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SUCCESS in Engineering Education: Applying an ID Motivational Framework to Promote Engagement and Innovation
(2013-10)
The purpose of this study was to identify motivational gaps and design to optimize for motivational needs in a current university course in mechanical engineering. The course instructor and instructional designer ...
The Unconventional Thesis of an Unconventional Educator: A Heightened Performative Autoethnography
(2016-12-16)
This is an unconventional thesis about the reflective look back at my first year of
teaching. The purpose of the thesis is to advocate for future, new, and current
teachers to start using the reflective practice to enhance ...
Investigating the Predictors of Spatial Skills Essential for Construction Science Student Success in the Digital Age
(2015-12-18)
This study investigated spatial ability, domain knowledge, and domain real-world experience as predictors of spatial skills. One hundred seventy-seven construction science students participated in the study. The study ...
HOW LEADERSHIP INFLUENCES TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS IN RESPONSE TO EDUCATIONAL REFORMS: A HERMENEUTIC PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY
(2016-05-13)
In 2009 a rash overhaul of educational reform occurred in our nation’s educational system, specifically preempted by Race to the Top. Administrators and teachers have been in a flux of understanding the importance of these ...
Impact of electronic mail communication in a world-wide K--12 school system evaluated on the basis of employee attitudes and perceptions.
(2001)
This study explores the impact of electronic mail (e-mail) communication in the overseas Department of Defense Dependents School system. Employees' attitudes and perceptions on the use of electronic mail to communicate and ...
A study comparing student achievement in a full-service school and a non-full-service school.
(2007)
Student achievement indicators in the two schools were compared. The schools were similar in enrollment, community type, percent low-income students, and percent minority students. Data gathered from the schools was retrieved ...
Teaching with the data in mind: Using Oklahoma achievement test results to close the gap for No Child Left Behind.
(2004)
This qualitative study investigated successful practices of "highly effective" elementary teachers as they used Oklahoma State achievement test data to close the gap for all student subgroups in fulfilling the mandates of ...
Organizational Structure, Leadership, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior
(2015-05-08)
A plethora of research on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) exists. However, there is a limited amount of research examining this construct within schools. This study examined the OCB phenomenon in schools. More ...
An analysis of talk in four first-year composition cooperative learning groups.
(2001)
This dissertation considers the question, "in what ways do students in cooperative learning groups in First-Year Composition courses create social contexts that allow positive, constructive criticism to take place?" Social ...
School of Business and Management's curricula in relation to multiculturalism as communicated in the catalogs of the Big XII universities.
(2006)
Racial tension running high in higher education, Improving campus racial climate, Inside higher education: Explosion over the N-word. These captions are but few of the many headlines referring to problems in higher education. ...