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The Utah Statesman, November 6, 2023, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Social Justice Integration In Stem Content With Early Childhood Education Pre-Service Teachers, Elyse D. Ledford

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Following the social justice education ideal of building from local sources of knowledge the purpose of this multi-case study was to develop describe and explain the ways pre-service teachers examined how pre-service teachers make use of social justice pedagogies in teaching STEM. The study was guided by the following research questions: In what ways do pre-service teachers make us of social justice pedagogies while planning STEM lessons for young children? In what was do pre-service teachers enact social justice pedagogies in STEM instruction for young children? This study explores the experience of three Early Childhood Education pre-service teachers who were …

The Application Of Memes On English Learners' Idiomatics And Motivation, Fatima Azzahraa Raafat

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Students nowadays live in a visually rich world where they continually generate meaning and knowledge through images (Romero & Bobkina, 2017). To satisfy two technology-savvy generations, the Millennial and Generation Z, field practitioners had to generate multimodal environments that include written text, visual images, and design elements from various viewpoints. An effective pedagogy of idiomatics can support second language acquisition (SLA) and idiomatic competence development, that is, idiomatic language and figurative language study (Liontas, 2021, p. 3, 32). Idiomatics should be incorporated into educational programs for SL learners as early in their education as possible (Liontas, 2008). For my study, …

The Age Of Synthetic Realities: Challenges And Opportunities, João Phillipe Cardenuto, Jing Yang, Rafael Padilha, Renjie Wan, Daniel Moreira, Haoliang Li, Shiqi Wang, Fernanda Andaló, Sébastien Marcel, Anderson Rocha

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Synthetic realities are digital creations or augmentations that are contextually generated through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods, leveraging extensive amounts of data to construct new narratives or realities, regardless of the intent to deceive. In this paper, we delve into the concept of synthetic realities and their implications for Digital Forensics and society at large within the rapidly advancing field of AI. We highlight the crucial need for the development of forensic techniques capable of identifying harmful synthetic creations and distinguishing them from reality. This is especially important in scenarios involving the creation and dissemination of fake news, …

An Ontology Design Pattern For Representing Causality, Utkarshani Jaimini, Cory Henson, Amit Sheth

Publications

The causal pattern is a proposed ontology design pattern for representing the structure of causal relations in a knowledge graph. This pattern is grounded in the concepts defined and used by the CausalAI community i.e., Causal Bayesian Networks and do-calculus. Specifically, the pattern models three primary concepts: (1) causal relations, (2) causal event roles, and (3) causal effect weights. Two use cases involving a sprinkler system and asthma patients are provided along with their relevant competency questions.

从 Neap 阅读项目自动评分的数据挑战赛中汲取的公平性评估经验, Maggie Beiting-Parrish, John Whitmer

Chinese/English Journal of Educational Measurement and Evaluation | 教育测量与评估双语期刊

自然语言处理(NLP)在各个领域被广泛用于预测学生开放式反应的人为评分 (Johnson et al., 2022)。保证基于学生人口统计学因素的算法公平是至关重要的 (Madnani et al., 2017)。本研究对数据挑战赛中表现最好的六个参赛者进行了公平性分析，涉及 20 个 NEAP 阅读理解项目，这些项目最初是基于种族和性别进行公 平性分析的。本研究描述了包括英语语言学习者身份(ELLs)、个人教育计划以及免 费/优惠午餐在内的附加公平性评估。许多项目在成绩预测上表现出较低的准确性， 其中对 ELLs 表现得最为明显。本研究推荐在评分公平性评估中纳入额外的人口统 计学因素，同样，公平性分析需要考虑多重因素和背景。

Lessons Learned About Evaluating Fairness From A Data Challenge To Automatically Score Naep Reading Items, Maggie Beiting-Parrish, John Whitmer

