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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Learning opportunity"”.
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Occupational Therapy Student Preparedness For Clinical Fieldwork
<p>Topic, Problem and Purpose: Experiential learning and occupational therapy student preparedness. Occupational therapy education programs must prepare occupational therapy students for practice. Traditional observational Level I Fieldwork presents challenges to achieve student-learning objectives …
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A descriptive study of the themes that emerge when expert employees known as myungjangs acquire, update, and share their domain-related occupational knowledge and skills
… advances an understanding of expert employees’ learning approaches. When acquiring domain-related occupational knowledge and skills, the study respondents seek a learning opportunity on the job and repeat given tasks on the job. When updating them, they create a learning opportunity within an …
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Family preservation, a study of change in family functioning
… purpose of this practicum study was to achieve learning goals that were determined to provide an understanding of family preservation services as well as data collection and analysis in the field of child welfare. The process of collecting information on child placement and assessing data that …
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Kun8seeh : an online approach to teaching & learning conversational Wôpanaô̂t8âôk
Kun8seeh is aWôpanaô̂t8âôk teaching and learning website. The primary objective for the website is to increase language access to all Wôpanâak language learners through the use online learning materials that accompany audio and visual material. Kun8seeh provides more opportunities for students to …
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Enhancing the Verification-Driven Learning Model for Data Structures with Visualization
… structures algorithms using the Visualization Learning tool. The main objective of the work is to provide a learning opportunity for novice computer science students to gain a broader exposure towards data structure programming. The visualization learning tool is based on the …
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An Assessment of the Practices And Strategies that Contribute to the Success of High School Service-Learning Programs
Service-learning is widely recognized as a form of experiential learning that positively impacts students. Studies have supported academic and inter-personal growth as a result of student involvement in an organized service-learning program. While some educators report that student participation is …
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Investigating A State-Funded Disciplinary Literacy Program In Kentucky For Educators Of Adolescent Students
<p>This case study describes a professional learning opportunity for educators of adolescents, namely the Literacy for Adolescent Teachers (LAT), at a regional midsize university in Kentucky. The LAT is a year-long experience that enrollees undertake to grow professionally by gaining specific …
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Examining the Incremental Validity of Working Memory for Predicting Learning and Task Performance: A Partial Mediation Model
… long been used as an effective predictor of both learning and job performance. Further, other more specific cognitive abilities have not been able to consistently predict incremental variance in job knowledge and job performance beyond “g”. However, the processes associated with working memory …
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Failure in the Writer's Journey: How New College Composition Instructors Experience Failure as Writers
The value of failure is often reduced to a mere learning opportunity, especially in writing, but as composition scholar Allison Carr has argued, this narrative masks the complex emotional landscape that renders failure a profoundly affective and transformative experience for writers. This …
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The Parental Choice to be Proactive Knowing the Limited Role of civil Litigation in Cyberbullying
… with the challenge of providing a safe and equal learning opportunity as well as parents who rely heavily on these educational institutions to fulfill this agreement are unclear what actions they can take to prevent bullying. In a review of the literature, this paper examines some of the current …
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Personal Factors in the Success of Early Adopters of a Major Technology: Faculty Experiences With Interactive Video Teaching
… new major technology, interactive video distance learning. The study utilized in-depth interviews, observations of videotaped instructional sessions, and analysis of reflection logs to generate data from three successful early adopters. This study revealed that these instructors were motivated to …
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The relationship between dual enrollment (de) and technical college enrollment, retention, and site of instruction
… Dual enrollment (DE) is one type of accelerated learning opportunity that offers high school students a head start on earning a postsecondary credential. This study used a quantitative research design with descriptive and inferential statistics to answer research questions on the relationship, if …
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Using an Educational Module and Simulation Learning Experience to Improve Medication Safety
… was to provide nurses with an experiential learning opportunity, using simulation, to identify and report near miss events during the medication administration process related to patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) usage. Despite extensive in-service training on a Medical/Surgical (Med/Surg) …
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The synthetic student : a machine learning model to simulate MOOC data
… Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offer a learning opportunity to anyone with a computer - as well as an opportunity for researchers to investigate student learning through the accumulation of data about student-course interactions. Unfortunately, efforts to mine student data for …
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An Investigation of a Peer Coaching Model on the Professional Learning and Teacher Self-Efficacy of Elementary Literacy Teachers
… to support teachers with ongoing professional learning for quality literacy instruction. Peer coaching can be a meaningful, personalized, job-embedded form of professional learning for teachers (Robbins, 2015). The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to investigate the effects of a …
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A Summer Reading Enrichment Experience: One District's Effort to Prevent Summer Reading Loss
… analysis provided a richer picture of this learning opportunity aimed at preventing students from losing critical literacy skills during the summer months. Students gained ready access to a wide variety of books and technology and participated in a variety of literacy and enrichment …
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Enhancing surgical education using video playback: A case study on the influence of video playback on the nature and experience of feedback between supervising surgeons and surgical residents.
… lower in cognitive load, allowing for optimized learning. Both the residents and supervising surgeons found the video was a useful tool to self- reflect on their own performance. These results were further explored through the lenses of social cognitive theory and cognitive load theory. …
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Developing a sustainable and adaptable model for the process of nationalisation within a business context in a post-conflict environment: Evolving a model from South Iraq
… <br/>The research thesis contributes a learning opportunity on the social and cultural complexities existing in a post-conflict Iraq. It takes the experiences and proposes a sustainable model for organisations to utilise when considering entering a post-conflict location. The model …
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Exploring Youths' Understanding of Intimate Relationships Through the Education Sector: An Institutional Ethnography
… youth across the world. It is a period of new learnings with opportunities to understand and develop perspectives on health and well-being. With youth beginning to engage in intimate relationships at an earlier age in the 21st century, concentrating on the learning opportunity they have in …
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Increasing the Number of African American Students in Undergraduate Level Classes of Chinese: A Call to Action
… denies African American students a preliminary learning opportunity that systematically limits their representation in Chinese language classrooms from the beginning.</p><p> This call for action examines systematic avenues for creating early opportunities. First the study explores the utility of …
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