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Learning about social and ethical issues in a biology classConner, Lindsey Norma, 1957- January 2002 (has links)
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The effects of experiential learning: An examination of three styles of experiential education programs and their implications for conventional classroomsPizarchik, Mary 01 January 2007 (has links)
Using methodologies of interviews and observation, this study focuses on three distinctive and successful kinds of experiential education: a summer arts program, an outdoor science program and a wilderness education program. The project applies insights from the programs to the central question of this thesis: How can experiential learning be utilized within the traditional classroom given the constraints of the No Child Left Behind Law and standardized teaching?
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Exploring the experiences of college students participating in volunteer community service and service learning activitiesWiley, Lynda L. January 2009 (has links)
This study described and analyzed the experiences of college students that
participated in a volunteer community service program and those that participated
in a service learning program using a case study method. The evidence suggests
that students describe their service experience in much the same way regardless of
the type and circumstances of the service performed. While the subjects that
participated in service learning described the activity of providing service as
positive, many of the components of service learning did not seem to be present,
including formal reflection. While there was recognition of different social classes
served by the sites or agencies and within the community, the subjects had not
explored core social issues that may arise from class differences. Participants in
both service learning courses and volunteer community service activities found
the experience valuable in either selection or continuance of academic major, as
well as general career development skills. / Department of Educational Studies
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The Effect of the Specific Teaching of Mathematical Concepts in Second Year AlgebraGross, John Milton 08 1900 (has links)
The purpose of this study was to correlate the Vegetation of the Woodbine Sands with the edaphic factors. In the laboratory an analysis of the edephic factors was made of the twenty-two soil types collected from the three formations. The results of these and other analysis are shown in tables and graphs. The results indicate that the vegetational cover of an area that is uniform in its origin and in its resident soil factors is determined by the edaphic factors present.
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Write The Community The Effects Of Service-learning Participation On Seven University Creative Writing StudentsHodges, Lauren 01 January 2011 (has links)
Research in higher education service-learning suggests that there is a positive relationship between service-learning and student learning outcomes as well as a positive relationship between students‘ interactions with the ―real world‖ through service-learning and the effects of these experiences on deepening students‘ knowledge in their disciplines. Recent studies have established this positive relationship between service-learning and university composition and literature students. However, aside from the existing literature on service-learning and composition and writing, there has been virtually no examination of the relationship between service-learning and creative writing. The purpose of this study was to investigate how seven creative writing students experienced the process of creative writing differently after engaging in service-learning in a creative writing course at a large, urban university in the southeastern United States and to determine if students experienced a transformative learning experience as indicated by Mezirow‘s (2000) transformational learning theory. This research study employed an instrumental narrative case study design to determine how seven university creative writing students experienced the process of creative writing differently after taking a creative writing course with an optional service-learning component. The results of the study indicated that service-learning invoked a transformative learning experience in these seven higher education creative writing students, each in different ways—some in their writing processes and writing content, some in how they reflected upon themselves and their writing in relation to the ―outside world,‖ and some in their sense of civic duty
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Comprehension of an audio versus an audiovisual lecture at 50% time-compressionUnknown Date (has links)
Since students can adjust the speed of online videos by time-compression which is
available through common software (Pastore & Ritzhaupt, 2015), it is important to learn
at which point compression impacts comprehension. The focus of the study is whether
the speaker’s face benefits comprehension during a 50% compressed lecture. Participants
listened to a normal lecture or a 50% compressed lecture. Each participant saw an audio
and audiovisual lecture, and were eye tracked during the audiovisual lecture. A
comprehension test revealed that participants in the compressed lecture group performed
better with the face. Eye fixations revealed that participants in the compressed lecture
group looked less at the eyes and more at the nose when compared to eye fixations for
those that viewed the normal lecture. This study demonstrates that 50% compression
affects eye fixations and that the face benefits the listener, but this much compression
will still lessen comprehension. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
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Toward the development of analysis of students' cognitive processes in an online courseShieh, Ruey S. 18 July 2005 (has links)
This study examined a web-based undergraduate course structured around social
learning theories through the lens of social construction as a theoretical framework
and a case study research method. The purpose of the study was to investigate
students' learning experiences from a cognitively guided research framework.
Instructional strategies practiced in the course, instructional design developed, and
demonstrated students' learning outcomes were examined to help characterize
students' learning experiences.
