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A Theory Of Effective Computer-Based Instruction For Adults, Janis Sue Lowe Jan 2004

A Theory Of Effective Computer-Based Instruction For Adults, Janis Sue Lowe

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Computer-based instruction (CBI) was considered the technological phenomenon to revolutionize education and training. Today, the Internet and computer technology are reported to have significantly altered the education landscape (Johnson & Aragon, 2002). The rapid advances in technology, the need for lifelong learning, and the growth of non-traditional students have encouraged the use of the computer as a method of instructional delivery. Evaluating the effectiveness of CBI as a whole technology is very difficult. The inability to measure effectiveness is attributable in part to the fact that CBI is not just one component, but a complex range of services and activities …


Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, And The Politics Of Dwelling, David James Gauthier Jan 2004

Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, And The Politics Of Dwelling, David James Gauthier

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The late modern and postmodern theme of homecoming permeates the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, who grapples with the topic throughout the various phases of his lifelong meditation on Being. Heidegger continually gave thought to the relationship between Being and the place or site in which it becomes manifest, whether it is a system of references and manipulable entities (Being and Time), language (An Introduction to Metaphysics), or aesthetic works of art (“The Origin of the Work of Art”). Taking as its point of departure Heidegger’s persistent and dynamic search for home (Heimat), this study will examine the political implications of …


The Effects Of A Recess Or Break And Stimulant Medication On The Classroom Behavior Of Children With Adhd, Andrea Ridgway Jan 2004

The Effects Of A Recess Or Break And Stimulant Medication On The Classroom Behavior Of Children With Adhd, Andrea Ridgway

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Only two empirical studies of recess have been extended to children with a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and only one has included a single-case analysis. In addition, no studies have been found that specifically evaluated the effects of a quiet, indoor break on the classroom behavior of children in general, and children with ADHD in particular. The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a recess, break, and continuous classroom schedule on the subsequent classroom behavior of children with a diagnosis of ADHD both when participants did and did not receive stimulant medication. …


Scientific Collaboratories In Higher Education: Exploring Learning Style Preferences And Perceptions Of Technology, Diane H. Sonnenwald, Bin Li Sep 2003

Scientific Collaboratories In Higher Education: Exploring Learning Style Preferences And Perceptions Of Technology, Diane H. Sonnenwald, Bin Li

Faculty Publications

Scientific collaboratories hold the promise of providing students access to specialized scientific instruments, data and experts, enabling learning opportunities perhaps otherwise not available. However, evaluation of scientific collaboratories in higher education has lagged behind their development. We conducted a repeated-measures study that provided data regarding social interaction learning styles and perceptions of a scientific collaboratory system from 40 university science students working face-to-face and remotely. Students with a strong competitive learning style preference or who worked with a student with a strong competitive learning style reported a slightly more positive perception of the relative advantage, compatibility and complexity of the …


Evidence Of An Association Among Age-Related Changes In Physical, Psychomotor And Autonomic Function, Robert H. Wood, Jan M. Hondzinski, C. Matthew Lee Jul 2003

Evidence Of An Association Among Age-Related Changes In Physical, Psychomotor And Autonomic Function, Robert H. Wood, Jan M. Hondzinski, C. Matthew Lee

Faculty Publications

Background: autonomic modulation of the heart, as measured by heart rate variability, is directly associated with cardiorespiratory fitness and inversely associated with all-cause mortality. The extent to which cardiorespiratory fitness and heart rate variability are related in older adults is difficult to ascertain due to difficulties in assessing physical fitness among older age groups. Objective: to examine heart rate variability and measures of physical function, thereby allowing for the inclusion of a greater cross-section of older adults than can be tested using traditional fitness tests. Methods: 39 older adults (mean age: 73.2±8.1 years; range=60-93 years) underwent evaluation of short-term (5 …


All That Makes A Man: Love And Ambition In The Civil War South, John M. Coski Jun 2003

All That Makes A Man: Love And Ambition In The Civil War South, John M. Coski

Civil War Book Review

Gender Analysis

Text interprets the driving forces behind the Confederate male

Stephen Berry, an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, has mined surviving letters and diaries to give us a rare gender study of mid-nineteenth-century southe....


