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James Spratt White, Sr. Papers - Accession 547, James Spratt White Sr.. Jan 2019

James Spratt White, Sr. Papers - Accession 547, James Spratt White Sr..

Manuscript Collection

This collection consists of the papers of Reverend James Spratt White, Sr. (1841-1891) who was a Presbyterian minister who served in Americus, Georgia, and Chester County, South Carolina. The collection consists of White’s Civil War amnesty oath, sermons, newspaper clippings, view books, and photographs from Le Bosphore (Bosporus), France, Greece, Jerusalem, London, Venice, Washington (D.C.), Constantinople, Damascus, the Holy Land, Paris, and North Carolina.

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Terry Norton Children's Book Collection - Accession 1654, Terry L. Norton Jan 2019

Terry Norton Children's Book Collection - Accession 1654, Terry L. Norton

Manuscript Collection

This collection consists of the children’s books and magazines collected by Dr. Terry L. Norton, Winthrop Professor Emeritus. Dr. Norton was a Winthrop Professor of Education from 1981 until his retirement in 2008. He is also a 1981 graduate of Winthrop College. The books are organized in consecutive order numerically and then by subjects selected by Dr. Norton, excepting the last appendix, which is organized by books as received.

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York County Mental Health Association Records - Accession 553, Mental Health Association, York County Jan 2019

York County Mental Health Association Records - Accession 553, Mental Health Association, York County

Manuscript Collection

This collection consists of a historical sketch, bylaws, correspondence, minutes, financial records, promotional materials, statistical reports, flyers and brochures, newspapers and newsletters relating to the York County Mental Health Association. In addition, there are records pertaining to the Mental Health Association in South Carolina and the National Mental Health Association. “The York County Mental Health Association was a volunteer organization, private and non-profit, dedicated to improving services for the mentally ill and removing the stigma of mental illness.” It was a local chapter of the Mental Health Association in South Carolina, a division of the National Mental Health Association.

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Rock Hill Power Company Records - Accession 1482, Rock Hill Power Company, Rock Hill Water And Light Company, Rock Hill Water, Light, And Power Company, Rock Hill Water And Electric Company, Rock Hill Little Theater Jan 2019

Rock Hill Power Company Records - Accession 1482, Rock Hill Power Company, Rock Hill Water And Light Company, Rock Hill Water, Light, And Power Company, Rock Hill Water And Electric Company, Rock Hill Little Theater

Manuscript Collection

The Rock Hill Power Company Records contains thirty nine individual records owned by the Rock Hill Power Company and Rock Hill Water and Electric Company between the years 1856 to 1941. The records consist of abstracts of data, titles and deeds, agreements between the Rock Hill Power Company and other entities, minutes and proceedings letters, lawyer opinion regarding rights to supply water to Rock Hill, and a surveyor sketch. This collection of particular interest to researchers interested in the Rock Hill, SC’s early efforts to bring electric lights to the city in the early 1890s and Rock Hill’s legal authority …

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Rock Hill Chapter Of The Children Of The Confederacy Scrapbook Collection - Accession 1655, Children Of The Confederacy, United Daughters Of The Confederacy Jan 2019

Rock Hill Chapter Of The Children Of The Confederacy Scrapbook Collection - Accession 1655, Children Of The Confederacy, United Daughters Of The Confederacy

Manuscript Collection

The Rock Hill Chapter of the Children of the Confederacy papers consists of three individual scrapbooks. The scrapbooks contain a variety of newspaper clippings, meeting minutes, photos, letters of thanks to donors of the chapter, postcards, brochures for travel destinations in and around the Carolinas, and pamphlets pertaining to the organization. The scrapbooks are placed in three individual phase boxes. The Children of the Confederacy is an auxiliary organization of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

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Rock Hill Banking Collection - Accession 1361, Rock Hill Banks, Peoples National Bank, C & S National Bank Jan 2019

Rock Hill Banking Collection - Accession 1361, Rock Hill Banks, Peoples National Bank, C & S National Bank

Manuscript Collection

This collection consists mostly of materials associated with the Rock Hill National Banks including the People’s National Bank (founded in 1906) and the C & S National Bank; the rest of the collection consists of entries that are linked, either directly or indirectly, with the Banking systems of Rock Hill. The collection consists of mainly of photographs of unknown employees and patrons of People’s National Bank and C & S National Bank, photos of events either attended by members or sponsored by the People’s National Bank and C & S National Bank, photos of employees or customers, a photo of …

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York County League Of Women Voters - Accession 161, League Of Women Voters, York County Jan 2019

York County League Of Women Voters - Accession 161, League Of Women Voters, York County

Manuscript Collection

The York County League of Women’s Voters is a political organization active in encouraging citizen participation in the electoral process and the government in general. The collection consists of bylaws, constitutions, correspondence, membership lists, newsletters, publications, program notes, minutes, annual reports, model cities information, project information, and questionnaires concerning the creation, activities and early history of the League.

