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How Indian boarding schools are like neighborhoods
(2022-07)
Contemporary Indian boarding schools look a lot different than their previous incarnations. It is clear that traditional and long-standing evaluation criteria for conventional public and private schools does not adequately ...
Do compressed in-person classes yield student performance results comparable to traditional 16-week in-person classes: A mixed methodology approach
(2022-05)
Institutions of higher learning are offering an increasing number of compressed in-person classes with the goal of providing to their diverse student populations flexibility of instruction delivery. SIU and many other ...
Holocaust Teachers' Stories: Life, Pedagogy, and Meaning
(2019-05-01)
How do secondary teachers' narratives reveal the influence of their life experiences on their commitments and approaches in Holocaust education? Employing Gadamerian Hermeneutics as the theoretical research frame and ...
Grid and group explanation of arts faculty development in two Thai universities
(2009-07)
Scope and Method of Study: The purposes of the study are to use grid and group theory to explain the culture of two institutions as well as the interrelationship of professional development practices and faculty preferences ...
Human capital formation, fertility, and labor force participation in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2022-07)
My dissertation comprises three chapters. The first chapter examines the effect of childhood immunization. After being in power in Burkina Faso for about a year, a military regime led by Thomas Sankara-within weeks, ...
Two essays on increasing the learning effectiveness of economics education
(2010-07)
Scope and Method of Study:
Assessing changes in intercultural sensitivity in students exposed to intercultural experiences supported by the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at Oklahoma State University using the intercultural development inventory
(2009-12)
Oklahoma State University, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (OSU-CASNR), understands the importance of educating students to become inter-culturally competent. As such, they have designed a variety ...
Investigation of the influence of classical music on the writing performance of seventh grade students
(1999-05)
The use of classical music in the seventh grade English composition classroom may
provide a powerful means to motivate students to write - and write more creatively and
effectively. It may have the potential to help students ...
Fluorescence emission as an early indicator of coral health and as a visual cue for symbiotic algae: The effect on STEM interest after a field trip to a public aquarium
(2020-07)
Scleractinian coral rely on the photosynthetic byproducts gained from their dinoflagellate endosymbiont. Bleaching events break down the symbiosis leaving the coral with reduced fecundity or dead. Examining the symbiotic ...