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Latin American Homicide (Chapter 3), Guillermo Escano

School of Criminal Justice Other Graduate Student Scholarship

The urgency for studying Latin America and the Caribbean(LAC) emanates from violence rates that are remarkably higher than in most world regions. Global homicide rates have recently declined (Rogers & Pridemore, 2018; Tuttle et al., 2018). While LAC followed suit, its rates are still comparatively high, and it is home to less than 10% of the global population but about one-third of homicides. The World Health Organization defines violence as endemic if a nation reaches ten homicides per 100,000 residents. Over two-thirds of LAC, nations meet this threshold (World Health Organization, 2023), and the regional mean is above 10. The …

Literacy Teachers In The Making: A Look At Teacher Candidates’ Experiences As They Tutor Elementary Students, Hannah Carter, Jadelyn Abbott

Literacy, Language and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations

The purpose of this study was to investigate teacher candidates’ perceptions of their first experience teaching literacy. Using a case study design, this research spans two consecutive semesters and investigates 34 teacher candidates’ reflections as they engaged in structured tutoring in a university-based literacy clinic. Qualitative analyses of various reflections revealed that teacher candidates largely focused on planning and delivering quality instruction, understanding students and families, and contemplating what it takes to become a teacher. We found that over the course of the tutoring experience, candidates’ reflections shifted from (1) being micro-focused on details to focused on their student, (2) …

Exploring The Interpretation And Implementation Of Migrant Programs: A Migrant Director’S Perspective, Lavanya Jawaharlal

CGU Theses & Dissertations

Against the backdrop of American agriculture, a significant educational challenge persists: the academic attainment of migrant children. Each year, an estimated 850,000 young migrants accompany their families, constituting a crucial workforce responsible for 75% of our nation's agricultural output. Despite their indispensable role, migrant students confront profound educational disparities, with only 51% managing to graduate from high school, a figure notably lower than the national average of 85%. This educational gap underscores the pressing need to address the unique academic hurdles encountered by migrant children. This dissertation investigates the interpretation and implementation of policies within the Migrant Education Program (MEP), …

Where’S My Teacher? Factors Influencing Teacher Retention/Attrition In A Post-Covid Landscape, Kyle Robinson

CGU Theses & Dissertations

The COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented event in modern educational history that resulted in a dramatic upheaval of the traditional school system. The shift from brick-and-mortar to virtual instruction resulted in profound anxiety and demand (Kush et al., 2021). As the quarantine ended, the return to the physical classroom brought with it new, unanticipated stressors such as COVID-19 safety protocols, shifts in student behavior, and pronounced learning gaps from virtual instruction. Coupled with existing tensions, many educators who had previously identified as career teachers became “likely pandemic leavers” as they departed the profession (Steiner, 2021). While there is ample research …

Black Principals’ Navigation Of Politically Conservative Challenges To Public School Curricula: Effects On Administrator Attrition, Hamisi Tarrant

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

This qualitative study explored the experiences and perceptions of Black principals regarding the influence of politically conservative efforts on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; critical race theory (CRT); and curriculum related to slavery in K–12 schools. The study was grounded in the increasing politicization of education, particularly as it pertained to race and identity, and examined how Black school leaders navigate these pressures. A review of the literature revealed the persistent challenges faced by Black principals, including racial discrimination, professional isolation, and a lack of support systems, compounded by the rise of conservative ideologies in education. The research sought …

Escaping The Peripherality: Local Experiences Of The Us Military Presence In Northeast Thailand, Wipawee Srifa

CGU Theses & Dissertations

From 1964 to 1976, the United States military deployed troops to Thailand as part of its strategic operations during the Vietnam War. Most of these military personnel were stationed in Isan, a northeastern region of Thailand, due to its proximity to key bombing targets in Indochina. Historically, Isan was affiliated with Laos and was assimilated into Thai governance in the late eighteenth century. Until the 1950s, most of Isan’s population resided in rural, agricultural communities and were politically, economically, and culturally marginalized by mainstream Thai society. The Thai state’s internal colonization exacerbated socioeconomic disparities for Isan peasants, severely restricting avenues …

The Commodification Of Yoga: From Indian History To American Practice, Trinity Quinn Pryor

ENGS 15.11: Design and Education

During this lesson, students will become curious about critically examining the origins of practices that seem ingrained in our culture, utilizing yoga as an example, while also feeling empowered to address commodification of other practices. Students will learn about the history of yoga as well as how the practice came to the US. Through interactive activities, they will learn about their own perceptions of the practice and what they can do to educate others about the history of yoga as well as other practices that have been commodified.

