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Exploring The Interactions Between Writing Pedagogy And Technological Knowledge In Online Writing Consultation, Christopher Ryan Schott

Dissertations

Online writing consultation continues to advance from mere asynchronous email systems to more technologically rich synchronous venues. Technologies, such as chat rooms and video conferencing software, to even more immersive and interactive virtual environments, have created complex and rewarding spaces for writing consultations to take place. However, most professional conversation, training, and research for online writing consultation focuses on two aspects of online writing consultation—technological knowledge, often fixated on learning to use a technology to teach, and pedagogical knowledge, knowledge about writing and tutoring practices, which are often based in traditional face-to-face tutoring processes. This study looks at how writing …

The Illumination Of Racial Understandings As Revealed In Teacher Education Students' Interpretation Of Written Text, Carolyn Marie Fuller

Dissertations

This study utilized a basic qualitative research design to explore how teachers enrolled in a graduate level social justice course read and respond to racialized texts, referenced as the “critical reading tasks.” These “critical reading tasks” included the constructs of: racial identity/positioning, historical time frame, characters/personal attributes, language, class, and intersectionality. Additionally, the following research questions guided the study: In what ways do teacher education students evoke, interpret, construct or misunderstand race, racism and anti-racism? And how do these understandings change over time, as participants revisit the readings? In what ways do participants describe the emotionality associated with revisiting racialized …

Recent Sociology Criminology Alum Is Private Investigator In Colorado, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Faculty In The News: December 12, 2016, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

"iDream," a collaboration between two UD alumni and the theatre, dance and performance technology program made headlines, and other highlights of recent media coverage of College of Arts and Sciences faculty research, scholarship and commentary.

Fortaleza's Immigrant Song: Portrait-Narratives And An Identity Needs Analysis Of Recent Immigrants' Lived Experiences, Carl Weitz-Santiago

Capstone Collection

This inquiry sheds light on the personal stories and lived experiences of a group of recent immigrants currently living in Fortaleza, the sprawling capital of the Northeastern state of Ceará, Brazil. Utilizing a theoretical framework guided by “Epistemologies of the South,” ethnographic principles, and constructivist grounded theory, this capstones presents five first person portrait-narratives highlighting intimate details of project participants’ lives prior to immigrating, and uncovers four persistent and recurrent themes expressed by project participants: (1) language and communication, (2) professional opportunity, (3) personal growth, and (4) “saudade” and belongingness.

Through the lens of Johan Galtung’s Basic Needs Approach, …

Improving Technology Integration In A Rural High School By Listening To Students' Needs And Experiences, Brandie Nicole Shatto

All Theses And Dissertations

While schools have embraced the mantra of 21st century skills since the early 1990s and access to technology has become nearly ubiquitous, technology use in K-12 classrooms is still largely absent. This has created a situation where teachers are unsure of how to teach with technology and students are unsure how to learn with technology. This transformative mixed methods study sought to give students a voice to articulate their learning needs in relation to technology integration in schools. The study drew on rural high school students’ perceptions of technology use in K-12 classrooms by documenting students’ use of technology at …

Factors Determining The Development Of Product Eco-Innovations. The Evidence From Poland, Magdalena Marczewska

Studia i Materiały Wydział Zarządzania Uniwersytet Warszawski

The aim of this paper is to analyse and discuss the actions undertaken by Polish enterprises operating in the field of environmentally sound technologies to create and implement innovative, environmentally friendly products (i.e. environmental innovations, eco-innovations). The qualitative study examines the impact of the determinants, such as technology, market, regulation and firm specific factors, on the development of eco-innovative solutions of analysed companies. Based on the in-depth interviews conducted with forty selected companies, it is possible to specify the determinants of firms’ eco-innovative activity and motivation factors for creating product eco-innovations in Poland. These are mainly market- and technology-related factors. …

Four Methodological Threats In Management Science, Grażyna Wieczorkowska, Grzegorz Król, Jerzy Wierzbiński

Studia i Materiały Wydział Zarządzania Uniwersytet Warszawski

The text discusses four threats in the analysis of data in management science: (1) Too small number of experimental studies; (2) Weakness of theoretical models; (3) Weakness of measurement; (4) Weakness of analysis. Most of these pitfalls apply also to psychological and sociological research. The summary covers answers to reviewers’ potentially unjustified objections concerning samples and lack of hypotheses.

