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Exploring Educators' Sensemaking Of Statewide Professional Learning For Educational Decision-Making Within An Mtss, Sarah E. Thoman

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative inquiry explored district-based educators’ sensemaking of an ongoing, statewide professional learning series focused on special education eligibility for students with specific learning disabilities (SLD) using a response-to-intervention (RtI) approach within a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS). Specifically, the professional learning series was designed as a community of practice (CoP; Lave & Wenger, 1991) with both face-to-face and virtual activities. The professional learning series was in its second year of implementation and educators in the first two cohorts (Cohort 1 and Cohort 2) of the series were the participants in this study. The theoretical framework of sensemaking (Weick, 1995) …

Birth Order: Shaping Lives One Sibling At A Time, Savannah Sarvey

Intuition: The BYU Undergraduate Journal of Psychology

Personality development, and even intelligence, is influenced by family members once a child is brought into the world. The family, especially the siblings, has a notable impact on the child’s development. Siblings provide the first social interactions children have, both positive and negative. Siblings affect the personality and intellectual development of individuals via differences in family responsibilities and changes that arise in the home environment as more children are added to the household. Older siblings will likely have stronger leadership skills because of these responsibilities, and younger children may not receive as many benefits in intellectual abilities because of these …

Anxiety Disorders: A Review Of Neurobiological Structures, Neurocognitive Expressions, And Treatment Options, Lucy A. Jessee

Intuition: The BYU Undergraduate Journal of Psychology

There are many types of anxiety disorders, all of which are most recognizable by their display of excessive fear or worry. In order to fully recognize and treat anxiety disorders, individuals must understand the neurobiological causes and neurocognitive expressions of the disorder. This review examines 16 studies on the neurobiology, cognitive symptoms, and treatment options for anxiety disorders. This revealed that the amygdala, prefrontal cortex, visual cortex, and superior temporal gyrus play a substantial role in anxiety disorders. These biological substrates are then linked to common cognitive symptoms of anxiety disorders, including executive function deficits. Finally, both neuropharmacological therapy and …

The Role Of Adopting Blackboard System In Light Of The Coronavirus Pandemic In Developing The Skills Of Its Use And Academic Achievement Among Taif University Students, Ruba Ahmad Al-Ajlan, Waleed Alsayed Ahmed Khalifa, Hassanin Ali Younes Atta

Information Sciences Letters

The present research aimed to identify the role of adopting Blackboard system in light of the Coronavirus pandemic in developing the skills of its use and academic achievement among Taif University students. The research was applied to a sample of (664) students enrolled in the Colleges of Taif University in the first semester of the academic year 2020/2021. The scale of the role of e-learning management system (Blackboard) in developing the skills of its use (prepared by the researchers) was administered to (233) students, and the scale of the role of the e-learning management system (Blackboard) in achieving academic achievement …

"Our Most Sacred Legal Commitments": A Digital Exploration Of The U.S. Supreme Court Defining Who We Are And How They Should Opine, Eric C. Nystrom, David S. Tanenhaus

University of Cincinnati Law Review

No abstract provided.

Teaching Eighteenth-Century English Coercion, Seduction, And Consent In Twenty-First Century India: Eliza Haywood’S Love In Excess, Sumi Bora

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

Classroom teaching informed by the #MeToo movement is widespread and diverse. This paper evolves from classroom discussion with Third Semester English Major students at Lokanayak Omeo Kumar Das College, Dhekiajuli, Assam, India. The paper engages itself with #MeToo Movement and scrutinizes the depiction of seduction in Eliza Haywood’s novel Love in Excess. The paper records the students’ connections between Haywood and their own desire to build consciousness among the marginalized section of women so that they voice issues of harassment in any form.

Papers Published In Zootaxa Concerning Neuropterida, Agostino Letardi, David E. Bowles, Xingyue Liu

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

In the first twenty years of the publication of Zootaxa, more than two hundred papers have appeared in this journal that address the Neuropterida, which collectively includes the [Neuroptera+Raphidioptera]+Megaloptera sections (initially “Minor orders” section). A dozen submitted manuscripts were rejected before the review process, and another dozen submissions were rejected following the peer review process. Additional content and general submission history of these contributions is summarized here. These various contributions highlight the growing body of research on the Neuropterida and the importance of Zootaxa as a key journal for publishing and disseminating this research.

