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Improving Concentration -- Three Techniques, Lauren Martins

A. Listening in Class and in Professional Settings

A one-page infographic based on the work of Clifford G. Schuette and others. The three techniques for improving concentration are especially important for classrooms and professional settings. These techniques are:

Be Here Now

The Spider

Worry Time

Improving Self-Regulated Learning Among Occupational Therapy Students, Pola Ham

Journal of Occupational Therapy Education

Many occupational therapy students, particularly first-generation students, face significant academic and social challenges in higher education that affect their self-regulated learning (SRL). SRL involves goal setting, self-monitoring, strategy implementation, and reflection. The rigorous academic demands, combined with the unique challenges experienced by many first-generation students, exacerbate these difficulties, particularly in developing SRL skills, which are essential for academic and professional success. While first-generation students often lack these skills due to a variety of factors, many occupational therapy students also struggle to develop these skills, regardless of background. This narrative review examines the role of SRL in occupational therapy education and …

2024-2025 Profile, Morehead State University. Institutional Research & Analysis.

Office of Institutional Research & Analysis Publication Archive

2024-2025 issue of the Profile.

2025-2026 Common Data, Morehead State University. Institutional Research & Analysis.

Office of Institutional Research & Analysis Publication Archive

2025-2026 issue of the Common Data.

2025-01-01 Caudill Connection, Morehead State University. Caudill College Of Arts, Humanities And Social Sciences.

Caudill Connection

Caudill Connection newsletter for January of 2025.

Dominance Of Leading Business Schools In Top Journals: Insights For Increasing Institutional Representation, Rodrigo Romero-Silva, Erika Marsillac, Sander De Leeuw

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Faculty Publications

The competitive push for business schools to publish in prestigious journals has resulted in a disproportionate number of papers in prestigious Management and Operations Research/Management Science (OR/MS) journals coming from a select group of institutions. Our analysis shows the Matthew effect of prestigious journals favors established schools with 51.2% of papers in 18 Management ABS 4* journals and 61.3% of papers in 3 OR/MS ABS 4* journals involving authors from the 100 top business schools identified by the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). Citation patterns are similarly concentrated among papers authored by scholars from UTD-listed business schools, with nearly …

Dataset For "The Role Of Metacognition And Confidence In Quantitative Reasoning In College Biology Courses", Joseph Dauer, Anum Khushal, Brian A. Couch, Robert L. Mayes, Kent Rittschof

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Quantitative modelling is a fundamental skill for biology students with performance determined by a host of cognitive and metacognitive resources and requiring instructors to integrate key quantitative dimensions into teaching biology. Using an assessment of quantitative modelling in biology, we explored biology students’ (n = 930 higher education students) modelling practices (i.e., abilities to create, test, revise), metacognition about the nature of models and confidence in their capabilities to model. Students performed best on items related to understanding variables used in models and performed more poorly on items related to interpreting, creating, and using models to understand biological phenomena. …

Critique Of Genai Learning Cycle/5e Model, Ann M.L. Cavallo

Center for Research on Teaching and Learning Excellence Publications-Archive

No abstract provided.

Hauntings Of Transnational Art Learning And Teaching: A Duo-Ethnography Of Two Asian Art Educators’ Transformative Experiences, Hayon Park, Sohee Koo

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Reflecting on lived experiences as art learners in South Korea and professional practices in the United States as art educators, the authors draw from Derrida’s (1994) “hauntology” and present how their transnational experiences continue to conjure up and affect the everyday lives of Asian women junior faculty today in the US through duoethnographic approaches. Posing the question “how might personal lived experiences of an educator foster art pedagogy and research?” and interviewing each other on aesthetics, education, and identity, this article seeks to: 1) inform others about how Korean art educators navigate matters of transnational education experience and colonization and …

2025 Uni Panther Football Media Guide, University Of Northern Iowa

Athletics Media Guides

Contents:

Staff / Schedule / Quick Facts --- 2
Personnel / Ath. Comms. / Honors --- 3
2025 Schedule --- 4-5
The Panther Program --- 6
UNI-Dome Renovation --- 7-9
Learfield / PSN --- 10
Media Protocols --- 11
Parking Map --- 12
The MVFC --- 13-15
Head Coach Todd Stepsis --- 17-18
Coaching Staff --- 19-21
UNI Roster --- 22-24
Player Profiles --- 25-83
2024 Game Recaps --- 84-85
2024 Statistics --- 86-90
The Last Time --- 92
Single-Game Records --- 93-94
Single-Season Records --- 95-101
Career Record --- 102-107
Team Season Records --- 108-111
Misc. Team Records --- …

2025 Uni Panther Volleyball Media Guide, University Of Northern Iowa

Athletics Media Guides

Contents:

