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Implementation Of Online Tutoring Program To Increase University Student Information Retention, April Litchford

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This thesis discusses an online tutoring program, MasteringNutrition©, that was implemented as a required portion of an entry level collegiate nutrition course. The tutoring program was introduced to test the ability of the program to improve memory of nutrition information taught during the course. The MasteringNutrition© program combines various teaching techniques that have been successful in increasing student learning. The major techniques discussed include: Socratic questioning, metacognition, and problem based learning. These techniques are incorporated into the MasteringNutrition© program.

To test the effect of the Mastering© tutoring program, ten questions specific to course learning objectives were asked of students in …

Class Notes, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

No abstract provided.

Nationalism And Nation-Building In The Lutheran Reformation, Dean Messinger

Undergraduate Library Research Awards

No abstract provided.

Gideon Klein's String Trio: A Study, Robyn Clair Savitzky

Open Access Dissertations

This essay explores Gideon Klein’s identity through a study of the String Trio he composed at Terezín, a Nazi concentration camp outside of Prague. How did labels placed on this work influence his identity and music? How do modern classifications affect the music today? Works composed in concentration camps are often labeled “Holocaust music.” Today, such works are frequently programed in memorial concerts, a framework which lends itself to an oversimplified understanding of music’s role in the Holocaust. Through examining Klein’s String Trio within a performance and musicological context, this essay aims to answer questions about identity in music and …

State Estimation And Optimization Of Large-Scale Dynamic Systems With Improved Particle Filters, Xiaoran Shi

Open Access Dissertations

This thesis explores novel methodologies for improving the particle filtering algorithm and tackles state estimation and optimization problems of large-scale dynamic systems through the use of the improved particle filters. First of all, an importance density selection scheme for the particle filtering algorithm is first proposed based on the minimum relative entropy and the theorem of Taylor series expansion. By considering both the transition prior (previous states) and the likelihood (measurements), the proposed density selection scheme improves the performance of the particle filters especially when the measurements appear in the tail of the prior or the prior differs significantly from …

The Alestle - Vol. 67 No. 30 - 04/23/2015, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The Alestle

Vol. 67 No. 30

The Pacifician April 23, 2015, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

Department Of History News, Georgia Southern University

History: News & Publications

• Department News, April 2015

Re-Envisioning Diasporas In The Globally Connected Classroom, Sunka Simon, Carina Yervasi

German Studies Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Current Event Integration To Facilitate Historical Concept Literacy, Donald Desalvo, Leah Nillas, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

A recent problem plaguing history courses in secondary classrooms is the apparent lack of applicability to students of what they are learning. This research aims to find the effects of integrating current events into history curriculum on history concept literacy. By developing historical concept literacy, students develop a requisite skill that can be applied not only to future historical studies, but also to other real-life applications. The data was collected during DeSalvo’s student teaching experience in freshman World History and sophomore American History classrooms. By analyzing lesson plans, students’ feedback and responses to the lesson, and students’ written responses to …

A Small Truce In A Big War The Historial De La Grande Guerre And The Interplay Of History And Memory, Peter Farrugia

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.

Capitulation Or Resistance? The Response Of The Catholic Church To Nazi Mistreatment Of Jews, Dabo Li

Black & Gold

This essay examines the role of the Catholic Church in the Nazi racial persecution of Jews that culminated in the Final Solution. Recent historical studies have made revealing discoveries despite the steadfast refusal of the Vatican to open up its most important archives. For an institution with higher moral calling, how did the Catholic Church react to the uptick in German anti-Semitism under Adolf Hitler? Using some most up-to-date research findings—as well as its own synthesis—this essay addresses this question by breaking up the Church hierarchy into the institutional and the individual, local levels. It demonstrates that, through a policy …

A Loyalist’S War Private Lewis Fisher In The American Revolution, 1775-1783, Robert Fisher

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.

“Il A Bien Merité De La Patrie” The 22nd Battalion And The Memory Of Courcelette, Geoff Keelan

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.

Daniel Denicola, Professor Of Philosophy, Musselman Library, Daniel R. Denicola

Next Page

In this issue of Next Page, Professor of Philosophy Daniel DeNicola reveals his appreciation for mysteries, especially those focused on manuscripts or works of art, and how his incessant childhood habit of reading the backs of cereal boxes at breakfast led his parents to buy him a set of "Children's Classics" and his very own encyclopedia-sold in installments at the supermarket.

Jesuits And Their Books: Libraries And Printing Around The World, Kathleen M. Comerford

History: Faculty Publications

The geographical and chronological spread of topics in this thematic issue of the Journal of Jesuit Studies is the result of a mandate to give coverage to both pre- and post-suppression research, around the globe, on Jesuit libraries and printing, in a total of six or seven articles. As this is no small task, a great deal of information is missing from the volume. I began with the premise that the subjects and regions which have received the most coverage over the previous two decades should be excluded: therefore, there is no article on Argentina, China, France, Hungary, Italy, Spain, …

The Cool Curriculum, University Of Dayton

News Releases

As a sophomore, Nichole Henger '14 was looking to add something different. She was majoring in environmental biology, the field in which she holds her bachelor's degree. "I was working with blowflies," she said. "But I was also interested in how people interacted with the environment."

