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Mistakes And Other Classroom Techniques, Harriet C. Edwards

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

As teachers, we wish to do more than present to our students the established ideas and facts of our fields. We want to give them a sense of how one thinks and creates within the discipline, to impart the tools of scholarship. In my field, mathematics, this concern has led to an increased focus on the teaching and learning of problem solving. Researchers have directed much attention to the executive functions and metacognition involved in problem solving, that is, the solver's awareness of thinking processes and of progress toward a solution (Schoenfeld, 1985). In addition to these procedural matters, attitudes …

Helping First-Year Students Study: Part I, Bette Lasere Erickson

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

In preparing to write Teaching College Freshmen, we heard negative sentiments echoed many times. Faculty complained about students' lack of motivation, their neglect of their studies, and their refusal to assume any responsibility for their learning. At the same time, freshmen told us the pace in most courses was far beyond them, it was not humanly possible to do all the work, they frequently felt overwhelmed, and their professors seemed neither to notice nor to care whether or not they learned.

What sense are we to make of these conflicting stories? For starters, freshman descriptions of "humanly impossible" work loads …

What Did I Do Right In One Freshman Seminar? What Did I Do Wrong In Another? What Will I Do Next Time?, Richard L. Schoenwald

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

An essay from a university instructor answering the questions: What did I do right in one freshman seminar? What did I do wrong in another? What will I do next time?

Emerging Trends In College Teaching For The 21st Century, Milton D. Cox

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

After national calls for the reform of undergraduate education were made a decade ago, students, parents, and legislators began to apply pressure to reestablish the importance of student learning. More recently, central administrators have begun to change reward structures. University-wide community is beginning to be built around teaching. New disciplinary journals that publish the scholarship of teaching are being started, and established ones are gaining respect. National teaching conferences and journals that provide a forum for the scholarship of teaching are expanding. With these emerging opportunities, faculty are going public about their interest in teaching and learning. Over the last …

Helping First-Year Students Study: Part Ii, Better Lasere Erickson

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Few freshmen can keep pace with their courses if they study only an hour between classes and if their only study activities are reading, highlighting, and copying over notes. Faculty expect more, and those who teach freshmen play an important role both in making expectations about college work explicit and in helping freshmen develop their study skills. What, then, might we do to get students to spend more time studying and to study in more productive ways?

Negotiating The Future: Nlra Paradigm And The Prospects For Labor Law Reform, William C. Green

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

Japan's rising economic prowess in the 1980's and its penetration of the North American automobile marketplace produced a major economic restructuring. Seven Asian automobile assembly plants, along with four Japanese-Big Three joint ventures, and GM's Saturn were built across the industrial heartland of the United States and Canada.' This common experience, accompanied by a transformation in industrial production methods and the reorganization of work defined in terms of Japanese lean production techniques and cooperative labor relations, created a crisis for the Fordist regime of industrial production, its system of labor-management relations, and organized labor. Lean production has also created a …

Blustering Brags, Dueling Inventors And Corn-Square Geniuses: Processes Of Recognition Among Philadelphia Artisans, 1785-1825, Ric Northrup Caric

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

A report submitted by Ric Northrup Caric to the Research and Creative Productions Committee in 1995 on the social organization and symbolic mechanisms of leisure among male artisans in Philadelphia between 1785 and 1825.

Gradualist Transition: The Multi-Track Economic System In Post-Mao China, Xiaobo Hu

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

A paper presented by Xiaobo Hu at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Conference of Association for Asian Studies in January of 1995 on China's transition away from communism.

Repeated Quinpirole Treatment: Locomotor Activity, Dopamine Synthesis, And Effects Of Selective Dopamine Antagonists, Bruce A. Mattingly, James K. Rowlett, Michael T. Bardo

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

An article written by Bruce A. Mattingly and published in Synapse in 1995 on repeated treatment with the non-selective dopamine agonist apomorphine results in behavioral sensitization and enhanced dopamine synthesis in dopamine projection fields.

The Political Economy Of Decentralization In Contemporary China, Xiaobo Hu

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

A report submitted by Xiaobo Hu to the Research and Creative Productions Committee in 1995 on decentralization reform in communist China.

Kentucky Juvenile Data, 1995, Gabe Wang, Ted Marshall

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

A survey of 391 incarcerated adolescents conducted from 23 juvenile delinquent treatment centers throughout Kentucky in the summer of 1995 by Gabe Wang and Ted Marshall.

Moving Up Down In The Mine: The Preservation Of Male Privilege Underground, Suzanne E. Tallichet

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

A report submitted by Suzanne E. Tallechet to the Research and Creative Productions Committee in 1995 on the integration of women into the underground coal mining workforce.

Empowering Rural Sociology: Exploring And Linking Alternative Paradigms In Theory And Methodology, Suzanne E. Tallichet, Jeffrey C. Bridger, Carolyn E. Sachs, Rosalind P. Harris

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

An article written in part by Suzanne E. Tallichet and published in the 1995 issue of Rural Sociology, pages 585-606.

The Underground Proving Ground: Women And Men In An Appalachian Coal Mine, Suzanne E. Tallichet

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

A report submitted by Suzanne E. Tallichet to the Research and Creative Productions Committee in 1996 on women's integration into underground coal mining in Appalachia.

Volume 08, Number 02, Richard F. Welch Editor

Reaching Through Teaching

Full text of Volume 08, Number 02 of Reaching Through Teaching.

