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The Effects Of Repeated Reading On Grade-Level Fluency Growth And Proficiency In First Grade, Mallory Wilson-Anderson Jan 2017

The Effects Of Repeated Reading On Grade-Level Fluency Growth And Proficiency In First Grade, Mallory Wilson-Anderson

Journal of Applied and Educational Research

Throughout the country, students were identified as, “at risk” due to their lack of fluency proficiency on the Formative Assessment for Teachers (FAST). Students who did not attain grade-level fluency suffered from comprehending text, which negatively affected the process of reading to learn. Teachers actively explored fluency-building activities to continue to meet the needs of the “at risk” early childhood reading population. According to the fall 2016 FAST assessment, 26.9% of students within the building were not proficient. Due to the significance of students attaining grade-level fluency proficiency, this study investigated if implementing repeated reading instruction aided first-grade students in …

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Journal Of Applied And Educational Research - Front Matter And Table Of Contents, Dharma Jairam Editor-In-Chief Jan 2017

Journal Of Applied And Educational Research - Front Matter And Table Of Contents, Dharma Jairam Editor-In-Chief

Journal of Applied and Educational Research

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The Effects Of Animal-Assisted Therapy On The Self-Reported Test Anxiety In 6th Grade Students With Test Anxiety, Jon Markus Jan 2017

The Effects Of Animal-Assisted Therapy On The Self-Reported Test Anxiety In 6th Grade Students With Test Anxiety, Jon Markus

Journal of Applied and Educational Research

While there have been numerous studies showing animal-assisted therapy’s (AAT) positive influence on students’ reading proficiency in school settings and patients’ anxiety levels in hospital settings, little data exists showing the relationship between AAT and the reduction in anxiety, specifically test anxiety, in school children. This sixteen-week study investigated the effects of AAT on student, self-reported test anxiety. Participants in this study were only those students with high and extremely high levels of test anxiety. Using an AB research design, participants received no AAT prior to or during academic testing during the baseline. At the start of the intervention, participants …

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Blown To Bits Project, David Schmidt Jan 2017

Blown To Bits Project, David Schmidt

Informatics Open Educational Resources

The book, Blown to Bits, uncovers the many ways that the new digital world has changed and is changing our whole environment. Some changes are incremental but others are more revolutionary. Some of the changes that we welcome are slowly eroding our privacy and are changing the rules of ownership. This book illuminates the complexities of these changes. I have attempted to capture the central points in selected chapters, and in some cases I have added new material or new examples to replace dated material. I picked chapters to summarize that address the following topics (and more). There are many …

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Expanding Transnational Frames Into Composition Studies: Revising The Rhetoric And Writing Minor At The American University In Cairo, James P. Austin Jan 2017

Expanding Transnational Frames Into Composition Studies: Revising The Rhetoric And Writing Minor At The American University In Cairo, James P. Austin

English Faculty Publications

This chapter examines U.S.-based approaches to curricular revision of the Rhetoric and Writing Minor at the American University in Cairo (AUC) through analysis of faculty interviews and relevant artifacts. Through this analysis, and consideration of AUC’s development in the context of changes in Egypt, the chapter argues that U.S.-based curricular approaches satisfied various local needs among AUC’s writing faculty and students. These findings complicate claims within international composition studies, which are concerned with non-reflective export of U.S. linguistic, pedagogical and program models into international sites. This chapter calls for expanding the perspective of U.S.-based approaches to composition studies to include …

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Consolidation And Reform: Middle School Considerations -The Case Of The Lebanon R-Iii School District In Lebanon, Missouri, Janci R. Mills Jan 2017

Consolidation And Reform: Middle School Considerations -The Case Of The Lebanon R-Iii School District In Lebanon, Missouri, Janci R. Mills

Master's Theses

This case study examined the implementation of a new public middle school following intra-district consolidation in rural Missouri. Lebanon R-III saw the intradistrict consolidation of a sixth grade building, and a seventh/eighth grade building, creating a middle school. This initiative prepared students, faculty and staff to experience a middle school aiming to improve the learning experience for students in grades six through eight. The implementation of consolidation, school reform initiatives, and the current school status were discussed in this case study. Data was collected and examined regarding the perceptions of teachers about the effectiveness of implementation strategies used in the …

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Art Integration In Urban Elementary Schools: Can It Improve Student Learning Outcomes In Other Subject Areas?, Julie Flynn Jan 2017

