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Information Literacy Opportunities Within The Discovery Tool Environment, Nancy E. Fawley, Nikki Krysak

Library Faculty Publications

Discovery tools such as Primo, EBSCO Discovery Service, Summon, and WorldCat Local aim to make scholarly research more intuitive for students in part because of their single interface for searching across multiple platforms, including the library, fee-based databases, and unique digital collections. Discovery tools are in sync with the way many undergraduates look for information because they offer a more “Google-like” experience in contrast with previous methods of research that required first knowing which database to use, then searching each one differently according to its specifications. However, broad searches across multiple formats with different systems of controlled vocabulary force instructors …

The Effect Of Differentiated Instruction On Standardized Assessment Performance Of Students In The Middle School Mathematics Classroom, Kimberly Gail Williams

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Changing demographics, student diversity, and increased accountability have compelled educators to challenge the uniform constraints of traditional instruction and create an environment focused on individual achievement. Differentiated instruction empowers teachers to target multiple learning styles through varied themes, adapted content delivery, and assessment options. This quantitative quasi-experimental research study examined the effects of differentiated instruction on seventh grade student performance on standardized mathematics assessments using a repeated-measures design. Two independent research trials, controlling for initial group differences with 2011 Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) scores, provided inconclusive assessment results. Significant differences between students who received differentiated instruction compared …

Collection Of Online Learning Objects For Research Success (Colors) Pilot Project, Andrea Falcone, Stephanie Wiegand

University Libraries Faculty Publications

The availability of library-related videos is growing; yet it is difficult to justify the impact of such time-consuming projects. In order to investigate the impact of such projects and a possible solution, the researchers asked students to create videos that appeal to their peers. The following research questions were posed:

• Will creation of media projects enable students to learn core research concepts and skills?
• Will a series of peer-created media engage students and help them acclimate to researching in an academic library?

By asking students to create videos, the researchers were able to observe how users interact with and perceive …

The Effects Of Technology Instruction On The Academic Achievement Of Fifth Grade Students, Karen Davis

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

A digital native is an individual born between 1981 and 2001, and children born after 2001 are called millennials. Educators are expected to meet the needs of today's technologically savvy students. Some researchers assert that an academic `moral panic' is taking place that lacks the empirical and theoretical knowledge to support the claims that education needs to change to meet the needs of digital natives and millennials. The problem is that considering that the majority of students today are digital natives are educators meeting the learning needs of their students. This research study focused on the use of instructional technology …

Using Equivalence-Based Instruction To Increase Efficiency In Teaching Neuroanatomy, Carolyn L. Pytte, Daniel M. Fienup

Publications and Research

A goal of all instruction is to efficiently allocate time spent teaching -- balancing redundancy that enhances learning with redundancy that is irrelevant to increasing student understanding. Efficient allocation of time allows the instructor to present additional material and go into more detail about the information being presented. Here we borrow laboratory research on concept formation and apply these formal principles in teaching introductory neuroanatomy within a lecture course on Behavioral Neuroscience. Concept formation is taught by pairing multiple stimuli, for instance brain name, location, and function, in such a way that novel associations within a category emerge without direct …

Campus Commons: Lessons From An Outdoor Classroom, Deborah Mixson-Brookshire

Faculty and Research Publications

The author shares an experience that opened her mind to the transformative nature of her ropes course work with students and reminded her why she does it.

Good Teaching? An Examination Of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy As An Equity Practice, Mardi Schmeichel

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

The adoption of educational policy measures to close the achievement gap, as well as the significant amount of scholarship dedicated to the subject, are just some of the indicators that reflect the tremendous concern in education about the academic performance of students of color. Within research aimed at promoting equitable practices in education, culturally relevant teaching has emerged as a good teaching strategy to improve achievement. Using genealogical methods to examine the ways in which culture has become relevant to classroom practice, the author argues that the perceived difference from white students that made it possible to conceive of children …

Teaching With The Situation: Jersey Shore As A Popular Culture Example In Information Literacy Classes, Amy Springer

Libraries Staff Publications

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The Complexity Of Reform Efforts In Science Curriculum And Instruction: A Case Study Of The Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy Chemistry Teacher, Tang Wee Teo

IMSA History

This study explores how teacher-initiated site-based reform in a specialized STEM school is conceptualized and enacted, how and why curriculum reform ideas change in the process of enactment, what qualities of teacher agency are entailed, how these qualities are acquired, interplayed, become generative, and/or are influenced to effect different curriculum reform outcomes, and how different conditions support and further teacher agency to make a more defensible curriculum.