Determinants And Consequences Of Involuntary Turnover Of Sales Personnel, Krzysztof Cybulski

Studia i Materiały Wydział Zarządzania Uniwersytet Warszawski

Both voluntary and involuntary turnover of sales personnel has a costly and troublesome impact on virtually all firms operating in different industries. In this paper the author argues that an increasingly important phenomenon of especially involuntary sales force turnover derives mostly from poor managerial practices and, to a certain extent, reflects the inability of sales managers to deal with sales teams problems. An accurate analysis of the phenomenon allowed for identifying practical solutions and showing specific necessary actions that would reduce the volume of sales force involuntary turnover and curb its negative consequences.

Problems With Measurement Of Trust And Trustworthiness. What Best Predicts Trust Game Outcomes?, Anna O. Kuźmińska

Studia i Materiały Wydział Zarządzania Uniwersytet Warszawski

Badanie (N = 156) miało na celu sprawdzenie wartości predykcyjnej kwestionariuszowych miar zaufania w odniesieniu do zachowania w grze oraz możliwości zastąpienia ich przez inne narzędzia. Ponadto celem była replikacja uzyskanych przez innych badaczy wyników, demonstrujących, że informacja o przynależności grupowej drugiej osoby wpływa na ufne i godne zaufania zachowanie w grze. Po wypełnieniu kwestionariuszy, uczestnicy wzięli udział w Grze Zaufania, w której manipulowano informacją na temat przynależności grupowej drugiej osoby. Analiza wyników potwierdziła przewidywania na temat braku związku pomiędzy deklaratywnymi miarami zaufania i zachowaniem w grze. Wiarygodność przewidywała natomiast miara aprobaty społecznej. Wyniki nie potwierdziły negatywnego wpływu informacji o …

The Use Of Online Dating Sites To Establish Social Relations, Oskar Szumski, Marek Zborowski

Studia i Materiały Wydział Zarządzania Uniwersytet Warszawski

Popularity of information technologies and transfer of big part of personal life to virtual reality enabled more frequent use of social networks to establish relationship including business, social and related to hobbies. There can be noticed lack of research focused on the analysis of portals and applications used by adults within the framework of the search for knowledge through virtual dating sites and other Internet services of this class. Goal of presented research is to analyse the use of social network and dating applications to establish relationship specific for personal sphere of life. Research group was identified from within students …

The Free Press Vol. 48, Issue No. 11, 12-12-2016, Krysteana Scribner

Free Press, The

Students strive to get more gender neutral bathrooms on campus -- Knitting group hopes to keep activists warm at Standing Rock -- Lepage asks for change in minimum wage, education ballot initiatives -- Student senate hopes to move forward after alleged hate crime -- Student activists mobilize to join protest efforts

Editorial, Aac Abeysinghe, D Kasturiratne

Plymouth Business School

Researching is now flourishing in Sri Lankan universities. Bourgeoning number of annual conferences and faculty journals evidence this. The provision of research funding must have influenced this development. Our brief survey of these journals, however, indicates that 95% of the papers fall in one dominant paradigm - positivism. In contrast, well-ranked international journals publish both positivist and post/anti positivist papers almost equally. This suggests that we need to think of a methodological diversity.

Putting Your Best Face Forward: A Critical Visual Analysis Of Gay Advertising Images And Self-Branding On Grindr, Gigina A. Giorgi

Theses

Advertising is used to sell a brand by depicting a lifestyle or persona that one aspires to attain. We brand ourselves, or self-brand, in accordance to how we want to be perceived by others and to convey a particular message. This study addresses the following research questions: 1) How are men presented in advertisements in gay orientated magazines? 2) How do gay men portray themselves in online dating profiles? 3) Is there a relationship between the portrayal of the male body in advertisements in Out and self-portrayal on online dating profiles? 4) What messages are gay men portraying on online …

Interracial Advertising: A Comparative Analysis On Youtube Comments On A Controversial Interracial Commercial, Jeannine Alsous

Theses

This paper examines online comments to an interracial family portrayed in two online commercials for Cheerios. The study focused on an in-depth review of literature of history, symbolic interaction theory, critical race theory and co-creation of value, followed by comparative content analysis of online comments and intercoder reliability test. Four-hundred total comments were analyzed; 100 positive from each commercial and 100 negative from each. The comments were chosen by a filtering method the social media site YouTube has to select and analyze the top and most popular comments from each. After collection, a comparative content analysis of the comments was …

