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Twice-Exceptional College Students Identified as Gifted and Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Comparative Case Study
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Tagtmeyer, Connie J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This comparative case study investigated the college experiences of twice-exceptional college students identified as gifted and diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (GTASD). Increasing numbers of students with ASD are entering universities (NCES, 2008; Shattuck et al., 2012) making the identification of supports for their academic success…
Descriptors: College Students, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Academically Gifted
Impacts of Scheduling Recess before Lunch in Elementary Schools: A Case Study Approach of Plate Waste and Perceived Behaviors
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Strohbehn, Catherine H.; Strohbehn, Garth W.; Lanningham-Foster, Lorraine; Litchfield, Ruth A.; Scheidel, Carrie; Delger, Patti – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2016
Purpose/Objectives: Recess Before Lunch (RBL) for elementary students is considered a best practice related to increased nutrient intakes at lunch, decreased afternoon behavioral issues, and increased afternoon learning efficiency; however, school characteristics, such as amount of time for lunch, offer vs. serve, and scheduling factors can…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Nutrition, Photography, Elementary School Students
"Situatedness" and Variations in Student Adoption of Technology Practices: Towards a Critical Techno-Pedagogy
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Neufeld, Philip G.; Delcore, Henry D. – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2018
Aim/Purpose: The effective adoption of an ICT across every segment of the student population may occur where the design, implementation and supports recognize and adjust for variations in adoption practices across the student population and the situatedness of the promoted ICT adoption. The goal of this study was to demonstrate methods to…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Student Attitudes, Adoption (Ideas), Information Technology
The Flipped Museum: Leveraging Technology to Deepen Learning
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Harrell, Michelle H.; Kotecki, Emily – Journal of Museum Education, 2015
The Flipped Museum is an innovative model in which high school students engage in online learning before and after a museum experience at the North Carolina Museum of Art. This model, inspired by the "flipped classroom," inverts the delivery and application of knowledge in a museum setting. Beginning with an overview of the pedagogical…
Descriptors: Museums, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Online Courses
A Collective Case Study of the Nature of Form-Focused Instruction among Secondary English as a Second Language Teachers
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Budak, Sevda – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The nature of teaching expertise for form-focused instruction (FFI) in secondary schools has received little research attention. FFI research that has been carried out so far has devoted time in exploring the classification of one form of FFI, or the effectiveness of one form of FFI over another. Given that exploring teaching expertise for FFI in…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Video Technology
Contextually Authentic Science for Young Children: A Study of Two Summer Herpetology Programs
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Scott, Catherine Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the knowledge, skills, and dispositions enabled for elementary school participants in two summer herpetology programs, one in North Carolina and one in Florida. An additional purpose of this study was to examine the normative scientific practices in which participants engaged and to describe how these…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Summer Programs, Animals