The Erasure Of Te Reo Maori In New Zealand, Lilly F. Brown

ENGS 15.11: Design and Education

Through a mix of interactive activities and direct instruction, students will learn about New Zealand’s colonial past, the current attack of New Zealand’s native language, and how the two are connected. Students will participate in think-pair-share discussions, a gallery walk, use an interactive website, and engage in dialogue as a class to understand the erasure of Te Reo Maori.

Visualizing Library Impact: Creating Accessible Dashboards Of Organization-Wide Data, Josie Cotton

Researchers, Instructors, & Staff Scholarship

We created dashboards for the core functions of our library, including physical collections and spaces, user services, digital resources, and outreach and engagement. Our dashboards provide insight into how the library is being used and by whom, as well as into our overall value to and impact on the university. Furthermore, our dashboards promote a culture of data-driven decision making, so that stakeholders can use them to make choices that better serve users.

We created these dashboards with Tableau and used a wide variety of sources, such as data from the overhead counter, room reservations, Google Analytics, circulation, transactions, and …

Embedded Researchers In Community Collaborations: Making Data Matter In Addressing The Overdose Crisis In Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Sean P. Varano, Pamela Kelley

Justice Studies Faculty Publications

This article is a story about privilege. The recognition that as an academic, it is a privilege to have a seat at the policymaking table. It is a privilege to be heard, to be valued, and to contribute in ways that impact the lives of real people, in real communities, related to real problems. Researchers who’ve had the opportunity to participate in community-based collaborations know well that such partnerships are built on trust, patience, commitment, and thick skin (Drawbridge, Taheri, & Frost, 2018). When someone allows us in the door it can come with perceived risk. They sometimes open their …

Blue Ink: A Literary Arts Journal 2024 - 2025, Department Of Languages, Literature, And Philosophy, Tennessee State University

Blue Ink Student Literary Journal

No abstract provided.

2024 Acts Of Synod, Crcna

Agendas and Acts of Synod

Grand Rapids, MI: Rev. Derek Buikema, president; Rev. Stephen F. Terpstra, vice president; Rev. Joshua M. Christoffels, first clerk; Rev. Daniel De Graff, second clerk

An Exploration Of Factors Influencing Emerging Adults’ Decision-Making Regarding Family Intentionality, Samantha Mckee

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this mixed methods study was to gain an understanding of factors that may influence emerging adults’ decision-making regarding family intentionality. Specifically, it aimed to answer two research questions: 1) What factors influence an emerging adults’ decision-making regarding family intentionality? 2) Is there a correlation between the number of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) an individual has experienced and their desire to have children? This study also examined how ACEs are factored into the different systems of Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory and how they affect the child at each level. This study utilized a sequential quan-->QUAL design, combining …

Continuities And Transformations: The Tiwanaku Component Of The Site Of In Copacabana, Bolivia, Stanislava R. Chavez

Wayne State University Dissertations

The site of Cundisa in Copacabana (Copacabana Peninsula, Bolivia) was occupied almost continuously for the past 2,500 years. The oldest occupation includes a Yaya-Mama religious tradition semi-subterranean temple with some associated burials. Later, the whole site, including the interior of the Yaya-Mama temple, was used as a Tiwanaku cemetery. Subsequently, the Incas reused the site, as they incorporated Copacabana into their empire as a major pilgrimage site. After the Spanish conquest the site continued to be occupied, including an oven where glazed tiles for the Copacabana Basilica were fired. This dissertation focuses on the Tiwanaku component of this complex site. …

Remixing Community Cartographies: Mapping Community Engagement, New Media, And The Composition Classroom, Christopher W. Susak

Wayne State University Dissertations

Community Writing has emerged as a relatively new subdiscipline that spans elements of larger fields such as Rhetoric and Writing Studies, Technical and Professional Communication, and Composition Pedagogy. Despite this recent emergence, teacher-scholars are still grappling with three major problematics traditionally associated with Community Engaged Learning (CEL) writ large: (1) this work frequently fails to address the real needs and basic material realities of community partners in favor of (2) a repetitive cycle of short-lived educational “experiences” for students, often without tangible and/or sustainable results, which is further exacerbated by (3) a shortage of useful data-driven assessment conducted on curriculum, …

