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Numeracy: Open-Access Publishing To Reduce The Cost Of Scholarly Journals, Todd A. Chavez

Numeracy

Each fiscal year, as academic librarians throughout the United States prepare materials budgets, a national “groan” ensues. Regardless of their format (i.e. print or digital), serial subscription costs are escalating, in the process impacting the role of the library in advancing scholarly communication . This paper examines some of the economic issues concerning open-access (OA) journal publishing. The importance of quantitative literacy is suggested for librarians and academics seeking a better understanding of alternatives to traditional journal subscription models and to anyone considering ventures into OA publishing. Quantitative literacy is essential for managing alternatives to the rising cost of scholarly …

College Algebra In Context: A Project Incorporating Social Issues, Michael T. Catalano

Numeracy

This paper discusses the development of an innovative college algebra text designed for use in a data-driven, activity-oriented college algebra course, incorporating realistic problem situations emphasizing social and economic issues, including hunger and poverty, energy, and the environment. The course incorporates quantitative literacy themes, is informed by existing college algebra texts within the college algebra reform movement, and implements a collaborative pedagogical approach intended to provide future K-12 teachers an alternative model for the teaching of mathematics. The paper contains a short history of the project development phase, supported by an NSF grant (DUE #0442979), as well as the perceived …

Envisioning A Quantitative Studies Center: A Liberal Arts Perspective, Gizem Karaali, Philip I. Choi, Sara Owsley Sood, Eric B. Grosfils

Numeracy

Several academic institutions are searching for ways to help students develop their quantitative reasoning abilities and become more adept at higher-level tasks that involve quantitative skills. In this note we study the particular way Pomona College has framed this issue within its own context and what it plans to do about it. To this end we describe our efforts as members of a campus-wide committee that was assigned the duty of investigating the feasibility of founding a quantitative studies center on our campus. These efforts involved analysis of data collected through a faculty questionnaire, discipline-specific input obtained from each departmental …

A Rubric For Assessing Quantitative Reasoning In Written Arguments, Nathan D. Grawe, Neil S. Lutsky, Christopher J. Tassava

Numeracy

This paper introduces a rubric for assessing QR in student papers and analyzes the inter-rater reliability of the instrument based on a reading session involving 11 participants. Despite the disciplinary diversity of the group (which included a faculty member from the arts and literature, two staff members, and representatives from five natural and social science departments), the rubric produced reliable measures of QR use and proficiency in a sample of student papers. Readers agreed on the relevance and extent of QR in 75.0 and 81.9 percent of cases respectively (corresponding to Cohen’s κ= 0.611 and 0.693). A four-category measure of …

Model Pembelajaran Dilema Moral Dan Kontemplasi Dengan Strategi Kooperatif, C. Asri Budiningsih

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui keefektifan model Pembelajaran Dilema Moral, Kontemplasi, dan Strategi Kooperatif. Penelitian tindakan kelas dilakukan di Prodi Teknologi Pendidikan FIP-UNY. Subjek penelitian 37 orang mahasiswa. Tindakan dilakukan dalam dua siklus masing-masing terdiri atas empat kali tatap muka. Data tentang proses pembelajaran, kerjasama mahasiswa, situasi yang berpengaruh terhadap upaya peningkatan kualitas pembelajaran, penalaran moral, dan keimanan mahasiswa, digali melalui pengamatan, tes penalaran moral yang diadaptasi dari Kohlberg, tes perkembangan iman yang diadaptasi dari Fowler, panduan kontemplasi, angket terbuka, dan cerita-cerita dilema moral. Analisis data dilakukan secara kuantitatif dan kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa (1) model pembelajaran terintegrasi mampu …

Tingkat-Tingkat Berpikir Mahasiswa Dalam Menerjemahkan Pernyataan Matematis Berkuantor Universal Dari Bentuk Kalimat Biasa Menjadi Bentuk Kalimat Formal, M Andy Rudito, Susento Susento

