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Showing 1 to 20 of 427 for “"coursework"”.
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Undergraduate students' goals for chemistry laboratory coursework
<p>Chemistry laboratory coursework has the potential to offer many benefits to students, yet few of these learning goals are realized in practice. Therefore, this study seeks to characterize undergraduate students’ learning goals for their chemistry laboratory coursework. Data were collected by …
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Coursework: Constructing a Building from a Brick
This thesis explores the design of a T-shaped brick and its influence throughout the course of the project. The T-brick established a significant direction towards weaving masonry and my firsthand recognition of the utmost importance of poetic construction for an architect. This thesis helps to …
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Prejudice Reduction Through Diversity Coursework for Teacher Education
… in this study were exposure to diversity coursework which served as the independent variable and teacher candidates\' prejudicial attitudes, which served as the dependent variable. Using the Yoder-Hartman Survey of Beliefs Scale, three research questions were addressed: (a) Are there …
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The role of visual-spatial aptitude in accounting coursework
… variables include gender, prior bookkeeping coursework, and major, as well as SAT scores, GPA, and scores on two VSA tests--the MAP Planning Test (MAP) and the Mental Rotations Test (MRT). MAP and MRT measures include the number right, the number wrong, and the percentage right. Dependent …
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Automatic marking of Shell programs for students coursework assessment
The number of students in any programming language course is usually large; more than 100 students is not uncommon in some universities. The member of staff teaching such a course has to mark, perhaps weekly, a very large number of program assignments. Manual marking and assessing is therefore an …
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An Evaluation of Arkansas’ Developmental Coursework Policy at Postsecondary Institutions
… to and enrollment in postsecondary remedial coursework in the state of Arkansas. In this study, I evaluate the impacts of the policy on students’ academic achievement and attainment as measured by graduation rates and persistence. I include subgroup analyses of these outcomes to determine …
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Student Access to Advanced Placement (AP) Coursework: Principals' Beliefs and Practices
… complete rigorous Advanced Placement coursework. The study utilized a questionnaire distributed to eight-eight principals of schools belonging to the Chicago Area Directors of Curriculum and Assessment (CADCA). The questionnaire measured the personal beliefs of the principals and their …
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Pre-service elementary education teachers: an international approach to music methods coursework.
… approach to instruction in the music methods coursework for pre-service elementary classroom teachers. The purpose of this study was to a) discover the degree to which an internationalized approach to music instruction will enable pre-service elementary classroom teachers to integrate music …
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Black student access to Advanced Placement coursework in a suburban high school
… or inhibited Black student access to AP coursework. Finally, I studied what factors in the Black community encouraged the taking of AP courses. Valdosa is a suburb of Chicago and Valdosa East High School (VEHS) was the focus of the case study. VEHS was the original high school in the …
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An Exploration of Factors Related to the Completion of Distance Education Coursework
… and duration of incomplete status. The extent of coursework completion was measured by the subsequently completed assignments and subsequently earned points. Online courses (n = 933) offered with the 15 different course titles in an online graduate degree program and assigned an "Incomplete" grade …
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Understanding the impact of leadership coursework on students' perceptions of self as leader
<p>This study sought to understand what students learned about themselves as a leader as a result of taking a for-credit leadership seminar. The study used a qualitative case study methodology in order to interpret data collected through participant surveys and interviews. The participants were …
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Opportunity and Access: High School Coursework and its Impact on Student Self-Perceptions
… study is to examine the impact of high school coursework on students’ perception of their post-secondary options. Current high school students and their school counselor are interviewed in an effort to determine if particular coursework, for better or worse, has any effect at all on a student’s …
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The conflict between data and perception in placement reform and acceleration of English coursework
… acceleration and placement reform in English coursework as changes in these measures affected student persistence, completion, and subject mastery in English composition. Through assessing student learning outcomes after placement reform and acceleration, this study compared students’ success …
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The Impact of Student’s Home Language on Performance and Participation in International Baccalaureate Coursework
… for students to take advantage of advanced coursework, such as the International Baccalaureate (IB) program, they must be able to comprehend and excel at communicating using the English language. This non-experimental study analyzed the differences in IB English exam scores, rates of full IB …
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Graduate speech-language pathology students' reactions to the transition from academic to clinical coursework
… the transition between academic and clinical coursework during the graduate education of speech-language pathologists (SLPs). During this transition period, graduate students experience stress and anxiety (Chan, et al., 1994; Lincoln, et al., 2004). This study examined what aspects of the …
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Play and Procedural Rhetoric in Composition Coursework: A Rhetorical Analysis of Trivial Pursuit Instructions
… the design of academic assignment prompts and coursework are discussed.
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Enhancing environmental and water science education: the development and evaluation of multi-media coursework materials
… had two objectives: (1) to develop multimedia coursework materials packaged as an interactive e-book, and (2) to evaluate their effectiveness as a teaching tool. The e-book integrated animations, narrated videos, AI-generated graphics, flow diagrams, field-based visuals, problem-solving tasks, …
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A QUANTITATIVE SURVEY ANALYSIS OF ELEMENTARY PRESERVICE TEACHER PERCEPTIONS OF ASSESSMENT TASKS IN SCIENCE COURSEWORK
… tasks they encountered in secondary science coursework. Students are assessed through informal and formal assessments, including close-ended and open-ended questions, through classroom and high-stakes assessments. With great significance placed on high-stakes state assessments, classroom …
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