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The Effects Of Social Media Usage On Mental Health In Adolescents And Young Adults, Hannah Small, Eddie Bacon, Melanie Aguilar Jan 2025

The Effects Of Social Media Usage On Mental Health In Adolescents And Young Adults, Hannah Small, Eddie Bacon, Melanie Aguilar

IdeaFest 2025

This research explores the effects of social media and smartphone usage on the mental health of adolescents and young adults. It examines how factors such as screen time, social comparison, cyberbullying, and digital connectivity influence psychological well-being, including anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and sleep quality. This study aims to provide insights into both the risks and potential benefits of digital engagement among youth, contributing to strategies for healthier technology use.

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Preventing Falls In Hospitalized Elderly Patients, Rory Boeck Jan 2025

Preventing Falls In Hospitalized Elderly Patients, Rory Boeck

IdeaFest 2025

Falls among hospitalized elderly patients is a significant safety issue, with up to one million falls occurring annually in U.S. hospitals. With about 30% of the falls resulting in injury leading to increased hospital stays and increased healthcare costs. This project aimed to reduce fall rates on a medical-surgical unit by 25% over six months using individual interventions based on the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) framework.

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Shorebird Vigilance From Biological Influences, Ryan Abdilla Jan 2025

Shorebird Vigilance From Biological Influences, Ryan Abdilla

IdeaFest 2025

My research project involves researching two different species of wild shorebirds, Marbled Godwits and Eurasian Whimbrels, and studying which biological factors like predator abundance, tide height, foraging rates, and time of day play a role in vigilant behavior in these two shorebird species. We are looking to see how these rates and their factors differ between 5 different areas across the Arcata Marsh and if there are noteworthy changes in any of the listed factors between the two species and which ones play the biggest role in shorebird vigilance and which do not.

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Revisiting The Fishes Of The Beartooth Butte Formation, Patience Brennan, Lucas Kebow, Allison Bronson Jan 2025

Revisiting The Fishes Of The Beartooth Butte Formation, Patience Brennan, Lucas Kebow, Allison Bronson

IdeaFest 2025

This research aims to address the species composition of Devonian fossil fish species from a formation in Wyoming called the Beartooth Butte. This location has not received much, if any, attention from paleoichthyologists since the fossils within the formation were originally described in 1932. These fishes were overlooked for botanical fossils, and historically yielded fragmentary material. However, specimens from a Cal Poly Humboldt excavation in 2017, not only include the second articulated fossil from the formation, but also the first 3D fossil recorded.

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Terror At Home: A 10 Minute Play Exploring History In An Intersectional Method, Starsong Brittain Jan 2025

Terror At Home: A 10 Minute Play Exploring History In An Intersectional Method, Starsong Brittain

IdeaFest 2025

This original 10 minute play was inspired by historical research on the early decades of the Soviet Union. Specifically, the "Great Terror" of the 1930s. The play tells experiences of real people but is portrayed as a nature documentary.

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Marsh Bird Diversity Increases With High Tides, Alondra Cardona Jan 2025

Marsh Bird Diversity Increases With High Tides, Alondra Cardona

IdeaFest 2025

The study focuses on the effects of tidal change on marsh bird communities. A positive trend in sea level rise has been detected for the past years with approximately 20 cm increase of sea level rise per century. This can affect bird populations on wetland habitats. This study will provide data on bird species diversity at the study site and determine what bird species are more susceptible to population decrease based on habitat loss from sea level rise. The study results can call more attention on the most vulnerable bird species to prevent species extinction in marsh habitats.

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Strength And Agility Training Could Reduce The Likelihood Of Acl Injuries In Women’S Soccer, Nevaeh Batrez Jan 2025

Strength And Agility Training Could Reduce The Likelihood Of Acl Injuries In Women’S Soccer, Nevaeh Batrez

IdeaFest 2025

ACL injuries are on the rise in women's soccer. I looked into determining the effect of strength and agility training on ACL injury prevention in female players.

