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Is The Smartphone A Smart Choice? The Effect Of Smartphone Separation On Executive Functions, Andree Hartanto, Hwajin Yang

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Despite a huge spike in smartphone overuse, the cognitive and emotional consequences of smartphone overuse have rarely been examined empirically. In two studies, we investigated whether separation from a smartphone influences state anxiety and impairs higher-order cognitive processes, such as executive functions. We found that smartphone separation causes heightened anxiety, which in turn mediates the adverse effect of smartphone separation on all core aspects of executive functions, including shifting (Experiment 1) and inhibitory control and working-memory capacity (Experiment 2). Interestingly, impaired mental shifting was evident regardless of the extent of smartphone addiction, whereas smartphone addiction significantly moderated the negative effect …

Positioning Analysis Of Filipino Family Narratives In The Context Of Prisoner Reintegration, Donald Jay M. Bertulfo, Nico A. Canoy, Michael Angelo Celeste

Psychology Department Faculty Publications

Prisoner reintegration may be viewed as a crisis situation that may lead to a period of instability within the family. Existing researches in this area remain focused on the individual perspective of ex-offenders rather than the experiences of receiving families back in their households. In this study, we aim to examine the reintegration experiences of the family as a group from an initial state of chaos to equilibrium upon the reentry of an incarcerated parent. Using a sample of 12 interviews of family members left behind by incarcerated fathers, three major storylines relating to the family’s struggle for moral re-ascendancy …

Cost Sensitive Online Multiple Kernel Classification, Doyen Sahoo, Peilin Zhao, Steven C. H. Hoi

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Learning from data streams has been an important open research problem in the era of big data analytics. This paper investigates supervised machine learning techniques for mining data streams with application to online anomaly detection. Unlike conventional machine learning tasks, machine learning from data streams for online anomaly detection has several challenges: (i) data arriving sequentially and increasing rapidly, (ii) highly class-imbalanced distributions; and (iii) complex anomaly patterns that could evolve dynamically.To tackle these challenges, we propose a novel Cost-Sensitive Online Multiple Kernel Classification (CSOMKC) scheme for comprehensively mining data streams and demonstrate its application to online anomaly detection. Specifically, …

What Permissions Should This Android App Request?, Lingfeng Bao, David Lo, Xin Xia, Shanping Li

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

As Android is one of the most popular open source mobile platforms, ensuring security and privacy of Android applications is very important. Android provides a permission mechanism which requires developers to declare sensitive resources their applications need, and users need to agree with this request when they install (for Android API level 22 or lower) or run (for Android API level 23) these applications. Although Android provides very good official documents to explain how to properly use permissions, unfortunately misuses even for the most popular permissions have been reported. Recently, Karim et al. propose an association rule mining based approach …

Aspect-Based Helpfulness Prediction For Online Product Reviews, Yinfei Yang, Cen Chen, Forrest Sheng Bao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Product reviews greatly influence purchase decisions in online shopping. A common burden of online shopping is that consumers have to search for the right answers through massive reviews, especially on popular products. Hence, estimating and predicting the helpfulness of reviews become important tasks to directly improve shopping experience. In this paper, we propose a new approach to helpfulness prediction by leveraging aspect analysis of reviews. Our hypothesis is that a helpful review will cover many aspects of a product at different emphasis levels. The first step to tackle this problem is to extract proper aspects. Because related products share common …

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The Winthrop McNair Research Bulletin

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The Winthrop McNair Research Bulletin

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Instilling Resilience In Children Of Poverty, Alexis Williamson, Bradley Steven Witzel

The Winthrop McNair Research Bulletin

More than sixteen million children are currently living in poverty in the United States (NCCP, 2015). If these children fail to develop resilience, then they will continue to live in the cycle of generational poverty. Generational poverty is where a family continues to live in poverty from generation to generation. In order to develop resilience, strategies must be implemented within schools in order to nurture resilience in children. This research study focused on resiliency and instilling resiliency in children living in poverty. Knowledge from administrators, teachers, and parents was gathered in order to create strategies to instill resilience in children …

How Do Family Background And Self-Esteem Affect An Individual’S Perception Of Gender-Role Portrayal In Online Advertisements?, Cera T. Crowe, Aimee P. Meader Dr.

