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Metro-Atlanta Parents' Roles in Technology Education and Their Advantages
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-05-05)
In this study, 15 interviews with parents from low-income areas were evaluated to
understand the roles these parents fulfilled in their child’s technology education. Of the
15 parents initially interviewed, three parents ...
Determining the Implications of Resegregation in the Atlanta Public School System and its Affect on Student Achievement
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-05-09)
Despite experiencing a fairly calm period of racial integration, Atlanta’s inner-city region is one of the most racially segregated metropolitan areas in the nation. This division spans all components of Atlanta’s culture, ...
Designing an Effective Interactive E-book for Computer Science Education
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-01-28)
There’s a need to develop more computer science teachers around the world. As massive open online courses have been failing, an interactive e-book used for distance learning might fulfill this need. This research seeks to ...
Computer science education of underserved populations and the efficacy of one-day STEM events
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05)
In the U.S., students seeking Computer Science (CS) as an undergraduate major increased
by 12% from 2006 to 2012 and then another 51% from 2011 to 2017. Despite this wide pursuit,
there is a belief that not enough citizens ...
Relating Neural Mechanisms for Learning to Instructional Techniques in Online Learning Environments
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
The virtual learning experience is fundamentally different from the traditional classroom because of the challenges of maintaining learners’ attention amid distractions in their environment. This study aims to study how ...
The True Cost: An Analysis of Course Registration Patterns in the College of Sciences
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
In the United States, less than half of college students who enroll in a STEM program will graduate
with a STEM degree (Chen 2013). Attrition rates are disproportionately high for marginalized
students, leading to a ...
Examining the Potential of Low-Cost Virtual Reality for Low-Resource Learning Contexts
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-05)
We present a qualitative evaluation of a field deployment of the Google Expeditions Virtual Reality (VR) Toolkit at an after-school learning center for children from marginalized backgrounds in Mumbai, India. The lowering ...
A Personalized American Sign Language Game to Improve Short-Term Memory for Deaf Children
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
95% of deaf children are born to hearing parents and lack continuous exposure to language, which often inhibits learning. We are developing Adaptive CopyCat, an educational game where Deaf children communicate with the ...
Whole-Brain Gray Matter Volume as an Anatomical Predisposition for Cognitive Ability
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-05)
The human brain is the topic of much interest in recent years, and due to the advent and rising popularity of imaging techniques such as functional MRI, we are able to understand the brain with greater detail than ever ...
Modeling and Inquiry Learning Application: An Exploration of Spatial Simulations in an Inquiry Learning Application
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-05)
Modeling and simulation is a common technique to explore phenomena in ecology without having to spend an enormous amount of time with data collection and waiting on an ecosystem to develop. The practice of simulating an ...