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An Examination Of The Ap United States History Exam Free Response Section, Jon Rehm

South Florida Education Research Conference

Michael S. Henry examined the first 30 years of the AP United States History exam’s essay section. This study examined changes that have occurred over the last 20 years by classifying questions into one of six categories and found little change in the types of essays used during this timeframe.

Turnover Intent Among Middle School Teachers, Thomas G. Reio, Mirta Segredo

South Florida Education Research Conference

The purpose of the study was to examine the relations among mentoring, adaptation, satisfaction, commitment, and turnover intention. Two-hundred fifty two middle school teachers from ten Midwestern U.S. schools were surveyed. Hierarchical regression results demonstrated that positive mentoring experiences, successful adaptation, and greater commitment reduced the likelihood of turnover intent.

Academic Dishonesty: A Guide For Digital Instructors, Carleen V. Robinson

South Florida Education Research Conference

Academic dishonesty threatens the integrity of collegiate education and undermines institutional objectives. Nonetheless, many students willingly compromise academic integrity for higher grades and reduced stress levels. This literature review examines why students engage in academic dishonesty and addresses preventive measures and developing technologies.

From Bars To Textbooks: Bringing Higher Education Behind Bars, Carleen V. Robinson

South Florida Education Research Conference

Corrections literature maintains the profound utility of postsecondary education programs in reducing recidivism rates among ex-offenders (Anders & Noblit, 2011). Notwithstanding, financial restrictions often impede the abilities of correctional administrators to offer college-level courses. Alternative avenues for postsecondary correctional education are addressed and policy issues and recommendations provided.

Students’ Perspective Of The Role Of Facebook In Their Studies, Frank Alexander Rojas

South Florida Education Research Conference

The purpose of this research was to examine students’ perspective of their use of Facebook to further their studies. There were two major findings relating to usage of Facebook: personal, and academically. Students used Facebook to stay in touch with people and wanted to keep Facebook separate from their academics.

Neuroangradogy In Online Education, Alberto Roldán

South Florida Education Research Conference

The purpose of this perspective in practice essay is to address the effectiveness of online learning based on adult brain-based education. This essay attempts to answer the question: Do what we know about the brain (neurology) and adult teaching methods (andragogy) play a key role in learning in online courses?

Categorical Differences In Scores Of Students With Disabilities On The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Ellen Trexler

South Florida Education Research Conference

Students with disabilities participate in statewide assessments as required by federal law, and the success of schools is contingent on this group making Adequate Yearly Progress. This report on research includes the findings of differences between disability categories scoring proficient on the FCAT from the years 2005 through 2010.

Ethics In Correctional Education, Chaundra L. Whitehead

South Florida Education Research Conference

Ethics has been researched in corrections and education separately; however, there has been limited research related to the dialogue in correctional education. This paper defines the state of ethics in correctional education, identify the function of ethical dilemmas for correctional educators, and suggest a method for resolving dilemmas.

Sferc 2013: Proceedings Of The 12th Annual South Florida Education Research Conference, College Of Education, Florida International University

South Florida Education Research Conference

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Does Core Strength Training Influence Kinetic Efficiency, Lower Extremity Stability, And 5000m Performance In Runners?, Kimitake Sato, Monique Mokha

South Florida Education Research Conference

Context: Core strength training (CST) has been popular in the fitness industry for a decade. Although strong core muscles are believed to enhance athletic performance, only few scientific studies have been conducted to identify the effectiveness of CST on improving athletic performance.

Objective: Identify the effects of a 6-wk CST on running kinetics, lower extremity stability, and running performance in recreational and competitive runners.

Design and Setting: A test-retest, randomized control design was used to assess the effect of CST and no CST on ground reaction force (GRF), lower extremity stability scores, and running performance.

Participants: Twenty-eight healthy adults (age, …

Pilot Implementation Of A Heat Illness Prevention Program In The Southeastern Us, Daniel J. Ruiz, Lindsey E. Eberman, Michelle A. Cleary, Brady L. Tripp

South Florida Education Research Conference

Objective: To evaluate the ease of application of a heat illness prevention program (HIPP).

Design: A mixed-method research design was used: questionnaire and semi-structured interview.

Setting: Eleven South Florida high schools in August (mean ambient temperature=84.0°F, mean relative humidity=69.5%) participated in the HIPP.

Participants: Certified Athletic Trainers (AT) (n=11; age=22.2+1.2yr; 63.6% female, 36.4% male; 63.6%) implemented the HIPP with their football athletes which included a pre-screening tool, the Heat Illness Index Score- Risk Assessment.