Art Integration In Urban Elementary Schools: Can It Improve Student Learning Outcomes In Other Subject Areas?, Julie Flynn

Journal of Applied and Educational Research

Teachers and students nationwide are struggling to address the disparity in academic achievement between students in urban, socioeconomically underprivileged and racially segregated school districts, and their more affluent, white, suburban counterparts. Poorer urban schools are also less likely to have adequate funding and support for arts programs. Educators must thus look outside of traditional learning models and explore all opportunities to engage their students and create learning opportunities. Arts integration has been shown to improve student attitudes and engagement, along with a potential to “transfer” skills and knowledge to other subject areas. This study sought to examine whether the integration …

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The Inclusion Of Self-Assessment In Merit Evaluation, Kenneth L. Rigler Ph.D., Lorie Cook-Benjamin Ed.D., Regi Wieland Ph.D., Carrie Tholstrup Nov 2016

The Inclusion Of Self-Assessment In Merit Evaluation, Kenneth L. Rigler Ph.D., Lorie Cook-Benjamin Ed.D., Regi Wieland Ph.D., Carrie Tholstrup

Applied Technology Faculty Publications

The purpose of this survey study was to collect faculty perceptions toward changes made to the faculty merit evaluation process in a college of education at a state comprehensive university. The changes in the evaluation occurred over a two-year period, where a formative rubric and faculty self-assessment were incorporated into the merit instrument. The sampling frame for the study included the college of education faculty members at the university. The data for the study were collected in two different phases using a field-tested online survey that was created to collect the faculty perceptions of the newly developed instrument and process …

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Perceptions Of Active Learning Between Faculty And Undergraduates: Differing Views Among Departments, Lorelei E. Patrick, Leigh Ann Howell, William Wischusen Sep 2016

Perceptions Of Active Learning Between Faculty And Undergraduates: Differing Views Among Departments, Lorelei E. Patrick, Leigh Ann Howell, William Wischusen

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

There have been numerous calls recently to increase the use of active learning in university science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) classrooms to more actively engage students and enhance student learning. However, few studies have investigated faculty and student perceptions regarding the effectiveness of active learning or the barriers to its implementation. Previous work surveying a single class in a single department has suggested that faculty and students have different perceptions of the effectiveness of active learning strategies and the barriers faculty face when implementing these teaching strategies. We expand on these previous findings by surveying a larger and more …

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Back Matter, Teacher-Scholar: The Journal Of The State Comprehensive University Sep 2016

Back Matter, Teacher-Scholar: The Journal Of The State Comprehensive University

Teacher-Scholar: The Journal of the State Comprehensive University

List of contributors.

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Writing Majors: Eighteen Program Profiles, By Greg Giberson, Jim Nugent, And Lori Ostergaard, Cheryl Hofstetter Duffy Sep 2016

Writing Majors: Eighteen Program Profiles, By Greg Giberson, Jim Nugent, And Lori Ostergaard, Cheryl Hofstetter Duffy

Teacher-Scholar: The Journal of the State Comprehensive University

Giberson, Greg, Jim Nugent, and Lori Ostergaard, ed. Writing Majors: Eighteen Program Profiles. Logan: Utah State UP, 2015. What does a writing major look like? In Writing Majors: Eighteen Program Profiles, Greg Giberson et al. have compiled a diverse and detailed collection of answers to that question. The book’s plural title, Writing Majors, is apt, for this is not a description of the writing major; instead, we find little consensus among the many programs outlined here. The notion of a writing major, it turns out, is amorphous. Sometimes a writing major is housed in its own department, as are the …

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The 160-Character Solution: How Text Messaging And Other Behavioral Strategies Can Improve Education, By Benjamin Castleman, Amanda Fields Sep 2016

The 160-Character Solution: How Text Messaging And Other Behavioral Strategies Can Improve Education, By Benjamin Castleman, Amanda Fields

Teacher-Scholar: The Journal of the State Comprehensive University

Castleman, Benjamin J. The 160-Character Solution: How Text Messaging and Other Behavioral Strategies Can Improve Education. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. 152 p. ISBN 978I421418742. $22.95. In The 160-Character Solution: How Text Messaging and Other Behavioral Strategies Can Improve Education, Benjamin J. Castleman offers specific approaches for recruiting and retaining college students, especially those students whose socioeconomic conditions may deter them from making informed choices about their education. Castleman asks university stakeholders to be cognizant of the overabundance of information students and their families must wade through when seeking out a university. He suggests the need for more effective …

