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Authentic Learning: A Reflection Of Bicycle Adventure, David Ni, Gavin Ni

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

The purpose of this showcase is to demonstrate the importance of holistic, significant, and authentic learning experience. We also intended to provide a framework to assist instructors and parents to carry out enriched, authentic adventure learning.

Chaos!, Scott Mcchesney

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

Deadly school violence continues to dominate our headlines year after year. This modern horror profoundly scars our hearts and launches national political debates, state/federal legislation, and billions of dollars in technology and facility upgrades. Yet deadly attacks seem to grow more frequent despite wide-scale safety efforts. Our solutions are not working so we need to revisit our assumptions. It is time to break our habit of throwing money at ineffective solutions and return to fact-based risk assessment and mitigation.

Teaching Origami, Monica Salisburry

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

Ohio Paper Folders is a visual atrs education organization whose participating volunteer artists teach origami all over the state of Ohio. In a time when funding for art programs is being cut nationwide, we are able to offer an affirdable, accessible, and beneficial introduction to the arts through thr practice of origami. By leveraging powerful community relaationships and offering interactive instructional presentations, Ohio Paper Folders is able ot reach and engage students of all ages adn means in a wide variety of venues.

Assessment Of Bsn Student Attitudes Toward Patient Education & Three Patient Education Scenarios, Tina Harkless, Dale Hilty, Kristin Partee, Hope Schmidt

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

No abstract provided.

Impact Of Self-Efficacy On Nursing Students Compassion Toward Others & Self, Rosanna Bumgardner, Dale Hilty

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

No abstract provided.

Mitigating Student Learning Burnout, Kelly B. Renner

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

Overview: Individuals in a wide range of occupations, including students, athletes, and the general population, have reported experiencing burnout (Dubuc-Charbonneau & Durand-Bush, 2015; Halbesleben, Osburn, & Mumford, 2006; Maslach, 2003; Salmela-Aro, Näätänen, & Nurmi, 2004). Self-Determination Theory (SDT) is often viewed as the foundation for a plausible explanation of burnout (Cresswell & Eklund, 2005; Lonsdale, Hodge, & Rose, 2009). SDT identifies the satisfaction of basic psychological needs results in optimal human functioning, social development, and personal well-being (Ryan & Deci, 2000). The needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness are regarded as not only essential, but also universal among humans (Ryan …

Assessing The Effectiveness Of Developmental Education, Blake J. Renner

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

Purpose: Determine the relationship between developmental education programs in West Virginia four-year higher education institutions and the success of the students in these programs, as measured by bachelor’s degree completion and the number of years required to complete the degree program.

The Leader As Servant: Followership To Leadership, Timothy F. Reymann

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

A paradigm change has been occurring in leadership[p theory over the last 40 years since Servant Leadership was introduced in the 1970's by Robert Greenleaf. For many years academia looked away from including this theory as foundational. In recent years the theory has gained strong attention in academic journals, textbooks and course instruction. Pivotal to the underpinnings of this theory is the concept of the leader as a developer of his or her followers. The challenge for any leader is how to mentor, develop and coach his or her followers through leadership practices that truly develop others. The practice of …

Combining An Electrical Engineering ​Undergraduate Degree With An Mba Program, Mehdi Samimy

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

The relationship between an engineering undergrad degree and MBA as a master program would be an outstanding topic for the analyzing leadership process and see what kind of manager or leader an engineer would eventually become. Alternatively, what would be the relationship between electronic circuits, transistors, and the different pieces of knowledge in engineering with business and management? Although the way of thinking and technique of approaching the same issue could be entirely different between these two types of people, they will come across at the same node when they are thinking critically. We know there are a few different …

Winding Up For Improved Learning In A Doctoral Research Core Course: ​Integrating A Spiral Approach With Scaffolding, Yuerong Sweetland, Niccole Hyatt, Constance Wanstreet, Xiaopeng Ni

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

In a spiral curriculum based on cognitive theory by Jerome Bruner (1960), learners have multiple opportunities to revisit a concept or theme throughout an academic term, accompanied each time with increasing levels of complexity (Johnston, 2012). The spiral curriculum has been shown to produce positive outcomes for student learning, especially when combined with other learning approaches and for subject areas on skill development (Johnston, 2012). This proposal will illustrate how a spiral curriculum, enhanced with multiple scaffolding strategies, help students learn and succeed in a doctoral research core course: MTHD 805 (formerly known as GRAD 805).

