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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Student activity"”.
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Alumnae - student activity building for Wilson College
Thesis (M.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1947.
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Revised manual for student activity accounting for Virginia's public schools
Student activities accounting procedures are carried out in all public school systems throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. These accounts are created to allow individual educational agencies to deposit, disburse, and account for all funds relating to school activities. In 1954 the original …
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The use of changing factors as part of the design of M.I.T. student activity facilities
… discussed. Three design case studies involving student activity facilities on the MIT campus are used to illustrate the approach. A comparison with other student activity designs is made. Finally, areas for future study and conclusions are offered.
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A proposed design of a manual of accounting for student activity funds for use in the public schools of Virginia
… content. The Manual on System of Accounting for Student Activity Funds currently in use in Virginia Public Schools was adopted in 1954. The problem of this study was to design a current, legally based, and theoretically and operationally sound manual of accounting for school activity funds in the …
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A Comparison of Selected Effects of Student Activities Programs in A Small, Laboratory High School and A Small, Traditional High School
The purpose of this study was to compare student activity programs in a university laboratory high school and a traditional high school, to report differences in selected areas of the student activity programs and student status systems, and to make recommendations for the laboratory high school …
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Epistemological Authenticity in Science Classrooms
… both the nature of scientific knowledge and the activity that produces it, scientific inquiry. (NRC, 1996; AAAS, 1993) In support of these goals the National Science Education Standards (NRC, 1996) envisions science classrooms where students engage productively in activity that is similar to …
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Student-Athlete: A Study of Student-Athlete Workload Compared with Traditional Student Workload
… to collect and analyze data on the workload of students and student-athletes to determine if there is a significant difference in the workloads of student-athletes compared with non-athletes, including undergraduate and graduate students. It was hypothesized that student-athletes would spend …
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Offline mediators online: writing activity in two middle school classes
… & Nardi, 2006). Framed by cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) (Leont’ev, 1981; Vygotsky, 1978), this dissertation broadens the study of students’ literacy learning in educational settings by considering offline mediators as constitutive of students’ online literate activity. …
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Comparison of the relationship of academic success to self-concept, social acceptance and perceived social acceptance for hearing, hard of hearing and deaf adolescents in a mainstream setting.
… to contribute to deaf and hard of hearing students' success in mainstream settings: self-concept, social acceptance, and perceived social acceptance. Twenty-five hearing, five deaf, and five hard of hearing junior high school students participated in this study. Students completed three …
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The influence of grades on learning behavior of students in MOOCs
… and analyze impact of grades on the behavior of students in MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). MOOCs often use grades to give students feedback on their understanding of course material and to determine whether a student passes the course. To better understand how student behavior is influenced …
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Evaluating the Integration of Online, Interactive Tutorials into a Data Structures and Algorithms Course
… the amount of practice material available to students; and providing immediate feedback and incremental assessment. In this thesis, I first describe aspects of the OpenDSA architecture relevant to collecting user interaction data. I then present an analysis of the interaction log data gathered …
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Collaborative Audio Transcription and Repair as a Method for Novice Pilots to Learn Approach Briefing Crew Resource Management (CRM) Skills
… scale, and complexity increases the demands for student learning, including crew resource management (CRM) skills. Instructor facilitated methods have proven effective for CRM skill learning. This study investigated a method of collaborative audio transcription and repair based learning (CTRBL) …
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Problem-based learning: a case study in integrating teachers, students, methods, and hypermedia data bases
… and (2) an observational study of middle school students using the system within a framework of problem-based learning for mastering content and thinking skills. The goal was to create a learning environment influenced by metacognitive strategies, hypermedia interface design, and problem-solving …
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Ranking Doctoral Programs of Health Education
… productivity of the faculty and the scholarly activity of program doctoral students. The methodology in this research is unique to ranking studies by using a multiple set of variables weighted by scholars and leaders in the field of health education. These variables were; articles published, …
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The synthetic student : a machine learning model to simulate MOOC data
… 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 information are currently limited by privacy concerns over how the data can be distributed. In this thesis, we …
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Prevalence of overweight and obesity in children from urban and rural Niagara
… and aerobic performance (Leger). Physical activity was evaluated with the self-report Participation Questionnaire (free-time and organized sport activities), and teacher's evaluations of student activity. Overweight (overweight and obesity combined) was measured both as a continuous (BMI) …
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Experienced teachers’ planning practices: Orienting, inventing, and envisioning
… a three-part theoretical framework: literate activity (Prior, 1998), mediated agency (Wertsch, 1991), and distributed cognition (Hutchins, 1995). All three of these theories invite a more holistic framing of the work of teacher planning and situate it in everyday practice. I use qualitative …
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Using application generated data to provide personalized user experience in software applications
… applications, tracking each and every user activity, can be extremely useful in understanding the user behavior and thus giving companies the ability to create more personalized and adaptive solutions. I explore data generated about a pedagogical website at MIT which is used to support …
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Student engagement in university decision-making : policies, processes and the student voice
This thesis explores student engagement in university decision-making. Universities are expected to involve their students in a range of governance activities. Yet, the conceptual base for this is under-formed and often draws from learning theories. As a result, the emphasis is on what students …
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The acquisition of revenue from fund raising activities in North Carolina public high schools
… of school sponsored events. 3. A majority of students in North Carolina public high schools participate in fundraising activities. 4. Public high school principals in North Carolina consider fundraising activities most important in order to finance current extracurricular student activity …
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