Processes of Research & Engagement, CCT 692

Final Reports

Fall 2017

How do online platforms such as YouTube efficiently can be used to convey complex medical information in a simpler language to improve patients' and a general audience life quality?

Method Theory: A Narcissistic Guide to Understanding Art Using Theory, Ex-Girlfriends, and John Cusack

Teaching to Connect: Tying Reflection to Empathy Development in Civic and Community Engagement Education

Play With a Purpose: Promoting Critical Thinking to Meet Preschool Standards

Examining the Past, Present and Future as a Solopreneur Through Personal and Professional Reflective Practice

The Simple Team: Using an Understanding of Human Nature to Lead a Group of Diverse Individuals

In shaping an approach to fostering increased media literacy & media reform for determined personal sovereignty, we must search hard for independent journalists in addition to mainstream to formulate our own decisions about what is going on in the world

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Transversing through the Generation Gap in Workplace Cultures

Caring for the Caregiver: Experiences and networks of informal caregivers

Collaborative Expressive Writing: Combining Writing Skills with Clinical Treatment in a Residential School Setting

Identification of Factors Leading to Successful and Unsuccessful International Higher Education Collaboration Initiatives with Focus on Developing Countries

Deep listening at the eye of the needle: Music Improvisation & Co-creation In The Social Field Of Presencing

Meaningful Learning: How Helping Adolescents Make Meaning from their Learning Sets Them on a Path of Purpose

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Towards a classroom-compatible concept of creativity

Helping International Students to avoid Plagiarism

Why writing my thoughts is too slow and embodying snow is a preferred way of learning: Phenomenology from my conscious and unconscious experience

Fall 2016

Adventure Time and Morality: A look at the concept of morality and ethics, the practice of using literature and narrative to teach it, and a case for Cartoon Network's animated series Adventure Time as an effective pedagogical tool for teaching responsible and coherent moral lessons in high school and college, with a proposed study

Reflections on a Decade in Education: Professional Tributaries, Graduate Coursework, and an Ongoing Commitment to Creating Necessary Change in Public Education

Jigsaw Collaborative Learning in the Large Enrollment Flipped Classroom: A Design-based Research Study

Nursing information literacy: Evidence-based approach integrated in the curriculum

Organizational Outreach: Positive Outlooks on Youth Voices

My development as a Biology educator who seeks to be engaging and authentic, and my thinking on how to help students make deep connections to themselves and the living world

One educator's pathway to increasing students' interactions with nature: An investigation into three areas of personal interest and thoughts about their pedagogical application

In What Ways Can Understanding Resistance to Change Help us to Adapt to, or even Embrace, Change?

Promoting Original Music with Integrity in Today's Music Industry

Experiential Learning Theory Meets English Language Learners

Fall Prevention among Community Dwelling-Older Adults

Fall 2015

Using Critical and Creative Thinking Skills to Enhance Engagement and Performance Using Problem Solving in High School Mathematics and Beyond

Keeping history alive: A study of the principles behind studio pedagogy, how it relates to project-based learning, and how I might incorporate it to in my history classes to keep them more relevant and the students engaged

Transformative Learning Spaces: Fabricating The Genuine

Closing the Achievement Gap: Making the Case for Racial Dexterity Trainings for Teachers and School Leaders

Giving Children Back Their Right to Playfully Learn: How After­School Programs Can Play an Important Role

Assessing Neurodiversity in the Secondary Classroom: Creating a sustainability model that incorporates metacognition and critical thinking skills into content area disciplines

Why should adults support play as a component of early childhood education as much as they support academic instruction in early childhood education?

Mentoring Program for High School Age Boys

Envisioning the Content for an Environmental Education Website for the Garrison School: A Prospectus of Research and Resources to Support Place-Based, Environmental, and Outdoor Instruction in the Garrison School Forest

Understanding Why "Good" People Do "Bad" Things

Creating a Culture of Critical Thinking for Educators: "The Art of Teaching Thinking"

Spring 2013

Figuring Out What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

Increasing Social Motivation in the Treatment of Autism

How Can Women Be Better Interpreted In Automotive Museums And How Can This Information Be Used To Create A Viable Piece Of Educational Material That Can Be Used My Automotive Museums Across The United States

Steps to Create a Behavior Plan for a client with Severe Behaviors

The Effects Of Immigration On American Education

Perspectives on the evolution of African higher education: preliminary findings from an exploratory pilot study of the Cameroonian higher education system

Spring 2010

My Personal Journey Towards Rediscovering Creative Play as an Adult

Improving Graphic Design Education to Meet the Changing Role of a Designer

Understanding what it takes to grow a Great School-University Partnership

Rewarding Responsible Choice: A 12-month Project Encouraging the Use of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception within the Female 18-29 popula- tion through a Web-based, New Media, Social Networking Delivery

Veteran Mutual Support: A conceptual model built on evidence based processes to improve combat veteran health in community based groups addressing psychological stress and physiological manifestations.