Data Collection and Analysis: Participants completed a 17-item questionnaire, 4 of which provided space for open-ended responses. Additionally, semi-structured interviews were voice recorded, and separately transcribed. …

Leadership Styles, Behaviors, And Outcomes Of Athletic Training Education Program Directors, Michelle L. Odai, Jennifer L. Doherty-Restrepo

South Florida Education Research Conference

Context: With the increase in athletic training education programs, the demand for a highly qualified faculty member to serve as program director (PD) and fill the multiple roles and responsibilities of the position has increased. A successful PD must possess leadership skills crucial for the evolving academic environment. Research suggests that educational leaders must provide both transactional and transformational leadership if athletic trainers are to secure a legitimate place as healthcare providers.

Objective: To describe the leadership styles and behaviors of athletic training education PDs and to describe the associations between leadership style, behavior, outcome, and experience.

Design: We will …

Comparison Of Common Field/Clinical Measures To Standard Laboratory Measures Of Hydration Status, Dawn M. Minton, Lindsey E. Eberman, Michelle A. Cleary, Charles C. Emerson

South Florida Education Research Conference

Context: Accurately determining hydration status is a preventative measure for exertional heat illnesses (EHI).

Objective: To determine the validity of various field measures of urine specific gravity (Usg) compared to laboratory instruments.

Design: Observational research design to compare measures of hydration status: urine reagent strips (URS) and a urine color (Ucol) chart to a refractometer. Setting: We utilized the athletic training room of a Division I-A collegiate American football team.

Participants: Trial 1 involved urine samples of 69 veteran football players (age=20.1+1.2yr; body mass=229.7+44.4lb; height=72.2+2.1in). Trial 2 involved samples from 5 football players (age=20.4+0.5yr; body mass=261.4+39.2lb; height=72.3+2.3in).

Interventions: We administered …

Prolonged Rehabilitation Of Jones Fracture In Division I-A Collegiate American Football Player: A Case Report, Farah M. Hernandez, Lindsey E. Eberman

South Florida Education Research Conference

Objective: To describe the prolonged rehabilitation program for a Jones fracture in a Division I-A American football player.

Background: A 21 year old, African American, collegiate football player (body mass= 264 lb; height= 76.5 in; body fat= 16.0%) complained of a sharp pain at the dorsal aspect of the left foot. The athlete experiences a compressive force to the fifth metatarsal and upon evaluation, mild swelling was present along the lateral aspect of the foot.

Differential Diagnosis: Jones fracture, metatarsal fracture, bone contusion.

Treatment: An intramedullary fixation surgery was scheduled two weeks post injury, to correct and stabilize the fracture. …

High School Influences On The Selection Of Athletic Training As A Career, Denisha S. Fergusson, Jennifer L. Doherty-Restrepo, Michelle L. Odai

South Florida Education Research Conference

Context: Research suggests internships, mentorship, and specialized school programs positively influence career selection; however, little data exists specific to athletic training.

Objective: We identified high school (HS) experiences influencing career choice in college athletic training students (ATS).

Design: Our survey included 35 Likert-type close-ended questions, which were reviewed by a panel of faculty and peers to establish content and construct validity.

Setting: Participants completed an online questionnaire at their convenience.

Participants: 217 college ATS (153 female, 64 male) from a random selection of accredited programs on the east coast. We excluded minors, freshmen, and undecided majors from the study. Informed …

Acute Effects Of Neuromuscular-Training With Handheld-Vibration On Elbow Joint Position Sense, Donald A. Faust, Brady L. Tripp, Michelle A. Cleary, Patrick Jacobs

South Florida Education Research Conference

Context: Clinicians use exercises in rehabilitation to enhance sensorimotor-function, however evidence supporting their use is scarce.

Objective: To evaluate acute effects of handheld-vibration on joint position sense (JPS). Design: A repeated-measure, randomized, counter-balanced 3-condition design.

Setting: Sports Medicine and Science Research Laboratory. Patients or Other Participants: 31 healthy college-aged volunteers (16-males, 15-females; age=23+3y, mass=76+14kg, height=173+8cm).

Interventions: We measured elbow JPS and monitored training using the Flock-of-Birds system (Ascension Technology, Burlington, VT) and MotionMonitor software (Innsport, Chicago, IL), accurate to 0.5°. For each condition (15,5,0Hz vibration), subjects completed three 15-s bouts holding a 2.55kg Mini-VibraFlex dumbbell (Orthometric, New York, NY), and …

Reliability Of The Clinical Application Of A Mechanical Inclinometer In Measuring Glenohumeral Motion, Priscilla M. Dwelly, Brady L. Tripp, Michelle L. Odai, Patricia A. Mcginn

South Florida Education Research Conference

Objective: Establish intra- and inter-examiner reliability of glenohumeral range of motion (ROM) measures taken by a single-clinician using a mechanical inclinometer.

