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Enhanced online course design and its effect on the perceived level of community of inquiry
(2016-12)
Academic institutions increasingly have adopted the online platform due to its low delivery cost and ease of scalability to large numbers of students. The pressure to increase enrollment numbers without enhancements to ...
First-language Cherokee speakers' perceptions of school experiences
(2016-12)
In this dissertation I examine the perceptions of the experiences that first-language Cherokee speakers had of their school experiences, and of the higher education or career choices that they made beyond high school, in ...
International student mobility in higher education: Examining decision making factors for international students choosing to study in the Regional University System of Oklahoma
(2016-05)
Internationalism, globalization and student mobility are on the rise and the shores of the world are drawing closer in the realm of higher education. These changes are driven by technology, advancements in media formats ...
Effects of concrete, virtual, and multimodal tangram manipulatives on second grade elementary students' mathematics achievement and development of spatial sense: A convergent parallel mixed methods study
(2016-05)
This convergent parallel mixed methods study sought to determine what effects, if any, the use of multimodal tangrams have on second grade students' mathematical achievement and the development of spatial sense, as compared ...
Case study of the science, engineering, mathematics, and aerospace academy: Participant and parental perceptions
(2016-07)
The science, engineering, mathematics, and aerospace academy (SEMAA) is a federally-funded national out-of-school time (OST) science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) program that provides K-12 grade ...
Case study of Latino/a learners' school-based learning experiences in a suburban public school district
(2016-07)
This qualitative case study explores seven multilingual Latino/a students' experiences of school-based learning in a suburban public school. The purpose of this study is to understand their learning resources and needs as ...
Foraging for spatial information: Patterns of orientation learning using desktop virtual reality
(2016-05)
The purpose of the study was to provide a description of how learners use desktop VR systems for orientation learning that instructional designers could use to improve the technology. The study used a mixed method, content ...
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 ...
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 ...
Interrelationship of pre-kindergarten writing and an early childhood play environment
(2016-07)
The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand the interrelationship of students' writing and developmentally appropriate play environments in a public prekindergarten class in Oklahoma. As standards impose literacy ...