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Secondary School Administrators, Teachers, And Students' Perspectives On Reducing Recidivism In Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs, Chrissell Rhone

Dissertations

This mixed-methods study sought to explore student and staff perspectives on what led students to return to or remain in DAEPs for longer than they were assigned. The researcher reviewed literature related to the history of alternative education programs, placement policies, and alternative school practices. This researcher obtained permission from two schools in a rural county in a southern state. Qualtrics was used to collect all quantitative data. Data was collected using questionnaires and focus groups. The quantitative component of this study was employed so that students could maintain anonymity and honestly respond without feeling pressured or intimidated. Student data …

The Casnr L.I.N.K.S. Newsletter: Learning Innovation Network For K-12 Schools, Edition 6, July 2022, Bailey Feit, Tammy Mittelstet

CASNR L.I.N.K.S. Newsletter

The purpose of this L.I.N.K.S. newsletter is to provide a monthly update of opportunities and resources for K-12 schools to connect with the University of Nebraska's CASNR Food, Energy, Water, and Societal Systems (FEWS²) programs and partners.

Included in this issue:

New editions and archived L.I.N.K.S. Newsletters coming soon

Eye on curriculum and resources

Teacher opportunities

Link to list of new partnerships

Ask an expert

Eye on CASNR research: Judy Wu-Smart

Send your students to campus

Success stories

Tree-Based Methods: A Tool For Modeling Nonlinear Complex Relationships And Generating New Insights From Data, Ya Mo, Brian Habing, Nell Sedransk

Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundational Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Our paper introduces tree-based methods, specifically classification and regression trees (CRT), to study student achievement. CRT allows data analysis to be driven by the data’s internal structure. Thus, CRT can model complex nonlinear relationships and supplement traditional hypothesis-testing approaches to provide a fuller picture of the topic being studied. Using Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten 2011 data as a case study, our research investigated predictors from students’ demographic backgrounds to ascertain their relationships to students’ academic performance and achievement gains in reading and math. In our study, CRT displays complex patterns between predictors and outcomes; more specifically, the patterns illuminated by …

Educators’ Perceptions Of Middle Level Education In A State Without A Middle Level Teacher Credential, Ben Seipel, Rong-Ji Chen, Erika B. Daniels, Acacia M. Warren, Roxanne Greitz Miller

Education Faculty Articles and Research

The Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) presents a framework of middle level education and defines five essential attributes and 18 characteristics of successful middle schools (Bishop & Harrison, 2021). Young adolescents’ unique cognitive, moral, socio-emotional, and identity development is at the center of this framework. Several empirical studies suggest that middle school teachers with specialized preparation performed better in many key areas than their counterparts with elementary or secondary licensure (Mertens et al., 2005; Ochanji et al., 2016). Despite researchers’ calls for specialized preparation of middle grades teachers. California does not offer a middle level teacher credential. The purpose …

Creating A Culture Of Assessment: Building A Sustainable Model For Communicating Results To Guide Change, Amy Heath, Carrie Barrett

Assessment Grants

The Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) has been an active program at Western Michigan University for three years. Using data from the first cohort that completed the DPT program, the Curriculum and Program Evaluation and Assessment Committee (CPEAC) is reviewing the DPT course content and sequencing within the curriculum for efficiency and effectiveness. This grant will fund a model comprised of (a) data analysis and (b) a retreat to discuss results with faculty instructors. The model will improve best-practice in higher level education curricular assessment, engage faculty, assess student outcomes, and provide a curricular assessment blueprint for other university departments.

Creation And Assessment Of Inclusive Pedagogical Materials In The Spanish Program, Germán Zárate-Sández

Assessment Grants

Data compiled in the Department of Spanish showed that Black students at Western begin Spanish education at high rates but are less likely to advance to upper-level courses and more likely to obtain lower final grades than other groups. Assuming that part of this issue derives from current materials that do not represent Black students, the goal of this mini grant is to develop Spanish learning materials that are more inclusive and representative of the Black experience in Hispanic communities. The materials are expected to be a contribution to improving retention and academic achievement of Black students in the Spanish …

Celcis Assessment Plan/Process Revision, Eva Copija

Assessment Grants

This project will involve revising CELCIS assessment plan/process to make it more meaningful, measurable and manageable and to follow the guidelines of the Commission on English Program Accreditation (CEA), which recommended such revision in response to our 5-year interim report. The steps will include: revising learning outcomes for four kinds of courses at four different levels: elementary, intermediate, pre-advanced and advanced to make them more specific and measurable; aligning evaluation instruments with the learning outcomes; updating our model syllabi to make them reflect the correspondence between the learning outcomes and evaluation instruments, and redesigning progress reports given to students.

