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Exploring The Linguistic And Cultural Impact Of An E-Mentoring Project, Debra Coffey, Karen Kuhel, Linda Evans

Debra Coffey

No abstract is available.

An Investigation Of Volunteer-Student Relationship Trajectories Within School-Based Youth Mentoring Programs, Thomas Keller, Julia Pryce

Julia Pryce

This prospective, mixed-method study investigates the development of school-based mentoring relationships using direct observations, in-depth interviews, and questionnaires from the perspective of mentors and students. A pattern-oriented analysis of qualitative data explores the diversity observed in the life-course of mentor-student relationships. Systematic variation in developmental trends across relationships revealed four distinctive groupings. Some relationships showed progressive improvement in strength and quality. Others started well but reached a plateau and did not become particularly close. A third group struggled throughout to make a connection. Finally, some relationships succeeded after a breakthrough to overcome their challenges. These inductively derived categories are corroborated …

Factors That Influence The Difficulty Of Problem Solving Items, Dara Ramalingam, Ray Philpot

Ray Philpot

Computer-based assessment of problem solving allows problems of both static and interactive natures to be posed. Examples of static problems are scheduling and logic puzzles in which all relevant information is available to the solver at the outset. Problems of an interactive nature, on the other hand, require exploration of the situation to acquire additional knowledge needed to solve the problem. Examples include discovering how to use an unfamiliar mobile telephone or automatic vending machine. This study used data from the 2011 Field Trial of the PISA 2012 computer-based assessment of problem solving which comprised 34 static and 45 interactive …

Engineering Assessment Development Report: Ahelo Feasibility Study, Jacob Pearce, Julian Fraillon, Hamish Coates, Sarah Richardson

Julian Fraillon

No abstract provided.

Conveying Knowledge, Resources, And Opportunities For Doctoral Students Of Color, Kimberly Truong, Tryan Mcmickens, Ronald Brown

Ronald Brown

No abstract provided.

Critical Race Theory: A Case Study Of Leadership In Three Historically Black Colleges And Universities, Ronald Brown, Tryan Mcmickens, Kimberly Truong

Ronald Brown

No abstract provided.

Oh, The Farmer And Cowman Should Be Friends': The Integration Of Legal Writing And Academic Support, Jamie Kleppetsch, Mary Nagel

Mary Nagel

No abstract provided.

Comparative Law: Global Legal Traditions For The 21st Century, Michael Bazyler, Abdullahi Al-Naim, Russell Miller, Peter Yu

Peter K. Yu

No abstract provided.

Analysis Of Salvinorin A In Plants, Water, And Urine Using Solid-Phase Microextraction-Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography–Time Of Flight Mass Spectrometry, Brian Barnes, Nicholas Snow

Nicholas A Snow

No abstract provided.

Employment Law Cases And Materials, Gillian Lester, Steven Willborn, Stewart Schwab, John Burton

Stewart J Schwab

No abstract provided.

Beauty In The Struggle: Realizing Full Access To Higher Education, Julia Van Der Ryn, Lynn Sondag

Lynn Sondag

Presentation focused on the relationship between access to a dynamic education, which includes the arts and engenders creative and critical thinking, and a thriving democracy.

Hemingway's Politics In His Journalism And Fiction, A Continuum Of Contradiction, Clay Morgan, Clyde Moneyhun, Jacky O'Conner, Mitch Wieland

Mitch Wieland

Introduction by Clay Morgan. A conversation with distinguished Hemingway experts, authors, and faculty members of Boise State University Clyde Moneyhun, Jacky O'Connor, Mitch Wieland, and Clay Morgan.

Students Of The Great Recession: Learning From An Intensive Undergraduate Research Training Project, Arthur Scarritt, Sergio Romero

Sergio Romero

This year marks the maiden voyage of the Inter-Mountain Social Research Lab (IMSRL) of the Department of Sociology.

In a yearlong intensive research training program, faculty guide a small group of undergraduate students through developing and executing all aspects of an original research project, from inception to dissemination.

This presentation discusses the general contours of this program, and the challenges we have encountered in attempting to integrate teaching into a rigorous research project.

Is The Postcolonial Possible?: Shifting From Diversity Education To A Global-Local Framework In Teacher Education, Amanda Richey, Leena Her, Linda Evans

Leena N. Her

No abstract is currently available.

Tuning Into The Future: Sharing Initial Insights About The 2012 Musical Futures Pilot Project In Ontario, Betty Anne Younker, Ruth Wright, Leslie Linton, Carol Beynon

Ruth Wright Dr

This article reports on a pilot research project introducing informal music pedagogy developed by Professor Lucy Green to two Ontario schools. Developed from the observed learning practices of popular musicians, the pedagogy locates production and development of musical knowledge firmly with the students. The research team's initial training visit to the UK is reported upon. The research questions and methodology for the project are presented and some initial observations from the early stages of the Canadian implementation project are discussed.