Using Film As A Multimodal Text In The Language Classroom, Kate Marie Steckmest

MA TESOL Collection

Film is a powerful medium for language acquisition; Not only does viewing films allow learners to experience language used in various real-life contexts, but the medium of film itself is a form of communication. Through the active viewing of films, students can explore how people with diverse backgrounds, accents, and cultures communicate using multiple modes such as gestures, images, and sounds. When learners are familiar with the techniques used by filmmakers to convey meaning, they can use the medium of film themselves to tell their stories and share their perspectives through filmmaking projects. Such projects can be collaborative and engaging …

Integrating Funds Of Knowledge Into Reading Lessons To Help Students Who Receive Additional Academic Support Create Discussions, Annamarie Fielding

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to understand how utilizing funds of knowledge (FofK) in reading lessons for students who receive additional academic support would affect their ability to independently engage in discussions. The study investigated how this impacted students' motivation and engagement for students during literacy lessons. Qualitative methods focused on observing students' individual, small group, and whole-group responses to literature. Participants included two students in a fifth grade, inclusion classroom who have been identified with specific learning disabilities and have Individualized Education Plans (IEPs). Both students come from significantly different backgrounds, as one is a child of a …

Volume Cxxxx, Number 8, May 28, 2021, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.

The Automation Of Management And Business Science, Clark D. Johnson, Brittney C. Bauer, Fred Niederman

School of Business: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Many key tasks in the research process for the physical sciences have been successfully automated, resulting in prototype “automated scientists” that have been effective in producing and reporting original research. The purpose of this paper is to explore (a) the possibility of automating key tasks in the scientific research process for the management and business sciences, (b) where our technology currently stands with respect to automating these processes, and (c) the implications and resulting research questions of a future of automated, or at least partially automated, management and business science. We synthesize reports from the mass media, academic literature, and …

Editors' Introduction

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

No abstract provided.

Full Issue 15.1

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

No abstract provided.

Spring 2021

Action in Education

Dean's Corner: A Year of Reflection; New Mentoring Microcredential; Global Partnerships Launches; Virtual Student Teaching;Kenneth Sarubbi Retires; Advancing Anti-Racism Initiatives; Past Is Prologue: The DePaul University and Facing History and Ourselves Collaboration continues in its mission; Nurturing the Special Education Workforce: DePaul partners with the Chicago Teacher Residency program to alleviate the shortage of special education teachers; Flexing His Teaching Muscles: As he alternates between teaching in person and virtually, Josh Cook credits his DePaul education for his flexibility; Breaking Barriers: A new book aims to help teachers educate language learners

Biodiversity Monitoring And Volunteer Motivations: A Case Study On The Imagined Communities Of Citizen Scientists In Meinung, Taiwan, Serena May Calcagno

Master's Projects and Capstones

The Asia Pacific’s biodiversity is under threat. One significant step that can improve conservation is gathering data on what species exist in different areas over time, which can provide insight into ecosystem health. This is especially important in biodiversity hotspots, where high levels of endemism and anthropogenic risk overlap. Though it is one of the few places in the Pacific not classified as a biodiversity hotspot, Taiwan has an unusually high saturation in terms of biodiversity data points. Investigating the motives of biodiversity monitoring volunteerism is already a topic of growing scholarly interest, but relatively few studies have focused on …

Genocide In China: Uighur Re-Education Camps And International Response, Julia Stern

Immigration and Human Rights Law Review

No abstract provided.

Joseph Ducreux And The Physiognomical Millieu, Josiah Phelps

LSU Master's Theses

Joseph Ducreux was an eighteenth-century artist from Nancy, France, whose grimacing self-portraits made their way into to the Parisian Salons during the age of the French Revolution. His self-portraits showcased himself in a state of yawning, state of laughing, state of self-confidence, and state of fear. This series is believed to derive from his study of physiognomy and his knowledge of physiognomical studies by such Enlightenment scholars as Johann Kasper Lavater. It will contextualize Ducreux’s his oeuvre of self-portraits and his commercial portraits including those previously executed for the French court, with the influence of the pseudo-science of physiognomy. The …

