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Full-Text Articles in Education
Naturally Occurring Mentorship In A National Sample Of First-Generation College Goers: A Promising Portal For Academic And Developmental Success., Veronica Fruiht, Thomas Chan
Naturally Occurring Mentorship In A National Sample Of First-Generation College Goers: A Promising Portal For Academic And Developmental Success., Veronica Fruiht, Thomas Chan
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Attending college is increasingly important to compete in this global world; however, young people whose parents did not attend college are significantly less likely to enroll in and finish college. Formal programs to support first-generation college goers are common, but not scalable to provide support to all young people who need it. Instead, mentoring that naturally occurs on these students' journeys into and out of college may be a more practical avenue for supporting their success. This study investigated the role community members, relatives, and educators play in first-generation college goers' educational outcomes. Data from 4,181 participants of the National …
Service-Learning Program Community Partner Handbook, Julia Van Der Ryn, Emily Wu
Service-Learning Program Community Partner Handbook, Julia Van Der Ryn, Emily Wu
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Dominican’s Service-Learning Designated Courses require that students work with their community partner for approximately 20-25 hours during the semester. The service hours must occur weekly and continuously throughout the semester, and the time spent constructively and productively towards the needs and goals of the community.
Ideally, a community partner has existing programs and infrastructure that can provide our SL students with opportunities to gain consistent (weekly) and extensive (semester-long) experiences participating and interacting with community members. In turn, SL faculty intentionally guide their students to reflect on and analyze their weekly community experiences to make connections with course content.
Service-Learning Faculty Handbook [Version 3], Julia Van Der Ryn, Emily Wu
Service-Learning Faculty Handbook [Version 3], Julia Van Der Ryn, Emily Wu
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Dominican University’s mission provides a strong foundation for service-learning, a pedagogy that creates intentional links between academic education and community experience where each strengthens the other. Service-learning engages students, faculty, staff, and community partners in collaborative and responsive action, dialogue, and reflection to address community-identified needs, meet learning goals, expand our perspectives, and increase civic participation. In this way service-learning creates reciprocal benefits for all involved:
1. The University is able to live out its mission and enhance its role as a vital and active partner in the community;
2. Faculty are supported in connecting innovative teaching, research/scholarship, and community …
Developing And Modeling 21st-Century Skills With Preservice Teachers, Jacquelyn Urbani, Shadi Roshandel, Rosemarie Michaels, Elizabeth Truesdell
Developing And Modeling 21st-Century Skills With Preservice Teachers, Jacquelyn Urbani, Shadi Roshandel, Rosemarie Michaels, Elizabeth Truesdell
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Today’s youth face a rapidly changing world, requiring them to move beyond basic formulaic knowledge and skills. Current educational policy, such as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), represents a shift away from rote learning and memorization of facts to the development of the 21st-century skills of creativity: critical thinking; communication; collaboration; and information, media, and technology skills (IMTS). Business and political leaders also recognize the necessity in addressing these core competencies for the 21st-century landscape (Ravitch, 2010). For students to be competent in a global society, K–12 teachers need to develop, model, and assess the 21st-century skills in their …
The Small College Imperative: From Survival To Transformation, Mary B. Marcy
The Small College Imperative: From Survival To Transformation, Mary B. Marcy
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Small colleges and universities serve a profoundly important role in American society. They provide the rigorous, personalized experience that is the hallmark of the best of higher education. In the process, they build opportunity and encourage civic engagement among a new generation of citizens.
The landscape for these institutions has changed dramatically in recent years. Declining numbers of traditional college-age students have coincided with a shift in populations moving away from areas with a large number of small private institutions. The high-tuition and high-financial-aid model of funding private colleges and universities is generating less net-tuition revenue, while tuition-discounting rates continue …
An Innovative Behavioral Interview For Pre-Admission Selection Of Occupational Therapy Students, Kitsum Li, Julia L. Wilbarger, Shad St. Louis
An Innovative Behavioral Interview For Pre-Admission Selection Of Occupational Therapy Students, Kitsum Li, Julia L. Wilbarger, Shad St. Louis
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
The goal for pre-admission interview is to identify students who will be successful both academically and professionally. The traditional structured pre-admission interview has not been shown to be effective in predicting students’ success in academic and fieldwork performance. This article describes an innovative behavioral interview process during which applicants interviewed simulated clients as part of the preadmission selection process. The goals of the pre-admission behavioral interview were to observe applicants’ behavior as team players, and to assess their interpersonal communication skills, capability to be reflective, and professionalism. During the behavioral interview, faculty interviewers assessed the applicants’ performance in the planning …
Open Educational Resources: Solving The Textbook Cost Crisis, Michael Pujals
Open Educational Resources: Solving The Textbook Cost Crisis, Michael Pujals
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
A presentation on Open Educational Resources and how the can be used to ease the cost burden of textbooks for students at Dominican University of California.
