Teachers may be attracted to the use of a game in a learning activity under the presumption that students will find the game experience to be more “fun” than typical classroom activities. The use of a game in a learning activity should help students attain important learning outcomes and engage...
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Thomas P. Dick
Teachers may be attracted to the use of a game in a learning activity
Transformative learning networks are a specific type of loose network with geographically distributed members and member organizations. They hold particular promise for transformation when both top-down and bottom-up processes have failed to support desired systems-level change. The aim of this dissertation is to build knowledge about the social-interactional processes, roles,...
Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) is a class of online planning algorithms for Markov decision processes (MDPs) and related models that has found success in challenging applications. In the online planning approach, the agent makes a decision in the current state by performing a limited forward search over possible futures...
The direct and indirect effects of ocean acidification (OA) are a growing concern, particularly in areas already experiencing elevated levels of oceanic CO₂. Studies with marine fishes suggest that elevated CO₂ levels may affect behavior by interfering with an important brain neurotransmitter. Studies examining the effects of OA fish behavior...
Effective and sustainable fisheries management not only depends on identifying and defining stocks (fundamental unit of management), but also on having knowledge of factors influencing the abundance, distribution and connectivity of stocks. Population structure of Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) in the southeastern Bering Sea (EBS) remains unresolved although genetic data...
The purpose of this study was to address the implementation fidelity of one part of a professional development model developed by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL). Specifically, this research investigates middle school teachers’ use of a formative feedback guide developed by NWREL staff, examining the reliability with which teachers...
This research seeks to answer the question, "What does it mean for a student to
understand the concept of derivative?" A structured way to describe an individual student's
understanding of derivative is developed and applied to analyzing the evolution of that
understanding for each of nine high school seniors during...
The purpose of this study was to investigate teaching models that may aid in
improving student's understanding of how to interpret graphs of kinematic variables.
The teaching models that were considered incorporated the use of cooperative groups
and calculator-based laboratory instruments, alone and in concert. The subjects used in
this...
This study investigated associations among teachers' pedagogical content beliefs,
approaches to teaching, and their students' achievement in a high school Advanced
Placement (AP) Calculus setting. The three major research questions concerned: (a)
how well Al' calculus teachers' pedagogical beliefs about mathematics, curriculum, and
instruction aligned with a constuctivist point of...
This research was conducted to investigate perceptions of self esteem
and the behavior of female science students in mixed gender
cooperative learning groups.
The research methodology used was qualitative in nature,
which included a variety of data collection methods, including participant
observation, student journals, interviews, video tapes of group
interactions,...