Mathematics--Study and teaching (Secondary); Word problems (Mathematics)--Study and teaching (Secondary)
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of using Multiple Representations Charts in the classroom. This thesis was focused on the comparison of students’ abilities to solve word problems using Multiple Representations Charts as an...
Learning, Psychology of; Child development; Cognition in children
Young children perceive and respond to their environment in a variety of ways based upon their unique combination of approaches to learning. They use a range of intelligences in interacting with their classmates and the classroom setting:...
Educational counseling--Connecticut.; Counseling in secondary education--Connecticut.; Counseling in middle school education--Connecticut.
Dissertation advisor: Anthony Rigazio-DiGilio.; Ed.D.,Central Connecticut State University,,2012.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 225-231).
Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Connecticut; Mathematics -- Remedial teaching -- Connecticut; Mathematical ability -- Testing
Information about student performance was obtained by analyzing the performance of twenty-three fall sections of developmental mathematics taught at a state university. The independent variables included student performance on three predictor...
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote -- Criticism and interpretation; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote -- Characters -- Women
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the representation of the feminine in the first and second parts of Cervantes's novel The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha, published respectively in 1605 and 1615. The novel incorporates the...
Helping is a phenomenon that has been widely studied in psychology. Two types of helping that can occur within an organization are organizational citizenship behavior, or OCB, and volunteering. OCB is helping that occurs during the course of...
The anxiety and poor self-efficacy associated with maladaptive perfectionism impedes the person's ability to effectively perform in multiple areas of his or her life. The current study suggests that problem-solving is one of the areas likely to be...
Educators and policymakers have noted and expressed concern about a lack of academic motivation among adolescent high school students. Research has confirmed that intrinsic motivation does decline as students progress through school (Lepper,...
Conflict management -- Great Lakes Region (Africa); Women and peace -- Great Lakes Region (Africa); Great Lakes Region (Africa) -- Politics and government
In Africa, and especially the Great Lakes region of the continent, conflict between groups and nations has been on the rise for some time. This has led to the displacement of people and massive loss of lives and property. The conflict is also a...
The number of encounters between black bears (Ursus americanus) and people is increasing in Connecticut. This increase necessitates management planning, which cannot occur until the actual population size of black bears has been determined. A...
Education, Higher -- Effect of technological innovations on; Education, Higher -- Computer-assisted instruction; Learning, Psychology of
With colleges and universities dramatically increasing the number of courses they offer online, it has become more important for administrators to identify characteristics of successful online learners. The present study attempted to examine the...
The frizzy (fr) mutation in Mus musculus affects hair structure and formation. Early studies demonstrated that the gene responsible for frizzy assorts to mouse Chromosome 7 along with pink-eyed dilution (p), chinchilla (cch), and shaker-1 (sh-1). ...
The purpose of this research is to determine how a student's need for relatedness affects his or her motivation and academic achievement in mathematics. In addition, student motivation is examined independently of relatedness to determine its...
Physical fitness for men -- Measurement; Energy metabolism -- Measurement; Vitamin D
Physical performance is related to functional disabilities. Better interventions to improve function may be targeted if the determinants of physical performance are understood. We evaluated predictors of performance. The relationship of physical...
Pathological gambling is a severe, crippling, epidemic in our modern society. Pathological gambling has been linked with a host of personality disorders. The present study will examine the relationship between pathological gambling and the Big...
Storytelling -- Study and teaching; Languages, Modern -- Study and teaching
Humans have the innate capacity to learn language. By two years of age a child can understand a multitude of novel utterances. By six a normal child has mastered the essential elements of his native language including semantics, syntax, and...
Customer relations -- Management -- Data processing; Self-organizing maps; Data mining
This study outlines a method of determining individual customer potential, based solely on data present in the customer database: descriptive information and transaction records. We define potential as the incremental turnover that any particular...
The ways in which an individual views the self and others in the context of close relationships has been shown to influence how stress is both managed and coped with. However, questions remain about the mechanisms through which an individual’s...
Voluntarism; Social values; Sex differences (Psychology)
Volunteer work and factors that influence the choice to participate in volunteer work has become a focus of study in psychology. Examples of volunteer work that occur in or through an organization are coaching a little league baseball team and...
One of the fundamental physical aspects of rocky intertidal habitats deals with wave exposure (as defined by fetch) and the impact it has on the quantity and diversity of intertidal organisms. This paper examined the rocky intertidal environment...
