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The Pride Of The Common Law: Oklahoma's Struggle With The Prima Facie Tort Action, Matthew C. Kane, Ivan L. London Dec 2016

The Pride Of The Common Law: Oklahoma's Struggle With The Prima Facie Tort Action, Matthew C. Kane, Ivan L. London

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.


Masthead Dec 2016

Masthead

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.


Dear Colleague: Title Ix Coordinators And Inconsistent Compliance With The Laws Governing Campus Sexual Misconduct, Brian A. Pappas Dec 2016

Dear Colleague: Title Ix Coordinators And Inconsistent Compliance With The Laws Governing Campus Sexual Misconduct, Brian A. Pappas

Tulsa Law Review

Title IX Coordinators are tasked with effectuating Title IX compliance to ensure a safe campus while protecting the rights of survivors and alleged perpetrators. An epidemic of university sexual misconduct and widespread non-reporting provided the context for a 2011 Department of Education Office of Civil Rights Dear Colleague Letter redefining compliance. This article utilizes interviews conducted between 2011 and 2014 with 13 Title IX Coordinators from large institutions of higher education to provide a ground-level view of compliance in action. In the very best light, during this time university compliance with Title IX was highly inconsistent and largely ineffective. Title …


Reference Services In Liberal Arts Libraries, Emma R. Oxford Dec 2016

Reference Services In Liberal Arts Libraries, Emma R. Oxford

Libraries

This study addresses a gap in the literature regarding reference services at liberal arts institutions. The author conducted a literature review to examine the existing body of research on reference services and distributed a survey to the 80 member libraries of the Oberlin Group in February 2015. The study found that a wide range of reference practices are in place at liberal arts libraries and focused especially on the use of a designated reference desk, which is widespread. However, there is a correlation between higher librarian satisfaction with reference services and the absence of a desk. Comments from respondents are …


Front Matters, The Editors Dec 2016

Front Matters, The Editors

REID (Research and Evaluation in Education)

No abstract provided.


Developing A Model Of Soft-Skill Teaching For Civil Engineering Students, Azwar Inra, Sukamto Sukamto, Z. Mawardi Effendi Dec 2016

Developing A Model Of Soft-Skill Teaching For Civil Engineering Students, Azwar Inra, Sukamto Sukamto, Z. Mawardi Effendi

REID (Research and Evaluation in Education)

An observation shows that civil engineering students' soft skill is still low. It is characterized by their poor sociability and low positive attitude toward dealing with problems and challenges of life. For students to have various aspects of soft skill, a study was conducted to develop a model of soft-skill teaching that would meet the criteria of validity, effectiveness, and practicality. The research and development referred to Richey & Klein approach, which is: (1) developing a model; and (b) validating a model. The validation process was conducted in two phases, namely internal validation and external validation. The internal validation of …


Academic Performance And Moral Competence: A Match Made In Heaven?, Umaru Mustapha Zubairu, Chetubo Kuta Dauda, Olalekan Busra Sakariyau, Isa Imam Paiko Dec 2016

Academic Performance And Moral Competence: A Match Made In Heaven?, Umaru Mustapha Zubairu, Chetubo Kuta Dauda, Olalekan Busra Sakariyau, Isa Imam Paiko

REID (Research and Evaluation in Education)

This study aims to empirically assess the relationship between accounting students' academic performances and moral competencies by focusing on final-year accounting students enrolled at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). The students' moral competencies were measured using a scenario-based instrument developed through a collaboration with Islamic accounting scholars, called the Muslim Accountant Moral Competency Test (MAMOC), whilst students' academic performances were measured using their Cumulative Grade Point Averages (CGPAs). Contrary to the expected positive relationship between these two variables, the study found a negative, and insignificant, relationship. The implication of this result is that IIUM's Accounting Department needs to conduct …


12/31/2016 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries Dec 2016

12/31/2016 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 12/31/2016. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.