Lived Experiences Of Liberal And Conservative Educational Leaders Navigating Solutions To Highly Contentious And Polarizing Sociopolitical Education Problems, Troy Fisher

Doctor of Education (EdD)

The intent of this qualitative multiple case study is to explore the lived experiences of two different school leaders that have lived through the same polarizing contentious political experience. One of these leaders self-identified as liberal and the other as conservative. More specifically, the purpose is to identify similarities and differences in the strategies these school leaders utilized as they navigated the political challenges so as to bring partisan, polarized groups together – while still maintaining a quality instructional program for their students. The narratives of these two school leaders were captured through semi-structured in-depth interviews and two political survey …

Particulate Matters - Water Filtration And Solar Disinfection, Shelby A. Watson, Brooke A. Whitworth

Publications

Those of us in the United States often take for granted that the water coming out of our faucets will be safe for drinking, cleaning, or brushing our teeth. Despite this, each year nearly half a million people visit emergency rooms because of waterborne diseases, resulting in over 100,000 hospital stays and thousands of deaths (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] 2020). In fact, the CDC estimated that in 2017 people in the United States spent $3.8 billion on emergency room visits for waterborne illnesses.

Office Of Research, Grants And Sponsored Programs Newsletter, Summer 2022, Lincoln Memorial University, Office Of Research, Grants, And Sponsored Programs Newsletter

Office of Research, Grants and Sponsored Programs Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Establishing Content Validity For Wmu’S Special Education Key Assessments, Rena Vanderwall, Kate Lalonde

Assessment Grants

This project seeks to validate the content in the key assessments used in three special education programs at WMU. The purpose of key assessments is to assess student performance and drive ongoing program improvement. Shared key assessments across WMU’s teacher education programs have been validated, but those specific to special education have not been. Establishing content validity includes gathering evidence to demonstrate that the assessment content fairly and adequately represents a defined domain of knowledge or performance. Validation of these assessments will lead to stronger assessment of teacher candidates’ performance and continual improvement of these programs.

The Lead, July 2022, Lindenwood University

The Lead

The Lead is an electronic newsletter produced by the Lindenwood College of Education & Human Services.

Ua52/1 Out Of The Box, Wku Archives

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by and about WKU Archives, the records management program and TopScholar administration.

Implementing Faculty Development Modules To Increase Readiness For Addressing Social Determinants Of Health, Implicit Bias And Equity In Course Content, Claudia Ngafeeson

Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Projects

Implicit bias is viewed as an unconscious and involuntary attitude that lies below the surface of consciousness but can influence behavior, and cognitive processes (Maina et al., 2018). Social determinants of health are considered to be the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age; these circumstances are usually shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources at global, national, and local levels, which in turns determines the distribution of the value of medical care. Existing literature on implicit bias has been fragmented in different fields such as; cognitive psychology, business ethics, and higher education, but …

Career Pathways Program Annual Report For Ay 2021/22, Wie Yusuf

Career Pathways

Career Pathways launched in August 2017 as the university-wide initiative to provide graduate student professional development. Career Pathways prepares graduate students for successful transition into thriving careers. It is a gateway to resources, programs, events, and planning tools for ODU graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Career Pathways encompasses both the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) and the Preparing Future Professionals (PFP) Certificates. The Preparing Future Faculty Certificate was an existing program, started in 2007, while the Preparing Future Professionals Certificate was launched in 2017 concurrently with Career Pathways. With the Preparing Future Professionals Certificate, specifically, the emphasize has been on filling …

Summer 2022, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

Augustana Magazine

No abstract provided.

