The Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic posed challenges for laboratory-based courses. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore students' experiences, as related to engagement, in a HyFlex laboratory course that was designed for on-campus and online students to learn together. The research questions were: 1. What are the students'…

The purpose of this Action Research study was to examine factors that influence student engagement outside of the classroom and improve sense of place, belonging, and connectedness for graduate students studying at a satellite campus. The central phenomena that were being studied are student engagement, which is defined as student participation…

Low student engagement and high attrition rates in online classes were observed at community colleges in a Western U.S. state. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore online faculty members' perceptions of student engagement and how they described their teaching practices and experiences. The study was grounded in the community of…

The study investigated how schoolteachers and administrators perceive innovative and engaging teaching practices in Southeastern U.S. high schools. Perceptual data was collected from high school teachers to determine whether they believe their professional development adequately prepares them to use innovative and engaging instructional practices…

The COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented shift to online learning. For many school systems, online learning came with challenges to student engagement and success. The cohort in this study experienced a failure rate of approximately 30 percent compared to just one percent of their brick-and-mortar peers. This study explores engagement…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how non-traditional online undergraduate students describe the influence of support communities on their academic engagement while attending four-year universities in the United States. This study included 46 non-traditional online undergraduate students from a university in the…

Few students in the United States of America are proficient readers and reading achievement has worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for minority groups and struggling readers. Many students who struggle with reading also have problem behavior and need supports that can help them engage across various academic settings. Because of the…

Nationwide, institutions are adding elements of volunteerism, civic engagement, and service-learning to both their mission statements and degree completion curriculum (American Council on Education, 2022; Campus Compact, 2022; Niehaus & Kavaliauska Crain, 2013, Reed, et al, 2015). However, very little research has looked specifically at the…

The purpose of this study is to explore how can increased parental involvement be encouraged in the K-12 school in the Rio Grande Valley in order to facilitate greater student engagement and academic success. An action research project will be done to explore middle school teachers' perspectives on parental involvement and the effect it has on…

Digital competencies have become an essential skill set for most professions. The University of Delaware (UD) needs to recognize and give credit for the digital skills students bring to their graduate studies, and for digital skills learned while in graduate programs. The current structure of humanities graduate programs at UD does not offer this.…

Given the expanding field of education within medicine, the purpose of this dissertation is to introduce an augmented reality (AR) medical simulator to the medical education community. This dissertation will describe the simulator development, feasibility, and acceptability to medical students and medical trainees. The following series of studies…

Both fashion design and education are areas where new technologies can have a significant impact. This dissertation examines the potential of virtual reality (VR) for fashion design education and focused on the profound affordances that virtual reality offers - immersion and agency. Using a phenomenological approach, the study combined arts-based…

This study examined the lived experiences of teachers and administrators as reflected in their responses regarding instructional materials, instructional delivery, social and emotional well-being of students, and access to critical school services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants shared their experiences about how the instructional…

Blended learning is a teaching strategy that broadly consists of the use of multiple methods of delivery, often including face-to-face and technology-enhanced teaching. Research on the efficacy of blended learning programs has lacked focus in large part due to the ambiguity of the definition. Most existing blended learning research has been…

This observational case study employed a qualitative design to investigate the impact of student-centered instructional coaching and self-determined professional development on student engagement in middle school mathematics. Research demonstrates that engaging students in the learning process increases their attention and motivates them to engage…