PYTHAGORAS : Jurnal Matematika dan Pendidikan Matematika

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menghasilkan suatu deskripsi tingkat-tingkat berpikir mahasiswa dalam menterjemahkan pernyataan matematis berkuantor universal dari bentuk kalimat biasa menjadi bentuk kalimat formal. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif diskriptif. Subjek penelitian ini adalah semua mahasiswa Program Studi Pendidikan Matematika FKIP semester I Universitas Sanata Dharma Yogyakarta angkatan tahun 2006, yang berjumlah 46 orang. Data bersifat kualitatif, yaitu berupa jawaban oleh mahasiswa terhadap soal yang diberikan. Data dianalisis secara kualitatif dengan langkah-langkah: reduksi data, kategorisasi data, dan sintesisasi. Hasil penelitian mengindikasikan adanya 7 tingkat berpikir mahasiswa sebagai berikut: Tingkat-0: Tidak ada gagasan dalam menerjemahkan; Tingkat-1: Kalimat formal tidak menyatakan …

Keefektifan Model Pembelajaran Kontekstual Dengan Pendekatan Open Ended Dalam Aspek Penalaran Dan Pemecahan Masalah Pada Materi Segitiga Di Kelas Vii, Joko Sulianto

PYTHAGORAS : Jurnal Matematika dan Pendidikan Matematika

Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian eksperimen untuk menganalisis keefektifan pembelajaran kontekstual dengan pendekatan open ended dalam aspek penalaran dan pemecahan masalah pada materi segitiga di kelas VII. Permasalahan yang dikaji: 1) Apakah siswa yang mendapatkan pembelajaran kontekstual dengan pendekatan open ended dapat mencapai ketuntasan belajar?, 2) Apakah kemampuan memecahkan masalah siswa yang mendapatkan pembelajaran kontekstual dengan pendekatan open ended lebih baik dari pada siswa dengan pembelajaran metode ekspositori?, 3) Apakah penalaran siswa dapat mencapai kriteria sedang setelah mendapatkan pembelajaran kontekstual dengan pendekatan open ended? Populasi penelitian ini adalah seluruh siswa kelas VII SMP Kesatrian 2 Semarang. Sampel penelitian ini adalah siswa …

Rural Leadership And Legacy: Partnering For Progress, Patricia Hyjer Dyk

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Presidential address delivered at the annual meeting of the Southern Rural Sociological Association, Orlando, FL, February 6, 2006

Taking The Sustainable Agriculture Challenge: Recontextualizing Rural Sociology, Betty L. Wells

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Agroecosystems Analysis (SusAg 509), a required course for all majors in Iowa State University’s Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture, provides an immersion experience in the situated challenges of sustainable agriculture. The field portion of SusAg 509, which takes place every year during the first two weeks of August, brings students face-to-face with different understandings of sustainability and the diverse complexity of Midwestern agriculture. Dialogue and reflection turn the raw stuff of experience into learning, as students discover the power and validity of multiple perspectives. More than two dozen site visits help make abstract concepts, such as the economy and social …

Evaluasi Penerapan Ujian Akhir Sekolah Dasar Berbasis Standar Nasional, Djemari Mardapi

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

Tujuan penelitian adalah mengevaluasi penerapan ujian akhir sekolah berbasis standar nasional (UASBN) untuk sekolah dasar. Sampel adalah lima dari 33 propinsi yang dipilih secara purposive, kemudian 20 sekolah dipilih dari kelima propinsi tersebut. Responden adalah Kepala Dinas Pendidikan Nasional Propinsi terpilih, 20 kepala sekolah dasar, 60 orang guru, 800 orang siswa, dan 800 orang tua siswa. Data kuantitative dikumpulkan mengunakan angket dan dianalisis secara deskriptive statistik. Data kualitatif dikumpulkan melalui wawancara dan dianalisis dengan kategori. Hasil penelitian adalah sebagai berikut: (1) Semua kantor dinas pendidikan propinsi dan kabupaten/kota dan sekolah telah mempersiapkan secara baik pelaksanaan UASBN, (2) penulisan butir soal, …

