This year we broke all the records for abstract submissions to a NACTA Conference. More than 250 abstracts were submitted for our 2014 NACTA Conference at Montana State. Check out the titles and see what a great conference is being planned:
- USDA National Needs in Forensic Plant Pathology: Enhancing U.S. Crop Biosecurity Through Multidisciplinary Graduate Education, Experience and Research
- A Different Approach to a Mid-Term Examination
- Greenhouse Engineering/Technology Learning Modules
- Testing the Water: Using Formative Assessment Tools to Monitor and Improve Student Learning
- Impact of Course Format on High School Students Taking University Credits
- Effectiveness of a residential summer camp in promoting STEM education and careers
- Agricultural Literacy and Student Policy Preferences
- Peer Evaluation: Developing an Instrument for Effective Feedback
- Developing A Diversity Of Culturally Competent Leaders In Agricultural Science
- Instruction for Change: Creativity, Data, & Whole Systems
- Cooperative Extension Service Perceptions of Incorporating Infographics into Public Educational Materials
- Course attributes that foster student interest and success in a blended introductory animal science course
- Describing the number of Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education (CASE) schools in each state, and support from land grant institutions and state departments of education
- Description of Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education (CASE) units of instruction completed by certified CASE instructors in secondary agriculture classrooms
- Focusing on the First Year
- Creating Reusable Learning Objects ~ What the Authors Think
- Who Fills The Seat: the demographics, perceptions, and knowledge base of students enrolled in the Introduction to Animal Science course at Oklahoma State University
- Learning by Pinning: Assessing Higher Level Thinking through Pinterest
- Students' Perceptions of Using a Course Management System to Supplement Face-to-Face Advising
- Survey Results from the Hands-On Agriculture Learning Day at Lincoln University
- Engaging Students in Plant Science Courses by Utilizing the Mini-Horhizotron: An Apparatus for Observation and Study of Plant Root Systems
- Cooperative Extension Service and Higher Education Personnel Perceptions of Web-Based Technology Training and Dissemination
- Effect of Simulated Food Processing Plant Video Tours on Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes
- Pennsylvania Veterinarian Perspectives of Antibiotic Use and Antibiotic Resistance for Use in the Development of Educational Materials and Programming
- Leveraging Experiential Learning in the form of Legacy Projects to Improve Undergraduates' Ecological Worldview
- Building Global Competency of International Students and their Visiting Professors
- Assessment of Undergraduate Research Credit
- Informing the Development of Food Safety Competency Integration in the Undergraduate Agricultural Education Curriculum
- Embracing Distance Education for the Future
- Sustainability Matters: A Review of Student Knowledge and Awareness
- Internationalization of Programming at New Mexico State University
- Six Departments, Two Hundred Students, and Six Learning Outcomes in a One Credit First Year Seminar
- An Analysis of Genetically Modified Organism Acceptability in Europe: A Case Study of Perceptions of the Belgium Potato Event
- Enhancing Laboratory Awareness with Snapchat
- Factors Affecting Students' Choices to Attend University Career Fairs
- Infusing Learning into a Campus Recruiting Event
- Integrating research projects into undergraduate courses on organic and sustainable crop production
- Creating Critical Thinkers Through Explicit Instruction
- Towards Cultural Proficiency: The value of service learning to students' advancement along the cultural proficiency continuum
- Change in Students' Diversity Awareness Profile: What evidence can journaling and reflections provide
- Competitiveness and Animal Science Judging: Psychological Indices of Performance
- A Multinational Comparison of Experiential Learning Theory in Practice
- Teachers Connecting, Learning and Networking Online using Social Media
- Grade Discrepancies and Self-Regulated Learning in a Soils Course
- Comparison Of Two Online Learning Platforms: Promoting Offer Of Online Courses In The College Of Agricultural Sciences
- State-level FFA Career Development Events are an Opportunity to Recruit High School Students into Agriculture Majors
- Camp Pawnee Service-Learning Project
- Correlation of Naturalist Multiple Intelligence With Learning Styles of College Students
- It's All About P.M.A.: The Teaching & Learning Power of a Positive Mental Attitude
- How Does Learning Run Through Collaborative Groups?
