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The Apprenticeship Of Observation In Gifted Education, David Wolff

Open Educational Resources - Teaching and Learning

The ‘Apprenticeship of Observation’ is described as one’s perception of ‘good teaching’ as informed by our own experiences as a student observing teaching for thirteen years in a K-12 school system. Perception of gifted education is susceptible of the ‘apprenticeship of observation’ and often influencing teachers’ actions and beliefs about the needs of gifted learners.

Enhance Students’ Learning Outcomes By Redesigning Individual Learning Activities Into Group Activities For Introductory Level Physics Courses, Kalani Hettiarachchilage, Neel Haldolaarachchige

Publications and Research

The evolution of science education is a dynamic process driven by advances in pedagogy, technology, and especially, our understanding of how students learn. Educators are exploring innovative teaching and learning methodologies such as active learning, incorporated technology, interdisciplinary approaches, flipped classrooms, personalized teaching, and many more. The goal of all these evolving methodologies is to empower students with not only a strong foundation in scientific knowledge but also with the skills and mindset required to thrive in the future world. By adopting these innovative approaches, educators can help students become effective problem solvers, critical thinkers, and life-learning citizens. Our focus …

Letters To Myself ~ Reflections Of A New Teacher ~ A Curriculum Of Self, Sarah Brittany S. Greneker

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This is a nontraditional, very creative approach to dissertation writing. Using reflective poetic inquiry, I reflect on my experiences transitioning from pre-service to in-service teacher in the early childhood classroom. I taught for 7 years and encountered many situations that would have been beneficial to know prior to becoming a certified teacher. I explore overarching themes of coworker relationships, undergraduate program preparation, the various responsibilities, classroom environment, teacher evaluation, teacher perspective, and teacher mental health and well-being and how they each impact a teacher’s experience in the classroom. This is accomplished through the epistolary genre and letters to myself as …

So Much Courage: Hemingway, War, And Rape, Tracie Nicolai

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Weaving together Ernest Hemingway’s biography and literature with her own life, Tracie Nicolai analyzes the impact of Hemingway’s life and literature in the classroom and outside of it. War trauma is analyzed in relation to rape and its lasting effects, paralleling the impacts and the traumas that shape our philosophies and our lives. Nicolai explores how Hemingway wrote of war and his own injuries, and she discusses the distance evident between his own life experiences and his subsequent fiction writings. In separate vignettes in each chapter, Nicolai writes of her experience as a rape survivor and the lasting impact on …

แนวทางการออกแบบหลักสูตรรายวิชาภาษาอังกฤษเพิ่มเติมสำหรับห้องเรียนพิเศษภาษาอังกฤษระดับมัธยมศึกษาตอนต้น, ศิริวัฒน์ ขันโมลี

