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Data And Assessment Management In Collegiate Recreation, Jeana Carow
Data And Assessment Management In Collegiate Recreation, Jeana Carow
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Collegiate recreation programs and centers typically provide traditional programming space in addition to a range of physical activity spaces and resources, as a valuable part of the student experience. The external pressures of identifying and communicating departmental value and impact on the campus community has resulted in collegiate recreation departments’ use of data to communicate the effectiveness and impact of their work. The purpose of the study was to identify the data collection and assessment management practices of collegiate recreation departments, particularly focusing on the organization of data and assessment strategies as well as data collection, storage, reporting, analyzing, and …
Analyzing The Retention Of Knowledge Among General Chemistry Students, James T. Kingsepp
Analyzing The Retention Of Knowledge Among General Chemistry Students, James T. Kingsepp
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
General chemistry is a survey course meant to form a foundation for students’ to build upon as they progress into chemistry sub-disciplines. The effectiveness of this foundation rests heavily on students’ abilities to retain or relearn concepts from the course. This study seeks to investigate the utility of a measure of general chemistry students’ knowledge retention across the time period of one semester. This approach was enacted in five different courses of either first or second semester general chemistry. The results showed that one-quarter to one-half of students exhibited a high rate of retention across the semester. A smaller group, …