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College Graduation As An Entrance Requirement To Law Schools, W. Harrison Hitchler

Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)

No abstract provided.

Online Vs. Blended Learning: Differences In Instructional Outcomes And Student Satisfaction, Genoa Occhipinti

Doctor of Education (Ed.D)

Satisfaction of delivery models between online and blended doctor of education courses were examined. Graduate students were generally satisfied in online and blended courses in relation to the instructor and the course, but the blended model was preferred and statistically significant compared to the fully online model. No relationship was found between cumulative grade point average and student satisfaction with the instructor, the course, and delivery models; however, cumulative grade point averages (CGPAs) were found to be high for both delivery models. When overall student satisfaction and instructor ratings were compared from blended and online courses, significant differences were found …

Implementation Of The Sleep Treatment And Education Program For Students (Steps) In Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Nicolina Marie Vaught

Doctoral Projects

In the pursuit of graduate level education, student registered nurse anesthetists (SRNAs) undertake curricula requiring an immense investment of time attending didactic classes and clinical training, studying, and completing assignments. The required time commitment combined with the stress accompanying these responsibilities have the potential to leave the SRNA with inadequate time for an optimal amount of sleep, contribute to sleep disturbances, and ultimately result in sleep-related fatigue (SRF). SRF in the SRNA population is a problem because it is imperative for both patient and student safety that SRNAs attain adequate sleep to allow for optimal cognitive function.

This DNP project …

Understanding The Right To Education In The Early 21st Century South African Context, Robert T. Zipp , '18

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

Evaluating the implementation of human rights norms as broad as the right to education at the domestic level requires the use of supplemental analytical frameworks. In this project, I discuss the implementation of the core norm of the right to education as it manifests in the prescriptive norms guided by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Using the framework set forth by Betts and Orchard, I find that the current structural and ideational factors influencing access to primary education in South Africa are impacted by the country's historical legacy of racial inequality and the economic decisions of the post-apartheid government in …

Chairs Of Excellence Annual Report 2017, Tennessee. Higher Education Commission.

Academic Programs and Workforce Reports

No abstract provided.

Increasing Diversity By A New Master's Degree In Legal Principles, Joni Hersch

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Students who leave their JD program before graduation leave empty handed, without an additional degree or other credential indicating that their law school studies had any professional, educational, or marketable value. The absence of such a credential combines with the substantial risks and costs associated with law school education to discourage risk averse students from applying. The adverse impacts of these risks may be especially great for lower income students who have fewer financial resources to draw on and less information about their fit with legal education and the legal profession. I propose that law schools award a master’s degree …

Global Warming: Why Is There Debate?, Mackenzie E. Smith

Student Publications

Previous studies have produced conflicting results for the determining factors of acceptance or rejection of the science behind the global warming phenomenon; some cite religion as a hindrance to the acceptance of this scientific theory [Kilburn 2008], some conclude lack of education is the driving force [Brechin 2003], and some deduce that party affiliation plays the most significant role in determining belief in global warming. In this study, the National Election Survey of 2012 dataset, consisting of 5,916 individual data points from the United States of America, is analyzed to determine the effects of party affiliation on one’s belief in …

Obstetricians' And Gynecologists' Knowledge, Education, And Practices Regarding Chronic Hepatitis B In Pregnancy., Bolin Niu, Dina Halegoua-De Marzio, Jonathan M. Fenkel, Steven K. Herrine

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Faculty Papers

Background: In pregnant women with high viral loads, third-trimester initiation of antiviral agents can reduce the risk of vertical transmission. We aimed to assess obstetricians' and gynecologists' (OB-GYN) knowledge and clinical practice when treating pregnant women with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV).

Methods: All program directors (PDs) from 250 US OB-GYN residency programs were invited to anonymously complete an 18-item questionnaire. Descriptive statistics were calculated and analyzed.

Results: A total of 323 participants responded, including both PDs (n=51, response rate 21%) and residents (n=272, response rate 11%). Responding PDs (62% university-based vs. 32% community-based) came from various practice types. All …

Developing An Introductory Radiology Clerkship At Perdana University Graduate School Of Medicine In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sarah Wallace Cater, Lakshmi Krishnan, Lars Grimm, Brian Garibaldi, Isabel Green

Health Professions Education

Purpose: In recent years, several well-known medical schools in the United States have partnered with foreign institutions to promote the post-graduate model of medical education and the concept of the academic medical center. One such example is Perdana University Graduate School of Medicine (PUGSOM) in Malaysia, founded in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2010 with the hope of setting a new standard for biomedical research and patient-centered care in Southeast Asia. One issue for educators at PUGSOM was how best to integrate radiology into the clinical curriculum. Given radiology's global importance, a core clerkship was …

Factors Influencing Labour Productivity Of Indonesian Public Sector Workers, Achmad Supriyanto

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

This study aims to determine the influences of education level, salary, and age to the work productivity of public sector workers. This study uses descriptive correlational regression design. The populations of the data, consists of lecturers and administrative public sector workers. The population numbers exceed 1,542 and 25% of the sample is taken proportionally with stratified random sampling and as the result, obtaining 377 people as the data. The type of data is in the form of secondary data. The data analysis is using descriptive and multiple regression techniques. The results show that the levels of education, salary, and age …

Millennial's Perspective Of Clickers As An Active Strategy In Nursing Education, Rebecca D. Toothaker

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Clicker technology involves the process of active learning through peer discussion and clarification of classroom material without fear of consequences. Students felt that the use of clickers helped them to develop a better understanding of the subject matter, became more involved in class, and were beneficial to individual learning.