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Environmental Sustainability Of Logistics Service Providers: A Systematic Literature Review On Indicators For City Logistics, Xu Zhang, Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos, Eoin Plant Jan 2019

Environmental Sustainability Of Logistics Service Providers: A Systematic Literature Review On Indicators For City Logistics, Xu Zhang, Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos, Eoin Plant

Conference Papers

The increasing logistics and transport activities in the city significantly impact on the environment we live in. Providing green and sustainable logistics services is at the top of the logistics service provider’s agenda. Both academics and industry have shown increasing attention to measuring sustainability in logistics operations in the recent decade, yet LSPs' sustainability performance measurement methods and relevant indicators need to be assessed and updated particularly in the context of city logistics. This paper identifies and evaluates the current frameworks and indicators that reflect the performance of LSPs’ environmental sustainability using a systematic literature review. A total of 61 …

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The Contribution Of Sigismund Thalberg And Vincenzo Vitale To The Neapolitan Pianon School, Gianluca Strazzullo Jan 2019

The Contribution Of Sigismund Thalberg And Vincenzo Vitale To The Neapolitan Pianon School, Gianluca Strazzullo

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

ABSTRACTStrazzullo, Gianluca. D.M.A. The University of Memphis. December 2019.The Contributions of Sigismund Thalberg and Vincenzo Vitale to the Neapolitan Piano School. Major Professor: Dr. Janet Page.The purpose of this dissertation is to shed light upon the world-famous concert pianists Sigismund Thalberg and Vincenzo Vitale and their vital contributions to one of Europes most acclaimed musical movements of the nineteenth century: the Neapolitan Piano School. The introductory chapter explores the musical ambiance in Naples before and during Thalbergs time there. The second chapter contains Thalbergs biography. The following chapter discusses Thalbergs technical style and provides a brief analytical discussion on the …

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Examining Exclusionary Discipline Practices: Utilizing Response To Instruction And Intervention For Behavior As An Innovation For Change In Attendance And Suspension Rates Within Three Rural Elementary Schools In Tennessee, Lauren Tate Jan 2019

Examining Exclusionary Discipline Practices: Utilizing Response To Instruction And Intervention For Behavior As An Innovation For Change In Attendance And Suspension Rates Within Three Rural Elementary Schools In Tennessee, Lauren Tate

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Widespread school discipline problems came to forefront in the educational arena in the 1990s (lm & Vuran, 2016). Exclusionary practices (e.g., in- or out-of-school suspension, strict rules, or punishment [Skiba & Peterson, 2000]), also known as traditional school discipline practices (TSDP) (Scheuermann & Hall, 2011) have become common behavioral practices across the American public education landscape (U.S. Department of Education, 2016). These practices remove students from instruction, often resulting in detrimental impacts to student performance (Edward & Brea, 2016), and have neither positive effects on student behavior (Ogulmus & Vuran, 2016) nor positive longevity effects (Costenbader & Markson, 1998).In support …

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Social Recognition As A Problem For Black Rectificatory Justice, John Torrey Jan 2019

Social Recognition As A Problem For Black Rectificatory Justice, John Torrey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Within academic circles, arguments supporting the rectification of anti-Black injustice in America have become more widespread in recent years. Three questions arise from these arguments: How should we understand what it means to rectify those injustices? What explains why these arguments, despite the increased attention by scholars, have not been taken seriously in mainstream American social and political discussions? Finally, what can be done to change this lack of mainstream attention? My dissertation answers these questions by advancing a new moral framework for understanding what it means to rectify anti-black injustice. On this view, rectificatory justice requires possessing a moral …

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The Viola-Guitar Duo: Analysis And Performance Considerations In Gilbert Biberians Folklore Iii, Elizabeth Rose White Jan 2019

The Viola-Guitar Duo: Analysis And Performance Considerations In Gilbert Biberians Folklore Iii, Elizabeth Rose White

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This paper presents a general overview of the viola-guitar ensemble and delves into the repertoire with a close look at Gilbert Biberians Folklore III. The general overview of the ensemble includes challenges, advantages, and unique considerations of the duo with insight from professionals in the field, including members of the Alturas Duo, Duo Fresco, and Duo Ditirambo. Four specific topics of the ensemble are explored in depth: balance, intonation, performance set-up, and repertoire. The analysis and performance considerations for Folklore III focus on Biberians use of Turkish folk song and Turkish music idioms and how these elements influence performance. Elements …