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Resistance Training On Self-Concept To Improve Gender Affirmation And Community Belonging Lgbtq+ Individuals, Lauren Bankerd Jan 2025

Resistance Training On Self-Concept To Improve Gender Affirmation And Community Belonging Lgbtq+ Individuals, Lauren Bankerd

IdeaFest 2025

Determining the effects of resistance training tailored to LGBTQ+ individuals with the purpose of increasing gender congruence, self-concept, and community belonging.

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The Boys And Girls Club Combating Juvenile Delinquency, Heidi Brust Jan 2025

The Boys And Girls Club Combating Juvenile Delinquency, Heidi Brust

IdeaFest 2025

No abstract provided.

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The Cycle Of Giving:, Sarai Brown Jan 2025

The Cycle Of Giving:, Sarai Brown

BYU Asian Studies Student Journal

On one hot summer day in the middle of a 3-month stint studying Mandarin Chinese at National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) in Taichung, Taiwan, my friends and I were desperate to sate our appetites after class, even in the atrociously hot and humid conditions. Most of our little group was drawn to a 牛肉麵 niúròu miàn (beef noodle) shop, but the thought of hot soup on a day like this drove me and a couple of others to continue our search. We stumbled upon another outdoor restaurant—though “restaurant” is perhaps a loose term for the holey-tent-covered food stand with mismatched …

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7. Integrating Research Into Coursework: Fostering Inclusive Pathways To Student Success, Nalanda Roy, Lauren Mcmillan Jan 2025

7. Integrating Research Into Coursework: Fostering Inclusive Pathways To Student Success, Nalanda Roy, Lauren Mcmillan

Open Educational Resources For and As Assessment

The financial burden of course materials on students can be substantial. The chapter Integrating Research into Coursework: Fostering Inclusive Pathways to Student Success explores efforts to alleviate these costs and create more inclusive opportunities. By leveraging no cost materials and open educational resources (OER), students can achieve their educational goals without incurring additional financial strain. Accessing these resources through libraries or library guides allows students to prepare effectively at the start of the semester and complete their courses successfully, paving the way for graduation. The chapter details how the first author’s project served as a gateway to fostering an equitable, …

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Contributors, Eliana Elkhoury, Jako Olivier, Travis N. Thurston, Morgan Barker, Steven Clontz, Will Cross, Michael Tadeusz Dabrowski, Teresa Focarile, Hillary Fox, Angela George, Sharona Krinsky, Drew Lewis, Erin Mckenney, Lauren Mcmillan, Nalanda Roy, Zoë Soon, James Thibeault, David Tully, Lydia Watson, Sam Winemiller Jan 2025

Contributors, Eliana Elkhoury, Jako Olivier, Travis N. Thurston, Morgan Barker, Steven Clontz, Will Cross, Michael Tadeusz Dabrowski, Teresa Focarile, Hillary Fox, Angela George, Sharona Krinsky, Drew Lewis, Erin Mckenney, Lauren Mcmillan, Nalanda Roy, Zoë Soon, James Thibeault, David Tully, Lydia Watson, Sam Winemiller

Open Educational Resources For and As Assessment

No abstract provided.

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1. Placing Students At The Heart Centre: Using A Compassionate Lens In The Selection And Use Of Open Assessment, Lydia Watson Jan 2025

1. Placing Students At The Heart Centre: Using A Compassionate Lens In The Selection And Use Of Open Assessment, Lydia Watson

Open Educational Resources For and As Assessment

This chapter will discuss the topic of compassion and its role in the selection and application of open educational assessment practices. Drawing on research and practice that centers compassion within assessment activities and everyday life, it will focus on four emerging themes, namely: understanding compassionate assessment, self-compassion and assessment, compassion for students in assessment, and compassion for faculty in assessment practices. It will propose that embracing and integrating open assessment practices offers a meaningful path forward.