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Introduction: Reflecting On The Red Balloon Project, George L. Mehaffy Aug 2016

Introduction: Reflecting On The Red Balloon Project, George L. Mehaffy

Teacher-Scholar: The Journal of the State Comprehensive University

On a warm July afternoon in 2010, AASCU convened its Academic Affairs Summer Meeting in Chicago. The hotel ballroom had a festive look about it, with red balloons hanging from every imaginable place. At that conference, we used the red balloons to announce the launch of the Red Balloon Project, a national initiative focused on reimagining undergraduate education. The Red Balloon Project grew out of three critical challenges for AASCU institutions: declining state support, increasing expectations, and dramatic changes in technology. The year 2010 witnessed an acceleration of disinvestment in public higher education as states, struggling with the consequences of …

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A Context For Extramural Funding At State Comprehensive Universities: Tilting At Windmills Or Fighting The Good Fight?, John Falconer Aug 2016

A Context For Extramural Funding At State Comprehensive Universities: Tilting At Windmills Or Fighting The Good Fight?, John Falconer

Teacher-Scholar: The Journal of the State Comprehensive University

Once upon a time, colleges hired professors to teach students. It was a simple world. But in the 1800s, the German model of higher education began to influence American higher education, and we embraced the notion of faculty members who would both develop knowledge and transmit it to students. This expanded the job of the professor considerably, although the spread of this model across higher education was gradual. Indeed, it is still underway. Despite the widely held notion that a faculty member who is engaged in his or her discipline offers more to a department and to students than someone …

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Is The New Quick Release Attachment System More Efficient At Removing Face Masks Than The Combined Tool Approach?, Shannon Shubert Apr 2016

Is The New Quick Release Attachment System More Efficient At Removing Face Masks Than The Combined Tool Approach?, Shannon Shubert

SACAD: John Heinrichs Scholarly and Creative Activity Days

This is a systematic review to determine which method, combined tool approach or quick release attachment system, removes a football helmet facemask quicker. Evidence indicates both methods for facemask removal can be quick and efficient. However, the quick release attachment system was quicker and produced less movement of the head compared to the combined tool approach during the facemask removal process. In emergent football cervical spine injuries, the quick release attachment system is better to use in removing the helmet facemask than the combined tool approach.

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Undergraduate Perceptions Ofinterpersonal Violence, Joshua Mcdowell, Madison Bainter, Abigail Hammeke Apr 2016

Undergraduate Perceptions Ofinterpersonal Violence, Joshua Mcdowell, Madison Bainter, Abigail Hammeke

Kansas Undergraduate Research Day

Interpersonal violence is an issue facing all college campuses, including those in Kansas. Some studies indicate that more than a quarter of surveyed college students admit to having perpetrated actions construed as sexually violent in nature. Title IX of the Education Amendments Act requires schools to respond to issues of sexual violence. This approach, while important, reacts to incidents that have already occurred rather than preventing violence. One possible reason for the rampant existence of sexual violence on campuses is that many behaviors are not identified as violent, even by those on the receiving end. This study presents findings from …

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Facial Recognition Of Dark Triad Traits And The Link To Prenatal Androgen Exposure, Taylor Willits, Arianne Fisher Apr 2016

Facial Recognition Of Dark Triad Traits And The Link To Prenatal Androgen Exposure, Taylor Willits, Arianne Fisher

Kansas Undergraduate Research Day

The Dark Triad is a personality construct composed of psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism that is commonly associated with a variety of undesirable behaviors. High prenatal androgen exposure has been associated with various behavioral and personality characteristics also commonly found in individuals high in the Dark Triad. This may suggest a link between prenatal androgen exposure and the development of the Dark Triad. Additionally, previous research has found that the faces of individuals high in the Dark Triad are able to be identified at rates significantly better than chance. This identification may indicate evolutionary benefits associated with facial recognition of Dark …

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Pig Growth And Development Based On Differing Swine Rations, Hannah Speer Apr 2016

Pig Growth And Development Based On Differing Swine Rations, Hannah Speer

Kansas Undergraduate Research Day

This study was developed to provide nutritional advice to young swine producers who are purchasing and growing young show pigs. The objective of this study was to compare the rate of gain and associated economic cost per pound of gain relative to different show pig rations. Information gained from this study could provide an educated decision making tool enabling young producers to be economically viable in the swine industry. The trial was divided into four groups containing seven mixed breed pigs of similar weight. All of the pigs within the trial were within eight days of age. Three groups were …

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Educators’ Resistance To The Technology And Engineering Education Transition, Kenneth L. Rigler Ph.D. Apr 2016

Educators’ Resistance To The Technology And Engineering Education Transition, Kenneth L. Rigler Ph.D.