Design: A single-session, repeated-measure, randomized, counterbalanced design. Setting: Athletic Training laboratory. Participants: Ten college-aged volunteers (9 right-hand dominant; 4 males, 6 females; age=23.2±2.4y, mass=73±16kg, height=170±8cm) without shoulder or neck injuries within one year.

Interventions: Two Certified Athletic Trainers separately assessed passive glenohumeral (GH) internal (IR) and external (ER) rotation bilaterally. Each clinician secured the inclinometer to each subject’s distal forearm using elastic straps. Clinicians followed standard procedures for assessing ROM, with the participants supine on a standard treatment table …

Stress Urinary Incontinence In Female Athletes, Kelly I. Daly, Jennifer Doherty-Restreps

South Florida Education Research Conference

Objective: The purpose of this study is to educate allied health professionals and female athletes of the anatomy of the pelvic floor, and the pathology, etiology, and prevalence of stress urinary incontinence in female athletes. Background: Urinary incontinence is not a life-threatening or dangerous condition, but it is socially embarrassing, may cause the individual to remove herself from social situations, and decrease quality of life. While typically associated with parous women who had vaginal delivery, research has shown prevalence of the condition in physically active women of all ages. Stress urinary incontinence has shown to lead to withdrawal from participation …

The Acute Effects Of Whole Body Vibration On Muscular Power And Agility, Cara J. Cordrey, Brady L. Tripp, Patrick Jacobs, Richard Lopez, Michelle L. Odai

South Florida Education Research Conference

Context: While research suggests whole body vibration (WBV) positively affects measures of neuromuscular performance in athletes, researchers have yet to address appropriate and effective vibration protocols.

Objective: To identify the acute effects of continuous and intermittent WBV on muscular power and agility in recreationally active females.

Design: We used a randomized 3-period cross-over design to observe the effects of 3 vibration protocols on muscular power and agility.

Setting: Sports Science and Medicine Research Laboratory at Florida International University.

Patients or Other Participants: Eleven recreationally active female volunteers (age=24.4±5.7y; ht=166.0±10.3cm; mass=59.7±14.3kg).

Interventions: Each session, subjects stood on the Galileo WBV platform …

Perceptions Of French And Creole Among First-Generation Adult Haitian English Language Learners, Sonya S. Abadeer, Leopoldo A. Catala, Michelle L. Odai, Michelle A. Cleary

South Florida Education Research Conference

Context: Due to a unique combination of factors, outdoor athletes in the Southeastern United States are at high risk of lightning deaths and injuries. Lightning detection methods are available to minimize lightning strike victims.

Objective: Becoming aware of the risk factors that predispose athletes to lightning strikes and determining the most reliable detection method against hazardous weather will enable Certified Athletic Trainers to develop protocols that protect athletes from injury.

Data Sources: A comprehensive literature review of Medline and Pubmed using key words: lightning, lightning risk factors, lightning safety, lightning detection, and athletic trainers and lightning was completed.

Data Synthesis: …

An Ethnographic Study: Becoming A Physics Expert In A Biophysics Research Group, Idaykis Rodriguez

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Expertise in physics has been traditionally studied in cognitive science, where physics expertise is understood through the difference between novice and expert problem solving skills. The cognitive perspective of physics experts only create a partial model of physics expertise and does not take into account the development of physics experts in the natural context of research. This dissertation takes a social and cultural perspective of learning through apprenticeship to model the development of physics expertise of physics graduate students in a research group. I use a qualitative methodological approach of an ethnographic case study to observe and video record the …

It Takes An Institution's Village To Retain A Student: A Comprehensive Look At Two Early Warning System Undergraduate Retention Programs And Administrators' Perceptions Of Students' Experiences And The Retention Services They Provide Students In The Early Warning System Retention Programs, Shelly-Ann Hamilton

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Institutions have implemented many campus interventions to address student persistence/retention, one of which is Early Warning Systems (EWS). However, few research studies show evidence of interventions that incorporate noncognitive factors/skills, and psychotherapy/psycho-educational processes in the EWS. A qualitative study (phenomenological interview and document analysis) of EWS at both a public and private 4-year Florida university was conducted to explore EWS through the eyes of the administrators of the ways administrators make sense of students’ experiences and the services they provide and do not provide to assist students. Administrators’ understanding of noncognitive factors and the executive skills subset and their contribution …

The Relationship Of Instructor Technical Literacy To The Academic Performance Of Students In Career Academies, Jorge Gomez

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Career Academy instructors’ technical literacy is vital to the academic success of students. This nonexperimental ex post facto study examined the relationships between the level of technical literacy of instructors in career academies and student academic performance. It was also undertaken to explore the relationship between the pedagogical training of instructors and the academic performance of students.

