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The single black mother as an asset : a qualitative study based on black motherwork narratives
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
they help their children through schooling. The overarching research question this study explores is: How do single Black mothers work to support their children's educational journeys through PK-5 school? It is an important question to study for answers...
Virtual reality as a communication medium: investigating the impact of virtual embodiment on various stakeholders of an architecture project
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Researchers argue that our body and our intentional actions in the environment impact how we perceive and understand the world. In the last few decades, the theory of embodied cognition has been tested across different ...
Becoming within entangled spaces of artistic practice, an illustrated autoethnography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
practice can have a real effect on the lives of creatives. As an artist living in an increasingly digitized world, the implications have extended far beyond my own studio and have impacted the quality of my interactions with others, self-efficacy, and how I...
Examining the influence of STEM college program participation on engineering persistence among first-generation college students in engineering
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
indicated that FGCS who participated in college STEM programs needed lower level of engineering goals to persist in engineering compared to those who did not participate in college STEM programs. Practical and research implications, limitations, and future...
H3DNET: A Deep Learning Framework for Hierarchical 3D Object Classification
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Deep learning has received a lot of attention in the fields such as speech recognition and
image classification because of the ability to learn multiple levels of features from raw data.
However, 3D deep learning is ...
Data-Driven Modeling of the Lake Chad Basin Hydrologic Systems
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
The drying of the Lake, located in Central Africa, is one example of a water crisis,
which requires more research and studies. The lake has been progressively shrinking since the
1960s due to climate change and anthropogenic ...
Pigmentation and practice : understanding perceptions of white female teachers within a colorblind racial ideology framework
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Thoreau said, "The question is not what you look at, but what you see." In the world of education, what we don't see--or at least claim not to notice--matters just as much. For non-White children in American schools ...
The psychology of the Negro
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
races meet, the problem of racial differences is an important one for our educational theory and practice, as well as our social philosophy. This is especially true in our Southern States, where there are vast numbers of white and colored children...
Uncovering the art of persuasion : understanding design decisions for award-nominated or winning city and regional magazine art directors between 2012 and 2014
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Magazine covers serve as the first impression for readers and determine whether the reader will pick up and read the magazine. Therefore, it is important ...
Narrative Exploration of Teacher Experiences in Culturally Responsive Gifted Education
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
This narrative inquiry provides a contextualized understanding of teacher experiences
complementing the extensive quantitative literature available regarding the
underrepresentation of diverse students in gifted education ...
Examining the pedagogical content knowledge and practice of experienced secondary biology teachers for teaching diffusion and osmosis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for teaching diffusion and osmosis held by experienced biology teachers and, second, to reveal how topic-specific PCK informs teacher practice. The Magnusson et al. (1999) PCK model served as the theoretical framework...
The Green Impact Zone of Missouri: An Analysis of Place Based Investment
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
The Green Impact Zone of Missouri operated in Kansas City, Missouri from 2009
until 2014 as a national model for place-based investment. Missouri Congressman Emanuel
Cleaver II is credited with pioneering the initiative, ...
Perceptions of out-of-field teachers of the sustainability of urban teacher quality support systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
demands on staff development, and the search for models and methodologies which are promising for professional development of academic staff has become an important agenda in itself" (Ho, A.,2001 P.35). Effective changes in practice require a great deal...
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy through African-centered Methods in a Midwestern Urban Elementary School
(2014-08-28)
The purpose of this heuristic phenomenological case study was to develop a
narrative of culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) through African-centered methods and to
describe the strategies and/or best practices utilized ...
Academic advising at a distance : a case study where no face to face interactions occur
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The purpose of this case study was to explore the relationship between professional academic advisors and undergraduate college students at a distance where face-to-face meetings did not occur. This case also utilized evidence from a number...
Missouri foster parents : advocating for the educational needs of children from hard places
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
, and monitoring) to explore how foster parents tacitly advocate for the educational needs of their foster children. This qualitative study will seek to answer the research questions How do foster parents serve as educational advocates for foster children? and What...
Optimization of bitterness in chocolate through roasting with analysis of related changes in important bitter compounds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
in tea. Yet, what else is known of bitterness in cacao is sparse and even contradictory. Work on cacao bitterness has described the importance of cyclic dipeptides called 2,5-diketopiperazines (DKPs), while suggesting some form of interaction between...
Archives, 2015 Fall
(University of Missouri Health System (MU), 2015)
Complete issue of the online version of Archives for Fall 2015.
An observation of NPR member stations and how locally sourced stories give national influence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.]
Facilitating emergent bilingual's participation in mathematics : an examination of a teacher's positioning acts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This study examined the mathematical learning opportunities provided to Latinx emergent bilinguals (EBs) in an elementary classroom. I used positioning theory (Rom Harre & van Langenhove, 1999b) to examine the acts of one ...