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The Classic, Winter 2016-2017, Public Relations Dec 2016

The Classic, Winter 2016-2017, Public Relations

The Classic, 2010-2019

Zwemer View: Diversifying: The Work of Reconciliation; Around the Green: Excellence Affirmed; Interpretacion; Raider Days; Art in the Big Apple; New M.Ed. Director; Campus Life: A Special Student; Award-Winners; Parenthood; On the Rise; Booking It; Bridge Scholars Advance Diversity Values; SID MVP; Military-Friendly; Partners in Law; Face Value: Jennifer Rogers; Great Examples: Junko (Hirasawa '70) Nagao, Glenn Van Ekeren '74, Sheila (Born '94) De Jong; Investing in the Mission: 2015-16 giving tops $5.7 million; A Place for Discovery; Red Zone: Interception; 1000 Words: A Day in the Life; No Limits: Alumni help impoverished Romanian youth reach higher; A Real Classic; …

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Teaching Science Vocabulary With Children’S Literature: The World Of Words Program, Asha M. Epp Dec 2016

Teaching Science Vocabulary With Children’S Literature: The World Of Words Program, Asha M. Epp

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

The purpose of this study is to investigate how to build academic vocabulary across the science content area. With the use of the children’s literature based program, World of Words by Dr. Susan B. Neuman, the study seeks to gain a better understanding and evaluate best practice in explicit vocabulary instruction. The program focuses on teaching science vocabulary through explicit direct instruction of terms and using literature as an application support. Students’ growth was evaluated by a pre and post assessment after the instructed unit.

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Building Background To Improve Understanding Among English Language Learners, Sara Burmakow Dec 2016

Building Background To Improve Understanding Among English Language Learners, Sara Burmakow

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

Over the past several years, there has been an increase in the number of English Language Learners (ELL) within the regular classroom setting. Often times, these students know little to no English before walking into the classroom and are expected to learn the same as other students in the classroom. As students learn, they connect new information to previous information naturally. When students lack this background knowledge they have a difficult time making those connections. One way to prevent this from happening is helping build background with the students in the regular classroom setting. Throughout the study, ELLs were worked …

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Peer Partnerships And Collaboration In The Classroom Setting And Their Effects On Academic Achievement, Rachael L. Foutch Dec 2016

Peer Partnerships And Collaboration In The Classroom Setting And Their Effects On Academic Achievement, Rachael L. Foutch

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

In this action research study, the author examined the effect of student generated peer groupings on academic achievement. The study was conducted in the author’s third grade classroom, in a public school district in rural Iowa. A student grouping attitude survey was conducted for a total of 16 third grade students who participated in the study (including ten males and six females), and revealed that most students preferred to self-select their partners / group members in the content areas of science, social studies and math. Observations of three students with diverse levels of academic achievement in the context of five …

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Effective Physical Education Professional Development, Caleb Van Otterloo Dec 2016

Effective Physical Education Professional Development, Caleb Van Otterloo

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

This literature review explores how to create an effective professional development (PD) system for Physical Education (PE) teachers. The review begins by discussing Personal Learning Networks (PLNs), and the impact that they have on professional development. PLNs provide teachers with an opportunity to completely personalize their PD through Twitter, Facebook, and various other blogs. PD in schools is a huge aspect of the professional development process. Allowing time for content specific PD means teachers can analyze strategies and ideas that work for their content areas. Workshops provide teachers with the opportunity to learn from experts and continue to strive to …

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Is Project Based Learning A More Effective Way Of Teaching Than Traditional Teaching?, Sara Deitering Dec 2016

Is Project Based Learning A More Effective Way Of Teaching Than Traditional Teaching?, Sara Deitering

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

It can be difficult to find effective teaching techniques that keeps students engaged and promote higher order thinking skills continuously throughout your content instruction. The purpose of this research was to discover if project base learning is a more effective instruction framework versus our traditional framework of instruction, which involves teachers standing in front of students and providing information through a lecture. Participants included two sections of fourth grade classrooms. The controlled group consisted of 20 students and the experienced groups consisted of 19 students. The controlled group demonstrated a significant amount of student’s engagement throughout the entire unit. In …

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The Classic, Summer 2016, Public Relations Jul 2016

The Classic, Summer 2016, Public Relations

The Classic, 2010-2019

Zwemer View: Marks of Excellence; Around the Green: Arguing for Faith in Science; In Box; Husbands Takes Baton for Academic Program; Props for Programs; Summer Funds; Campus Life: A New Game in Town; Course Sharing; Singer Showcase; More Professor Than Politician; Honored Prof; Most Valuable Employee; Supporting Role; Continuing Education; Serving Over Summer; Face Value: Eric Anderson; Easy Being Green; Career Leader; Reaccreditation; New Major in Music and Worship Leadership; Comfort Food; Red Zone; 1000 Words: Game Time; Shepherding Generation Z: Alum aims to keep Northwestern students trained on Jesus; The Radio Signal; Five Guys: Technology helps alumni hang out …

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The Classic, Spring 2016, Public Relations Apr 2016