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Four Art Songs By Guo Zurong: Art Song With Classical Chinese Poetry, Zixiao Ye Jan 2019

Four Art Songs By Guo Zurong: Art Song With Classical Chinese Poetry, Zixiao Ye

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Guo Zurong, born in 1928, is a distinguished and respected Chinese composer and educator. He has composed more than two hundred works during his career, including 16 symphonies, 13 concertos, 41 piano solos, and 110 art songs. This dissertation focuses on his early art songs, aiming to discover his compositional process and style. His biography, for the first time in English, will be presented in chapter 2. The following chapter briefly present the art of classical Chinese poetry and Chinese modes. Four selected early art songs by Guo Zurong are analyzed: The Endless River Eastward Flows, poetry by Su Shi; …

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Investigating Vocabulary Learning Strategies Of Saudi University Students In The Us, Ahmed Abdullah Alahmadi Jan 2019

Investigating Vocabulary Learning Strategies Of Saudi University Students In The Us, Ahmed Abdullah Alahmadi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the use of vocabulary learning strategies reported by Saudi university students in the US. It also explored how the use of vocabulary learning strategies varied based on gender in this population. An explanatory mixed-methods design was used to provide an in-depth understanding of strategies employed. In the quantitative phase, data were collected using self-reported questionnaires, while semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect the qualitative data. A total of 123 students participated, eight of whom were interviewed. The quantitative results showed participants used various vocabulary learning strategies. The most common were guessing …

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Minority Languages In Linguistic Landscape: The Case Of Medina In Saudi Arabia, Ali Aljohani Jan 2019

Minority Languages In Linguistic Landscape: The Case Of Medina In Saudi Arabia, Ali Aljohani

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Linguistic landscape (LL) is the linguistic objects that mark the public space (Ben-Rafael, Shohamy, Amara, & Trumper-Hecht,2006). This dissertation examined the LL of Medina, a holy city in Saudi Arabia. The study of linguistic landscape is a site-based research, meaning any study is most likely oriented by the nature of a research site and what important observations are found in that site. Accordingly, the LL study of Medina compelled us to pay attention to the role of religion. In addition, LL study has its inextricable links to multilingualism and language policy establishing it as a marker to a given community …

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An Investigation Of Efl Learners Attitudes Toward Computer-Assisted Writing (Caw), Ahmed Almenei Jan 2019

An Investigation Of Efl Learners Attitudes Toward Computer-Assisted Writing (Caw), Ahmed Almenei

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This dissertation studies attitudes of the Saudi university learners studying English as a Foreign Language (EFL) toward using the Computer-assisted Writing (CAW) applications, e.g., up-to-date versions of word processing programs, for doing English writing assignments. Research has confirmed that CAW applications, e.g., up-to-date versions of word processing program, have been utilized in and out of the class to supplement, but not to replace, the methods of learning and teaching writing. Previous studies have revealed that students attitude towards writing improves when they use the word processor. The current study aims at examining the hypotheses that the EFL learners have effective …

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What Do Esl Students Expect: New Perspectives Into L2 Academic Socialization, Muna Alosaimi Jan 2019

What Do Esl Students Expect: New Perspectives Into L2 Academic Socialization, Muna Alosaimi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This ethnographic study examined the role of ESL students expectations on their academic and social trajectories by focusing on how students expectations about the teaching of and learning English in the U.S. intersected with their L2 academic socialization experiences. The participants were five ESL students who were enrolled in an intensive English program in the U.S. Four ESL teachers who taught the focal participants had also participated in the study. This study was conducted as a multiple case study in which data collected over the course of one academic semester and triangulated from multiple sources (i.e., participants interviews, weekly observations …

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Exploring Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence Among Saudi University Efl Teachers, Abdulrahman Alqefari Jan 2019

Exploring Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence Among Saudi University Efl Teachers, Abdulrahman Alqefari

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) is an essential part of instruction in the diverse English as a Foreign or Second Language classroom (EFL, ESL), but instructors may not have sufficient knowledge, skills, or tools to be able to promote ICC in their classes. The Saudi Arabia Ministry of Education's (MoE) policies on teaching English encourage students to be cross-culturally competent, yet various people, including students and parents, have demonstrated concerns regarding the inclusion of Western values, beliefs, and cultures into the EFL curriculum. Consequently, these differences lead to teachers facing various content and process barriers in the EFL classroom.Using Byrams Intercultural …

