Jon Balzotti, Assistant Professor of English Evaluation of Academic Objectives This project analyzed student engagement in a high school setting using digital learning environments based on a semi-realistic workplace simulation. The research team explored the challenges of high school student engagement in both traditional and digital learning environments. Data from student surveys suggest that traditional role-play […]
Fairy-Tale Teleography and Visualizations (FTTV)
Jill Terry Rudy, English and Jarom McDonald, Office of Digital Humanities (through March 2016 Evaluation of Academic Objectives This project has leveraged data processing and visualization methods that are becoming significant paradigms in digital humanities scholarship; specifically, we have repositioned the existing teleography of fairy tales on television from Channeling Wonder into a data corpus […]
The Essay Genome Project
PI: Patrick Madden First of all, and most importantly, I want to thank everyone at ORCA and in my college and department who approved and funded this project. The financial support of the Mentored Environment Grant made possible a lot of interesting and far-reaching research for me and my students. I deeply appreciate the generosity. […]
Dorothy Wordsworth’s Travel Writings: A Digital Critical Edition
PI: Nicholas Mason Thanks to the MEG award we received in 2014-15, my colleague Paul Westover and I have been able to mentor six outstanding BYU students in archival research and scholarly editing and have made significant progress toward the publication of a major new critical edition of the works of the nineteenth-century poet and […]
Victorian Short Fiction Project
Leslee Thorne-Murphy Evaluation of Academic Objectives Our project was to prepare a digital collection of short stories, The Victorian Short Fiction Project (VSFP), for a scholarly review process. The VSFP is a digital anthology of Victorian-era short stories compiled and edited by students in undergraduate Victorian literature classes here at BYU. Leslee Thorne-Murphy designed the […]
Teaching Teachers to Teach by Teaching Readers to Read
Dawan Coombs, English Education Evaluation of Academic Objectives Struggling readers fill today’s secondary classrooms in alarming numbers. Although numerous programs remediate these readers, research shows students need more than strategy instruction to read successfully. Reading difficulties result from a complex combination of social, cognitive, and affective factors that can only be addressed through meaningful instruction […]
Visualizing Intermedial Fairy Tales: Television, Film, Other Audiovisual Media
Jill Terry Rudy, English, and Jarom McDonald, Digital Humanities Evaluation of Academic Objectives This project has leveraged data processing and visualization methods that are becoming significant paradigms in digital humanities scholarship; specifically, we have repositioned the existing teleography of fairy tales on television from Channeling Wonder into a data corpus that can be mined and […]
The Integration of Mobile Technology into Remedial Literacy Classrooms and The Use of School Stories to Provide Reflective Spaces for Preservice English Teachers
Dr. Jon Ostenson, English Education Review of Research Studies and Academic Objectives of the Proposals Mobile Tech Since the 1990s, efforts have been made in public schools to integrate technology into the classroom; from early initiatives to create educational software to efforts to improve access to technology through computer labs (static and mobile), this work […]
Children’s Literacy Report “Restoring the Love of Reading”
Participants: Mentors: Robert T. Barrett and Mark Graham Students: Josh Talbot, Melissa Manwill, Nathan Cunliffe, Hana Lee, Chrisanne Hernandez, Jacob Meldrum, Alycia Garrett, Ashley Grace, Renee Bates, Melissa Crowton, Amanda Ho, and Liz Pulido Overview: At the beginning of this ambitious project, 12 students set out to adapt 12 different classic literature stories into short […]
Wordsworth’s Guide to the Lakes
Dr. Nicholas Mason, English Department Overview As I worked with Shannon Stimpson on her 2010 honors thesis on William Wordsworth’s Guide to the Lakes, she and I regularly lamented that no one had produced a widely accessible, modern scholarly edition of this major work. With this in mind, after Shannon’s thesis defense I proposed that […]