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Memory As A Foundation For Learning, Manuel Vicuna, Juan Manuel Vicuna

Undergraduate Research Symposium

The object of this research is to emphasize the importance of memory in the professional environment and to suggest a change in the direction of educational plans to endow students with a powerful cognitive tool – memory - for the rest of their lives. Presently, memory is a fundamental human function that the educational process dismisses, making learning more difficult. Memory and professional intuition – both the result of knowledge and experience - should be a natural adjunct to any training and not a sudden source of inspiration as intuition, in particular, needs conscious and subconscious cultivation. In both subjects, …

Exploring Best Practices In Umsl’S Collaborative Laboratory Internship And Mentoring Blueprint (Climb) Program, Dakota Warren

Undergraduate Research Symposium

The Collaborative Laboratory Internships and Mentoring Blueprint (CLIMB) was inspired by the University of Missouri–St. Louis and the Jennings School District’s desire to address the opportunity gap among minority students in the St. Louis region. Since its inception in 2015, CLIMB has expanded to meet the needs of local students to reduce the opportunity gap facing disadvantaged local school districts.

American First-Generation College Students’ Narratives Of Positive Relationships With Their School Counsellors, Phillip L. Waalkes, Jaimie Stickl Haugen, Yuima Mizutani, Jiaying J. Meyer, Dave Salvatierra, Carrie Odle, Tiffany Somerville

Education Sciences and Professional Programs Faculty Works

Trusting and supportive relationships with school counsellors can help first-generation college students access college despite barriers. In this narrative inquiry, 11 first-generation college students in the United States shared stories of their positive relationships with their former high school counsellors. After an iterative and consensus-based data analysis process, we summarised our participants’ grand narrative with five themes: family context, school counselling delivery, relationships with school counsellors, impact of relationships with school counsellors, and suggested improvements. Participants valued how school counsellors helped them advocate for themselves, build their confidence, and feel encouraged and accountable through individual meetings, career counselling, and college …

Signing To Success: Developing Effective Asl Curricula In Secondary Public Education, Claire Sutterer

Undergraduate Research Symposium

This study aims to investigate the history of American Sign Language (ASL) in public schools, analyze where ASL education is today, and provide potential solutions to improving the quantity and quality of ASL classes within public high schools. A significant body of research focusing on preK-2nd grade students and research with primary concentration on students who are Deaf or hard of hearing has already been developed. However, developing effective methods for teaching ASL to hearing people is a relatively new and under researched area. ASL was not officially recognized as a language until the 1950s. It wasn’t until 2011 that …

A Velvet Rope Of Exclusion: The Delmar Divide, Madison Beirne

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Many reports have been published about the complex topic of segregation in the Greater St. Louis area. However, the effect of years of systemic segregation on education has not been adequately discussed in a modern context. This report studies the root causes of the Delmar Divide in an attempt to understand the impact it produced in the educational community. St. Louis is a classically divided city and the public-school system has suffered as a result of educational inequities. This work focuses on how the Delmar Divide created pockets that continue to marginalize residents, particularly students. The effect that purposeful segregation …

A Descriptive Prospective Study Of Sports Medicine Practices For Athletes In Uganda, Samuel Lubega, Timothy Makubuya, Haruna Muwonge, Mike Lambert

Educator Preparation & Leadership Faculty Works

Background: Many international sporting organizations have recommended practices to reduce the risk of injury. These practices include screening for injury, having appropriate emergency medical care, and protocols for managing injury before return-to-play. The extent of the uptake of these practices in a developing country such as Uganda, is unknown.Methodology: Using a descriptive case study approach, this investigation focused on a sample of injured athletes (n = 75) in Uganda from four main sports associations (football, athletics, basketball and rugby). The data were collected through observations and interviews after the injury. Using a best medical practice framework the phases of emergency, …

Ofc And Its Connectivity With Amygdala As Predictors For Future Social Anxiety In Adolescents, Yu Mao, Xi-Nian Zuo, Cody Ding, Jiang Qiu

