Braden Boss and Dr. Geoffrey A. Wright, Technology & Engineering Education Many people struggle defining technology literacy. Some say that there is no “absolute definition of literacy” because technology literacy varies from society to society.1 No matter what society you belong to, how you define technology literacy depends on how you view technology and education. […]
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Establishing a Foundation for the Testing and Evaluation of Effective Scenario Elicitation Tools
Benjamin Dunford and Dr. Douglas Dean, Accountancy and Information Systems Background In system development, no other phase is as fraught with difficulties as determining what exactly the system “should do” for a proposed project. These difficulties arise through a divergence in how the end user envisions the system should operate and how the analyst or […]
Effect of Fraud Risk Assessments on Auditors’ Evidence Evaluation
Jace Garrett and Dr. Doug Prawitt, Accounting My original project idea was to research how supervisors’ views affect subordinates’ judgments in an audit setting. While this was a good idea, my mentor and I came up with another research idea that seemed even more interesting. Since fraud has been a hot topic in accounting research, […]
A Corpus-Based Evaluation of Usage Advice from the CSE and Chicago Style Manuals
Shelsea van Ornum and Professor Doris Dant, Linguistics and English Language Main Text Writers and editors are constantly faced with decisions about usage (the actual use of language), as opposed to grammar (the theoretical structure of language). To help writers and editors make these decisions, various organizations and language authorities have compiled manuals and handbooks that […]
Sustainable Development and Good Cheese: An Evaluation of CHOICE Humanitarian and Hispanics in Philanthropy’s Goat Cheese Project in Tamaula and Huaricho, Mexico
Jeffrey Swindle and Dr. Tim Heaton, Sociology and International Development Introduction CHOICE Humanitarian and Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP) partnered to support a local project proposal by villagers in Tamaula and Huaricho, Mexico to create small goat cheese factories in each of the villages. The goal of the project was to create jobs for villagers so […]
An Evaluation of the Clinical Use of Phenytoin for Preventing Early Post-Traumatic Seizures in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients
Sierra Debenham and Dr. Erin Bigler, Psychology Main Text I evaluated the Montreal General Hospital’s use of the anti-seizure medication phenytoin in all traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients admitted to the hospital over the course of 2 years. I then evaluated the information to evaluate how effective the phenytoin treatment was in preventing early TBI. […]
High Temperature Water Gas Shift Catalyst Kinetic Evaluation
Rupak Bajagain and Dr. Morris Argyle, Chemical Engineering Introduction The purpose of this project was to develop water gas shift catalysts that are more stable and active than the existing ones. Stable catalysts last longer and are more efficient, which is important to economics and to gain widespread application. Currently the demand for hydrogen as […]
Evaluation of Evaluation in Development Organizations
Dr. Tim Heaton, Department of Sociology Meeting the objectives In some respects, we did not achieve all of the goals of the proposed work, but in other ways this project lead to the development of a new program that has been a success. The first objective was to review the literature on evaluation. This phase […]
Enhancing Social, Emotional, and Language Learning in Children with Language Impairment
Bonnie Brinton, PhD and Martin Fujiki, PhD, Communication Disorders Introduction: We were extremely grateful to receive a 2016-2018 Mentored Environment Grant. Our project was entitled Enhancing Social, Emotional, and Language Learning in Children with Language Impairment. The purpose of this project was to employ a multiple baseline, single subject design to investigate the efficacy of […]
Mentoring Astronomy Students Through Extensive Research (MASTER)
Dr. Michael Joner, Physics & Astronomy Student Participation Post-Baccalaureate Observing Supervisor Michelle Spencer** Undergraduate Students and Observers at West Mountain Observatory Rochelle Biancardi (Steele) *** * Nevyn Tyau Maria Martinez *** ** Emily Ogden Timothy Sitze Gilvan Apolonio Seth Clarke ** * Jared Kruger Jason Trump ** * Aaron Sears Dahlia Maxwell Adam Bugg ** […]
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