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Using Guided Reflective Journaling Activities To Capture Students’ Changing Perceptions, Joanna Dunlap Mar 2016

Using Guided Reflective Journaling Activities To Capture Students’ Changing Perceptions, Joanna Dunlap

Joanna Dunlap

Many professions are increasingly emphasizing the role of reflection, encouraging educators to look for appropriate ways to help students engage in reflective practice during their professional preparation. Journal writing is an insightful and powerful instructional technology utilizing strategies that foster understanding and the application of concepts, enhance critical thinking, improve achievement and attitude, encourage student reflection and capture changes in students' perception. Examples from three different professional preparation courses illustrate the power of journal-writing activities as a way of encouraging students' reflective thinking, and giving faculty a way to assess students' reflective practice and perceptual changes. Based on the author's …


Arew House Arabic Manuscript Conservation Laboratory Brochure, Michaelle L. Biddle Dec 2014

Arew House Arabic Manuscript Conservation Laboratory Brochure, Michaelle L. Biddle

Michaelle Biddle

A brochure describing the various services offered by the Arewa House (Ahmadu Bello University, Kaduna) Arabic Manuscripts Conservation Laboratory.


A Study Of Flipping Vs. Not Flipping In Applied Calculus, Lori Ziegelmeier Aug 2014

A Study Of Flipping Vs. Not Flipping In Applied Calculus, Lori Ziegelmeier

Lori Beth Ziegelmeier

No abstract provided.


Public School Religion Education And The 'Hot Potato' Of Religious Diversity, Cathy Byrne Oct 2013

Public School Religion Education And The 'Hot Potato' Of Religious Diversity, Cathy Byrne

Dr Cathy Byrne

Religiously marked intercultural conflict is on the rise in Australia (HREOC, 2007; Dreher, 2006). In addition, intolerant and religiously discriminating sentiment has re-emerged in Australia's debate on migration (Schech & Haggis, 2001; Cratchley, 2007). However, inter-religious education as a remedy is not a high priority. Independent and governmental reviews recommend intercultural and interfaith education to address ignorance and intolerance (Erebus, 2006; HREOC, 2004). Australia appears more focused on the development of values and citizenship courses which assume shared heritage and promote uniformity ( Halafoff, 2006). In public education, religious diversity is a 'hot potato' — no one wants to touch …


Dissertation: The Effect Of Study Skills Training Intervention On United States Air Force Aeromedical Apprentices, John Griffith Jul 1998

Dissertation: The Effect Of Study Skills Training Intervention On United States Air Force Aeromedical Apprentices, John Griffith

John Griffith

The study examined the effects of a study skills training intervention course on U.S. Air Force Aeromedical Apprentices with five main purposes. The first was to examine the relationship between study skills training and the number of times students required academic interventions outside of normal class time. The second purpose was to examine the relationship between study skills training and end of course averages. The third was to determine the relationship between study skills training and the amount of additional instruction, measured in time, students required. The fourth purpose examined the relationship between study skills training and graduation rates. The …


Tradition And The Individual Scholar, Clifford Davidson Dec 1984

Tradition And The Individual Scholar, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.