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Visual Literacy And Reading Motivation Understanding The Impact Of Illustrations And Images On An Individual’S Engagement With Text, Anna Mccuaig May 2023

Visual Literacy And Reading Motivation Understanding The Impact Of Illustrations And Images On An Individual’S Engagement With Text, Anna Mccuaig

Honor Scholar Theses

Education systems are currently facing an issue not of illiteracy, but aliteracy due to their emphasis on easily measured and taught content that ultimately removes much of what makes reading relatable and personally rewarding to students. Common Core State Standards, Accelerated Reader, and Hooked on Phonics are examples of measurement heavy programs which emphasize a standardized education that removes the art and connection that comes with literature. Before these programs, visuals have been intertwined with literature in various forms for centuries. Theater, the film, or even architecture has an important ability to create an immersive experience which connects its viewers …


Lessons From An Exemplar Elementary Robotics Program: Implications For Learning And Life, Paige Price May 2022

Lessons From An Exemplar Elementary Robotics Program: Implications For Learning And Life, Paige Price

Honor Scholar Theses

As robotics is becoming more popular across the United States, there is little research to show the long term effects of robotics participation on students both within and outside of school. Through examining literature surrounding robotics, known themes of collaboration, problem solving, and an obvious growth in areas surrounding STEM have been identified. This qualitative study took the general information provided by literature and focused on a specific case study of two fifth grade elementary teams from Woodview Elementary School in Nappanee, Indiana. Using a technique called methods triangulation, new emerging themes were found between obtaining eight of the students' …


School Garden Programs, Food Pathways, And Environmental Justice: Modeling Ethical Frameworks To Reclaim The Value Of Care Work Through Education, Charlotte Borland May 2022

School Garden Programs, Food Pathways, And Environmental Justice: Modeling Ethical Frameworks To Reclaim The Value Of Care Work Through Education, Charlotte Borland

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.


Gimme One Reason To Stay Here: Analyzing Retention And Persistence Trends For First- Generation Students In The Glca Through A Financial Lens, Emma Bailey Apr 2021

Gimme One Reason To Stay Here: Analyzing Retention And Persistence Trends For First- Generation Students In The Glca Through A Financial Lens, Emma Bailey

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.


The Power Of Inclusion: Deconstructing “Normality” In Primary Education, Madison Smith Apr 2021

The Power Of Inclusion: Deconstructing “Normality” In Primary Education, Madison Smith

Honor Scholar Theses

The goal of this thesis is to critically analyze the structures currently present within the education system that exclude individuals possessing certain brains and bodies from the socially constructed “norm.” The lens of critical disability studies is utilized to shed light on the spatial, curricular, historical, and disciplinary elements of the education system as we know it. Specifically, this thesis focuses on the primary education classroom, since students solidify many of their biases and schemas about the world and people around them at this juncture. After reviewing the ableist rhetoric that manifests itself in schools and society as a result …


The Disaster That Lies Behind The Chalkboard: An Autoethnography About Education & The Power, Privilege And Diversity Requirement, Shafrarisi Bonner Apr 2021

The Disaster That Lies Behind The Chalkboard: An Autoethnography About Education & The Power, Privilege And Diversity Requirement, Shafrarisi Bonner

Honor Scholar Theses

This thesis seeks to analyze the racial climate of the classroom, using my personal experiences at my predominately white institution (PWI) as its foundation. My experiences at DePauw University, both academically and socially, has played a key role in how I have navigated campus. These experiences are further analyzed using a Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Feminist lens. By analyzing the studies and research done by these scholars, this study aims to assess how whiteness operates and is maintained within the classroom, especially in DePauw University’s Power, Privilege and Diversity courses. This study also outlines the impact of classrooms that …


Reflections From A Pre-Service Teacher: Finding Equity, Accessibility, And Compassion In Our Schools, Emma Houston Apr 2020

Reflections From A Pre-Service Teacher: Finding Equity, Accessibility, And Compassion In Our Schools, Emma Houston

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.


Religious Identity And Religious Belief: The Subconscious Religiosity Of Chinese University Students, Margot Leiner Apr 2020

Religious Identity And Religious Belief: The Subconscious Religiosity Of Chinese University Students, Margot Leiner

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.


Computer Science Without Computers: A Guide To Teaching Concepts Of Computer Science Without Access To Computers Or Other Technological Devices, Anna Nagy Apr 2020

Computer Science Without Computers: A Guide To Teaching Concepts Of Computer Science Without Access To Computers Or Other Technological Devices, Anna Nagy

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.


The Second Wave In Secondary Schools: Textbooks And Standards On The Feminist Movement, Melissa Browning Apr 2020

The Second Wave In Secondary Schools: Textbooks And Standards On The Feminist Movement, Melissa Browning

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.


Project-Based Learning In An Ever-Changing World: Experiential Revelations From The Field, Sarah Kelly Apr 2020

Project-Based Learning In An Ever-Changing World: Experiential Revelations From The Field, Sarah Kelly

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.


