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Development And Validation Of The Microbiology For Health Sciences Concept Inventory, Heather M. Seitz, Rachel E. A. Horak, Megan W. Howard, Lucy W. Kluckhohn Jones, Theodore Muth, Christopher Parker, Andrea Pratt Rediske, Maureen M. Whitehurst

Publications and Research

Identifying misconceptions in student learning is a valuable practice for evaluating student learning gains and directing educational interventions. By accurately identifying students’ knowledge and misconceptions about microbiology concepts, instructors can design effective classroom practices centered on student understanding. Following the development of ASM’s Curriculum Guidelines in 2012, we developed a concept inventory, the Microbiology for Health Sciences Concept Inventory (MHSCI), that measures learning gains and identifies student misconceptions in health sciences microbiology classrooms. The 23-question MHSCI was delivered to a wide variety of students at multiple institution types. Psychometric analysis identified that the MHSCI instrument is both discriminatory and reliable …

The Impact Of Parental Involvement On Student Success: School And Family Partnership From The Perspective Of Parents And Teachers, Audric Newchurch

Doctor of Education in Teacher Leadership Dissertations

The purposes of this study was to examine the perceptions of parents and teachers regarding their awareness and responsiveness concerning parental involvement and search for ways to improve the home-school relationship through effective parental involvement. Additionally, the study strived to identify efficient yet useful ways that families and schools can build strong partnerships and to discover the role of the school in at home parenting and learning through a collaborative partnership based on Epstein’s six typologies of parental involvement.

Conversely, this study focused on two uncommon involvement typologies in Epstein’s framework. Those two are parenting and learning at home. …

First Direct Constraints On Fierz Interference In Free-Neutron Β Decay, K. P. Hickerson, X. Sun, Y. Bagdasarova, D. Bravo-Berguño, L. J. Broussard, M. A. -P. Brown, R. Carr, S. Currie, X. Ding, B. W. Filippone, A. García, P. Geltenbort, J. Hoagland, A. T. Holley, R. Hong, T. M. Ito, A. Knecht, C. -Y. Liu, J. L. Liu, M. Makela, R. R. Mammei, J. W. Martin, D. Melconian, M. P. Mendenhall, S. D. Moore, C. L. Morris, R. W. Pattie Jr., A. Pérez Galván, R. Picker, M. L. Pitt, Bradley R. Plaster

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

Precision measurements of free-neutron β decay have been used to precisely constrain our understanding of the weak interaction. However, the neutron Fierz interference term b_n, which is particularly sensitive to beyond-standard-model tensor currents at the TeV scale, has thus far eluded measurement. Here we report the first direct constraints on this term, finding b_n = 0.067 ± 0.005_{stat^+0.090-0.061sys}, consistent with the standard model. The uncertainty is dominated by absolute energy reconstruction and the linearity of the β spectrometer energy response.

Measurement Of The Vector And Tensor Asymmetries At Large Missing Momentum In Quasielastic (E→,E'P Electron Scattering From Deuterium, A. Degrush, A. Maschinot, T. Akdogan, R. Alarcon, W. Bertozzi, E. Booth, T. Botto, J. R. Calarco, B. Clasie, Christopher Crawford, K. Dow, M. Farkhondeh, Renee H. Fatemi, O. Filoti, W. Franklin, H. Gao, E. Geis, S. Gilad, D. K. Hasell, P. Karpius, M. Kohl, H. Kolster, T. Lee, J. Matthews, K. Mcilhany, N. Meitanis, R. Milner, J. Rapaport, R. Redwine, J. Seely

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We report the measurement of the beam-vector and tensor asymmetries A^V_ed and A^T_d in quasielastic (e^→,e′p) electrodisintegration of the deuteron at the MIT-Bates Linear Accelerator Center up to missing momentum of 500  MeV/c. Data were collected simultaneously over a momentum transfer range 0.1 < Q² < 0.5  (GeV/c)² with the Bates Large Acceptance Spectrometer Toroid using an internal deuterium gas target polarized sequentially in both vector and tensor states. The data are compared with calculations. The beam-vector asymmetry AVed is found to be directly sensitive to the D-wave …

