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Generalizing the Idea Garden : Principles and Contexts

Creator:: Jernigan, William
Abstract:: In previous work, the Idea Garden was created to help those relatively new to programming overcome their barriers in CoScripter. The goal of this thesis was to generalize the Idea Garden's success to other users and environments. We present a set of principles on how to help EUPs like this...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and empirically in- vestigate the principles in two studies: a formative think-aloud study and a pair

Utilizing emergent web-based software tools as an effective method for increasing collaboration and knowledge sharing in collocated student design teams

Creator:: Koch, Michael D.
Abstract:: Over the last few decades, the methods and tools through which humans collaborate, share knowledge and generally communicate have been advancing at a rapid pace. Thanks mostly to advances in broadband internet, cheap data storage and fast microprocessors, humans now have the ability to work together in ways that even...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: knowledge. This study was completed using students from Oregon State University and Humboldt State

"Identity in the making" in an adolescent new media maker experience : the role of interest, figured worlds, and use of authentic tools and practices

Creator:: Wyld, Jennifer N.
Abstract:: Human development researchers consider adolescence a rich time for interest development and identity exploration. A relatively new movement in the Free-Choice Learning (FCL) arena, the Maker movement, offers learners interest-driven, experiential, often collaborative, and process-oriented activities ranging from game design (computer-based and otherwise) and robotics, to sewing LEDs into clothing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , and process-oriented activities ranging from game design (computer-based and otherwise) and robotics

The peer interview methodology : participatory qualitative interviewing and discussion in a youth garden project

Creator:: Lile, Joy R.
Abstract:: The Producing for the Future project engaged thirty low-income youth in gardening and nutrition education, microenterprise activities, and participatory research during the 2011 and 2012 growing seasons. The intervention aimed to support community protective factors, build positive youth development, and enhance health outcomes through promoting skill-building and mentorship. The mixedmethods...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and mentorship. The mixed- methods approach to program evaluation included interviews, focus groups

Industrially-situated project-based learning : a study of feedback and diffusion

Creator:: Gilbuena, Debra M.
Abstract:: The Virtual Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) Process Development Project provides the context for the two areas of the research presented in this dissertation. The first area, generally referred to as feedback in this dissertation, focuses on student learning and the interactions of students and instructors that take place in the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Title: Industrially-Situated Project-Based Learning: A Study of Feedback and Diffusion

Towards meaningful intercultural interactions: a case study of service-learning in a business writing classroom

Creator:: Sprague, Allen
Abstract:: The following thesis presents a case study analyzing a service-learning project implemented in a second-year level Writing in Business course at Oregon State University. The classroom project required business writing students to serve as cultural ambassadors and conversation partners with international students through INTO OSU's Cultural Ambassador Conversant Program. Relying...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: two years. I am grateful for the opportunity to study among so many brilliant and welcoming scholars

Changing landscape, climate, and life during the age of mammals: interpreting paleontology, evolving ecosystems, and climate change in the Cenozoic fossil parks

Creator:: Kenworthy, Jason P.
Abstract:: This thesis develops a manual for interpreters at six National Park Service areas established to preserve and interpret fossils of the Cenozoic Era: Fossil Butte National Monument (Wyoming), John Day Fossil Beds National Monument (Oregon), Badlands National Park (South Dakota), Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument (Colorado), Agate Fossil Beds National...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Interpreting Paleontology, Evolving Ecosystems, and

An exploration of an out-of-school garden program : a case study of youth [adolescents'] perceptions

Creator:: Bailey, Deborah L.
Abstract:: Garden-based learning (GBL) with young people has long been viewed as an educational experience capable of teaching numerous types of science content including general science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), as well as discipline specific areas such as biology, horticulture, agriculture and nutrition. However, much of the GBL literature focuses...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: on May 29, 2015. Title: An Exploration of an Out-of-School Garden Program: A Case Study of Youth

The relationship between completing the Applications of Mathematical Reasoning course and high school to community college transitions

Creator:: Hammer, Joyce D.
Abstract:: In 2004, the Transition Mathematics Project (TMP), funded by the state of Washington and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was established to create projects to help high school students gain the necessary skills to become college and work-ready. Aligned to TMP's College Readiness Mathematics Standards, a fourth-year capstone mathematics...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: -comparative study design and matching participants in the sample, variables were examined based on the

"And when they woke up... they were monkeys!" Using classroom games to improve preschoolers's behavioral self-regulation

Creator:: Tominey, Shauna L. M.
Abstract:: Behavioral self-regulation has emerged as an important predictor of academic success as early as preschool. Few studies, however, have examined ways to improve children's behavioral self-regulation in preschool, prior to formal school entry. This dissertation includes two studies examining a pilot intervention using classroom games to improve behavioral self-regulation with...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: (Alexander, Entwisle, & Dauber, 1993; Ladd, 2003). In a recent study testing computer- and book-based

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Generalizing the Idea Garden : Principles and Contexts

Utilizing emergent web-based software tools as an effective method for increasing collaboration and knowledge sharing in collocated student design teams

"Identity in the making" in an adolescent new media maker experience : the role of interest, figured worlds, and use of authentic tools and practices

The peer interview methodology : participatory qualitative interviewing and discussion in a youth garden project

Industrially-situated project-based learning : a study of feedback and diffusion

Towards meaningful intercultural interactions: a case study of service-learning in a business writing classroom

Changing landscape, climate, and life during the age of mammals: interpreting paleontology, evolving ecosystems, and climate change in the Cenozoic fossil parks

An exploration of an out-of-school garden program : a case study of youth [adolescents'] perceptions

The relationship between completing the Applications of Mathematical Reasoning course and high school to community college transitions

"And when they woke up... they were monkeys!" Using classroom games to improve preschoolers's behavioral self-regulation

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