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Initiating Historical Thinking In Elementary Schools, John H. Bickford

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

With an ever-expanding focus on reading and mathematics, many elementary schools have chosen to reduce time previously reserved for social studies. Elementary teachers who understand both the relevance of social studies content and the effectiveness of interdisciplinary teaching regularly incorporate applicable history-based children’s tradebooks in their curricula. Locating developmentally appropriate books is simple. Teaching history using children’s literature can be effective. It can be counterproductive, however, if the selected book is replete with historical misrepresentations. Teaching historical thinking in elementary school is problematic no matter what the teaching tool, and there are few methodological roadmaps for elementary teachers. Here, I …

History @ Eiu (September 2013), History

History at Eastern

No abstract provided.

Newsletter Item Regarding Chalking, Nca Self-Study Committee

Criterion 2 Documents

No abstract provided.

Post-Confrontational Collective Bargaining Models Successful Negotiations, Ellen Horsch

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Post-Confrontational Collective Bargaining Models discusses the experience of utilizing a lean facilitator at Michigan Technological University.

Eng 4850-001: Third World Literature, Dagni Bredesen

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.

Examining Historical (Mis)Representations Of Christopher Columbus Within Children’S Literature, John H. Bickford

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

Effective teaching, while supplemented by best practice methods and assessments, is rooted in accurate, age-appropriate, and engaging content. As a foundation for history content, elementary educators rely strongly on textbooks and children’s literature, both fiction and non-fiction. While many researchers have examined the historical accuracy of textbook content, few have rigorously scrutinized the historical accuracy of children’s literature. Those projects that carried out such examination were more descriptive than comprehensive due to significantly smaller data pools. I investigate how children’s non-fiction and fiction books depict and historicize a meaningful and frequently taught history topic: Christopher Columbus’s accomplishments and misdeeds. Results …

A Bigger Splash: Enhancing Discoverability Of Theses Via Digital Commons, Todd Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

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Daily Eastern News: June 06, 2013, Eastern Illinois University

June

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Annual Report: Center For Academic Support And Assessment, Ay 2012–2013, Karla J. Sanders

Criterion 1 Documents

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Review: The Mormon Rebellion: America’S First Civil War 1857–1858 By David L. Bigler And Will Bagley, Gene Deerman

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

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Taking The Road Most Travelled: Understanding Patterns Of Snake (Colubridae; Storeria) Movement And Road Mortality In A State Park, Iwo P. Gross

Undergraduate Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: April 25, 2013, Eastern Illinois University

April

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Home Rule And Environmentalism: The Adoption Of Green Initiatives In U.S. Municipalities, Luke Eastin

2013 Awards for Excellence in Student Research & Creative Activity - Documents

In recent years there has been a movement in academia from studying environmental policy on the national level to a much narrower examination of local municipalities and their respective green initiatives. The implications of this research reach well beyond the borders of academics and hit squarely municipalities and their corresponding local policy makers. We, as political scientists, must ask what particular characteristics of municipalities play the most significant role in green initiative adoption. Recent urban scholarship has suggested several variables that influence the adoption of environmental policies, but one specific variable, municipality home rule status, has had little to no …

Daily Eastern News: April 04, 2013, Eastern Illinois University

April

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Graduate Alumnus: Outstanding Graduate Alumni Awards - Class Of 2013, Graduate School Of Eastern Illinois University

Graduate Alumnus

Since 1951 Eastern has offered advanced study

with master’s programming. Since that first

offering thousands of students have earned

graduate degrees, and EIU graduate alumni

have changed the world we live in. In 2005

EIU celebrated more than 50 years of graduate

education by honoring 50 graduate alumni

as Outstanding Graduate Alumni. That same

year the Graduate Alumni Advisory Board was

created and met for the first time. Since those

initial 50 honorees, the Graduate Alumni

Advisory Board, the Graduate School, and EIU’s

graduate programs have continued to honor

the achievements and accomplishments of our

graduate alumni every year.

Taking The Road Most Travelled: Understanding Patterns Of Snake (Colubridae; Storeria) Movement And Road Mortality In A State Park, Iwo P. Gross

Student Honors Theses

Roadways negatively affect their surrounding ecosystems through the contamination of air, water, and soil resources, the dissection of populations and habitat areas, and the direct mortality of several fauna. My study assessed the significance of a number of variables that might influence the temporal and spatial patterns of road mortality in a population of Midland Brownsnakes (Storeria dekayi wrightorum). I utilized passive sampling techniques and roadwalking surveys to collect individual snakes from a road during their biannual migrations from lowland activity areas to upland forests where they hibernate. I discovered that sexually biased behavioral and natural history traits impacted an …

Spring 2013 Commencement, Eastern Illinois University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Graduate Scholar 2013: Journal Of Scholarship And Recognition, Graduate School Of Eastern Illinois University

Graduate Scholar

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Daily Eastern News: March 08, 2013, Eastern Illinois University

March

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Daily Eastern News: February 13, 2013, Eastern Illinois University

February

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Daily Eastern News: February 01, 2013, Eastern Illinois University

February

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The Role Of Policy Fundamentals In Fostering Economic Growth In Developing Countries, Minh Dao

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

This paper examines the role of policy fundamentals in fostering economic growth in developing countries. Based on data from the World Bank for the 2000-2011 period and a sample of sixty-two developing economies we find that the growth rate of per capita GDP is dependent on a country’s investments in human capital as measured by the share of the public sector in total health expenditure and by the relative size of public education in the government’s budget, on an enabling business environment as measured by two Doing Business indicators, namely the cost of starting a business as a percent of …

Eastern Illinois University Undergraduate Catalog 2013 - 2014, Eastern Illinois University

Eastern Illinois Catalog Bulletins

This Catalog lists available courses for the 2013-2014 term.

The Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery: Cold Cases Of Grave Importance, Michael D. Gillespie Ph.D., Gary S. Foster

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

Cemeteries, via grave markers and burial records, usually offer sufficiently scant data to enable a reconstruction of the communities they represent, but cemeteries of total institutions, here, the Yuma Territorial Prison, often yield even less data. With only the variables of ethnicity, sex, prisoner number, date of death, and cause of death, prison conditions were reconstructed for the 111 who died during the prison’s operation (1876-1909), and likely for the other 2,958 who were incarcerated there. First, prisoner number had a high, positive correlation with year of death, indicating that those who died in prison did not live long after …

Land Use And Land Cover Change In Three Corn Belt Ecoregions: Similarities And Differences, Roger Auch, Chris Laingen, Mark Drummond, Kristi Sayler, Ryan Reker, Michelle Bouchard, Jeffrey Danielson

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

Casa Annual Report 2012-2013, Karla J. Sanders

Criterion 3 Documents

No abstract provided.

Public Service Grants Received By Eastern Illinois University, 2005–2013, Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs

Criterion 1 Documents

No abstract provided.

Fall 2013 Enrollment Tables, Planning & Institutional Studies

Criterion 1 Documents

No abstract provided.

2013-2014 Undergraduate Catalog, Eastern Illinois University

Primary Documents of Eastern Illinois University

No abstract provided.

2013 Career Services Annual Report, Career Services, Eiu

Criterion 4 Documents

No abstract provided.