Service-Learning At Dominican: Education In Action, Julia Van Der Ryn
Service-Learning At Dominican: Education In Action, Julia Van Der Ryn
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
What is Service-Learning at Dominican?
Service-Learning (SL) puts education into action by engaging with the community and experiencing the relevance of coursework first-hand. SL expands the classroom into the local community, providing the opportunity to apply classroom content to work with local community organizations and schools, learning about the lives of others, developing awareness, enhancing one’s understanding of how we can contribute to social justice issues that ultimately impact us all.
Through SL, students develop practical, transferable skills, explore career and personal interests, and expand their networks and sense of self while connecting with other students, faculty, and community mentors.
A Comparison Of Skills Competency Test Scores Among Philippine-Educated Nursing Students After An Intensive Medical-Surgical Course, Margaret Fink, Debbie Daunt, Patricia Harris, Barbara Mccamish
A Comparison Of Skills Competency Test Scores Among Philippine-Educated Nursing Students After An Intensive Medical-Surgical Course, Margaret Fink, Debbie Daunt, Patricia Harris, Barbara Mccamish
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Objective: This study examined the effect of a 10-week intensive medical-surgical course on ability to perform 16 common, acute care skills among Philippine educated nursing students seeking licensure in California. The aims of the study were to (1) determine competency in performing skills at the start of the medical-surgical course and (2) evaluate the effectiveness of the medical-surgical course in improving skill competency.
Methods: Twenty-three Philippine educated nursing students participated in a 4-hour skills competency test procedure that involved 4 patient care stations and 16 common acute care skills. During the last week of the 10-week medical-surgical course that included …
Challenging Existing Paradigms: Critiques Of Internationalization, Kati Bell
Challenging Existing Paradigms: Critiques Of Internationalization, Kati Bell
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Universities are now more globally connected than ever before through technology, partnerships, and student mobility as teaching and learning increasingly moves beyond borders into a transnational realm of global education. In response to this globalization of higher education, universities around the world are feeling the pressure to intentionally develop and implement comprehensive internationalization policies, further motivated by a variety of factors including competition and financial growth. However, after nearly a decade of uncritical acceptance and support for the positive merits of the internationalization of higher education, internationalization is recently experiencing an emerging backlash of criticism. The publications presented in this …
Increasing Effective Service And Support For Students On The Autism Spectrum, Jacquelyn Urbani, Billye Brown, Colleen Arnold
Increasing Effective Service And Support For Students On The Autism Spectrum, Jacquelyn Urbani, Billye Brown, Colleen Arnold
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
From a campus workshop focusing on how faculty can more effectively work with students with autism.
Collection Development Policy For Dominican Scholar, Michael Pujals
Collection Development Policy For Dominican Scholar, Michael Pujals
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
The purpose of Dominican Scholar is to collect, store, showcase, and to make freely accessible, the academic output of the University’s students and faculty in a single online open access environment.
Primary Objectives
- To collect and make accessible Dominican University of California (the University) research and creative works – e.g. journal articles, working papers, presentations, media - in a centralized online repository.
- To organize the University’s research and creative works, and to share them with the community – locally and globally.
- To disseminate the University’s research and creative works through open availability on the Internet.
Using Literature For Project Based Learning, Jacquelyn Urbani
Using Literature For Project Based Learning, Jacquelyn Urbani
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Developing Compassion Through Travel, Leeann Bartolini
Developing Compassion Through Travel, Leeann Bartolini
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Embedding Information Literacy Skills In Undergraduate Research Studies, Madalienne F. Peters, Suzanne Roybal, Atria Romero, Alexandra Rovira, Kimberly Ann Harris, Heidi Samayoa, Kristen Ozorio, Alejandra Vazquez
Embedding Information Literacy Skills In Undergraduate Research Studies, Madalienne F. Peters, Suzanne Roybal, Atria Romero, Alexandra Rovira, Kimberly Ann Harris, Heidi Samayoa, Kristen Ozorio, Alejandra Vazquez
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
In any academic context, when one mentions the term research, students immediately panic and assume this research is something they cannot do under any circumstances. This response seems fairly common among students new to undergraduate and graduate level research. The tendency on the part of the students is to make this a daunting project, impossible to complete. The faculty leaders know how to conduct research. The goal is to describe the research steps, have students practice each step, and then have them build their research work in stages. Collaboration between and among faculty in exploring and teaching research tools helped …
Education In Action: Service-Learning Celebrating 10 Years, Julia Van Der Ryn
Education In Action: Service-Learning Celebrating 10 Years, Julia Van Der Ryn
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
The mission of the Service-Learning (SL) Program is to centralize resources and support for faculty, students, partner organizations and the diverse communities they serve to advance education and social justice through shared learning and collaborative action. The SL Program seeks to manifest the Dominican ideals and mission to educate ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens through the creation of intentional, collaborative, mutually beneficial partnerships and relevant teaching/learning practices. Service-Learning integrates meaningful community engagement with academic curriculum, enriching learning through experience and intentional reflection on the interface between theory and practice.