Contents / Staff / Schedule --- 2
Quick Facts / Media Information --- 3
Roster --- 4-5
The Panther Program --- 6
Learfield / PSN --- 7
Media Protocols --- 8
Parking Map --- 9
Missouri Valley Conference --- 10-12
McLeod Center --- 13
Head Coach Bobbi Petersen --- 15-18
Coaching Staff --- 19-20
Player Bios --- 22-39
2024 Season Stats --- 41
2024 MVC Stats --- 42
2024 MVC Awards --- 43
2024 MVC Tournament Results --- 44
Coaching History --- 46
Award Winners --- 47-49
Career Records --- 50-51
Single-Season Records --- 52-55
Single-Match Records --- 56-61 …

2025 Uni Panther Soccer Media Guide, University Of Northern Iowa

Athletics Media Guides

Contents:

Contents / Staff / Schedule --- 2
Quick Facts / Media Information --- 3
Roster --- 4-5
The Panther Program --- 6
Media Protocols --- 7
Parking Map --- 8
Missouri Valley Conference --- 9-11
UNI Soccer Field --- 12
Interim Head Coach Alex Place Thomas --- 14-15
Coaching Staff --- 16-17
Player Bios --- 18-42
2024 Season Stats --- 44
2024 MVC Stats --- 45
2024 MVC Awards --- 46
2024 MVC Tournament Results --- 47
Coaching History --- 49
Award Winners --- 50
Individual Career Records --- 51
Individual Single-Season Records --- 52
Individual & Team Single-Game …

2025-26 Uni Panther Men's Basketball Media Guide, University Of Northern Iowa

Athletics Media Guides

Contents:

Quick Facts / Media Information --- 3
Roster --- 4-5
The Panther Program --- 6
Learfield / PSN --- 7
Media Protocols --- 8
Parking Map --- 9
Missouri Valley Conference --- 10-12
McLeod Center --- 13
Head Coach Ben Jacobson --- 15-19
Coaching Staff --- 20-22
Player Bios --- 25-41
2024-25 Season Stats --- 43
2024-25 MVC Stats --- 44
2024-25 MVC Awards --- 45
2025 Arch Madness Results --- 46
2024-25 Boxscores --- 47-55
Coaching History --- 57-58
Award Winners --- 59-60
Panthers In The Pros --- 61
Career/Single-Season Top-10 Performers --- 62-63
Team Margins --- 64 …

2025 Uni Cross Country Records, University Of Northern Iowa

Athletics Media Guides

Contents:

--- Women's 4,000 Meters
--- Women's 5,000 Meters
--- Women's 6,000 Meters
--- Men's 8,000 Meters
--- Men's 10,000 Meters
--- Women's Career Best Times
--- Men's Career Best Times
--- 2024 Schedule

Uni Men's Golf Season Statistics 2024-25, University Of Northern Iowa

Athletics Media Guides

Contents:

--- 2024-25 Team Results
--- Round-by-Round Results

2025 University Of Northern Iowa Softball Overall Statistics, University Of Northern Iowa

Athletics Media Guides

Contents:

--- Batting Statistics
--- Pitching Statistics
--- Fielding Statistics

Saa 6173: Career Advising, Dana J. Tribble

ATU Faculty OER Books and Materials

Course Description:

This elective course provides an overview of the foundations of career advising. Students will learn career development theories, career advising interventions and practices, career assessment and planning tools, and sources of career information and technology designed to assist individuals and groups in lifelong career and lifestyle planning.

Amendment: Literary And Art Journal (2025)

Amendment, 2004-

Amendment is a VCU student-produced progressive literature and art journal that provides a platform for students to promote equality, tolerance, and social progression through artistic expression.

Pwatem: An Anthology Of Literature And Art (2025)

Pwatem (Poictesme), 2006-

Pwatem is an anthology of literature and art from undergraduate students at Virginia Commonwealth University. Pwatem publishes poetry, prose and art of all kinds from talented undergraduate students of all majors.

Just Housing: Expanding Economic Opportunity In The City Of Syracuse, Gianna Juarez, Logan Battaglia

The Lender Center for Social Justice

A 2025 report concerning housing in the Syracuse area.

Reparative Research Practices: Addressing Epistemic Inequity In University Research, Gabriel Bruguier, Scout Calvert

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

The main argument regarding the ‘repair’ in reparative practices: University research is a social good, subjects are entitled to be included in knowledge production, and subjects ought to have fair access to epistemic goods.

Therefore, a subject’s being prevented from making a contribution to the pool of resources utilized to create knowledge is an injustice. Knowledge produced by an entity that excludes community participation is perspectival and incomplete.

