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The Flipped Classroom: Its Effect On Student Academic Achievement And Critical Thinking Skills In High School Mathematics, Joranna Saunders

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This study examined the effect of the flipped classroom on academic achievement in high school mathematics. The purpose of this study was twofold. The immediate purpose was to determine if there was a statistical difference in student academic achievement in two high school mathematics classrooms once the flipped classroom concept was implemented. This study also examined the effect of the flipped classroom on students' critical thinking skills. This static-group comparison utilized a pretest-posttest non-equivalent control group design and two null hypotheses were tested. The flipped curriculum was not a significant factor in increasing student academic achievement or in increasing student …

Former Mentors' Perceptions Of The Faith-Based Approach To Reducing Recidivism Implemented By The Marinette-Menominee Jail Outreach, Inc., James Langteau

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this qualitative, hermeneutic phenomenological study was to examine the impact of a faith-based approach to reduce recidivism. The theoretical frameworks guiding this study included the belief system and self-efficacy theories. Participants consisted of a convenience sample of 21 former mentors of the Marinette-Menominee Jail Outreach. The setting was a Christian non-profit organization serving the Marinette and Menominee County Jails located in rural northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Semistructured interviews, surveys, and a focus group provided data to illuminate common themes. Data analysis included highlighting significant statements from volunteer mentors who engaged offenders to effect …

The Spiritual Therapeutic Preferences Of Online Learners And On-Campus Learners At A Christian College, Debra Masterson

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this quantitative study was to see if there was a difference in the spiritual therapeutic preferences of students at a Christian college who stay on-campus or students who take classes online. This study also investigated for differences in preferences between males and females as well as graduate students compared to undergraduate students. This study tested to see if there was a relationship between stress and spiritual therapeutic preferences among on-campus students and online students. Relative spiritual therapeutic preferences were assessed by the Nurse Spiritual Therapeutic Scale, and relative levels of stress were assessed by the Perceived Stress …

Effects Of Perceived Privacy Protection: Does Reading Privacy Notices Matter?, Xiaojing Sheng, Penny M. Simpson

Marketing Faculty Publications

Many consumers do not read privacy notices despite the fact that websites post privacy notices to address consumers' long-standing concerns about privacy protection on the internet. To understand why consumers do not read privacy notices and the impact of reading (or not reading) privacy notices on the found effect of privacy notices, data were collected from 137 readers of privacy notices and 97 non-readers of privacy notices. This research's test of the moderating effects of reading (or not reading) privacy notices found that perceived privacy protection positively affected trust and negatively affected perceived information risk and that the negative effect …

It’S Not Too Difficult: A Plea To Resurrect The Impossibility Defense, Ken Levy

All Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Point In Time The Fitsteps For Life Exercise Program Improves Quality Of Life Of Persons With Cancer, Barbara Haas, Gary Kimmel, Melinda Hermanns

Faculty Posters

This poster was presented at the National Collegiate Honors College Conference in Fall of 2014 at Denver, Colorado.

The Salzburger Story And Its Legacy In Rincon, Georgia, Joann Trodahl

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

There has been much written about the Protestant Salzburgers, both as religious exiles and as colonists in the New World. Scholarship in this area focuses on the social, political, economic, and religious issues in Europe leading up to the Salzburger expulsion and how these same issues influenced the Salzburgers and how they were perceived by other colonists in Georgia. The information gathered about these events forms the backdrop for understanding the Salzburgers and their importance in Georgia’s history. However, what is missing in the Salzburger narrative is what this legacy means to those descendants living near the site today. Visits …

Trends In The Happiness Of Single Mothers: Evidence From The General Social Survey, John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee

Economics

We study the subjective well being (SWB) of single mothers from 1972 to 2008 using data from the General Social Survey. While past literature has examined the outcomes of single mothers, an investigation of SWB is warranted, since it has been shown that there are potentially large slippages between economic indicators and SWB. Our results indicate that (i) single mothers report being significantly less happy than non-single-mothers, and (ii) this "happiness gap" shrank between 1972 and 2008.

The Bg News October 01, 2014, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. October 01, 2014. Volume 94-Issue 18.