- A Conceptual Model to Guide Faculty Members in Directing Undergraduate Research
- Who Am I? Using SWOT Analysis to Teach Self-Assessment and Strength Recognition
- Comparing Senior Agriculture and Non-Agriculture Students' Use of Time
- Self-Efficacy in a Natural Resource Field Studies Course
- The Great Debate: An Exploration of Using Debate in the Leadership Classroom
- Research-Based, Interdisciplinary Multicultural Scholars Program (MSP) at Oregon State University
- Interdisciplinary, Research-based Bioenergy Minor at Oregon State University
- A Qualitative Inquiry into Undergraduates' Reasoning When Deciding Whether or Not to Attend Class
- Leaving "Pearls" of Wisdom to Enhance Student Understanding
- "Trade Show Display" Learning Activity to Enhance Plant Identification Courses
- Evaluating Student use of Google Maps™ as a Study Resource for Plant Identification Courses
- An Introductory Soils Course Hat Trick: Evidence-Based Teaching, Improved Post-Test Scores, And Reduced Post-Test Variance
- Teaching Behaviors Demonstrated by College Instructors
- A New Curriculum for Ethics in Agricultural Communications
- Educating Leaders for Tomorrow's Sustainable Plant Production Systems
- The NACTA Judging Conference: Past, Present and Future Directions
- Incorporation of the Doceri Interactive Whiteboard App into the Classroom
- Building Perennial Legacies on Student Farms
- Building Understanding of Quantitative Approaches for Undergraduates in Natural Resources
- Engaging Underrepresented Agriculture Students through Research and Job Training in the STEP UP to USDA Career Success Program
- The Chicago South Side Urban Agriculture Initiative: Evaluation of a New Agriculture Curriculum and Innovation Network at an Urban Predominantly Black University
- Fostering University-Community College Collaboration for a Horticulture Online Degree Completion Program
- Creatively Implementing Experiential Learning into the General Education Curriculum
- Today's animal science student: A look at student's backgrounds, interests, and perceptions
- A Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing Geoheritage Investigation of the Upper Pecos River Valley
- Evaluation of interest in an online degree in General Agriculture
- Creating a Culture of Professionalism in an Undergraduate Horticulture Program
- Utilizing Universal Design as the Instructional Context for Student-Faculty Collaboration
- Litton Leadership Scholars
- An innovATE-ive approach to building capacity through AET: SWOT study in Armenia
- The Cognitive Level of Online Class Discussions
- Impacts of the Bioenergy Summer Bridge to College Program
- Stepping Outside Comfort Zones: Utilizing Service Learning Projects to Promote Student and Community Engagement
- What does it take to produce "more crop per drop"? : Assessing AET systems in Jordan
- Bugscope 15 Years of Web-based Educational Outreach
- Opportunities in Grain Science Tools Used in Freshman Orientation Class
- The Impact of Supplemental Recorded Lectures on Student Satisfaction, Attendance, and Performance
- Reality Learning in Online Agribusiness Management
- Soft Skills Run Through Us: Meeting Industry Needs in Agriculture Students
- Comparison of large- and small-scale biodigesters as an international learning tool
- An Examination of High Impact Learning Opportunities Provided in Departments of Agricultural Education: Encouraging Learning in Varied Ways
- Engaged Scholarship Integration Strategies for an International Course to Costa Rica: A case study using Environmental Triangulation
- Teaching And Learning In Sustainable Agriculture Curricula: A Case Study Of Mediated Learning Of Faculty At A Land Grant University
- Negotiating the Rapids of High-Impact Experiences
- Examining how participants reflect within an adult agricultural leadership program using Schon's strategies of reflection-on-action and reflection-in-action.
- Performance of incoming freshman students with different admission statuses.
