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Responding To The Dialogue: Critical Digital Pedagogy Of Elementary Teachers, Aaron R. Gierhart

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

Critical pedagogy has the power to transform learning experiences for all students, but also create seismic impacts on the futures of students; however, critical approaches to designing and implementing instruction in which digital technologies are integrated eludes many elementary teachers. Pedagogy is formed and evolves a lifetime of experiences and is never fully mastered. To understand how certain elementary teachers develop critical digital pedagogy, it was imperative to tell their stories. The purpose of this study was to describe the life stories of two elementary teachers who utilized critical digital approaches in their instruction. Each participant participated in an life …

Pathways To Stem Careers – Preliminary Findings Of A Possible Selves Intervention, Andrea Dawn Frazier

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

Riegle-Crumb, King, and Irizarry (2019) indicate that African-American, LatinX, and White college first-year students declare an interest in STEM fields at roughly equivalent rates but African American and Latinx students are less likely to persist in attaining STEM degrees. Oyserman et al. (2011) further contextualize this discrepancy by noting that students might need help in implementing pathways from aspirations to academic outcomes. A multi-year intervention aimed at supporting undergraduate African American and Latinx students in STEM seeks to usher students along pathways towards STEM degrees by encouraging development of a community of practice and engagement in practical, concrete experiences that …

Relationships Among Text Type, Relatability, Students’ Reading Enthusiasm, And Comprehension, Madhavi T. Clark, Winifred C. Nweke

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

Traditional English Language Arts instruction relies on the study of classical or canonical texts to teach students critical reading skills. These texts are hailed for their complexity, universal/ timeless themes, and established literary value. Yet, contemporary authors have argued that these texts are often far removed from students’ realities and do not reflect the diversity present in the classroom. Studies have also demonstrated that students find school content boring and irrelevant. This lack of enthusiasm, or display of interest, engagement, and excitement, is concerning to educators, as enthusiasm has been linked to students’ academic success and increased levels of intrinsic …

School Justice Partnerships: A Collective-Decision Making Approach To Improve Graduation Rates And Reduce Juvenile Crime, Steven C. Teske

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

Keynote Address

Ramp It Up! Training Peer Mentors In Reinforcement And Modeling With Prompting (Ramp), Jasmine V. Sadler

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

The purpose of the study was to examine the effectiveness of providing peer mentors with explicit training in the evidence based practices (EBP) of reinforcement, modeling, and prompting (RaMP) as well as an opportunity for purposeful practice through mixed reality simulations. The literature supports the importance and impact that early intervention has on individuals with autism (Dawson et. al, 2010), particularly in the area of social communication. However, the research is limited for adolescents (Griffin & AFIRM, 2016), which it is a time when children are bullied and ostracized for social awkwardness (Humphrey & Symes, 2010; De Boer, Pijl, & …

Bringing Inclusion To College: The Importance Of Peer Mentorship For College Students With Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities, Stephanie M. Devine

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

Inclusive excellence has risen to the forefront as a strategic pillar of many higher education improvement plans or mission statements. The embodiment of inclusion in the college setting can be seen in the growth of inclusive postsecondary education (IPSE) programs for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities on college campuses across the state over the past decade. Georgia currently has nine IPSE programs and is in working on adding several more over the next few years. The challenges of including students with intellectual and developmental disabilities in university settings can be great, but with the help of natural supports such …

Self-Monitoring Among Secondary And Post-Secondary Students With Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities : Current Summary And Future Directions, Melvin S. Marsh, Stephanie M. Devine

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

A preliminary search of the literature has revealed very few studies applicable to self-monitoring behaviours in college-aged individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), a technique that has been studied primarily in the elementary aged population. Learning how to self-monitor, whether it is self-monitoring behaviour or using it to learn to do tasks, is an important skill for one to become a success in college and during adulthood. This skill may allow some students to seek out and successfully complete further education and vocational training. Having individuals with disabilities able to join the workforce and advanced educational opportunities will increase …

Building The Plane While Flying It: School And College Policy Responses To The Covid-19 Pandemic, Olivia M. Boggs, Brittany Bellamy, Julie Eavenson, Tiffany Mcbride

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

The quandary of how to deliver quality instruction in the midst of a virulent and unabated pandemic for which there are no medications or vaccination is the greatest educational dilemma of our age. Using modified interpretive policy analysis (IPA), the paper reports the results of a study that examined the challenges, responsiveness, and efficacy of policies initiated during the early outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in three sectors of the education community: (1) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), (2) public schools offering services to disabled students, and (3) research universities in four geographic locations. Specific attention is given to …

Meditating In The Coatlicue State: An Autohistoria-Teoria Of A Vietnamese Queer Teacher To Resist The Norms In Tesol, Ethan T. Trinh