Columns Fall 2014, Southern Adventist University

Alumni Newsletter

Features the article "Southern Hospitality". Each year a handful of students in need are “adopted” by community members who provide off-campus housing at little to no cost. The open hearts and homes of these Southern supporters create a unique university experience that models the grace and generosity of Jesus.

Demo 21, Columbia College Chicago

Alumni Newsletters

Alumni newsletter from Fall - Winter 2014 entitled "DEMO21." This issue is 52 pages.

The Law Is Made Of Stories: Erasing The False Dichotomy Between Stories And Legal Rules, Stephen Paskey

Journal Articles

When lawyers think of legal analysis, they think chiefly of logic and reason. Stories are secondary. As Michael Smith explains, our legal system “is not founded on narrative reasoning” but on “a commitment to the rule of law.” The article suggests that this dichotomy between “rule-based reasoning” and “narrative reasoning” is false, and that narrative and stories are central to legal reasoning, including rule-based reasoning. In doing so, the article uses literary narrative theory to show that every governing legal rule has the structure of a “stock story”: the elements of the rule correspond to elements of a story. It …

Team Nathan Suspension, Frankie J. Wiggins, Alex D. Seitz, Justin P. Bautista

Mechanical Engineering

Nathan Cooper is an 8-year old boy with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). SMA has affected Nathan’s muscle development and requires him to use the Standing Dani™ mobility device. The Standing Dani is a motorized standing wheelchair, or Wheelstand. Nathan controls and uses it to get around. Though the Standing Dani performs well for most functions, it has some distinct issues. The primary issue that this project addresses is its lack of suspension and the discomfort that Nathan feels as a result. After talking with our client, we developed several specifications generally related to geometry, safety, vehicle dynamics, and reliability. Many …

Explaining Violent Extremism For Subgroups By Gender And Immigrant Background, Using Sat As A Framework, Nele Schils, Lieven Pauwels

Journal of Strategic Security

The principal object of this paper is to study the effects of extremist propensity, exposure to extremist moral settings and their interaction effect on political violence in sub groups by gender and immigrant background. The situational action theory, as outlined by Wikström is used as a framework. Although previous studies have found empirical evidence for this interaction effect in the light of general offending, no study so far has applied SAT to the study of violent extremism. In doing so, we will also address the stability of the interaction effect by gender and immigrant background. The present study is based …

Baseline Immune Biomarkers As Predictors Of Mbsr(Bc) Treatment Success In Off-Treatment Breast Cancer Patients, Richard R. Reich, Cecile Lengacher, Kevin E. Kip, Steven C. Shivers, Michael J. Schell, Melissa M. Shelton, Raymond H. Widen, Catherine A. Newton, Michelle K. Barta, Carly L. Paterson, Jerrica R. Farias, Charles E. Cox, Thomas W. Klein

College of Medicine & TGH Faculty Publications

Researchers focused on patient-centered medicine are increasingly trying to identify baseline factors that predict treatment success. Because the quantity and function of lymphocyte subsets change during stress, we hypothesized that these subsets would serve as stress markers and therefore predict which breast cancer patients would benefit most from mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR)-facilitated stress relief. The purpose of this study was to assess whether baseline biomarker levels predicted symptom improvement following an MBSR intervention for breast cancer survivors (MBSR[BC]). This randomized controlled trial involved 41 patients assigned to either an MBSR(BC) intervention group or a no-treatment control group. Biomarkers were assessed …

A Community Conversation On Adolescent Pregnancy And Parenting Services: Networks Of Support, Gatekeepers To Care, And Non-Compulsory Fathering In A Black Urban Community, Tamara Leech, Elizabeth A. Adams, Marci Littlefield

Department of Public Health Scholarship and Creative Works

This study employed Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) methods to document needs and capacity around adolescent pregnancy and parenting in one predominately Black, low-income urban community. Using an iterative focus group method, we engaged 60 participants in a two-day community conversation. Quantitative data from an enrollment questionnaire and qualitative transcripts of the discussions are analyzed. Our results indicate that the community’s greatest capacity lies in a network of women. Men tend to participate in parenting more holistically once formal paternity is established. Neighborhood women typically introduce adolescents to prenatal care, so delays in revealing the pregnancy to them serve as a …

Chromesthesia As Phenomenon: Emotional Colors, Jessica Makhlin

Writing Programs

“Imagine listening to a piece of music and seeing colors with every pitch, change in timbre, or different chord progressions.” Thus begins Jessica Makhlin’s research essay on the intriguing phenomenon of chromesthesia, a physical condition in which music evokes strong emotional responses and connections to colors. Chromesthesia affects approximately 5-15% of the population and is commonly associated with people who have perfect pitch. Jessica’s essay was written for Michael Miranda and Elizabeth Wimberly’s First Year Seminar class, Music as Mirror, fall 2014.