Implementasi Bimbingan Kejuruan Di Jurusan Mesin Smkn 2 Wonosari, Th. Sukardi

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mendapatkan bentuk bimbingan kejuruan yang tepat, dampak terhadap prestasi pembelajaran produktif, kendala dan pemecahannya di Jurusan Mesin SMKN 2 Wonosari. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian expost facto dengan metode korelasional dan diskriptif kualitatif. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah siswa Jurusan Mesin SMKN 2 Wonosari dan sampelnya adalah siswa kelas 2 yang berjumlah 108 siswa yang ditentukan dengan teknik stratified sampling, dibantu oleh 8 orang pelaksana pembelajaran (6 guru, 1 kepala bengkel, 1 kepala bidang). Data pemahaman bimbingan kejuruan dikumpulkan menggunakan angket. Reliabilitas angket diestimasi dengan Cronbach's Alpha 0,750. Prestasi kerja praktik diambil dari dokumentasi guru praktik …

Hubungan Model Penskoranterhadap Estimasi Skor Sesungguhnya Berdasarkan Teori Respons Butir, Musmuliadi Musmuliadi

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan: 1) karakteristik tes UN mata pelajaran matematika tingkat SLTP tahun 2007/2008, 2) karakteristik distribusi skor sesungguhnya hasil estimasi beberapa model penskoran, 3) hubungan antara skor kemampuan dan skor tampak dengan skor sesungguhnya, dan 4) implikasi penerapan model penskoran terhadap estimasi skor sesungguhnya. Data penelitian ini berupa respons siswa SMP/MTs terhadap tes Ujian Nasional (UN) mata pelajaran matematika tahun 2007/2008 di Propinsi Nusa Tenggara Barat. Analisis dilakukan dengan pendekatan kuantitatif. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa tes UN mata pelajaran matematika tahun 2007/2008 tingkat SMP/MTs pada kategori sulit, memiliki rerata daya pembeda baik, tetapi rerata indeks pseudo-guessing kurang …

Psikologi Kognitif Sebagai Dasar Pengembangan Tes Kemampuan Dasar Membaca Bidang Sains, Ani Rusilowati

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk: (1) menguji psikologi kognitif sebagai dasar pengembangan tes kemampuan dasar (TKD) membaca sains; (2) menentukan karakteristik TKD membaca sains yang dikembangkan; (3) menentukan kriteria penilaian dan cara menginterpretasikan hasil TKD. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian pengembangan. Populasi penelitian adalah siswa SD kelas 5 di kota Ungaran, kabupaten Semarang. Sampel ditentukan secara clustering random sampling, dengan ukuran 549 siswa. Instrumen berupa tes kemampuan dasar membaca, bertema Sains, berbentuk tes objektif 3 pilihan, sebanyak tiga buku tes. Analisis dilakukan dengan bantuan software microCat ITEMAN, BILOG, dan LISREL. Hasil penelitian berupa: (1) tiga buku tes TKD-membaca yang …

Ketepatan Metode Mantel-Haenszal, Sibtest, Dan Regresi Logistik Untuk Mendeteksi Differential Item Function, Budiyono Budiyono

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

Penelitian dilakukan untuk mengetahui (a) urutan ketepatan pendeteksian Differential Item Functioning (DIF) antara metode Mantel-Haenszel, the Simultanous Item Bias Test (SIBTEST), dan regresi logistik, (b) persentase kandungan DIF, Mantel-Haenszel, SIBTEST, dan regresi logistik tidak melakukan kesalahan. Simulasi dipilih dengan desain sebagai berikut (a) peserta tes sebanyak 1000 orang untuk kelompok acuan dan 1000 orang untuk kelompok fokus, dan (b) tiga kelompok tes pilihan ganda dengan 5 pilihan jawaban. Ada 20 buah tes masing-masing terdiri dari 25 butir soal, 40 buah tes masing-masing terdiri dari 50 butir soal, dan 60 buah tes masing-masing terdiri dari 75 butir soal. Muatan …

