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Improving Library Instruction Through Experiential Learning And Experience Design, Matt Armstrong

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

The Harold B. Lee Library has been a long-standing partner with the university's Writing 150 GE program. Every semester the library provides three days of instruction, when the students learn about library resources and how to conduct research. This project redesigned the first session where students learn about navigating the library and learning what resources are available. The project combines experiential learning and experience design to create a more engaging experience for first-year students.

Building A Text Classifier For Analyzing Scholar’S Twitter Data, Olga Maria Belikov

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

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Universal Design For Learning: Implementation Of Technology In Lesson Plans, Esther Michela

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

The purpose of this project was to design curriculum materials for preservice teachers that will help them plan lessons that integrate technology and the principles of Universal Design for Learning to meet the varied needs of their students.

The goal of this design is to model a Universally Designed learning experience for undergraduate students as they plan their own technology integration lessons using the principles of Universal Design for Learning. After this unit, students were be able to write clear lesson goals, plan for learner variability by providing multiple points of access through flexible methods and materials, and use technology …

Early Intervention For At-Risk Online Students, Carolyn Andrews

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

Design and development project. The purpose of this project was to design and develop an intervention for at-risk students enrolled in an online class at Brigham Young University. The overarching goal of creating an intervention was to facilitate online learning and improve student satisfaction by helping students increase their performance. The development of the intervention was done in coordination with BYU Online administrators and select BYU faculty.

The German/Russian 399r Internship Programs For Byu Online, Sean Worsley

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

The initial request of creating a BYU Online Canvas course for the GERM 399R and RUSS 399R internship course came from the German and Russian Departments on BYU campus. The client requested a course redesign based on student data from previous iterations of the internship course which indicated a decline in student satisfaction due to poor organization, difficult navigation, and the large quantity of homework.

The new product consisted of two courses (GERM 399R and RUSS 399R) housed within the Canvas learning management system (LMS) and was informed by a learner analysis, qualitative interviews, and iterative prototyping.

The improved internship …

Personalized Feedback: Testing A Tutoring System That Was Informed By Learning Analytics, Mckenzie Emmett Staples

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

Computer-based tutoring systems have been extensively studied and shown to be generally effective. In this study, I worked with an online beginner’s course that teaches spreadsheets basics to business students. I designed four sets of practice problems that utilized a new tutoring feedback system that was designed for this course. In order to test the effectiveness of this feedback system, 839 Brigham Young University students that utilized this online course were randomly assigned to either a treatment condition where they worked through these new practice problems with the accompanying feedback system, or to a control condition, where they worked through …

K-12 Blended Teaching Guidebook Report, Cecil R. Short

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

The purpose of this project was to create an open educational resource (OER) for guiding in-service and pre-service K-12 teachers, as well as their administrators, in blending the K-12 classroom. The field of K-12 blended teaching research needs blended teaching competencies, as well as the instructional materials needed to meet such competencies. This OER text helps to meet this need. The development project included background research for content as well as features needed for a quality guidebook, included working with multiple authors and designers across the country, and analyzing evaluations of the work provided by researchers in the field and …

Spanish Civil War Museum Exhibit: Five-Day Playable Case Study (Pcs), Dennis West

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

To augment the classroom language learning and practice students receive, it is beneficial to provide opportunities for authentic, unrehearsed practice in speaking, listening, reading, and writing the language of study. The Spanish Civil War Museum Exhibit 5-day Simulation is a Playable Case Study (PCS) wherein students of advanced Spanish language may develop critical literacy skills, cultural competence, and linguistic proficiency in the Spanish language. The purpose of this PCS is to immerse students in an authentic narrative that takes place within emails, video chats, and other online activities with the goal of curating a museum exhibit on the Spanish Civil …

Englishconnect1:Creating Stories And Associated Language Learning Materials As Supplemental Online Learning Resources, Susan Gong

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

EC1—Stories provides online story-based supplementary language-learning activities for students enrolled in EC1, a blended learning course for adult learners at novice-high to intermediate-low English language proficiency levels. During weekly face-to-face lessons, teachers introduce a topic, related vocabulary, and relevant grammar and lead students in communicative practice. The supplemental online, story-based activities are intended to provide additional practice to help users learn new vocabulary; increase reading proficiency, comprehension, and fluency; improve pronunciation; and build toward understanding and production of paragraph-length discourse.

Disaster Escape Room: A Portable Educational Experience In Emergency Preparedness, Chanel Johnstun

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

The purpose of the disaster escape room is to teach five aspects of emergency preparedness:

1. Practice drop, cover, and hold on (for earthquake safety)

2. Identify useful items for a disaster supply kit

3. Identify safe water storage

4. Decide on an outside-the-home and neighborhood meeting place

5. Create a hard copy list of important contacts

The disaster escape room is an engaging team-building experience where people can experience light pressure in a controlled disaster environment. The disaster escape room was created for the Disaster Discovery Center (DDC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching emergency preparedness.

The disaster escape room was designed in part …

Re-Designing A Computer Science Course In Higher Education, Nathan Fox

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

The computer science department at Brigham Young University feels a need to standardize its courses across instructors. The purpose of this project was to standardize CS 235, the second programming class in the computer science major/minor. There were two existing versions that I evaluated to understand which teaching methods, assessments, and technologies used in each course led to better student outcomes and redesigned a new course based on what appeared to be most effective across courses. The CS department wanted the curriculum to (a) promote deeper learning; (b) help students transition to more proactive, self-paced, student-owned learning; (c) be more …