Ica Newsletter, Fall 2014, Iowa Communication Association.

ICA Newsletter

Contents:

--President’s Message
--2014–2015 ICA Executive Committee
--Yartey and Richter named ICA Outstanding New Teachers
--In Memoriam: Douglas Trank
--Goodman named 2015 Outstanding Adjunct Teacher
--Past Presidents of ICA: Looking Back, Looking Forward
--An Invitation to IAAE’s Fine Arts Advocacy Day
--2014 Hancock Symposium Brings Socially Conscious Arts to Westminster
--Westphal Student Paper Competition Call
--Iowa Journal of Communication Call for Manuscripts: Volume 47 (2015)
--Fall Conference Highlights

Volume 106 Issue 5, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

2013-2014 Annual Report, William & Mary Law School

Annual Report

No abstract provided.

This Is Your Sword: How Damaging Are Prior Convictions To Plaintiffs In Civil Trials?, Kathryn Stanchi, Deirdre Bowen

Washington Law Review

The conventional wisdom in law is that a prior conviction is one of the most powerful and damaging pieces of evidence that can be offered against a witness or party. In legal lore, prior convictions seriously undercut the credibility of the witness and can derail the outcome of a trial. This Article suggests that may not always be true. This Article details the results of an empirical study of juror decision-making that challenges the conventional wisdom about prior convictions. In our study, the prior conviction evidence did not have a direct impact on the outcome of the civil trial or …

University Of Nebraska At Omaha Biomechanics Research Building Annual Report, Fall 2014, Biomechanics Research Building

Biomechanics Annual Report

This annual report features:

Letter from the Directer; COBRE Grant Press Release

Updates - Our New Building; Visitors; Moving on Up; Why Choose BRB as a Student?; Where Are They Now?; From the Bench to the Market

Projects - Neuroscience; NASA: Stimulation of the Sensory System; Motor Development; Variability Studies; Path Integration; Peripheral Artery Disease and Aging

Other Content - Beyond our Borders; Journal Club; Awards; Faculty Travels; Conferences; NE Science Fest; Campaign for Nebraska

Inconversation, Lyndall Adams, Claire Alexander, Emily Alexander, Frances Barbe, Majella Barbe, Megan Moe Beitiks, Gemma Ben-Ary, Anna Bowen, Heather Boyd, Melisa Charenko, Danna Checksfield, Nandi Chinna, Katie Chown, Lucinda Coleman, Hannah Conda, Samantha Crameri-Miller, Paddi Creevey, Wayne Cristaudo, Cornelius Delaney, Leonie Dunlop, Mace Francis, Rusty Geller, Sue Girak, Miik Green, Louise Helfgott, Catherine Higham, Rebecca Ingram, Teresa Izzard, Marija Jukic, Christopher Kueh, Jacob Lehrer, Carolyne Lewis, Johannes Luebbers, J Scott Macivor, Alex Mckee, Vahri Mckenzie, Gabrielle Metcalf, Nick Mortime, Astrida Neimanis, Renée Newman-Storen, Charity Ng, Finn Pedersen, Perdita Phillips, Marcella Polain, Sarah Robinson, Nien Schwarz, Liz Stops, Rochelle Summerfield, Sharon Thompson, Paul Uhlmann, Mats Undén, George Walley, Min Zhu

ECU Books

inConversation was a collaborative exhibition amongst creative higher degree by research candidates (from the School of Communications and Arts and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts), local, national and international arts practitioners and researchers from different art forms and discipline backgrounds. The exhibition invited conversations between artists and researcher collaborators working together to produce a broad range of creative works, culminating in an exhibition titled inConversation, staged at Edith Cowan University’s Spectrum Project Space in October 2014.