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2. Leveraging Open Pedagogy To Create An Authentic And Renewable Curriculum, Erin Mckenney, Sam Winemiller, Hillary Fox, David Tully, Will Cross Jan 2025

2. Leveraging Open Pedagogy To Create An Authentic And Renewable Curriculum, Erin Mckenney, Sam Winemiller, Hillary Fox, David Tully, Will Cross

Open Educational Resources For and As Assessment

The high cost of course materials is a barrier for many students, and traditional assessments often fail to inspire engagement. To address these challenges, NC State University Libraries promotes open course materials and open-enabled practices. Since 2014, the Alt-Textbook Project has helped faculty incorporate Open Educational Resources (OER) into their syllabi, reducing textbook costs and supporting innovative educational approaches. This effort was enhanced with the Open Pedagogy Incubator, a multi- semester program bringing together librarians and interdisciplinary faculty to redesign courses around open- pedagogical practices. Dr. McKenney, an incubator participant, redesigned her advanced undergraduate course on Applied Ecology (AEC 400) …

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3. Checkit Oer Assessment Generator, Steven Clontz, Sharona Krinsky, Drew Lewis Jan 2025

3. Checkit Oer Assessment Generator, Steven Clontz, Sharona Krinsky, Drew Lewis

Open Educational Resources For and As Assessment

The CheckIt framework is an open educational technology for authoring randomized exercises, banks, and assessments for mathematics. Technological means facilitate the easy sharing and modification of open-source templates and generators authored in the framework to be used both in classrooms as well as to support educational research; case studies in this paper illustrate its use in both contexts, and describe its use in both small and large classrooms.

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Bibliography, Mary P. Bennett Jan 2025

Bibliography, Mary P. Bennett

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Bibliography of publications by Mary Bennett.

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4. Oer As Assessment: Open Pedagogy In A Theatre History Course, Teresa Focarile Jan 2025

4. Oer As Assessment: Open Pedagogy In A Theatre History Course, Teresa Focarile

Open Educational Resources For and As Assessment

The following chapter serves as an example for how to combine assessment and Open Educational Practices (OEP), alongside evidence that doing so can improve both learning and teaching experiences. When I made the decision to utilize Open Educational Resources (OER) in my theatre history course (THEA 230), I also created a new culminating assessment. The products of this assessment became openly accessible materials that were added to the OER for THEA 230. This chapter includes a brief description of the course context and the impetus for the adoption of OER. I provide an overview of how I developed this new …

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5. Student As Creator + Curator: Transformative Oer Pedagogy Through Student Research In Excel, Morgan Barker Jan 2025

5. Student As Creator + Curator: Transformative Oer Pedagogy Through Student Research In Excel, Morgan Barker

Open Educational Resources For and As Assessment

This chapter considers ways that basic student research can act as a transformative OER pedagogy. The author examines student co-created lessons and assesses an open pedagogy design model utilized in California Community College Excel courses over the last 10 years. While Excel is a valued academic and job-oriented skill, many students find that spreadsheets are not engaging nor the primary focus in most courses. It is through this design model that students are encouraged to curate “micro” lessons for fellow students, acting as active curators rather than passive learners. The concepts thoughtfully encourage students to have agency/ hope, develop advocacy …

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6. Oer As Assessment; Assessment As Oer: Collaborative Oer Creation And Assessment In Language And Culture Courses, Michael Tadeusz Dabrowski, Angela George Jan 2025

6. Oer As Assessment; Assessment As Oer: Collaborative Oer Creation And Assessment In Language And Culture Courses, Michael Tadeusz Dabrowski, Angela George

Open Educational Resources For and As Assessment

This chapter describes the transformative integration of Open Educational Resources (OER) utilized as assessments in language courses at two distinguished Western Canadian universities. It explores how OER, underpinned by a commitment to collaborative learning and evaluation, reshape educational practices. Through collaborative maps, peer editing, and renewable assignments, educators and students collectively contribute to the creation of a repository of knowledge, embracing a pedagogical paradigm that values student engagement and deepens their understanding of OER. This process demonstrates the ability of OER to redefine academic assessment and collaboration, showcasing how OER can transform the educational experience into a more engaging, enriching, …

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Introduction, Karin Dejonge-Kannan, Travis N. Thurston Jan 2025

Introduction, Karin Dejonge-Kannan, Travis N. Thurston

Documenting Teaching Excellence

Before we embark on a brief overview of how the book is structured and what it contains, we wish to draw readers’ attention to the sculpture on the cover of this book, and to the word “vital” in the subtitle of this book.

