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Group dynamics and decision making: backcountry recreationists in avalanche terrain
Author(s):Bright, Leslie Shay
Date Issued:2010
Format:born digital; doctoral dissertations
The purpose of this study was to describe and determine the prevalence of decision-making characteristics of recreational backcountry groups when making a decision of where to travel and ride in avalanche terrain from the ...
Project-based learning in statics: curriculum, student outcomes, and ongoing questions
Author(s):Fontane, Darrell; Balgopal, Meena; Atadero, Rebecca; Rambo-Hernandez, Karen
Date Issued:2014
Format:born digital; reports
While projects appear to have much to offer engineering education, rigorous evaluations of the impact of projects on student outcomes are rare. The objective of the project is to study the incorporation of three group ...
Syllabi for statics courses
Author(s):Rambo-Hernandez, Karen; Fontane, Darrell; Balgopal, Meena; Atadero, Rebecca
Date Issued:2014
Format:born digital; instructional material
The two syllabi included in this document were used during statics courses that were taught as part of a research study on the effect on student outcomes of introducing projects to a traditional lecture course.
Project assignments for statics
Author(s):Fontane, Darrell; Balgopal, Meena; Atadero, Rebecca; Rambo-Hernandez, Karen
Date Issued:2014
Format:born digital; instructional materials
The project assignments included in this document were used in addition to a traditional lecture based statics course in our research. However, these assignments can be adapted to fit a variety of course styles. We provide ...
Characterizing medical and nursing student communication using verbal listening behaviors and closed loops in simulated health care delivery
Author(s):Rosser, Paul M.
Date Issued:2015
Format:born digital; doctoral dissertations
Few issues are more unsettling than the persistent threats to patient safety from medical errors; communication failure among providers is among the leading causes for medical errors (The Joint Commission, 2012). Significant ...
Wunderkammers, photographs, and growing up Southern: a visual semiotic analysis of self-identity through autoethnography
Author(s):Ownby, Terry D.
Date Issued:2011
Format:born digital; doctoral dissertations
By using the civil rights era within a segregated South as a cultural backdrop for this dissertation, I explored the construction of self-identity through narrative text and photographs in the form of a visual autoethnography. ...
Data from problem/project-based learning in statics
Author(s):Fontane, Darrell; Balgopal, Meena; Atadero, Rebecca; Rambo-Hernandez, Karen
Date:2014
Format:ZIP; CSV; PDF
This data package was produced by researchers working on the Problem/Project-Based Learning in Statics project.
Statics survey
Author(s):Rambo-Hernandez, Karen; Fontane, Darrell; Balgopal, Meena; Atadero, Rebecca
Date Issued:2014
Format:born digital; questionnaires
While projects appear to have much to offer engineering education, rigorous evaluations of the impact of projects on student outcomes are rare. The objective of the project is to study the incorporation of three group ...
Jazz musicians as academic leaders: improvisation in higher education
Author(s):Kleinschmidt, Robert A.
Date Issued:2011
Format:born digital; doctoral dissertations
Jazz musicians are unique individuals who seek to perform from a transcendental state in which tacit knowledge, teamwork, and communication blend to produce an effective performance. Academic leaders are also unique ...
Project-based learning in statics: curriculum, student outcomes, and ongoing questions
Author(s):Casper, Anne Marie; Balgopal, Meena; Rambo-Hernandez, Karen; Atadero, Rebecca
Date Issued:2014
Format:born digital; posters
While projects appear to have much to offer engineering education, rigorous evaluations of the impact of projects on student outcomes are rare. The objective of the project is to study the incorporation of three group ...