The context for the inConversation exhibition aimed to inform and expand on current debates about the challenges and benefits of inter- and …

Probability, Professionalism, And Protecting Taxpayers, Bradley T. Borden, Dennis J. Ventry

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Peer Teaching In The Food Chemistry Laboratory: Student-Produced Experiments, Peer And Audio Feedback And Integration Of Employability, Julie Dunne

Articles

This paper describes the author’s experience over the last several years of implementing an alternative Food Chemistry laboratory practical for a group of third-year BSc Nutraceuticals students. The initial main objectives were to prepare students for the more independent final-year research project; to incorporate innovative approaches to feedback; and to integrate key employability skills into the curriculum. These were achieved through building the skills required to ultimately allow students working in groups to research, design and run a laboratory for their class. The first year of the project involved innovative approaches to feedback, including weekly feedback sessions, report checklists and …

'Oh, Man, I’M Nowhere': Ralph Ellison And The Psychospatial Terrain Of Mid-Century Harlem, Walter Bosse

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

This article explores the theoretical contours of Ralph Ellison's 1948 essay, "Harlem Is Nowhere." I argue that Ellison's text theorizes space in a way that enables resistance against the geopolitical constraints of urban black modernity. In his essay, Ellison explores the underground halls of the Lafargue Psychiatric Clinic in Harlem - "the only center in the city wherein both Negroes and whites may receive extended psychiatric care" (Ellison 295). His study thus situates racial politics within a specific institutional milieu. At Lafargue, Ellison works as a kind of ethnographer, and records that the utterance "I'm nowhere" was commonly used by …

Game Studies Round Table, Judd Ethan Ruggill, Tobias Conradi, Steven Conway, Ken S. Mcallister, Rolf F. Nohr, Theo Röhle

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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This conversation began as a salon that was convened in February 2014, just after the 35th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA). The theme for the salon was localism, with a principal focus on how the field of game studies is arrayed across countries, institutions, and time. The participants spanned the experiential spectrum from post doctoral researcher to dean, and represented three of the most developed regions in game studies and the industry it analyzes: Europe (Germany), Australia, and the U.S. The questions were prepared in advance by Ken McAllister and Judd Ruggill, who moderated …

Topophrenia: The Place Of The Subject, Robert T. Tally Jr.

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Place seems so simple - commonplace, in fact - yet the concept lies at the heart not only of rather complex geographic theory and practice, but also, arguably, of the arts, humanities, and sciences as a whole. Yi-Fu Tuan, in his magisterial Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience, establishes a powerfully spatiotemporal dynamic in which a place becomes distinctive, and this dynamic lends significance to all human experience of the world. For Tuan, a discrete or recognizable portion of otherwise undifferentiated space becomes a place when it occasions a pause, a resting of the eye, at …

Alfred Hitchcock’S The Rear Window: Cold War, Spatiality, And The Paranoid Subject, Beatrice Kohler

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

This article investigates the notion of 'Cold War culture' by discussing Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 classic Rear Window with a particular focus on spatiality and paranoia. The cinematic screen is seen as a site where socio-cultural conflict is negotiated and political reality is transcoded into fictional narratives. Over and beyond the body of criticism that discusses the movie as a prime example of scopophilia and cinematic self-reflexivity, this paper attempts to combine extradiegetic politics with intradiegetic aesthetics: emerging from a culture of McCarthyite furor, post-war anxieties regarding the millions of soldiers returning from WWII and governmental infringement on privacy, Rear Window …

Review Of Paulo Freire In The 21st Century: Education, Dialogue, And Transformation, By Peter Roberts, Elias Schwieler

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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Paulo Freire's philosophy of education has many similarities with modern theories of teaching and learning. Comparisons can, for example, be made between Freire's concept of banking education and Marton and Säljö's theory of deep and surface learning, and Marton's variation theory has similar characteristics as Freire's idea about how to achieve critical literacy.[1] Moreover, the turn in modern theories of teaching and learning toward student centered learning and a focus on what the student does has equivalence in Freire's view of how education should be structured and developed.