Applied Technology Faculty Publications

The purpose of the qualitative grounded theory study was to explore why industrial arts educators resisted organizational change to technology and engineering education. An exploratory, grounded theory method was used to identify new theory related to educators’ resistance because the current literature did not provide a theoretical perspective about why industrial arts educators have resisted the change. The sampling frame was derived from a database of 379 secondary technology and engineering education teachers in the state of Kansas, and a sample size of 13 participants was needed to reach theoretical saturation of the phenomenon. The data for the study was …

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In Search Of A Proper Role For First-Year Composition In The Two-Year Open-Enrollment College, Stephen M. Combs Apr 2016

In Search Of A Proper Role For First-Year Composition In The Two-Year Open-Enrollment College, Stephen M. Combs

Academic Leadership Journal in Student Research

The search for a common model of instruction in first-year composition began in the 1960s when composition first began to separate from literature in college English departments. Because writing is essentially a methods course with no standard curriculum as one might find in physics or economics, a common model has been elusive. A sign that consensus may be developing came in 2011 when an alliance of three professional organizations published its “Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing.” Its recommendations consist of departures from some of the discipline’s long-cherished practices. Many of these recommendations appeared in scholarly articles more than three …

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A Diverse Clinical-Based Practice In Teacher Education, Shelby Gottschalk, Megan M. Hake, Lori Cook-Benjamin Apr 2016

A Diverse Clinical-Based Practice In Teacher Education, Shelby Gottschalk, Megan M. Hake, Lori Cook-Benjamin

Academic Leadership Journal in Student Research

The purpose of the study was to determine if offering a virtual clinical-based practice would affect teacher candidates’ level of confidence in teaching diverse students. During 2012-2014, data were collected using a pre- and post-Likert scale questionnaire. A paired two sample t-test was utilized to determine if there was a significant difference in mean scores from the pre- to the postquestionnaire. Increases were found in all questionnaire items with five of the items showing a significant increase at the α=.01 level. The results suggest that a virtual clinical-based practice may provide an authentic experience for teacher candidates, may lead teacher …

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The Conflict Of Commodification Of Traditional Higher Education Institutions, Jarrad Plante Apr 2016

The Conflict Of Commodification Of Traditional Higher Education Institutions, Jarrad Plante

Academic Leadership Journal in Student Research

Moving into the 21st century, the landscape of the traditional higher education institution has changed, including its model of conducting business. Students in the millennial generation see higher education as a commodity, where learning can be acquired through different delivery systems. It is imperative that organizational leaders, like those in colleges and universities, improve, effectively responding to changing environments at their institutions. Double-loop learning (Rahim, 2011; Senge, 2013) is a formative method of organizational effectiveness that allows top managers to focus on the underpinning of conflicts like commodification of higher education and use strategic decision-making processes to recognize and accept …

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Rural Community College Student Perceptions Of Barriers To College Enrollment, Shanda Scott, Michael T. Miller, Adam A. Morris Apr 2016

Rural Community College Student Perceptions Of Barriers To College Enrollment, Shanda Scott, Michael T. Miller, Adam A. Morris

Academic Leadership Journal in Student Research

Rural community college students face unique difficulties in higher education for many reasons, including the resources they typically have access to, their collective histories, and in many cases, the preparation they received in high school. These challenges might be low-performing secondary schools, a lack of tradition and precedence in attending college, and even limited technology connectivity. These difficulties can be seen as barriers to college attendance, and it is important to understand how rural community college students see these barriers, and even more important to understand how they can be overcome. The current study sought to take the first step …

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Examining The Relationship Of Demographic Variables, Media Exposure, And Motivation On Second Language Acquisition, Heidi Hines May 2015

Examining The Relationship Of Demographic Variables, Media Exposure, And Motivation On Second Language Acquisition, Heidi Hines