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์ 1) เพื่อศึกษาลักษณะหลักสูตรรายวิชาภาษาอังกฤษเพิ่มเติมของห้องเรียนพิเศษภาษาอังกฤษระดับมัธยมศึกษาตอนต้นในปัจจุบัน และ 2) เพื่อเสนอแนวทางการออกแบบหลักสูตรรายวิชาภาษาอังกฤษเพิ่มเติมของห้องเรียนพิเศษภาษาอังกฤษระดับมัธยมศึกษาตอนต้น กลุ่มผู้ให้ข้อมูล ได้แก่ 1) ผู้บริหารสถานศึกษา หรือหัวหน้าโครงการ หรือครูผู้สอนภาษาอังกฤษในโครงการ และ 2) นักเรียนระดับชั้นมัธยมศึกษาปีที่ 3 ในโรงเรียนที่จัดโครงการห้องเรียนพิเศษภาษาอังกฤษ สังกัดสำนักงานคณะกรรมการการศึกษาขั้นพื้นฐาน ในเขตกรุงเทพมหานคร เครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการเก็บข้อมูลประกอบด้วย 1) แบบสอบถามลักษณะหลักสูตรรายวิชาฯ 2) แบบสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึก และ 3) ประเด็นคำถามในการสนทนากลุ่ม ผลการวิจัย พบว่าหลักสูตรรายวิชาภาษาอังกฤษเพิ่มเติมในปัจจุบันมีข้อจำกัดในด้านความหลากหลายของเนื้อหา ความซ้ำซ้อนระหว่างระดับชั้น และการไม่สอดคล้องกับเป้าหมายระดับ CEFR B1 รวมถึงการจัดสื่อ การวัดและประเมินผลที่ขาดมาตรฐาน จากการศึกษาหลักสูตรของต่างประเทศ และข้อเสนอแนะจากผู้ทรงคุณวุฒิ ได้พัฒนาแนวทางการออกแบบหลักสูตร 5 ด้าน ดังนี้ 1) วัตถุประสงค์รายวิชาควรกำหนดเป้าหมายที่ชัดเจน สอดคล้องกับระดับ CEFR B1 เพื่อพัฒนาทักษะภาษาอังกฤษของผู้เรียนในทุกด้านให้พร้อมใช้ในสถานการณ์จริง 2) เนื้อหาในรายวิชาควรมีความหลากหลาย เหมาะสมกับความสนใจของผู้เรียน และตอบสนองความต้องการในการพัฒนาทักษะทางภาษา 3) การจัดกิจกรรมการเรียนการสอนควรมุ่งเน้นการมีส่วนร่วมของผู้เรียนโดยจัดกิจกรรมที่ส่งเสริมการเรียนรู้เชิงปฏิบัติ เพื่อให้ผู้เรียนสามารถพัฒนาทักษะภาษาอังกฤษอย่างเป็นธรรมชาติ 4) สื่อการเรียนการสอนควรเลือกใช้สื่อที่เหมาะสมและทันสมัย รองรับการเรียนรู้ที่หลากหลาย และส่งเสริมการเรียนรู้อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพ และ 5) การวัดและประเมินผลรายวิชาควรมีความหลากหลาย ครอบคลุมทุกทักษะทางภาษา และอิงตามมาตรฐาน CEFR เพื่อสะท้อนความก้าวหน้าของผู้เรียนและนำไปสู่การพัฒนาที่ต่อเนื่องและยั่งยืน

Four Decades Of Distance Learning Instruction In An Electrical Engineering Technology Program, Otilia Popescu, Isaac L. Flory Iv, John R. Hackworth, Murat Kuzlu

Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

Online instruction is no longer a new or seldom used modality. It has grown over the last few decades, reaching a pinnacle during the recent pandemic. Different institutions and different programs chose different approaches for the online delivery of courses, adopting either synchronous or asynchronous deliveries for online students, and hybrid delivery for mixed groups of campus and online students attending the classes in a live or synchronous manner. This paper’s main goal is to present the history of over 40 years of distance learning in an Electrical Engineering Technology program and how the delivery mode progressed over time. While …

A Foundation For Transformative Learning Practices In Higher Education, Michelle Meyer

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

Higher education institutions in the United States have an ongoing rhetoric of claiming that they offer students educational experiences that build skills and prepare them for a career. However, reports from employers and students indicate that many schools are struggling to do so, and research imperative skills like critical thinking have wide construct definitions that can be difficult for institutions to work with. Transformative learning theory (TLT) is a theoretical practice and pedagogy that could support institutions by providing both a pedagogical foundation of what should occur in a classroom and a series of steps for what transformative learning looks …

Exposing The Camera: The Pedagogical Possibilities Of Critical Camera-Based Arts Curriculum, Oscar Keyes

Theses and Dissertations

Cameras are a ubiquitous part of our everyday lives, especially in schools, found in students’ smartphones and state-of-the-art surveillance systems. This research project emerged from an iterative redesign process of a Photography for Art Education course, structured around the camera’s dual nature as a tool for creative expression and social control. While cameras have long been used to address social issues through documentary techniques; this critical eye can be turned onto the apparatus itself. This study drew heavily upon the historical work of Allan Sekula (1986), who observed how easier access to cameras resulted in both democratization (for the People) …

Taking A Look At The Chicago Renaissance: A Cultural And Influential Movement, Shannon Watkins

Masters Theses

A resource guide for educators to allow students to explore literature from the Chicago Renaissance; while bridging the gap between Social Studies and English/Language Arts. This guide has lesson plans, curricular resources, and references for Intermediate Elementary teachers and students. Lesson plans are aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy, Illinois State & National Standards. This guide implements Common Core State Standards with interdisciplinary subject areas while developing and emerging critical thinkers in students.