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2. Triangulating Teaching Growth: A Three-Voice Approach To Evaluating And Documenting Your Teaching, Terri A. Dunbar, Peggy Brickman, Janette R. Hill Jan 2025

2. Triangulating Teaching Growth: A Three-Voice Approach To Evaluating And Documenting Your Teaching, Terri A. Dunbar, Peggy Brickman, Janette R. Hill

Documenting Teaching Excellence

For many universities, student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are synonymous with teaching evaluation. Universities typically administer surveys to students at the end of the semester, year after year, to solicit evaluations of their instructors’ teaching. Instructors report their scores as evidence of their teaching excellence for formal evaluations. Different academic units review these scores while making consequential decisions, such as raises or promotions. For better or worse, SETs are deeply embedded within the academic evaluation system.

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3. A Scholarly Approach To Excellence In Teaching: Identifying, Framing, And Planning Faculty Work For Success, Letizia Guglielmo Jan 2025

3. A Scholarly Approach To Excellence In Teaching: Identifying, Framing, And Planning Faculty Work For Success, Letizia Guglielmo

Documenting Teaching Excellence

The scholarly conversation surrounding excellence in teaching, including defining and documenting excellence, is both robust and ongoing in the academic literature across disciplines. My own experience as a teacher-scholar, program director, department chair, and faculty developer has demonstrated that often, one of the most significant challenges instructors face during required reviews is making their teaching—and, in particular, their excellence in teaching—visible and tangible to colleagues outside of their classroom spaces, including fully articulating and demonstrating the why and how of that teaching. Although some institutions or individual units (i.e., departments or programs) may provide explicit descriptions of and expectations for …

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4. Raising The Bar: An Administrator's Perspective On Documenting Teaching Excellence To Support Instructor And Student Development, Vijay R. Kannan Jan 2025

4. Raising The Bar: An Administrator's Perspective On Documenting Teaching Excellence To Support Instructor And Student Development, Vijay R. Kannan

Documenting Teaching Excellence

Administrators at the department, college, or institutional level are well positioned to support instructor development. Department heads, who typically have responsibility for routine performance reviews, play a role in tenure and promotion decision making processes, and have a line of sight on data related to instructional performance, can and should play a particularly impactful role. Serving as a department head, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and on a university level tenure and promotion committee gave me diverse perspectives on what effective teaching documentation looks like. Moreover, it shaped how I mentored, offered counsel, or approached conversations about teaching effectiveness, whether …

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5. Teaching Excellence Fostered Through Institutional Collaboration: A Case For An Effective Assessment Rubric, Amanda Morris, Anna Kuthy Jan 2025

5. Teaching Excellence Fostered Through Institutional Collaboration: A Case For An Effective Assessment Rubric, Amanda Morris, Anna Kuthy

Documenting Teaching Excellence

Teaching excellence is a defining characteristic and ongoing challenge at small liberal arts institutions, where instructor independence and mission-driven education converge. Defining and measuring it in such contexts involves navigating instructor autonomy, institutional mission, administrative oversight, and accreditation requirements. This chapter presents a case-based approach to addressing these challenges at Brescia University, a small liberal arts school in Owensboro, KY. We offer an example of an implementable solution that fosters and documents teaching excellence while aligning with both generally accepted standards and the university’s mission. Additionally, we model a collaborative development process between the offices of the Academic Dean and …

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6. The Creation Of A Teaching Excellence Framework: Defining, Measuring, And Facilitating Teaching Excellence, James Agutter, T. Adam Halstrom, Anne Cook Jan 2025

6. The Creation Of A Teaching Excellence Framework: Defining, Measuring, And Facilitating Teaching Excellence, James Agutter, T. Adam Halstrom, Anne Cook

Documenting Teaching Excellence

Defining what constitutes teaching excellence is a crucial focus for faculty development to create deep learning opportunities in our classrooms and ensure our students’ success. However, establishing a single definition is challenging to standardize and quantify. We recognize outstanding teaching when we see and experience it — we all know the faculty members who spark curiosity, foster deep learning, and create memorable experiences for our students. Yet, how do we assess something so complex, nuanced, and profoundly influential? Excellent teaching varies based on the institution, the field, the context, the content, and the demographics of the students in a course. …