Catalyzing Creativity In Learning: ​Making Creativity Visible, Jennifer Lehe

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

Making Creativity Visible was a three-year investigation into creativity in learning, led by the Columbus Museum of Art in collaboration with area teachers, and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The museum- and school-based educators of the Making Creativity Visible initiative co-investigated “What does creativity look, sound, and feel like throughout the learning process?” and “How can creativity be modeled, fostered, and assessed in PreK-12 environments?” Summative evaluation showed that teachers who participated in MCV workshops or more sustained collaboration through MCV clearly articulated a range of dominant impacts, including increased ability to foster creativity and identify …

Assessing College Students’ Foundational Skills: Communication And Critical Thinking, Yuerong Sweetland, Michael Klingler

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

Communication and critical thinking are foundational skills for college students, which have been strongly emphasized by employers, along with other skills (Hart Research Associates, 2015). Foundational skills are often reflected in general education outcomes, which are not only taught in General Education courses but also reinforced and assessed in major area courses. Assessment of communication and critical thinking skills are conducted in both major area courses and general education courses. This poster presents findings on student performances through work products created in senior level major area courses. Performances are also compared between F2F and online sections

Increasing Bsn Student Understanding Of Pathology & How The Disease Process Can Effect Multiple Organ Systems, Kathryn M. Ross, Dale Hilty

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

No abstract provided.

Community Health Centers Primary Care Physicians’ Asthma Management Perception: A Qualitative Study Regarding Uninsured Patients, Mary Bynum

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

Purpose: To explore the perceptions of primary care physicians from CHCs in Franklin County, Ohio, regarding factors that contribute to their inability to consistently provide sustainable asthma management services to their uninsured patient population.

Nhl Hockey Players Point Outcome Predictions, Josh Vanausdale

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

This study is done to create a regression prediction model that regresses several variables of data involved with NHL players from the 2018 season in order to predict the players’ point outcomes. By use of regression statistics, variables not meeting the criteria are filtered out of the model. The variables used in the model are those that are highly correlated with the outcome variable and meet the statistical requirements for model inclusion.

An Integrated Communications Agency Pilot: ​Collaborating To Deliver Quality Learning Experiences And Positive Client Outcomes, Autumn Roberts, Brenda Jones, Daniel Bell

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

Franklin University faculty piloted a student agency concept in 2017-18, working with client Bonecutter Development, LLC. Work was completed by students with two different models: 1) Course Embedded Group Work, 2) Paid Student Agency Positions. (Please see handout for more details).

Fostering Women’S Leadership In The Classroom, Brandy Bagar-Fraley

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

Women in college suffer from what Elizabeth J. Allen and Mary Madden refer to as “the chilly classroom”: a set of subtle behaviors from both faculty and students that silence and marginalize women in the classroom and prohibit them from developing leadership skills (2006). Without realizing it, faculty can unwittingly impede the development of leadership skills in women.

The Problems Of Teaching And Applying Critical Ethics, Isidoro Talavera

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

To foster the development of ethical, responsible, and engaged citizens, it is important for students to learn to modify or correct belief molded by personal interest, motivated thinking, upbringing, and/or indoctrination. Critical ethics comes into play whenever a systematic attempt to get around the limitations of personal belief is sought to get to what ought to be done. Accordingly, I examine the problems associated with teaching and applying critical ethics—where critical thinking takes some ethical argument apart, via analysis, and evaluates whether some derived conclusion follows from the evidence to make reasonable, intelligent decisions about what to believe and what …

Strategy Execution Improvement Requires Institutional Change, Jon Umstead

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

Successful business strategy execution remains a significant challenge, with failures rates over 60%. Only 48% of respondents said that Project Management Offices (PMOs) play an integral part in meeting goals. 80% of small to mid-sized business (SMBs) start-ups survive the first year, but odds of success sharply decline in subsequent years

Leading Through Chaos To Survive Market Instability Among​ Community And Technical Colleges In West Virginia, Davida Wolfe