Out of a heterogeneous population of 564 teachers in six targeted schools, 136 teachers (26.0 %) responded to an online survey. The survey was designed to gather demographic and teaching experience data. Each demographic item was linked by researchers to teachers’ technology use …

The Relationship Between Job Structure, Burnout, And Coping Methods Among Public School County Bus Drivers, Bus Aides, Mechanics, And Clerical Workers, Monica Restrepo

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the structure of jobs and burnout, and to assess to what extent, if any this relationship was moderated by individual coping methods. This study was supported by the Karasek's (1998) Job Demand-Control-Support theory of work stress as well as Maslach and Leiter's (1993) theory of burnout. Coping was examined as a moderator based on the conceptualization of Lazarus and Folkman (1984).

Two overall overarching questions framed this study: (a) what is the relationship between job structure, as operationalized by job title, and burnout across different occupations in support services …

The Relationship Of Culturally Responsive Instruction And The Reading Comprehension And Attitude Of Struggling Urban Adolescent Readers, Rona M. Olukolu

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Culturally responsive instruction refers to the identification of relevant cultural aspects of students’ lives and infusion of these into the curriculum. This instructional approach assumes that a culturally appropriate curriculum can potentially motivate, engage, and lead students to higher rates of achievement.

This quasi-experimental study (N=44) investigated the relationship of culturally responsive instruction and the reading comprehension and attitude of struggling urban adolescent readers. The study incorporated the use of culturally responsive instruction using culturally relevant literature (CRL), the Bluford Series Novels, as authentic texts of instruction. Participants were seventh grade reading students at a Title I middle school …

Revista Electrónica Leer, Escribir Y Descubrir Abril 2013 Vol 1 No1, International Literacy Association

Revista Electrónica Leer, Escribir y Descubrir

El contenido en este número es el siguiente

¿Cómo Se Lee y Escribe en Línea? -Daniel Cassany Comas

Alfabetizacón de Niños, Niñas y Personas Adultas: Componente Indispensable en la Formación Docente - Luz Emilia Flores Davis, Marta Eugenia Sánchez González

Desafios Latinoamericanos: en Busca de Una Cultura Letrada -Adelina Arellano-Osuna

Comunidades Lectoras a Través de la "Ronda de Libros" -Gaby Vallejo Canedo

El Desarrollo de Habilidades de Lectura y Escritura en Inglés como Lengua Extranjera -Oscar J. Martinez-Alaniz

Gaining Insight Into Teaching: A Phenomenological Exploration Of The Lived Experience Of The Teachers Of The Year, Robin F. Amparo

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

What qualities, skills, and knowledge produce quality teachers? Many stake-holders in education argue that teacher quality should be measured by student achievement. This qualitative study shows that good teachers are multi-dimensional; their effectiveness cannot be represented by students’ test scores alone.

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to gain a deeper understanding of quality in teaching by examining the lived experiences of 10 winners or finalists of the Teacher of the Year (ToY) Award. Phenomenology describes individuals’ daily experiences of phenomena, examines how these experiences are structured, and focuses analysis on the perspectives of the persons having the experience …

The Relationship Between Faculty Perceptions And Implementation Of Elements Of Transactional Distance Theory And Online Web-Based Course Completion Rates, Victor Nwankwo

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between faculty perceptions, selected demographics, implementation of elements of transactional distance theory and online web-based course completion rates. This theory posits that the high transactional distance of online courses makes it difficult for students to complete these courses successfully; too often this is associated with low completion rates. Faculty members play an indispensable role in course design, whether online or face-to-face. They also influence course delivery format from design through implementation and ultimately to how students will experience the course. This study used transactional distance theory as the conceptual framework …

Globalization And The Public Provision Of Higher Education: Empirical Evidence From Selected Countries, Claudette Nyang'oro

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This research study was designed to examine the relationship between globalization as measured by the KOF index, its related forces (economic, political, cultural and technological) and the public provision of higher education. This study is important since globalization is increasingly being associated with changes in critical aspects of higher education. The public provision of education was measured by government expenditure and educational outcomes; that is participation, gender equity and attainment. The study utilized a non-experimental quantitative research design. Data collected from secondary sources for 139 selected countries was analyzed. The countries were geographically distributed and included both developed and developing …

Teachers’ Experiences In And Perceptions Of Their12th-Grade British Literature Classrooms, Keisha Simone Mcintyre-Mccullough

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences and perceptions of 12th-grade literature teachers about curriculum, Post-Colonial literature, and students. Theories posed by Piaget (1995), Vygotsky (1995), and Rosenblatt (1995) formed the framework for this micro-ethnographic study. Seven teachers from public and private schools in South Florida participated in this two-phase study; three teachers in Phase I and four in Phase II. All participants completed individual semi-structured interviews and demographic surveys. In addition, four of the teachers were observed teaching.

The analysis yielded three themes and two sub-themes: (a) knowledge concerned teachers’ knowledge of British literature content and …