In a critical case study of a highly experienced and qualified science teacher, I follow a teacher who initiated efforts to reform the advanced chemistry curriculum. This teacher wanted to make the curriculum …

Determining Data Information Literacy Needs: A Study Of Students And Research Faculty, Jake R. Carlson, Michael Fosmire, Chris Miller, Megan R. Sapp Nelson

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Researchers increasingly need to integrate the disposition, management and curation of their data into their current workflows. However, it is not yet clear to what extent faculty and students are sufficiently prepared to take on these responsibilities. This paper articulates the need for a data information literacy program (DIL) to prepare students to engage in such an “e-research” environment. Assessments of faculty interviews and student performance in a geoinformatics course provide complementary sources of information, which are then filtered through the perspective of ACRL’s information literacy competency standards to produce a draft set of outcomes for a data information literacy …

Evolution And Personal Religious Belief: Christian University Biology-Related Majors’ Search For Reconciliation, Mark Winslow, John Staver, Lawrence C. Scharmann

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

The goal of this study was to explore Christian biology-related majors’ perceptions of conflicts between evolution and their religious beliefs. This naturalistic study utilized a case study design of 15 undergraduate biology-related majors at or recent biology-related graduates from a mid-western Christian university. The broad sources of data were interviews, course documents, and observations. Outcomes indicate that most participants were raised to believe in creationism, but came to accept evolution through evaluating evidence for evolution, negotiating the literalness of Genesis, recognizing evolution as a non-salvation issue, and observing professors as Christian role models who accept evolution. This study lends heuristic …

Research Supporting Technology Education- Task Force 2.4 Final Report, Philip A. Reed, Jim Carlson, Fred Figliano, Hal Harrison, Hyuksoo Kwon, Johnny Moye, Phyllis Opare, John M. Ritz, Roger Skophammer, John Wells

STEMPS Faculty Publications

(First paragraph) ITEA's Board of Directors convened a task force in 2006 to identify research on technology teaching and learning. The resulting database is designed to help teachers, supervisors, and anyone that needs to show research support for technology education. The research was compiled by the following task force members:

Becoming A Teacher Of Literacy: The Struggle Between Authoritative Discourses, Mindy Legard Larson, Donna Kalmbach Phillips

Faculty Publications

This study describes and analyzes the influence of an ideological conflict between a teacher education program and a school district upon one pre-service teacher’s emerging identity as a teacher of literacy. Using poststructural feminism as the theoretical framework and a single case study analysis, the study illustrates how the discourse of the school district’s scripted reading program and the discourse of the university’s comprehensive literacy positions Claire, the pre-service teacher. The data analysis demonstrates how being positioned between these two competing and authoritative discourses conflicts with her understanding of reading and reading instruction. Reflecting upon the data, the research becomes …

Brief 15: Developing Students: Associate Academic Deans Weigh In, New England Resource Center For Higher Education, University Of Massachusetts Boston

New England Resource Center for Higher Education Publications

Perhaps more than most academic issues, remedial education evokes fervent emotions and unyielding opinions. Consensus is hard to reach even about the nomenclature, with remedial conveying a sense of deficiency in need of correction pitted against the developmental approach that focuses on change and growth. On campus, the many aspects of the controversy often get voiced in questions rather than answers: What can we do to help these students? Why were these students accepted? Who should and who will teach in these remedial programs? Should we in higher education, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, still be talking about …

What You Assess May Not Be What You Get, Thomas R. Guskey

Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology Faculty Publications

Performance-based assessments may not bring significant change in instructional practice unless teachers are provided requisite time and training.

Mount St. Mary's College In Los Angeles: Interterm 1980, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Msmc Course Catalog 1979-1980 - Supplement, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Summer Programs At Mount St. Mary's College In Los Angeles: 1978, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Mount Saint Mary's College, Los Angeles: 1978-1980 - General Information, Associate Degree Program, Bachelors Degree Programs, Graduate Degree Programs, Courses Of Instruction..., Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Mount Saint Mary's College: Interterm Bulletin, January 2-26, 1979, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Mount St. Mary's College, Interterm 1978, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Msmc Course Catalog 1977-1978 - Schedule Of Classes For The Fall & Spring On The Chalon Campus, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Msmc Course Catalog 1977-1978 - Supplement, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Mount St. Mary's College Interterm 1977, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Msmc Course Catalog Supplement - [1976 Fall Session] Continuing Education At The Mount, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Msmc Course Catalog 1976 - Interterm, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Msmc Course Catalog 1976-1978, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Msmc Course Catalog 1975-1976 Supplement, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Mount St. Mary's College: Summer Session 1974, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

General Studies Program, Mount Saint Mary's College 1974-75, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.