Translanguaging In Court Proceedings: How Interpreter Pedagogy Needs To Address Monolingual Ideologies In Court Interpreting That Delegitimize Litigants’ Voices, Alan James Runcieman

International Journal of Interpreter Education

The majority of court proceedings are based on monolingual ideologies that assume that the court is speaking one, specific, bounded language and the litigant another. Thus, interpreting processes in this context are framed as an L-B to L-A interchange, a bridge between two linguistically and culturally discrete entities. In increasingly superdiverse societies, however, court interpreters are finding that their clients do not always respect these rigid boundaries, often engaging instead in what has become to be known as translanguaging, a form of linguistically fluid, hybrid, and often creative discourse that sources all the client’s (para)linguistic repertoires, acquired throughout their personal …

Sexual Activity Between Victims And Perpetrators Following A Sexual Assault: A Systematic Literature Review And Critical Feminist Analysis, Katie M. Edwards, Christina M. Dardis

Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families, and Schools: Faculty Publications

Rarely are perpetrators found guilty of sexual assault when the victim engaged in sex with the perpetrator following the sexual assault. Although the recent trial of Harvey Weinstein is an exception, the fact that his accusers engaged in consensual sex with him following the alleged assaults ignited debate that garnered international attention. The purpose of this paper was to conduct a systematic review to (1) document the extent to which victims engage in sex with the perpetrator following a sexual assault and (2) examine theoretical explanations for this phenomenon. Five peer-reviewed journal articles published between 1988 and 2016 were identified. …

Implementing A Brief Evidence-Based Tier 2 School Mental Health Intervention: The Enablers And Barriers As Seen Through A Clinical Team Supervisor Lens, Claire Crooks, Alexandra Fortier, Rachelle Graham, Morena E. Hernandez, Eve G. Chapnik, Courtney Cadieux, Kristy A. Ludwig

Education Publications

This paper describes the implementation of BRISC, a brief evidence-based intervention within an implementation framework; specifically, we provide a 5-year retrospective on the successes and remaining gaps of the approach. Interviews were conducted with 13 clinical team leads from diverse school boards in Ontario. Seven themes emerged from our coding: BRISC being seen as an effective and efficient practice, clinicians’ attitudes and self-efficacy, promoting system readiness, high-quality training, data-informed decision-making, effective clinical supervision, and communities of practice to create ongoing learning and professional development. These themes highlight the importance of considering different levels and systems in developing an implementation plan.

A Structured Conceptualization Of Implementation-Sensitive Interventions For School Mental Health, Claire Crooks, Caely I. Dunlop, Kathy H. Short

Education Publications

Implementation-sensitive approaches to school mental health have been proposed as being responsive to the needs of the education system. We worked with a group of expert stakeholders to identify a wide range of characteristics of implementation-sensitive approaches. These statements (n = 50) were sorted into concepts by 20 participants. Participants also ranked the importance of each statement. Group concept mapping created a six-concept solution including (1) Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, (2) Implementation Informed from the Outset, (3) Intervention Characteristics, (4) Evidence, Theory, and Practice-Informed, (5) Authentic Stakeholder Engagement, and (6) Ongoing Learning and Sustainability. We subsequently conducted two …

Partnering To Support A Mindfulness-Informed Social And Emotional Learning Program In Elementary Schools: Strategies Aligned With The Quality Implementation Framework, Andrea Delaney, Claire Crooks, Karen Bax, Sandra Savage, Terry Spencer

Education Publications

In this case study we use the Quality Implementation Framework (QIF) to identify implementation strategies within the context of a six-year university–school board partnership that implemented and evaluated the MindUP program in Southwestern Ontario. Attention to all four phases in the QIF were found to contribute to the success of the initiative. Being implementation-sensitive required significant pre-implementation work at the outset, ongoing attunement to changing contexts and challenges, and dissemination to target stakeholders. The community-based participatory research principles, the importance of alignment, rapid knowledge mobilization within and beyond partners, and responding to challenges and opportunities were identified as key components …

Perceptions Of Future Careers For Middle Year Engineering Students, Catherine Mcgough Spence, Adam Kirn, Lisa Benson

Integrated Engineering Department Publications

Background: One facet of motivation relevant to students' learning is their perceptions of the future, including future career goals and how those perceptions influence their present actions; this is collectively referred to as their future time perspective (FTP).

Purpose/Hypothesis: This study describes the different FTPs of engineering students. We aim to help researchers and practitioners leverage students' motivations to improve learning experiences and inform future studies by providing a model of engineering students' FTP.

