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Family And Consumer Sciences Teacher Educator's Perception Of Integration Of Reading Skill Instruction, Frederick Polkinghorne, Sally E. Arnett-Hartwick

Online Journal for Workforce Education and Development

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine family and consumer sciences (FACS) teacher educators’ perceptions on the integration of reading skill instruction in secondary FACS courses. Background: As a result of low national reading scores and legislation, family and consumer sciences (FACS) teachers are being challenged to explicitly teach reading into course curricula but feel untrained to do so. Therefore, this demonstrates that FACS teachers know the value of literacy integration, but lack pedagogical skills too successfully and explicitly integrate literacy in the FACS curriculum. This draws attention to the preparation of FACS teachers, moreover FACS teacher educators’ …

Using “Expert Employees” To Identify Duties And Tasks For Cadd Technicians In North Central Idaho: Lessons Learned From A Modified Dacum Process, Raymond A. Dixon Ph.D., Linda S. Stricklin Ph.D.

Online Journal for Workforce Education and Development

Objective: We conducted a job analysis to identify the competency profile of an entry level CADD technician in North central Idaho. Background: In 2011, the Clearwater Economic Development Association and NIMA collaborated with Lewis-Clark State College and the University of Idaho in a project to strengthen the capacity of Career and Technology Education (CTE) teachers to teach computer aided drafting and designing (CADD). An application to the National Science Foundation, Advanced Technology Education (NSF ATE) program was made and funding began July of 2011. Method: A modified DACUM was used. A total of seven expert workers from …

Assessing The Knowledge Level Of Social Service Professionals On Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Ptsd): Creating Training Guides, Charles E. Lawrence, Ph.D., Geraldine L. Palmer Ph.D.

Online Journal for Workforce Education and Development

Objective: Creating training guides for social service workers to deliver more effective services for veterans with post-traumatic stress syndrome. Background: Effective service delivery for veterans with post-traumatic stress syndrome is often hampered by a lack of knowledge about how to identify the signs and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Appropriate training guides can provide integral benefits including: improved situational awareness, more accurate data gathered in the intake process, a reduction in veteran homelessness and prevention of chronic homelessness. Method: A pre-and post-test design was used to determine levels of knowledge guided by Bloom’s Taxonomy (1956). The study focused on …

An Analysis Of Inclusive Pedagogical Practices Within North Carolina Secondary Agricultural Education Programming, Chastity K. Warren English, Antoine J. Alston, Larry Powers

Online Journal for Workforce Education and Development

Objective: In this study the state of inclusion within North Carolina Secondary Agricultural Education programming was examined. Background: In 2012 The North Carolina State Board of Education established a vision of assuring a strong, flexible, and sound educational system that serves all students and additionally promotes the public interest. This vision includes its secondary agricultural education programs as well. Methodology: The research design for this study consisted of a descriptive survey research design, encompassing a random sample of 196 North Carolina Secondary Agricultural Educators. The final return rate yielded a usable sample of 90 respondents (45% return rate). Findings: North …

New Learning Foundations For Building Water Knowledge Bridges, Jeff Camkin, Susana Neto

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Five regional meetings promoted by UNESCO in 2009 addressed the growing need for transdisciplinary approaches, holistic vision, incorporation of non-formal knowledge and views, effective participation and bottom-up action for identification of water problems and solutions. There is, however, a general context of tension and competition between specializations within different disciplines, and without specialization it is difficult to obtain formal and academic recognition. This paper presents insights into new co-learning methodologies centred in the experience of participants, inspired by and adapting the pedagogic approach developed by Paulo Freire, to the context of water management educational needs. This innovative approach has been …

Cross-Boundary Peer Learning In The Mekong: A Case Of Field-Based Education In Natural Resources Management, Xing Lyu, Philip Hirsch, Ham Kimkong, Kanokwan Manorom, Tubtim Tubtim

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

This article analyzes the process and output of a cross-boundary peer learning exercise about policy and implementation on natural resource management in the Mekong. The exercise involved university students and academics from Cambodia, China, Thailand, and Australia. The pedagogic approach taken was student-centred learning, whereby students learned with and from their fellow students, and about their peers' perspectives in other Mekong countries on similar issues. The article consists of four parts. The first part introduces the exercise and discusses conceptual frameworks including cross-cultural learning, peer-based learning, and experiential learning. The second part describes the Mekong Learning Initiative research exchange program, …

