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I Know That I Taught Them How To Do That, Laurel Oates

Faculty Articles

Teachers have complained for years that students could not transfer their skills from one class to another, and employers have complained that the students could not apply the skills they learned in class to real world tasks. This article delves into the issues involved in students acquiring skills and the ability to transfer those to skills to similar tasks. The article describes the four steps involved in transfer identified by researchers: problem representation, search and retrieval, mapping, and application.

Acer 2000-2001 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

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The Cycles Of Statutory Interpretation, Adrian Vermeule

University of Chicago Law Review

This Article advances an explanation of interpretive change--the fact that the Supreme Court frequently changes the nominal formulation of its rules for statutory interpretation, and to some degree changes its actual interpretive practice as well. The prevailing styles of explanation attribute interpretive change to exogenous shocks such as a change in the party composition of the legislature or a string of judicial appointments. The Article criticizes the exogenous explanatory style on methodological grounds, and advances an alternative model that attributes interpretive change to endogenous shifts in the expectations of actors in the interpretive system. In particular, the Article develops a …

Toward A New Legal Realism (Reviewing Behavioral Law And Economics By Cass R. Sunstein), Daniel A. Farber

University of Chicago Law Review

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Meet The Artist| Art From Illumination And Reverie, Janet R. Potts

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Positive Perfectionism In Sport, Tammy Olson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Synaesthesia And The Visualization Of The Senses, Caroline M. Peters

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Approaches To Measuring Quality Of The Wilderness Experience, William T. Borrie, Robert M. Birzell

Society and Conservation Faculty Publications

Wilderness is a special place that provides opportunity for unique and profound experiences. An essential task for the maintenance of these recreational opportunities is the definition and monitoring of experience quality. Four approaches to the measurement of the wilderness experience have developed in over 30 years of research: satisfaction approaches (which focus on evaluation of onsite conditions), benefits-based approaches (focusing on psychological outcomes), experience-based approaches (describing cognitive states experienced in wilderness), and meanings-based approaches (documenting socially constructed meanings ascribed to the experience). Each approach has its strengths and weaknesses. Given that the wilderness experience is a multifaceted phenomenon, it is …

Transforming The Debate: Why We Need To Include Transgender Rights In The Struggles For Sex And Sexual Orientation Equality, Taylor Flynn

Faculty Scholarship

The Author observes that sex and sexual orientation equality jurisprudence is premised upon the traditional understanding of "sex" as determined by anatomy at birth. The presumption typically following from this reduction of sex to anatomy is the notion that certain gendered attributes are inherent in biological male- or femaleness. The Author asserts that these erroneous and unduly narrow views significantly hamper courts' ability to address the core of sex and sexual orientation discrimination-hostility based on failure to conform to conventional gender norms. Surveying workplace, public accommodation, asylum, marriage, and custody cases, Flynn explains how conventional jurisprudence fails a wide array …

Jury Erosion: The Effects Of Robinson, Havner, & (And) Gammill On The Role Of Texas Juries., Ricky J. Poole, Kimberly S. Keller

St. Mary's Law Journal

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Parental Rights In The Twenty-First Century: Parents As Full Partners In Education., Linda L. Schlueter

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

Tribute: Justice I. Daniel Stewart, Richard Cameron Blake

Utah Law Review

The curtain is now closed on Justice Stewart's remarkable performance on the Utah Supreme Court stage, opening the door for him to pursue other interests and influence the law in other ways. As is to be expected, his Court performance will be remembered differently by different people. Many will remember him as the "Thorough" (meaning "Slow") Justice; just as he went through ten drafts of discovery questions, he was famous at the Court for going through dozens of opinion drafts (fifty-one drafts is purportedly his maximum). One attorney approached me one day during my clerkship and said, "Tell the Judge …

The Right To Genetic Privacy? Are We Unlocking The Secrets Of The Human Genome Only To Risk Insurance And Employment Discrimination?, Nathalie Smith

Utah Law Review

Imagine the following: you are a healthy middle-aged adult. Breast, ovarian, or prostate cancer runs in your family. Knowing of your potential increased susceptibility to these diseases, your physician recommends that you participate in an ongoing, local research project. As your physician explains, the research project, which encourages enrollment of high-risk individuals and their families, bases participation on those with family histories such as yours. Upon enrollment, the research project uses a DNA based genetic test to detect the mutated gene' that increases your likelihood of developing the tested-for disease by eighty percent. Your physician is careful to point out …

Perpetuating Stigma: Client Identity In Disability Rights Litigation, Laura L. Rovner

Utah Law Review

In returning to the question of whether and how lawyers can represent clients in disability rights cases in ways that are more congruent with how at least some of these clients self-identify, I find that part of the answer depends, necessarily, on what it is the client is seeking to achieve through a lawsuit in the first place. To the extent that the client's main objective is not an award of compensatory damages, there may be greater opportunity for the client's voice and story to be presented in a (relatively) unfiltered way. For a client whose primary goal is a …