Design/Method: A phenomenographic approach was used to determine students' different characteristic FTPs within the context of their engineering courses. Interviews with engineering students (n=18) at a …

Explore, Summer 2022, Vol. 22: Seeking Understanding And Solidarity, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

explore

• Seeking Understanding and Solidarity - Aaron Willis
• Leading with Compassion - Hooria Jazaieri
• Solidarity and Common Good - Enrique S. Pumar
• That Meritorious Title of Colleague - Matthew J. Gaudet
• Integrating the Catholic Intellectual Tradition into Graphic Design Courses and Scholarship - Qiuwen Li
• The Practice of Equality - Graeme Warren
• Holding On and Changing the Tradition - Janet Giddings
• Catholicity and Confusion - Phyllis R. Brown
• An Easter Solidarity Reflection - Alison M. Benders
• 2019–20 Ignatian Center Highlights

Community Voices Magazine - Pushing Back Against Hate, Office Of Equity And Inclusion, East Tennessee State University

Community Voices [magazine]

Talk a walk through hatred in the United States with a historian who still hopes for positive change.

Next, dig deeply into Feminism from the Point of View of an Africana Womanist who tells us all how to be a better ally.

Shades Of Us: The Need For Culturally Pluralistic Educational Tools And Practices In Asl-English Interpreter Education, Pamela Collins

International Journal of Interpreter Education

The aim of this paper is to detail one professor’s use of storied experience as a strategy to engage and stimulate interpreting students. It also maps out a proposed dream project intended to move students past the confines of interpreting classrooms and toward an exploration of community that spans time.

Etsu Today - Summer 2022, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU Today [magazine]

In just a few weeks, the fall 2022 semester will begin. Nothing matches the excitement of being on a university campus in the days leading up to the start of a new academic year. Overnight, the population on campus will climb by nearly 15,000 as students return to our residence halls and classrooms. Our Dining Hall, the Basler Center for Physical Activity, Sherrod Library, the Quad, and other popular campus spots will be bustling. A new group of faculty will arrive on campus to begin their ETSU journey, and they will be greeted by our returning faculty who are back …

Can You Master This? : Initial Attempts At Specifications-Based Grading In Introductory Chemistry, Laura Kopff

Faculty Publications & Research

The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) requires all incoming students to complete a one-semester introductory chemistry course in their sophomore year – Scientific Inquiries in Chemistry (SI-Chem). This course has historically been taught using a traditional grading/assessment model, however, in the Spring of 2021, a switch was made to a specification-based grading system. One motivating factor in this decision is an institutional shift to an equity-focused grading approach, and an analysis of our historical assessment model indicated areas for improvement.

Our initial foray into specifications grading was during the Spring of 2021 semester, when all of our courses were …

A Study Of Hybrid Cte Programming Vs. Traditional Cte Programming For Students With Ieps At Two Technical High Schools, Esthere K. Scott

Dissertations

The purpose of this paper is to research the postsecondary readiness of students with IEPs at North and South Technical High schools within Special School District of St. Louis County (SSD). The attention is on the description of the readiness outcome of the students in a traditional career in the education program and technical education programs to the students with IEPs in hybrid technical programs. The paper also exploits the concept of inclusivity and diversity in learning and highlights the role of the CTEs in the preparation of the students for the future. However, success is described as either the …

Athletics, Academics, And The Financial Condition Of U.S. Private Colleges, Jody W. Lipford, Jerry K. Slice

Journal of Applied Sport Management

Abstract

Many private colleges in the U.S. face financial difficulty. The role of athletics in the financial condition of U.S. colleges is subject to controversy. Supporters argue that collegiate sports draw students, improve student quality, and increase donor support. Detractors argue that athletics are costly and undermine the academic mission of the institution. In this paper, we examine metrics of athletic and academic quality to determine their effects on the financial health of a sample of U.S. private colleges. Our findings indicate that higher spending on athletics reduces an institution’s financial health and that academic quality increases an institution’s financial …

Efficiency Analytics Of Ncaa Division I College Football Programs, Frank A. Bouchet, Mike Troilo, Wen-Chyuan Chiang, Jennifer Shang

Journal of Applied Sport Management

College athletics are a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States, but how well do university athletic programs employ their resources? The question is germane in light of increasing costs of higher education and scrutiny of university budgets. This study furnishes a template to weigh the tradeoffs inherent in collegiate sports, which is the main contribution of the paper. A dataset of 117 American college football programs from 2011-2015 is analyzed using DEA and AHP methods to assess the efficiency and perception of these programs. The result is the aforementioned framework measuring the programs' success and answers the question of …