Tracking Attention About Covid-19 Vaccines On Twitter And Newspapers: A Dynamic Agenda-Setting Approach, Yi (Jasmine) Wang, Xjuli Wang, Jueman (Mandy) Zhang, Molu Shi, Wayne Wanta

Journalism & Public Relations Faculty Publications

This study delves into the intricate dynamics of agenda-setting between Twitter and elite news media concerning COVID-19 vaccines. A comprehensive dataset comprising 501,531 US-based, English-language tweets and 7,282 news headlines extracted from The New York Times and The Washington Post was collected from January 1, 2020, to April 30, 2021. To uncover the temporal evolution of content topics, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) was employed alongside sentiment analysis to gage corresponding valence levels. Granger causality tests were then conducted on the time series of topic sizes and valence scores from tweets and news headlines to explore the intermedia agenda-setting effects. The …

“I Shall Gather In”: The Name Joseph, Iterative Divine Action, And The Latter-Day Harvest Ingathering Of Israel As Themes In 3 Nephi, Matthew L. Bowen

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

The identity of “the people of Nephi who were spared, and also those who had been called Lamanites, who had been spared” (3 Nephi 10:18) as “a remnant of the seed of Joseph” (3 Nephi 5:23; 10:17; compare Alma 46:23–27; Ether 13:6–10) or “a remnant of the house of Joseph” (3 Nephi 15:12) is key to understanding Jesus’s Isaiah-based teaching at the temple in Bountiful in 3 Nephi. That teaching emphasizes iterative divine action (implied in the name Joseph [yôsēp], compare yôsîp) to restore and gather Israel and Judah. Like Mormon’s prophecies in 3 Nephi 5:23–26 and 26:8, Jesus’s sermon …

From Nüxia To Xianü: Female Agency In Classical Chinese Zhiguai Xiaoshuo, Cynthia Lucas

Theses & ETDs

The Tang dynasty tale, “The Merchant’s Wife” (“Guren qi” 贾人妻) by Xue Yongruo 薛用弱, and its Qing dynasty rewrite, “A Female Knight-Errant” (“Xianü” 侠女) by Pu Songling 蒲松龄 represent interesting depictions of a nüxia within the zhiguai xiaoshuo tradition that show her journey from an empowered character with agency to a flatly powerful character without said agency. In order to argue this conclusive analysis between the two iterations, I first define the concepts of power, empowerment, and agency within the historical, cultural, and literary contexts of each iteration. Though both women exhibit power, they are not both able to access …

The Impact Of Principal Leadership On Student Achievement Outcomes In K-12 Education, Crystal Valentine-Lindsay

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this quantitative scholarly research study was to ascertain to what extent a principal’s leadership contributes to an increase in student achievement outcomes in K-12 education in New York City. The study used the Learning Environment Survey from 2021 and English Language Arts testing data from 2018 for third, fourth, and fifth grades. Two research questions guided this study. First, what are the factors of principal leadership that emerge from the Learning Environment Survey? Second, to what extent do these factors, as a proxy for principal leadership, have an influence on student achievement outcomes, in K-12 education? Four …

Climate Law And Human Rights: How Do Courts Treat Rights In Their Decisions?, Dan Ziebarth

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Course Catalog 2024-2025, Csusb

CSUSB Course Catalog

No abstract provided.

Testing The Relationship Between Per-Pupil Expenditures And Demonstrated Mastery Across Biology And Literature, Nina Braum-Bharti

NERA Conference Proceedings 2024

Because inquiry-based, resource intensive Biology instruction is more costly than Literature instruction, a relationship between district-wide per-pupil expenditure and performance differences between Biology and Literature exams is hypothesized. Using Pennsylvania’s Keystone exams, analyses reveal a small but significant effect, with higher expenditures associated with smaller gaps in mastery between Biology and Literature.

