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Teachers' reasons for including field trips in the curriculum.
(, 2014-06-11)
This dissertation examined the reasons' elementary teachers included field trips in the curriculum, whether increasing cultural capital, as defined by Pierre Bourdieu (1973), was one of their primary reasons, what types ...
Student experiences with wonder through higher education.
(2019-04-23)
The purpose of this study is to understand the process by which students engage with wonder through experiences in higher education. Wonder as an emotion and practice has been studied extensively from a theoretical, ...
Examination of the effect of professional development on the attitudes of pre-service teachers regarding inclusion of students with autism.
(, 2012-11-29)
An experimental design was conducted to examine the change in mean scores of pre-service teachers after targeted professional development. A two-factor repeated measures design was used with professional development as ...
Female community college faculty : perspectives of collegiality and the collegium.
(2018-07-11)
Although collegiality is an essential component of faculty work, it is a concept that is universally championed, yet conditionally awarded based upon membership into the collective professorial unit known as the collegium. ...
Ninth grade students' understanding of diffusion and osmosis after participation in direct or inquiry-based lessons : a mixed methods study.
(2015-07-14)
In this embedded mixed methods case study, quantitative and qualitative data were collected to assess the impact of direct and inquiry instruction on students' understanding of diffusion and osmosis. Participants of this ...
Trends in college student retention : identification of latent student classes with relation to retention statistics.
(2011-01-05)
College student retention has been studied in depth at both 4-year and 2-year institutions, but not at technical colleges. Institutions of higher education continue to struggle with early identification and intervention ...
From their eyes : a deeper analysis of career and technical education during secondary school.
(2015-07-16)
The focus of this study was to gather the viewpoints and perspectives from secondary students currently enrolled in career and technical education (CTE). The use of a focus group and surveys were the main mediums of data ...
Career-focused field trips as experienced by at-risk rural students : a case study.
(2010-10-08)
A lack of recent research focused on field trips as pedagogy in K-12 settings established the foundation for this work. The research design followed multiple-case case study model. The participants were four male students ...
Understanding the impact of Equine-Assisted Learning on levels of hope in at-risk adolescents.
(, 2012-11-29)
In this study, the researcher uses an experimental design to investigate the impact
of five-week intervention of group Equine-Assisted Learning (EAL) on levels of hope,
self-efficacy, and depression in at-risk adolescents. ...
Examining the effect of Enneagram competence on empathy in college students.
(2018-04-19)
The Enneagram is a personality system that describes nine personality types with distinct underlying motivations that drive behavior. The Enneagram exists to help people understand themselves and others, so the purpose ...