The Winthrop McNair Research Bulletin

The purpose of this study is to further understand the relationship of family background and how it affects self-esteem and the perception of gender roles in online imagery. This study focuses on how our history serves as a lens to see gender roles. The schema theory, created by Robert Axelrod, is a model suggesting that people have a “pre-existing assumption about the way the world is organized” (Axelford, 1974). Furthering this theory is Bem's (1981) Gender Schema Theory, which proposes that one's sexual self-concept affects how one structures items in memory. These theories, applied to the understood roles and activities …

Incorporating Multicultural Education Into Teacher Preparation Programs, Ashley Renee Causey, Jeannie Haubert

The Winthrop McNair Research Bulletin

In this comparative study, the discussion of multicultural education focused on these four research questions: “What is multicultural education?,” “How are teaching preparation programs approaching multicultural education?,” “What does multicultural education look like in the classroom?,” and “Is multicultural education an explicit portion of teacher preparation programs for pre-service teachers in South Carolina?” Using James A. Banks’s five dimensions of multicultural education as the theoretical framework for the study, the following dimensions were explored to see if they were present within teacher preparation programs: content integration, knowledge construction, equity pedagogy, prejudice reduction, and empowering school culture and social structure. Interviews …

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The Winthrop McNair Research Bulletin

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Geo Director Selected To Serve On Fulbright Review Committee, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Dr. Kati Bell, director of the Global Education Office (GEO), has been selected to serve on a Fulbright selection committee to review applications for the Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrators seminar.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 041, Number 10, October 31, 2016, Grand Valley State University

2016-2017, Volume 41

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Gsu View, 2016-10-31, Office Of Marketing And Communications

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.

Pengaruh Publikasi Tugas Melalui Stad Terhadap Kerja Sama, Kreativitas, Dan Prestasi Belajar Ipa, Dzawati Muttaqiyyah, Indyah Sulistyo Arty

Jurnal Inovasi Pendidikan IPA

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui: (1) pengaruh; (2) perbedaan pengaruh; (3) strategi pembelajaran yang lebih berpengaruh antara publikasi tugas melalui STAD dan tanpa publikasi tugas melalui belajar kelompok terhadap kerja sama, kreativitas, dan prestasi belajar IPA. Jenis penelitian ini adalah quasi experiment dengan counter balance design. Populasi penelitian adalah seluruh siswa kelas VIII. Sampel sejumlah dua kelas ditentukan dengan purposive sampling. Instrumen pengumpulan data berupa observasi kerja sama, tes kreativitas, dan tes prestasi belajar IPA. Untuk mengetahui pengaruh kedua strategi pembelajaran digunakan uji one sample t-tes, uji MANOVA untuk mengetahui perbedaan pengaruh, dan uji t univariat untuk mengetahui …

Pengembangan Lks Biologi Berbasis Masalah Untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Pemecahan Masalah Dan Karakter Peduli Lingkungan, Inur Tivani, Paidi Paidi

Jurnal Inovasi Pendidikan IPA

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menghasilkan LKS biologi berbasis masalah yang layak untuk topik perubahan lingkungan/iklim dan daur ulang limbah serta mengetahui keefektifan penggunaan LKS biologi berbasis masalah terhadap kemampuan pemecahan masalah dan karakter peduli lingkungan siswa. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian dan pengembangan menurut model Borg & Gall. Data dikumpulkan melalui angket validasi LKS, angket karakter peduli lingkungan, soal kemampuan pemecahan masalah, lembar observasi penilaian produk daur ulang limbah dan lembar observasi keterlaksanaan pembelajaran. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa LKS biologi berbasis masalah layak untuk topik perubahan lingkungan/iklim dan daur ulang limbah dilihat dari hasil penilaian pada aspek kelayakan isi, kebahasaan, …

Pengembangan Performance Assessment Untuk Mengukur Dan Memetakan Practical Skills Ipa Siswa Pada Guided-Pjbl Di Smp, Siska Pratama, Dadan Rosana

Jurnal Inovasi Pendidikan IPA

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk: (1) mengetahui karakteristik performance assessment yang valid dan reliabel untuk mengukur practical skills IPA pada guided-PjBL, (2) mendeskripsikan practical skills IPA yang muncul pada guided-PjBL, dan (3) mengetahui peta practical skills IPA siswa SMP menggunakan performance assessment. Penelitian ini merupakan Research & Development dengan menggunakan model 4-D Thiagarajan, et al. (1974). Subjek uji coba adalah siswa kelas VII di SMPN 1 Wonosari, SMPN 4 Playen, dan SMPN 5 Ngawen.Teknik pengambilan data meliputi wawancara, angket, dan nontes. Instrumen pengambilan data meliputi pedoman wawancara, lembar angket, dan lembar observasi. Hasil penelitian ini yaitu …

Commonwealth Times 2016-10-31

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

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Exploring The Community Impact Of Service-Learning Project Teams, Brent J. Goertzen Ph.D., Justin Greenleaf Ph.D., Danielle Dougherty

Leadership Faculty Publications

The purpose of this project was to study community partners' perceptions of the impact of service-learning projects, by studying the ways in which “service-learning project teams” (SLPT) impacted the communities and organizations where they worked. Researchers purposefully selected 16 community partners (CP) who had direct experience working with and supervising service-learning project teams to take part in semi-structured interviews regarding their experiences. Analysis of the transcribed interviews resulted in 15 themes that were divided into two categories. These findings are intended to be a starting point for further research regarding the community impact of service-learning.