Supporting Struggling Readers In Digital Instruction: Audio Support Features As Instructional Tools, Sebastian Moncaleano, Fusun Sahin

NERA Conference Proceedings 2024

Audio Support is a common functionality in digital instruction platforms intended to increase accessibility. A significant portion of the literature on Audio Support focuses on its use as a testing accommodation or, in and instructional context, on its use by students with disabilities. We examined how much 6th-grade students used audio support in reading comprehension digital lessons as an instructional support tool and its potential impact on learning outcomes. Audio support usage assisting reading comprehension instruction was found to be associated with higher likelihood of lesson success, particularly for Below-level Readers.

Language And Culture Immersion: A Case Study Of Mandarin Language And Chinese Culture Immersion, Lilliam Malave

NERA Conference Proceedings 2024

This case study examined to the extent that participation in a Mandarin language and Chinese culture immersion program enabled the participants to increase their Mandarin language proficiency, acquire culture content knowledge, and influence their self-transformation. Descriptive qualitative and quantitative data were collected using the application form, reflective journals, content and language surveys, structured interviews, and language and culture tests. The findings indicated that: 1) Participants in the immersion program learned new target language through language and culture content-based instruction, and interactions. 2) Immersion in the target language and culture resulted in participants’ culture content knowledge and understanding gains. 3) The …

Enhancing Middle School Literacy Instruction With Chat Gpt: One Researcher's Narrative Reflection, Jamie Mahr, Ellina Chernobilsky, Lorin Hannah

NERA Conference Proceedings 2024

This narrative study examines a middle school literacy teacher's experiences with sixth and seventh-grade mythology students. It investigates how integrating ChatGPT enhances student learning and addresses ethical considerations. The teacher, a doctoral student in educational leadership, reflects on student engagement, project outcomes, and instructional practices. Findings show that ChatGPT strengthens brainstorming, research, writing, revision, and editing skills. The study emphasizes ethical AI implementation, promoting class discussions on integrity and responsible use. It further highlights the need for teachers to understand privacy policies and data retention concerns while offering recommendations for educators and policymakers on ethical AI practices.

Generative Ai And Statistical Analysis: An Exploratory Study, Lorin Hannah, Ellina Chernobilsky

NERA Conference Proceedings 2024

Generative AI, like ChatGPT, is revolutionizing education. While its benefits in personalizing learning and providing formative feedback are well-documented, its full potential remains largely unexplored. This paper focuses on Gemini, Google's AI engine, and investigates its capabilities in a research setting. A doctoral student conducted informal research by applying Gemini to various statistical analyses within a research course. Findings highlight Gemini's strengths and limitations in handling complex statistical tasks. This research contributes to a growing body of research on effectively integrating generative AI tools in academic and research environments.

2023 Celebration Of Faculty Scholarship, University Libraries

University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works

A bibliography of works featured in the 2023 Celebration of Faculty Scholarship event sponsored by Loyola University Chicago Libraries. The event featured articles, books, and other materials created by Loyola faculty members in the academic year 2022-2023.

Catalog | 2024-2025, Jacksonville State University

Announcements, Bulletins & Catalogs | Undergraduate

(2024-2025). In its early years as the State Normal School, JSU produced a variety of publications (announcements, bulletins, and catalogs) that contain course information combined with the types of information that would later be found in yearbooks. Examples include historical information about the school, lists of enrolled students and club officers, photographs of athletic teams and literary clubs, notes on alumni, faculty and campus facilities, and more.

Graduate Bulletin & Catalog | 2024-2025, Jacksonville State University

Bulletins & Catalogs | Graduate

Jacksonville State was granted University status in 1966 and began adding graduate programs to its curriculum at that time. Graduate bulletins and catalogs contain information on the academic calendar, policies and procedures, faculty, scholarships and tuition, and degree requirements for graduate programs.

Nursing Research In Arab Countries: Current Status, Trends, Challenges, And Opportunities, Hiba Wehbe-Alamah, Myrna A.A. Doumit, Joshua Bernstein, Basil H. Aboul-Enein

Health Professions Education Faculty Publications

Introduction: Twenty-two Arab countries comprise the League of Arab States. While united in Arab identity, diversities among these countries exist at many levels. Conducting and publishing research in the Arabic speaking countries is an essential pillar for improving the status of the nursing profession. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess the current status, trends, challenges, and opportunities of nursing research in Arab countries. Methodology: An integrative review was conducted using (1) Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office Database Journals Directory (IMEMR), (2) the Iraqi Academic Scientific Journals Database (IASJD), (3) Ulrichsweb (UW), (4) The Geneva …