Beyond The Surface: An Analysis On The Journalistic Reporting Of Native American Issues, Nicole Dorothy Irene Scott

Theses

This study analyzes the reporting of four issues that have impacted the Native American community. The research begins by addressing historical events that transformed Native American identity and have shaped the media’s representation of Native identity. Framing theory, muted group theory, and tribal critical race theory support this study, with framing theory focusing on examining the news discourse. This study seeks to identify how Native American issues are framed differently in Indian Country Today Media Network and the New York Times, and seeks to identify if the Native voice can be heard in articles written by Native journalists. The results …

Scientometric Portrait Of Mike Thelwall, Vellaichamy A, Amsan E

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Mike Thelwall was honoured with the Derek John de Solla Price Award (2015) at his 50 years age and at 20 years of research publishing career. The first contribution of the author was in 2000 at the age of 35. His publications were analysed by year, growth of publication pattern, collaboration pattern, authorship pattern, channels of communications used and keywords etc. He had 297 publications during 2000-2015 in domains: Computer Science (237), Social Sciences (183), Decision Sciences (50), Mathematics (45), Engineering (11), Medicine(7), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (6), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (3), Physics …

Hookup Culture On College Campuses: Centering College Women, Communication Barriers, And Negative Outcomes, Laura Klinger

College Student Affairs Leadership

The majority of college students feel that their lives are dominated by the hookup culture, or a sexual culture of non-committed sexual encounters. However, college students are actually participating in this culture in much smaller numbers than they believe their peers to be, pointing to a culture that is driven by perception rather than clear communication or healthy desire. This article provides a comprehensive review of the literature on this subject, with particular emphasis on the challenges to communication that exist within hookup relationships with the understanding that this may contribute to the negative outcomes experienced by students. As women …

Fall 2016 Commencement Program, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

Commencement Programs

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Commencement Convocation Program, Sarasota - Manatee Campus, December 11, 2016, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Outstanding Graduate Award and Golden Bull Service and Leadership Award - Jennifer Caba; Outstanding Professor - Jean Kabongo

Time-Series Analysis Of Embodied Interaction: Movement Variability And Complexity Matching As Dyadic Properties, Leonardo Zapata-Fonseca, Dobromir Dotov, Ruben Fossion, Tom Froese

Journal Articles

There is a growing consensus that a fuller understanding of social cognition depends on more systematic studies of real-time social interaction. Such studies require methods that can deal with the complex dynamics taking place at multiple interdependent temporal and spatial scales, spanning sub-personal, personal, and dyadic levels of analysis. We demonstrate the value of adopting an extended multi-scale approach by re-analyzing movement time-series generated in a study of embodied dyadic interaction in a minimal virtual reality environment (a perceptual crossing experiment). Reduced movement variability revealed an interdependence between social awareness and social coordination that cannot be accounted for by either …

Reformers Against The Clock, William Sloan Greenawalt

The Catholic Lawyer

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Too Little, Too Late?, Revius O. Ortique, Jr.

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

"The Art Of Re-Enchantment: Making Early Music In The Modern Age," By Nick Wilson, Geoffrey Burgess

Performance Practice Review

Geoffrey Burgess discusses Nick Wilson's 2013 work.

Wilson, Nick. The Art of Re-enchantment: Making Early Music in the Modern Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0199939930.

The Functions Of The Constitution And The Establishment Clause, Richard O. Brooks

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Jurisprudence: Readings And Cases, Dr. Miriam Theresa Rooney

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

New York's "Minor" Obscenity Statute Held Constitutional

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

The Legal Philosophy Of Roscoe Pound, Linus J. Mcmanaman, O.S.B.

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Editorial Comment, Edward T. Fagan

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Not Enough To Go Around: Statistical Analysis Of Staffing Of Child Life Programs, Caroline Greene

Masters of Public Administration Theses

Child life programs are gaining popularity and support in pediatric care as the field grows. However, healthcare is growing rapidly and child life programs are struggling to advocate for their place within pediatric care despite the fact that the American Academy of Pediatrics defines child life as a necessity. This study seeks to answer the question: How does the level of pediatric care offered by a hospital affect the staffing of child life programs? The sample (N=154) hospital programs in this study offer varying levels of pediatric care. The independent variable is the level of pediatric care offered by hospitals, …