Hyperaccreting Black Hole As Gamma-Ray Burst Central Engine. Ii. Temporal Evolution Of The Central Engine Parameters During The Prompt And Afterglow Phases, Wei-Hua Lei, Bing Zhang, Xue-Feng Wu, En-Wei Liang

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Research

A hyperaccreting stellar-mass black hole (BH) has been proposed as the candidate central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The rich observations of GRBs by Fermi and Swiftmake it possible to constrain the central engine model by comparing the model predictions against data. This paper is dedicated to studying the temporal evolution of the central engine parameters for both the prompt emission and afterglow phases. We consider two jet-launching mechanisms, i.e., annihilations and the Blandford–Znajek (BZ) process, and obtain analytical solutions to these two models. We then investigate the BH central engine parameters, such as the jet power, the dimensionless entropy …

More Than Just Empty Space: Integrated Geoarchaeological Investigations Of The Crystal River Site (8ci1) Plaza, Alexander C. Delgado

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Crystal River (8CI1) is a Woodland period archaeological site on the west-central Gulf Coast of Florida, famous for its diverse suite of exotic artifacts typical of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere, as well as its monumental shell mounds which surround a central plaza. Historically, these plazas are utilized as spaces for cultural expression, daily interactions between members of the community, economic exchanges, and discourse of all types. They also serve as a symbolic space, embodying social and political relations that are critical to the formation and maintenance of cultural identity. These spaces are challenging to study using conventional archaeological techniques since …

Predicting Dry‐Season Flows With A Monthly Rainfall–Runoff Model: Performance For Gauged And Ungauged Catchments, Perrine Hamel, Andrew John Guswa, Jake Sahl, Lu Zhang

Engineering: Faculty Publications

Hydrologic models are useful to understand the effects of climate and land‐use changes on dry‐season flows. In practice, there is often a trade‐off between simplicity and accuracy, especially when resources for catchment management are scarce. Here, we evaluated the performance of a monthly rainfall–runoff model (dynamic water balance model, DWBM) for dry‐season flow prediction under climate and land‐use change. Using different methods with decreasing amounts of catchment information to set the four model parameters, we predicted dry‐season flow for 89 Australian catchments and verified model performance with an independent dataset of 641 catchments in the United States. For the Australian …

Comparison Of Various Means Of Evaluating Molecular Electrostatic Potentials For Noncovalent Interactions, Steve Scheiner

Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Publications

The various heterodimers formed by a series of Lewis acids with NH3 as Lewis base are identified. Lewis acids include those that can form chalcogen (HSF and HSBr), pnicogen (H2PF and H2PBr), and tetrel (H3SiF and H3SiBr) bonds, as well as H‐bonds and halogen bonds. The molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) of each Lewis acid is considered in a number of ways. Pictorial versions show broad regions of positive and negative MEP, on surfaces that vary with respect to either the value of the chosen isopotential, or their distance from the nuclei. Specific points are identified where the MEP reaches a …

Pengembangan Multimedia Interaktif Dengan Autoplay Media Studio Pada Materi Kedudukan Relatif Dua Lingkaran, Nindy Mustika Wandani, Syaiful Hamzah Nasution

Jurnal Kajian Pembelajaran Matematika

This development research aims to produce interactive multimedia products about relative two-circle position with a valid, practical, and effective based on scientific approach. This multimedia development use AutoPlay Media Studio 8 software with reference to Lee and Owens (2004) model which includes (1) Assessment / analysis consisting of need assessment and front-end analysis, (2) Design, (3) Development, (4) ) Implementation, and (5) Evaluation. The results of validation and media testing obtained scores as follows: Media validation scores by material experts by 90.67%, media validation score by media experts by 90%, field teacher pact score by 90%, evaluation score one on …

