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Direct linkKavitha Murthi – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Background: With around 200,000 autistic students set to enter universities and the workforce in the next decade, inclusive programs are receiving increased attention to helping educational systems carefully integrate these students' needs. Moreover, educational programs recognize that problem-solving is critical for school success and optimal…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Middle School Students, Problem Solving, Student Attitudes
Mundine, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Nursing programs have embraced distance learning in their curricula, but discussion is ongoing about course assignments and grading criteria to increase examination scores in nursing distance learning courses. Because course examinations are a predictor of success on the postgraduate licensing examination (NCLEX-RN), the purpose of this study was…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Distance Education, Comparative Analysis, Assignments
Yee, Sean P. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine the metaphors used by students to describe mathematical problem solving. This study focused on identifying how students interpret and perceive mathematical problem solving via conceptual metaphors (Lakoff and Johnson, 2003). These perceptions and interpretations were coded and analyzed qualitatively and…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Figurative Language, Mathematical Concepts, Secondary School Mathematics
Budano, Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study investigated the disciplinary knowledge and nature of expertise among political science experts studying American political science. A comparison group of students who had completed an introductory undergraduate course in American political science also participated in the study. Numerous research studies have found that civics and…
Descriptors: Expertise, Comparative Analysis, Political Science, Undergraduate Students
Mateycik, Frances Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This research project investigates students' development of problem solving schemata while using strategies that facilitate the process of using solved examples to assist with a new problem (case reuse). Focus group learning interviews were used to explore students' perceptions and understanding of several problem solving strategies. Individual…
Descriptors: Algebra, Focus Groups, Maps, Problem Solving
Technological Intersubjectivity and Appropriation of Affordances in Computer Supported Collaboration
Ravi K. Vatrapu – ProQuest LLC, 2007
This dissertation investigates two specific research questions related to the effects of culture on "appropriation of affordances" and on "technological intersubjectivity." "Sociotechnical affordances" are conceptualized as action-taking possibilities and meaning making opportunities in a socio-technical system…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Technology Uses in Education, Affordances, Interpersonal Relationship
