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Operationalizing Creativity: Desired Characteristics for Instructional Designers
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The purpose of this study was to explore the ways that creativity manifests itself in the field of higher education instructional design and to identify specific core competencies that could be considered desirable in this ...
The Nexus Between Local Needs and Aspirations of Ugandans and Global Education Goals; A Case Study
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The United Nations promotes access to basic education as an indelible right for all children, leading to the global push for Education for All (EFA) as a vehicle for realizing the global Millennium Development Goals. EFA ...
Innovation Hour: A Qualitative Case Study of a School-Wide Advisory
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Innovation Hour is a unique advisory program that was created at Anywhere High
School to foster increased student connectedness to school. Having a strong connection to
school may help students thrive, building capacity ...
Utilizing the Concerns-Based Adoption Model in a Professional Development Series for Teachers Implementing New Technologies
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
A growing number of school districts are adopting mobile electronic devices as
replacements for textbooks and to improve test scores. Yet questions remain regarding staff
preparedness, instructional and pedagogical ...
Counselor Education: A Personal Growth and Personal Development Experience
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
A basic qualitative design was implemented to better understand the personal growth and personal development of seven master’s level counseling graduates in the mid-western United States. Three foundational questions were ...
Life in the Slow Lane: An Autoethnography of Identity Development Following Disability in Young Adulthood
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The purpose of this manuscript is to view, through an autoethnographic lens, the role of adult education, distance education, and assistive technology on identity changes that take place when becoming disabled in young ...
Capturing the Essence of Canine Animal-Assisted Therapy in Counseling: A Phenomenological Inquiry of At-Risk Youths' Experiences of a Residential Canine Animal-Assisted Therapy Program
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Phenomenological inquiry was implemented to capture the experiences of nine at-risk youths’ unique and shared experiences of a canine animal-assisted therapy in counseling (AAT-C) program at a therapeutic working ranch ...
Relationships Among Retention, Satisfaction, and Academic Performance
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The purpose of this quantitative research study was to examine survey and institutional
data of NDSU current and former undergraduate students to describe, measure, and explore
relationships among student retention, ...
Education Doctoral Classrooms: A Community of Scholars or a Community of Resistance?
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Since its beginning, doctoral education has been designed to serve largely a White male student population, which has resulted in prescribed forms of scholar identity, teaching, and scholarship (Gardner, 2009; Berelson, ...
Best Practices for Communicating Critical Messages from a Registrar's Office to Traditional-Aged College Students
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The purpose of this study was to determine what strategies are most effective for communicating critical messages to traditional-aged undergraduate college students and best practices in evaluating critical messages. A ...