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Established and managed by the Chalmer Davee Library, MINDS@UW-River Falls is designed to capture, store, index, distribute and preserve the intellectual output of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Content can include research articles, datasets, photographs, learning objects, theses, student projects, posters, conference papers, or other scholarly works produced by the students, staff and faculty of the University.
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UWRF Falcon Scholars Program
Developed in partnership with UW-River Falls Student Senate, the Falcon Scholars program brings with it the ability to enrich learning for UWRF students, to raise the academic standards among undergraduates, and to support ...
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Agricultural articulation agreements between Wisconsin high schools and the technical college system
(2018)The study was designed to determine if the Wisconsin Technical College System is meeting the needs of agricultural articulation agreements in the high schools. This project will help the technical colleges see what ... -
Montessori Early Childhood Teachers’ Preparedness to Teach Mathematics
(2022)The purpose of this action research project was to learn about early childhood Montessori teachers’ feelings and beliefs about mathematics and teaching math, and their awareness of current research regarding the importance ... -
The Impact of Nature-Based Sensory Experiences on Outdoor Behavior
(2022)Current literature provides ample evidence to support that contact with nature can have a multitude of positive effects on people’s well-being including the learning and development of young children. Furthermore, variations ... -
Student Conferencing, Goals, and Perceptions of Success
(2022)The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative research project was to study how individual student conferencing could impact student’s perceptions of individualized goal attainment. The study took place in a public ... -
Impact of Social Emotional Learning in an Urban Public Montessori School
(2022)The purpose of this study is to discover the impact a social-emotional learning program may have on an Upper Elementary Montessori Classroom. The study was motivated by the researcher’s experience of seeing the effects ... -
The Implementation of Practical Life Works Targeting School-Specific Skills
(2022)The purpose of this action research project was to study the implementation of practical life skills targeting school-specific skills. This study took place in a Children’s House classroom at a public Montessori school ... -
Supporting Evidence Based Writing in the Upper Elementary Montessori Classroom: The Interplay of the Dynamic Guide and Original Materials
(2022)This qualitative phenomenological study focuses on the development of evidence-based writing skills in the upper elementary Montessori (9–12-year-old) classroom. This study traced the lived experience in the classroom ... -
The Impact of Handwork as a Practical Life Exercise in the Upper Elementary Montessori Classroom
(2022)The desire to learn with our hands is an innate human trait. Sociocultural theory presented by Lev Vygotsky laid the foundation of the importance of hands-on learning, which is still prevalent in current trends within ... -
Creative Drama and its Implications for Language Leaning and Teaching
(2022)Creative Drama for teaching English as a second or foreign language has been observed to provide many benefits for heleoing leaners improve proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Creative Drama, for ... -
Importance of Studying Poetry in Lower Elementary Classroom
(2022)This project explores the importance of teaching and studying poetry in a lower elementary Montessori classroom. The purpose of the project is to examine students’ interest and involvement in reading, writing and memorizing ... -
Normalization and its Relation to Peace Education Using a Sampling of Montessori Preschools from Around the World
(2022)Montessori education is known as peace education. Normalization is one of the most significant concepts within Montessori education and which herself identifies as the “most important result.” The purpose of this study ... -
Demographic Characteristic Reporting Practices in the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
(2022)The diversity of the United States population is increasing, and thus the field of speechlanguage pathology must be able to not only effectively treat diverse individuals but understand demographic’s effects on medical ... -
Politeness and Directness Strategies and Speech Act Realizations in Indian English Pragmatics
(2022)Studies on pragmatics have become increasingly popular since the work of Hymes (1972). Pragmatics refers to the cultural and social dimensions of words and phrases. Within the study of pragmatics, interest in politeness ... -
ANIMAL ASSISTED SPEECH-LANGUAGE THERAPY FOR AUTISTIC CHILDREN: A PILOT STUDY
(2022-05)Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) – a goal-directed intervention in which an animal that meets specific criteria becomes an integral part of the treatment process – can be a beneficial treatment option for individuals in ... -
Teaching Affixes and Cognates to Enhance Spanish ELL’s Lexical Competence
(2021)This paper discusses the current strategies for vocabulary instruction in the United States K-12 system. It introduces a new method for Spanish-speaking students to use cognates as root morphemes within affix instruction. ... -
Using Emoji as a higher Order Support for EL Summary Writing
(2022)To become successful summary writers, English Learner high school students need to be explicitly taught inferencing that allows them to develop the necessary higher-order thinking skills necessary for academic success. ELs ... -
Autism Knowledge and Stigma among College Students at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls
(2021)As the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder increases, it is important for students entering the workforce to increase their overall knowledge and decrease stigma surrounding autism. The purpose of this study was to ... -
Saying too Little can Make a Big Impact: Graduate Student Knowledge and Use of Telegraphic Input
(2021)Telegraphic communication is considered a simplification of speech by shortening utterances. This includes omitting function words but keeping content words like nouns and verbs. For example, telegraphic communication may ... -
The Effects of Exogenous Estrogen and Menstrual Cycle Phase on Female Aerobic Performance
(2021)This thesis investigates aerobic performance and substrate utilization of eumenorrheic women on and off oral contraceptive pills (OCP) during the follicular and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle. The topic was chosen ... -
Transnational Teaching in the Induction Years
(2021-09-23)Teachers working transnationally continue to become more common with globalization, connecting teachers from different countries worldwide. However, successfully navigating the process of moving one’s life and career ...