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Pursuit of STEM Enrollment in High School and Higher Education for Latino and Caucasian Students with Disabilities
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Laurel Ann White – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined course enrollments for female and male Latino and Caucasian students with disabilities (SWD) in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) to establish baseline data in one region of the state of Washington. The study analyzed five academic years of STEM course enrollment in one high school Career and Technical Education…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Access to Education, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Verbalizing in the Second Language Classroom: The Development of the Grammatical Concept of Aspect
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Garcia, Prospero N. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Framed within a Sociocultural Theory of Mind (SCT) in the field of Second Language Acquisition (Lantolf & Thorne, 2006), this dissertation explores the role of verbalizing in the internalization of grammatical categories through the use of Concept-based Instruction (henceforth CBI) in the second language (L2) classroom. Using Vygotsky's…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Learning Theories
Meeting the Demands of Professional Education: A Study of Mind Mapping in a Professional Doctoral Physical Therapy Education Program
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Pollard, Elicia L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purposes of this study are to investigate whether the quiz scores of physical therapy students who integrated mind mapping in their learning strategies are significantly different than the quiz scores of students who did not use mind mapping to learn in a lecture-based research course and examine the students' perceptions of mind mapping as a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Physical Therapy, Professional Education, Focus Groups