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Pre-Service Stem Teachers’ Views Of Teaching Before And After Their First Lesson, Sarah Ferguson, Latanya Sutphin

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Evaluating comments from pre-service STEM teachers before and after their first teaching experience, this study examines changes in pre-service STEM teachers’ viewpoints regarding the most challenging aspect of teaching and the most important traits of a teacher. Pre-service STEM teachers were asked the same survey questions on the first and last days of their initial introduction to STEM education course. Through this course, students partook in their first opportunity to plan and teach a lesson. Findings suggest student’s initially reviewed teaching from an extrinsically observable vantage point before moving to a more intrinsic reflection point after their first teaching experience.

Early Childhood Pre-Professionals’ Experience In A Study Abroad Program To Finland: Evaluation Of Professional Growth, And Personal And Cultural Gains, Bingbing Zhang, Judit Szente, Judith Levin

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

The present study explores the experiences of fifteen Early Childhood pre-professionals on a University lead short-term study abroad program to Finland. The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of the 10-day-long experience on students’ attitudes and perceptions particularly on their professional growth, personal, and cultural gains. Daily reflective journals entries and questionnaires were used to capture insights of the phenomena. Data were collected prior to, during, and after the program. This phenomenological study also employed audio taped interviews to provide summaries of their experiences in Finland. Horizontalization was used and three emerging themes were explained. Conclusions and …

Enhancing Academic Self-Efficacy And Performance Among Fourth Year Psychology Students: Findings From A Short Educational Intervention, Alexis R. Foulstone, Adrian Kelly

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Academic self-efficacy is the degree to which students believe they are capable of learning or accomplishing an academic task within a specific area of education. High academic self-efficacy has been associated with positive education outcomes such as enhanced learning, motivation, self-determination, and ultimately academic performance. The current study designed, implemented and evaluated an educational intervention to enhance the academic self-efficacy and performance of 21 psychology students enrolled in a group supervised Honours course, the outcome being a thesis dissertation. Students completed pre-intervention surveys in class half way through the course and then another survey after the 8-week intervention. Measures of …

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• Georgia Southern receives provisional accreditation for B.S. in Biochemistry

Exploration Using Without-Replacement Sampling Of Actions Is Sometimes Inferior, Stephen W. Carden, S. Dalton Walker

Mathematical Sciences: Faculty Publications

In many statistical and machine learning applications, without-replacement sampling is considered superior to with-replacement sampling. In some cases, this has been proven, and in others the heuristic is so intuitively attractive that it is taken for granted. In reinforcement learning, many count-based exploration strategies are justified by reliance on the aforementioned heuristic. This paper will detail the non-intuitive discovery that when measuring the goodness of an exploration strategy by the stochastic shortest path to a goal state, there is a class of processes for which an action selection strategy based on without-replacement sampling of actions can be worse than with-replacement …

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Maximum Oriented Forcing Number For Complete Graphs, Yair Caro, Ryan Pepper

Theory & Applications of Graphs

The maximum oriented k-forcing number of a simple graph G, written MOF_k(G), is the maximum directed k-forcing number among all orientations of G. This invariant was recently introduced by Caro, Davila and Pepper in [6], and in the current paper we study the special case where G is the complete graph with order n, denoted K_n . While MOF_k(G) is an invariant for the underlying simple graph G, MOF_k(K_n) can also be interpreted as an interesting property for tournaments. Our main results …

Caspases And Cancer: Connections Through Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy, Sarah M. Hethcox

Honors College Theses

While excessive cell death inevitably leads to negative effects, the endurance of damaged cells in the presence of death signals can be equally detrimental to health. Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is a highly regulated process in which cues from within or from outside a cell can trigger an irreversible sequence of signals that carry out cell destruction known as the apoptotic cascade. A group of enzymes called caspases play a vital role in this cascade with some participating as initiators and others acting as effectors of protein cleavage and intracellular breakdown. Although it is normal for the activity of …

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Matching Preclusion Of The Generalized Petersen Graph, Ajay Arora, Eddie Cheng, Christopher Melekian

Theory & Applications of Graphs

The matching preclusion number of a graph with an even number of vertices is the minimum number of edges whose deletion results in a graph with no perfect matchings. In this paper we determine the matching preclusion number for the generalized Petersen graph P(n,k) and classify the optimal sets.

