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Congying Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Our next-generation engineers must be able to design technologies and create partnerships for broad applications that sustain the environment and protect human health. This dissertation reports on technologies and partnerships that support sustainable electronics by (1) improving the reliability of Sn-alloys in electronics by understanding the…
Descriptors: Electronics, Engineering Education, Recycling, Foreign Countries
Laci Shea Brock – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Equally as important as growing the body of human knowledge through scientific discoveries and analysis is relaying this information to the general public in a digestible manner to establish a scientifically literate society. This dissertation approaches the multifaceted issue by combining an in-depth study of brown dwarf binary atmospheres with…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Scientific Concepts
Velazquez-Smith, Tyana Rene – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Elementary-aged Black girls in predominantly white schools often exist within the constructions of racist and sexist conditions. These conditions inform their school experiences and subject them to a magnitude of social, physical, mental, and psychological violence. Despite the harm that predominately white schools produce onto the bodies of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, African American Students, Racial Composition, Educational Environment
James Drimalla – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This theoretical, methodological, and empirical networking study investigated the potential of inferentialism to contribute to the study of meaning and collective argumentation in mathematics. I carefully attended to my worldview and explicated my philosophical process for identifying inferentialism as my theory of choice. I then drew on Prediger…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Inferences, Constructivism (Learning), Epistemology
Chowdhury, Madeleine P. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Studies of discourse are prevalent in mathematics education, as are investigations on facilitating change in instructional practices that impact student attitudes toward mathematics. However, the literature has not sufficiently addressed the operationalization of the commognitive framework in the context of Calculus I, nor considered the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Mathematics Education, Calculus, Mathematical Concepts
Francom, Rachel Carlsruh – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this dissertation is to study preservice elementary teachers' (PSTs') procedural and conceptual understanding of fraction multiplication, and to study how math drawings might be used to reveal this knowledge and encourage learning. This dissertation is in response to the call for more rigorous qualitative studies that look at PSTs'…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Fractions, Mathematics Education, Multiplication
Reyes-Diaz, Thayra M. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The use of literary criticism has served to provide different lenses to analyze, evaluate, and interpret the content and context of the written text in all its forms and varieties, especially in children's and young adult (YA) literature. This study was aimed at analyzing the way in which "Feminist Criticism" may be applied to young…
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Childrens Literature, Adolescent Literature, Females
Pentland, Steven James – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The human body provides a wealth of information that, when captured and analyzed, offers deep insight into the mind and its processes. At no other point in history has this information been as accessible as it is today. Using various sensor systems, researchers can now efficiently capture fine-grain behavioral data and leverage it for scientific…
Descriptors: Human Body, Information Systems, Personnel Selection, Models
Firetto, Carla – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Introductory biology courses typically present topics on related biological systems across separate chapters and lectures. A complete foundational understanding requires that students understand how these biological systems are related. Unfortunately, spontaneous generation of these connections is rare for novice learners. These experiments focus…
Descriptors: College Students, Biological Sciences, Introductory Courses, Comprehension
Da Silva, Helena Sofia Pereira – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Maize ("Zea mays L.") is a model species well suited for the dissection of complex traits which are often of commercial value. The purpose of this research was to gain a deeper understanding of the genetic control of maize kernel composition traits starch, protein, and oil concentration, and also kernel weight and grain yield. Germplasm with…
Descriptors: Genetics, Plants (Botany), Botany
Farris, Alisha R. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Over 50 million children attend public elementary and secondary schools in the United States each day. Children spend a substantial portion of their waking hours in school and consume one-third to one-half of their daily calories there, making schools a promising site to influence dietary quality and potentially the risk of childhood obesity.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Nutrition, Lunch Programs, Intervention
McNamee, Brittani D. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation addresses different methods and challenges surrounding characterizing and identifying minerals in three environments: in the classroom, in soils, and in talc deposits. A lab manual for a mineralogy and optical mineralogy course prepares students for mineral characterization and identification by giving them the methods and tools…
Descriptors: Mineralogy, Identification, Science Instruction, Laboratory Manuals
Danielson, Katie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Mary Kennedy (1999) introduced the problem of enactment to describe how novice teachers often struggle to put what they have learned in coursework into practice in the field. One approach to this problem is to put practice at the center of teacher education by specifying core practices of teaching around which to structure novices' learning…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Stegemoller, William Jason – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This qualitative study examines the writing and writing experiences of six bilingual (Spanish-English), immigrant university students. Immigrant students are a growing segment of university populations, but explicit/implicit language policies often overlook their unique characteristics and needs. The study draws on the continua of biliteracy model…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Constructivism (Learning), Majors (Students), Social Support Groups
Galati, Alexia – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Speakers routinely adjust their behavior upon assessing the information they share in common with their conversational partners, but there remains controversy over when and how these adjustments happen. In this dissertation I address two debates regarding partner-specific adjustments: (a) whether they recruit the language processing system in a…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Language Processing, Verbal Communication, Manipulative Materials