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Resiliency Storyboard: Guilt And Pressure Work Vs Relationships, Ahmad Kofahi, Jodene Takahashi, Huda Warsame, Caleb Richard, Janice Gibbons, Hadi El Ammar

Patient Education Projects

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Resiliency Storyboard: Impostor Syndrome, Rommy Alaiwat, Nicole Ashley Hao, Nikhil Sundaram, Erin Markley, Brandon Hudson

Patient Education Projects

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Resiliency Storyboard: Commitment, Ahmad Khatib, Omar Abbas, Mariam Abdelmesih, Jhonny Lopez, Bhavana Garapati, Shreya Balusu

Patient Education Projects

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Resiliency Storyboard: Learning How To Handle These New Challenges In Medical School, Natalie Amodei, Yusuf Yasarlar, Thomas Tracy, Connor Dasbach, Mohamad Saleh, Genevieve Joseph-Mofford

Patient Education Projects

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Resiliency Storyboard: Blending Our Personal & Professional Identities, Elsa Nylund, Ajith Dupati, Leah Warren, Daniel Settecerri, Unie Gu, Kevin Cobty

Patient Education Projects

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Resiliency Storyboard: Uncovering The Uncomfortable, Sabrina Montemayor, Kathleen Young, Shobi Mathew, Matthew Brennan, Aarti Patel, Husain Al-Saffar

Patient Education Projects

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Resiliency Storyboard: Let’S Fight Burnout, Aliaa Bahzad, Jonathan Richards, Priya Sharma, Taichi Suzuki, Megan Seyerle, Jason Liu

Patient Education Projects

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Resiliency Storyboard: Mental Health, Nicholas Livingston, Laura Aravena, Tabassum Chowdhury, Kia Sweeney, Andrew Rabah, Andrew Gregory

Patient Education Projects

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Resiliency Storyboard: Reevaluating Norms Of Success Through Adaptive Collaboration, Alexander Wind, Mina Juma, Coltrane Groves, Alexandra Breves, Brandon Holland, Sydney Colbert

Patient Education Projects

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Resiliency Storyboard: Shifting From Negatives To Positives, Anyan Cheng, Nicolas Ceniza, Alex Duvall, Sai Dheeraj Reddy Kagithala, Maighdlin Patterson

Patient Education Projects

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Resiliency Storyboard: Compassionate Growth, Rachel Feldstein, Matthew Kim, Anthony Grayson, Mikaela Grudzien, Sara Kazyak, Joel Drazin

Patient Education Projects

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Resiliency Storyboard: Depression, Arjun Muralidharan, Eleftherios Halkias, Dawei Chen, Rumyah Rafique, Saiteja Mogasala, Cecilly Kelleher

Patient Education Projects

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Resiliency Storyboard: Time Management, Melissa Ly, Veronica Marougail, Adam Elder, Zoe Jeffries, Vanessa Drust, Mina Sitto

Patient Education Projects

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Resiliency Storyboard: Adapting To New And Unusual Experiences, Alexis Malecki, Ehsan Noori, Rana Elhamzawy, Neil Patel, Benjamin Sliwinski, Logan Nguyen

Patient Education Projects

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Resiliency Storyboard: Confidence In Professional Identity Formation, Matthew Corsi, Joshua Kirschner, Samantha Pfiffner, Haniyeh Zamani, Catherine Bogolawski, Logan Thayer

Patient Education Projects

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Resiliency Storyboard: Supporting Studying Endeavors And Maintaining Mental Health, Alyssa Dsouza, Samuel Grand, Hassan Ahmad, Sreenavya Gandikota, Nicholas Zura, Allison Boland

Patient Education Projects

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Resiliency Storyboard: The Long Journey Ahead, Shirley Elfishawy, Nicole Naidoo, Jacob Sullivan, Bethani Dunlap, Andrew Mizerowski, Andrew Kirmse

Patient Education Projects

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Philosophical Hermeneutics As An Interpretive Framework In The Analysis Of Colin Kaepernick’S Nfl Protest, E. Anthony Muhammad, Cynthia Thomas