Upaya Pembentukan Warga Negara Yang Baik Dan Tantangan Yang Dihadapi Oleh Para Guru Pkn Peserta Sm3t 2015, Suyato Suyato, Mukhamad Murdiono, Budi Mulyono, Iqbal Arpannudin Dec 2016

Upaya Pembentukan Warga Negara Yang Baik Dan Tantangan Yang Dihadapi Oleh Para Guru Pkn Peserta Sm3t 2015, Suyato Suyato, Mukhamad Murdiono, Budi Mulyono, Iqbal Arpannudin

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

The research was an explorative research deploying interview and questionnaire as collecting data methods. Collected data was analyzed descriptive qualitatively. The research found that (1) although respondents have different conceptions of good citizens, they have shared view on main features of good citizen, namely caring others, responsibility, independence, democratic, critical, and simple life; (2) almost all of them have chosen lecturing as instructional method to develop good citizen; (3) they have found both internal and external obstacles in dealing with their efforts, such as teachers themselves and students and the lack of infrastructures of schools; and (4) many efforts were …


Proving Content Validity Of Self-Regulated Learning Scale (The Comparison Of Aiken Index And Expanded Gregory Index), Heri Retnawati Dec 2016

Proving Content Validity Of Self-Regulated Learning Scale (The Comparison Of Aiken Index And Expanded Gregory Index), Heri Retnawati

REID (Research and Evaluation in Education)

This study aims to prove the content validity of the self-regulated learning (SRL) scale using Likert model and multiple-choice model with content validity coefficient based on expert assessments with Aiken formula and expanded Gregory formula. In this study, the SRL scale with Likert and multiple-choice model are developed using the same outline/format. There are three experts who assess the items' relevancy using indicators of both scale formats. The results of the expert assessments are then used to calculate the coefficient of the validity with Aiken formula and the expanded Gregory formula. The results showed that the content validity coefficient based …


Pengembangan Multimedia Pembelajaran Hukum Agraria Pada Program Studi Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Suripno Suripno Dec 2016

Pengembangan Multimedia Pembelajaran Hukum Agraria Pada Program Studi Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Suripno Suripno

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

This study was aimed at: 1) producing an appropriate learning multimedia for agrarian laws in terms of the material and presentation aspects student responses, and 2) investigate the effectiveness of the developed multimedia to develop student learning outcomes. This was a research and development study. The results of the study were as follows. 1) Regarding the developed learning multimedia product: a) it had good quality in terms of the material aspect with a mean score of 4.10; b) it had good quality in terms of the presentation aspect with a mean score of 4.07; and c) the students' responses to …


Interaksionisme Simbolik Santri Terhadap Kiai Melalui Komunikasi Di Pondok Pesantren Al Munawwir Klrapyak Yogyakarta, Muhammad Hamam Alfajari Dec 2016

Interaksionisme Simbolik Santri Terhadap Kiai Melalui Komunikasi Di Pondok Pesantren Al Munawwir Klrapyak Yogyakarta, Muhammad Hamam Alfajari

Informasi

This research aims to determine the perspective of symbolic interactionism students to
kiai in the communication process in Al Munawwir Islamic Boarding School Krapyak
Yogyakarta. To achieve the objectives of the study, researchers used a qualitative
approach, with qualitative descriptive type. The subjects in this study were students
at Al Munawwir Boarding School Krapyak Yogyakarta. Data retrieval is done through
interviews and observation. Results found is that symbolic interactionism students
are not deterministic. That is, what is done by the students of the kiai is a subjective
awareness of students who interpret certain symbols through interaction. The fact
then that …


Analisis Framing Dalam Riset Public Relations, Narayana Mahendra Prastya Dec 2016

Analisis Framing Dalam Riset Public Relations, Narayana Mahendra Prastya

Informasi

This paper aims to give description about how to use frame analysis in Public Relations
(PR) research. The author use two framing models: Entman and Pan & Kosicki. The
object is organization official statement about particular issue. Frame analysis method
rarely used in Public Relations research. This methods commonly use in journalism
study, to analyse the news in media. Meanwhile, the key word of framing is the social
construction of reality. Organization can make social construction of realty in their
official statement. In acacemic term, frame analysis in PR research is useful to know
how organization positioned themselves in particular …


Separation Index And Fit Items Of Creative Thinking Skills Assessment, Andi Ulfa Tenri Pada, Badrun Kartowagiran, Bambang Subali Dec 2016

Separation Index And Fit Items Of Creative Thinking Skills Assessment, Andi Ulfa Tenri Pada, Badrun Kartowagiran, Bambang Subali

REID (Research and Evaluation in Education)

This article discusses the evaluation results of the separation index and fit item of creative thinking skills assessment that supports the conation aspect of prospective biology teachers in Aceh. This assessment consists of 37 items of divergent tasks, which is the application of human physiology courses that support the conation aspects. The participants were selected from the Biology Education Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Syiah Kuala University. The data were analyzed using the Quest software including the separation index and fit item. The results indicate that the creative thinking skills assessment instrument that supports the conation aspect of …