Pemahaman Konsep Fungsi Invers Siswa Melalui Pembelajaran Kooperatif Tipe Jigsaw, Al Aini Aulia, I Nengah Parta, Santi Irawati

Jurnal Kajian Pembelajaran Matematika

Mathematics is a branch of science that play a pivotal role in human life . In the process of learning mathematics, many aspects must be considered so that the goal of learning can be achieved. Learning paradigm that just makes students memorize many do not understand mathematical concepts. While understanding the concept is a very important factor in the learning of mathematics and basic things that should be owned by the students.Students who have a good understanding of the concepts that will have an impact on its ability to resolve problems and tasks given in the study of mathematics, this …

Peningkatan Kemampuan Komunikasi Matematika Melalui Pembelajaran Kooperatif Tipe Stad (Student Teams Achievement Division) Berbasis Ict (Information And Communication Technologies), Iryana Muhammad, Hayatun Nufus, Mursalin Mursalin

Jurnal Kajian Pembelajaran Matematika

This study aims to improve one of the objectives of mathematics learning, namely the ability of mathematical communication through the application of cooperative learning type STAD (Student Teams Achievement Division) based on ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) using Autograph Software in Statistics Course. The approach used in this study is a quantitative approach to the type of quasi-experimental research. The study was conducted in the academic year 2016/2017. The population is all students of Mathematics Education Study Program of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Universitas Malikussaleh, and all students of Mathematics Education Study Program of the Faculty of …

Analisis Problem Posing Siswa Ditinjau Dari Taksonomi Bloom, Saddam Hussen, Abdur Rahman Asari, Tjang Daniel Chandra

Jurnal Kajian Pembelajaran Matematika

This study aimed to describe the analysis of problem posing students in terms of taxonomy bloom. Mathematical material that is chosen is a square and a triangle. This study used a qualitative approach with descriptive research. This study was conducted in one of the Junior High School at Malang, with the subjects ninth grade consisting of 32 students. Researchers gave math tests to be analyzed based on Bloom Taxonomy, and researcher mengkategorisasikannya by highlevel thinking skills or Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) and low-level thinking skills or Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS). The results of this study indicate that: (1) …

Penerapan Pembelajaran Kooperatif Tipe Jigsaw Berseting Think-Talk-Write Untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Komunikasi Matematis Siswa Kelas Xi Bahasa Sma Negeri 1 Kepanjen Pada Materi Peluang, Yuniartiningsih Yuniartiningsih, Toto Nusantara, I Nengah Parta

Jurnal Kajian Pembelajaran Matematika

The fact in mathematics learning activities in schools is less facilitating students to develop their mathematical communication skills. The results of preliminary observations indicate that students' mathematical communication skills are still low. This research is a classroom action research aimed at implementing jigsaw cooperative learning with a think-talk-write method to improve the mathematical communication skills of students of class XI Language in SMA 1 Kepanjen on Probability material. The subjects in this study were 20 students of class XI Language 2014/2015 academic year. Data is collected from the results of the final test of action, observation of the actions of …

Pengembangan Bahan Ajar Bercirikan Penemuan Terbimbing Dan Berbantuan Aplikasi Pada Materi Untuk Kelas X Smk, Zukhrufurrohmah Zukhrufurrohmah, Cholis Sa’Dijah, Makbul Muksar

Jurnal Kajian Pembelajaran Matematika

The purpose of this study is to develop teaching materials in the form of Student Activity Sheets (LKS) characterized by guided discovery and assisted graphic applications on material quadratic functions for class X Vocational Schools which are valid, practical and effective. Development of teaching materials characterized by guided discovery was chosen because based on the results of researcher observation, learning activities need to be supported by the presence of teaching materials so that students can be active in learning. While the use of the graph application is expected to help students discover the concept of characteristic graphs of quadratic functions …