Our definition: Reparative research practices (RRP) are those that can intervene and replace other practices across the research life cycle to address epistemic harms and injustices, incomplete knowledge production, shared knowledge, and …

Dialogic Praxis And Racialized Embodiment In Art Education, Emily J. Hood, Sarah T. Travis, Kathy Brown, David Herman Jr., Injeong Yoon-Ramirez

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

In this paper, the authors discuss how conversations on racial embodiment can be dialogic praxis that builds solidarity and moves towards anti-racist pedagogy. For the conversations, the authors met via videoconference on several occasions to discuss their experiences on the topic of racialized embodiment from their varied sociocultural perspectives and considered implications for visual art teaching, learning, and research. They recorded the audio and video of these conversations and collaged portions of the transcripts of these talks together to present a single curated conversation that serves as primary content for this paper. The decision to “speak” this article into existence …

Student Retention And Persistence At Jccc, Eve Blobaum

Sabbatical Projects

Community colleges enroll diverse student populations with varied academic preparation, socioeconomic backgrounds, and personal circumstances. These factors contribute to lower retention and persistence rates compared to four-year institutions. This work adds to the research on community college retention and persistence by attempting to identify factors related to student retention and persistence at Johnson County Community College, a large suburban community college in the American Midwest. Using 21 variables drawn from Community College Survey of Student Engagement data collected online in Spring 2021, a sample of 289 students was analyzed to identify variables with a statistically significant (p < 0.05) association with next-term retention, fall-to-fall retention, or persistence. The findings reveal that only credit hours completed is consistently associated with retention and persistence. While credential-seeking and financial aid are associated with next-term retention (p = .002 and p < .001, respectively), neither was associated with long-term outcomes. Age group was associated with fall-to-fall retention (p = .043) and persistence (p = .031) but not with next-term retention. Additionally, while being married and living with dependent children were associated with persistence (p = .005 and p = .002, respectively), neither was related to either of the retention measures. These results underscore the complexity of retention dynamics and highlight the need for further research to validate the utility of the CCSSE instrument at the institutional level and explore whether these results are anomalous.

A Critical Approach To Analyzing And Addressing Worldview-Based Cultural Conflict Between Indigenous Peoples And Western Science In Education And Research, Deborah H. Williams

Sabbatical Projects

Intercultural conflict exists in science education and research, I argue as a result of differences between the Western scientific worldview and the Indigenous worldview. Native Americans are the most underrepresented group in STEM, and this has been the case, in my personal experience for over two decades. Western science is not universal or acultural, Indigenous peoples have their own ways of knowing founded on different philosophical assumptions and recognizing metaphysical phenomena and explanations that are rejected by Western science and the positivist/post-positivist paradigm. Through the power of colonial privilege, scientists, science departments, and science disciplines have been able to erect …

Genai Learning Cycle/5e Assignment - Team Feedback Form, Ann M.L. Cavallo

Center for Research on Teaching and Learning Excellence Publications-Archive

No abstract provided.

Scoring Rubric Genai Learning Cycle/5e Assignment, Ann M.L. Cavallo

Center for Research on Teaching and Learning Excellence Publications-Archive

No abstract provided.

Genai Learning Cycle/5e Model, Ann M.L. Cavallo

Center for Research on Teaching and Learning Excellence Publications-Archive

No abstract provided.

Full Ride To College, But At What Cost?: Colonial Subjects At Imperial Educational Institutions In Binti And The Fifth Season, Martha Zornow

English Faculty Publications

A marginalized young person, often of a different physiognomy from those wielding power, sees the 'ivory tower' in her universe as a path to the learning, respect, power, and agency not available to her in her home environs. At their educational institutions, while their Blackness is not the basis for their outsider status, the Othering they experience mirrors that experienced by Black students at predominantly white universities in the real world. Theorizing the Colonial Role of Educational Institutions Following Thomas Macaulay's notorious' Minute on Education'(1835), educational systems have played a vital role in reaffirming the balance of power between the …

Welcoming Historically Under-Represented Groups In Higher Education Through Awareness Of Standard English Ideology, John Hellermann, Lynn Santelmann, Jennifer Mittelstaedt, Janet Cowal, Steven L. Thorne

Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations

In the context of changing demographics at regional universities (including our own), we highlight an ongoing project at our university that addresses the last area of acceptable bias in English-medium higher education: bias against speakers of other languages and non-standard dialects of English. We discuss the hegemonic aspect of the Standard Academic English used by default at most US institutions of higher education and its role in potential discrimination against users of languages other than English and dialects other than the Standard. Data from over 2000 surveys, 55 follow up interviews, and three focus groups from faculty, staff and students …

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Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

No abstract provided.