Environmental Education: Role Of Physical Environment In Students’ Learning In Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, Sultan Alam

Professional Development Centre, Gilgit

This study describes an action research report carried out in one of the community-managed schools in Gilgit-Baltistan of Pakistan. The purpose of the study is to explore the effects of the activities to create environmental awareness by paying prime focus on physical environmental conditions. It was observed that school-based smaller activities show a greater change among students, teachers and community members. These include celebration of environmental day, plantation day; quiz competitions, sharing information through notice boards and awareness campaigns to adjacent communities. These smaller activities helped them to realize the importance of environmental education particularly in learning process. The attitudinal …

"Understanding Why They Do What They Do": Boosting Students' Empathic Accuracy On Caregiver Health-Risk Behaviours, Michelle M. Lobchuk, Gayle Halas, Christina West, Nicole Harder, Zulfiya Tursunova, Chantal Ramraj

Biennial Convention (CONV)

An one-arm pilot study on nursing student and caregiver perceptions of a promising empathy-related video-feedback intervention and its impact on student empathic accuracy on caregivers' unhealthy behaviours.

Healthcare Simulation As A Global Nursing Education Strategy, Juli Maxworthy

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Healthcare Simulation is a growing global educational tool. This session will provide learners an overview of experiential learning theory, the phases of a simulation experience and examples of the use healthcare simulation across the globe to improve the lives of its communities.

Charles Ballard Interview, Justin Carinci

External Papers and Reports

Professor Charles Ballard of Michigan State University delivered the lecture “The Fall and Rise of Income Equality in the United States” Sept. 27, 2017 as part of the Werner Sichel Lecture Series at Western Michigan University. Ballard detailed the “Great Convergence” of income equality in the United States that grew out of policies of the 1930s and 1940s and a “Great Divergence” of inequality starting about 1980. Ballard called this income gap, which is now greater than during the Gilded Age, “the largest economic phenomenon of our lifetimes.”

The Medical Student Manifesto, Ye Kyung Song

Spect-actor: A Journal of Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed

Under neoliberal education systems, medical students are unable to critically engage and develop a critical consciousness because they are forced to master standardized test-taking skills and memorize medical minutiae. As insider-outsiders, medical humanists and bioethicists can shed light on the culture and power dynamics inherent in medical education. Furthermore, the medical humanities could teach medical students to critically reflect on their own human values, and to become ethical and humanistic physicians in the face of the hierarchical culture of biomedicine and neoliberal university administrations. Medical educators, through critical pedagogy, can liberate the medical student and create the potential for changing …

Technology Integration In Nursing Education: A Case Study In Higher Education, Melissa A. Stec

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Technology enhanced pedagogy allows faculty to transform the classroom into a unique, creative opportunity for learning. Technology allows students to demonstrate higher level of Bloom's taxonomy while producing content that's replicable in their future EBP endeavors. This session will focus on educational innovations and the translation from classroom to practice.

Re-Envisioning Kindergarten Learning Spaces In The U.S Education System, Suhina Agarwal

Theses

The thesis work aims at improving the learning environments of the Kindergarten classrooms in the United States by taking inspiration from a very simple and popular play element namely the ‘blocks’. The classroom environments and learning methods have not seen a significant change since the time of the Industrial Revolution. The essence of school education remains the same, which is expected to be a closed classroom, conventional furniture and the teacher determining the learning activities. With the changing times, as new studies on multiple styles of learning and brain functions emerge, there is a need to customize education and cater …

Open Source: The Enewsletter Of Rwu Law 09-22-2017, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Education On Anxiety In The Pre-Surgical Spine Patient, Joan L. Skopal

Biennial Convention (CONV)

This research studied the effect of pre-operative education on a small convenience sample of surgical spine patients in the Southwest region of the United States, revealing that a hospital-based education class provided a statistically significant reduction in anxiety as determined by data collected immediately before and after an education session.

Designing A Video For Online Dissemination Of Emotionally Sensitive Health Information, Wyona M. Freysteinson, Lisa W. Thomas, Noah Lelek, Ivan Lee, Denika Y. Douglas

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Technological advances and the accessibility of digital media provide expanded opportunities for the dissemination of health related education. In this presentation, we discuss the technical process and the art of creating a high quality video for dissemination of emotionally sensitive health information online.

