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Beyond Savings: Empowering Faculty To Make The Switch, Dragan Gill, Lindsey Gumb Nov 2017

Beyond Savings: Empowering Faculty To Make The Switch, Dragan Gill, Lindsey Gumb

Open Textbook Initiative

No abstract provided.


Using Object-Based And Open-Enabled Pedagogy For Authentic Learning, Amy Barlow, Dragan Gill Oct 2017

Using Object-Based And Open-Enabled Pedagogy For Authentic Learning, Amy Barlow, Dragan Gill

Open Textbook Initiative

No abstract provided.


Drama And Global Citizenship In The High School Classroom: Student Response And Teacher Growth, Mia J. Palombo Oct 2017

Drama And Global Citizenship In The High School Classroom: Student Response And Teacher Growth, Mia J. Palombo

Honors Projects

Thesis explores student engagement with a unit of lessons that used drama pedagogy to explore the Syrian Civil War and discussed possible solutions.


Opening Up About Open Textbooks: Accounts Of Real Work Around Oer, Dragan Gill, Andria Tieman Michney, Hailie Posey May 2017

Opening Up About Open Textbooks: Accounts Of Real Work Around Oer, Dragan Gill, Andria Tieman Michney, Hailie Posey

Open Textbook Initiative

No abstract provided.


Waking Yourself Up: The Liberatory Potential Of Critical University Studies, Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur, Scott Leo Renshaw Apr 2017

Waking Yourself Up: The Liberatory Potential Of Critical University Studies, Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur, Scott Leo Renshaw

Faculty Publications

This paper is designed as a conversation between Mikaila and Scott, one of the students who enrolled in the course the first time it was offered, in Spring 2014. Scott is now a graduate student in sociology. By developing a sustained, paper-length conversation about the course, we hope to provide a sense of the liberatory potential of critical university studies as a pedagogical practice.


Open Textbook Report, Rhode Island College (March 2017), Dragan Gill Mar 2017

Open Textbook Report, Rhode Island College (March 2017), Dragan Gill

Open Textbook Initiative

No abstract provided.


Using Open Textbooks In Blackboard And Printing Options On Campus, Jack Mello, Dragan Gill Feb 2017

Using Open Textbooks In Blackboard And Printing Options On Campus, Jack Mello, Dragan Gill

Open Textbook Initiative

No abstract provided.


The Montessori Experiment In Rhode Island (1913–1940): Tracing Theory To Implementation Over 25 Years, Susan Zoll Jan 2017

The Montessori Experiment In Rhode Island (1913–1940): Tracing Theory To Implementation Over 25 Years, Susan Zoll

Faculty Publications

This article highlights archived documents pertaining to a 25-year experimental classroom implemented by Clara Craig, then supervisor of training at the Rhode Island Normal School. Craig is notable as she was the only participant in the first International Montessori Training Course in Rome, Italy, in 1913, to gain approval from the Rhode Island Board of Education to study the Montessori Method. Her administrative position at the Rhode Island Normal School provided her with a rare opportunity to influence both teacher preparation and classroom curriculumupon her return. The article traces implementation of the Montessori Method and its Americanized revision, serving as …


Visualizing Sorting Algorithms, Brian Faria Jan 2017

Visualizing Sorting Algorithms, Brian Faria

Honors Projects

This paper discusses a study performed on animating sorting algorithms as a learning aid for classroom instruction. A web-based animation tool was created to visualize four common sorting algorithms: Selection Sort, Bubble Sort, Insertion Sort, and Merge Sort. The animation tool would represent data as a bar-graph and after selecting a data-ordering and algorithm, the user can run an automated animation or step through it at their own pace. Afterwards, a study was conducted with a voluntary student population at Rhode Island College who were in the process of learning algorithms in their Computer Science curriculum. The study consisted of …


A Phenomenological Exploration Of How Public School Administrators Balance Teacher Evaluation And Support Of Teacher Growth, Mary F. Slattery Jan 2017

A Phenomenological Exploration Of How Public School Administrators Balance Teacher Evaluation And Support Of Teacher Growth, Mary F. Slattery

Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview

Educational reform efforts over the past several decades have focused on different ways to address student achievement. Since the quality of the teacher that students have is one of the biggest in-school factors that impact student achievement, schools have focused on identifying, measuring, and improving teacher quality. Some of those reform efforts have focused their attention on teacher evaluation as a way of increasing student achievement. There has been much research on the components quality evaluation tools. There is also research on ways to impact and change teacher practice. Unfortunately most evaluation tools do not impact teaching practice. Rhode Island …


Teachers' Experiences Of Induction: A Narrative Retrospective Inquiry, Jodi L. Clark Jan 2017

Teachers' Experiences Of Induction: A Narrative Retrospective Inquiry, Jodi L. Clark

Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview

It is well established that beginning teachers need support to bridge the gap from college teacher preparation to the classroom setting (Fletcher & Strong, 2009; Wong, 2003). In fact, lack of support in this transition has been identified as a leading factor that causes beginning teachers to leave the profession at high rates early in their careers (Andrews, Gilbert & Martin, 2006). Research suggests that coaching is an effective way to support beginning teacher’s learning (Ingersoll & Strong, 2011). The purpose of this qualitative research is to tell the lived experiences of nine teachers who took part of in a …