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Narrative-focused video games as situated learning: Media literacy implications of play, identity, and perspective taking
(2018-07)
With the emergence of more narrative-focused video games, this study attempted to better understand how college students construct meaning through these interactive experiences as a means of understanding social and cultural ...
Battle to badge: Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom combat veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress transitioned to police patrol officer careers
(2017-12)
Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) warriors served on the battlefield in an era and contexts that set them apart from combat veterans of previous wars. Some notable factors are advanced battlefield ...
Analysis of the ToOLS online readiness instrument as an indicator of student success in online courses in a community college environment
(2016-07)
As online learning increases its presence in higher education, there is value in identifying instruments to accurately and reliably assess the readiness of students to succeed in this learning environment. One instrument ...
Is it a question of allyship?: An intersectional feminist exploration of the experiences of women interns in food justice education non-profit work
(2017-05)
Research indicates that food insecurity exists within a multi-dimensional intersectional system of oppression. Research also suggests that the work of nonprofit organizations intended to relieve suffering caused by food ...
M/othering in transnational space as curriculum theorizing: Investigating interrelationality in a self/other relationship through weaving
(2018-07)
The purpose of this dissertation study is to explore a different way of thinking otherness in a self/other relationship. Specifically, I theorize m/othering in a transnational context in dealing with otherness in curricular ...
Academic abilities and noncognitive traits of first-time freshmen: College-level and remedial mathematics students
(2017-07)
First-time freshmen students enter college with varying levels of precollege academic success in mathematics, assorted demographic backgrounds, grit levels, metacognitive awareness, and mindsets (views on the malleability ...
Elementary teachers' perceptions of engineering, engineering design, and their abilities to teach engineering: A mixed methods study
(2016-05)
This explanatory sequential mixed methods study explores elementary teachers' preparedness to teach engineering and engineering design as prescribed by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The data analyzed included ...
Relationship of social media and rapidly evolving technology on approaches to learning in the millennial generation
(2018-05)
The purpose of this study was to identify the approaches to learning of the millennial generation and to describe the student's perspective on the relationship that social media and technology has on individual approaches ...
Frontiers of Science Foundation: Transforming math and science curricula in Oklahoma secondary schools, 1957-1964
(2018-05)
One of the most iconic events in curriculum history was the launching of the satellite Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957, and the curriculum reform movement that followed in the United States. This study shows how Oklahoma ...