Model Of Affective Assessment Of Primary School Students, Amir Syamsudin, Budiyono Budiyono, Sutrisno Sutrisno Dec 2016

Model Of Affective Assessment Of Primary School Students, Amir Syamsudin, Budiyono Budiyono, Sutrisno Sutrisno

REID (Research and Evaluation in Education)

This study aims to develop an instrument of affective assessment to measure the social competence of elementary school students in the learning process in schools. This study used the development model of Borg & Gall's approach which was modified into five phases, including the need analyses, developing draft of the product conducted by experts, developing an affective assessment instrument, trying out the affective assessment instrument conducted by teachers of primary education in Yogyakarta, and the dissemination and implementation of the developed affective assessment instrument. The subjects were elementary school students whose school implemented Curriculum 2013 in the academic year of …


Developing An Instrument For Measuring The Faith Of The Students Of Islamic Senior High School, Shodiq Shodiq, Zamroni Zamroni, Kumaidi Kumaidi Dec 2016

Developing An Instrument For Measuring The Faith Of The Students Of Islamic Senior High School, Shodiq Shodiq, Zamroni Zamroni, Kumaidi Kumaidi

REID (Research and Evaluation in Education)

The study aims to develop an instrument used to measure faith of the students of Islamic senior high schools. The study was a research and development study consisting of three steps: pre development, development process, and presentation. The quantitative data analysis was to test the validity and reliability of the instrument and to test the model fit through the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) using LISREL 8.80 Program. The results of the study show that: (1) the faith instrument of the study is an inventory model of summated rating scale containing 113 items named as Islamic Faith Scale; (2) the …


Mixed-Mode Surveys Compared With Single Mode Surveys: Trends In Responses And Methods To Improve Completion, Virginia M. Lesser, Lydia D. Newton, Daniel K. Yang, Jean C. Sifneos Dec 2016

Mixed-Mode Surveys Compared With Single Mode Surveys: Trends In Responses And Methods To Improve Completion, Virginia M. Lesser, Lydia D. Newton, Daniel K. Yang, Jean C. Sifneos

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

This article reviews recent trends in modes of conducting surveys and presents results from a series of experiments comparing different approaches for collecting survey data and improving response rates in general population studies. The modes examined include the telephone, mail, and a mixed-mode method which combines mail with Web data collection. A series of studies were conducted by the Oregon State University Survey Research Center from 2006-2014 using probability samples of Oregon residents. Response rates and the percent of respondents completing the questionnaires by Web were compared. The results showed that response rates were increased by modifying the cover letter …


Assessing The Influence Of Importance Prompt And Box Size On Response To Open-Ended Questions In Mixed Mode Surveys: Evidence On Response Rate And Response Quality, Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Glenn D. Israel Dec 2016

Assessing The Influence Of Importance Prompt And Box Size On Response To Open-Ended Questions In Mixed Mode Surveys: Evidence On Response Rate And Response Quality, Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Glenn D. Israel

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

To understand the thinking behind respondents’ answers, researchers occasionally use open-ended questions. Getting a quality response to open-ended questions can be challenging but attending to the visual design of the question and using a motivational statement in the question can increase item response and data quality. To understand the use of open-ended questions in surveys further, we designed an experiment testing the effect of an importance statement (present/absent) and box size (large/small) on item response rate and response quality in a mixed-mode (web and mail modes) survey. Data for the study came from a survey of Florida Cooperative Extension Service …


Upaya Orang Tua Dalam Pembentukan Karakter Kebangsaan Anak Usia Dini Melalui Cara Memilih Produk, Anang Priyanto, Pratiwi Wahyu Widiarti, Lies Endarwati Dec 2016

Upaya Orang Tua Dalam Pembentukan Karakter Kebangsaan Anak Usia Dini Melalui Cara Memilih Produk, Anang Priyanto, Pratiwi Wahyu Widiarti, Lies Endarwati

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

The purpose of this research is to find out parent efforts to build young children character, parent behavior to choose daily needs and to develop model of character building by selection of products on young children. This is a survei and mixed method model. The results of this study were (1) Parent skill in choosing Indonesian product are poor 25.1%, fail or medium 53.9%, and good 21% product selectivity. The most committed effort by parent to make their children love Indonesia product. The second place is by introducing Indonesian product to their children by using and wearing Indonesian product. Parent …


Pendidikan Multikultural Untuk Membangun Bangsa Yang Nasionalis Religius, R. Ibnu Ambarudin Dec 2016