An Investigation Of Gender Differences In Implicit Versus Explicit Attitudes Toward Jealousy, Laurie E. Robinette May 2003

An Investigation Of Gender Differences In Implicit Versus Explicit Attitudes Toward Jealousy, Laurie E. Robinette

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Review Of The Culture Of Defeat : On National Trauma, Mourning, And Recovery, Michael F. Russo Apr 2003

Review Of The Culture Of Defeat : On National Trauma, Mourning, And Recovery, Michael F. Russo

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Spaced-Retrieval Effects On Memory For A Name-Face-Detail Association In Persons With Probable Alzheimer’S Disease, Ashley A. Gray Apr 2003

Spaced-Retrieval Effects On Memory For A Name-Face-Detail Association In Persons With Probable Alzheimer’S Disease, Ashley A. Gray

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Black Soldiers In Blue: African American Troops In The Civil War Era, James G. Hollandsworth Mar 2003

Black Soldiers In Blue: African American Troops In The Civil War Era, James G. Hollandsworth

Civil War Book Review

Full spectrum

Collection gives thorough view of black service

If you expect to have only one volume on African American soldiers in your Civil War library, make it this book. I do not know of another work that covers the topic as thoroughly or as thoughtfully as Black Soldiers....


Children's Sociable And Aggressive Behaviour With Peers: A Comparison Of The Us And Australia, And Contributions Of Temperament And Parenting Styles, Alan Russell, Craig H. Hart, Clyde C. Robinson, Susanne F. Olsen Jan 2003

Children's Sociable And Aggressive Behaviour With Peers: A Comparison Of The Us And Australia, And Contributions Of Temperament And Parenting Styles, Alan Russell, Craig H. Hart, Clyde C. Robinson, Susanne F. Olsen

Faculty Publications

Links between both temperament and parenting, and children's sociable and aggressive behaviour with peers (physical and relational), were examined. The research was undertaken in two Western cultures (the United States and Australia) assumed to be similar in socialisation practices and emphases. The moderating effects of parent sex and child sex were also examined. Parents completed questionnaires on parenting styles and child temperament. Preschool teachers rated children's aggressive and sociable behaviour. US children were rated higher on both types of aggression by teachers and on sociability, activity, and emotionality by parents. Girls were rated as more relationally aggressive and more prosocial …


Deterrents To Participation In Parenting Education, Debora C. Johnson, Betty C. Harrison, Michael F. Burnett, Peter Emerson Jan 2003

Deterrents To Participation In Parenting Education, Debora C. Johnson, Betty C. Harrison, Michael F. Burnett, Peter Emerson

Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study was to determine the deterrents to participation by adults in parenting education programs. The objectives were (a) to describe parents with children in selected day care facilities on selected sociodemographic characteristics, (b) to determine factors that deterred those parents from participating in parenting education, and (c) to determine if there was a relationship between selected sociodemographic characteristics and the parents' participation in parenting education programs. A simple random sample of parents was drawn from the accessible population. Factor analysis revealed five factors that deterred this population from participating in parenting education: Lack of Confidence, Lack …


"An Uniform And Tractable Vice" Samuel Johnson And The Transformation Of The Passions In Interests, Charles H. Hinnant Jan 2003

"An Uniform And Tractable Vice" Samuel Johnson And The Transformation Of The Passions In Interests, Charles H. Hinnant

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Front Matter Jan 2003

Front Matter

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


"To Put 'Em In Mind Of Home" Piracy And National Identity In Eighteenth-Century Print Culture, Kathryn Duncan Jan 2003

"To Put 'Em In Mind Of Home" Piracy And National Identity In Eighteenth-Century Print Culture, Kathryn Duncan