- Virtual Viewing: Utilizing Webinars to Enhance Learning in Post-Secondary Classrooms
- Peer Knowledge Sharing Outside the STEM Classroom in Community Colleges
- Articles into Tweets: Improving Students' Summarization Skills
- Engaging Agriculture Faculty to Train High School Agriculture Teachers
- Service-Learning in a Developing Country: A Unique First Year Experience
- Recruiting and Retaining National Needs Fellows in the Area of Sciences for Agricultural Biosecurity
- Evaluating the relevance of using the knowledge domains for writing expertise to teach writing in agriculture
- Comparing Student Learning Styles and Learning Outcomes in an Online Distance Learning Class and an Equivalent On-Campus Class
- Teaching Innovation Creatively in a Week
- Agricultural Teacher Efficacy Related to Teaching Dual Credit Veterinary Science Curriculum
- Student Learning Outcomes: Qualitative Assessment Method used in a Civic Agriculture and Food Systems Minor
- Learning Runs Through the Bailey Greenhouse and Urban Farm
- Assessing Success of Student Placement into College Algebra
- Describing Social Media Footprints of High-Impact Experiences using Instagram
- Teaching CAD-Based Landscape Design Software to Traditional and Non-Traditional Students: What Works and What Doesn't
- An Exploration of the Effect of Instructional Training on Undergraduate Teaching Assistants in an Introductory Animal Science Course
- Students as Stakeholders: Building an Undergraduate/Graduate Certificate in Environmental Education
- Factors affecting animal attitudes: Interactions of culture, demographics, and education.
- Digital Natives in college: What happens to learning when the power shuts down?
- Preservice Teachers' Perceptions of Mathematics in the School-Based Agricultural Education Curricula
- Perception of the Post-graduation Value of Study Abroad by Undergraduate Agricultural and Natural Resource Majors
- Activating Learning for Students in Agriculture
- Chemistry preparedness of animal science undergraduates enrolled in animal metabolism
- Designing Experiential Learning Materials to Make the Best Use of Teaching Farms
- Demographic profiles and critical thinking ability of undergraduate students enrolled in introductory animal science at a Hispanic serving institution
- Impact of background experiences on student performance in introductory Animal Science management courses
- Academic-Related Perceptions, Beliefs, and Strategies of Undergraduate Agricultural Students
- The evolution of electronic textbooks in higher education what do our students think?
- When and Why do Students Decide to Major in Agriculture?
- Online Learning and Undergraduates' Perceptions About Their Experience
- Identifying Graduate Student Needs through a World Café Discussion
- Relationship between IDEA scores and grade distribution in agriculture classes.
- Predicting overall course quality in undergraduate agriculture courses using the IDEA survey
- Predicting instructor quality in undergraduate agriculture courses using the IDEA survey
- Evaluation of Method to Measure Student Ability to Prioritize New Information on Bioenergy Crops
- Utilizing Poll Everywhere to Create Word Clouds
- Methods for Effective Undergraduate Research: Case Study
- Sustainable service learning: Lessons learned from five years of successful partnership
- Assessing Students' Awareness of Academic Misconduct Policies & Procedures
- Student perceptions of food animal agriculture issues before and after interactive discussions on challenging topics
- Innovative Products to Support Instruction and Retain Students in Soil and Environmental Sciences.
- Using Student Temperaments to Impact the College of Agriculture Planning and Advising
- Associations between Learner Interaction and Performance in an Online Course: A Longitudinal Study
- A Review of Select Water Education Initiatives of the Last 40 Years
- Development of a Community-Based Companion Animal Curriculum
- Distance Learning can Increase Multicultural Experiences for Undergraduate Students
- Comparison of Instructor Lead and Self-study Collegiate Judging Teams
- Blogging about Turfgrass Weeds: A Strategy to Improve Students' Writing Skills in a Turf Weed Management Course
- Inter-Institutional Interest of Developing an On-line Commodity Merchandising Certificate Program
- Assessing Morale of Agriculture Education Teachers at the State Level
- Women and AET: A Review of the Literature
- Summer Enrichment Programs: A Tool to Increase Enrollment in Agriculture at Virginia State University
- Investigating Soft Skill Development in an Agricultural Leadership Course
- Agriculture Undergraduate Interns Reflect on Their Research Internship Experiences
- New F.A.C.E.S. (Fostering Agricultural Communication and Extension Students) A USDA-HEMSP Supported Project at Cornell University
- Investigating Factors that Influence Achievement Goal Orientation in Undergraduate Agricultural Students
- Agricultural Students' Perspectives of International Experiences: Opportunities and Challenges to Meeting Students' Needs
- Growing a Canoe Plant Garden for the Elementary students and College students; connecting food, culture, health and environment into the Hawaiian cultural framework of "Ho'ozulu," the active process of growth in all areas of ecological literacy.
