Search Results - "Plummer, Kenneth"

Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills through Decision-Based Learning by Plummer, Kenneth J., Kebritchi, Mansureh, Leary, Heather M., Halverson, Denise M.

“…One of the major issues related to critical thinking in higher education consists of how educators teach and inspire students to develop greater critical…”
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Toward functional expertise through formal education: identifying an opportunity for higher education by Swan, Richard H., Plummer, Kenneth J., West, Richard E.

“…In this paper, we synthesize research on the nature and development of expertise to propose a developmental model that describes four main areas of expert…”
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Decision-Based Learning: ″If I Just Knew Which Equation To Use, I Know I Could Solve This Problem! by Sansom, Rebecca L, Suh, Erica, Plummer, Kenneth J

“…Heat and enthalpy are challenging topics for general chemistry students because they are conceptually complex and require avariety of quantitative…”
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Development and Validation of the Isakson Survey of Academic Reading Attitudes (ISARA) by Isakson, Richard L., Isakson, Marné B., Plummer, Kenneth J., Chapman, Sara B.

“…The literature reveals that no adequate instrument exists to measure college students' attitudes toward academic reading even though such attitudes are crucial…”
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To Facebook, or not to Facebook? by John Hilton, Kenneth Plummer

“…A significant shift in computer-mediated communication has taken place, in which in some cases, social media is becoming the dominant form of communication…”
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Le rôle homosexuel » revisité. Entretien avec Mary McIntosh [1981] by McIntosh, Mary, Plummer, Kenneth, Weeks, Jeffrey

“…In this interview, Mary McIntosh returns to the context in which she produced her article "The homosexual role", highlighting its limits and the amendments she…”
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Decision‐based learning in religious education by Plummer, Kenneth, Taeger, Stephan, Burton, Melissa

“…Student learning in religious educational settings is subject to the same pedagogical forces, both effective and ineffective, as found in secular settings…”
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Effects of decision-based learning on student performance in introductory physics: The mediating roles of cognitive load and self-testing by Jeong, Soojeong, Rague, Justin, Litson, Kaylee, Feldon, David F., Lawler, M. Jeannette, Plummer, Kenneth

“…DBL is a novel pedagogical approach intended to improve students’ conditional knowledge and problem-solving skills by exposing them to a sequence of branching…”
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Modeling Expertise Through Decision-based Learning: Theory, Practice, and Technology Applications by Cardenas, Christopher, West, Richard, Swan, Richard, Plummer, Kenneth

“…En la educación superior, los profesores generalmente se contratan por su experiencia en el campo. Han recibido una amplia formación en la disciplina, pero han…”
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Measuring the Impact of Religious-Oriented Courses on Spirituality/Religiosity-Related Outcomes in Higher Education by Plummer, Kenneth, Hilton, John

“…Students enrolled in university-level religion courses tend to be instructed in and assessed on their course content knowledge. Generally there is not an…”
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Decision-Based Learning: A Journey from Conception to Implementation to Iteration by Vogeler, Heidi A, Plummer, Kenneth J, Fischer, Lane, Plummer, Ashton L

“…Pedagogical methods for graduate-level statistics courses have rarely focused on the pursuit of conditional knowledge or the ability to choose which…”
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Correlation between grade point averages and student evaluation of teaching scores: taking a closer look by Griffin, Tyler J., Hilton III, John, Plummer, Kenneth, Barret, Devynne

“…One of the most contentious potential sources of bias is whether instructors who give higher grades receive higher ratings from students. We examined the grade…”
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Comparing Spiritual Outcomes between Students in One General Education Distance Religion Course with Students in the Same Face-to-Face Course by Hilton, John, Plummer, Kenneth, Fryar, Ben, Gardner, Ryan S.

“…This study compares outcomes relating to religiosity in one general education religion course. Using a validated instrument measuring affective outcomes, we…”
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Examining Student Spiritual Outcomes as a Result of a General Education Religion Course by Hilton, John, Plummer, Kenneth

“…In an era in which part-time faculty are becoming a higher proportion of the teaching faculty on most campuses, this study addressed the question of whether…”
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The Sexual Citizen: Queer Politics and Beyond . By David  Bell and Jon  Binnie. Cambridge: Polity, 2000. Pp. 184 by Plummer, Kenneth

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Factors Related to In-Class Spiritual Experience: Relationship Between Pre-Class Scripture Reading, In-Class Note-Taking, and Perceived In-Class Spiritual Experiences by Hilton, John, Sweat, Anthony R., Plummer, Kenneth

“…The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between student in-class note-taking and pre-class reading with perceived in-class spiritual and…”
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Le rôle homosexuel » revisité. Entretien avec Mary McIntosh [1981] by McIntosh, Mary, Plummer, Kenneth, Weeks, Jeffrey

“…Dans cet entretien, Mary McIntosh revient sur le contexte de production de son article « Le rôle homosexuel » en soulignant ses limites et les amendements…”
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Analysis of the psychometric properties of two different concept -map assessment tasks by Plummer, Kenneth James

“…The ability to make sense of a wide array of stimuli presupposes the human tendency to organize information in a meaningful way. Efforts to assess the degree…”
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Analysis of the psychometric properties of two different concept-map assessment tasks by Plummer, Kenneth James

“…The ability to make sense of a wide array of stimuli presupposes the human tendency to organize information in a meaningful way. Efforts to assess the degree…”
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La construction sociale de l'homosexualité by Achilles, Nancy, Broqua, Christophe, Gagnon, John H, Hooker, Evelyn, Kitsuse, John I, Leznoff, Maurice, McIntosh, Mary, Plummer, Kenneth, rédaction, Le Comité de, Reiss, Albert J, Rubin, Gayle S, Simon, William, Sonenschein, David, Weeks, Jeffrey, Westley, William A

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