Browsing by Author "Pedersen, Susan"
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Sutedjo, Armanto (2023-07-18)Digital Game-Based Learning (DGBL) demonstrated a positive impact on students’ motivation, engagement, knowledge acquisition, and many other areas. However, all the benefits DGBL can offer for the classroom do not seem to ...
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Thomas, Andre; Bologan, Anatol; Carruthers, Steve; Finch, Sherman; Pedersen, Susan; Spurgeon, Janet L.; Stoenescu, Livia (Triseum, 2016-06-15)True to the life of the Medici, students must balance relationships with powerful city-states, merchant factions and the Catholic Church to build and maintain a financial empire and play a pivotal role in the creation of ...
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Junnutula, Meghanath Reddy (2015-07-30)Fantasy sports, a medium that engrosses millions of players around the world, increases the player’s expertise and understanding about the domain of the sport. Prediction games, based on the gameplay model of fantasy sports, ...
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Keske, Stephanie Lee (2014-01-16)This thesis investigated how technological communication tools contribute to creative success within the speci c domain of animation production. Research indicates that communication is one of the most important factors ...
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Oren, Mehmet (2020-04-08)This dissertation study presents a methodology to develop an embedded assessment within a game-based environment, implements this methodology, and investigates the results of the design, development, and implementation ...
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Miller, Heather (2012-10-19)Conceptualizations of earth's surficial systems pose challenges to scientists, novice teachers, and students alike, because they are variable, non-linear, and dynamic. Developing scientific models of these systems allow ...
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Gazi, Yakut (2009-05-15)This study examined the electronic discourse in an online course to investigate if culture exhibited itself in the communication of students. The researcher also sought to find out if a third culture was built in this ...
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Sweeney, David Sean (2018-07-27)A proliferation of natural speech audio texts as well as improvements in synthetic text-to-speech technology have created new opportunities for learners. While many studies have examined factors affecting comprehension of ...
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Ezrailson, Cathy Mariotti (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)This study measures the effect of a model of explicit instruction (EMIT) on the: 1) physics graduate teaching assistants adherence to reformed teaching methods, 2) impact of the instructional model on GTAs beliefs about ...
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Thomas, Shemesha Shenay (2016-04-14)In order for the United States to compete globally with other countries, it is vital that the United States diversify and increase the number of information communications technology professionals (ICT) if it is to remain ...
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Seifert, Kathryn A. (2010-01-16)This mixed methods dissertation explores the impact of metacognitive support (reflective journal entries and a think-aloud exercise) in a PBL (problem-based learning) unit. While students are developing a solution for a ...
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Fitzpatrick, Robbie Reese (2011-10-21)The present study tested the hypothesis that humor directly integrated with targeted material positively impacts memory retention and recall. The rationale underlying the hypothesis is based on findings of neurological ...
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Green, Mary Elizabeth (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)At the beginning of the 2004-2005 school year, school librarians participated in a face-to-face workshop during in-service training. The workshop dealt with the process of creating a TAKS Support Plan, a plan for the library ...
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Chen, Chun-Ying (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)Many studies report information overload (IO) as one of the main problems students encounter in computer-mediated communication (CMC). To date, researchers have paid little attention to the problem of IOmore specifically, ...
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Lin, Jie (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)An effective principal is the catalyst for an effective school. For this reason, it is imperative that education stakeholders all over the world become responsible for addressing the selection, preparation and development ...
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Dzodom, Gabriel Serge (2020-10-28)Prediction games, data-driven games modeled after fantasy sports, are aimed to motivate people to explore, analyze, and develop their own understanding of large data sets. They revolve around activities where players ...
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Wood, Nancy O (2013-11-08)This experimental study analyzed the relationships between media type, task type, the learners’ experience of spatial presence in media and learning outcomes. Spatial presence is believed to represent the users’ focus of ...
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Wu, Hui-Ling (2011-08-08)This dissertation focuses on the effectiveness of scaffolding in technology-enhanced science learning environments, and specifically the relative merits of computer- and teacher-based scaffolding in science inquiry. ...
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Lu, Jiajun (Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)A new approach is proposed to transparently share familiar single-user editors without modifying their source code. This approach tweaks a classic diff algorithm to derive edit scripts between document states. Concurrent ...
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Green, Martha Robison (2012-07-16)This study used a mixed-methods design to determine instructional strategies that best enhance pre-service teachers’ valuing of digital storytelling as a method to teach the narrative writing process; to consider how digital ...