Current, October 31, 2016, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (2010s)

No abstract provided.

Pengembangan Tes Kreativitas Pada Pembelajaran Fisika Dengan Pendekatan Inkuiri Pada Materi Teori Kinetik Gas, Aprilia Santofani, Dadan Rosana

Jurnal Inovasi Pendidikan IPA

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk: (1) mengetahui karakteristik instrumen penilaian tes kreativitas pada pembelajaraan fisika dengan pendekatan inkuiri menurut kriteria instrumen yang baik, serta (2) mengetahui kemampuan tes dalam mengukur berpikir kreatif peserta didik pada proses pembelajaran dengan pendekatan inkuiri. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian dan pengembangan dengan model pengembangan prosedural, yang mengikuti beberapa tahapan sehingga menghasilkan instrumen penilaian untuk peserta didik SMA. Tahapan tersebut antara lain: (1) pengumpulan informasi, (2) perancangan, (3) mengembangkan produk awal, (4) uji terbatas, (5) revisi hasil uji terbatas, (6) uji coba luas, (7) revisi hasil uji coba luas. Instrumen evaluasi divalidasi oleh ahli materi dan ahli …

Pengembangan Media Komik Ipa Model Pbl Untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Berfikir Analitis Dan Sikap Ilmiah, Devy Indah Lestari, Anti Kolonial Projosantoso

Jurnal Inovasi Pendidikan IPA

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui: (1) karakteristik, (2) kriteria kelayakan, dan (3) keefektifan media komik model PBL pada pembelajaran IPA di SMP kelas VII dalam meningkatkan kemampuan berfikir analitis dan sikap ilmiah. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian dan pengembangan yang mengadaptasi model Borg & Gall yang terdiri dari lima tahap. Subjek coba pada penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas VII di SMP Negeri 1 Sentolo. Pengujian lapangan menggunakan kuasi eksperimen nonequivalent control group design. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa media pembelajaran IPA berbentuk komik: (1) memiliki karakteristik: alur cerita sesuai sintaks PBL, judul komik merupakan integrasi dari KD 4.3, KD 7.3, dan …

October 31st 2016, Csusb

Coyote Chronicle (1984-)

Selective reading
America's lack to read on might be a trend that will not end anytime soon. p.5

Market shines
Redlands market is getting a lot of attention for their fresh produce. p.8

10.31.16., John Parviainen

ASWC Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Utilizing Film To Teach Leadership: An Analysis Of Miracle, Rocky Iv, And Lincoln, Alyssa C. Hilby, Carrie A. Stephens, Christopher T. Stripling

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

Presenting verbal and visual material can be an effective teaching tool for learners who are being introduced to new leadership material. Film was selected as the multimedia outlet to engage an individual’s critical thinking skills while demonstrating different leadership components. This study analyzed three films with the intent of assisting a leadership educator in the process of teaching (a) leading teams, (b) leading change, and (c) transformational leadership. It was concluded that Miracle (O’Connor & Ciardi, 2004) was ideal for teaching about leading teams because it exposed the nuances of team dynamics. Additionally, Rocky IV (Stallone, 1985) was ideal for …

2016 October 31 - Graduate Council Minutes, College Of Graduate And Continuing Studies, East Tennessee State University

Graduate Council Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Champions: What They Do, Why They Do It, And Why It Matters To Organizations, Benjamin Silliman, Pennie Crinion, Thomas Archibald

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

Evaluation champions are individuals who serve as catalysts for building evaluation capacity within an organization. They advocate for the importance of program evaluation, model good evaluation behaviors, and mentor their peers in program evaluation skills and competencies. Interviews with 40 peer-nominated champions in four purposively-sampled Extension organizations identified the roles, contexts, and motivations of staff who act as evaluation champions. Findings underline the importance—and the limits—of mentors and project teams in building evaluation capacity in complex organizations. Implications for practice, research, and policy are discussed.

Full Issue, Volume 4, Number 3, Donna J. Peterson

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Champions: What They Need And Where They Fit In Organizational Learning, Benjamin Silliman, Pennie Crinion, Thomas Archibald

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

Evaluation champions in four state Extension systems described needs for training and support and perspectives on building evaluation capacity in their organization as part of a larger interview study exploring their roles, growth, and motivations. These 40 evaluation leaders identified needs for basic and advanced evaluation skills training, technical assistance, and practical learning via mentoring and project teams. Recommendations for organizational change in evaluation capacity included “top-down” investments in communication, training, and practical support, as well as increased “bottom-up” efforts by champions like themselves to advocate, model best practice, and contribute to training and mentoring peers. Implications for professional development …

Admissions Report - Summary Data - October 2016, Office Of Institutional Research & Effectiveness, Wright State University

Admissions Reports

Summary report of applicants to Wright State including data on ethnicity, region, intended college, transfer, and direct admit from high school for Fall Semester 2017.