Curriculum, Foundations & Reading: Faculty Publications

One of the more polarizing issues that captivated society in recent years was the controversy surrounding National Football League (NFL) athletes kneeling during the playing of the National Anthem. Initiated by NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick as a display of protest against police brutality, kneeling during the anthem sparked a firestorm of controversy and a national debate. In this study the controversy and the two men behind it will be analyzed through the lens of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics. Specifically, this study will highlight how Colin Kaepernick and Army veteran Nate Boyer experienced a fusion of horizons that produced the kneeling …

Effects Of Engagements And Presentation Order In Informal Science Presentations, William Henry Katzman

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Science museums conduct presentations for their audiences to attract and educate visitors, yet research on presentations has primarily concentrated on whether individual presentations were effective. This mixed-methods, quasi-experimental study looks at how the presenter’s mental and physical engagements within a presentation affects audience members by altering sociocultural context of the presentation.

Physical engagements involve asking audience members to physically participate, while mental engagements involved asking audience members to make predictions prior to observing a demonstration. Audiences were given presentations containing: 1) Both mental and physical engagements, 2) Physical engagements only, 3) Mental engagements only or 4) No engagements (control).

This …

Computational Thinking And Professional Learning For Paraprofessionals, Aubrey Rogowski

Student Research Symposium

In the past decade, there has been increasing emphasis on preparing K-12 students for the workforce, including an increased emphasis on science, technology, engineering, math, and computing (STEM + C). One way in which this is reflected is in K-12 computer science (CS) standards that have been adopted by many states. However, many current teachers lack sufficient skills and knowledge to teach CS. In addition, there is a lack of time in the school day for teachers to teach the CS curriculum. To address this issue, many school districts throughout Utah have delegated the teaching of the CS curriculum, which …

Investigating Student Learning About Disease Spread And Prevention In The Context Of Agent-Based Computational Modeling, Siyu Wu

Student Research Symposium

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a need to help students learn about public health issues, including the transmission of disease and methods for the prevention of epidemics. This study presents data from a project aimed at developing a computational modeling microworld to help middle school students learn about the spread of disease. The microworld is meant to help students model and test their ideas about how a disease spreads through a population and how an epidemic can be prevented. I employed a lab-based case study approach to conduct one-on-one 1.5-hour interviews through Zoom with four middle school students (ages 12-14). …

Esports Course Design: Balancing Multiplayer Gameplay Within Structured Curriculum, Daelynn Hunter

Student Research Symposium

There is a noticeably large interest growing across the globe for Esports expansion. Esports has grown to become an affinity space for competitive ambition/growth and a discipline of enormously varied learning techniques. Techniques to build esports into education often follow a 3 credit format, where esports can be studied in various areas (e.g., business, psychology, media/production). However, there’s been an absence in courses that are focused solely in gameplay. Traditionally, gaming has been observed to be a distraction over opportunity for growth. The course is currently centered to target said assumptions by utilizing student discipline techniques. Assignments are centered around …

Applying Cognitive Load Theory To Video Materials To Increase Metacognition And Improve Academic Performance Of Structured Query Language Course, Kyle Lam

Student Research Symposium

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a standardized programming language used to manage relational databases and perform various operations on the data in them.This course was highly technical for the undergraduate students, to make the learning more effective, the teacher must assess the intrinsic cognitive load on the learner and adjust the extraneous cognitive load when creating video materials.This study applied cognitive load theory (CLT) to remove split attention and redundancy effects; offer suitable worked examples and segmentation to decrease the cognitive load demand of learners.This study tries to address the relationship between cognitive load level and metacognition, and clarify how …

Challenges In Integrating Computer Science Into K-12 Education And How We Approach It, Mengying Jiang

Student Research Symposium

A promising approach to make sure all students have opportunities to learn about computing is to integrate computer science (CS) into existing disciplines such as math and science. This project aims to integrate CS into Montana schools while also offering content that aligns with the Indian Education for All Act (IEFA). We are developing elementary and middle school units and teacher training materials that integrate CS, Indian Education, and other K-12 standards in Science, Language Arts, and Visual Arts. Our approach to curriculum design is through Research-Practice Partnership and a three-level strategy framework that supports students’ CS and disciplinary learning.

