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Fp-16-07 Median Age At First Marriage, 2014, Lydia R. Anderson, Krista K. Payne

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

Fp-16-03 A Quarter Century Change In Nonmarital Births, Esther Lamidi

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

Fp-16-05 A Quarter Century Change In Nonmarital Births: Differences By Educational Attainment, Esther Lamidi

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

Fp-16-11 Recently Divorced Adults With Resident Minor Children, Kasey J. Eickmeyer

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

Fp-16-14 High School Seniors' Expectations To Marry, Lydia R. Anderson

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

Fp-16-12 Attitudes Towards Marital Infidelity, Paul Hemez

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

Fp-16-13 High School Seniors' Attitudes On Cohabitation As A Testing Ground For Marriage, Lydia R. Anderson

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

Fp-16-17 Marriage And Cohabitation Experiences Among Young Adults, Esther Lamidi, Wendy D. Manning

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

Computer Proficiency For Online Learning: Factorial Invariance Of Scores Among Teachers, Amy L. Martin, Todd D. Reeves, Thomas J. Smith, David A. Walker

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Online learning is variously employed in K-12 education, including for teacher professional development. However, the use of computer-based technologies for learning purposes assumes learner computer proficiency, making this construct an important domain of procedural knowledge in formal and informal online learning contexts. Addressing this concern, this study examined the score properties and invariance (N=11,709) of an eight-item self-report measure of computer proficiency for online learning, the CPOL. Results from a confirmatory factor analysis suggest that the hypothesized unidimensional structure undergirded the instrument’s scores, and invariance analyses suggested that the instrument functions similarly across teacher populations defined by gender, grade level …

Guidelines For Using The Q Test In Meta-Analysis, Yukiko Maeda, Michael R. Harwell

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

The Q test is regularly used in meta-analysis to examine variation in effect sizes. However, the assumptions of Q are unlikely to be satisfied in practice prompting methodological researchers to conduct computer simulation studies examining its statistical properties. Narrative summaries of this literature are available but a quantitative synthesis of study findings for using the Q test has not appeared. We quantitatively synthesized estimated Type I error rates and power values of a sample of computer simulation studies of the Q test. The results suggest that Q should not be used for standardized mean difference effect sizes like Hedges’ g …

Females Perspective In Overcoming Professional Obstacles, Caroline Berger

Master of Education in Applied Human Development Graduate Projects

Evidence suggests that significantly lower numbers of females possess head athletic training positions in the field of athletic training (Martin, 2013). While research has demonstrated that females are still facing a great amount of deterrents in hopes to hold head leadership positions, there has been a lack of direction for those females that aspire to hold head positions in athletic training (Momsen, 2014). The purpose of this paper is to look at the history of females as well as their current

status in athletic training and she light on the uphill battle that they have overcame and are still working …

Being One Of The Gang: A Social Acceptance Approach To Establishing Productive Team Norms, Scott Graupensperger

Master of Education in Applied Human Development Graduate Projects

Social acceptance into a sport group is a critical motivating factor for sport participation. Indeed, this drive for in-group acceptance is also a key reason why individuals adhere to normative group behavior, which is sometimes dysfunctional, but often productive. The current theory-to-practice article offers a series of suggestions for coaches and practitioners, based on a framework that synthesizes components of the social identity approach (Tajfel & Turner, 1979) with the Waldron and Krane (2005) model. These suggestions are designed to create a sport environment that facilitates social acceptance, and subsequently promote the establishment of, and adherence to, productive team norms.

Fp-16-19 First Divorce Rate In The U.S., 2014, Lydia R. Anderson

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

La Ideología Revolucionaria En Los Versos De Ernesto Cardenal, Elizabeth Valdez

La BloGoteca de Babel

No abstract provided.

Fp-16-21 Divorce Rate In The U.S.: Geographic Variation, 2015, Lydia R. Anderson

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

Fp-16-06 Trends In Men's Economic Characteristics And Marriage, Lydia R. Anderson, Karen Benjamin Guzzo

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

Fp-16-15 High School Seniors' Ideal Time For Marriage, Lydia R. Anderson

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

Fp-16-16 Young Adults In The Parental Home, 2007-2015, Krista K. Payne

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

Fp-16-02 Childlessness And Marital Status Among Middle-Aged U.S. Adults, 1992-2012, Huijing Wu, Susan L. Brown, Krista K. Payne

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

Fp-16-09 Stepfamilies In The U.S., Karen Benjamin Guzzo

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

Federal Civil Rights Litigation Pursuant To 42 U.S.C. §1983 As A Correlate Of Police Crime, Philip M. Stinson, Steven L. Brewer Jr

