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2012

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Delineating The Ways That Key Institutional Agents Provide Racial Minority Students With Access To Social Capital In College, Samuel D. Museus, Kathleen M. Neville Apr 2012

Delineating The Ways That Key Institutional Agents Provide Racial Minority Students With Access To Social Capital In College, Samuel D. Museus, Kathleen M. Neville

Kathleen Neville

This study focuses on the characteristics of institutional agents who can and do facilitate racial minority student success by providing them with access to social capital in college. Individual semi-structured interviews with 60 Asian American, Black, and Latino undergraduates reveal that key institutional agents who positively influence those participants’ success and provide them with access to social capital share four common characteristics: They (a) Share common ground with those students, (b) provide holistic support for those students, (c) humanize the educational experience, and (d) provide proactive support for those students. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

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Student Usage Patterns And Perceptions For Differentiated Lab Exercises In An Undergraduate Programming Course, Heng Ngee Mok Jan 2012

Student Usage Patterns And Perceptions For Differentiated Lab Exercises In An Undergraduate Programming Course, Heng Ngee Mok

Heng Ngee MOK

Differentiated instruction in the form of tiered take-home lab exercises was implemented for students of an undergraduate-level programming course. This paper attempts to uncover the perceptions and usage patterns of students toward these new lab exercises using a comprehensive survey. Findings reveal that these tiered exercises are generally very well received and preferred over their traditional "one size fits all" counter-parts. Although the study does not show that tiered exercises have improved proÞciency or scores, it does seem to indicate higher student engagement and motivation levels. Based on the survey results, a list of recommendations is put forth for the …

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Book Review -- Writing Assessment And The Revolution In Digital Texts And Technologies, Jeanne Bohannon Dec 2011

Book Review -- Writing Assessment And The Revolution In Digital Texts And Technologies, Jeanne Bohannon

Jeanne Law Bohannon

No abstract provided.

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Teaching Question Making To Beginners, Sarah Marie Springsteen Dec 2011

Teaching Question Making To Beginners, Sarah Marie Springsteen

Sarah Marie Springsteen

A best practice method for introducing grammatically accurate question making into a communicative beginners language class.

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Il Instruction In The Graduate Classroom, Kelly Heider Dec 2011

Il Instruction In The Graduate Classroom, Kelly Heider

Kelly Heider

The purpose of this study was to examine a Masters in Education (MEDU) cohort at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) to measure their perceptions of the value of information literacy instruction in the graduate classroom. Findings indicate that MEDU students recognize the importance of information literacy skills and value the information literacy instruction they received in the masters program because it not only improved their information literacy skills but their overall achievement.

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Tms 170: El Debate Sobre Los Tores, Carmela Ferradans Dec 2011

Tms 170: El Debate Sobre Los Tores, Carmela Ferradans

Carmela Ferradans

Part of the Teaching Mods Series, the research for this project was possible in part thanks to an
IWU Re-centering the Humanities Mellon Foundation grant. Teaching Mods is a digital library of teaching modules and materials for the advancement of interpretive skills in Spanish language, literature, and culture. The main purpose of Teaching Mods is to make higher education more affordable and accessible to students and teachers by developing an open licensed digital library of high quality college-level educational materials.

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