Digital Kids and Digital Tools: How the use of emergent technologies and digital tools support learning in the 21st century

Increasing Student Success by Embedding Effective Academic Support Programs into Instruction in Community College Courses

Moving Toward an Optimal Multi-generational Community Life Center

Understanding the Connections between Attention Deficit Disorder and Nature

How a Transfusion Medicine Service, in the evaluation of an error, can use the practice of reflection to develop staff competency as a means to identify necessary organizational changes

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Fall 2008

Keeping Parents in the Classroom

What do girls learn from teen magazines

Bringing Students and Employers Together: How community colleges are uniquely positioned to support the needs of business and industry and promote workforce development

Motivating and Empowering Middle School Students Through Social Change Education

Polypore Mushrooms as a Natural Substrate for Saccharomyces sensu stricto

Building a Professional Development Plan for Administrative, Clerical, and Maintenance Support Employees within an Organization

Conflict Resolution: How can I incorporate conflict resolution as part of the nursing practice, improving my own skills and sharing this with the staff?

Fostering Mathematical Habits of Mind:How Parents Can Support Their Children's Mathematical Thinking in the Home

Toolkit to Reduce Anxiety

How Community-Based Organizations Can Incorporate and Utilize Critical and Creative Thinking Processes to Develop and Support Resiliency in Adolescents

The Politics of Language: Experiences and Effects in the United States

"Study Skills for Screw-ups" An Incomplete Book for Teenagers and a Report for My Peers

A Look at Current Practices and Trends in Service-Learning and Considering Possible Applications to ESL Teaching

Motivating & mentoring high school age students to explore workforce & higher education options: A career development model

Social learning: Building a foundational understanding

Vietnam Is A Beautiful Country And A Possible Place To Relocate When Retire

Promoting teamwork to increase productivity and morale at work

Fall 2007

Steps Needed to Become Someone Who Fosters Intellectual Perseverance

Implementing Poetry In Preschools: Developing Creative Writing Curriculum in Cambridgeport Children's Center

Effective Communication with High School Students

First Steps in Reconsidering School Discipline: Conveying a Community Values Hierarchy through Disciplinary Structure

Recapturing the Joy of Adult Education Through a Theater Arts Perspective of Learning Toward a Renewed Purpose of Social Change

Using Transcendental Meditation as a Creativity-Enhancing Tool

Fall 2006

Communicating within a visual education culture; using Edward Tufte and Peter Senge's work to understand Academic Advising at Massachusetts College of Art

A Parallel Biology Curriculum on Metacognition

Understanding Gentrification In An Attempt To Change It

Steps Towards Coaching ADHD adolescent males in transition: A personal and professional transition in progress

Involving Staff in Culture Change Within Nursing Homes

Fiction Reading/Writing and Modes of Dreaming

Interactive Art: Enticing the Viewer Beyond Passive Viewing

Once Upon a Time Story in Health Care and Bringing Story to Practice

Identifying methods nurse managers can implement to foster a supportive environment for staff where disruptive physician behavior exists

Ordinary Inspiration: A project in motion

Developing a program to add humor to an organization's culture to open up and affirm creativity to be used as a positive change agent

Fall 2005

Looking Inward to See Out: A Reflective Engagement with 19th Century American Romantic Literature

Repairing communication in the operating room: First steps and the prospects of finding a tipping point through deeper dialogue

Towards Applying Creative, Expressive, and Healing Arts into Learning Settings of Self-Improvement for Adult Learners

Fall 2003

Exploring Tonal Sensitivity From The Perspective of Developmental Cognitive Science With A View To Defining Research Needed Before This Knowledge Can Be Brought With Music Education

Staircase to Slope: A mathematics learning expedition

Finding my sense of place through photography

Exploring the world of body psychotherapy

At the heart of it all: The development of self-esteem in children with learning disabilities

Dreaming of Beauty: A Journey Towards Creating A Unique Business That Works To Make All Kinds of Art Accessible and Focal To The Community

Post-secondary transitioning for Learning Disabled students

Developing Constructivist Writing Tools for the New & Established Writer

Creative forces and the development of an editorial cartoonist

Lessons to be Learned in Choosing a Career

A Journey, Not a Destination: Discovering The Practice of Facilitation and Its Role in My Future

The Creative Mindflow: Achieving and Maintaining Optimal Potential (pdf)

Single-Sex Education: Can this be a model for educational innovation

A guidebook: Making use of complementary therapies in alleviating the side-effects of traditional cancer treatments

Motivating action by community leaders on anti-discrimination principles

The family literacy revolution and progress

Alternative schools: Transitioning of at-risk youth

The language of change

Defining an upper level writing course for law school

Direct Teaching of Critical Thinking: Determining the Best Teaching Methods and Finding Teaching Opportunities

Bringing museum education into classroom education in preparation for a field trip

Moving towards an understanding of violence and how it impacts learning for low-income women in adult literacy programs