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Strategies For Developing Interpersonal Communication Skills For Business Students, Sharon A. Pope
Strategies For Developing Interpersonal Communication Skills For Business Students, Sharon A. Pope
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Strategies for Developing Interpersonal Communication Skills for Business Students
by
Sharon A. Pope
M.B.A., Cleveland State University, 1995
M.S.H.P/A., University of Cincinnati, 1983
B.Ed., University of Toledo, 1981
Doctoral Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Doctor of Education
Walden University
December 2015
Research has shown that interpersonal communication skills (ICS) are important for employment success, particularly if they are learned by students during college. A private university in Ohio identified the need to enhance students' ICS; however, the university's faculty lacked strategies to teach those required skills. The purpose of this qualitative case study …
Promoting Information Literacy Through Teacher - School Library Media Specialist Collaboration, Pamela Denise Taylor
Promoting Information Literacy Through Teacher - School Library Media Specialist Collaboration, Pamela Denise Taylor
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Schools that support collaboration between teachers and school library media specialists (SLMS) outperform those that do not. Teachers at a rural Georgia middle school were not using the library media program or being trained on how to collaborate with the SLMS to promote student achievement. Guided by Bruner's socioconstructivist theory of learning, the purpose of this descriptive case study was to investigate teachers' experiences with integrating technology and information literacy into the curriculum and to examine the collaborative services the SLMS could provide to enhance integration. Eight teachers in Grades 6th through 8th comprised the sample. Data sources included teacher …
College Leve Inqury Learning's Influence On Later Science Thinking Behavior, Eric Gordon Chesloff
College Leve Inqury Learning's Influence On Later Science Thinking Behavior, Eric Gordon Chesloff
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Society needs scientists who can collaborate to become keener analysts so that they might better inform citizens. College students who are well educated in science are likely to become better analysts. The purpose of this grounded theory constructivist-oriented study was to illuminate the influence of undergraduate freshman inquiry learning on thinking skills in science courses during the senior college year. The conceptual framework involved the 3 components of the cognitive learning cycle: exploration, concept invention, and application. Research questions concerned college seniors' perceptions of their freshman process-oriented guided inquiry learning (POGIL) experience in general chemistry and its influence on their …