2015-2016 Boise State University Graduate Catalog, Boise State University Office Of The Registrar

University Catalogs

The graduate catalog describes the graduate programs offered by Boise State University and the policies, procedures, and requirements that govern those programs. Other pertinent university publications are the Boise State University Student Handbook, and the Boise State University Policy Manual. All of these publications are available online at www.boisestate.edu along with the online schedule of classes. Prospective students are also encouraged to contact the graduate program coordinator of the program of interest for additional information.

Video Advertisement Mining For Predicting Revenue Using Random Forest, Yuan Hsin Huang

Open Access Theses

Shaken by the threat of financial crisis in 2008, industries began to work on the topic of predictive analytics to efficiently control inventory levels and minimize revenue risks. In this third-generation age of web-connected data, organizations emphasized the importance of data science and leveraged the data mining techniques for gaining a competitive edge. Consider the features of Web 3.0, where semantic-oriented interaction between humans and computers can offer a tailored service or product to meet consumers' needs by means of learning their preferences. In this study, we concentrate on the area of marketing science to demonstrate the correlation between TV …

Boletín V.20:No.2 (2015), Fordham University Latin American And Latino Studies Institute

Boletín (Fordham University. Latin American and Latino Studies Institute)

No abstract provided.

Louis Xiv, King Of France And Navarre; Do Clothes Really Make The Man?, Arnold Paskay

Celebration of Scholarship 2012-2017

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Standardized Testing On Historical Literacy And Educational Reform In The U.S., Julie Hisey Maranto

Academic Leadership Journal in Student Research

Public education in America has an impressive history of success in equipping students with literacy that extends back to the earliest days of our nation. Education was a high priority for the original settlers in America who, motivated by their religious convictions, eagerly sought mastery and dissemination of literacy skills throughout the population. For most of the Protestant settlers, their beliefs derived from the doctrines of the Reformation and they considered the ability to read as a fundamental necessity for grounding citizens in the tenets of their faith as well as their government.

The Uneasy Pulpit: Carl Henry, The Authority Of The Bible And Expositional Preaching, Kevin King

Eruditio Ardescens

No abstract provided.

Between History And Fiction: Visualizing Contemporary Polish Cultural Identity, Dominique Castle

Honors Projects

In this study, Polish cultural identity as derived from shared cultural memories is explored. The persistence of a strong Polish cultural identity even throughout a turbulent history is examined during the Soviet era through the analysis of three films, Andrzej Wajda's Ashes and Diamonds, Agnieszka Holland's To Kill a Priest, and Andrzej Wajda's Katyn. Because viewing films can result in the adoption of prosthetic memory which contribute to support of cultural memory, and because the creation of film itself can be considered scriptotherapy, each film is a lens to better understand how reaction to traumas of World War II and …

In Harm's Way: Wisconsin Workers And Disability From The Gilded Age To The Great Depression, Karalee Donna Surface

Dissertations (1934 -)

During the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the American workplace proved especially dangerous to its workers’ lives and limbs. The introduction of mass-production, coupled with a lack of safeguards on mechanized equipment and a dearth of workplace safety or sanitation regulations, ensured that an ever-growing number of workers were maimed or killed. Wisconsin legislators initially sought to remedy the issue of workplace violence by issuing a series of safety laws in the late 1870s and early 1880s. This, however, failed to stem the number of accident victims. Furthermore, the common law liability system through which injured workers could seek restitution from …

The Normalising Power Of Marriage Law: An Irish Genealogy, 1945-2010, Deirdre Mcgowan

Other resources

Marriage law is often conceptualised as an instrument of power that illegitimately imposes the will of the State on its citizens. Paradoxically, marriage law is also offered as a route to liberation. In this thesis, I question the efficacy of this type of analysis by investigating the actual power effects of marriage law. Using Michel Foucault’s concepts of bio-power and government, and his genealogical approach to history, I identify the role played by marriage law in governing the social domain over a discrete period of Irish history. Drawing on this analysis I suggest that marriage law is part of a …

Pahn-Ti-Pan: The Rise And Fall Of Complex Socio-Political And Economic Systems As Attested In Subterranean Site Contexts Of Central Belize, C.A.

KIP Theses and Dissertations

The question that drives this dissertation is "As integrated and varied ritual contexts, how do changing patterns of pre-Columbian cave use inform on the complex of historical, social, political, economic and related ideological processes in action during the inception, florescence, and collapse of Tipan Chen Uitz and other nucleated centres in the region [Central Belize]?"

Collection Development Policy, History, Richard H. Harrison

Libraries' Documents

No abstract provided.

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council, Volume 16, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2015 (Complete Issue)

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Forum on “Honors and the future of the humanities”

Larry Andrews

Frances McCue

Angela Marie Salas

Andrew Martino

Amaris Ketcham

Annmarie Guzy

Barbra Nightingale

Joe Kraus

Research essay

Naomi Yavneh Klos, Kendall Eskine, and Michael Pashkevich

Portz-prize-winning essay, 2014

Sam Shearer