Chinese/English Journal of Educational Measurement and Evaluation | 教育测量与评估双语期刊

Natural language processing (NLP) is widely used to predict human scores for open-ended student assessment responses in various content areas (Johnson et al., 2022). Ensuring algorithmic fairness based on student demographic background factors is crucial (Madnani et al., 2017). This study presents a fairness analysis of six top-performing entries from a data challenge involving 20 NAEP reading comprehension items that were initially analyzed for fairness based on race/ethnicity and gender. This study describes additional fairness evaluation including English Language Learner Status (ELLs), Individual Education Plans, and Free/Reduced-Price Lunch. Several items showed lower accuracy for predicted scores, particularly for ELLs. This …

Crossing Schools, Language, And Migration Borders: The Experiences Of Latinx And Caribbean Emergent Multilingual Mothers In K-12 Public Schools, Michelle Angelo-Rocha

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Anti-immigrant sentiment and "English-only" ideologies have a significant impact on educational policies, practices, and processes. This includes parental engagement, the quality of education and life opportunities offered to immigrant children, and families’ well-being. The purpose of this study was to examine how Latinx and Caribbean mothers in Florida with various immigration statuses (i.e., undocumented, asylum seekers, refugees, international students, and mixed-status) and often with limited financial resources attempt to steward their children through the U.S. educational system. The research question was: How did emergent multilingual immigrant mothers experience the K-12 education system in Florida? The sub-question was: How did schools …

Student Learning And Literacy Practices When Video Games Are Incorporated Into A Secondary Classroom, Amy Smith

Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative study explored high school students’ engagement with a unit where video games and video game materials were incorporated into an English Language Arts classroom. Over several weeks, students engaged with video game content and composed their own video games using the free online platform, Scratch. The purpose of the study was to examine students’ learning during the unit, focusing on students’ products, individual interviews, and whole class and small group discussions. The research questions were: 1. What can be learned about secondary students' learning and literacy practices when video games as a text are incorporated into the secondary …

The Basic Dualism In The World, Martin Zwick

Complex Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

Graham Harman writes that the “basic dualism in the world lies…between things in their intimate reality and things as confronted by other things.” This paper supports Harman’s assertion from a systems theoretic perspective and illustrates it with some examples, including conceptions about truth, ethics, value, and intelligence. But dualism implies irreconcilable difference; what Harman points to is better expressed as a dyad, where the two components not only imply one another but are related, and where this spatial dyad is usefully augmented with a temporal dimension, expressed in a third component or an additional orthogonal dyad.

How To Cultivate A Good Character—Pragmatically: Dewey And Franklin On The Virtues, Shane J. Ralston

Education and Culture

Philosophical pragmatists rarely receive credit for their contribution to virtue ethics. But perhaps they should. How did America’s philosopher of democracy, John Dewey, and one of its most famous elder statesmen, Benjamin Franklin, advise troubled souls in search of moral improvement? According to James Campbell, Dewey and Franklin recommended the cultivation of inquiry-specific virtues, specifically imagination and fallibilism, thereby transforming the moral agent into a more effective ethical problem solver. For Gregory Pappas, open-mindedness and courage resemble Deweyan virtues, since both are integral to the pragmatist’s ideal of a balanced character. However, Pappas contends that Dewey would reject any procedure …

Editor's Note, Jessica Heybach

Education and Culture

No abstract provided.

Strategies Of Teaching Vocabulary Practiced By Arabic Teachers And Their Relationship With The Linguistic Richness Level Of Higher-Grade Primary Students, Fawaz Saleh Alsulami Phd

International Journal for Research in Education

The study aimed to reveal the direction of the correlation and the significance of the differences between the strategies used by Arabic language teachers and the level of linguistic richness of their students, and identify the most related strategies to the level of linguistic richness, based on: (1) note cards and (2) a linguistic richness scale, for each of the higher grades in the primary stage. This was applied to a sample of 15 teachers and all their 494 students in the different higher grades of the primary stage in the academic year 1443 H. The results of the study …

Reduced Grey Matter Volume In Adolescents With Conduct Disorder: A Region‑Of‑Interest Analysis Using Multivariate Generalized Linear Modeling, Ru Zhang, Robert James R. Blair, Karina S. Blair, Matthew Dobbertin, Jaimie Elowsky, Johannah Bashford‑Largo, Ahria J. Dominguez, Melissa Hatch, Sahil Bajaj

Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior: Faculty Publications

Background

Conduct disorder (CD) involves a group of behavioral and emotional problems that usually begins during childhood or adolescence. Structural brain alterations have been observed in CD, including the amygdala, insula, ventrolateral and medial prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, and fusiform gyrus. The current study developed a multivariate generalized linear model (GLM) to differentiate adolescents with CD from typically developing (TD) adolescents in terms of grey matter volume (GMV).

