by Cheryl Calhoun | Mar 9, 2015 | Broadening Participation, Methodology
Overview Gender and Entrepreneurship: An Ethnographical Approach (Bruni, Gherardi, & Poggio, 2004) seeks to look at how gender and entrepreneurial activity are related. This study observes five small firms to discover how gender effects the roles of the...
by Cheryl Calhoun | Dec 22, 2014 | Methodology
The article I selected for this critique is Benefits of emotional design in multimedia instruction by Richard E. Mayer, and Gabriel Estrella. In this study Mayer and Estrella (2014) attempt to determine whether or not emotional design in multimedia instruction has an...
by Cheryl Calhoun | Nov 13, 2014 | Broadening Participation, Educational Research, Methodology
Women as Chief Information Officers in Higher Education: A mixed methods study of women executive role attainment in information technology organizations by Elizabeth Ann Clark. Women make up 57 percent of the professional occupations in the 2013 US workforce, but...
by Cheryl Calhoun | Oct 10, 2014 | Methodology
The article I selected for this critique is Benefits of emotional design in multimedia instruction by Richard E. Mayer, and Gabriel Estrella. In this study Mayer and Estrella (2014) attempt to determine whether or not emotional design in multimedia instruction has an...
by Cheryl Calhoun | Sep 25, 2014 | Methodology
Summary The article I selected for this critique is Benefits of emotional design in multimedia instruction by Richard E. Mayer, and Gabriel Estrella. In this study Mayer and Estrella (2014) attempt to determine whether or not emotional design in multimedia instruction...
by Cheryl Calhoun | Jan 12, 2014 | Methodology, Theoretical Frameworks
In “The Magical Number 4 in short-term memory” Cowan (2002) discusses the concept of whether there is a limitation to the human capacity to store and process information. The basis of his discussion originates in Miller’s (1965) “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or...