Human Resources, Staff Information, 1995-96, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

IPEDS Human Resources

IPEDS Human Resources annual report contains the following information: • Employees by primary occupational activity, faculty status, full and part time (collected separately for medical schools) • Full-time instructional staff by academic rank, gender and function • Total salary outlay and number of months covered by academic rank and gender

Finance 1995-96, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

IPEDS Finance

IPEDS Finance annual report contains the following information: • Revenues by source (e.g., tuition and fees, government, private gifts) • Expenses by function (e.g., instruction, research, plant maintenance and operation) • Scholarships, physical plant assets and indebtedness • Assets, liabilities and net assets • Different formats are used based on the institution’s accounting standards

Factors Underlying Effective College Teaching: What Students Tell Us, Carolyn Ridenour, Stephen J. Blatt

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

The researchers analyzed 28,000 student evaluations of faculty across 46 departments for one academic term. A 27-item instrument on which students rated faculty was used. One global item assessing overall instructor effectiveness was predicted most strongly by three items: namely, students' perception that the instructor was prepared, presented subject matter clearly, and was interesting. The predictors of students, perceiving that they "learned a lot" were the ratings on three items: the instructor was interesting, the course met the objectives, and the instructor was well-prepared. Being prepared and being interesting seem to be critical characteristics for university faculty in the classroom.

Fall Enrollment 1995-96, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

IPEDS Fall Enrollment

IPEDS Fall Enrollment annual report contains the following information: • Full- and part-time fall enrollments by level, by race/ethnicity and gender of student • Number of students engaged in distance education, by level and location • Age distributions by student level (odd-numbered years) • State of residence of first-time first-year students (even-numbered years) • Total number of students in the entering class • Fall-to-fall retention rates of full-time and part-time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students (less than 4-year institutions), and first-time bachelor’s degree-seeking students (4-year institutions)

Human Resources 1995-96, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

IPEDS Human Resources

IPEDS Human Resources annual report contains the following information: • Employees by primary occupational activity, faculty status, full and part time (collected separately for medical schools) • Full-time instructional staff by academic rank, gender and function • Total salary outlay and number of months covered by academic rank and gender

Decentralization Reform In Post-Mao China: A Framework Of Choice, Xiaobo Hu

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

A report submitted by Xiaobo Hu to the Research and Creative Productions Committee in 1995 on the decentralization reforms made in China in the 1980s and 1990s.

"To Drown The Ills That Discompose The Mind": Care, Leisure, And Identity Among Philadelphia Artisans And Workers, 1785-1840, Ric Northrup Caric

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

A report submitted by Ric Northrup Caric to the Research and Creative Productions Committee in 1995 on the leisure activities of traditional Philadelphia artisans in the late 18th century and early 19th century.

To The Convivial Grave And Back: John Fitch And The Failure Of Pre-Industrial Culture, 1785-1792, Ric Northrup Caric

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

A report submitted by Ric Northrup Caric to the Research and Creative Productions Committee in 1995 on the social organization and symbolic processes of pre-industrial culture and John Fitch's enthusiastic participation in pre-industrial practices.

Repeated 7-Oh-Dpat Treatments: Behavioral Sensitization, Dopamine Synthesis, And Subsequent Sensitivity To Apomorphine And Cocaine, Bruce A. Mattingly, Sonia E. Fields, Michael S. Langfels

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

A report submitted by Bruce A. Mattingly to the Research and Creative Productions Committee in 1995 on reactions of rats putative selective dopamine D3, receptor agonist, 7-OH-DPAT.

Children's Production Of Metaphor: A Development Analysis, Lynn Haller Augsbach

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

A report submitted by Lynn Haller Augsbach to the Research and Creative Productions Committee in 1995 on the existence of the U-shaped curve of children's metaphor production.

Narrative, Post-Modern, And Feminist Theory, Suzanne E. Tallichet

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

A paper presented by Suzanne E. Tallichet at the 1995 Rural Sociological Society on feminist theory and postmodernism.

Consumer-Directed Advertising Of Contraceptive Drugs: The Fda, Depo-Provera, And Product Liability, William Green

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

Pharmaceutical manufacturers have advertised prescription drug products to the public for over a decade. These consumer-directed advertisements often are promoted, like those for other consumer products, with appeals to vanity, insecurity, and pain. Prescription drug advertisements possess certain unique features, most notably a statement that consumers must visit their doctor before purchasing the product. These advertisements also encourage consumers to obtain more detailed information from the manufacturer, often by using 800 numbers to phone in requests for free video tapes, brochures, and information packets. Depo-Provera is one of these prescription drugs.

An Exploration Of Students’ And Business Persons’ Ratings Of The Importance Of Writing Skills For Business Success, Miriam P. Coleman

Dissertations

The central question explored in this research was whether the perceptions of undergraduate students and business employers about the importance of writing skills for success in business differ from one another. Related questions were posed about the relationship of certain individual characteristics such as sex, student classification, and student institutional affiliation and their interactions to these perceptions.

Subjects were selected from both public and private institutions of higher education and 11 medium-sized businesses in western Michigan. Data collection was accomplished using two 30-item Likert-type Importance of Business Writing (IBW) questionnaires developed for obtaining information on the perceptions of subjects relative …

1994 Fall Nutshell (November), Morehead State University. Institutional Research & Analysis.

Office of Institutional Research & Analysis Publication Archive

Fall (November) 1994 issue of the Nutshell.

No. 124 1994 November

International Journal for Business Education

SIEC Historical Documents