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Examining The Effect Of Group Assignment On Upper Elementary Students' Experiences In A Technology-Mediated Collaborative Compositional Activity, Samuel C. Holmes
Examining The Effect Of Group Assignment On Upper Elementary Students' Experiences In A Technology-Mediated Collaborative Compositional Activity, Samuel C. Holmes
Middle and Secondary Education Dissertations
Collaboration in elementary music instruction has been incorporated frequently in creative activities. With the increase of technology integration, researchers have investigated its use as a mediation tool in creative activities. The nature of how children are grouped remains in contention. There is a need for comparing students’ perceptions in group work based on their group selection. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to examine the effect of group assignment on upper elementary students’ experiences in a technology-mediated collaborative compositional activity. Research questions included: (a) How do upper elementary students perceive collaboration in a group-based, technology-mediated music composition activity? …
The Impact Of Explicitly Incorporating Culture In An Introductory College Level Spanish Class On Student Intercultural Competency, Ryan Boylan
Middle and Secondary Education Dissertations
This qualitative, case study investigation examined practices for the incorporation of cultural texts and experiences in the post-secondary foreign language classroom and how these practices could impact the attitudes and perceptions of participants towards the inclusion of culture in the classroom and towards the target culture in general as well as their intercultural competence. While culture is often viewed as akin to language, if not as language (Byrd, Hlas, Watzke & Montes Valencia, 2001; Tang, 1999) and the link between culture and language is seen as inextricable and undeniable (Agar, 1994; Kramsch, 1993), in many lower-level post-secondary language programs, culture …