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A case study examining the Social Capital of first-generation students via a dual enrollment program
(2020-08-06)
Background: Partnerships between public school districts and local community colleges known as dual enrollment programs have led to successful college transition experiences for students. These programs have proven results ...
Molecular Insight into the Regulation of Cell Differentiation by a Master Regulator Spo0A in starving Bacillus subtilis cells
(2020-07-21)
Gram-positive soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis can activate cellular differentiation pathways such as biofilm formation and sporulation, in response to starvation. Spo0A, the master regulator of these cellular differentiation ...
INVESTIGATION OF SECONDARY SCIENCE TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVES OF A CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE LESSON ON RACE AND HUMAN GENETICS
(2020-08-18)
Background: High school students are not taught that race is a social rather than biological construct, and this pedagogical omission has led to biological essentialism. Biological essentialism is the belief that race can ...
Is It Too Late to Save Ms. Angel?: What Elementary Educators Say About Professional Development and IDEA
(2020-08-05)
Background: Effective professional development for elementary inclusion educators in meeting the needs of students under the special education program is essential. The researcher focuses on special education teachers who ...
Perceptions of 6th Grade Content Area Teachers Regarding Growth Mindset Strategies
(2020-08-05)
Title: Perceptions of Sixth-Grade Content-Area Teachers Regarding Growth Mindset Strategies Background: Students in America face many challenges during their middle school years that social and emotional learning competencies ...
Cone packing measurements from confocal and split-detector adaptive optics images in human eyes
(2020-08-10)
Purpose: Adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope (AOSLO) imaging has been used to calculate metrics of cone packing in healthy and diseased eyes. However, there is a lack of data comparing metric values obtained using ...
A PROGRAM EVALUATION OF A STEM SUMMER PROGRAM FOR MIDDLE GRADE STUDENTS AND THE INFLUENCE ON ATTITUDES TOWARD STEM AND STEM CAREERS
(2020-08-07)
Background: Informal learning environments that focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) provide students the opportunity to delve into hands-on problem-solving approaches in STEM disciplines, ...
Effects of contemporaneous orogenesis on sedimentation in the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Basin, northern Utah and southwestern Wyoming
(2020-07-21)
During the Late Cretaceous, northern Utah and southwestern Wyoming were affected by contractional deformation driven by subduction of the Farallon plate. Deformation from the Sevier Orogeny resulted in the eastward propagation ...