Penalaran Analogi Siswa Dalam Menyelesaikan Masalah Keliling Dan Luas Segiempat, Siti Nurul Azimi, Purwanto Purwanto, Abadyo Abadyo

Jurnal Kajian Pembelajaran Matematika

The purpose of this study is to find out the reasoning of junior high school students in solving problems around and around the square. This study uses a descriptive qualitative research approach. The subjects in this study were 3 VII grade students of Malang SMPN 2. Subject selection was based on students' mathematical abilities consisting of high, low and medium students. Students' mathematical abilities are seen from the grades of the previous math report cards and are based on recommendations from class teachers. The instruments used in this study are reasoning test logic questions and interview guidelines. The results of …

Studi Kasus: Komunikasi Matematis Siswa Homeschooling Melalui Gesture Pada Materi Irisan Dua Himpunan, Fitri Umardiyah, Subanji Subanji, Dwiyana Dwiyana

Jurnal Kajian Pembelajaran Matematika

This study aims to describe mathematical communication through gesture in the material operation of two sets of slices. This type of research is descriptive research with a qualitative approach. The subject of this study was a VII grade Homeschooling student. Researchers do data collection through interviews and observations during learning. To strengthen the data in this study, researchers recorded audio-visual learning and interview activities. The results showed that (1) students communicated mathematical ideas briefly through gesture in the form of gesture, pointing to the writing he made, (2) students communicating mathematical ideas with freedom through iconic gestures in the form …

Keterampilan Metacognitive Experience Siswa Pada Pembelajaran Matematika Di Sd Negeri Kotalama 1 Malang, Inna Megawati S, Edy Bambang Irawan, Sulton Sulton

Jurnal Kajian Pembelajaran Matematika

This research focus of describing the skill of metacognitive experience student of mathematic learning in elementary school of kotalama 1 malang. Description the skill of metacognitive experience about the character for metacognitive feelings dan metacognitive judgment student. Research of procedures used is with do observation, documentation, then interview. Research for subject what index finger that is student grade IV B as many as 5 people with character is different. Research of result acquisition that is metacognitive feelings student still not yet appear, metacognitive judgment student no happen because there is connect between metacognitive feelings with judgment. Besides it’s, feelings for …

Menagerie Of Ads2 Boundary Conditions, Daniel Grumiller, Robert A. Mcnees Iv, Jakob Salzer, Carlos Valcárcel, Dmitri Vassilevich

Physics: Faculty Publications and Other Works

We consider different sets of AdS2 boundary conditions for the Jackiw-Teitelboim model in the linear dilaton sector where the dilaton is allowed to fluctuate to leading order at the boundary of the Poincaré disk. The most general set of boundary conditions is easily motivated in the gauge theoretic formulation as a Poisson sigma model and has an sl(2)" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; line-height: normal; word-spacing: normal; overflow-wrap: normal; white-space: nowrap; float: none; direction: ltr; max-width: none; max-height: none; min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; position: relative;">𝔰𝔩(2)sl(2) current algebra as asymptotic symmetries. Consistency of the …

Defaultification Refactoring: A Tool For Automatically Converting Java Methods To Default, Raffi Khatchadourian, Hidehiko Masuhara

Publications and Research

Enabling interfaces to declare (instance) method implementations, Java 8 default methods can be used as a substitute for the ubiquitous skeletal implementation software design pattern. Performing this transformation on legacy software manually, though, may be non-trivial. The refactoring requires analyzing complex type hierarchies, resolving multiple implementation inheritance issues, reconciling differences between class and interface methods, and analyzing tie-breakers (dispatch precedence) with overriding class methods. All of this is necessary to preserve type-correctness and confirm semantics preservation. We demonstrate an automated refactoring tool called Migrate Skeletal Implementation to Interface for transforming legacy Java code to use the new default construct. The …

Gene Coexpression Network Analysis Of Fruit Transcriptomes Uncovers A Possible Mechanistically Distinct Class Of Sugar/Acid Ratio-Associated Genes In Sweet Orange, Liang Qiao, Minghao Cao, Jian Zheng, Yihong Zhao, Zhi-Liang Zheng