Methods

The whole‐brain structural MRI data were collected from 96 adolescents with CD (mean age = 16.188 ± 1.259 years; mean IQ = 104.292 ± 8.107 ; 63 males) and 90 …

The What And How Of Essential Thematic Analysis, Elih Sutisna Yanto

The Qualitative Report

Gareth Terry and Nikki Hayfield's book, Essentials of Thematic Analysis, introduces readers to reflexive thematic analysis, a method for analyzing interview and focus group transcripts, qualitative survey responses, and other qualitative data. This method is based on the understanding that we all exist in a context from which we can see and speak. In this way, researchers produce knowledge that represents situated truths and allow them to understand others’ perspectives on a given topic. The book shows how to construct a “positioned reality of the situation” from qualitative data. According to the authors, this method is not a methodology …

Schoolteachers In Out-Of-School Hours Education: Blurring Professional Ideology In Recent Times, Dr. M Monjurul Islam, Mohammed Shamsul Hoque, Wan Mazlini Othman, Saraswathy Thurairaj Phd, Dr. Ghadah Al Murshidi, Latha Ravindran

The Qualitative Report

Teachers’ professional ideology and their involvement in out-of-school hours (OoSH) practices have been questioned in recent times. This study explores how schoolteachers understand their professional ideology in relation to their OoSH practices and how they explain their participation in private tutoring in addition to formal schooling. This study deploys a qualitative approach using in-depth semi-structured interviews with nine secondary school teachers in Bangladesh. The thematic analysis highlights a substantial gap between Bangladeshi school teachers’ professional ideologies and their involvement in private tutoring. The findings from the study reveal that the respondents perceive their dual roles as schoolteachers and tutors as …

"He Is Not A Monster": Himpathy And Sexual Assault, Christabel L. Rogalin, Saige M. Addison

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

Himpathy occurs when privileged men accused of sexual assault or harassment receive extra attention and sympathy (Manne 2018, 2020). While himpathy is closely associated with the #MeToo movement, little research has explicitly explored this concept. In this review, we explore the literatures on rape myths, victim blaming and attributions, detailing the empirical work that provides support for the theoretical claims of himpathy. Sexual violence is a widespread problem, and as such, it is important to understand himpathy may underlie how the numerous (male) perpetrators of these crimes are able to reframe the allegations against them.

Transforming Gender Norms In Rural Mali By Opening Spaces For Action, Kelly Bohrer, Anna Taft, François Chauvet, Kessia Kouriba, Hawa Yalcouyé, Moussa Tembine

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

Communities in the Tommoguiné Region of Mali are actively pursuing development despite economic challenges, insecurity, and isolation from many opportunities. Historically, the marginalization of women and girls has held back some of these efforts and denied certain rights to some of the population. Currently, a transformation of norms surrounding women’s roles in public life and of practices harmful to women and girls is taking place, inspired by a Women’s Literacy, Leadership, and Enterprise program generated through a transnational collaboration between local communities, a Malian linguistic association, and The Tandana Foundation, a Dayton-based non-profit organization. Instead of reinscribing colonial dynamics, this …

Sustainable Tourism And Hospitality Education In A Rapidly Transitioning Industry: The Future Of Tourism And Hospitality Education In The Gcc Region, Ali Abdallah, Ivan Ninov