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

The Civil Rights Act of 1871 (codified at 42 U.S.C. §1983 and commonly referred to as Section 1983) provides a civil remedy for aggrieved persons to sue state actors who under the color of law violate federally protected rights. Since the 1960s there has been an explosion of Section 1983 litigation in the federal courts against police officers and their employing municipal and county agencies. Due to a lack of official statistics and poor methodologies, research has yet to determine how common Section 1983 actions are against the police nationwide. This study examines the relationship between police crime and being …

Mcnair Scholars' Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematics (Stem) Graduate Experience: A Pilot Study, Senetta F. Bancroft, Susan Kushner Benson, Eugenia Johnson-Whitt

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Nationally, racial and gender disparities persist in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. These disparities are most notable at the doctoral level and are also found in the doctoral outcomes of Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program participants (Scholars) despite opportunities designed to promote their doctoral success. Scholars from three McNair Programs were surveyed. The survey included items related to Scholars’ perceptions of their McNair Program experiences, graduate advisor relationship, and experiences with stereotype threat. Scholars overwhelmingly reported their McNair Program experiences as beneficial to their STEM graduate studies and their graduate research advisors as supportive. However, Black female …

Here To Stay: A Teacher’S 46-Year Journey With Accountability In One School Context, Angela J. Stefanski

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

This narrative study explores accountability and care in the stories of an exceptional teacher, Marsha Ethridge, who taught more than 46 years in one low-socioeconomic community. While there has been an abundance of research related to teachers’ stories of accountability conducted in the last 20 years, much of it reflects accountability imposed on classrooms through systems of high-stakes testing. In this study, however, multiple perspectives of accountability populate one teacher’s stories. As a new teacher in 1964, Marsha recounted the negative impact of teaching in a time of little formal accountability. From the late 1990s moving forward, however, high-stakes testing …

Social Capital In Online Courses, Thomas Mays

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

As colleges and universities increase their online course offerings, student social experiences in online learning environments require further examination, specifically for nonresidential students who may already be less integrated into college social networks. A social capital framework was used to guide this qualitative study of 17 nonresidential students and two faculty from two regional campuses of a public Midwestern university. Student participants reported different experiences in online courses compared to face-to-face (FTF) courses, expressly reporting the development of fewer friendships in their online courses, a lack of a sense of community, and an increase in the mechanical nature of their …

Fp-16-10 Over 25 Years Of Change In Men's Entry Into Fatherhood, 1987-2013, Kasey J. Eickmeyer

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

Fp-16-18 First Marriage Rate In The U.S., 2014, Lydia R. Anderson

National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

No abstract provided.

Student-Athlete Undergraduate Degree And Career Alignment, Courtney C. Cox

Master of Education in Applied Human Development Graduate Projects

Little research has been done on student-athletes after graduation. The question driving this study was do athletes use their degree after graduation in lieu of academic clustering, fraud, emphasis on winning and athletic identity. The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not student-athletes undergraduate degree and career alignment was greater, less, or similar to the average collegiate body. Data was collected from 65 former male student-athletes from a Midwest Division I Mid-Major University over the 2009 through 2015 athletic seasons. Two sports were evaluated, Football (n= 54) and Men’s Basketball (n= 14). Degree fields were determined by …

Those Women Have All The Headaches: Inside The World Of Sports Broadcasting, Simone H. Eli

Master of Education in Applied Human Development Graduate Projects

We live in the Golden Age of Journalism, where the high demand for news continues to open possibilities and opportunities for established and upcoming journalists. As cell phones and social media quickly replace the newspaper, the broadcast television world is booming now more than ever. Broadcast news includes a large range of ways to deliver information; television, radio, Facebook Live and Periscope are all examples of ways broadcasting has transformed at the local, regional and national level. As a television sports broadcast journalist at the local and regional level, I have witnessed first hand the way broadcast journalism has developed. …

Preserving Personhood In Individuals With Cognitive Impairment: A Caregiver's Role, Maren Legg

Honors Projects

This project consists of an educational program for informal caregivers in the Bowling Green community on preserving personhood in individuals with cognitive impairments through caregiving experiences. The program was based on a copious amount of research regarding personhood, how personhood relates to individuals experiencing cognitive impairment, and how care provided by caregivers can be provided in a way that promotes and preserves an individual’s personality, personhood, and selfhood.

The program was developed over the span of four months and incorporates models of personhood, behaviors that threaten and preserve or promote personhood, as well as practical suggestions for strategies in how …

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes 2015-12-04, Bowling Green State University

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

The official meeting minutes of Bowling Green State University's Board of Trustees.