The Future Of Higher Education: How A Student's Decision To Attend College Is Evolving, J. C. Lukens Apr 2019

The Future Of Higher Education: How A Student's Decision To Attend College Is Evolving, J. C. Lukens

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.


The Search For Peace Education In Spain's National Curriculum: Questioning The Presence Of Race, Immigration, And Othering, Anne Grujanac Apr 2019

The Search For Peace Education In Spain's National Curriculum: Questioning The Presence Of Race, Immigration, And Othering, Anne Grujanac

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.


The Short End Of The Stick: The Problem With America's Education And Society Today, Arman Nazari Apr 2019

The Short End Of The Stick: The Problem With America's Education And Society Today, Arman Nazari

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.


Identifying Exceptionally Performing Third Grades In Indiana: Who Is To Blame?, Emily Troyer Apr 2019

Identifying Exceptionally Performing Third Grades In Indiana: Who Is To Blame?, Emily Troyer

Honor Scholar Theses

Federal and state governments want to know that their constituents' tax dollars are being spent well, and that public education is serving the People well. To assess a school's efficacy, they calculate an accountability score. Although state-level scoring systems vary, neither the federal law nor a single state's law require that demographic characteristics of a school's student population be held constant when it is being evaluated. This complicates the assessment of a school's adequacy because factors outside of a school's control influence student performance; when a school is evaluated without taking this into account, it is being unfairly credited with …


Belonging In This Place: Belonging In An Undergraduate University, Samantha Ostreicher Apr 2018

Belonging In This Place: Belonging In An Undergraduate University, Samantha Ostreicher

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.


Defending University Speech Codes: An Essay On Why Universities Speech Codes Make Sense, Daniel Alexander Schultz Apr 2018

Defending University Speech Codes: An Essay On Why Universities Speech Codes Make Sense, Daniel Alexander Schultz

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.


Reaching Further: The Role Of Distance In College Undermatching, Lois Miller Apr 2017

Reaching Further: The Role Of Distance In College Undermatching, Lois Miller

Honor Scholar Theses

This thesis explores factors explaining why so many high-achieving, low-income students apply to and enroll at universities with relatively low academic standards, despite generous financial aid packages and evidence that these students would be successful at colleges that are more selective. Amazon's Mechanical Turk was used to gather data and a probit analysis confirms an established result that low-income students are more likely to undermatch. The primary contribution of this work is the result that as the distance between a student's home and the university they attend increases, the probability that the student will undermatch decreases. The decrease in likelihood …


Education Or Indoctrination? World War Ii Ideologies Under Leaders Hitler And Mussolini - Education Systems And Propaganda Campaigns, Allison Hills Apr 2017

Education Or Indoctrination? World War Ii Ideologies Under Leaders Hitler And Mussolini - Education Systems And Propaganda Campaigns, Allison Hills

Honor Scholar Theses

This thesis analyses education as a potential force of indoctrination by looking at two powerful leaders during World War II: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Following the abstract and acknowledgements, this thesis continues into the personal statement and positionality. Next, there is an intensive literature review, consisting of: a historical background before World War II, sections regarding psychology of education and leaders and followers. Then comes the purpose of the thesis, followed by the methods used to obtain data. After the background information, I go directly into talking about Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini using backgrounds from their countries to …


The Allure Of Music: Implications For Academically Gifted Students, Erin Tolar Jan 2016

The Allure Of Music: Implications For Academically Gifted Students, Erin Tolar

Honor Scholar Theses

This thesis explores the complex interactions of academic giftedness as it relates to the pursuit of music. The literature review covers some of the main topics of giftedness, including what it means to be gifted, identification of giftedness, and music in gifted programs. Research was conducted at a small liberal arts college with a School of Music on academically gifted students. The survey and follow-up interview were constructed to assess whether academically gifted music students were more likely to experience conflict about their choice of major than academically gifted liberal arts students, non-academically gifted School of Music students, or non-academically …


When Change Is Not Enough: A Historic Review Of Diversity Initiatives At Depauw University, Dakota N. Watson Jan 2015

When Change Is Not Enough: A Historic Review Of Diversity Initiatives At Depauw University, Dakota N. Watson

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.


School Smart, Katherine Tozer Jan 2015

School Smart, Katherine Tozer

Honor Scholar Theses

In School Smart, I cap off my career as a student asking questions many do when childhood grows distant: What happened to us and how did we get here? Fed up with a society that gives individuals all the credit (or blame) for their education outcomes, the following essays crack open the stiff binding on “education stories” with hindsight, history, and a whole bunch of data. School Smart gives six examples of different women at different schools who put faces to murky concepts like “the achievement gap,” “the accountability movement,” and “special needs education.” To reform education, we need to …


Learning To Read, Learning To Love It: A Shared Literacy Vision, Abigail E. Emmert Jan 2014

Learning To Read, Learning To Love It: A Shared Literacy Vision, Abigail E. Emmert

Honor Scholar Theses

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Letters To Make-Believe: An Afterschool Survival Kit, Jessica Maginity Jan 2014

Letters To Make-Believe: An Afterschool Survival Kit, Jessica Maginity

Honor Scholar Theses

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