This dissertation examines how analog and digital history games complicate and challenge the dominant discourse of teaching American History through Texas state high school-focused texts and these texts complicity in suppressing non-normative histories. These histories are forme…
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The purpose of this study was to conduct a program evaluation of an alternative educational program in North Carolina for high school students at-risk for dropping out. The CIPP model was used to evaluate to what extent the alternative educational program is achieving its stated…
Introduction Endoscopy performance is highly variable among fellows and practicing physicians. The field lacks a standard endoscopy training curriculum. Moreover, the traditional training under the apprenticeship model has proven to be a slow and ineffective method. Trainees who…
The purpose of this eight-week study was to analyze how a multi-age primary community utilized the technology available to them from an activity theoretical perspective. In addition, it was aimed at exploring how the technology provided opportunities for second language developm…
Racialization, the process by which society's systems and organizations build and reassert hierarchies through the social construct of race, is deeply embedded in society. Educational systems in the United States, influenced by these socio-cultural practices, are rooted in racia…
The problem under examination is the course success of High School students in Face-to Face and Blended classroom environments. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the participation and performances of Face-to-Face and Blended high school students in different class…
This study sought to answer the following two questions: 1) How do online only students at postsecondary Christian schools evaluate their own spiritual growth, and2) What are the perceptions of these students regarding their institution’s effectiveness with provided spiritual fo…
The purpose of this research was to discover the level of intentionality to stimulate Christian formation in the context of fully online undergraduate baccalaureate Bible education at ABHE schools. Since ABHE affirms transformational education as part of its institutional missio…
THE ROLE AND USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN LIBYA ABSTRACT By Nadia Nsir, Ph.D. Washington State University November 2014 Chair: Joy L. Egbert This dissertation consists of two manuscripts to investigate the use of social media in Libya since the uprising in 2011. The first paper is an …
This qualitative study conducted over a 14-month period examined how teachers and students' identities influenced their learning and implementation of design thinking processes in conjunction with their technology use in urban classrooms. Design thinking is a learning approach t…
This study focuses on the experiences faculty had in the support provided to them in technology implementation and the role of faculty professional development to ensure its implementation. In today's world, higher education institutions are making a transition from a traditiona…
Inflexible institutional learning facilities pose many barriers in the developing world's student. Bangladesh is one of them. This problem is particularly acute in rural and remote areas where environmental and infrastructure challenges hinder other learning modalities, more spe…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of three keyword caption modes on the listening comprehension of Arab learners of English as a foreign language (N = 90) while viewing authentic video clips. The keyword caption modes contained approximately 10%, 30% or 50%…
Many studies have been conducted where a face-to-face training environment is compared to an online training environment. While some research has been conducted on the nature of online training in faith-based not-for-profit organizations, little to no research has been found on …
Globalization reflects a shift in the workforce development paradigm. This descriptive qualitative case study was conducted at a Midwestern university with 12 student participants and three faculty members from three engineering programs. The purpose of this body of work was to …
Very little is known about how teachers' conceptualizations of digital technology and their uses of the technology evolve and relate. Yet knowing about and understanding teachers' conceptions and uses of digital technology are essential for learning how teachers integrate it eff…
This thesis is an investigation into what international students think, feel, and believe about their educational experiences at Southern Illinois University. Using both quantitative data and qualitative interviews with international students at SIU the research identified four …
In most open and distance learning institutions, the development of learning materials, whether in print or electronic form, is created by teams consisting of people with different skills. Team communication has a critical influence on the development of team shared mental model…
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to determine the impact of unlimited individual access to a laptop computer (one-to-one computing) on student participation and performance in online dual enrollment courses and determine to what degree this technology access impacts s…