Education Sciences and Professional Programs Faculty Works

Social anxiety is a common problem that usually emerges at puberty, during which great developmental changes occur both in the brain and mental state. However, little is known about the influence of social anxiety on adolescents’ brain and behavior. The present study investigated the neural basis of social anxiety using voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and functional connectivity analysis. Then we investigated whether social anxiety is associated with attention bias. Furthermore, we investigated the neural basis of this association. Finally, longitudinal data was used to test if these biomarkers could predict social anxiety. The results indicated that social anxiety is positively associated …

Associations Between Psychological Profiles And Performance Success Among Professional Taekwondo Athletes In China: A Multidimensional Scaling Profile Analysis, Bing Li, Cody Ding, Fenghui Fan, Huiying Shi, Liya Guo, Feng Yang

Education Sciences and Professional Programs Faculty Works

Sport psychology research has long sought to uncover the determinants of the optimal psychological state for peak performance. Persistent inquiries in this work include whether there is a set of ideal psychological and emotional factors that are required to achieve optimal performance and, if there are, what are they and how are they related to optimal performance. To answer these questions, the current study aimed to identify potential profiles of personality and emotional traits based on a sample of professional Taekwondo athletes from China. In addition, the study also aimed to examine the utility of the profiles in predicting successful …

Legal Contexts Of Education, Vanessa Garry

Open Educational Resources Collection

This is a collection of readings relevant to local Saint Louis, Missouri state and United States federal, laws and cases as they relate to education policies. The readings are organized by topic, as show below.

The First Amendment

• Tinker v. Des Moines School Dist.
• Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier
• Bethel School Dist. No. 403 v. Fraser
• What Does Free Speech Mean?

The Fourth Amendment

• New Jersey v. T. L. O.
• What Does the Fourth Amendment Mean?

The Eighth Amendment

• Ingraham v. Wright

The Fourteenth Amendment

• Goss v. Lopez
• Honig v. Doe

Missouri Laws

• Stewart v. Board of Ed. of Ritenour …

Expanding Our Views Of Science Education To Address Sustainable Development, Empowerment, And Social Transformation, William Kyle

Educator Preparation & Leadership Faculty Works

On 25 September 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution, which took effect 1 January 2016, totransform the world to better meet human needs and the requirements of economic transformation, whileprotecting the environment, ensuring peace and realizing human rights. Since 1987, there have been several globalinitiatives oriented toward sustainable development, yet science educators have often remained silent with respectto ensuring the goals of science education are linked intrinsically to the central tenets of sustainable development.Why such silence? Where are the voices of science educators?In this position statement, I offer a rationale for expanding our views of science education to …

Opening Up To Hard History: Activating Anti-Racism In An Immersive Ed.D. Cohort Experience At Heritage Sites In Montgomery, Alabama, Theresa Coble, Corinne Wohlford Mason, Lisa Overholser, William Gwaltney

Education Sciences and Professional Programs Faculty Works

The Ed.D. program in Heritage Leadership for Sustainability, Social Justice, and Participatory Culture at the University of Missouri—St. Louis helps students cultivate the mindsets and skill sets required to sustain, pluralize, and enliven heritage in the public sphere. Although the program primarily meets synchronously online, the January 2020 “Wintercession” field trip to heritage sites in Montgomery, Alabama, provided an opportunity for face-to-face interactions, deep conversation, and reflection. Curricular, conversational, and collaborative inquiry deepened awareness and activated activism toward issues of racial justice. The use of high-impact practices (Kuh, 2008) allowed the cohort and faculty mentors to delve further into heritage …

The Role Of Attention In The Relationship Between Early Life Stress And Depression, Yu Mao, Hong D Xiao, Cody Ding, Jiang Qiu

Education Sciences and Professional Programs Faculty Works

Early life stress (ELS) can be very harmful to an individual’s wellbeing and brain development. It is well established that childhood maltreatment is a significant risk factor for depression. ELS is positively correlated with depressive symptoms both in major depression disorder patients and healthy individuals, but the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying this association are still unclear. In the present study, we calculate the within/between-network connectivity in 528 college students, and Pearson correlation was performed to investigate the relationship between network measures and ELS. Additionally, the same method was applied to verify these results in another sample. Finally, mediation analysis …

