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Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research and Scholarship (SOARS)

2021

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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Teacher Candidates Identify What’S Important, Jeania Jones, Lindsay Gallon, Kim Cheek Apr 2021

Culturally Responsive Teaching: Teacher Candidates Identify What’S Important, Jeania Jones, Lindsay Gallon, Kim Cheek

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Teacher preparation programs prepare teacher candidates (TC) with clinically rich field experiences. These programs prepare teachers to teach groups of students that are culturally, racially, and linguistically diverse. The TCs that participated in this study were in the first semester of the elementary program and were concerned with an experience that would be remote. COVID-19 impacted the experiences of the TCs by removing the field component during the Fall 2020 semester. The candidates were not provided access in the elementary schools to complete the practical experiences due to the districts’ pandemic guidelines. Due to the lack of …


Oer-Immersive Multimedia Materials Project: A Theoretical Framework For Multimedia Materials In The Literature Classroom, Sara Kunz-Rutigliano Apr 2021

Oer-Immersive Multimedia Materials Project: A Theoretical Framework For Multimedia Materials In The Literature Classroom, Sara Kunz-Rutigliano

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ABSTRACT The OER-Immersive Multimedia Materials Project aims at the design and development of Open Educational Resources (OER) in the classroom as a model to integrate community-based learning and undergraduate research in lower and upper-level courses of the Spanish Program at UNF. It specifically involves the design of immersive educational materials with a focus on Virtual Reality and reading accessibility. I approached the project from my specific interests in literature for young audiences and reading accessibility in the context of educational technology. Following Mayer’s Principles of Multimedia Learning, a theoretical framework that provides guiding design principles for the …


Diversity In Higher Education Administration: The Need For Student Perspectives, Drew Albritton, Aaron Leedy Apr 2021

Diversity In Higher Education Administration: The Need For Student Perspectives, Drew Albritton, Aaron Leedy

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Diversity within higher education benefits students and institutions alike, creating a more relatable experience for students as well as a more beneficial work environment for faculty. While university student bodies are slowly beginning to represent the diversity in the communities which they serve, university faculty and staff have yet to catch up. This is especially the case with the administration at an institution’s highest levels. Eighty-three percent of college and university presidents are white (American Council on Education, 2017), and seventy-seven percent are male (Tarbutton, 2019). With an administration misaligned with its student body, students are at …