Publications and Research

Background: The ratio of sugars to organic acids, two of the major metabolites in fleshy fruits, has been considered the most important contributor to fruit sweetness. Although accumulation of sugars and acids have been extensively studied, whether plants evolve a mechanism to maintain, sense or respond to the fruit sugar/acid ratio remains a mystery. In a prior study, we used an integrated systems biology tool to identify a group of 39 acid-associated genes from the fruit transcriptomes in four sweet orange varieties (Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck) with varying fruit acidity, Succari (acidless), Bingtang (low acid), and Newhall and Xinhui (normal …

Resources Siswa Sma Tentang Konsep Gaya Apung Melalui Closed-Ended Beralasan, Maria Chandra Sutarja, Sutopo Sutopo, Eny Latifah

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

Students’ initial ideas are usually naïve. Information about students’ initial ideas are urgen, because students’ conceptual understanding could be reached if they had scientific ideas. Inappropriate resource caused the presence of students’ naïve ideas. Based on that, students’ resource on buoyant force were identified. Mixed method was used as study design. Closed-ended with reason was used as study instrument on XIth grade students one of high school at Lamongan. Six ideas about buoyant force were found. Five of six ideas came from resource “the more effort, the greater result”, and one of them came from fluid pressure idea.

Efektivitas Penggunaan Model Teams Games Tournament Berbantuan Media Kokami Terhadap Hasil Belajar Ips, Syilvi Indrayani, I Nyoman Sudana Degeng, Sumarmi Sumarmi

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

This research aimed to determine the effectiveness of Teams Games Tournament model aided by Kokami media toward achievement of social studies on Economic Activity material. This is a quasiexperimental research which is using nonequivalent control group design. Subjects of this research were 181 students, with 26 students as experimental group and 26 students as control group. Collected data analized using Independent Sample T-test to test the hypothesis significance of this research. The result showed significance value is 0,001, which means significance value (p) < 0,05 hence Ha accepted. Therefore it can be concluded there were significant achievement of social studies differences between learning that use Teams Games Tournament learning model with Kokami and conventional model.

Penerapan Pembelajaran Reciprocal Teaching Dipadu Think Pair Share Untuk Meningkatkan Keterampilan Berpikir Kritis Dan Hasil Belajar Siswa Kelas V, M. Misbachul Huda, Herawati Susilo, Cholis Sa’Dijah

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

This research aims to describe implementation of combined reciprocal teaching and think pair share to increase critical thinking skills and student learning outcomes in science. The study design was a classroom action research. The subject was 5th graders (B) Al Hikmah Surabaya Elementary School. The results showed that the learning process reach very well criteria. Critical thinking skills of students has increased. Indicators of critical thinking skills include interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, explanation, and self regulation. Student learning outcomes increased in the attitudes aspect, knowledge, and skills. This reaearch concluded that the combined reciprocal teaching and think pair share can …

Pengaruh Guided Inquiry-Blended Learning Terhadap Literasi Sains Mahasiswa Biologi, Widi Cahya Adi, Hadi Suwono, Endang Suarsini

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

Scientific literacy is important to be prepared for the younger generation to solve problems in life. Guided inquiry (GI) is strategy that can be used to improve scientific literacy. Blended learning can be integrated in GI (GI-BL), to improve the effectiveness of learning. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of GI-BL to improve scientific literacy of biology students when compared with Structured Inquiry (SI). The results show that GI-BL and SI-BL have significant influence in increasing the scientific literacy compared to SI. GI-BL is more effective in improving validate literature skill, designing scientific research, and fundamental …

Peningkatkan Keaktifan Dan Hasil Belajar Siswa Kelas Viii Pada Materi Sistem Persamaan Linear Dua Variabel Dengan Pembelajaran Kooperatif Tgt, Wawan Suseno, Ipung Yuwono, Gatot Muhsetyo