Slimmer, Brighter, And Nearly Perfect: The New Big History Textbook Is Here, Mojgan Behmand
Slimmer, Brighter, And Nearly Perfect: The New Big History Textbook Is Here, Mojgan Behmand
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Rarely has the appearance of a new textbook been the cause of such delight as broke out amongst the First Year Experience faculty at Dominican University of California in August 2013. The book that triggered such reaction is a seemingly unassuming volume, Big History: Between Nothing and Everything (2013), written by historians David Christian, Cynthia Stokes Brown, and Craig Benjamin, and published by McGraw-Hill. Why was the book greeted with such enthusiasm, you might ask? Was it that the world needed another textbook on history? That the Dominican faculty felt a special bond with one of the authors, Dominican professor …
Faculty And Student Perceptions And Behaviours Related To Information Literacy: A Pilot Study Using Triangulation, Barbara Jean Ganley, Amy Gilbert, Dianne Rosario
Faculty And Student Perceptions And Behaviours Related To Information Literacy: A Pilot Study Using Triangulation, Barbara Jean Ganley, Amy Gilbert, Dianne Rosario
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
This pilot study was developed to determine if the University’s students were proficient in IL based on the requisite skills defined by ALA (2000), to define faculty and student perceptions and behaviours related to information literacy (IL) and to test an evaluation rubric using empirical inquiry and triangulated methods. Findings suggested that not all students (n=164) had satisfactory IL skills even at the senior student level. While 4th year college students (seniors n=91) fared better on an IL survey when compared to 1st year college students (freshmen n=53), analysis of the senior students’ theses led researchers to believe that students …
A Transformative Experience For Occupational Therapy Students In A Simulated Learning Environment, Kitsum Li, Barbara Mccamish
A Transformative Experience For Occupational Therapy Students In A Simulated Learning Environment, Kitsum Li, Barbara Mccamish
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Simulation is being integrated into nursing and medical curriculum nationally and it is well integrated into the Nursing program at Dominican University of California, However, use of simulation in allied health professionals is only an emerging practice. The aim of this program is to integrate simulation into the OT curriculum in order to facilitate the development of therapy foundation skill.
Integrating Instructional Technology Into A Teacher Education Program: A Three-Tiered Approach, Elizabeth Truesdell, Rebecca Birch
Integrating Instructional Technology Into A Teacher Education Program: A Three-Tiered Approach, Elizabeth Truesdell, Rebecca Birch
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
This project description examines how a teacher education program integrated new instructional technology through the creation of a Technology Facilitator position in the department. The project proceeded through a three-tiered system of learning literacy to establish a knowledge base amongst faculty members, augmenting required courses to model the use of instructional technology, and finally the transformation of the credential program where the activity of learning can only be accomplished through leveraging technology. As a professional program housed in a liberal arts institution, this project combines aspects of the essential learning outcomes of the 21st century with the professional skills required …
Integration Of Interactive Instructional Technology In The Teaching Credential Program: A Case Study, Elizabeth Truesdell, Rebecca Birch
Integration Of Interactive Instructional Technology In The Teaching Credential Program: A Case Study, Elizabeth Truesdell, Rebecca Birch
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Teacher Education faculty present initial findings of a case study implementing interactive instructional technology in credential candidates’ course and fieldwork.
