Action Research Projects conducted by students at the University of Northern Colorado.
Action Research Projects from 2020
The Impact of Research Workbooks on Assessment, Amy Felder
Customer Service in the Classroom, Teresa Lantz
The Labor of Art, Antonio Ramirez
Action Research Projects from 2019
Objects as Heirlooms: An A/r/tography Experience, Samantha Renee Disney-Saxton
A Woman's Experience Working in Masculine Trades, Laura Kathleen Ethridge
When I Die Bury Me In This: An Arts-Based Research on Human Death, Decomposition, and Body Disposition Methods and the Taphonomy Metaphor of our Personal Belongings, Sarah Elizabeth Johnson
Exploring Artist-Mother Narratives, Amy Virginia Michael
Artistic Process Over Product: A Portrait of the High-Achieving High School Student, Kelly Pack-Scott
What a Choice-Based Classroom Teaches Students, Kathryn Beth Potter
The Art of Adventure, Sarah Aiken Revell
Action Research Projects from 2018
The Significance of the Interconnective Relationships Between Art and Sports, Micala M. Anderson
Surface Treatments on Clay and Making Meaning, Stephanie Lynn Schmidt
Beautiful Kitsch: Kitsch Tolerance Amongst the Educated, Tiffany D.E. Yonts
Action Research Projects from 2017
Inquiry Based Art Research and the Development of Artistic Autonomy in the High School Setting, Matthew Crawford
Utilization and Transferability of Technical Skills in a Choice Based Art Unit, Sarah George
The Seven Modern Icons, Robyn Goodman
How Can the Art Making Process Foster a Stronger Sense of Self?, Claire Christine Kniveton
How Does Exploring Self and Peer-Identity Through Artmaking Strengthen Student-Peer Relationships?, Veronica Spencer Nelson
Makerspace in the Elementary Art Room, Kathleen A. Robinson
Cultivating Creative Problem-Solving Through Limitations and Constraints, Jon-Michael Willert
Who Doodles and Why?, Jeremy A. Yocum
Action Research Projects from 2016
Transforming Personal Narrative Through the Art of Dolls: An Arts-Based Inquiry Into the Power of Heuristic Expansion, Kelly Ann Martinez
Action Research Projects from 2015
Can Art Journaling and Narrative Art Benefit Students Experiencing Crisis or Trauma?, Stacia Kaye McCann
Theses from 2013
Thinking through the box: the art teacher's role in setting ideationally generative assignment parameters, and expanding students' problem-finding strategies, Brad James Conklin
Influence of guided drawing curriculum on drawing development in children, Alison Paige Myers