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

Employing autohistoria-teoria, “a personal essay that theorizes” (Anzaldúa, 2002, p. 578), this paper shares life events of a Vietnamese immigrant queer teacher in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). This paper uses Anzaldúa’s (2002) Coatlicue state, a process that helps a person to confront the struggles, the darkness, the pain in their souls, and Thich Nhat Hanh’s (1999) walking meditation, as a theoretical framework. Further, this piece continues to challenge hetero- and homonormativity, sexual and racial oppressions facing queer teachers of color in research and language classrooms (Paiz, 2018), adding another critical teaching story of a queer teacher …

Supporting Religious Undecided Students: Implications For Educators, Jamie L. Workman

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

This research explored a newly created model of first year academic advising used at a Mid-Size Public University. Modified from the traditional advising model, the new model was created for students in the new University Studies major, a designation for students formerly classified as undeclared majors. It was unknown how the University Studies students would experience academic advising, as they received a different academic advising model than undecided students in previous cohorts.

The researcher conducted the project using grounded theory techniques and phenomenological perspective. The researcher interviewed 12 students. The research questions were: (1) How did students experience being undecided …

The Impact Of Client Culture On Termination Of The Counseling Relationship, Colin F. Freeland

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

Counseling is a process that evokes often evokes strong emotions in clients. When counseling is effective and rapport is established correctly, clients become attached to their counselors in deep and meaningful ways. The depth of attachment in this dynamic can lead to negative affect when approaching the termination stage of this relationship; these endings can also provide opportunities for clients to experience growth and transformation. Elements of grief can surface with the dissolution of relationships; further, cultural influences impact experiences of grieving and the continuation or finality of those bonds. Few studies have explored clients’ subjective experiences with the ending …

Counseling As A Pathway To Earned-Secure Attachment Status, Sara Moe

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

Attachment theory has emerged as a leading framework informing the study of individual development and interpersonal relationships. Previous research has documented connections between early caregiving experiences and the formation of working models of attachment that are carried into future relationships, impacting perception of the self and others across the lifespan. Given the well-documented physical, social, and mental health advantages associated with secure attachment status, the elucidation of mechanisms by which individuals can shift from an insecure working model of attachment to a secure pattern of functioning (termed earned security) is meaningful to clinical theory and practice. Counseling, by virtue …

The Power Of Schemas: Math Teachers On Teaching, Julia Winter, Richard Schmertzing, Lorraine C. Schmertzing

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

To understand cultural schemas shared by novice mathematics teachers, an ethnographic case study of five novice teachers who graduated from the same student-centered university program was conducted. Strauss and Quinn’s (1997/2001) interpretation of schema framed the identification of participants’ shared, tacit understandings about student-centered and teacher-centered methods and how each individual applied those schemas to their teaching practices.

Interviewing and data analysis strategies that modified and blended methods from Quinn’s (2005) discourse analysis, Seidman’s (2013) interview strategies, and D’Andrade’s (1995) work in cognitive anthropology were used. Participants shared stories about their upbringing, learning experiences, teacher training, and teaching practices. Coding …

Gera 2020 Conference Program, Gera Conference

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

The Georgia Educational Research Association (GERA) is a state affiliate of the national organization, the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and one of Georgia’s most dynamic research organizations. GERA has approximately 150 members from universities and colleges; public and private schools; and state, local, public, and private educational agencies and institutions, covering disciplines in education, psychology, statistics, sociology, history, economics, philosophy, anthropology, and political science.

Implementation Of The Public Schools’ Disaster Risk Reduction Management Program And Level Of Capabilities To Respond, Roselene Tabilon Tizon, Sheena Mae Trestiza Comighud

UBT International Conference

This study assessed the status of implementation of the public schools’ disaster risk reduction management (DRRM) program as to the four (4) DRRM thematic areas and the level of capability of the respondents to respond during hazards to prevent disaster in all public schools of Bayawan City Division, Negros Oriental for S.Y. 2018-2019. A total of ninety-six (96) public elementary and secondary school heads were selected as research respondents representing the different 10 districts of Bayawan City Division. The study used the adopted survey questionnaires from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (NDRRM) Plan and the Hyogo Framework of …

Utilization Of Information And Communication Technology (Ict) Resources, Mary Jane O. Gelacio

UBT International Conference

This research used the descriptive method to determine the level of utilization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Resources in District 4 Public Elementary Schools of Bayawan City Division, Negros Oriental, Philippines for SY 2019-2020. The quantitative data were gathered from 73 research respondents comprised of school heads, ICT Coordinators, and teachers. Also, the researcher conducted a survey questionnaire. Descriptive method was used in this study. The statistical tools used in the analysis of the data were percentage, mean, and weighted mean. The study found out that the level of utilization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Resources in the …

2020 Scholars At Work Webinar Program, Shaheen Ahmed, Jeffery P. Dennis, Michael Hart, Daniel Moen, Shane Bowyer, Mika Laidlaw, Chandu Valluri

Scholars at Work Conference

Program for the 2020 Scholars at Work Webinar held virtually for Minnesota State University, Mankato on September 11, 2020

September Agenda, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting agenda including August 20 meeting minutes, graduate enrollment reports, Graduate Council Curriculum Report tracking and RCAP Return on Investment by College.