You Are Now Entering The School Zone, Proceed With Caution: Educators, Arbitration, & Children’S Rights, Raquel Muniz

Arbitration Law Review (Penn State University)

This article first provides background information on CBAs and arbitration clauses in public employee labor relations contracts to underscore the evolving relationship between the employer and employees. This background is important to assess the feasibility of the safeguards proposed later. Next, this article will explore arbitration cases in school employer-educator union CBAs, focusing particularly on employee disciplinary matters. Then, this article will explain why primary and secondary public schools should be categorized as a sui generis sphere in which consequences of arbitrable disciplinary matters extend beyond the traditional public employer-employee relation. Finally, this article will propose workable and sustainable safeguards …

Influencing Health Through Ipe: Perspectives On Rn-To-Bsn Education, Susan M. Strouse, Geraldine J. Terry, Janet E. Winter

Biennial Convention (CONV)

RN to BSN students offer unique perspectives on how interprofessional education intersects with their learning needs, and in turn, how they implement interprofessional collaboration and communication in practice as a means to improve patient outcomes. RN to BSN student perceptions revealed curricular implications for this growing population of nursing students.

Dayton, Ohio Education & Industries: Getting To The Source Of The Problem, Nina Santarpia

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

After researching the history of industries in Dayton, Ohio and examining the current economic characteristics, I wanted to know how Dayton was being proactive and planning to make changes. I interviewed a director from Ruskin Elementary and learned about how they are conditioning children to improve the future economy of Dayton and industries.

Measuring The Longitudinal Communication Growth Of Learners Who Are Deafblind, Kristi M. Probst

Theses and Dissertations

The field of deafblind (DB) education has a long and rich history which includes a lack of qualified personnel to meet the needs of the population of learners. In addition, the literature base is small, lacking evidence for effective practices or methods of assessing and tracking growth with these learners. The ability to adequately track student growth is key when IEP teams are making educational decisions. Therefore, it is important to investigate the longitudinal growth of learners who are DB and the possible effects of service provision (number, type, and intensity) on communication growth. This research began the process of …

Bookbox, Suraksha Chandrasekhar (Dmm), Anna Marinina (Computer Science), Gabrielle Schwartz (Mba, Marketing/Business Analytics), Erica Lomando (Interior Design), Sarah Von Lange (Health Sciences)

Nexus Maximus

Bookbox is an app that unites the world through books. With a motto of "Donate a book, start a new chapter" Bookbox aims to facilitate the flow of donated books to refugees in Syrian refugee camps, with a goal of promoting education, self-learning and the will to build a future.

Nexus Maximus IV

The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. …

A Study Of The Correlation Between Women’S Economic Empowerment And Intimate Partner Violence, Anita J. Marshall

Student Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between intimate partner violence and women’s economic status. Lloyd (1997) notes that researchers surmise that shame, denial, fear of retribution, and other social pressures result in statistics on intimate partner violence being underreported. Many studies have utilized surveys to examine domestic violence and factors that influence it. Such studies may not be generalizable to the population unless their research includes probability samples. This study utilizes the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) and looks at the 2007-2008 cross-sectional data to analyze the association between intimate partner …

Investigation In The Use Of Video Technology With Adults With Moderate Intellectual Disability, To Teach Culinary Arts Using Self- Modelling And Overt Auditory Self-Prompting In Their Own Home, Mark William Farrell

Theses, Doctoral

Investigation in the use of video technology with adults with moderate intellectual disability, to teach culinary arts using self- modelling and overt auditory selfprompting in their own home An important rationale of special education, from an adult perspective, is to support people with intellectual disability to live independently. The Government’s central policy objective for people with disabilities is contained in ‘Towards 2016’ and states that they should be supported to lead full and independent lives. This presents many challenges for adult educators in building the skill set for individuals to reach this goal, especially for people with learning difficulties and …

Gender And Education In Guinea: Increasing Accessibility And Maintaining Girls In School, Rebecca Coleman

Journal of International Women's Studies

In West Africa, girls’ enrollment in primary and secondary schools has significantly increased since the 1980’s; however, there is still a great disparity between male and female enrollment and participation. This paper will cover the lasting influences of the gap between male and female education accessibility in the country of Guinea. Issues such as teen marriage, gender based violence, funding, and infrastructure will be discussed. Alternatives to address these issues will be compared, focusing heavily on what the Guinean population can accomplish themselves, without generous help from the outside. Solutions to this problem include addressing the cultural bias against putting …

Domestic Violence Against Women In Ghana: The Attitudes Of Men Toward Wife-Beating, Ellen Mabel Osei-Tutu, Ernest Ampadu

Journal of International Women's Studies

This study examines the issue of domestic violence against women; specifically, men’s attitudes toward wife beating. The data used was obtained from the 2011 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS). The results presented in this study come from a total 3,052 males from across all the 10 regions in Ghana. It is interesting to note that, although majority of the participants do not endorse wife beating, there was a significant number of these men who thought wife beating was justified for various reasons. That is, the attitude of men toward wife beating is complex to explain as the participants had divergent …