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Title: A Case Study of Diversity in North Carolina Architecture Programs
Author: Roberts, Isaiah
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Architecture, Educational evaluation, Education
Description: The enrollment rate of black students in architecture has remained stagnant for the last decade and decreased over the past two and a half decades. In 2020, of the 26,977 total students enrolled in accredited structural architecture programs, only...

Title: A Qualitative Investigation of Factors Contributing to Women Majoring in Computer Science
Author: Wong, Alexandria
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Computer science
Description: This study investigates factors that influence young women’s decision to major in computer science (CS). While there is a rapid increase of scientific advances being made in the United States and the importance of scientific fields for societal, e...

Title: EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VARSITY SPORTS PARTICIPATION AND COLLEGE STEM DECLARATION
Author: Averette, Morgan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Recreation
Description: MORGAN AVERETTE. Exploring the Relationship between Varsity Sports Participation and College STEM Declaration.(Under the direction of DR. MARTHA CECILIA BOTTIA)This study investigates the association between high school interscholastic sports part...

Title: Effects of Growth Mindset and Belongingness Messaging in an Online Classroom
Author: Hall, Ryan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Education
Description: This paper examines how growth mindset and belongingness messaging can be applied to instruction in an online classroom to improve student outcomes. Research has shown that growth mindset and belongingness messaging can be used to improve student ...

Title: From a Blue-Collar Background: Gender as a Moderator and Attitudes Towards Work and Family as a Mediator on Area of Study Choices
Author: Bourque, Leah
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Educational sociology, Education
Description: Many sociologists attribute inequality to social reproduction, where children repeat their parents' life situations. The influence of a parent’s social background is evident when a child chooses a major or career. However, the literature fails to ...

Title: Marshallese Participatory Mismatches in South Central United States' School Systems
Author: Anderson, Katlyn
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Linguistics, Education, Ethnology
Description: Since the Compact of Free Association between the Marshall Islands and the United States, many Marshallese Islanders have immigrated to the United States, leading to a growing number of Marshallese children enrolled in primary and secondary school...

Title: Potential Barriers to Women's Leadership Self-efficacy
Author: Robinson, Aspen
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Psychology
Description: Many organizations are employing women at a higher rate than seen in previous years, yet women are still underrepresented in leadership roles. In this paper, I examine factors that may influence an individual’s perceived capabilities of being a le...

Title: Student Perceptions of Translanguaging in the College Classroom
Author: Willey, Sarah
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Linguistics, Education
Description: This qualitative empirical study explores the perspectives of college students around translanguaging: a theory, practice, and pedagogy that has grown in popularity over the past decade, particularly within the field of applied linguistics. The ma...

Title: Teaching Literature of War From Multiple Perspectives Within The North Carolina Standard Course of Study
Author: Landers, Michael
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Literature, Education, Secondary
Description: This thesis offers a rationale for a set of teaching strategies and lesson plans for teaching the literature and film of war to North Carolina high school students within the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. The purposes and challenges of ...

Title: Teaching for Social Justice in Christian Education: An English Language Arts Classroom Social Justice Approach
Author: Wilson, Ashley
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: ABSTRACTASHLEY WILSON. Teaching Social Justice in Christian Education: An English Language Arts Classroom Social Justice Approach. (Under the direction of DR. MEGHAN BARNES). Advocating for social justice within Christian Education proves to be an...

Title: The Impact of Socialization on Collaborative Group Work: A Ritual Perspective
Author: Maximov, Noah
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Ethnology
Description: In this thesis, I explore how classroom processes in the active learning classrooms at UNC Charlotte impact group collaboration. Using an analysis that draws on ideas from Robbie Davis-Floyd, Richard Quantz and Peter Magolda, I argue that the proc...

Title: The Impact of Writing Instruction on Students’ Attitude and Self- Efficacy in Writing
Author: Stockett, Amanda
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: This qualitative study examined whether or not three different writing strategies affected students’ self-efficacy beliefs and attitudes towards writing assignments. The participants in this study were 9th-grade students in an English 1 classroom ...

Title: “Our Children’s Children Live Forever”: The Educational Activism of The Sawyer-Flowers-Wilson Family in America From 1866 To 1986
Author: Thomas, Christina
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Since slavery, Southern states prohibited the education of Black Americans. Post-emancipation, the first actions of these newly emancipated Black men and women involved the opening of informal and formal schools. The self-determination of Black Am...

Title: “THAT MUCH-MALIGNED MONSTER – NEW MATH:” AN EXAMINATION OF TEACHER PREPAREDNESS AND TRAINING IN THE ERA OF NEW MATH, 1950 TO 1975
Author: Howell, Randi
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, History
Description: Education reform is a continuous cycle. The cyclical nature of American mathematics education reform began in the 1950s, during the height of the Cold War. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the American government felt education, specifical...