Entitled To Property: Inheritance Laws, Female Bargaining Power, And Child Health In India, Plamen Nikolov, Shahadath Hossain

Economics Faculty Scholarship

Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women’s bargaining power can influence child health. We study the effects of an inheritance policy change, the Hindu Succession Act (HSA), which conferred enhanced inheritance rights to unmarried women in rural India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSA improved the height and weight of children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women’s intrahousehold bargaining power within the household, leading to improved parental …

The Weekly Challenger, May 27, 2021, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The May 27, 2021, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Metatheme Analysis: A Qualitative Method For Cross-Cultural Research, Amber Wutich, Melissa Beresford, Cindi Sturtzsreetharan, Alexandra Brewis, Sarah Trainer, Jessica Hardin

Articles

In recent years, there has been a florescence of cross-cultural research using ethnographic and qualitative data. This cutting-edge work confronts a range of significant methodological challenges, but has not yet addressed how thematic analysis can be modified for use in cross-cultural ethnography. Thematic analysis is widely used in qualitative and mixed-methods research, yet is not currently well-adapted to cross-cultural ethnographic designs. We build on existing thematic analysis techniques to discuss a method to inductively identify metathemes (defined here as themes that occur across cultures). Identifying metathemes in crosscultural research is important because metathemes enable researchers to use systematic comparisons to …

Constructing Collective Identities And Solidarity In Premiers’ Early Speeches On Covid-19: A Global Perspective, Martina Berrocal, Michael Kranert, Paola Attolino, Júlio Antonio Bonatti Santos, Sara Garcia Santamaria, Nancy Henaku, Aimée Danielle Lezou Koffi, Camilla Marziani, Viktorija Mažeikienė, Dasniel Olivera Pérez, Kumaran Rajandran, Aleksandra Salamurović

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a unique global experience, arousing both exclusionary nationalistic and inclusionary responses of solidarity. This article aims to explore the discursive and linguistic means by which the COVID-19 pandemic, as a macro-event, has been translated into local micro-events. The analysis studies the global pandemic through the initial statements of 29 leading political actors across four continents. The aim is to examine discursive constructions of solidarity and nationalism through the social representation of inclusion/exclusion of in-, out-, and affiliated groups. The comparative analysis is based on the theoretical and methodological framework of the socio-cognitive approach to critical …

Consolidated Ehr Workflow For Endoscopy Quality Reporting, Shorabuddin Syed, Benjamin Tharian, Hafsa Bareen Syeda, Meredith Zozus, Melody L. Greer, Sudeepa Bhattacharyya, Mahanazuddin Syed, Fred Prior

Arkansas Biosciences Institute

Although colonoscopy is the most frequently performed endoscopic procedure, the lack of standardized reporting is impeding clinical and translational research. Inadequacies in data extraction from the raw, unstructured text in electronic health records (EHR) pose an additional challenge to procedure quality metric reporting, as vital details related to the procedure are stored in disparate documents. Currently, there is no EHR workflow that links these documents to the specific colonoscopy procedure, making the process of data extraction error prone. We hypothesize that extracting comprehensive colonoscopy quality metrics from consolidated procedure documents using computational linguistic techniques, and integrating it with discrete EHR …

Deidner Corpus: Annotation Of Clinical Discharge Summary Notes For Named Entity Recognition Using Brat Tool, Mahanazuddin Syed, Shaymaa Al-Shukri, Shorabuddin Syed, Kevin Sexton, Melody L. Greer, Meredith Zozus, Sudeepa Bhattacharyya, Fred Prior

Arkansas Biosciences Institute

Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims to identify and classify entities into predefined categories is a critical pre-processing task in Natural Language Processing (NLP) pipeline. Readily available off-the-shelf NER algorithms or programs are trained on a general corpus and often need to be retrained when applied on a different domain. The end model's performance depends on the quality of named entities generated by these NER models used in the NLP task. To improve NER model accuracy, researchers build domain-specific corpora for both model training and evaluation. However, in the clinical domain, there is a dearth of training data because of privacy …

The Chimera: Multiple Selves, Conflicting Desires, And Fluctuating Power Relations In Qualitative Research, Su Jung Um

