Thesis (Ph. D.)--Auburn University, 2008. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-160).

Thesis (M.A.)--Northern Kentucky University, 2006. / Made available through ProQuest. Publication number: AAT 1435879. ProQuest document ID: 1136092741. Includes bibliographical references (p. 43-47)

Thesis (M.A.)--Northern Kentucky University, 2007. / Made available through ProQuest. Publication number: AAT 1438522. ProQuest document ID: 1246577141. Includes bibliographical references (p. 43-47)

v TITTLE: Special Education Support for University Students with Dyslexia ABSTRACT: The diploma thesis is focused on special education support for university students with dyslexia. The task of the theoretical part is to describe diagnostics, learning strategies, reeducation of dyslexia and possible support for students with dyslexia at the university. The theoretical was drawn from the scientific literature. The aim of practical part is to detect how Universities provide support to their students. The aim was achieved by using analysis of university documents and websites and survey. KEYWORDS: dyslexia, special education support, learning strategies, university, student

“Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand.” - Chinese Proverb. Involvement in learning implies possessing skills and attitudes that permit students to seek resolutions to questions and issues while constructing new knowledge. Low enrollment in Plant Biology and Diversity and upper level plant science courses has been noticed at Western Kentucky University. In addition, graduating students performed below the national average on the senior assessment examination in the area of botany content knowledge offered by WKU’s Biology Department. This may be due to the fact that observation-based botany has been taught in a traditional way for biology majors at our university for many years. Traditional teaching methods include viewing prepared slides of plant sections, viewing live and herbarium specimens, and memorization of botanical terminology and illustrations. The goal of this study is to convert these existing traditional laboratories to investigative inquiry exercises without compromising the material covered by bringing observation-based labs into the twenty-first century. Various teaching strategies including inquiry, problem-based, case-based, and hands-on learning methods were implemented. Each exercise was reshaped around a central question or theme. These changes were expected to increase student learning and retention levels. Traditional teaching methods were used with the control group, while contemporary teaching strategies were used with the experimental set of students. Traditional assessments and anonymous surveys were statistically analyzed. The results of my analyses suggest that the experimental students were more challenged, interested, intellectually stimulated and less overwhelmed with contemporary teaching strategies and overall had higher learning retention demonstrated by their performance on assessments. Moreover, I predicted that an investigative approach will encourage larger numbers of students to take this restricted elective sophomore-level course for biology majors and further their study in plant biology.

Thesis (M.A.)--Northern Kentucky University, 2006. / Made available through ProQuest. Publication number: AAT 1435899. ProQuest document ID: 1136092811. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-68)

The article reviews the approaches to innovation in university teaching, recounts the Teachers’ Academic Management’s experience with the First University Teaching Innovation Fund (Primer Fondo de Innovacion para la docencia universitaria) and shows the preliminary results, gathered from interviews with the participating teachers. / El artículo presenta una revisión sobre los enfoquesde innovación en  la  docencia universitaria, describe la experiencia de la convocatoria lanzada desde la Dirección Académica del Profesorado al Primer Fondo de Innovación para la docencia universitaria, y concluye con los resultados preliminares, basados en entrevistasa los profesores participantes.

This multi-faceted research study examined the current approach of educational technology courses and how integrating modern learning technologies into curriculum effectively is addressed in pre-service education programs at U.S. universities. The primary goal was to explain the current trends in the reviewed pre-service programs in relation to how future educators are prepared by the universities to incorporate educational technology and use technology enhanced curriculum. This study was an exploratory, non-positivistic qualitative study that employed multi-strategy and survey research approaches in order to establish a baseline of the way that technology integration skills are being addressed in undergraduate pre-service educator programs today. Survey participants were educators within a public or private K-12 system in the U.S. The participants' level of education, university attended, educational technology experience, and technology perceptions were gathered from the survey's Likert-type and open-end questions. Current and historically statistics and data were collected for each university identified from the survey responses. Findings of this study revealed outcomes related to participants' education, perception of educational technology, and university educational technology course offerings and/or requirements for undergraduate pre-service educator programs. Results of this research study provide a solid foundation for future research in these areas within the field of education.

This thesis aims to contribute to the improvement and advancement of university learning, teaching, and staff development; to integrate educational theory and the practice of university teaching; and to contribute to the establishment of a new, emerging paradigm in higher education. The strategy towards achieving these aims comprises (1) an alternative research methodology in the interpretive, non-positivist paradigm; (2) an integrated framework drawing on a variety of previously unrelated theories to form an alternative model of university education; and (3) reference to the dialectical relationship between educational theory and teaching practice and their integration through action research in higher education. The thesis is not so much a critique of the traditional paradigm and of existing functionalist-structuralist approaches to higher education, but more a development and clarification of an alternative, dialectical, human action approach to higher education. The original contribution of this thesis to the theory and practice of higher education lies in the development (1) of an alternative model of university education based on an integration of previously unrelated domains of theory; (2) of a theoretical model of professional development as action research (the CRASP Model: Critical attitude, Research into teaching, Accountability, Self-evaluation, Professionalism); and (3) of action research projects in higher education. Action research is research by the university teachers themselves into their teaching practice, i.e. into problems of the curriculum and student learning. The case studies included in and appended to this thesis show that in one educational setting at least it was possible to improve and advance university learning and teaching through action research. The evidence for this advancement is provided in a number of previously published case studies compiled in the Appendix.

