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Invited Panel Presentation On Theoretical Perspectives On Research In Higher And Professional Education: Making Sense Of Academic Language And Learning (All), Alisa Percy

Alisa Percy, PhD

Oral Communication In Esl Through Improvisations, Playwriting And Rehearsals, Chamkaur Gill

Chamkaur Gill

No abstract provided.

Increasing Esl Learners’ Communicative Oral English Through Drama-Based Activities, Chamkaur Gill

Chamkaur Gill

No abstract provided.

Quests, Badges, And Leveling Up In A Game-Based Curriculum, Chris Haskell, Kristi Mesler

Chris Haskell

This research proposal reports on the practice of quest-based/game-based instructional design as well as two years of iterative design-based research (DBR) of the instructional design approach, curriculum, and tool. It also focuses on reportable student data from a semester long project aiming to identify attractive design and satisfying learning experiences in QBL.

Why Game-based Approaches?

Critics of the American education system point to student boredom, lack of personalized and relevant instruction, and a deficit of 21st century skills as challenges to producing productive citizens of a modern, digital society (Eccles & Wingfield, 2002; Ketelhut, 2007; U.S. Department of Education Office …

Experiential Learning In Virtual Worlds, Tom Atkinson, Chris Haskell

Chris Haskell

Experiential activities are among the most powerful teaching and learning tools available. Join this presentation and open discussion of 4 principles: immersion, identity, interaction, integration, and how imagination and emotion contribute to this process.

Quasi-Experiment Examining Cafeteria-Style Grading In Social Work Education, Brandon Youker, Lyza Ingraham

Brandon W. Youker Ph.D

Cafeteria-style grading system is an individualized student assessment method whereby students choose their assignments from an expansive and diverse pool of assignments. In this study, students are non-randomly assigned to two sections of the same social work course. The first section received cafeteria-style assignments and grading system (i.e., experimental group) while the comparison section received the traditional method of grading. Students in both sections video record a demonstration exercise; the recordings are reviewed and scored by experts from a panel of social work professors. Preliminary results show an effect on student attendance but no effect on GPA or student performance.

It Takes A Village: (Un)Learning And (Re)Imagining Teaching Transformation Through Race-Based Equity Work And Collaborative Research Analysis, Susan Adams, Jamie Buffington-Adams

Susan Adams

Invited poster presentation at the 9th Annual Robert G. Bringle Civic Engagement 
Showcase and Symposium, Indianapolis, IN, April 23, 2013.

"Making It Personal: Using Individualized Midterm Conferences To Counter Student Resistance In 
Cultural Competency Courses", Susan Adams

Susan Adams

Workshop session at the 2013 Edward C. Moore Symposium on Excellence in Teaching, Indianapolis, IN, April 4, 2013.

New Wine Into Old Wineskins?: Adding The Visual To Information Literacy Instruction, Carol A. Leibiger, Alan W. Aldrich

Carol A Leibiger

Images are significant information carriers in new technologies. Scrutinizing the written word ignores communication work done by images. Intermediality, or information literacy understood as metaliteracy, suggests ways to assess images using many of the same criteria for evaluating verbal content, with added visual-literacy criteria. The presenters combine visual and textual literacy into a holistic critical-thinking approach, which enriches interpretation when learners apply rigorous rhetorical criteria to texts, regardless of their media. Suggestions for such instruction will be provided in a LibGuide.

The Metabo Towel, John Kilbourne

John R. Kilbourne

Concerned about the rising rates of obesity and increasing health care costs in Japan, the government passed a law that requires local governments and companies to measure the waistlines of Japanese residents between the ages of 40 and 74 (56 million waistlines, 44% of the population of Japan). Those exceeding the government limits (Established by the Japanese International Diabetes Foundation), 33.5 inches for men and 35.4 inches for women, will be given diet and exercise advice. If, after three months of intervention residents fail to lose weight, they will be steered toward further re-education programs. Local governments and companies who …

Research As Collaborative Act: A Latherian Approach To Collaborative Analysis Of Race-Based Professional Development With K-12 Educators, Susan Adams

Susan Adams

Paper presentation at the 34th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA, February 23, 2013.

It Takes A Village: (Un)Learning And (Re)Imagining Teaching Transformation Through Race-Based Equity Work And Collaborative Research Analysis, Susan Adams, Jamie Buffington-Adams

Susan Adams

Poster presented at the 24th Annual Joseph Taylor Symposium, Indianapolis, IN, February 27, 2013.

A Call To Cognition: Literacy Initiative Or Intervention, J. Connelly

Dr. CONNELLY, Jennifer

No abstract provided.

Novel Transdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Program: Developmental Pathway In Translational Research And Innovation, Krystal Strand, Elizabeth Jansen

Elizabeth Jansen

No abstract provided.

Where The Wild Things Are: Navigating The Advantages And Challenges Of Teaching With Wikipedia, Adrianne Wadewitz

Adrianne Wadewitz

In this assignment, students in upper-division Adolescent Literature and Children’s Literature classes contributed to Wikipedia articles about the books and authors covered in the courses. Drawing on the pedagogical scholarship that demonstrates the benefits of collaborative writing and the importance of learning a “community of practice”, the assignment asked students to edit live Wikipedia articles along with pseudonymous editors from around the world and learn the expectations of the online encyclopedia’s writing community. Over the semester, the students developed in-depth research skills, basic wiki editing skills, complex summarizing skills, and an appreciation for the constructed nature of knowledge. The students …

Exploring The Factors That Motivate Female Students To Enroll And Persist In A Collegiate Stem Degree Program, Rosemary L. Edzie, Moe Alahmad

Rosemary L Edzie

In the United States, collegiate enrollment in science and engineering programs continues to decline, while European and Asian universities have increased the number of science and engineering graduates. In addition, there is a growing concern over too few females enrolling and persisting in collegiate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degree programs. Through increasing access to pre-collegiate STEM activities, providing a better understanding of STEM career choices, instilling of confidence in math and science, and establishing student and industry based mentoring programs, more female students will enroll and persist in collegiate STEM degree programs. This paper sets to explore the …