Kemampuan Musikalitas Sebagai Sarana Pengembangan Keterampilan Sosial, Djohan Djohan

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan instrumen kepekaan musikalitas sehingga dapat memberikan kontribusi terhadap perkembangan peran musik dalam pendidikan serta peningkatan keterampilan sosial pada siswa sekolah dasar. Penelitian ini dilakukan terhadap 381 siswa kelas 3, 4, dan 5 sekolah dasar di Jakarta dan Yogyakarta. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kepekaan musikalitas siswa dapat diukur melalui instrumen kepekaan terhadap musik dan kemampuan ini memiliki korelasi yang signifikan dengan skor kecerdasan sosial. Kata kunci: penghargaan diri, musik pendidikan, penilaian kemampuan musikalitas

“Make It Happen With Momentum”, Stavros Michailidis

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

The “Make it Happen with Momentum” workshop is a 90 minute interactive experience developed for the 11th Annual European Conference on Creativity and Innovation.  It was first presented on October 29, 2009 in Brussels, Belgium by Stavros Michailidis and Donald M. Drost, Phd.  The workshop was well received and selected amongst the best workshops of the conference.

The purpose of the workshop is to introduce participants to the Momentum Framework, developed by Stavros Michailidis to diagnose and nurture the successful implementation of creative works.  Work to date includes a formula for momentum, a diagnostic tool for assessing momentum and basic …

Active Ageing On The Company Level: The Theory Vs. The Day-To-Day Practice In Slovenia, Jana Žnidaršič, Vlado Dimovski

Economic and Business Review

The need to improve the labour market participation of older people has received ever greater attention in recent years, especially in view of the significant demographic changes the European Union will undergo due to population ageing. Besides the macroeconomic level, implications of this trend are strongly seen at the company level, particularly when it comes to managing the ageing workforce. Companies are thus introducing new approaches, policies and instruments which seek to foster the higher employment rates of the elderly by implementing the active-ageing concept in business and HRM practice. The paper aims to highlight the development of active-ageing initiatives …

Negusie V. Holder: The End Of The Strict Liability Persecutor Bar?, Karl Goodman

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Solitary Hero Verus Social Man In Jeffers's Dear Judas And Yeats's Calvary, Deborah Fleming

Jeffers Studies

W. B. Yeats’s play Calvary (1920) may have inspired or influenced Jeffers’s Dear Judas (1928). Both use the Easter story to explore not only with betrayal and redemption, but also archetypes of betrayer and savior, solitary hero and communal man. Both examine the psychology of the participants in order to evoke the meaning of the events and their importance in western culture. Yeats conceived of his play as an illustration of the distinction in his visionary psychology between objective men who exist in relation to others and subjective men who exist for themselves. For Jeffers, conversely, communal man, absorbed in …

"The Phantom Rulers Of Humanity": Influence Of Robinson Jeffers's Roan Stallion, Tamar And Other Poems On Joseph Campbell's The Masks Of God: Creative Mythology, Gere Dizerega, M.D.

Jeffers Studies

No abstract provided.

Accounting Student’S Learning Approaches And Impact On Academic Performance, Suhaiza Ismail

Jurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan Indonesia

The objective of the study is threefold. Firstly, the study explores the learning approaches adopted by students in completing their Business Finance. Secondly, it examines the impact that learning approaches has on the student’s academic performance. Finally, the study considers gender differences in the learning approaches adopted by students and in the relationship between learning approaches and academic performance. The Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST) was used to assess the approaches to learning adopted by students whilst the students final examination result was considered in examining the performance of the students. The results indicate that majority of …

The Role Of Teachers In The Academic English Literacy Acquisition Experiences Of Deaf College Students, Kathryn L. Schmitz

