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Improving Parental Involvement And Student Achievement With A Classroom Website, Jennifer Allison O'Kelley Jan 2008

Improving Parental Involvement And Student Achievement With A Classroom Website, Jennifer Allison O'Kelley

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to develop an instructional tool, which would enable students and their parents to access the student's progress electronically at anytime and to determine if students whose parents utilized the teacher-created website and used email to communicate showed significant improvement in student's academics, behavior and attendance.


Webquests: Improving Military Training Through Constructivism And The Web, Brian Patrick Lafferty Jan 2008

Webquests: Improving Military Training Through Constructivism And The Web, Brian Patrick Lafferty

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was for members of the United States Marine Corps to leverage the benefits of inquiry based learning in the form of WebQuests. By creating and implementing WebQuests to meet training needs at the small unit level, non commissioned officers can take advantage of the resources of the World Wide Web in a timely and effective manner. To this end, a course of computer-based training was designed, developed, tested, implemented, and evaluated using the ADDIE instructional design model.