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Assessing Student Critical Thinking Skills in Single Library Instruction Class

Description: Presentation for the 2011 Phoenix Staff Development Day discussing how to assess the critical thinking skills of students in single library instruction classes. The challenges and solutions are discussed, as well as a recommendation for, and example of, a library instruction worksheet that can be used.
Date: May 27, 2011
Creator: Byerly, Gayla
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Childhood Learning: Examining Attitudes toward School and Learning Ability

Description: A child's ability to learn in school and school performance are affected by various factors. Variables that affect learning and academic performance in 46 children, 4 - 7 years old, were examined. Children, parents, and teachers completed questionnaires rating children's attitudes and behavior toward school. Children completed a computerized matching-to-sample (MTS) task. The MTS trained the children to form 3 stimulus classes. One stimulus class included three arbitrary stimuli, the others con… more
Date: May 2009
Creator: Geddes, Jeffrey D.
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Children in classroom]

Description: Photograph of four school children (two boys and two girls) sitting and standing around an activity dealing with gingerbreads. The two boys are looking towards their teacher while the two girls are looking down at the activity. In the background is a large graph and a multiplication activity.
Date: 197X
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Conexão Entre Conhecimento e Aprendizagem na Indústria 4.0: Análise do Estado da Arte

Description: Paper seeks to identify studies that relate the Industry 4.0, Learning and Knowledge constructs and categorize them to analyze trends of topics covered, areas of study, reference journals and countries of origin, in order to determine the current state of the art.
Date: December 4, 2019
Creator: Senna, Diego Augustus & De Araújo Nery Ribeiro, Jurema Suely
Partner: UNT College of Information

Cultural Competency in the Learning Environment: Promoting the Development of Diversity Training for Pre-Service Educators

Description: Poster presentation for the 2011 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on cultural competency in learning environments and promoting the development of diversity training for pre-service educators.
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Tolle, Kendal & Smith, Kenneth Scott, 1976-
Partner: UNT Honors College
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The Effects of a Teacher's Employing Principles from Four Models of Learning Singularly and in Combination Upon the Acquisition of Interpersonal Skills in Five Year Olds

Description: The study was a pioneering effort to research a mix of the combined principles from several different theoretical positions into one integrated model of learning, growth, and development. Sets of principles were based on Human Resource Development field theory of learning, Social Learning theory, Operant Conditioning theory, and Aversive Control Learning theory.
Date: May 1975
Creator: Wawrykow, George M.
Partner: UNT Libraries

The Effects of Reinforcing Operant Variability on Task Acquisition

Description: Neuringer, Deiss, and Olson (2000) was replicated and extended to determine the effect of variability contingencies on task acquisition for twelve 7-9 year old children. Subjects first learned to press a computer's shift keys with increasing response variation. Each subject was then exposed to one of three experimental conditions during which they received a point for target responses. Variability condition subjects received additional points on a variable interval schedule for nontarget respon… more
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Date: December 2002
Creator: Seymour, Kail H.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Effects of Student-Created Question Process on Learning Biomedical Statistics in a Specialized Master's in Medical Sciences

Description: This study explored the effectiveness of a student question creation process engaging students actively in self, peer, and instructor interaction in development of affective, cognitive, and meta-cognitive skills. Employing a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design assigning both treatment and control activities sequentially in an alternating pattern over a six week period, students' performance on exams as well as their perceptions of various aspects of the student question creation proces… more
Date: May 2017
Creator: Bashet, AbuZafar (AZ) M.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Episode 2: Kaye Nubel

Description: Interview with Kaye Nubel for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) podcast.In this episode, Susan speaks with retired professor Kaye Nubel about her background as an educator in the fields of Speech and Intercultural Communication. They also discuss Kaye's experiences teaching courses for the OLLI programs both in California and at the University of North Texas.
Date: December 19, 2018
Duration: 11 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Supak, Susan & Nubel, Kaye
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Facilitadores e Dificultadores no Processo de Coprodução: Um Estudo de Caso

Description: Paper identifies factors that facilitated and hindered the co-production process from the perception of members of the EGC / UFSC work team, in the conception and application of the Co-Production Framework dynamics of the Santa Catarina State Technology and Innovation Conference (VCECTI), 5th edition.
Date: December 4, 2019
Creator: Prado, Gladys Milenna & dos Santos Pacheco, Roberto Carlos
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Heidi

Description: Early edition of Heidi by Johanna Spyri. Front cover is a yellow-aged white with green borders around the cover and illustration. The faded illustration on the cover shows two girls, one being Heidi, and a boy arm in arm walking through a grassy field. In the background are mountains and evergreen trees. On the title page is a light green printed illustration of two columns holding up a roof with vines and flowers. The title of the collection and book, and names of the author, illustrator, and … more
Date: 1930~/1949~
Creator: Spyri, Johanna
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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A Historical Study of the Paris Small Business Development Center in Paris, Texas: 1986-2006

Description: This historical study chronicled events of the development and implementation of the Paris Small Business Development Center at Paris Junior College in Paris, Texas from 1986-2006. Data was collected from primary and secondary sources and oral histories through personal interviews. The analysis included a brief history of higher education and the service mission and situated the study in the broader context as an extension program in higher education. This study provided a brief history of the … more
Date: December 2014
Creator: Smith, Donna Gayle
Partner: UNT Libraries
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International Learning and the Diffusion of Civil Conflict

Description: Why does civil conflict spread from country to country? Existing research relies primarily on explanations of rebel mobilization tied to geographic proximity to explain this phenomenon. However, this approach is unable to explain why civil conflict appears to spread across great geographic distances, and also neglects the government’s role in conflict. To explain this phenomenon, this dissertation formulates an informational theory in which individuals contemplating rebellion against their gove… more
Date: August 2014
Creator: Linebarger, Christopher
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Knowledge-of-Correct-Response vs. Copying-of-Correct-Response: a Study of Discrimination Learning

Description: Copying prompts with subsequent unprompted practice produced better learning of simple discriminations than feedback only of a correct response without subsequent practice. The Copy condition promoted faster acquisition of accurate performance for all subjects, and shorter response latencies and durations for 3 of 4 subjects. The data support the findings of Barbetta, Heron, and Heward, 1993 as well as Drevno, Kimball, Possi, Heward, Garner III, and Barbetta, 1994. The author proposes that resp… more
Date: August 1996
Creator: Geller, David, 1952-
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: 100th Day]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: February 4, 1991, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 48 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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