Master's Theses

Many students in higher education settings struggle with learning a new language. It’s not uncommon for international students to need additional resources in learning to speak and write in English. A pilot study funded by Fort Hays State University implemented various English software programs, such as Rosetta Stone, and Memrise at one of their Chinese partnership universities. The English programs were given as an option to help the students during an English composition course. The current study took advantage of FHSU’s pilot study and used that opportunity to investigate additional variables related to second language acquisition. The current study does …

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The International Curriculum: Current Trends And Emerging Needs, Jesse Jones Richter Apr 2015

The International Curriculum: Current Trends And Emerging Needs, Jesse Jones Richter

Academic Leadership Journal in Student Research

This paper examines the current state of tertiary level international curricula and provides groundwork for future research aimed at ongoing needs. Recognized is the premise that existing international curricular programs require maintenance. Burn (1995) called for curriculum reform in international departments two decades ago with the rationale that effective programming will consider both the near and distant future contexts of the business world. Devine (1993) provided some evidence of progress in the same era, but it is uncertain whether or not this was a sustained or isolated event. Additionally, there tends to be a mix in thought about what exactly …

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The Effect Of Standardized Testing On Historical Literacy And Educational Reform In The U.S., Julie Hisey Maranto Apr 2015

The Effect Of Standardized Testing On Historical Literacy And Educational Reform In The U.S., Julie Hisey Maranto

Academic Leadership Journal in Student Research

Public education in America has an impressive history of success in equipping students with literacy that extends back to the earliest days of our nation. Education was a high priority for the original settlers in America who, motivated by their religious convictions, eagerly sought mastery and dissemination of literacy skills throughout the population. For most of the Protestant settlers, their beliefs derived from the doctrines of the Reformation and they considered the ability to read as a fundamental necessity for grounding citizens in the tenets of their faith as well as their government.

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Using Social Network Analysis To Explore Digital Student Interactions And Business Competency Learning In A Web-Based Educational Platform:, Andrew P. Feldstein Dps, Kim Gower Jan 2015

Using Social Network Analysis To Explore Digital Student Interactions And Business Competency Learning In A Web-Based Educational Platform:, Andrew P. Feldstein Dps, Kim Gower

TILT Faculty Publications

Web 2.0 tools occupy a large part of our lives, and their use in the classroom offers instructors a unique opportunity to gather substantial information about individual and interactive student behaviors. The authors’ challenge is understanding the implications of this rich data source for assessing course efficacy and student learning, and applying these insights to further enhance the development of global business competencies. This paper reviews 311 student interactions as reflected in comments exchanged in a digital social learning community and, using social network analysis, discusses the potential to use these interactions to assess student critical thinking, communication, and collaborative …

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Disrupting The “Norm” With Collaborative Strategic Reading, Alison G. Boardman, Brooke A. Moore Ph.D., Karla R. Scornavacco Jan 2015

Disrupting The “Norm” With Collaborative Strategic Reading, Alison G. Boardman, Brooke A. Moore Ph.D., Karla R. Scornavacco

Advanced Education Programs Faculty Publications

Using a case study of a seventh-grade language arts classroom, the authors describe an evidence-based approach to reading comprehension instruction, collaborative strategic reading, which supports all learners by changing the nature of learning and participation.

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Establishing A Learning Community To Support Research And Scholarly Training: A Case Study, Jane Mills, Melanie Birks, Karen Francis Apr 2014

Establishing A Learning Community To Support Research And Scholarly Training: A Case Study, Jane Mills, Melanie Birks, Karen Francis

Academic Leadership Journal in Student Research

This paper examines the concept of learning communities as defined in the literature. An existing case study is described, and the issues that facilitated and constrained the development of this learning community are considered and discussed. Strategies to address threats to the ongoing viability and usefulness of a learning community to support research training are offered. The influence of leadership styles and their interaction with the theoretical underpinnings of the concept of learning communities is used to support the argument.

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Motivational Techniques: Positively Impacting Students From Middle School Through College, Joseph E. Walter Apr 2014

Motivational Techniques: Positively Impacting Students From Middle School Through College, Joseph E. Walter

Academic Leadership Journal in Student Research

In the United States, our children face a number of factors that influence their behavior. Children’s peers, parents and even the media, especially television, heavily influence students. Because of these influences, it can be difficult to motivate students in the classroom to strive for and achieve success. The purpose of this article is to discuss the influential factors that affect children from middle school through college, and discuss ways to help motivate students to achieve success.

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