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Showing 1 to 20 of 147 for “"development research"”.
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Community Development, Research, and Reinvestment: The Struggle against Redlining in Washington, DC, 1970-1995
… the African American community and the community development and reinvestment struggle of the Adams Morgan Organization in the late ‘70s. I conclude with a discussion of how advocacy and research led to reinvestment because of successful venue-shopping and scale-jumping. This work fills specific …
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Guidelines for Informed Instructional Strategy Selection in Online Higher Education: A Design and Development Research
… learning environments. It employs design and development research methodology to create instructional strategy selection guidelines for online courses in higher education. The guidelines, rooted in pedagogical approaches, are designed to assist faculty in selecting appropriate instructional …
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Chatbots and the Initial Account Interview for Gathering Eyewitness Information: Development, Research and Efficacy of ‘ChatCharlie’
This thesis presents a programme of empirical research centred on promptly eliciting information from witnesses and victims of crime to consolidate memory for later full retrieval. The College of Policing sometimes advocates Initial Account Interviews, yet more research should focus on the …
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The nature of the human resource development research–practice gap: Text data mining and topic modeling analysis of three decades of professional and academic literature from 1990 to 2022
The rapidly evolving field of Human Resource Development (HRD) places substantial importance and ongoing dialogue around the gap between research and practice. However, empirical studies addressing this crucial issue remain notably deficient. This dissertation helps fill this knowledge gap using …
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Creating Guidelines for Integrating Technology in English Foreign Language Classrooms in Saudi Arabia
… to teach EFL skills in their classroom. Using a developmental study, comprised of three phases (analysis, design and development, and evaluation and revision), research-based instructional strategies were operationalized using a set of guidelines instruction to guide EFL teachers to integrate …
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VTQuestAR: An Augmented Reality Mobile Software Application for Virginia Tech Campus Visitors
… information about a building. The exploratory development research described herein resulted in an iPhone / iPad software application (app) named VTQuestAR that provides assistance to the campus visitors by using the Augmented Reality (AR) technology. The Machine Learning (ML) technology is …
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Transnational Migration -Development Nexus and the Capability Approach: Reframing the Linkages
… four chapters. The first chapter introduces the research questions, methodology and data. The second chapter examines the explanatory inadequacies of received theories. The third chapter develops a framework for applying the capability approach in migration-development research and identifies …
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Electronic Portfolio Adoption: Developing a Framework by Exploring Faculty Perspectives Through the Lens of Diffusion of Innovation Theory
… support learning, assessment, and professional development across higher education has increased in recent years. However, higher education faculty who are instrumental to successful adoption and implementation are not often invited as active participants in the innovation process. In addition, …
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Instructional Design Guidelines for Procedural Instruction Delivered via Augmented Reality
… displays, wireless mobile devices) and software (development platforms). AR enhanced instruction has been shown to provide cognitive and psychomotor support during procedural learning and has been shown to use both words and pictures when delivering instructional content. A set of message design …
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Student satisfaction and involvement with third places at a university
… ofbelongingness will contribute to their social development. Research has also shown that providing this belongingness will improve student learning. The questions this study hopes to answer are how do students use spaces on campus, and how do these spaces affect student satisfaction and …
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Developing A Framework for Guiding Interaction Design in Distance Learning
… In response to this challenge, the goal of this research was to develop a theoretically- and empirically- grounded framework for guiding interaction design in distance learning. It is anticipated that this framework can assist educators and instructional designers in designing quality interaction …
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Parenting: An Economic Analysis
… brought attention to the need to invest in child development. Research has shown that such investments, when evaluated over the long run, provide large rates of return not just to families but to society. However, the effect of policies directed at children ultimately depends on the way parents …
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Strategies of the unemployed: does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead?
… Dynamics Study (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit [SALDRU], 2013c). We find that in response to unemployment and almost no unemployment insurance, unemployed individuals look to parents, relatives and friends for economic support. In many cases the unemployed delay setting …
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The development of an energy education package for secondary schools
… resources, particularly those f the Energy for Development Research Centre, and were selected for their relevance to energy as an agent of development, energy production and environmental concerns, energy policy formulation and vocational interest.
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Framework to Facilitate Metacognitive Strategy Development in Computer-mediated Instruction: A Design and Development Study
… instruction. It adopts Type II design and development research approach to create a comprehensive and generalizable instructional design framework. The framework was composed by synthesizing research and practical literature, and then evaluated by experts in related fields. The completed …
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Assessing Visual Literacy: A Review and An Attempt
… continuing call for visual literacy assessment research. The project has contributed two manuscripts that examine the existing visual literacy assessment research and document an attempt at designing and developing an evidence-based visual literacy assessment product. The first manuscript, a …
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Development of a novel co-culture based in vitro model system to study the wound healing process
Drug development research on wound repair is challenging and inefficient due to the complex nature of wound healing and scarring processes and the limitations of available in vitro or in vivo models used for preclinical drug testing. Many patients who undergo elective back surgery develop …
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High School's Principals' and Teachers' Perceptions of Peach State University's Professional Development School Model
<p>Professional Development Schools (PDSs) were proposed as a way to revolutionize and reform schools by changing the way teachers are trained to teach in order to enhance and reform schools by changing the way teachers are trained to teach in order to enhance schools to expose K-12 teachers, …
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A parent-implemented intervention to improve spontaneous imitation by young children with autism
… is crucial for children’s social and language development. Research has shown that young children with autism often have deficits in imitation skills. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a parent-implemented modified Reciprocal Imitation Training (RIT) on object and gestural …
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'Composite' models of project management : integration of control-oriented and adaptive approaches in rural water supply
This thesis explores the case of an International Development Association (IDA) assisted rural water supply and sanitation project in Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan, to raise some important questions about how donor-assisted projects are administered in developing countries. The paper analyzes some …
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