Curricular Adaptations By Paraprofessionals During Their Computer Lab Instruction Using Block-Based Coding, Prasina Parameswaran

Student Research Symposium

Classroom adaptation is one of the key elements in filling the gap between understanding and application of knowledge in the real world. Our work emphasizes upon the classroom adaptations in the Math classroom. We are studying 5th grade students and computer science (CS) paraprofessionals in the Western United States. Paraprofessionals are provided professional development (PD) to familiarize them with CS and Scratch. Scratch is a block based coding program which uses visual interface and is used for making animations, games, digital stories etc. As paraprofessionals are not certified teachers, this PD works towards helping them understand the Math content and …

Understanding Cultural Competence Training With Trauma-Informed Clinicians, Emily Slater, Brayden Gulso

Student Research Symposium

Our USU research team partnered with the Intensive Outpatient Clinic (IOC) at the U of U. The IOC is a multi-disciplinary clinic serving diverse, and vulnerable patients. The IOC identified a need for ongoing cultural training in their organization, and the medical field more broadly. We worked with the IOC to co-develop a cultural competence training with both online and in-person components. Currently, the IOC has completed the training course, and our research is in the data collection phase. We will shared the story of our partnership work, research design, anticipated findings, and next steps. Acknowledgement: This research is supported …

The 6 Levels Of Gamification: Introducing A New Organization Structure To Game-Based Learning, Treion Muller

Student Research Symposium

Gamification has become a popular buzzword and learning strategy in educational settings from K-12 to Higher Education, and to business learning and development (L & D) teams. Since the term 'gamification' was first coined there has been a significant increase of research on the topic as it relates to training and education, as well as a rapid rise of many new commercially sold gamification and learning technologies, tools, and platforms. However, what's lacking is a formal definition, theoretical approach, and taxonomy. The purpose of this study is to identify and organize the core gamification taxonomies, theoretical frameworks, and design elements …

Implementation Of Humanized Elements In Online Courses And User Testing Feedback, Roxie Christensen

Student Research Symposium

Online courses in higher education often lack key elements that invite students into a course. The absence of these elements may make the course lack social presence and connectedness. Students can experience a sense of aloneness the course which can cause disengagement and loss of motivation. However, the implementation of humanized elements in a course can facilitate engagement and motivation. This study facilitated the implementation of humanized elements in order to make online courses more inclusive for minoritized students by focusing on social presence and connectedness. During the pilot course, humanized elements were implemented and user testing was conducted at …

Is There A Lesson From Comparing The Covid-19 Pandemic To The Experience Of Disability? A Response To Carol Rogers-Shaw’S “Disabled Lives & Pandemic Lives: Stories Of Human Precarity”, Tonette Rocco, Debaro Huyler

Occasional Paper Series

In “Disabled Lives & Pandemic Lives: Stories of Human Precarity,” Carol Rogers-Shaw narrates several stories that convey the anguish, trauma, loss, and horror experienced by many during the pandemic. Through storytelling, she demonstrates that “the pandemic experiences we shared might provide a foundation to build … parallels between living with a disability and living in a pandemic.” Even so, Rogers-Shaw cautions us not to get distracted by pandemic-related issues or inspirational stories. Instead, she correctly points out that COVID-19 pandemic experiences mirror the unpleasant aspects of daily life for people with disabilities.

Disabled Lives And Pandemic Lives: Stories Of Human Precarity

Occasional Paper Series

The idea for Carol Rogers-Shaw’s essay began in April 2020, six weeks into the initial COVID lockdown, at her Zoom-based PhD dissertation defense. Carol’s dissertation brought together a narration of her life as a person with a disability and her work as a high school teacher of students with identified disabilities, conceptualized and reconceptualized through the lens of critical disability studies.