Centering Linguistic Justice In The First Year Writing Classroom: An Argument For The Incorporation Of Code-Meshing And Narrative In Academic Writing, Traci Salazar

Masters Theses

The author addresses several questions across three chapters in relation to linguistic identity and standard language ideology in academic writing, particularly as it pertains to the First Year Writing classroom. Firstly, what is standard language ideology, and what are the detriments of its effects on students in the writing classroom? This answer is considered with an emphasis on the implications for students whose home languages are not in close proximity to Standard English (SE) and boils down to a homogenous language that is deemed ideal and is imposed upon others by dominant institutions, such as academic institutions. Within a literature …

Virtual Reality In Art Appreciation Education: A Systematic Review Of The Literature, Jingyi Zhao, Lili Zhang

Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange (JETDE)

This study is a systematic review of 23 years of research on virtual reality (VR) usage in art appreciation education. A total of 34 articles were selected from 2 major academic databases using search strings and manual screening protocols. The literature analysis emphasized four aspects of VR-based art appreciation education: research methodologies, instructional design, technological affordances, and assessment. The results show the trends in the VR literature regarding the forms of application in different knowledge types, interaction design specific to art appreciation, and the solutions to the cognitive load imposed by the technology. Finally, practical implications and a future research …

English 890: Advanced Research Methods, A First Benchmark Portfolio, Janel Simons

UNL Faculty Course Portfolios

In this benchmark portfolio, I reflect on course design and student learning in a course I teach for incoming Master's students in the English department, ENGL 890: Advanced Research Methods. ENGL 890 is a mini-session course intended to introduce students to various aspects of managing graduate-level research within the discipline of English studies. In this portfolio, I discuss the learning outcomes and goals for the course, highlight some of the assessments I use, reflect on student learning throughout the course, and articulate changes that might improve student learning in future iterations of the course. Given the overarching goals of this …

First Course Portfolio For Tmfd 213: Merchandising I: Textile And Apparel Industry, Na Young Jung

UNL Faculty Course Portfolios

This portfolio presents a comprehensive overview of TMFD 213: Merchandising I, a foundational course in the Department of Textiles, Merchandising, and Fashion Design at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The course is designed to equip students with critical thinking, analytical skills, and industry-specific knowledge necessary for professional success in the textile and apparel industry. The portfolio outlines the course’s objectives, teaching methodologies, and the impact of instructional strategies on student learning outcomes. It includes detailed analyses of quantitative and qualitative data collected through pre- and post-test surveys, assignments, and reflections. Quantitative results demonstrate significant improvements in key areas such as familiarity …

A Reflexive Interrogation Of Teaching A Course On Administrative Theory To First-Semester Ma Students, Milad Mohebali

UNL Faculty Course Portfolios

This portfolio captures the product of a year-long reflexive process on the teaching of a course on administrative theory in educational organizations (EDAD 830) to first year MA students. This class is offered Online and is delivered asynchronously, to students who are largely full-time professionals. Section one focuses on the use of backward design strategy for designing this course, while also highlighting the tensions and dilemmas for designing the course, particularly around theory and context, as well as the need to teach students how to engage in class. Section two highlights the pedagogical, instructional, and evaluative design of the course. …

School Monitors: A Quantitative Study On The Support Needed For These Professionals, Sara Goldberg

