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How Peer Instruction And Polling Have Changed My Teaching, James M. Lang

English Department Faculty Works

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Will They Remember Writing It?, James M. Lang

English Department Faculty Works

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A Welcoming Classroom, James M. Lang

English Department Faculty Works

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The Distracted Classroom: Transparency, Autonomy, And Pedagogy, James M. Lang

English Department Faculty Works

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The Distracted Classroom: Do Tech Fasts Work?, James M. Lang

English Department Faculty Works

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The Distracted Classroom: Is It Getting Worse?, James M. Lang

English Department Faculty Works

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The Distracted Classroom, James M. Lang

English Department Faculty Works

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Obsessed With Smartness, James M. Lang

English Department Faculty Works

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How To Prepare For A Teaching Career, James M. Lang

English Department Faculty Works

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Shouts And Protests On Campus Are Signs Of A More Pernicious Problem, Geoffrey M. Vaughan

Political Science Department Faculty Works

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Strategies And Initiatives In Acculturation: Voices From Ghana, Susan Boafo-Arthur, Dzifa A. Attah, Ama Boafo-Arthur, Thomas D. Akoensi

Human Services and Rehabilitation Studies Department Faculty Works

Culture shock and acculturation are salient aspects of any international study trip. Over the years, many institutions have devised several strategies to help international students transition to life in the host country. However, most of these strategies are insensitive to diverse cultural or country specifics. Drawing from Social Learning Theory, this paper provides narratives from four former students from the West African country of Ghana and how they navigated the process of acculturation in their respective host nations. The narratives discuss their feelings during the study abroad trip, some of the challenges they faced, and personal as well as institutional …

Problematizing The Conceptual Framework Of Interculturalism And Its Pedagogical Extension Of Intercultural Education: Theoretical Perspectives And Their Implications, Rina Manuela Contini, Cinzia Pica-Smith

Human Services and Rehabilitation Studies Department Faculty Works

A new intercultural framework for education is being developed as a pedagogical response to increasingly multi-ethnic societies in Europe. This framework has been gaining ground during the last decade within EU Institutions (Commission of the European Communities, European Commission, Council of Ministers, OECD, OSCE) and the Council of Europe Documents and replacing multiculturalism as the guiding framework. This shift has generated an ardent debate between multiculturalists and interculturalists. Indeed, there is much criticism of the interculturalist framework. This article positions itself within this current debate and offers a critical analysis of the conceptual mapping of interculturalism within which there are …

A Cross-Cultural Study Of Italian And U.S. Children's Perceptions Of Interethnic And Interracial Friendships In Two Urban Schools, Cinzia Pica-Smith, Davide Antognazza, Joshua J. Marland, Alberto Crescentini

Human Services and Rehabilitation Studies Department Faculty Works

This cross-cultural and cross-sectional study investigated Italian and US children’s perceptions of interethnic and interracial friendships, also known as intergroup friendships. A total sample of 226 children attending two urban, elementary schools in a middle-sized Northeastern US city and a middle-sized northern Italian city, were interviewed employing the questionnaire. Results indicate that Italian and US children’s perceptions of intra-racial and interracial friendships differed with students of color in the US rating intragroup friendships more positively than intergroup ones. In addition, students of color in Italy and white students in the US rated intergroup and intragroup friendships similarly.

Review Of Rome: An Urban History From Antiquity To The Present By Rabun Taylor, Katherine W. Rinne, And Spiro Kostof, Barry Knowlton

History Department Faculty Works

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Facilitated Individualized Education Planning: The State Of Implementation And Evaluation, Carolyn Q. Mason, Samantha E. Goldman

Education Department Faculty Works

Facilitated individualized education planning (FIEP) presents an alternative to formalized dispute resolution procedures, which can have damaging financial and relational consequences for families and schools. Although recommended as an alternative dispute resolution practice, minimal research has examined its implementation and evaluation. In this study, we described where and how FIEP was being implemented and what types of data state educational agencies (SEAs) implementing FIEP were collecting. In two phases, we contacted representatives of each SEA in the United States, asking them to complete a survey on their state’s use of FIEP, and then to share outcome and participant feedback data …

The Effectiveness Of Interventions To Increase Parent Involvement In Special Education: A Systematic Literature Review And Meta-Analysis, Samantha E. Goldman, Meghan M. Burke

Education Department Faculty Works

Although parent involvement is required by special education law and is important for all students, the literature synthesizing studies on parent involvement has focused on the general education parent population, often without addressing students with disabilities. The purpose of this review was to descriptively synthesize the literature on parent training interventions to increase parent involvement for parents of school-age students with disabilities and to evaluate the effects of this intervention using meta-analysis. The literature on parent involvement interventions was minimal, with few recent peer-reviewed studies; all included studies focused on parent involvement in the context of Individualized Education Program (IEP) …

School Violence Prevention: Teachers Establishing Relationships With Students Using Counseling Strategies, Adam M. Volungis, Katie Goodman

Psychology Department Faculty Works

Although youth violence rates continue to decrease in the United States, it remains the second leading cause of death for adolescents. Furthermore, school violence remains a sociocultural concern, especially due to increasing media attention. Research consistently indicates that preventing school violence involves measures that go beyond formal protocols. One factor that has emerged from this research is that the quality of relationships between students and teachers, commonly referred to as school connectedness, may have a significant role in preventing school violence. However, there is very little literature that addresses how mental health professionals, such as school counselors, can assist teachers …

Clickers Can Promote Fact Retention But Impede Conceptual Understanding: The Effect Of The Interaction Between Clicker Use And Pedagogy On Learning, Amy M. Shapiro, Judith Sims-Knight, Grant V. O'Rielly, Paul Capaldo, Teal Pedlow, Leamarie Gordon, Kristina Monteiro

Psychology Department Faculty Works

Highlights

• Two experiments explored the role of clickers on factual and conceptual learning.
• One course emphasized fact retention and the other emphasized conceptual understanding.
• Factual and conceptual clicker questions enhanced only fact learning in the didactic course.
• Factual questions impaired conceptual learning in the problem-oriented course.
• Clicker effects are mediated by pedagogy, learning strategy, and prior knowledge.