Journal of Tourism Insights

Cooper and Shepherd (1999) assessed sustainable tourism and hospitality education decades ago highlighting the raft between the market needs and educational programmes. The tourism and hospitality industry witnessed several transitions, while educational practices remained at a stand-still mode. Even in well-developed tourism markets, educational programmes were not reconsidered to accommodate this change (Mínguez, Martínez-Hernandez, & Yubero, 2021). The tourism and hospitality industry in the Gulf Cooperation Council States (hereinafter mentioned as GCC) provides excellence in service delivery. Therefore, this study aims to assess the future of tourism and hospitality education in the GCC region. The research discusses the tourism and …

Identifying The Determinants Of Ecotourism Potential: An Investigation Of Reiek In Mizoram, Rajdeep Deb, Himanshu Bhusan Rout

Journal of Tourism Insights

The current study aims to identify and evaluate the determinants of ecotourism potential in Reiek, located in Mizoram. The study is based on Boyd and Butler (1996) model for identifying the determinants and evaluating the ecotourism potential. A sample of 201 respondents were surveyed using structured questionnaire, and subsequently were analysed with the help of statistical tools. After analysis, it was found that six factors: accessibility, relationship of ecotourism to other resources, regional attractions, availability of tourism infrastructure, degree of social interaction, and type of management developed for long term protection of the area vastly determine the ecotourism potential of …

Keyword Extraction And Analysis From Free-Form Text, Prerna Kakkar, Shrey Nagpal, Shubham Sharma, Souvik Paul

Defensive Publications Series

Log files and reports describing outages and bugs include a number of free-form text fields that include crucial information about the outages or bugs. However, such information may often be lost because it does not have a defined structure. For such information to become useful, developers often manually label the data to find patterns. This is a labor intensive process. This disclosure describes natural language processing (NLP) techniques to automatically extract and store relevant structured information from free-form text fields. Such information, once in structured format, can be used to analyze the data and identify trends. Free-form information is recast …

The Relationship Between Cancer Screening Utilization And Racial Discrimination, Priya Small, Amanda M. Hinson-Enslin, Timothy Crawford, Joanna M. Anderson

University Libraries' Staff Publications

Objective. To assess literature about cancer screening and cancer screening adherence among people of color and how discrimination impacts cancer screening and cancer screening adherence outcomes among patients of color.Methods. PRISMA guidelines were used for the systematic review. EBSCO/MEDLINE, Web of Science, and CINAHL were searched and articles were uploaded in to Rayyan Systematic Review software. Three independent reviewers identified additional articles by searching reference lists of relevant articles; they completed the screening process and reviewed the included articles.Results. Nine eligible studies were included, among which two were qualitative and seven were quantitative. Studies included one cancer screening measure and …

Unh Scientist Named 2023 Kavli Fellow, Sarah Schaier

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Language Nativeness Modulates Physiological Responses To Moral Vs Immoral Concepts In Chinese-English Bilinguals: Evidence From Event-Related Potential And Psychophysiological Measures, Fei Gao, Chenggang Wu, Hengyi Fu, Kunyu Xu, Zhen Yuan

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Morality has been an integral part of social cognition and our daily life, and different languages may exert distinct impacts on human moral judgment. However, it remains unclear how moral concept is encoded in the bilingual brain. This study, therefore, aimed to explore the emotional and cognitive involvement of bilingual morality judgement by using combined event-related potential (ERP) and psychophysiological (including skin, heart, and pulse) measures. In the experiment, thirty-one Chinese-English bilingual participants were asked to make moral judgments in Chinese and English, respectively. Our results revealed increased early frontal N400 and decreased LPC in L1 moral concept encoding as …

Musicking Across Hemispheres: A Transatlantic Approach To Western Music History And Curricular Reform At A Hispanic Serving Institution, Andrés R. Amado

School of Music Faculty Publications

Advocates for music curricula reform call for programs of study that better address the concerns of professional musicians, engage the musical traditions of local communities, increase global awareness, and advance social justice. While global approaches to music history studies can address these goals, finding ways to broaden the scope of music history courses beyond the Western canon while also fulfilling curricular expectations that require knowledge of the canon is a challenge for many instructors. When considering how to expand courses to meet the goals above, I propose instructors prioritize the needs of the students and communities their institutions serve. In …