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From My Side Of The Screen: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study Of Older Teachers, Administrators, Technology Coordinators, And Their Experiences With The Implementation Of Technology In Rural West Tennessee Schools, Donnie Lee Bailey Jan 2019

From My Side Of The Screen: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study Of Older Teachers, Administrators, Technology Coordinators, And Their Experiences With The Implementation Of Technology In Rural West Tennessee Schools, Donnie Lee Bailey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This hermeneutic phenomenological study centered on the lived experiences of older teachers, administrators, and technology coordinators as they navigate the acquiring, teaching, learning, using, and evaluating of technological resources in the classroom. In particular, this study sought to understand this phenomenon through the eyes of the participants as they interact with teachers with 20 or more years of teaching experience in two rural West Tennessee school districts. Using social learning theory as the backbone of analysis, I had nine participants engage in three in-depth interviews each. The first interview acquired background and foundational knowledge in relation to the use of …

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Je Ne Vais Pas Parler Franais L'Cole: Preservation Of Cajun Culture Through Song, Nancy Carey Jan 2019

Je Ne Vais Pas Parler Franais L'Cole: Preservation Of Cajun Culture Through Song, Nancy Carey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

AbstractThe purpose of this dissertation is to identify gaps in existing literature and records of Cajun folksongs, and to validate art song arrangements of this repertoire as a significant contribution to the canon of Cajun music. Though it continues to evolve and thrive as a commercial music genre, Cajun folk music is underrepresented in notated form. Transcription is vital to the preservation of folk music; however, previously published collections of these folksongs offer incomplete analysis. Composer Costas Dafnis arrangements of these songs for voice and piano have the potential to increase their exposure with classical musicians in professional and academic …

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The Construction Of Systems Thinking Pedagogy During A Professional Development Institute, Gretchen S. Goode Jan 2019

The Construction Of Systems Thinking Pedagogy During A Professional Development Institute, Gretchen S. Goode

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The prevalence of systems thinking is growing in classrooms because of its inclusion in the Next Generation Science Standards and its potential as a tool for addressing complex, global problems (Capra & Luisi, 2014). While most of the research on systems thinking pedagogy targets the ways students develop system thinking skills (Cabrera & Cabrera, 2015; Curwen, Ardell, MacGillivray, & Lambert, 2018), this study explores teachers' construction of systems thinking as a pedagogy. Using social constructionism, discourse analysis, and systems theory, I conducted an exploratory case study to analyze how teachers privileged certain language and ways of knowing during a professional …

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Temples For Tomorrow: The Journal Fire!! And African American Modernism During The Harlem Renaissance, Ashley Goulder Jan 2019

Temples For Tomorrow: The Journal Fire!! And African American Modernism During The Harlem Renaissance, Ashley Goulder

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This dissertation explores the one-issue Fire!! created, edited, and published by Wallace Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Bennett, Aaron Douglas, and Richard Bruce Nugent in 1926 - during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. By giving a close examination of the short stories, plays, poems, editorials, and illustrations included in the journal, I examine the editorial and aesthetic choices of the younger generation of artists and their collective effort to broaden the perspectives and representations of African Americans in art and in culture. By publishing a journal outside of the constraints of the race leaders social science journals …

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Mission Of A Meddler: Mixed Matters Of Class, Gender, And Race In Mary Church Terrell's Model Of Elite Black Female Activism, Victoria Jackson Gray Jan 2019

Mission Of A Meddler: Mixed Matters Of Class, Gender, And Race In Mary Church Terrell's Model Of Elite Black Female Activism, Victoria Jackson Gray

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

In The Mission of Meddlers, published in 1905 in The Voice of the Negro, Mary Church Terrell called to action a cadre of change agents who dared to ask prejudiced, cast-ridden bigots by what right they humiliate and harass their fellowmen simply on account of a difference in color, class or races. As the privileged daughter of Robert Reed Church, Sr., hailed as the Souths first black millionaire, Terrell upon completion of college could easily have complied with her fathers wishes to have her reside at his Memphis mansion and enjoy the genteel lifestyle of a Southern belle. She chose …

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"Repossessing Her Self-Possession": A Lesson In Communal Pedagogy, Crystal Dekesha Harris Jan 2019

"Repossessing Her Self-Possession": A Lesson In Communal Pedagogy, Crystal Dekesha Harris

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This dissertation uses historical and literary mediums to assign pedagogical skills and communal benefit to African American female subjugation and labor typically associated with turmoil, ignominy, and struggle. Accordingly, Black feminist commentary (Lorde) is in conversation with theories of pedagogy (hooks, Ladson-Billings, Dewey) as well as literary philosophy and criticism (Bakhtin, Baraka) about the particular ways each field of study contribute to the analysis of twentieth century African American literature but also provide specific methods for Black communities to construct, implement, and sustain educational principles throughout time. Using the term communal pedagogy, I argue that African American culture has an …