Assessing Postsecondary Barriers For Rural Appalachian High School Students, Melinda Gibbons, Anna Taylor, Emily Brown, Stephanie Daniels, Erin Hardin, Sam Manring

Education Sciences and Professional Programs Faculty Works

Social cognitive career theory indicates that perceived barriers negatively affect career and educational self-efficacy beliefs and may also impact interests, goals, and actions. However, measurement of barriers has produced mixed results, and few quantitative studies explore the perceived barriers of rural Appalachian students. In this series of studies, we explored the perceived educational and career barriers of rural Appalachian high school students. Our goal was to identify perceived barriers, but as initial results were analyzed, we then shifted to how best to measure barriers and how culture impacted the reporting of barriers by rural Appalachian students. The results of our …

Pursuing The Anchor Mission In A Fragmented Suburban Setting, Karl Guenther, Todd Swanstrom, Thomas George

Political Science Faculty Works

Increasingly, suburban universities find themselves in communities facing challenges that inner cities have had to deal with for decades, including concentrated poverty, housing vacancy, and underperforming school districts. While the problems are similar, the institutional context is different. Compared to central cities, suburban municipal governments generally lack the resources necessary to sustain robust community economic development initiatives. Further, suburbs often lack the rich landscape of nonprofit organizations that were built up over many decades in central cities. This article reflects on the experience of the University of Missouri‐St. Louis as a case study of a suburban anchor institution. This experience …

Education As Important Predictor For Successful Employment In Adults With Congenital Heart Disease Worldwide., Maayke Sluman, Maayke Sluman, Silke Apers, Judith Sluiter, Karen Nieuwenhuijsen, Philip Moons, Philip Moons, Koen Luyckx, Koen Luyckx, Adrienne Kovacs, Adrienne Kovacs, Corina Thomet, Werner Budts, Junko Enomoto, Hsiao-Ling Yang, Jamie Jackson, Paul Khairy, Stephen Cook, Raghavan Subramanyan, Luis Alday, Katrine Eriksen, Mikael Dellborg, Mikael Dellborg, Malin Berghammer, Malin Berghammer, Eva Mattsson, Andrew Mackie, Samuel Menahem, Maryanne Caruana, Kathy Gosney, Alexandra Soufi, Susan Fernandes, Kamila White, Edward Callus, Shelby Kutty, Berto Bouma, Barbara Mulder

Psychology Faculty Works

Background: Conflicting results have been reported regarding employment status and work ability in adults with congenital heart disease (CHD). Since this is an impor‐ tant determinant for quality of life, we assessed this in a large international adult CHD cohort. Methods: Data from 4028 adults with CHD (53% women) from 15 different countries were collected by a uniform survey in the cross‐sectional APPROACH International Study. Predictors for employment and work limitations were studied using general linear mixed models. Results: Median age was 32 years (IQR 25‐42) and 94% of patients had at least a high school degree. Overall employment rate …

A Budget Crisis In Academia: Does It Ignore Faculty Voices?, Patricia Boyer, Kim Song

Education Sciences and Professional Programs Faculty Works

Due to the recent financial difficulties, postsecondary institutions are experiencing a trickle-down effect of these problems and find itself in the midst of an ongoing debate regarding funding allocation. In negotiating necessary changes to address the budget shortfalls, the questions to consider are 1) How and if faculty are affected by budget decisions and 2) What is the impact of faculty governance on academic freedom? The purpose of this exploratory study is to measure the perception of faculty at one institution regarding how or if budget shortfalls impacted shared governance and academic freedom, in addition to possibly stifling or eliminating …

Hlc Accreditation Final Report - November 2018, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

UMSL Accreditation

No abstract provided.