The Pedagogical Value Of Polling: A Coordinated 2012 Exit Poll Project Across Diverse Classrooms, Jennifer Kelkres Emery, Alison D. Howard, Jocelyn Evans
The Pedagogical Value Of Polling: A Coordinated 2012 Exit Poll Project Across Diverse Classrooms, Jennifer Kelkres Emery, Alison D. Howard, Jocelyn Evans
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Several previous studies have demonstrated that student exit polling has educational value and promotes civic engagement (Berry and Robinson 2012, Evans and Lagergren 2007, Lelieveldt and Rossen 2009, and others). The authors of this paper have created assignments and an instructor's manual on running student exit polls in undergraduate courses. Three institutions used these assignments during the fall 2012 semester. Working together, these instructors created an opportunity for their students to participate collaboratively with others in survey design and data analysis. This effort further provided assessment data on the effectiveness of this pedagogical approach for student engagement outside of the …
The Dominican Big History Summer Institute: A Story Of Collective Learning, Mojgan Behmand
The Dominican Big History Summer Institute: A Story Of Collective Learning, Mojgan Behmand
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Emergence Of A Dual-System Of Primary Schooling In Ethiopia And Its Impact, Asayehgn Desta
The Emergence Of A Dual-System Of Primary Schooling In Ethiopia And Its Impact, Asayehgn Desta
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Over the last twenty years, in quantitative terms, Ethiopia has expanded and universalized the enrolment of school aged children in primary schools in line the International Covenant of Economic, Social, and Cultural rights in order to minimize the irregularities that have existed over the years. However, when the existing primary schooling is visualized in terms of quality and equity, it is sad to observe that privately run-ultra-modern primary schools seem to be mushrooming in Ethiopia in order to serve the sons and daughters of a newly emerging privileged class. On the other hand, the sons and daughters of the poor …
Policy And Practice: The Influence Of Participation In The Vote Smart Challenge On Teacher Credential Candidates, Elizabeth Truesdell
Policy And Practice: The Influence Of Participation In The Vote Smart Challenge On Teacher Credential Candidates, Elizabeth Truesdell
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
This Roundtable Session allows participants to explore how teacher credential candidates may increase their knowledge of policy as it affects their profession, specifically through participation in the Vote Smart Challenge.
Poster Presentation: Big History: From A History Course To A First Year Contextualization Of The Whole Person, Mojgan Behmand
Poster Presentation: Big History: From A History Course To A First Year Contextualization Of The Whole Person, Mojgan Behmand
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Sin Boldly! Or, First-Year Experience ‘Big History’ In 21st Century Liberal Education, Mojgan Behmand
Sin Boldly! Or, First-Year Experience ‘Big History’ In 21st Century Liberal Education, Mojgan Behmand
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Big History is rapidly emerging as a new global discipline! whose adoption into diverse educational models is advocated by a rich array of voices, from those of educators and artists to industrialists" and spiritualists. Of those voices, some concern themselves primarily with higher education and, in turn, almost unanimously
advocate for the inclusion of Big History into general education programs or core curricula. Unfortunately, the unanimity ends there. Bemoaning the politics and territoriality of higher education, many of these advocates feel forced to bow to institutional realities and the ever-continuous competition for turf and resources; and thus aspirations and hopes …
Embedding Information Literacy In Educational Research Graduate Classes, Madalienne F. Peters, Suzanne Roybal
Embedding Information Literacy In Educational Research Graduate Classes, Madalienne F. Peters, Suzanne Roybal
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Teaching students how to conduct research that helps them develop a scholarly work is often a daunting task. A fortuitous collaboration between faculty members in the School of Education and the academic library led to the development of strategies for teaching graduate students how to conduct quality research. Over the course of four years, faculty worked to include library search tools and strategies into graduate research classes.
Putting John On Trial: Teaching Christology By Using The Classroom As A Courtroom, George Faithful
Putting John On Trial: Teaching Christology By Using The Classroom As A Courtroom, George Faithful
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
My purpose today is to share the results of an experiment I conducted and to suggest ways it could be improved and reproduced. In a 200-level course called “Christian Beliefs” at a Saint Louis University, a Catholic institution, I staged a mock trial. All students in the class were assigned to read the Gospel of John with an eye for how its author portrayed Christ’s nature. From among the thirty students, I asked for four volunteers, two each for two competing teams, the defense and prosecution. The defense was charged with summarizing John’s Christology and with making the case that …
The Digital Mind And The Future Of Liberal Arts Education, Harlan Stelmach, Martin Anderson
The Digital Mind And The Future Of Liberal Arts Education, Harlan Stelmach, Martin Anderson
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Today higher liberal arts education is challenged by the continuing emphasis on vocational, business, and science majors among administrators and the decline in the demand for humanities majors among students anxious about their economic future. More fundamental and far-reaching, however, are the historic changes in the physical form in which ideas are preserved and communicated, the time people allocate to contemplating those ideas, and the ways people process them as society shifts from the book age into the digital age.1 Those who grew up in the book age can visualize the problem by thinking of this question: What is …