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Education and Human Sciences: Recent submissions
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The Impact of Homogeneity of Answer Choices on Item Difficulty and Discrimination
(Turkish Journal of Education, 2018-02-14)This study explored the impact of homogeneity of answer choices on item difficulty and discrimination. Twenty-two matched pairs of elementary and secondary mathematics items were administered to randomly equivalent samples ... -
Methodological Differences in the Interpretation of Fatigue Data from Repeated Maximal Effort Knee Extensions
(Springer, 2017-10-26)Background: Isokinetic fatigue protocols are commonly used in both research as well as in kinesiology education. However, fatigue quantification methods vary between studies. Objective: Therefore, the purpose of this study ... -
The Effect of Socioscientific Topics on Discourse within an Online Game Designed to Engage Middle School Students in Scientific Argumentation
(DergiPark, 2017)The purpose of this study was to investigate the types of argumentation discourse displayed by students when they engaged in chat as part of an online multiplayer game about both socioscientific and scientific topics. ... -
Trauma, Harry Potter, and the Demented World of Academia
(University of Calgary, 2018)The following text presents my personal experience of psychological trauma as part of regular and ongoing processes of institutional (re)socialization into academe as a pre-tenure faculty member of color. In giving voice ... -
The problematization of racial/ethnic minority student participation in U.S. study abroad
(De Gruyter, 2013-10)Within U.S. higher education, there has been concern expressed about the underrepresentation of racial/ethnic minority students in U.S. study abroad programs. Though as a whole these students participate in study abroad ... -
Legal basis of educational control. A study of centralization
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Dialogic Ground: The Use of 'Teaching Dilemmas' with Prospective Teachers
(Buffalo State University, 2017)This article describes a method of storytelling that can assist novice teachers in moving toward “re-seeing” their stories of teaching not just as narratives of experience, but as sites for work to be done. The assignment ... -
How English Language Arts Teachers Are Prepared for Twenty-First-Century Classrooms: Results of a National Study
(National Council of Teachers of English, 2017-04)A national study of English teacher preparation in U.S. colleges and universities revealed that faculty address changes in content and context salient to English education, particu- larly curricular, demographic, ... -
The Impact of Brand Equity Drivers on Consumer-based Brand Equity in the Sport Service Setting
(Sciedu Press, 2017)The importance of brand equity to a firm has been well documented by previous literature. Brands with high equity allow a firm to charge a premium price as well as garner a larger market share in relation to competitors ... -
Endocrine responses and acute mTOR pathway phosphorylation to resistance exercise with leucine and whey
(Termedia Publishing, 2017-02-01)Leucine ingestion reportedly activates the mTOR pathway in skeletal muscle, contributing to a hypertrophy response. The purpose of the study was to compare the post-resistance exercise effects of leucine and whey protein ... -
Campus audio-visual programs at nine mid-western universities, 1953
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Dominant factors in the development of public education in Kansas
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The Perceptions of Professors from Different Disciplines at Taibah University Regarding Undergraduate Students’ Writing
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Studies indicated that there should be collaboration between English and Arabic teachers and disciplinary teachers in order to design instruction that will help students improve specific-discipline writing. This study was ... -
The Translation and Translation Verification of the PIRLS Reading Questionnaires for Saudi Students
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)When translating psychological measures from their original language to another language, after translation an assumption is made that the measurement assesses the same construct(s) in the original language and for those ... -
An evaluation of the selection process and the results of the Summerfield Scholarship Program at the University of Kansas
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An analysis of the case histories of 726 children studied at the Kansas Receiving Home for Children
(University of Kansas, 1952)