Response To Richard Garnett, "Individuals, Institutions, And Religious Freedom", Gregory Kalscheur, Richard Garnett

Richard W Garnett

No abstract provided.

Criminal Procedure: The Constitution And The Police (Seventh Edition), Mark Brodin, Robert Bloom

Robert Bloom

No abstract provided.

Knowledge Of Future Primary Teachers For Teaching Mathematics : An International Comparative Study, S Senk, M Tatto, M Reckase, Glenn Rowley, Ray Peck, K Bankov

Ray Peck

This article reports the results of the Teacher Education and Development Study in Mathematics (TEDS-M) that are related to prospective primary teachers’ knowledge for teaching mathematics. TEDS-M was conducted under the auspices of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement with additional support from the US. National Science Foundation and the participating countries. In 2008 more than 15,000 future primary teachers, enrolled in about 450 institutions that prepare future primary teachers, were surveyed. Two domains of knowledge for teaching mathematics were assessed using items that had been developed and validated in a cross-national field trial. Large differences in …

Mission: Impossible, Mission: Accomplished Or Mission: Underway? A Survey And Analysis Of Current Trends In Professionalism Education In American Law Schools, Alison Kehner, Mary Ann Robinson

Mary Ann Robinson

No abstract provided.

Bullying As An Organizational Safety Issue: Do Different Types Of Bullying Lead To Different Litigated Outcomes?, Helen Lavan, Yvette Lopez, William Marty

Helen LaVan

No abstract provided.

Maternal Mental Health And Child Health And Nutrition, Karen Mccurdy, Kathleen Gorman, Tiffani Kisler, Elizabeth Metallinos-Katsaras

Karen McCurdy

No abstract provided.

Family Food Environment And Child Overweight In Low-Income Families, Karen Mccurdy, Tiffani Kisler, Kathleen Gorman, Elizabeth Metallinos-Katsaras

Karen McCurdy

No abstract provided.

The Change Program: Comparing An Interactive Versus Standardized Obesity Intervention On Students' Self-Esteem, Functional Health Status And Self-Efficacy For Performing Physical Activity And Nutrition Behaviours, Erin Pearson, Jennifer Irwin, Don Morrow

Donald Morrow

No abstract provided.

Health Care Practitioners’ Perceptions Of Motivational Interviewing Training For Facilitating Behavior Change Among Patients, Erin Wiley, Jennifer Irwin, Don Morrow

Donald Morrow

No abstract provided.

Political Embeddedness And Academic Corruption In Chinese Universities, Qian Forrest Zhang

Qian Forrest ZHANG

No abstract provided.

Agricultural Modernization In China And Its Impact On Cities: From The Perspective Of Rural-Urban Linkage, Qian Forrest Zhang

Qian Forrest ZHANG

No abstract provided.

Private Exchanges Of Agricultural Land In Zhejiang, China: A Road To Agrarian Capitalism Or Path-Dependent Transformation?, Qian Forrest Zhang

Qian Forrest ZHANG

No abstract provided.

Semantically Related Software Terms And Their Taxonomy By Leveraging Collaborative Tagging, Shaowei Wang, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang

David LO

Millions of people, including those in the software engineering communities have turned to microblogging services, such as Twitter, as a means to quickly disseminate information. A number of past studies by Treude et al., Storey, and Yuan et al. have shown that a wealth of interesting information is stored in these microblogs. However, microblogs also contain a large amount of noisy content that are less relevant to software developers in engineering software systems. In this work, we perform a preliminary study to investigate the feasibility of automatic classification of microblogs into two categories: relevant and irrelevant to engineering software systems. …

Mining Indirect Antagonistic Communities From Social Interactions, Kuan Zhang, David Lo, Ee Peng Lim, Philips Kokoh Prasetyo

David LO

Antagonistic communities refer to groups of people with opposite tastes, opinions, and factions within a community. Given a set of interactions among people in a community, we develop a novel pattern mining approach to mine a set of antagonistic communities. In particular, based on a set of user-specified thresholds, we extract a set of pairs of communities that behave in opposite ways with one another. We focus on extracting a compact lossless representation based on the concept of closed patterns to prevent exploding the number of mined antagonistic communities. We also present a variation of the algorithm using a divide …

Searching Connected Api Subgraph Via Text Phrases, Wing-Kwan Chan, Hong Cheng, David Lo

David LO

Reusing APIs of existing libraries is a common practice during software development, but searching suitable APIs and their usages can be time-consuming [6]. In this paper, we study a new and more practical approach to help users find usages of APIs given only simple text phrases, when users have limited knowledge about an API library. We model API invocations as an API graph and aim to find an optimum connected subgraph that meets users' search needs. The problem is challenging since the search space in an API graph is very huge. We start with a greedy subgraph search algorithm which …