Since participating in the IDW workshops, our faculty have engaged in various research activities. Details of some of their progress are listed below.
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Wu He from the department of Information Technology & Decision Sciences in the Strome College of Business received the 2014 Research Paper Award from the National University Telecommunications Network and will present "Scaffolding to Improve Writing Skills in Computer Science Literacy Course" at the 2015 ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Conference.
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David M. Godden from the department of Philosophy & Religious Studies in the College of Arts & Letters published a paper in 2014, "Teaching rational entitlement and responsibility: A Socratic exercise."
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Narketta Sparkman from the department of Counseling & Human Services in the Darden College of Education was awarded the Howard Harris Professional Development Award in October 2015 for research, scholarship, service and teaching in Human Services.
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Charlie Daniels from the department of Engineering Management & Systems Engineering in the College of Health Sciences has been conducting research to determine the value of a writing intensive engineering course with no tests and in an Inverted Classroom environment.
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Jennifer Kidd from the department of Teaching & Learning in the Darden College of Education co-published an article in 2014, "Getting Uncomfortable: Identity Exploration in a Multi-Class Blog.", and has been awarded a National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research grant for Research in Student Peer Review: A Cooperative Web-Services Approach.
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Kaa Hinton-Johnson from the department of Teaching & Learning in the Darden College of Education gave a keynote address at the 35th Annual Spring Conference on the Teaching of Writing, "Slowing Moving Into the Blogosphere: 'New' Ways of Writing to Learn."
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Guang-Lea Lee from the department of Teaching & Learning in the Darden College of Education received a National Writing Project Grant of $20,000 to support K-12 teachers' professional development in writing instruction and a National Writing Project Grant of $30,000 for Professional Development at a high-need school focusing on writing in the content areas.
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Terry Kubichan received the 2013-2014 Old Dominion University Distinguished Teacher award.