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Factors Influencing Cooperative and Competitive Decisions in STEM Courses
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Post, Martiqua L.; Bates, Katherine; Scharff, Lauren – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2020
To explore factors that may inform teaching and learning in STEM education, we investigate individual and situational factors influencing students' cooperative versus competitive responses in a classroom, extra-credit problem social dilemma in core biology and engineering courses. We were curious how our competitive academic environment coupled…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Decision Making, Females
Colorado Community College Student Perceptions of Higher-Education Affordability: A Phenomenological Study
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Rosner-Salazar, Ari Senghor – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Using a phenomenological method, this study explored the higher-education affordability perceptions of a purposively-collected group of 19 students at the pseudonymous Crestview Community College (CCC) in Colorado. The defining themes of the study were: (a) knowledge of the College Opportunity Fund (COF) program and perceptions of higher-education…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Attitudes, Paying for College
Integrating Ethics in Engineering Education through Multidisciplinary Synthesis, Collaboration, and Reflective Portfolios
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Hitt, Sarah Jayne; Holles, Cortney E. P.; Lefton, Toni – Advances in Engineering Education, 2020
This article discusses two multidisciplinary courses created at the Colorado School of Mines that were developed to integrate ethics into the first-year engineering curriculum: "Nature and Human Values" (NHV) and "Innovation and Discovery in Engineering, Arts, and Sciences" (IDEAS). In both NHV and IDEAS, our objectives are to…
Descriptors: Design, Ethics, Engineering Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Evaluating the Impact of U.S. Food and Drug Administration-Proposed Nutrition Facts Label Changes on Young Adults' Visual Attention and Purchase Intentions
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Graham, Dan J.; Roberto, Christina A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Background: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed modifying the Nutrition Facts Label (NFL) on food packages to increase consumer attention to this resource and to promote healthier dietary choices. Aims: The present study sought to determine whether the proposed NFL changes will affect consumer attention to the NFL or purchase…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Merchandise Information, Young Adults, Nutrition
The Road Less Travelled: Tracing the Path of First-Generation Students from Rural Areas to College
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Hodsdon, Michelle Caron – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Narrative inquiry was used to trace the educational journeys of 11 first-generation university students from rural areas of Colorado in an effort to identify the experiences, beliefs, and people that impacted their decision to attend a 4-year institution. Students were asked to convey their experiences growing up within the contexts of their…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Rural Areas, Student Experience, Student Attitudes
A Plan for Individualizing Instruction for the Senior Government Class Through Use of Problem Solving Units. Colorado Western States Small Schools Project Documentation (Silverton High School, Silverton, Colorado, 1963-64).
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Higgs, Norman E. – 1964
During the 1963-64 school year, a secondary teacher from the rurally isolated area of Silverton, Colorado initiated an individualized program in problem solving for a senior social studies class (N=8-10). Utilizing community resources, the instructor planned several units on government, while the students selected resource materials from the…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Decision Making, Grade 12, Hypothesis Testing