The study proceeded from a social constructivist framework, employing a qualitative
case study approach. Data collected to support the description of students' learning
experiences included early course survey, in-depth interviews, course documents,
students' artifacts, online class interactions, email correspondences among
participants, and the researcher's journals based on online observations. The results
of the study reveal that students' learning experiences and learning outcomes were
greatly affected by the instructor's belief about teaching a distance course. Her belief
that students should be fully responsible for their own learning in the web-based
course resulted in minimal facilitation of the class in all aspects, including
moderating students' online discussions, fostering learning communities within the
class, and providing elaborate, critical feedback to elicit students' cognitive
processes. As a result, the engaged cognitive processes and knowledge domains
students demonstrated over the term were not significantly improved. Furthermore,
the course goal of establishing a collaborative, interactive, and social learning
environment for distance students was not met. The results of this study contribute
to the picture of the facilitation skills and moderating practices that support more
fully the goal of the development of a cognitively rich learning community. / Graduation date: 2006
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Student understanding of the kinematic quantities of angular speed and angular accelerationRankin, Graham W. 11 1900 (has links)
This study describes first and second year university physics students' understanding and reasoning of the concepts, angular speed and angular acceleration. The analysis was based on student responses to various tasks presented to them during one hour long interviews. These responses were characterized from a phenomeno graphic research perspective developed by Marton (1981) and his colleagues at Gothenburg University in Sweden. The findings of the study are described by categories of description and by categories of reasoning. Categories of description characterize; students' conceptualizations of angular speed from different frames of reference, and the ways in which students make comparisons of the angular speeds of two objects. Categories of reasoning characterize the ways in which students were thought to reason about the concepts of angular speed and angular acceleration in several task settings.
Interpretation of these findings are discussed with reference to the role a typical introductory physics textbook may have had in shaping the way in which students think about these angular kinematic concepts. Finally, instructional implications and directions for future research are given.
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A longitudinal study of the cognitive and affective development of CEGEP students /Bateman, Dianne January 1990 (has links)
CEGEPs (Colleges d'enseignement general et professionnel) were designed with the aim of developing intellectual abilities in young adults. The purpose of this study was to describe the cognitive and affective abilities of CEGEP students at the beginning and end of CEGEP and to measure the change in these abilities. Comparing student cognitive and affective abilities at the beginning of, during and at the end of CEGEP, according to known measures of student development, would establish what changes occur during the college years, and would thereby promote a more thorough understanding of the students which CEGEPs serve. The cognitive development of CEGEP students was assessed by examining the three broad areas of development most focused on at the college level: reading, writing, and critical thinking skills. Affective development was studied by examining the moral reasoning and ego development of CEGEP students and students' attitudes toward knowledge and learning. / The research design for the study was an interrupted time series on male and female students in three college programs: Science, Social Science, and Commerce. The experimental sample consisted of 334 students who entered CEGEP in 1985 in these programs. The students were selected at random and administered a series of cognitive and affective measures upon entry to college as part of the college's assessment procedure. The students were retested at the end of the first year of CEGEP and at the end of the second year of CEGEP. Samples were also selected in May 1986 and May 1987 to control for history, selection, maturation, and testing effects. / The findings suggest that students' cognitive and affective abilities increase while attending CEGEP, but that most students do not begin college with the complex intellectual abilities required for academic success. Students in all programs made significant gains in vocabulary, comprehension, writing, critical thinking, moral reasoning, and ego development. Changes also occurred in certain attitudes toward knowledge and learning. Male and female students differed in critical thinking and ego development, but did not differ in vocabulary, comprehension, writing, or moral reasoning. Differences among programs were found in vocabulary, comprehension, critical thinking, and moral reasoning, but were not found in writing or ego development.
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Social learning in community based natural resource management project (CBNRM) : a case study of Chipembere gardening project in Zimbabwe.Mukwambo, Robson January 2014 (has links)
This investigation of social learning processes in the Chipembere gardening project was conducted in Rockvale village one in Sebakwe communal area in the Midlands province of Zimbabwe. In essence, the study sought to explore how the Chipembere gardening project as a community-based natural resource management initiative (CBNRM), was reflecting and supporting social learning processes of change. It also sought to enrich and deepen an organizational understanding of social learning and to generate ideas and draw recommendations that could be used to strengthen learning in other CBNRM projects. The research was undertaken as a qualitative case study with data generated through semi-structured interviews with individuals and groups. It also included an analysis of project documents and an extended period of participant observation on site and in the gardening activities. Data were indexed and coded for generating analytical memos that were used to extract and represent the scope of social learning interations within the developing project. The study found that within the Chipembere gardening project a wide range of learning interactions were significant in shaping the developing project. Furthermore, these interactions were earmarked as the major drivers of social learning processes within the project. The study concluded that the social learning interactions amongst the gardeners in the Chipembere community garden were instrumental in fostering change that enhanced community livelinhoods and wellbeing.
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