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KidTools Support System: Design and Formative Evaluation - An Iterative Process
(2003-11)
This report discusses how KidTools helps support the IDEA97 amendment by helping to apply "positive behavioral supports to assist children in adapting to educational environments." The report also includes design and usability testing of KidSkills....
In-service and Pre-Service Teacher Training: A Study of Online Dialogue
(2001)
This paper, presented at the 2001 Ed-Media World Conference on Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Telecommunications, reports the design, progress, and preliminary results of a study being conducted to determine the nature of online dialogue among in...
User Studies: Evaluating the Use of EPSS Tools for Self-Management by Children
(Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2000)
This paper is a report of user studies with an EPSS software program for children that
provides them easy-to-use templates for creating self-management materials for use in classrooms. An evaluation was conducted on the ...
Electronic Performance Support Systems: An Assistive Technology Tool for Secondary Students with Mild Disabilities
(Association for Special Education Technology, 2007)
This article presents the results of a qualitative study investigating the usability and perceived effectiveness
of StrategyTools™, an electronic performance system support designed for secondary students with mild ...
The lived experiences of first responders during emergency events involving children
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
on the scene in using distraction, providing calming and reassurance, and providing education. Current systems of emotional support identified by first responders included family members, neighbors, police officers, and hospital staff. Gaps in services...
Using the physical classroom environment as a tool for learning : a case study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
be enhanced by the purposeful design of the environment to support constructivist pedagogy and engagement with the material of reading and writing....
The (in)visibility of race, class, and gender : workers' standpoints on the transformation of Missouri's child welfare policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This dissertation is an institutional ethnography of changes in Missouri's child welfare system after House Bill 1453. I demonstrate how child welfare policy is gendered, raced, and classed by examining practices, texts, and discourses in child...
A phenomenological study of gifted cross-cultural kids at an international school : exploration of intersecting identities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
There are several common characteristics between cross-cultural students and gifted students (Gallagher, 2019; Sheard, 2008). At the same time, there is limited research into practices of international schools when identifying and supporting...
How university public relations departments choose medical research to promote
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Research actively promoted by universities is much more likely to gain mainstream news coverage than other research. A close look at how such promoted ...
A multisite case study of early alert implementation to adoption at the University of Missouri System
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
components impacting implementation and adoption of tools. The findings also suggested that clear expectations from leadership, alignment of tasks within job duties, clearly defined processes, resources to support training, and data outcomes are essential...
Mizzou weekly (online version), volume 32, number 20
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Division of Marketing and Publications., 2011)
2013 annual report (2013)
(University of Missouri--Columbia Extension Division, 2013)
Barriers to adoption of precision agriculture competencies in secondary agriculture education programs: a case study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Precision agriculture has the ability to increase production, reduce costs, increase returns, and reduce environmental impacts if adopted and implemented successfully. Which is why the successful adoption and implementation ...
The Future of STEM Curriculum and Instructional Design: A Research and Development Agenda for Learning Designers
(2010)
In 2009-10 a series of Workshops was organized to focus on STEM learning design for young students and adolescents. The objective was to provide visionary leadership to the education community by: (a) identifying and ...
A case study of implementing response to intervention in high school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
? Schools that successfully provide student intervention and support student mastery at every level of content attainment should celebrate and promote this product of student growth. Studies, mostly in elementary schools, highlight that well...
A study of the elementary math program utilized by a mid-Missouri school district
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This qualitative study focused on one Mid-Missouri school district and was designed to collect and analyze teachers' and administrators' perceptions regarding the elementary math program for the purpose of program improvement. ...
Course placement : its impact in a Midwestern region school district on achievement, curriculum, instructional strategies, expectations, and perceptions of the program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
A school district in the Midwestern region uses a tracking system for sorting students into a grade-level or college preparatory track at the junior high and high school levels. This system has been in place for over sixty years...
Technology ethics in the public schools system : developing a technology ethics assessment tool through policy analysis at the secondary level
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
to the changing technological landscape in a way that was timely and meaningful. This study followed an exploratory sequential design and was two pronged: first, it investigated the ways public high schools supported technology ethics through their technology...
Mental health education in New York state schools : the teachers' perspective
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
-- on school-based mental health education, its implementation, its effectiveness, and its impact on student and teacher mental health outcomes. The Theory of Organizational Readiness for Change can be used in an organization, such as a school system...
Fantasy theme divergence during covid-19 a fantasy theme analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
In an era of selective attention, media fragmentation, political polarization, and social media trolls, the communication landscape has never been more fraught with the potential for carefully crafted messages to take on ...