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

Based on the experience of teaching for at SMPN 01 Bang Haji, there are still many who have difficulty in understanding the two-variable linear equations. This study aims to improve student learning outcomes and students' active learning in the classroom. This type of research is classroom action research (PTK) with two cycles, the first cycle consists of nine meetings, and the second cycle 6 meeting. The subjects were 24 students of class VIII, 6 men and 18 women. Research activities on the 16th of January until 17 March 2017. The learning activities by implementing cooperative learning TGT. The results showed …

Pengembangan Rubrik Penyekoran Pada Asesmen Otentik Untuk Materi Tabung, Astin Duwi Mutiara, Akbar Sutawidjaya, Abadyo Abadyo

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

The purpose of this development study is to produce a scoring rubric on authentic assessment for tube material that meets the valid, practical, and reliable criteria. This development research uses the Plomp model. The result of this research is holistic scoring rubric and analytic on tube material with very valid value shown by percentage of score given by validator equal to 87,5%. The results of a limited trial show that the holistic and analytical rubrics on the tube material is quite practical and reliable. The value of this practicality is respectively indicated by the respondent response of holistic and analytical …

Analisis Permasalahan Guru Terkait Perencanaan Dan Pelaksanaan Perangkat Pembelajaran Biologi Melalui Model Problem Based Learning Dan Media Realita Di Sma, Fitri Andayani, Makrina Tindangen, Zeni Haryanto

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

The purpose of this study is to obtain (1) understanding of high school teachers related to the planning and implementation of learning tools with learning model Problem Based Learning and media reality, (2) display of teacher problems related to the implementation of high school teachers related to learning tools with Problem Based Learning model and reality media, (3) description of student's problem to result of learning on environmental pollution material. The result of observation of teacher and student problem analyzed by qualitative descriptive indicate that teacher's understanding related to Biology based learning model of Problem Based Learning and Media Reality …

Penerapan Instrumen Asesmen Autentik Matematika Aspek Kognitif Dan Keterampilan Bagi Siswa Kelas Iv Sd, Siti Chusnia, Cholis Sa’Dijah, Titik Harsiati

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

The purpose of this research is result an activity authentic mathematical assessment instrumentcognitive aspects and skills for fourth grade students of SD. The results of this study indicate that the instrumen of authentic math assessment cognitive aspects and skills for fourth grade students of SD has high scor so that it can be applied for assessment in Primary School class IV. Application assessment instrument cognitive aspects is dusty ten test story mathematical and one skills is make webbing for fourth grade students of SD.

Hedge Algebras: An Algebraic Approach To Domains Of Linguistic Variables And Their Applicability, N.C. Ho N.C.

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

The paper is an overview on an algebraic approach to domains of linguistic variables and somefirst applications to show the applicability of this new approach. In this approach, each linguistic domain can be considered as a hedge algebra (HA for short) and based on the structure of HAs,a notion of fuzziness measure of linguistic hedges and terms can be defined. In order to apply hedge algebras to those problems, the results of which are needed, a notion of semantically quantifying mappings (SQMs) will be introduced. It shown that there is a closed connection between SQMs and fuzziness measure of hedge …

Proof-Of-Concept Robot Platform For Exploring Automated Harvesting Of Sugar Snap Peas, Vf Tejada, Mf Stoelen, K Kusnierek, N Heiberg, A Korsaeth

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Currently, sugar snap peas are harvested manually. In high-cost countries like Norway, such a labour-intensive practise implies particularly large costs for the farmer. Hence, automated alternatives are highly sought after. This project explored a concept for robotic autonomous identification and tracking of sugar snap pea pods. The approach was based on a combination of visible–near infrared reflection measurements and image analysis, along with visual servoing. A proof-of-concept harvesting platform was implemented by mounting a robotic arm with hand-mounted sensors on a mobile unit. The platform was tested under plastic greenhouse conditions on potted plants of the sugar snap pea variety …