Beyond Personhood And Autonomy: Moral Theory And The Premises Of Privacy, Aaron J. Rappaport

Utah Law Review

This Article constitutes a challenge to the view that the Court's privacy jurisprudence is unprincipled and incoherent. My claim, in contrast, is that the jurisprudence has a core logic. It is a logic based on a series of interlocking premises-a moral principle of perfectionism, a political premise of liberty, an institutional premise of judicial review, and a prudential concern for tradition. One who embraces all of these premises, in the way described, will have a plausible basis for believing that the Court's jurisprudence is morally justified.

Failed Markets, Failing Government, Or Both? Learning From The Unintended Consequences Of Utah Consumer Credit Law On Vulnerable Debtors, Christopher L. Peterson

Utah Law Review

Although for millennia the Western tradition looked upon the taking of interest with a jaundiced eye, consumer credit has become an integral and accepted part of the American economy. Nevertheless, throughout the twentieth century federal and state government institutions have struggled with the dual needs of facilitating creditors' business ventures and simultaneously protecting vulnerable debtors from onerous obligations.

Distrust And Discovery: The Impending Debacle In Discovery Of Rape Victims' Counseling Records In Utah, Tera Jckowski Peterson

Utah Law Review

This painful narrative may represent a dramatically commonplace monologue by a rape victim to a mental health therapist, expressing feelings of deep embarrassment, guilt, stigmatization by society, and even self-blame. In fact, rape victims' most common response to rape is the belief that they are somehow responsible for the attack. Therapists persuade rape victims to disclose this fear in order to help them heal from the psychological effects of the assault. Because of the intimate and deep damage sexual assault inflicts on its victims, "[e]ffective psychotherapy depends upon an atmosphere of confidence and trust in which the patient is willing …

Exploring Justice Courts In Utah And Three Problems Inherent In The Justice Court System, Benjamin Will Bates

Utah Law Review

Like all other courts, the justice court system in Utah is far from flawless, and brings additional unique problems into the judicial system. The "trial de novo" appeal is the source of some of those problems. As the system has recently operated, it has not been uncommon for the "trial de novo" appeal from justice courts to create large disparities between the rights of defendants injustice courts and the rights of defendants in other criminal courts. The decisions in Dean, Hudecek, and Hinson have allowed defendants taking a "trial de novo" appeal in the district court to do so on …

Youth Interrogations And The Utah Constitution, Troy L. Booher

Utah Law Review

Currently there are two approaches to determining whether youth act voluntarily to waive Miranda rights or confess to crimes, per se rules and totality tests. As they are applied, neither approach is fully adequate. Per se rules can cripple legitimate law enforcement efforts to interrogate youth by demanding that third parties become involved. Also, there is no guarantee that those who are present on behalf of youth, especially parents, will act in the best interest of youth. Moreover, some youth simply are as capable as adults of voluntarily both waiving Miranda rights and confessing to crimes, and per se rules …

The Right To Information Self-Determination, Edward J. Eberle

Utah Law Review

We have examined how the rise of the computer, and the accompanying information revolution it has triggered, can pose serious threats to human freedom. There is, accordingly, a need to safeguard the inviolability of personhood amidst this ongoing technological revolution. Determining how to respond to this challenge is a major test for the American legal system. At present, the legislative response has been inconsistent and episodic. No farreaching measures have been taken to address the needs of human security and freedom. The debate over what to do continues. Perhaps the specter of Big Brother will spur legislation more protective of …

Pengalaman Persaraan Atlet Elit Malaysia Dari Perspektif Psikologi, Annathurai Ranganathan

Student Works (2000-2009)

There has been lots of issues raised about athletes retirement in Malaysia but no research has been conducted on this matter yet. The aim of the study was to explore, determine and describe the experiences of retired Malaysian elite athletes as they faced the twilight of their sport careers and moved to a new and different stage in life. Terry Orlick's EARIS- Questionnaire was used to conduct in-depth interviews with 51 Malaysian elite athletes ( 34 males and 17 females) who had retired from competitive sports. They had all been medal winners or had competed in several international competitions such …

Religion And Spirituality In Counseling : A Multicultural Perspective, Linda G. Culbertson

Graduate Research Papers

As the counseling profession moves into the 21st Century a greater emphasis is being placed on multicultural and spiritual issues. It is difficult to see how the two entities can be separated. When counselors ignore that a client is Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, or Christian with the unspoken assumption that religion is irrelevant .to their issues, this may jeopardize the forming of an effective therapeutic relationship (Burke, et al., 1999). Knowledge of religion and spiritual beliefs of ethnic groups can help professionals provide care that is culturally specific and sensitive to the beliefs of the individual (Bibbins, 2000).