Popular Education For Water Sustainability: Three Lessons From Reflective Practice, Peter Oliver, William C. Dennison

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Between them, the authors of this paper have over sixty years experience in water education working in primary and secondary schools, universities, field study centres, professional development programs; and with community, industry, and government groups, focusing on coastal zones and catchments. Over the last three years, they have undertaken a systematic process of personal and dialogic reflection and deliberation on this experience, particularly in the area of popular education. This paper presents three key water education lessons gained from this iterative process and provides examples to justify the sagacity of this choice. First and foremost, popular water educators really need …

New Learning Foundations For Building Water Knowledge Bridges, Jeff Camkin, Susana Neto

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Five regional meetings promoted by UNESCO in 2009 addressed the growing need for transdisciplinary approaches, holistic vision, incorporation of non-formal knowledge and views, effective participation and bottom-up action for identification of water problems and solutions. There is, however, a general context of tension and competition between specializations within different disciplines, and without specialization it is difficult to obtain formal and academic recognition. This paper presents insights into new co-learning methodologies centred in the experience of participants, inspired by and adapting the pedagogic approach developed by Paulo Freire, to the context of water management educational needs. This innovative approach has been …

Cross-Boundary Peer Learning In The Mekong: A Case Of Field-Based Education In Natural Resources Management, Xing Lyu, Philip Hirsch, Ham Kimkong, Kanokwan Manorom, Tubtim Tubtim

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

This article analyzes the process and output of a cross-boundary peer learning exercise about policy and implementation on natural resource management in the Mekong. The exercise involved university students and academics from Cambodia, China, Thailand, and Australia. The pedagogic approach taken was student-centred learning, whereby students learned with and from their fellow students, and about their peers' perspectives in other Mekong countries on similar issues. The article consists of four parts. The first part introduces the exercise and discusses conceptual frameworks including cross-cultural learning, peer-based learning, and experiential learning. The second part describes the Mekong Learning Initiative research exchange program, …

Developing T-Shaped Water Professionals: Building Capacity In Collaboration, Learning, And Leadership To Drive Innovation, Brian S. Mcintosh, Andre Taylor

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

As we progress into the 21 st century, change is an increasingly central theme for water professionals and for professionals in sectors where water plays a central role. Building the capacity of professionals in water and closely related sectors to lead such change will be an essential component of the response to global water challenges this century. This paper provides a contribution by critically developing a concept, the T-shaped water professional, as a framework for the design of curricula for educational programs to build the capacity of water professionals to stimulate and drive processes of innovation and change. The T-shaped …

The Daily Egyptian, January 27, 2014, Daily Egyptian Staff

January 2014

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The Daily Egyptian, January 23, 2014, Daily Egyptian Staff

January 2014

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The Daily Egyptian, January 15, 2014, Daily Egyptian Staff

January 2014

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The Daily Egyptian, January 14, 2014, Daily Egyptian Staff

January 2014

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The Daily Egyptian, January 08, 2014, Daily Egyptian Staff

January 2014

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There Are Laterality Differences In Memory Functioning In Children/Adolescents With Focal Epilepsy, Michelle Y. Kibby, Sylvia E. Lee, Morris J. Cohen, Lisa Stanford, Yong D. Park, Suzanne M. Stickland

Publications

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There Are Laterality Effects In Memory Functioning In Children/Adolescents With Focal Epilepsy., Michelle Y Kibby, Morris J Cohen, Sylvia E Lee, Lisa Stanford, Yong D Park, Suzanne M Strickland

Publications

In a sample of individuals with childhood focal epilepsy, children/adolescents with left hemisphere foci outperformed those with right foci on both measures of nonverbal learning. Participants with left foci performed worse than controls on paired associate delayed recall and semantic memory, and they had greater laterality effects in IQ. Participants with right foci performed worse than controls on delayed facial recognition. Both groups displayed reduced focused attention and poor passage retention over time. Although participants with bilateral foci displayed poor learning and lower IQ than controls, they did not have worse impairment than those with a unilateral focus.