- Increasing Learning about and Enrollment in Horticulture through the Floral Plant Giveaway Project
- Innovative Teaching Approaches for "Wicked Problems"
- Retention, Persistence, and Completion Strategies: A Comparison of USDA-HSI Grant Students to the General Hispanic Student Population
- Creating a Class in Leadership for Agriculture and Rural Communities
- Undergraduate Student Perceptions on the Scope of Employment Dynamics within the Equine Industry
- Impact of Bonus Clicker Points on Final Course Grades
- Using Review Sessions to Promote Student Learning
- Utilizing the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center (AgMRC) Website to Increase the Critical Thinking Skills
- Does the Number of Post-secondary Agricultural Mechanics Courses Completed Affect Teacher Competence?
- Utilizing Dexterity to Determine Future Performance of Participants in a Welding Training Program.
- The Use of Virtual Welding Simulators to Evaluate Experienced Welders
- Differences in College of Agriculture and Life Sciences students' expectations of instructors, advisers, and self during their college experience.
- Motivating Factors for Student Choice of Major
- Gender Differences Among College Students' Expectations of Instructors, Advisers and Themselves
- Soft Skills Self-Assessment of Agricultural Communications Undergraduate Students
- Preparing Hispanic Students to be Leaders in their Communities
- College Choice and the Rural Brain Drain: Evidence from One Land-Grant University
- Leadership Assessments within Agricultural Business Students
- Building a Successful Student Experiential Learning Program
- Using Capstone Semester Courses in Conjunction With Internships that Equate to High Percentage Employment Upon Graduation
- A broad based strategy for study abroad programs: The Ghana experience
- Improving Hispanic student success through experiential learning opportunities
- Impact of Virginia Tech Summer Academy on Student Intended Major
- Relationships between Home Community, Major Choice, and Current Residence for Rural and Non-rural Graduates in the College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences at the University of [State]
- Experiential, collaborative learning in undergraduate agricultural science
- What Makes a Manuscript Publishable in the NACTA Journal?
- Agriculture Majors Perceptions of Alternative versus Conventional Agriculture Paradigms
- Enhancing Regulatory Compliance Among Florida's Farm Labor Supervisors
- Multiple Perspectives on Service Learning in Agricultural Communications
- Towne's Harvest Practicum at Montana State University: The Added Value of Field-Based Learning on a Campus Farm
- Cultural Adaptation: Study Abroad in Costa Rica
- Graduates of Agricultural Programs Attitudes Regarding Basic Employability Skills
- How ready are agricultural graduates for a career?
- Social Media and Equine Science: The Effect of LinkedIn on In-Class Engagement and Grades of Equine Higher Education Students
- An International Comparison of Agricultural College Students' Views on Natural Resources
- Learning Runs Through Classroom Debates: What Debates Can Teach Us about Sharing the Agricultural Message
- Factors Influencing Choice of Food Safety Related Career Path; An Online Focus Group Study
- Factors of adolescents' civic engagement in the learning process
- Effects of an applied agricultural calculations course at Clemson University
- The HYMAX Academy: Learning In and About Agriculture Runs through It!
- Instructor and Student Reflections of a Flipped-class Model in a Sensory Evaluation of Foods Laboratory Course
- Student Survey of a Flipped-class Model in a Sensory Evaluation of Foods Lecture
- Phases of Beginning Teacher Development and the Relationship to Concerns Expressed by Agricultural Education Student Teachers
- Perceptions Regarding Importance and Frequency of the Use of Communication Tools by Iowa Cattle Producers
- Building on Partnerships, Projects and Purpose: Producing Webinars to Enhance Learning in Agricultural Education Classrooms
- Coming full circle: Linking a university Animal Science class to a primary school agriculture education program
- Reflections of Plant Science Graduate Students Engaging K-12 Students While Utilizing Learner-Centered Teaching Strategies
- Assessment of a Food Science Program Using Core Competency Questions Administered to Freshman and Seniors
- A feeder-packer simulation provides an experiential learning opportunity for students in Animal Science
- How Do Clemson University students in the School of Agriculture, Forest, and Environmental Sciences (SAFES) learn?
- Tackling Difficult Science Concepts Using 21st Century Pedagogy
- Service Learning in Agricultural Communications: You Won't Belize It!
