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Faculty religiosity and attitudes towards persons with disabilities.
(, 2013-09-16)
Previous research suggests that religiosity may influence attitudes towards outgroups.
The present study investigated the effects of faculty religiosity on attitudes
towards persons with disabilities at large, faith-based ...
Factors that predict the use of metacognitive strategies in the middle school classroom.
(2008-06-10)
The purpose of this qualitative cross-case study was to investigate the growth and transfer of metacognitive strategies in mathematical problem solving from a university course to the classroom. In this study, six preservice ...
The representation of Asian Americans in children's literature : a content analysis of Texas reading basals.
(, 2013-09-24)
Children’s literature serves as mirrors and windows for the students we teach today. Through literature, children should be able to see their own reflections as well as the world around them. Yet despite their long history ...
Implementation intention as a cognitive strategy in STEM education : assessing pre-algebraic performance in 8th grade math instruction.
(2016-08-03)
Conceptualization of STEM has been a challenge due to varying perspectives within schools, school districts, and instructors. Implementation intention refers to a memory encoding strategy in which individuals explicitly ...
Case studies of teachers participating in differentiated professional development for the purpose of student-centered technology integration.
(, 2014-09-05)
School districts are quickly adopting various technologies in hopes that students can be taught in the same way their technological world works. Common reasons given to justify these expensive purchases include increasing ...
The impact of an informal science program on students' science knowledge and interest.
(, 2012-08-08)
In this sequential explanatory mixed methods study, quantitative and qualitative data were used to measure the impact of an informal science program on eleventh grade students’ science knowledge and interest. The local ...
Mixed-methods study of the impact of a computational thinking course on student attitudes about technology and computation.
(, 2013-09-16)
The following dissertation reports on a mixed-methods, convergent parallel design research study of the impact of a computational thinking curriculum on attitudes towards computation and the use of technology. This study ...
Mathematics anxiety and attitudes towards mathematics in adult developmental learners : an exploratory examination of the relationship between mathematics anxiety, attitudes towards mathematics, and successful adult developmental learners.
(2016-11-29)
According to Complete College America (2015), as many as 53.6% of learners may need developmental courses as they enter college or university programs, most commonly mathematics, and only 17.1% of these learners complete ...
Conceptualizing the undocumented college student's legal status.
(, 2014-06-11)
Undocumented students in pursuit of a college education face a unique
intersection of conflicting identities: one that potentially gives them a higher societal
status by joining the social category of “college student,” ...
Preference and efficacy of concurrent schedules of reinforcement in children with autism spectrum disorder.
(2015-07-29)
A review of the literature highlighted a lack of research that measured the effects and preference of two or more reinforcement schedules that possess a constant magnitude and varied distribution. The current study ...