2013-2014 Annual Report, Southern Illinois University Board Of Trustees

Annual Report Archive

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Machiavellianism In Healthcare Explored: Differences In Aspiring Managers And Patient Care Professionals, Sandra Collins

Articles

Complex economic factors require healthcare professionals to have multiple skills. Although controversial, some characteristics associated with Machiavellianism may be needed in order to maintain organizational solvency. A study was conducted to determine the differences between aspiring healthcare managers and patient care professionals regarding the Machiavellian tendencies. The results of the study indicate a significant mix of Machiavellian traits exist within both groups which need to be both cultivated and controlled. Efforts should be made to increase some Machiavellian tendencies such as risk-risk taking and creative while extinguishing counterproductive traits that lead to unethical decision making.

2014-2015 Southern Illinois University Bulletin Carbondale Campus (Graduate Catalog), Southern Illinois University Carbondale

SIU Bulletins and Course Catalogs Archives

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2014-2015 Southern Illinois University Bulletin Carbondale Campus (Undergraduate Catalog), Southern Illinois University Carbondale

SIU Bulletins and Course Catalogs Archives

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Simulating Univariate And Multivariate Tukey G-And-H Distributions Based On The Method Of Percentiles, Tzu Chun Kuo, Todd C. Headrick

Publications

This paper derives closed-form solutions for the 𝑔-and-ℎ shape parameters associated with the Tukey family of distributions based on the method of percentiles (MOP). A proposed MOP univariate procedure is described and compared with the method of moments (MOM) in the context of distribution fitting and estimating skew and kurtosis functions. The MOP methodology is also extended from univariate to multivariate data generation. A procedure is described for simulating nonnormal distributions with specified Spearman correlations. TheMOP procedure has an advantage over theMOMbecause it does not require numerical integration to compute intermediate correlations. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposedMOP procedure is …

Max Ophuls, Walter C. Metz

Publications

A short biographical piece on filmmaker Max Ophuls, with particular focus on his melodramas made in Hollywood in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Love, Drama, And Tears: Hip Hop Feminism, Blackness, And Love And Hip Hop Atlanta, Patrick D. Bennett

Research Papers

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Effects Of Parent-Child Interactions On Language Development In Children With Autism, Amy M. Gamber

Research Papers

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Understanding The Connections Between Goal Ambiguity, Lateral Organizational Communicaiton, And Job Satisfaction, Victoria F. Ritchie

Research Papers

Public management scholars consistently argue that clear goals increase employee effectiveness. As goals direct attention and effort toward a specific target, the knowledge of one’s organizational connectedness has the potential to increase job satisfaction. While the positive correlations between clear goals and job satisfaction are also well known among management scholars, little research examines lateral organizational communication’s importance for goal clarification, and further increasing job satisfaction. Findings from two regression models reveal that the while clearer goals indicate higher job satisfaction, employee job satisfaction is more pronounced in the presence of effective lateral organizational communication.

The Promotion Of Skin-Bleaching Products In Jamaica: Media Representation And Cultural Impact, Jessica D. Edmond Mrs.

Research Papers

AN ABSTRACT OF THE RESEARCH REPORT OF

JESSICA EDMOND, for the Master of Science degree in MASS COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA ARTS, presented on March 31, 2014, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

TITLE: THE PROMOTION OF SKIN BLEACHING PRODUCTS IN JAMAICA:

MEDIA REPRESENTATION AND CULTURAL IMPACT

MAJOR PROFESSOR: William Freivogel and Phil Greer

Through television commercials, print and digital advertisements, magazines, billboards, and the internet, the ideal skin complexion represented in Jamaican media is fair-skin tones. This idea that fair skin is better is common among other cultures in the world and is spreading to developed as well as developing nations …

Feeding Disorders And Children With Austism: Pairing Feeding With Pleasure, Rabecca C. Woodhurst Ms.

Research Papers

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Efficacious Alternative Augmentative Communication (Aac) And The Development Of Language And Speech: A Primary Focus On Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder (Asd), Julie K. Smith

Research Papers

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"We Are Pioneers": Polyamorists' Stigma Management Strategies, Jessica M. Young

Research Papers

Despite a shift in our late-modern period to erode more traditional forms of relationships and a growth in polyamory’s popularity, non-monogamy remains highly stigmatized. Polyamory is a relationship style wherein participants have multiple romantic and/or sexual partners with whom they focus on building commitments, sharing intimacy, and establishing honesty (Sheff 2006). While scholarship on polyamory and the stigma of non-monogamies generally is growing, little is known about how polyamorists manage their stigmatized identities. Using Goffman’s (1963) theory of stigma management, I inductively analyze discussion board posts on a polyamorous community’s website and find that polyamorists manage their stigma differently in …