Assurance Of Learning Report - October 2018, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

UMSL Accreditation

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Between Sexual Sensation Seeking And Problematic Internet Pornography Use: A Moderated Mediation Model Examining Roles Of Online Sexual Activities And The Third-Person Effect, Lijun Chen, Lijun Chen, Ying Yang, Wenliang Su, Wenliang Su, Lijun Zheng, Cody Ding, Marc Potenza

Education Sciences and Professional Programs Faculty Works

Background and aimsInternet pornography consumption is prevalent among college students and problematic for some, yet little is known regarding the psychological constructs underlying problematic Internet pornography use (PIPU). Drawing on the Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution model, this study tested a model that sexual sensation seeking (SSS) would impact PIPU through online sexual activities (OSAs) and that this relationship would be influenced by the third-person effect (TPE; a social cognitive bias relating to perceived impacts on others as compared to oneself) in a gender-sensitive manner.MethodsA total of 808 Chinese college students (age range: 17–22 years, 57.7% male) were recruited and surveyed.ResultsMen scored …

Fostering Elementary Career Exploration With An Interactive, Technology-Based Career Development Unit, Mary Edwin

Education Sciences and Professional Programs Faculty Works

Career development is a lifelong process that begins in childhood and has been linked to student success in other aspects of their development in childhood and adulthood (Blackhurst, Auger, & Wahl, 2003). This article presents a fifth-grade technology-based career development curriculum that engages students in a 10-week long exploration of interests, skills, college degrees and careers, and culminates with students creating career trifold display boards and presenting them to community members. School counselors can use this career exploration unit to support students’ career development and to begin the lifelong process of preparing them for success in the world of work.

A Pathway To Psychological Difficulty: Perceived Chronic Social Adversity And Its Symptomatic Reactions, Cody Ding, Jingqiu Zhang, Dong Yang

Education Sciences and Professional Programs Faculty Works

In this paper, we attempt to predict and explain psychological maladjustment or difficulty. Specifically, we discuss the concept of perceived chronic social adversity, and we expect that such perceived chronic social adversity may potentially lead to chronic stress responses. Accordingly, we propose the symptomatic reactions of perceived chronic social adversity. We put forward a set of hypotheses regarding the relationships between perceived chronic social adversity and those chronic stress responses, and we further hypothesize a mediating role of individualized negative essentialism brought by perceived chronical social adversity. Resilience and individual differences in the ability to cope with perceived adversity are …

National Educational Leadership Preparation (Nelp) Program Recognition Standards - Building Level, National Policy Board For Educational Administration (Npbea)

Open Educational Resources Collection

The National Educational Leadership Preparation (NELP) standards were developed by a committee comprised of essential stakeholder communities from across the country. These preparation standards, formerly known as the Educational Leadership Constituent Council (ELCC standards), have been renamed the National Educational Leadership Preparation (NELP) standards and will be used to guide program design, accreditation review, and state program approval.

The NELP standards, which are aligned to the Professional Standards for Educational Leadership (PSEL) serve a distinct purpose in that they provide specificity around performance expectations for beginning level building and district leaders.

From Contextual Frustrations To Classroom Transformations: Female Empowerment Through Science Education In Rural South Africa., Franci Schabort, Astrid Sinnes, William Kyle

Educator Preparation & Leadership Faculty Works

The objective of this transformative action research project was to explore and develop sustainable methods to promote female empowerment through science education in rural, disadvantaged sectors of South Africa. In an attempt to achieve this we collaborated with local community members to develop and implement a contextualized science curriculum at a school in the aforementioned setting. As soon as the project was launched it became increasingly clear that although the ideology of ‘empowerment through science education’ seemed a promising venture, it could also be an extremely complex and often frustrating undertaking. This was especially true when working within an unfamiliar …

Creating An Interactive Virtual Community Of Linguistically And Culturally Responsive Content Teaching For English Learners In A Tesol Program, Sujin Kim, Kim Song, Sarah Coppersmith