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7. One Institution's Journey Toward Redefining And More Holistically Assessing Teaching Effectiveness, Bethany B. Stone, Casandra E. Harper, Stephen A. Klien, Victoria Mondelli Jan 2025

7. One Institution's Journey Toward Redefining And More Holistically Assessing Teaching Effectiveness, Bethany B. Stone, Casandra E. Harper, Stephen A. Klien, Victoria Mondelli

Documenting Teaching Excellence

Faculty voice, administrator frustration, low student response rates, and stalled reform efforts to enact substantive changes to how the University of Missouri (MU) evaluated teaching fueled the desire on campus to find a better way. In 2019, MU began a journey away from an overemphasis of a single item on student course evaluations to a constituent-informed, evidence-based, multi-measure system to evaluate and document teaching quality. By sparking a campus-wide conversation and initiative, a new model of effective and inclusive teaching was created that led to new instruments, all aligned to a framework that is proving useful in our overall mission …

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8. Developing A Framework And Multidimensional Evidence Matrix For Evaluating And Documenting Teaching Excellence At A Research-Intensive University, Raoul A. Mulder, Kate Tregloan Jan 2025

8. Developing A Framework And Multidimensional Evidence Matrix For Evaluating And Documenting Teaching Excellence At A Research-Intensive University, Raoul A. Mulder, Kate Tregloan

Documenting Teaching Excellence

On 19 August 2021, the Australian city of Melbourne marked an unenviable milestone: its citizens had recorded their 200th day enduring one of the longest and most arduous global lockdowns in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Introduction, Eliana Elkhoury, Jako Olivier, Travis N. Thurston Jan 2025

Introduction, Eliana Elkhoury, Jako Olivier, Travis N. Thurston

Open Educational Resources For and As Assessment

The need to rethink assessment in higher education has become increasingly urgent due to the shift to remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent introduction of various generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools. Globally, instructors are called to redesign their assessment practices to make them more innovative, authentic, and empowering.

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9. By The Faculty, For The Faculty: A Grassroots Effort To Define And Support Teaching Excellence, Virginia Stormer, Elisabeth Schussler, Chris Kilgore, Caroline Wienhold, Jordan Shipley, Ferlin Mcgaskey Jan 2025

9. By The Faculty, For The Faculty: A Grassroots Effort To Define And Support Teaching Excellence, Virginia Stormer, Elisabeth Schussler, Chris Kilgore, Caroline Wienhold, Jordan Shipley, Ferlin Mcgaskey

Documenting Teaching Excellence

In 2022, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville launched a process to establish a university-wide set of principles guiding teaching excellence and rooted these efforts in the process of shared governance. After a meticulously inclusive feedback process and iterative revisions, we arrived at a set of four principles that we now call UT’s Principles of Excellence in Teaching (UT PoET), which reflect the specific values around teaching at our R1 (doctoral university with very high research activity), flagship, land-grant institution. This chapter will detail the process by which we arrived at these principles. In so doing, we hope to provide a …

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10. The Language Of Teaching Excellence: Describing Pedagogical Expertise Through A Framework Of Care, Beth Buyserie Jan 2025

10. The Language Of Teaching Excellence: Describing Pedagogical Expertise Through A Framework Of Care, Beth Buyserie

Documenting Teaching Excellence

During my 20 years of college-level teaching, I have engaged in countless conversations where instructors communicate their passion for teaching, their commitment to student learning, the depth of their disciplinary expertise, their continued pedagogical innovations, and their thoughtful reflective practices. Yet often these same teachers confide that they find it quite challenging (sometimes nearly impossible) to write about their teaching for promotion—not because they are not strong teachers, but because the language expectations for documenting teaching accomplishments can be formidable. For example, at my particular institution, teaching-centered instructors are specifically directed in our role statements to “demonstrate excellence” in our …

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