Science -- Attitudes; Active learning; Learning by discovery
How well students perform in academic science courses over the long run is not as important as their understanding of broad science concepts and their attitudes toward science. As adults, these factors will influence their reaction to issues that...
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...
United States. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act; College students -- Conduct of life -- United States; Universities and colleges -- Administration
Since the demise of the doctrine of in loco parentis in the mid-1960's, the role that the United States government has played in matters of student conduct at postsecondary institutions has changed drastically. Although higher education has...
American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism; Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity -- In literature
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the complexities surrounding the acceptance of personal and cultural identity for protagonists in Chicano/a literature. By way of close reading analysis and methodological comparison, I delve into three...
Césaire, Aimé -- Criticism and interpretation; Guillén, Nicolás, 1902-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation; Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation; Palés Matos, Luis -- Criticism and interpretation; McKay, Claude,...
This research represents a comparative study of the poetry and politics of the afro voice in the literature across the Americas in the post-colonial period. The works of Aim Csaire from Martinique; Nicols Guilln from Cuba; Langston Hughes from ...
Korean Americans -- Ethnic identity; Mass media and culture
This study intends to focus on the ethnic identity and media consumption of the Korean immigrants. The basic stance of the thesis is that identity is inherently a communication process, and must be understood as a transaction in which messages are...
This study investigated if phonemic awareness training is an effective method of instruction to increase reading performance for students with learning disabilities. This study employed an ex post facto design. Participants from grades 3 to 7 were...
This thesis explores William Butler Yeats's definitions of himself as poet and also
his role as a poet. Tracing Yeats's definition of himself in these roles as he progresses
from youth to old age allows the reader to observe the changes Yeats...