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


James Ii's "Catholic" Court, Andrew Barclay Jan 2003

James Ii's "Catholic" Court, Andrew Barclay

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


The Provinces During The Interregnum Of 1688-1689 King James's Flight And Its Consequences, Lionel Glassey Jan 2003

The Provinces During The Interregnum Of 1688-1689 King James's Flight And Its Consequences, Lionel Glassey

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Editor's Choice Underapplauded Books Jan 2003

Editor's Choice Underapplauded Books

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


The Violence Of Sympathy Adam Smith On Resentment And Executions, Robert Mitchell Jan 2003

The Violence Of Sympathy Adam Smith On Resentment And Executions, Robert Mitchell

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews Jan 2003

Book Reviews

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


The Theory Of The Dynamic Erotic, Michael Karounos Jan 2003

The Theory Of The Dynamic Erotic, Michael Karounos

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Aesthetics Of Coldness The Romantic Scene And A Glimpse At Baudelaire, Jurgen Klein Jan 2003

Aesthetics Of Coldness The Romantic Scene And A Glimpse At Baudelaire, Jurgen Klein

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Special Feature Meditations On Eaves And Kimpel's Samuel Richardson Transactionality Among Literary Biography, Fictional Narrative, And The Lives Of The Critics, Jane E. Aikins Jan 2003

Special Feature Meditations On Eaves And Kimpel's Samuel Richardson Transactionality Among Literary Biography, Fictional Narrative, And The Lives Of The Critics, Jane E. Aikins

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Remembering The Past Eaves And Kimpel's Richarson And The Uses Of Literary Biography, William H. Epstein Jan 2003

Remembering The Past Eaves And Kimpel's Richarson And The Uses Of Literary Biography, William H. Epstein

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


The Uses And Abuses Of Biography Incendiary Information, Carol H. Flynn Jan 2003

The Uses And Abuses Of Biography Incendiary Information, Carol H. Flynn

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Castrati And The Masquerade Of The Eightenth Century Farinelli And Sitwell, Katherine Arens Jan 2003

Castrati And The Masquerade Of The Eightenth Century Farinelli And Sitwell, Katherine Arens

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews Jan 2003

Book Reviews

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Journals In The Discipline: A Report On A New Survey Of American Political Scientists, James C. Garand, Micheal W. Giles Jan 2003

Journals In The Discipline: A Report On A New Survey Of American Political Scientists, James C. Garand, Micheal W. Giles

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Developing A User-Process Model For Designing Menu-Based Interfaces: An Exploratory Study, Boryung Ju, Myke Gluck Jan 2003

Developing A User-Process Model For Designing Menu-Based Interfaces: An Exploratory Study, Boryung Ju, Myke Gluck

Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study was to organize menu items based on a user-process model and implement a new version of current software for enhancing usability of interfaces. Dervin & Nilan's time-line method is used to develop a user-process model for user interface design. We developed a user process model drawn from actual users' understanding of their goals and strategies to solve their information needs by using Dervin's Sense-Making Theory with sense-making interviews. Six experienced subjects were recruited for the sense-making interviews. Each subject went through a learning/exploration session, and was asked to recall and describe specific information needs throughout …


Perceptions Of Social Support Within The Context Of Religious Homophily: A Social Network Analysis, Sally Robicheaux Jan 2003

Perceptions Of Social Support Within The Context Of Religious Homophily: A Social Network Analysis, Sally Robicheaux

LSU Master's Theses

Recent studies have documented (1) the direct effects of social network context on perceived adequacy of social support and (2) the indirect effects of social network context, through social support, on psychological well-being. This thesis extends that research by asking how religious homophily in social networks affects individual perceptions of support and, through that, psychological well-being (depression). Results indicate that being embedded in a network with greater religious homophily increases perceived support, but this relationship holds only for instrumental support. Additionally, both instrumental and expressive support exert significant affects on psychological well-being: greater perceived adequacy of support (both instrumental and …