The Classic, Spring 2016, Public Relations

The Classic, 2010-2019

Zwemer View: Reassessing Chapel; Around the Green: Grant to Fund Youth Theology Institute; Safest School; Auction Action; Chapel Changes; An Educator at Heart; Star of Class and Court; First Online B.S.N. Students Graduate; Campus Life: Refresher; Chapter President; Electronic Journal; Award-winning Marketing; More Research Opportunities; Stagecraft Star; Online Learning Expert Leads M.Ed. Program; Celled Phones; Alumna Joins Advancement Office; Face Value: Jennifer and Jonathan Sabo; A Summer Abroad; Assistance for Faculty Research; Taiwan Tour; Band Tours in Iowa; Red Zone; Having a Ball; 1000 Words: Raider Mania; Test Your Faculty IQ; I Can Do This: First-generation students thrive at Northwestern; …

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Evangelist For A Religion Of Nature, Douglas Firth Anderson Jan 2016

Evangelist For A Religion Of Nature, Douglas Firth Anderson

Northwestern Review

Donald Worster’s A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir is a magisterial biography. It is the place to begin for understanding John Muir (1838-1914), the Scottish immigrant and popular U.S. Gilded Age and Progressive Era naturalist most famous as the self-appointed spokesperson for Yosemite Valley, the founder of the Sierra Club, and the most outspoken opponent of the damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley by the City of San Francisco. Worster explores Muir’s tensions and contradictions. He also astutely analyzes Muir’s religiously-inflected “passion for nature.” He clarifies that Muir was not a neo-Transcendentalist, let alone a Buddhist, but rather …

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Analysis Of Alternative Storage Conditions For Dna Recovery From Field Samples, Alison Schutt, Emily Stricklin, Britta Ten Haken, Joseph Tolsma, Laurie Furlong, Sara S. Tolsma Jan 2016

Analysis Of Alternative Storage Conditions For Dna Recovery From Field Samples, Alison Schutt, Emily Stricklin, Britta Ten Haken, Joseph Tolsma, Laurie Furlong, Sara S. Tolsma

Northwestern Review

As ecologists increasingly employ molecular methods, they find that tried and true preservation solutions (e.g. ethanol or formalin) may not be optimal when samples are targeted for genetic analyses. Before traveling to remote sample sites, researchers need to consider which preservation methods are likely to yield the largest quantity and highest quality of DNA based on their travel times and field conditions. They also need to consider whether they will have access to preservatives at remote sites and whether those preservatives can be safely transported. To determine which preservation methods would most reliably preserve tissue for genetic analysis under a …

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Impact On Self-Esteem By Cultural Differences In Educational And Interpersonal Contexts, Naoko Oura, Terry Chi Jan 2016

Impact On Self-Esteem By Cultural Differences In Educational And Interpersonal Contexts, Naoko Oura, Terry Chi

Northwestern Review

The current study investigated the effects of cultural self-construal, interpersonal relationship harmony, and high school environment on self-esteem. One-hundred and one American participants and 99 Japanese participants completed self-report surveys to assess each construct. Results showed that self-esteem of students who value harmonious relationships was protected from controlling teaching in both American and Japanese students, whereas self-esteem of students who value personal interests over harmonious relationships was protected in the same context, but only among Japanese and not American students.

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Perceived Social Support Mediates The Association Between Optimism And Active Coping, Tracy Chapman, Terry Chi Jan 2016

Perceived Social Support Mediates The Association Between Optimism And Active Coping, Tracy Chapman, Terry Chi

Northwestern Review

The current study investigated two mediation models that may partially explain the association between optimism and active coping. One-hundred fifty-three participants completed self-report surveys to assess each construct. Results showed that while high perceived social support completely mediated the association between optimism and active coping, internal locus of control was not a mediator of the association. Implications from this study suggest that perceived social support plays a significant role in the relationship between optimistic personality type and active coping style.

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Natural Law And Agonistic Pluralism, Daniel E. Young Jan 2016

Natural Law And Agonistic Pluralism, Daniel E. Young

Northwestern Review

John Rawls’ account of political liberalism posits the necessity of a metaphysically neutral “public reason” to avoid privileging any comprehensive doctrine in the public square. The natural law tradition has been claimed by some as meeting this standard. However, thinkers such as Tracey Rowland criticize the attempt to make natural law a secular, neutral ground; she believes it must be rooted in an overtly Trinitarian and Christological theology. However, such theological assumptions are not shared by those of other comprehensive doctrines. Chantal Mouffe has also challenged Rawls’ consensus conception, focusing rather on the inevitable ideological conflicts to be found in …

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Christian Faith And The Scientific Explanation Of Religion, Donald H. Wacome Jan 2016

Christian Faith And The Scientific Explanation Of Religion, Donald H. Wacome

Northwestern Review

The cognitive theory of religion seems to threaten to debunk religion, including Christianity, as irrational. The cognitive theory explains human religiosity as an accident, a mere byproduct, of the interaction of mental mechanisms evolved for other purposes. The threat to religion can be neutralized by finding good reasons for religious beliefs which can be identified independent of the operation of the cognitive mechanisms the theory posits. Christian faith should be understood not as sub-rational belief, but as trust in the God who resurrected Jesus Christ. Our natural religiosity, like our natural morality, has no necessary connection to God, but God …

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