and administered by and for a white-male dominant culture that continues to marginalize women and anyone else designated as -Other- according to race, class, ethnicity, ability, age, size, and sexuality. This discussion questions the dominant model of standard written discourse in the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    themselves, and finally to research that confirms women in higher education often feel shut out of

  • Effects of advance organizers on student acheivement in general chemistry

    Creator:
    Ruangruchira, Natsuda
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    The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of an expository advance organizer on the achievement of students in a general chemistry course. The subjects included 181 first year college students enrolled in 12 sections of general chemistry at the Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy, Thailand. The subjects were...
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    Dissertation
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    and two treatment groups at the beginning of the study was determined by the application of a

  • The culture of academia : authorizing students to read and write

    Creator:
    Mitchell, Danielle M.
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    Presenting and synthesizing several paradigms for the teaching of literature in American colleges, I investigate how definitions of reading, readers, texts, interpretations, and knowledge affect student acts of reading and writing. In addition, I draw upon specific examples of text-based, reader-based, and social-cultural based models for the teaching of reading...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Presenting and synthesizing several paradigms for the teaching of literature in American colleges, I

  • Evaluation of NIOSH-sponsored engineering faculty workshops

    Creator:
    Farwell, Dianna
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    The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has been sponsoring workshops for undergraduate engineering professors since 1984. The workshops were designed to educate engineering professors about the importance of addressing health and safety issues in their undergraduate engineering curricula. This study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Teaching Health and Safety. The present study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the NIOSH

  • The Impact of a Relaxation Exercise on Communication, Apprehension in the Classrogm

    Creator:
    Hitchcock, Romi C.
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    The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a deep breathing and stretching exercise on communication Apprehension, Cohesiveness and Attentiveness. An empirical method was used in this study. All of the subjects involved in the study were students in beginning public speaking courses, Speech 112, at Oregon...
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    Masters Thesis
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    The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a deep breathing and stretching exercise on

  • The culture of undergraduate computer science education : its role in promoting equity within the discipline

    Creator:
    Howell, Kathy
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    Although a concern for gender equity provided the framework for this research, the results of this study highlighted the fact that the question of equity should be broadened to include concern for the tier of talented women and men who currently choose not to persist in an undergraduate computer science...
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    Dissertation
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    appreciation to five students and two instructors who were willing to share themselves with me and this study

  • Fostering Authority in Readers and Writers

    Creator:
    Love, Jennifer Mary
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    As a reader and as a teacher of introductory reading and writing courses, I am persuaded by the concept of a genuine authority in which all readers both value and seek to examine their early readings of texts. What I have come to regard as a pretended authority or mastery,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    than a masterful authority, I sometimes, in my teaching and reading and writing, still search for and

  • Effect of a systems-oriented graduate training program on practitioner systemic thinking : a follow-up study

    Creator:
    Peterson, Raymond W.
    Abstract:
    This follow-up study investigated the effect of a systems-oriented graduate training program upon system thinking among practitioners who had completed training, using a post-test only, treatment-comparison group design. The subjects consisted of practitioners matriculated through two counselor-related programs at a medium-sized college in the Northwest during the years 1985-1991. A...
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    Dissertation
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    Hypotheses 51 V SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 55 Summary 55 Conclusions 61 Expanding Study

  • Reaching for the Accounting Education Change Commission's recommendations through cooperative learning

    Creator:
    Swanson, Janice M., 1944-
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    The Accounting Education Change Commission (AECC) is a consortium of concerned accounting professionals and accounting educators that advocates the redesigning of accounting curriculums in higher education. Traditionally accounting programs have focused on the technical aspects of the profession. Although technical competence is necessary for the profession, the AECC urges accounting...
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    professionals and accounting educators that advocates the redesigning of accounting curriculums in higher