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

The problem is the West Virginia's community and technical colleges (CTCs) are experiencing a decline in enrollment. Therefore, higher education institutions are learning that they need to become more adaptable to the unpredictability and uncertainty when the institution encounters a decline in student enrollment. West Virginia’s CTCs appear to have seen a decrease in student enrollment of 19.4 percent from 2012 to 2016 to a 4.7 percent from 2015 to 2016. Chaos Theory and the complexity can provide a unique perspective to understanding the present educational system, which includes the methods and approach to how each institution is ready to …

Becoming An Expert Instructional Designer, Rob L. Wood

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

Instructional design requires practitioners to integrate best practices, use appropriate tools, and strategically apply current and emerging technologies to meet clients’ and organizations’ needs. Many practitioners achieve high levels of technical expertise in this way. However, the author of this poster suggests that, to become a leader in instructional design, practitioners must develop as experts through a process of acquiring horizontal expertise via two concepts described by Engeström, Engeström, & Kärkkäinen (1995). Polycontextuality describes how experts accomplish multiple simultaneous tasks within multiple communities of practices. Boundary crossing occurs when two different activities are linked together.

Academic Success: ​A Collaborative Case Study, Constance E. Wanstreet, Jasmine Suber

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

Coordinate multiple initiatives of a large-scale, multi-year, interdisciplinary academic project funded under a federal Title III grant to promote undergraduate. student retention and graduation.

The Echo: October 5, 2018, Taylor University

2018-2019 (Volume 106)

Taylor alumni run for Congress – International student recruitment shifts – Famed ‘Left Behind’ author Jenkins visits Taylor – Upland bridges the gap with new bike trail – FiTU: holistic fitness for faculty – Trevor Osswald’s photos of the week – Chef’s Table is creating interactive spaces – Chapel is considering the value of process – Meet the Arts and Entertainment editor – Taylor University Survival Guide – Discover Downtown Marion – Taylathon Results – Generation of jams – The Weekly Bachelor and Bachelorette – Weekly Crossword -- #TaylorU’s Top Tweets – A Triumphant band to visit Epworth UMC in …

Achieving Sdg Targets: The European Approach: Compliance - The Case Of Energy & Irish Universities, Dr. Mary Whitney, Andy Maguire

Conference papers

Ireland, as a nation, has signed up to the SDGs. The main drivers in reaching these targets will be through a set of interventions that are encompassing
- legislation
- compliance to higher regulations
- incentives
- dissemination of effective best practice
When all put together it is a large and complex tapestry of actions.

The presentation takes Energy as an example. It outlines how the targets have been set nationally to achieve Ireland's internationally agreed targets. The resulting approach is highlighted, filtering down to what specific steps are taking place in the public sector. The resulting actions that are …

Georgia Southern University Golf Course Newsletter, Georgia Southern University

Georgia Southern Golf Course Newsletter

• Birthday Celebration
• Pros Vs. Joes: Putting Challenge
• Anniversary Raffle Begins
• Mystery Monday
• Two for Tuesday and Free Fountain all day
• 50% off Cart Rental and Free range Balls
• Closest to the Pin Contest
• Pass Holder Appreciation Day
• $10,000 Hole-In-Contest

Faculty Of Color Reception, Kent Syverud

Chancellor's Collection

No abstract provided.

October 5, 2018, Alumni Association Board Of Directors, Illinois Wesleyan University

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Resilience And Academic Achievement In Minority Students, James A. Britton

Theses and Dissertations

Students can thrive within school programs and sustain their capacity for success despite seemingly overwhelming obstacles. A model of school-based resilience can insulate students from risk and help students acknowledge challenges, embrace them, and learn as students encounter challenge and surmount it.

This study of a high school program analyzed the relationship between educational resilience and academic achievement through a direct measure of resilience. The research investigated whether a program increased resilience for minority and low-income high school students and whether stronger resilience was associated with improved academic outcomes. Students in the program produced significantly better academic outcomes, as measured …

Suan Guess-Hanson, Suan Guess-Hanson '64

All oral histories

Mrs. Guess-Hanson responded to an open call for Story Corps-style oral histories and self-recorded this interview during Homecoming 2018. She was an Art major and grew up in Bloomington. She recalls her connections to IWU as a participant in activities offered by different faculty prior to being enrolled and also describes her activities as a student and how she's remained connected since graduation.

Teaching Tools And Communication Solutions, Jennifer Wilson, Ms, Els, Anthony Frisby, Phd

Program Directors Retreat

No abstract provided.