Pendidikan Multikultural Untuk Membangun Bangsa Yang Nasionalis Religius, R. Ibnu Ambarudin

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

Indonesia is a multicultural country, multiethnic, multi-religious, and multi other things spreaded in the world. Therefore, it needs a wise, appropriate, and effective ways to respond so that the steps taken are not slipped ways and consequently endanger the sustainability of the nation in the future. Multicultural education is required by Indonesia to reduce the occurrence of horizontal conflicts between communities, because of differences in culture, ethnicity, customs, and religion is the emphasizing on learning to appreciate differences and not be regarded as causes of fragmentation. This can be done through selection of suitable material or nuanced tolerance towards all …


Pengembangan Komponen Kompetensi Kewargaan Dalam Buku Teks Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan Smp/Mts, Dikdik Baehaqi Arif Dec 2016

Pengembangan Komponen Kompetensi Kewargaan Dalam Buku Teks Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan Smp/Mts, Dikdik Baehaqi Arif

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

This essay was aimed at describing the development of civic knowledge, civic skill and civic disposition on textbooks for junior high school namely "Belajar Memahami Kewarganegaraan 1, 2 and 3". Based on content analysis, it can be conducted that civic education element was developed through teaching material presented accompanied by features, such as additional boxes, every chapter including pictures, law corner, info, public figures, and citizenship dictionary. In addition to presentation of civic skill related teaching material, box of "uji kompetensi" was utilize to enhance civic skill competences. Civic disposition was enhanced by inserting national values as well as up-held-values …


Pembentukan Wawasan Global Mahasiswa Dalam Mata Kuliah Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan Di Fkip Universitas Ahmad Dahlan, Syifa Siti Aulia Dec 2016

Pembentukan Wawasan Global Mahasiswa Dalam Mata Kuliah Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan Di Fkip Universitas Ahmad Dahlan, Syifa Siti Aulia

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

This research was aimed at answering about globalizing challenges citizen, especially young citizen. Teaching and learning in higher education including Citizenship Education is still conventional emphasizing learning process as the process of inculcating the value of smart and good citizen mainly related to the establishment of global competence of citizens. This study uses qualitative approach to explore the meaninful of practices and sciences of Citizenship Education as character education and global competencies of citizens. Practically, this research was expected to provide for practitioners and scientists of education, especially for Citizenship Education as character development courses in college, especially in the …


Belajar Demokrasi Di Sekolah: Re-Orientasi Pendidikan Dan Pengembangan Kultur Sekolah Yang Humanis, Suyato Suyato Dec 2016

Belajar Demokrasi Di Sekolah: Re-Orientasi Pendidikan Dan Pengembangan Kultur Sekolah Yang Humanis, Suyato Suyato

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

This essay explores the factors that cause a lack of effective preparation of citizens supporting the democratic political system carried by educational institutions, especially schools. After describing the global context, in particular the tendency (trend) practices of Citizenship Education that has shifted to the sheer mission preparation productive workforce as it promoted the ideology of neoliberal role strategies educational institutions (schools), not in the setting up of citizens supporting democratic values , further description focuses on the development of the humanist school culture, which the authors believe to be an absolute prerequisite for learning effective democracy. Recently described of learning …


Kajian Tentang Karakter Berbasis Nilai-Nilai Kearifan Lokal Pada Masyarakat Adat Kampung Kuta Kecamatan Tambaksari Kabupaten Ciamis, Trisna Sukmayadi Dec 2016

Kajian Tentang Karakter Berbasis Nilai-Nilai Kearifan Lokal Pada Masyarakat Adat Kampung Kuta Kecamatan Tambaksari Kabupaten Ciamis, Trisna Sukmayadi

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

This study was aimed at exploring the values of local wisdom of the indigenous peoples whose existence is still kept below the brunt of globalization and modernization so strong. This is a case study. Its results indicate: (1) the indigenous peoples perceived that local knowledge is a cultural heritage as a noble value, handed down by ancestors as identity formation and identity that must be maintained and preserved. Characters that are inherited are soft, regular, efficiency, discipline, shared caring, teach each other, sincere, obedient /submissive, visionary (thinking ahead), responsible, dedicated, loyal, sympathy, empathy, compassion, tolerancesense, willing …


Pengembangan Bahan Ajar Berbasis Muatan Lokal Pada Mata Kuliah Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan, Emil El Faisal, Sulkipani Sulkipani Dec 2016

Pengembangan Bahan Ajar Berbasis Muatan Lokal Pada Mata Kuliah Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan, Emil El Faisal, Sulkipani Sulkipani