Articles

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe deaf college students’ perceptions of their experiences learning academic English literacy vis à vis their teachers. The study examined the narrated academic English literacy acquisition experiences and practices of 11 deaf and hard-of-hearing students at a hearing university with a large deaf student population. Through paradigmatic analysis of narrative data, the study located common themes, which revealed students’ perceptions of academic English literacy acquisition, particularly with regard to their teachers. Methods employed in the study were phenomenological interviewing and recursive analysis. The primary data sources were participant interviews and a focus …

Managing A Creative Practice, Julie C. Barrett

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

Myths and assumptions about creativity often lead us to believe that creativity is innate. Researchers find though, that we develop creative skills like any other ability, through opportunity, encouragement and practice. They also believe that most people fail to reach their creative potential, not because of lack of ability, but lack of opportunity. In this paper, I studied how creativity functions (specifically in terms of my own painting practice) and how it can be applied more flexibly. Certain factors, such as access to strong mentors, freedom to experiment, and readily available resources, help potentially exceptional minds find the passion to …

Great Northwest Athletic Conference Track And Field Academic Award Winners, Great Northwest Athletic Conference

Track and Field

No abstract provided.

Disruptive Disguises: The Problem Of Transvestite Saints For Medieval Art, Identity, And Identification, Saisha Grayson

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Trust And The Successful Coordination Of Sme Co-Operation – An Empirical Study In Slovenia, Matthias Fink, Alexander Kessler, Mojca Duh, Jernej Belak, Richard Lang

Economic and Business Review

This paper aims to investigate the role of trust and test the impact of trust on performance in the context of co-operation between small- and medium-sized enterprises (‘SMEs’) in a transition country. Based on a sample of 122 Slovenian SMEs, an analysis based on OLS regression reveals that trust does have a strong impact on performance. We thereby identify trust as a powerful co-ordinating mechanism for SME relationships involving co-operation in transition economies.

Sustaining The Challenge From The Outskirts: City Centre Retail Viability In Ljubljana, Slovenia, Andreja Cirman, Marko Pahor

Economic and Business Review

Like many other cities, Ljubljana is no exception to changes in its retail landscape. With retail suburbanisation, the city centre's monopoly as a shopping district has been lost. Our paper studies customer-perceived shopping area attributes and their impacts on patronage. The conceptual framework is set up to investigate factors that draw consumers to different shopping areas. The model was tested on a sample of consumers to evaluate the importance of various shopping area attributes and their performance in two decentralised shopping areas and the downtown shopping area in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Involvement, Knowledge Sharing And Proactive Improvement As Antecedents Of Logistics Outsourcing Performance, Andreja Križman

Economic and Business Review

The purpose of this article is to present the research results of a study on the impact of the drivers of logistics outsourcing performance: involvement, knowledge sharing, and innovation. The sample was derived from companies in the Slovenian market who choose to outsource their logistics services to logistics service providers. The article also attempts to contribute to the theoretical and methodological findings and managerial implications in logistics outsourcing discussions. On the basis of the existing literature and some new arguments derived from in-depth interviews with logistics experts, the measurement and structural models were empirically analysed on a sample of manufacturing …

How To Be A Man, Though Female: Changing Sex In Medieval Romance, Angela Jane Weisl

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Music On Sleep In Young Population, Yu-Yi Chen, Ya-Ju Chang, Hsieh-Ching Chen, Yen-Hsuan Yang, Yu-Ling Chen, Ninc-Hung Chen, Alice M.K. Wong

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Sleep, a vital ingredient in life, is an active and complex rhythmic state that may affected the health of people. Based on theory, sedative music may induce relaxation and distraction responses. Music also has the effect on the change of muscular energy, heart rate, respiratory rates, blood pressure, and psychological distress. Music intervention could enhance sleep quality. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of music for sleep in young people.Twenty people aged 20-30 years in normal state of sleep were recruited and assigned randomly to different music conditions into this study. Each participant received one night …