August Agenda, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting agenda including May 7 meeting minutes and Graduate Council Curriculum Report tracking.

Ronald E. Mcnair Scholars Program Profiles And Abstracts 2020, Mcnair Scholars Program

McNair Symposium

This is the complete event program and provides presentation abstracts and biographies of McNair scholars and their mentors.

Developing Arduino Coding Curriculum, Tyler Brown, Riley Bucheitte, Timothy Kidd

Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) Symposium

No abstract provided.

Maximizing Participation In An Online Mathematics Course, Lauren Falck, Douglas Shaw

Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) Symposium

No abstract provided.

Win/Win/Win:Academia And Public Libraries Working Together To Help Students, Faculty, And Librarians Promote Stem Learning And Research, Jessica Jones

2020 STEM Librarians South Conference

No abstract provided.

Bury Me, My Love: (Non)Choosing Reading Paths, Eleonora Acerra

Electronic Literature Organization Conference 2020

This contribution falls within the domain of children’s and young adults’ digital literature and, in particular, in that segment of the field aimed at exploring both the potential and the limits of reading digital literary works at school. In order to describe the actual reception process (and eventually to accompany the formal introduction of e-lit creations in the French literature school programs), a selection of literary apps was presented to eight groups of young readers, across different school levels: two adaptations of contemporary picturebooks were read in four primary school classes (I can’t wait [France Télévision, 2013] and With …

Systematic Literature Review Of Soft System Method Use In Information Systems Field, Abdurehman Ali, Shimelis Shiferaw Deneke

African Conference on Information Systems and Technology

Information system (IS) papers are published in different Journals and conferences using various methods focusing on different problems. IS is an interdisciplinary field and contains information related to technology, human and organizational issues. Problems related to this are most of the time messy and confused ones and these needs soft system methodology (SSM) uses because this methodology basically emphases on activities inside the organization and allows a participation of heterogeneous groups like IS discipline do. Therefore, the study focuses on how SSM uses in IS field.

SSM help to construct complex structural and governmental conditions and delivers a possible change. …

Investigating The Current Information System Use For Improving Organizational Tasks In Aau Using Grounded Theory, Gebremedhin Gebreyohans, Abdurahman Ali

African Conference on Information Systems and Technology

Information System (IS) is the interaction between people and organization using a certain type of system. Therefore, in this current study the people are the staffs, the organization is Addis Ababa University and the system is the different applications and tools used to ease tasks. Most universities in developing countries, including AAU, staffs are lacking the basic know how and skills on how to use the IS and to create conducive setting to perform organizational tasks easily and quickly. As it is observed from different perspectives staffs of Addis Ababa University are performing their daily tasks with the traditional way …

Student Wellness And Mental Wellbeing, Emily Bishop, Stevie Leahy

William & Mary Law School’s Conference for Excellence in Online Teaching Legal Research & Writing

This presentation will focus on centering the mental wellbeing of students for the 2020-21 academic year. The incoming cohort has unique stressors that are compounded by challenging current events - as educators, we are also challenged to engage and connect with these students in a virtual environment. This presentation will give practical strategies to engage with students that facilitate and foster mental health, with an eye to anchoring our tactics within a legal research and writing curriculum. The presentation aims to encourage healthy dialogue on how to de-stigmatize mental wellbeing and best support our students. This goal, more so now …

"Thinking Across Borders." 13th Annual Research Week: Event Proceedings, Office Of Research And Sponsored Projects Operations

Research Week Archived Proceedings

Poster and podium presentations of research by students and faculty of University of the Incarnate Word.

Unpacking The Narrative-Argumentative Conundrum: Story Credibility Revisited, Jarmila Bubikova-Moan

OSSA Conference Archive

Building on a view of both narration and argumentation as dynamic concepts, the aim of this paper is to argue that story credibility remains a core issue in the debate on the argumentative quality of narratives, yet one that the dynamic perspective has not interrogated in sufficient detail. To illustrate, I will draw on empirical examples from research interviews with adult migrants to Norway on their learning and using Norwegian as a second language.

Developing Critical Thinking With Rhetorical Pedagogy, Elizabeth Ismail

OSSA Conference Archive

The development of critical thinking skills is emphasized as a fundamental attribute of successful graduates (Ritchhart & Perkins, 2005; Willingham, 2008). Some critical thinking textbooks inform students to “see beyond the rhetoric to the core idea being stated” (Moore and Parker, 2009, p. 21); however, other scholars have begun to suggest that rhetoric is intrinsically interrelated to critical thinking and plays a pivotal role in everyday interactions (Saki, 2016). This paper explores the later.