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Jordan Mathis Guillory – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine sequence completion rates and grade point average (GPA) of co-requisite developmental mathematics and non-co-requisite developmental mathematics courses GPA of the students enrolled in co-requisite developmental mathematics courses compared to students enrolled in non-co-requisite developmental mathematics…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Mathematics, Remedial Mathematics, Required Courses
Juan Berrios – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The current study investigates the expression of progressive and habitual aspect in second language Spanish, integrating theoretical insights from usage-based and concept-oriented approaches to second language acquisition, along with quantitative sociolinguistic methods. To address the full breadth of forms involved, the study examines variation…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Native Speakers, Language Acquisition, Language Skills
Anuradha Gopalakrishnan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Multilingual instruction takes many shapes and forms depending on the affordances and limitations of the context in which it is implemented. Because multilingual instruction is often context-specific, it has to be designed in collaboration with local stakeholders and developed through multiple implementations in the context. While the field of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German
Thoms, Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2018
In this study I explore the construction of algebraic structure sense through engaging students in task sequences designed to elicit the development of competencies related to this understanding. The primary task-design principle employed in this study is strategic variation, in which certain components of items within task sequences vary while…
Descriptors: Algebra, Sequential Learning, Grade 10, High School Students
Neupane, Ramesh – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The research purpose was to investigate the differences between learning preferences (i.e., Active-Reflective, Sensing-Intuitive, Visual-Verbal, and Sequential-Global) determined by the Index of Learning Style and gender (i.e., Male and Female) in regards to standardized achievement multiple-choice test performance determined by the Illinois Nurse…
Descriptors: Nurses, Allied Health Personnel, Cognitive Style, Preferences
Amy Jean Konyn – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Natural language is highly complex and can be challenging for some learners, yet the contribution of complexity to individual differences in language learning remains poorly understood. This poor understanding appears due to both a lack of consensus among researchers regarding what complexity is, and to on-line language research often employing…
Descriptors: Phonology, Natural Language Processing, Native Language, English
Wang, Jeremy Yi-Ming – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation examines the thesis that implicit learning plays a role in learning about scientific phenomena, and subsequently, in conceptual change. Decades of research in learning science demonstrate that a primary challenge of science education is overcoming prior, naive knowledge of natural phenomena in order to gain scientific…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Science Education, Science Process Skills, Intuition
Mercorella, Kelly Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In three experiments, I tested for the presence of the naming capability, the participants' drawing responses of the stimuli learned in the absence of the visual stimulus, and the participants' comprehension of texts with and without pictures present. In Experiment 1, I tested for the presence of naming and the drawing responses for the stimuli…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Naming, Visual Stimuli, Elementary School Students
Engelman, Jonathan – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Changing student conceptions in physics is a difficult process and has been a topic of research for many years. The purpose of this study was to understand what prompted students to change or not change their incorrect conceptions of Newtons Second or Third Laws in response to an intervention, Interactive Video Vignettes (IVVs), designed to…
Descriptors: College Students, Scientific Literacy, Scientific Principles, Scientific Concepts