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First-Year Writing Program Assessment At Small Liberal Arts Colleges, Nathan Wade Henton Jan 2019

First-Year Writing Program Assessment At Small Liberal Arts Colleges, Nathan Wade Henton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This project examines first-year writing program assessment practices at small liberal arts colleges and universities in an effort to understand how these practices resemble or diverge from prevailing scholarship on writing program assessment. There is extensive literature on best practices in writing program assessment, but nearly all of it by scholars and researchers working at public comprehensive universities who assume that type of institution as their model. At the same time, scholarship on writing program assessment at small liberal arts institutions is scant, amounting to fewer than ten publications in the last twenty years, even as these schools are structurally …

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Incomplete Surgical Resection In Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Population-Based Cohort From The Mid-South Region Of The United States, Yu-Sheng Lee Jan 2019

Incomplete Surgical Resection In Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Population-Based Cohort From The Mid-South Region Of The United States, Yu-Sheng Lee

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Lung cancer accounts for approximately 25% of all cancer deaths in the United States, and most long-term survivors of lung cancer undergo surgical resection. However, the effectiveness of surgical resection is impaired when tumor tissue remains at the margin of the resected specimen after the surgery, known as incomplete resection. The incidence of incomplete resection varies with patient demographic, clinical, surgeon, and institutional characteristics. The anatomic sites of margin involvement may also have impacts on long-term survival. Recommended postoperative treatment options for incomplete resection include re-resection, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. However, some of these recommendations are not based on high-level …

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Borders As Documents Of Violence: Colonial Cartography And The Epidermal Border, Kalemba Kimera Kizito Jan 2019

Borders As Documents Of Violence: Colonial Cartography And The Epidermal Border, Kalemba Kimera Kizito

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This dissertation analyzes the role of violence as constitutive and integral to border experiences. I focus on my lived experiences through transnational interaction with borders as analytical texts through which I realize that I am and have always been branded a Black man. I analyze the role of colonial cartography in the construction of the racialized body in Half of A Yellow Sun (2013) by relating the contrived mapping of Africa as symbolic of the mapping of race on to the black body. I also analyze the fixity of the colonial gaze in The Last King of Scotland (2006), focusing …

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The Effects Of A Mobile App-Based Sky Map In Teaching College Students About Constellations, Aklilu Maasho Jan 2019

The Effects Of A Mobile App-Based Sky Map In Teaching College Students About Constellations, Aklilu Maasho

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of using a mobile app-based sky map to teach college students about constellations, stars, nebulae, and star clusters. The name of the app was Star Chart. The setting for the study was a community college in West Tennessee. Twenty out of 60 participants were males, with 83% of all being less than 25 years old. The first effect studied was concerning students level of attitude toward astronomy after they used the mobile app to learn about sky constellations, stars, nebulae, and star clusters. The second effect investigated in the study …

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Deeper Understanding Of Tutorial Dialogues And Student Assessment, Nabin Nabin Maharjan Jan 2019

Deeper Understanding Of Tutorial Dialogues And Student Assessment, Nabin Nabin Maharjan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Bloom (1984) reported two standard deviation improvement with human tutoring which inspired many researchers to develop Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) that are as effective as human tutoring. However, recent studies suggest that the 2-sigma result was misleading and that current ITSs are as good as human tutors. Nevertheless, we can think of 2 standard deviations as the benchmark for tutoring effectiveness of ideal expert tutors. In the case of ITSs, there is still the possibility that ITSs could be better than humans.One way to improve the ITSs would be identifying, understanding, and then successfully implementing effective tutorial strategies that lead …

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The Impact Of Social Justice Pedagogy On Transformational Resistance In Low-Socioeconomic, African American Students, Jalesa Parks Jan 2019

The Impact Of Social Justice Pedagogy On Transformational Resistance In Low-Socioeconomic, African American Students, Jalesa Parks

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This study focuses on bridging the gap in the literature as it relates to the use of social justice pedagogy as a proactive means by which to address the achievement gap, inherent biases, and deficit views of low-socioeconomic, African American students in todays schools. Research questions for the study are as follows: 1) What practices within social justice pedagogy do students find to be distinct from traditional classroom practices? 2) How do Black students perceive the impact of social justice pedagogy on their Transformative Resistance? 3) How do Black students perceive the impact of social justice pedagogy on their self-efficacy …

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