November 2, 2023, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Informed Consent In Surgical Practice With Patients’ Experiences: A Cross-Sectional Study, Seda Kumru, Pakize Yiğit, Meryem Demirtaş, Hüseyin Fındık

Patient Experience Journal

This study aims to evaluate patients' experiences and perspectives regarding informed consent in surgical practice. Data for this cross-sectional study were collected from 276 patients using a questionnaire developed by Falagas et al. Descriptive statistics were employed for all questions. Statistical tests such as the Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis test, and Spearman's rank correlation analysis were performed, and Cohen's effect sizes were reported. IBM SPSS 23.0 was used for all analyses, and p<0.05 was considered statistically significant. A high score on both The Delivered Information Index and The Patient-Physician Index represents a positive informed consent process. Among the participants, 65.2% indicated that they understood all parts of the consent form. Of all patients, 92.8% reported that information about the specific surgical procedure was provided by physicians. However, 47.5% of the patients reported that they did not feel comfortable with their surgeons. The mean score of the Delivered Information Index was 5.63 (2.38). The mean patient-physician relationship score was 14.38 (3.31). There was a moderate positive correlation between the delivered information index and the patient-physician relationship (r=0.50; p<0.001). In addition, there was a moderate positive correlation between the delivered information index and the time spent on the informed consent process, as well as between the patient-physician relationship and the time spent on the informed consent process (r=0.52; r=0.40, respectively). The study emphasized the lack of communication between patients and physicians, the limitation of information on treatment risks, adverse effects, and alternative treatment options.

Experience Framework

This article is associated with the Policy & Measurement lens of The Beryl Institute Experience Framework (https://theberylinstitute.org/experience-framework/).

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Patient Perspectives Of Health-Related Social Needs Screening In An Urban Academic Adult Primary Care Practice, Antony Nguyen, Joselvin Galeas, Jane Jih

Patient Experience Journal

Health-related social needs (HRSNs) affect health outcomes and healthcare utilization. Patients’ perspectives on the incorporation of HRSN screening in primary care settings is limited. We sought to explore adult primary care patient perspectives of HRSN screening from optional patient-provided free-text comments as part of a pilot self-administered HRSN screening survey on seven domains of HRSNs from the Accountable Health Communities HRSNs Screening Tool. The survey was available in English, Chinese or Spanish with a section titled “Comments” that invited patient respondents to provide anonymous free-text responses. We performed a thematic analysis of the written patient comments. Of the 679 participants …

Concerted Civic Administration, Peter M. Shane

Fordham Law Review

With the benefit of hindsight, the Roberts Court’s decision in Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board marked the arrival in the U.S. Supreme Court of what has aptly been called the “separation-of-powers counterrevolution.” For the first time in history, the Court voided statutory criteria limiting the removability of a subordinate officer by a principal officer within the executive branch. Since then, the Court has crafted an increasingly complex separation-of-powers jurisprudence aimed at protecting the President’s supposed Article II authority to control subordinate administrators. Underlying this jurisprudence is the Court’s supposition that, constitutionally speaking, executive branch administrators “wield …

“How Do Filipinos Clear Deyer Nose?”: Humor, Race, And Cultural Adaptation In Plantation-Era Hawai‘I, Ian I. Camit

International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities

Through sociopolitical history and ethnography, this research examines the influence of Hawai‘i’s historical plantation-based racial-hierarchy on the current social mobility of Filipino migrants and their subsequent cultural adaptations. The sociopolitical history centers on the Filipino experience with systematic oppression under the supremacy of plantation owners between the early- to mid-1900s, the contemporary socioeconomic position of Filipinos, and the formation of the Local identity. Results of the ethnography identified adaptations in areas of cultural assimilation, closed ethnic communities, and Local-Ethnic-Humor (LEH). Modern perpetuations of the racial hierarchy are found to be interconnected, and many simultaneously function as cultural adaptions, which include …