- Identifying Critical Thinking Skills in a Capstone Agriculture Course
- Evaluation of Student Collaboration in a Capstone Agriculture Course through Social Network Analysis
- NIFA National Needs Fellowship Program: Translating Forest Science for Global Practitioners
- Utilizing the Tuning Protocol to Develop Student Teacher Confidence in Lesson Planning
- Using Peer-Review to Improve Writing Assignments in an Undergraduate Turfgrass Science Course
- Does the Learning Really "run through it"? Reflective Narrative Journaling Assesses Learning Outcomes
- A Faculty Tool Kit for Intercultural Knowledge & Global Citizenship Embedded Learning Outcomes of in a University Common Core Curriculum
- The Impact of Implementing Interactive Exam Review Strategies on Student Satisfaction and Exam Score
- What Makes an Effective Coach?: The Relationship between Coaching Behaviors and Team Performance
- Increase student retention and graduation rate by offering a pathway certificate toward CA in Agripharmatech
- RISE: Pathways to Diversity in Food Science Careers
- Teacher Perceptions of the Quantity of Agricultural Mechanics Preparation Received at the University Level
- The Relationship between Time Management and Academic Achievement among Students in the College of Agricultural and Natural Resources at Razi University
- Exploring the Experiences and Perception of Local Food Running Through the Classroom
- Writing Factors that Augment Critical Thinking and Create Knowledge in the Social Sciences of Agriculture
- Twitter and the classroom: Two birds not of the same feather.
- Incorporating community engagement into the dietetics curriculum
- University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez (UPRM) Center for Education and Training in Agriculture and Related Sciences (CETARS): Outreach efforts to attract underrepresented Hispanic Students into agriculture and related careers
- Blending Behavioral Economics into Traditional Microeconomics Using Decision Making as the Emphasis
- USDA/ARS scientists and UA MACLab professors sow pre-college seeds for America's Future
- The Influences and Adaptation of Technology in Recruitment Efforts
- Does Learning Run Through Student-to-Student Interaction in Graduate Distance Education Classes?
- Examining Client Satisfaction in an Agricultural Communications Service-Learning Course
- Teaching A Class: Contemporary Issues In Global Food And Agricultural Systems
- Evaluation of Motivation of Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education Lead and Master Teachers
- Recent Experiences with Forestry Master's Fellowships Designed for Underrepresented Groups
- Using Constructive Alignment for Course Goals, Learning Objectives, and Assignments to Create Teaching Efficiency and Achieve Concrete Learning Gains
- Benefits and Barriers to Incorporating Service-Learning in Landscape Horticulture Courses
- Determining Satisfaction of Graduate Students In College Of Agriculture Towards Their Graduate Advisors
- Bringing the Beef Cattle Industry to the Classroom: An Experiential Learning Opportunity in Animal Science
- Building a Rain Garden: Working with Multiple Stakeholders in Academic Service-Learning
- Improving Written Communication Skills through Service Based Learning
- Dividing the Work, Doubling the Experience: The Development of a Study Away Experience Between Two Universities
- Pre-Course Agriculture & Turf Equipment Operations Experience Of University Students
- Seeing is believing: the impact of inter-island tours in agriculture education in Hawaii
- Students, sprinklers and pipes: A research methodology practicum
- Educational Impact of Student-Developed Material for Animal Science
- Comparison of Perceptions of Climate Change among Apsaalooke and Non-Native American Youth
- Bioenergy Laboratories for Improving Student Engagement
- Using the Holistic Process in a Service-Learning Course to Understand Food Security and "Hunger" in a subsistence farming village in Mali
- Using the Holistic Process to Assist Students in Undertaking Rural and Urban Renewal in their own Communities
- The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in College of Agriculture Courses at Montana State University
- Let's Pick Berries: An Apsaalooke Community-based project Resulting from use of the Holistic Process in a Service-Learning Course addresses Nutrition, Plant Propagation, Community Engagement, and Strengthening of Elder-youth Connections
- An Exploratory Study of Scrap Learning and De-Learning as Perceived by Experts in Higher Education in Iran
- USDA National Needs in Forensic Plant Pathology: Enhancing U.S. Crop Biosecurity Through Multidisciplinary Graduate Education, Experience and Research
- A Different Approach to a Mid-Term Examination
- Greenhouse Engineering/Technology Learning Modules