The Qualitative Report

In this article, I (re)constructed and (re)presented a dialogic inquiry among my chimeric selves engaged in a study which I conducted from 2013 to 2017 to examine teaching experiences of graduates from a social justice-oriented preservice program. I interrogated the roles of my different, disparate, and discontinuous selves in the research process – as a former teacher, a former instructor of my research participants, a researcher with particular academic and political opinions, and as a foreigner working toward a doctoral degree from/in a U.S. higher education institution. In this article, I demonstrated how my chimeric selves with conflicting desires and …

The Impact Of Comorbid Conditions On Reading Growth, Emily Kathryn Lewis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This study aimed to understand the impact of comorbid disorders on reading growth. Among 105 students with an SLD in reading, many had up to four additional comorbid diagnoses, and disorder frequencies were coded based on the number of cooccurring conditions present. Reading fluency and comprehension skills were measured in the fall and spring using two reading assessments and served as the dependent variables in analyses. A series of mixed factorial ANCOVAs were conducted to examine the impact of comorbidity and gender on text-level reading skills. Results indicated that the number of cooccurring conditions did not make a statistically significant …

The Stars: Mansions Made By Nature’S Hand, Megan Pickett

Convocations

The beauty of the night sky, the stories it can tell, and the “light pollution” that is increasingly hindering our view will be the topic of Lawrence University’s May 27 Honors Convocation.

Megan Pickett, associate professor of physics, will deliver the Convocation address, The Stars: Mansions Made by Nature’s Hand, at 11:15 a.m. It will be delivered virtually and is available to the public on the Honors Convocation page at lawrence.edu.

In her address, Pickett will share why light pollution, the ever-increasing brightening of the sky by artificial lighting, is a concern that has long-term economic, health, and …

Socio-Cultural And Economic Factors As Correlate Of Academic Performance Of Undergraduates In The Department Of Library And Information Science Benue State University, Makurdi, Tofi Simon Ternenge, Tamen Timothy Torkuma

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT

The study investigated socio-cultural and economic factors as correlate of academic performance of undergraduates in the department of Library and Information Science, Benue State University, Makurdi. Three (3) research questions were raised in line with the objectives of the study. The study adopted correlation research design, the population of the study was 951 undergraduates in the department of Library and Information Science Benue State University, Makurdi from 2019/2020 session. However, a sample sized of 282 using proportionate stratified random sampling method, simple random sampling and Taro Yamene’s formula was used to determine the sample size from the population. The …

"Airbnb Go Home:" Tourism Frictions And Short-Term Rentals In New Orleans, Madeline R. Fussell

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis examines the concerns and conflicts around short-term rental (STR) properties in New Orleans neighborhoods. Using data from collected from critical discourse analysis, semi-structured interviews and social media posts, this paper analyzes the ways the city of New Orleans, residents of the city, STR hosts, and platforms like Airbnb discuss issues of safety, displacement, rising costs of living, as well as responsible STR practices. To understand the complexities of the issues people, have with short-term rental properties, this project approaches STRs from a housing and gentrification lens to understand the role these properties play within in the daily atmospheres …

Characterizing Receptive Vocabulary Knowledge In Minimally Verbal Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Allison Menting

LSU Master's Theses

Background: Delayed or impaired language skills are common characteristics of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Currently, there is little research examining the receptive language profile in children with ASD, and even less is known about children with ASD who are minimally verbal. The current study aimed to characterize the receptive vocabulary profile of minimally verbal children with ASD and to examine whether this profile differs from their typically developing peers. Methods: Participants included 31 minimally verbal children with ASD, aged 60-118 months, who were reported to produce between 0-10 words, 124 typical developing toddlers, aged 9-14 months, who were …

Measuring The Impact Of Ict On Students’ Academic Performances: Evidence From Higher Educational Institutions Of The Remote Areas Of Pakistan, Shahzadi Humbhi, Shabbir Tareen

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate students’ perceptions and attitudes towards the usage of ICT and its challenges in the higher educational institutions of Balochistan. A convenient sampling method was used to select 420 students from the top 6 higher educational institutions of Balochistan. Moreover, a Lickert-based closed-ended questionnaire was used for data collection purposes. The collected data were analyzed in SPSS Software. The results showed that 150 (39.5%) respondents were using ICT for academic events and 142 (37.4%) respondents were using ICT for their assignment completion. Furthermore, the study also highlighted some major challenges preventing students …