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

This research aimed at (1) developing teaching materials based on local content for Civic Education in University; and (2) describing the potential impact of local content on student consciousness on local culture. It was a developmental research. The subject were student registered in Civic Education Course (Mata Kuliah PKn) at History Department. Pilot project was validated through one to one, small group, and field evaluation. The analyzed result indicates that the developed instrument was valid and has potential impact. Supported data shows that the mean score prior to implementation was 6.86 and after implementation was 7.73. In other words, there …


Kendala Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan Dalam Membangun Karakter Peserta Didik Di Dalam Proses Pembelajaran, Pipit Widiatmaka Dec 2016

Kendala Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan Dalam Membangun Karakter Peserta Didik Di Dalam Proses Pembelajaran, Pipit Widiatmaka

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

This study has the objective to discuss in depth about the obstacles experienced by Citizenship Education teacher in building the student's character. This type of research is qualitative. Data collection method were literature study and observation. Data were analyzed using interactive data analysis. Civic Education is a lesson that must be given to students from elementary school to college, so it is not denied that Civic Education has a significant in building a good citizen. Basically, Civic Education teacher's responsibility is huge, because the task is not only to build knowledge of civic (civic knowledge), but also to build the …


Politik Penegakan Hak Asasi Manusia Pada Masa Transisi D Indonesia, Halili Halili Dec 2016

Politik Penegakan Hak Asasi Manusia Pada Masa Transisi D Indonesia, Halili Halili

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

This article was aimed at (1) discovering and constructing the political dynamics in formulating the Law of the Court of Human Rights; (2) analyzing its implication on the future of politic of Human Rights in Indonesia. This essay was a result of content analysis research with qualitative-comparative approach. The finding showed that (1) substantively, the formulation of Law No. 26 Year 2000 on Human Rights Court has fundamental weaknesses such as a partial adaptation of The Roma Statute, the course of human rights court was constructed weak by stating its authority only on investigation, whereas attorney General's Office authority on …


Melihat Sejarah Nasionalisme Indonesia Untuk Memupuk Sikap Kebangsaan Generasi Muda, Mifdal Zusron Alfaqi Dec 2016

Melihat Sejarah Nasionalisme Indonesia Untuk Memupuk Sikap Kebangsaan Generasi Muda, Mifdal Zusron Alfaqi

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

In the globalized era and the fragile nation, it is necessary for us to look backward (to learn) the history of Indonesian nationalism. It is due to the fact that in this era a lot of young generation tends to forget and choose to become competitive individuals and then ignore their nationality. Many young generations were trapped in temporary hedonism and rejected national spirit in the name of personal objectives. From the formation of Indonesian nationalism perspective, the role of young generation is inseparable such as Sumpah Pemuda (Youth Pledge). Accordingly, by considering the history of Indonesia nationalism, it is …


Advances In Survey And Data Analysis Methods For Rural Social Scientists: An Introduction, Glenn D. Israel Dec 2016

Advances In Survey And Data Analysis Methods For Rural Social Scientists: An Introduction, Glenn D. Israel

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Rural sociologists and other rural social scientists have been and continue to be in the forefront of advances in methods for collecting and analyzing high quality social science data. While much of this work is embedded within substantive studies, the focus of this issue is on highlighting lessons learned so that other researchers can incorporate these ideas into the design and conduct of their studies.


Public Intercept Interviews And Surveys For Gathering Place-Based Perceptions: Observations From Community Water Research In Utah, Courtney G. Flint, Charles Mascher, Zack Oldroyd, Phillip Andre Valle, Elizabeth Wynn, Quinton Cannon, Alexander Brown, Bethany Unger Dec 2016

Public Intercept Interviews And Surveys For Gathering Place-Based Perceptions: Observations From Community Water Research In Utah, Courtney G. Flint, Charles Mascher, Zack Oldroyd, Phillip Andre Valle, Elizabeth Wynn, Quinton Cannon, Alexander Brown, Bethany Unger

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Public intercept interviews provide a useful data gathering method for assessing locally salient topics. We describe a recent project to highlight public water perspectives in parks in two Utah cities, and we focus on the methodological considerations to expand applications of the public intercept survey method. Combining demographic survey information with open-ended interview data allows for validating samples against census information. An expanded informed consent process allows participants to make selections regarding data use and identification. New technologies enable a paperless process and data management opportunities as well as challenges. Participants were largely willing to allow use of interview audio …