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• Honors Research: Swimming with Sharks
• Project Pura Vida: An Honors Legacy in Costa Rica
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• Katherine Barrs wins Barry Goldwater Scholarship

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The Dynamic Integration Of Content And Language During Bilingual Discussion Of Mathematics Word Problems, Alandeom W. Oliveira, Carla Meskill, Karen Gregory, Patterson Rogers, Shelli L. Casler-Failing

Middle Grades & Secondary Education: Faculty Publications

This study explores the discourse strategies adopted by a bilingual tutor to integrate content and second language learning, and support a student with limited English proficiency while discussing a set of word problems. Our findings reveal an integrated curriculum space wherein instructional focus oscillates between language and content. Pedagogical scaffolding was accomplished through strategic interspersing of pedagogical supports characterised by a linguistic focus (attention to words exchanged) or an epistemic focus (attention on mathematical ideas). Central to linguistically focused strategies was the deployment of oral translation techniques (literal translation, borrowing, modulation, and equivalence). By contrast, epistemically focused strategies entailed metaphorical …

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• Georgia Southern project to be funded by $50,000 Teagle Foundation grant

• Georgia Southern student earns distinguished Barry Goldwater Scholarship, selected for summer National Science Foundation Research Experience at Yale University

• Georgia Southern AVP of Auxiliary Services honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

Series-Parallel Operations With Alpha-Graphs, Christian Barrientos, Sarah Minion

Theory & Applications of Graphs

Among difference vertex labelings of graphs, α-labelings are the most restrictive one. A graph is an α-graph if it admits an α-labeling. In this work, we study a new alternative to construct α-graphs using, the well-known, series-parallel operations on smaller α-graphs. As an application of the series operation, we show that all members of a subfamily of all trees with maximum degree 4, obtained using vertex amalgamation of copies of the path Ρ₁₁}, are α-graphs. We also show that the one-point union of up to four copies of Κ_n,n is an …

Innovation In Preservice Teacher Preparation: Undergraduate Research In Special Education, Kymberly Harris, Meca Williams-Johnson, Dana Sparkman

Curriculum, Foundations & Reading: Faculty Publications

Teacher preparation programs emphasize the connection between student outcomes in achievement and behavior, but the framework of teachers as researchers is rarely presented as a foundational basis of good instruction. Teachers are aware of the need to consider scores and trends and alter their instruction based on the response of the students to their teaching, but the techniques involved are not explicitly taught as research methods in most preparation programs.

The initial purpose of including a research course in the undergraduate program of study was to provide preservice teachers with research skills to enhance their instruction. The long term goal …

Student Research Symposium 2019, Georgia Southern University

GS4 Student Scholars Symposium

Conference Program for the Student Research Symposium held on Georgia Southern University's Armstrong Campus on April 24th and 25th, 2019.

Assessment Of Oxidative Stress In The Livers Of Rats Exposed To 2-Aminoanthracene For Twelve Weeks, John C. Stagg

Honors College Theses

Diabetes is a chronic illness that affects many people, and it’s thought that environmental exposure to certain compounds may increase its proliferation. In this study, we examine the dietary effects of 2-aminoanthracene (2AA), a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), in rats, specifically as it relates to oxidative stress. Oxidative stress refers to the imbalance of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and antioxidants in living systems; it has been shown to contribute to type-1 diabetes. To accomplish the study objectives rats were divided into three dietary treatment groups, control (0 mg/kg-2AA), low dose (50 mg/kg-2AA) and high dose (100 mg/kg-2AA). Rats were fed …

Student Research Symposium 2019, Georgia Southern University

GS4 Student Scholars Symposium

Conference Program for the Georgia Southern University Research Symposium held on the Statesboro Campus on April 18, 2019.

End-To-End Learning: Using Neural Networks For Vehicle Control And Obstacle Avoidance, Keith Russell

Honors College Theses

End to End learning is a method of deep learning which has been used to great effect to solve complex problems which would normally be performed by humans. Within this thesis, a neural network was created to mimic the steering patterns of humans in highway driving situations. A Turtlebot was used in place of a car and was tested within a laboratory on a closed loop track to drive within the lanes created for it. The network architecture was based on that of Nvidia’s model which was used for predicting steering angles of a vehicle. The network was successfully trained …

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