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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Elective Course"”.
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Meeting Diversity with a Multicultural English Elective Course
… implementing a multicultural/ethnic literature course. My research examines student engagement in English classes when multicultural/ethnic texts are included, and whether or not an elective class with such texts would be of interest to students.</p> <p>Several theorists and researchers support …
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Mixed Methods Study of How Computer Science Students Make Elective Course Choices
Elective course selection is an important part of the undergraduate Computer Science learning experience. These courses often shape a student's future career along with teaching them new skills and forming their niche in the vast world of Computer Science. While computer science students in …
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Cinema As Literature: A Semester Course in Language Arts
… as Literature," a curriculum guide for an elective course in high school English for the Muscogee County School System, to be implemented in school year 1992-93. The proposed elective course will utilize cinema material for the application of literary techniques and modes of criticism for a …
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Impact of a Middle School Reading Strategies Elective on Reading Comprehension Test Scores and Reading Confidence
… a local middle school decided to implement a new elective course. This course was designed to assist struggling middle school readers in acquiring the reading proficiency that would be required to succeed in higher level course work. Students remained in their regular English classes but devoted …
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Nursing Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Care of the Dying
… students in a palliative and end-of-life care elective course were compared to students in the required senior clinical practicum course. In addition to learning about EOL nursing care, students in the elective course were required to spend ten hours “being with” dying patients without …
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Factors affecting the impact of general elective courses which include physical activity on post-secondary student mental health
… curriculum of an Ontario Post-secondary general elective course. This thesis aim was to assess whether including physical activity would act as a protective barrier, mitigating further symptoms and lead to improved mental health in students. The physical activity course did not lead to …
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THE CLASSROOM AS INQUIRY LEARNING COMMUNITY: A PRACTITIONER STUDY OF ADOLESCENTS’ DEVELOPING CRITICAL LITERACIES
… inquiry learning? The study took place in an elective course co-designed by an English teacher and a librarian to support 12th grade students in developing their research skills. Data sources included semi-structured interviews, weekly memos, teaching artifacts and student work samples, …
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Development and Evaluation of System Dynamics Education Modules for Complex Socioenvironmental Systems
… into civil and environmental engineering (CEE) coursework. These efforts, as well as evaluation of their effectiveness in training CEE students to think systemically, have lacked in coordination to integrate them as part of the overarching academic curricula. This research advances the current …
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What's out there? Kinesiology curriculum scan for physical activity and older adults in Ontario (Canada)
… have conducted a curricular scan to evaluate coursework targeting older adults and physical activity in university-based kinesiology departments. The research question guiding this study was: What percentage of courses taught in kinesiology programs at universities in Ontario (Canada) focus on …
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Adaptation of the EPT specification to a Ukrainian argumentative writing test within the contrastive rhetoric approach
… or international college students who take the elective course analogous to US Academic Writing and as an argumentative writing test for the Ukrainian native-speakers who serve as public employees undergoing the state attestation program.
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Perceptions of Individual Experiences in a Service Learning Course
… seven individuals who were enrolled in such a course while in high school were interviewed. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the perceptions and experiences of these former high school students while enrolled in a service learning course coupled with the passage of …
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Effect of Mindfulness Training on Interpretation Exam Performance in Graduate Students in Interpreting
… specially developed Mindfulness for Interpreters elective course. The control group (n = 47) included all other students enrolled in the same introductory interpreting course for each language. The mindfulness group underwent a 4-week (12 hour) mindfulness training. All participants were …
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Effects of a Counseling Program on First-Generation High-School Student Aspirations, Self-Efficacy, Perceived Barriers, Knowledge of the College-Application Process, and Course Selection
… of the college application process, and course selection. The treatment included 12 lessons taught over a 4-week period covering important college-related topics, whereas the comparison group followed the traditional high-school curriculum.</p> <p>A sample of 88 freshmen first-generation …
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THE FOUNDATION AND CENTER OF AMERICAN STUDIES; AN INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORIES AND CULTURES - A SYLLABUS
… to American Studies early, by offering an elective course about Native American communities within the US. The heart and soul of this Capstone applied project is a syllabus for an American Studies course in Native American Histories and Cultures. It is an elective, introductory, survey …
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Assessing the Preparedness of the Veterinary Profession to Communicate with Limited English Proficient Spanish-Speaking Pet Owners
… for Veterinary Professionals should become an elective course in the DVM curriculum. Most (89%) practices did no marketing of services in Spanish to their LEP SSPOs. Marketing suggestions included: Add Spanish-language messages to signage, phone messages, Facebook accounts, websites and blogs; …
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Da ideia ao jogo digital: uma proposta de integração curricular no itinerário técnico e profissional do novo ensino médio
… the creation of educational digital games in an elective subject in the new high school foster the integration between FGB and the technical and professional pathway, stimulating the development of CT in students? Thus, the general objective of this research was to analyze the development of CT …
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Exploring pedagogical dissonance in including a traditional acupuncture treatment approach into a western biomedical evidence-based Physiotherapy curriculum
… of acupuncture in undergraduate curricula as an elective course by doing a quantitative descriptive survey. Methods: Three major databases were used for the conduction of the systematic review of literature, taking place from March 2019 to May 2019, i.e., Cochrane Library, PubMed, and PEDro …
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A Comparison of Health Risk Behaviors Among College Students Enrolled in a Required Personal Health Course vs. Enrolled in an Elective Personal Health Course
… and it is unknown if being enrolled in an elective or a required health course affects behavior change among the students. There are mixed reports on whether or not health education courses affect behavior change. Factors that may affect change are self-efficacy and the constructs that …
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An Evaluation of Past Performance of the Two-Year Agricultural Technology Program at Virginia Tech as Perceived by Program Graduates
… mandatory internship requirement, the hands-on courses, and the advisors for the program, the weaknesses of the program are issues with the transferability of credit hours to the four-year program, additional computer and technology courses and information are needed, and a lack of available …