Parenting Styles In Society Today, Julie Hammond

Graduate Research Papers

This paper is a review of parenting styles relative to the importance of childrearing practices. Its primary focus is to identify and examine parenting styles, which impacts childrearing methods. The authoritarian, permissive, and authoritative methods were identified with strengths and weaknesses compared.

From the comparison, it was determined that the authoritative parenting style provides the most success for childrearing in today's changing American society. The conclusion of the paper offers guidelines and suggestions to parents on establishing this childrearing method.

Effective Strategies For The Teaching Of Science To Secondary Students With Behavior Disorders, Jennifer Crane

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this study was to provide suggestions for specific curricular and instructional modifications in science in order to meet the special needs of secondary students with behavior disorders. The study was divided into two parts. The first portion of the study included an extensive literature review that focused on the teaching methods that are most appropriate for students with behavior disorders, achievement and retention under those teaching methods, and adaptations that are the most effective when teaching science to students with behavior disorders. The second portion of the study evaluated a secondary biology curriculum including a textbook and …

Attitudes, Perceptions, Behaviors And Responses Of Elementary Teachers With Varying Computer Proficiencies Toward A Technology Learning Model, Matthew S. Shoemaker

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to assess the attitudes, perceptions, behaviors, and responses of teachers with varying computer skills after exposure to the Technology Learning Model (TLM), as well as to assess the overall impact of the staff development experiences. The TLM was comprised of a researcher-designed, 10-session, 15- hour training implementation over 8 weeks. The two research questions of the study were: How will participants with varying computer skill levels respond to the TLM? How does the TLM affect participants' attitudes toward integration of computer technology into professional responsibilities?

The purposeful sample was drawn from teachers at …

An Instructional Project Using Physical Knowledge Activities As A Catalyst To Develop Children's Literacy Skills In A Constructivist Preschool Classroom, Patricia A. Wehr

Graduate Research Papers

This instructional project planned and integrated literacy within physical knowledge activities for young children based on International Reading Association, National Research Council and National Association for the Education of Young Children guidelines. The project presented children with a variety of ramps and other physical knowledge activities. Children's engagement was preserved through digital pictures. The children utilized these pictures to individually construct stories orally and in script. Instruction for three dimensions of emergent literacy was provided: concepts about print, phonemic awareness, and reproduction of the child's correctly printed signature. As the project progressed, the activities and the stories grew in complexity. …

Marijuana Dependence And The Efficacy Of Various Theoretical Treatment Approaches, Leah J. Weber

Graduate Research Papers

Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in this country (Meyers, 1996), with 40% of the adult population having tried it at least once. Senay (1998) indicated that 9.1 percent of individuals who have ever tried marijuana become dependent. Those who use more than a few times weekly are estimated to be at a considerably higher risk of developing dependence, possibly as much as 20 to 30 percent higher (Denning, 2000).

The Portrayal Of Stepfamilies In Young Adult Literature, Cynthia Buck Tuttle

Graduate Research Papers

This study used content analysis of a selected sample of 25 contemporary young adult fiction books published between 1990-2000, to determine if stepfamilies are portrayed accurately. Contemporary American families are less likely to endure as a traditional biological household. Novels read by young adults may not reflect these new realities. Findings indicate that in a majority of the titles stepparents are portrayed positively and they gave their stepchild time and flexibility to adapt to the stepfamily situation. Findings also revealed that the biological relationship was not more important than the marital relationship. There was insufficient data to prove that the …

Sail Online, Beverly J. Ewert Anderson

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this project was to create an online course for a selected group of fourth and fifth grade talented and gifted students. The study, limited to three elementary buildings in the Bettendorf Community School District, Bettendorf, Iowa, was conducted in the Spring of 2001. Twenty-two students from the Talented and Gifted program, SAIL, (Services for Academically Inquisitive Learners) were selected to participate. SAIL Online was an interactive closed web site that provided tools for instruction, research, teacher/student communication, and peer interaction. The project was used to discover if an affective learning community would develop through online communication. The …

A "New" Theory Of Management, Andrew Sikula Sr., Kurt Olmosk, Chong W. Kim, Stephen Cupps

Management Faculty Research

This article presents a "new" theory of management for the new millennium: "new" not because singularly the ideas are recent, but because the combination of these older ideas collectively is novel. To some extent, this article represents the reestablishment of previously existing employment ethics that for various and sundry reasons lapsed into disuse in the past several decades. This article discusses employee relations ethics (ERE) in terms of an ERE credo and a set of assumptions. The modern millennium mission states that all organizations (public and private) should primarily be employee centered, not owner or administrator controlled, customer or client …