Educator Preparation & Leadership Faculty Works

This qualitative case study was framed by an experiential learning approachorganized around video resources and linguistically and culturally responsivecontent teaching. The study explored an overarching research question: How didteacher-learners in a grant project interact with a multimedia learning platformthat combined teaching video and VoiceThread presentation, called VT project,designed to enhance their linguistically and culturally responsive content teaching(LCRCT) for English learners (ELs)? Data included participants’ VT projects,online and face-to-face class discussions, survey results, and final reflective papersin two TESOL courses as part of a National Professional Development grantprogram in a Midwestern University. Analyses demonstrated that the technologyassistedcourse design generally promoted a …

The Effects Of Manual Therapy And Primfit Unstable Surface Balance Training On Walking Gait Cycle Post An Acute Grade 3 Inversion Ankle Sprain: A Case Study, Timothy Makubuya, Arie Poremba, Haruna Muwonge

Educator Preparation & Leadership Faculty Works

This case demonstrates the effectiveness of a rehabilitation product and protocol that incorporates manual therapy and unstable surface training. The purpose of this case study was to evaluate the effect of a four-week unstable training protocol using PRIMFIT product in conjunction with manual physical therapy on walking gait in a 17-year old, with grade 3 ankle sprain and multiple ligament tears. A PRIMFIT protocol was designed and performed biweekly under supervision of a physical therapist and also biweekly by the patient independently. Patient's walking gait was tested once a week using an OPTOGAIT System. The patient demonstrated significant clinical and …

A Measure Of Perceived Chronic Social Adversity: Development And Validation, Jingqiu Zhang, Cody Ding, Yunglung Tang, Chunyu Zhang, Dong Yang

Education Sciences and Professional Programs Faculty Works

The goal of this study was to develop a measure that assesses negative daily social encounters. Specifically, we examined the concept of perceived chronic social adversity and its assessment, the Perceived Chronic Social Adversity Questionnaire (PCSAQ). The PCSAQ focused on the subjective processing of daily social experiences. Psychometric properties were examined within two non-clinical samples (N = 331 and N = 390) and one clinical sample (N = 86). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported a three-factor model of the PCSAQ, which corresponds to three types of daily social stressors. The final 28-item PCSAQ was shown to be internally consistent, …

Nutritional Supplement Practices Of Professional Ugandan Athletes: A Cross-Sectional Study, Haruna Muwonge, Haruna Muwonge, Robert Zavuga, Peninnah Kabenge, Timothy Makubuya

Educator Preparation & Leadership Faculty Works

BackgroundThe use of nutritional supplements (NS) places athletes at great risk for inadvertent doping. Due to the paucity of data on supplement use, this study aimed to determine the proportion of Ugandan athletes using nutritional supplements and to investigate the athletes’ motivation to use these supplements.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted in which an interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from 359 professional athletes participating in individual (boxing, cycling, athletics) and team (basketball, rugby, football, netball, and volleyball) sports. The data were categorized, and a Chi-square test was used for statistical analysis.ResultsOf the 359 athletes, 48 (13.4%) used nutritional supplements. …

Integrating Primary Sources, Artifacts, And Museum Visits Into The Primary Years Program Inquiry Curriculum In An International Baccalaureate Elementary Setting, Sarah Coppersmith, Kim Song

Educator Preparation & Leadership Faculty Works

Questions remain about inquiry instruction, while research confirms that using primary sources can aidstudents’ inquiry learning processes. This study questioned: “How do second-grade teachers at anInternational Baccalaureate Organization/IBO language immersion setting incorporate inquiry methods ininstructional practices?”; “How does training in the use of primary sources, artifacts, and museum visitsshape second-grade teachers’ instructional practice?” A Library of Congress Teaching with PrimarySources grant supported this university-school social studies partnership, which accessed artifacts,primary sources, and a national archives and museum. Data sources in this mixed methods study werefrom the SAMPI Inquiry Observation Instrument, interviews, and observations in French and Spanishlanguage settings. Analysis revealed …

Important Consideration For Combining Trust, Empathy, And Sensitivity To Guide Our Facilitation Of Adult's Learning, John Henschke

Adult Education Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Workable St. Louis, John Henschke

Adult Education Faculty Works

No abstract provided.