Dissertação(mestrado)- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Ambiental, Instituto de Educação, 2005. / Submitted by eloisa silva (eloisa1_silva@yahoo.com.br) on 2012-09-13T19:37:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Bilhalva.pdf: 428045 bytes, checksum: da6ca3d0c8a1378b19b46f7c4f393d70 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Bruna Vieira(bruninha_vieira@ibest.com.br) on 2012-09-18T19:43:40Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Bilhalva.pdf: 428045 bytes, checksum: da6ca3d0c8a1378b19b46f7c4f393d70 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-09-18T19:43:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bilhalva.pdf: 428045 bytes, checksum: da6ca3d0c8a1378b19b46f7c4f393d70 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Os resíduos sólidos de serviços de saúde representam uma fonte de degradação ambiental, pois quando gerenciados inadequadamente, oferecem risco potencial ao ambiente e à vida. A implantação de técnicas de gerenciamento de resíduos nas diferentes fontes geradoras da área da saúde, requer considerar os indivíduos que compõem estes ambientes, daí a relevância da educação ambiental como um princípio que considera o ambiente na sua totalidade, com vistas a articulação no processo de ensino, na construção de um sujeito com consciência ética, valores, cidadania e compromisso social. Com o objetivo de conhecer como vem ocorrendo o processo de formação do profissional da área da saúde, em relação ao fenômeno resíduos sólidos de serviços de saúde, foram realizadas vinte e uma entrevistas com diferentes sujeitos: coordenadores, docentes e estudantes de quatro cursos da área da saúde (Odontologia, Medicina Veterinária, Enfermagem e Obstetrícia e Medicina) de uma Instituição Pública de Ensino Superior localizada na região sul do país e a análise documental dos projetos políticos pedagógicos destes cursos e de planos de ensino. A partir da análise de conteúdo dos dados, emergiram duas categorias: - “A formação para a abordagem dos resíduos sólidos de serviços de saúde numa perspectiva teórica”, enfocando como o conteúdo resíduos sólidos de serviços de saúde é previsto em planos de ensino e desenvolvido; carga horária; metodologia; corpo docente ministrante; e a localização destas disciplinas no quadro de seqüência lógica e; - “A formação para a abordagem dos resíduos sólidos de serviços de saúde no enfrentamento com a prática”, em que foram focalizadas como se deram as diferentes vivências práticas das etapas do manejo dos resíduos, como, geração, minimização, reciclagem, segregação, acondicionamento, coleta, armazenamento, tratamento, destinação final. Os dados possibilitaram apontar a necessidade de uma reforma no ensino, a fim de incluir nos processos pedagógicos dos cursos novas compreensões como de integralidade, articulação, diálogo, problematização, de modo a preparar os futuros profissionais para a instrumentalização e para o enfrentamento da problemática da abordagem dos resíduos sólidos de serviços de saúde, com responsabilidade e comprometimento. / Health services are a source of environmental degeneration. When they are ill- managed, are a potential risk to the environment and to life. Settling of techniques of management of wastes in the various sources in the health field requires to take into account the individuals that live in these environments, therefore environmental education is important as a principle that considers the environment as a whole, aiming at the learning process in the construction of an individual with ethic conscience, values, citizenship an social commitment. With the purpose of knowing how the formative process of professionals in the field of health has been put into practice, concerning solid wastes of health services, twenty one interviews were conducted with various persons: coordinators, teachers, and students of four programs in the field of health (Odontology, Veterinary Medicine, Nursery-Obstetrics, and Medicine) in a federal university located in Southern Brazil, and a documental analysis of political-pedagogical projects of these programs and their learning plans. As from the data content analysis, two categories arose: - “Formation for approaching of solid wastes of health services in a theoretical perspective”, focusing how the matter “solid wastes of health services” is set forth in learning plans and put into practice; time load; methodology; teaching staff, and location of these subjects in the sequential table, and; - “Formation for approaching solid wastes of health services when facing the practice”, focusing how the various and different practical appliances of phases of waste handling have happened, such as formation, minimizing, recycling, segregation, storing, picking-up, treatment, final deposition. Data made possible to point out the need of a change in learning, in order to include in the pedagogical process of programs new comprehensions such as of integrality, articulation, dialogue, problematization, for preparing future professionals for facing the problem of solid wastes of health services with responsibility and commitment.