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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"introductory courses"”.
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Exploring Postsecondary STEM Faculty's Experiences Teaching Underrepresented Minority Students in STEM Introductory Courses in an HSI
… Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) introductory classes pose a barrier to Underrepresented Minority (URM) students' persistence in STEM due to several factors, including issues with curriculum design and teaching, as well as the prevalence of racial and gender oppression. STEM …
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Theme & Variations: a content analysis of syllabi in introduction to urban education courses
… examines the teaching of urban education in introductory and foundational college courses. The research positions course syllabi as ubiquitous public documents that socialize students into discourse communities, and is framed within theories of social constructivism. An examination of course …
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The Integration of Health Care Policy in Medical Education
… school curriculums currently do not include introductory courses on various health care policy topics. The 2005-2006 U.T. Southwestern Congressional Health Care Fellowship activities are examined in this thesis, including Avian Influenza, the Ryan White Care Act reauthorization, and …
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Code Reading Dojo: Designing an Educationally-oriented Mobile Application Aimed at Promoting Code Reading Skills
… In many colleges, Java plays a major role in introductory courses. Our vision is to allow instructors to employ the game in their introduction to programming in Java course. In addition, we hope it could be adapted for use in introductory courses using different programming languages. Data …
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James Banks' Levels of Multicultural Integration and A Discourse Analysis of Selected Virtual Graduate Level Diversity Courses
… in selected virtual, graduate level diversity courses. The courses are designed to be introductory courses in diversity (designed primarily for the education field although several other disciplines also offer said courses as an elective choices). The data is comprised of transcripts gleaned …
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The Role of Teaching Assistants in Introductory Programming Courses
… decade. This particularly impacts class sizes of introductory courses, as they are usually listed as required prerequisites courses. The students in these courses typically have very little or zero prior experience with programming. In such course settings, it is not an exaggeration to state that …
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Exploratory identification of introductory algebra-based physics success factors
… and incomprehensible by students enrolled in introductory courses. A study was performed on a group of 64 students in an introductory physics I course to determine if algebra skill, scientific reasoning ability, reading/comprehension level, or student attitude were significant predictors of …
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An aesthetic analysis of the most popular post-secondary Spanish language introductory pedagogical videos.
… series used in universities for Spanish language introductory courses. A synthesis of this analysis yields a theoretical model of the ideal foreign language pedagogical video. This study has both academic and commercial applications.
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Power Analysis for Alternative Tests for the Equality of Means.
… two sample t-test is the test usually taught in introductory statistics courses to test for the equality of means of two populations. However, the t-test is not the only test available to compare the means of two populations. The randomization test is being incorporated into some introductory …
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College and Career Readiness of First Time in College Social Studies Students
… US history educators and analysis of introductory post-secondary US history syllabi. Much research exists about FTIC students and introductory courses; however, not as much research has been done on introductory social studies courses and the FTIC student. This study sought to …
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GIYF: investigating and removing barriers to student self sufficiency
… and encouraging student self sufficiency enables courses to better cope with larger enrollments. To identify common problems students encounter when they attempt to solve their problems on their own, we created test instruments to mimic common problems students may encounter in introductory …
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PROGRAM EVALUATION OF THE LARGE LECTURE RETENTION ENHANCEMENT INITIATIVE PILOT PROGRAM AT NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY 2012-2015
… to Winter 2015. The LLREI served 52 sections of courses consisting of 4,336 students over six semesters. Of that total, 1,390 were freshmen targeted for retention. Between 629-882 total students enrolled in participating courses depending on the semester. The three-year pilot program cost …
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Using Tournament-Based Assignments to Motivate Students in Introductory Computer Science Courses
… to create new and exciting projects to use in introductory Computer Science courses. These types of assignments not only have to teach students new concepts but also must cater to the various skill levels that are present in introductory courses. One solution that has been suggested is to used …
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An investigation of a manipulative simulation in the learning of recursive programming
… Sciences; Even so, it is often omitted in introductory courses, or discussed only briefly. This is likely due, at least in part, to the fact that teaching recursion has been difficult. Perhaps the biggest problem in teaching recursion is that there are few, if any, naturally existing …
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An examination of gendered discourse in the discussion forums of online STEM courses
… disproportional enrollment and retention in STEM courses at the collegiate level. Increasingly, introductory courses across the STEM disciplines are offered online. In this project, I focus on one potential gatekeeper to women’s online success: discussion forums. Although many scholars agree that …
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Essays in the economics of higher education
… at MIT featuring smaller classes, revamped introductory courses, and a high proportion of female instructors called the Experimental Study Group (ESG). I exploit the lottery-based admission system to generate causal treatment effect estimates. Using detailed Registrar data, I find no …
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Using active learning strategies to investigate student learning and attitudes in a large enrollment, introductory geology course
… of learners in a large enrollment (n ~ 200), introductory geology course using a student centered learning cycle format of instruction versus another similar section that used a traditional lecture format. Although the course is a recruiting class for majors, over 95% of the students that …
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Investigating exploratory students' sense of belonging
… faculty built through clubs, organizations, and courses. They also encountered barriers like the COVID-19 pandemic, the complexity of the major change process, and restrictions on introductory courses in some colleges. Returning students seemed to experience greater sense of belonging, recalling …
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Undergraduate engineering students’ understanding of complex circuit concepts: An investigation of the intersection of students’ prior knowledge, design of learning environments and the nature of the content
Research focused on increasing students’ conceptual understanding of electric circuits discuss this concept as difficult to not only teach but for students to grasp. This difficulty has been attributed to the fact that students tend to hold inaccurate pre-conceptions of electricity which becomes …
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From Alice to BlueJ: a transition to Java.
The teaching of introductory courses in computing has seen several changes over the last decade. These changes not only affected the curricula when the emphasis was shifted from Imperative (also Procedural) to Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) but also reignited debates regarding which is the …