Selected Full Text Dissertations, 2011-

Minimal research has been focused on the role of school monitors in the public-school setting. This study explored the perspectives of school monitors on preparation, training, communication, and feedback. The study looked to examine if these aspects contribute to the overall role of school monitors and to identify specific areas where they require guidance and support to assist students throughout their day. Additionally, the study determined if schools who use a social emotional curriculum have school monitors who feel more supported in their role. Preparation, support, communication, and feedback was investigated using a 27 statement Likert-scale survey and three open-ended …

Financial Accessibility And Academic Outcomes: A Comparative Study Of First-Year Pell Grant Recipients At Urban And Suburban Private Four-Year Colleges, Ilkania Maldonado

Selected Full Text Dissertations, 2011-

Students’ financial literacy and academic success are essential determinants of their ability to offer socio-economic value and afford college. One of the burning concerns in college education for years has been the differences in the funding difficulties that students experience based on whether the college is located in an urban or suburban setting. This quantitative study focuses on the difference in graduation rates of Pell-eligible first-time students enrolled in private four-year institutions in urban areas compared to suburban areas. Focusing mainly on urban and suburban environments, the investigation is mainly concerned with understanding the role of locations of universities in …

Initial Growth Of Inclusive Knowledge And Leadership Practices By Science Education Teacher-Leaders, Elizabeth B. Lewis, Elizabeth Hasseler, Rachel Benzoni, Gina S. Matkin

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

Introduction & Rationale for Study

● Science teachers are integral to the success of science education reform. ● Science education needs leaders from all parts of the field and system. ● However, science teachers have not been well-positioned for leadership.

Grant-funded Project & Study Focus

Project Phases, Objectives, & Timeline

Conceptual Framework

ACESSE Framework for Equitable Science Learning

Literature Review

Methodology: Approach, Research Question, & Participants, Data Sources & Analytic Methods

Noyce MTFs’ Science Teaching Experience & Certifications

MTFs’ School and District Demographics

Summary of MTFs’ Most Common Leadership Activities

Research Instrument and Analytic Lens

Cohort 1 & 2 Baseline …

A Meta-Synthesis Of The Literature On Science And Engineering Teaching Self-Efficacy: Current Gaps And Future Research Directions, Deepika Menon, Jeanna R. Wieselmann, Sarah Haines, Sumreen Asim

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

Self-efficacy is a topic of great interest in elementary preservice and inservice teacher education given that elementary teachers often have low self-efficacy for STEM teaching. In this article, we synthesize the existing literature on science and engineering teaching self-efficacy to (1) explore trends in science and engineering teaching self-efficacy research, (2) identify current gaps that exist in the literature, and (3) propose a visual model to provide future direction in research. Utilizing a qualitative meta-synthesis, we analyzed 88 articles focused on science and engineering teaching self-efficacy. Of these articles, 66 studied preservice teachers, 21 studied inservice teachers, and one included …

Science Teachers’ Initial Use Of Ngss Science Practices In Diverse Classrooms, Amy Tankersley, Elizabeth Hasseler, Elizabeth B. Lewis, Lyrica Lucas, Brandon Helding

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

In the landscape of U.S. education, the widespread adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) offers a unique vantage point for researchers to better understand teacher-, school- and classroom-level factors that advance reform initiatives in science classrooms. Addressing a gap in current knowledge, our study probes how secondary science teachers implement one dimension of NGSS - the science practices (SPs). Our data collection encompasses teacher interviews and meticulous observations of science lessons, coded for NGSS science practices (SPs) and inquiry-based teaching. Embracing a methodologically rich approach, our study employs both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis. Quantitatively, we …

Increasing Initial Cfi Capacity Within Collegiate Flight Programs, Andrew Leonard, Cody Christensen

International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace

According to the Government Accountability Office (2018), collegiate aviation schools face two primary challenges: flight instructor retention and the high cost of pilot training. In a study of collegiate aviation programs, 16 of the 18 schools reported difficulty in recruiting and retaining certified flight instructors (CFI), leading to the inability to accept all students who applied to the programs. Furthermore, these programs attributed the high instructor turnover to the increased demand for commercial pilots at the airlines, a challenge that is not expected to decrease in the near future (Boeing, 2023). While the lack of flight instructor retention impacts flight …