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Diverse BookFinder: Enhancing Discoverability of Books with BIPOC Characters
No full textInterested in easily adding recently published books featuring Black, Indigenous, and People of Color with intersectional identities to your readers’ advisory, lesson plans, programming, and collection development? The Diverse BookFinder (DBF) is an open-access resource you can use for quickly and effectively identifying diverse works of youth literature in a variety of genres and reading levels from picture books through young adult literature. Our presentation will introduce this tool and methods for using its resources to enrich your book collection and formal and informal book-based interactions with PreK-12 readers and their caregivers. We will also review the conceptual and practical challenges of the database’s recent expansion, including the testing and refinement of metadata and new strategies for material coding
Walk Right In, SIt Right Down : Baby Let Your Hair Down and Jump in the Middle of a Migration
Get PDFMoving cross-country and joining a new team, in a new environment, in the middle of an institutional repository migration can be a bit of a challenge, to say the least. Add to this recipe that the team is already suffering burnout, and is migrating a proprietary database, CurateND, to a vendor-based database, Figshare. The new position: service manager, peer leadership, and navigating stakeholder relationships. The team: one migration engineer, consultant, three librarians, and two graduate college staff. This presentation will discuss navigating relationships, strategy, and workflow of an already challenging migration project as a new library faculty member at Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame. It will focus on a people first approach, which makes all the difference
Using AI with Digital Objects: A Plethora of Opportunities
Get PDFArtificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly evolving and affecting just about every industry imaginable. Libraries and institutional repositories are of course no exception to this. With all the possibilities, it can be difficult to know where to start with AI. In this presentation, we\u27ll discuss potential applications of AI in digital libraries and institutional repositories and brainstorm possible workflows and enhancements. The goal of this session is to demystify AI and start seeing AI as a way to build capacity, improve accuracy, promote collections, increase accessibility, and much, much more
The Impact of Target Sex Typicality on Participant\u27s Willingness To Engage in Prosocial Behaviors
Get PDFOne’s decision to engage in prosocial behavior relies on various pieces of social information. The physical attractiveness of a social target could inform a perceiver’s subsequent intentions. In identifying which aspect of physical attractiveness could inform these decisions, it could be possible that prosocial decisions are heightened among those with sex-typical facial structures. This study explored the extent to which sex-typical facial structures informed perceivers’ interest in the context of social activism. Participants imagined themselves as responding to a request from a social target, deciding how behavior with high-cost and low-cost options. The male or female social target was manipulated to vary in sex typicality (i.e., masculinized versus feminized). Men and women did not report greater interest in prosocial behavior toward an opposite-sex target with sex-typical facial features. However, participants were more likely to comply with low-cost activism behaviors than high-cost ones. Women additionally reported greater willingness to comply with prosocial requests. Exploratory analyses indicated that higher self-reported social activism predicted greater compliance with activism requests from masculinized female targets, an effect descriptively higher for high-cost activism. These findings underscore the multifaceted nature of individuals’ responses to social activism cues, emphasizing the influence of both participant characteristics and target characteristics. Implications for this study are discussed
Exploring the Influence of Integrating Soft Skills Training into the Undergraduate STEM Curriculum on the STEM Identity of Students
Get PDFOne of the major issues that STEM graduates face is overcoming Imposter Syndrome, and there is a consensus amongst STEM graduates and job recruiters that the current higher education system is missing some elements that could better prepare students for a successful STEM career. A solution to this issue results from recent research on the importance of “soft skills.” In general, “soft skills” or non-technical skills, include communication, critical thinking, and self-motivation. These skills complement “hard skills,” or technical skills, such as skills needed for performing laboratory experiments, like pipetting and Western blotting. The lack of soft skills among recent graduates affects many STEM learning outcomes that are used to measure future success in STEM fields. This research investigates the impact on STEM identity through the addition of innovative, cost-effective, efficient, and easily adaptable methods of incorporating soft skills training in the formal and informal undergraduate STEM curriculum.
Investigating the integration of soft skills training will be completed by documenting the progress and experiences of students in the formal and informal learning environment. Soft skills training in the formal learning environment will be studied using studies enrolled in three inquiry-based biological sciences courses. Course activities have been designed to maximize student use of their soft skills to complete tasks. Investigating the integration of soft skills training in the informal learning environment will involve the use of a conversation starter game, QUONVO™, that requires students to use critical thinking, creativity, and innovation to generate conversations about the meaning of and implications of STEM content and issues. The purpose of the final study in this dissertation is to 1) add to the knowledge base on the state of college student engagement, performance, and future outlook in the post-pandemic world, 2) investigate the link between social capital and the development of a stable and positive professional identity, particularly among STEM majors, 3) determine the impact of the increased social media use during the pandemic on soft skills, specifically communication, and 4) explore the relationship between social media use, communication skills, and the quality of social capital
Second Victim Syndrome: Nurses Suffering in Silence
Get PDFMedication errors are inherent in health care due to human fallibility and inherent systemic complexities. Nurses are often unjustly blamed after committing a medication error despite the multitude of contributing factors. Formal education and healthcare organizations focus on preventing medication errors, but little has been done to support nurses involved in these tragic incidents. Recent cases, including RaDonda Vaught and Kimberly Hiatt, demonstrated the victimization of nurses after committing medication errors that plague the healthcare system potentially causing profound psychological trauma, often known as Second Victim Syndrome, SVS. There is limited research on the phenomenon of SVS in nursing due to medication errors.
The purpose of this study was to define and explore SVS among nurses who have committed or witnessed medication errors. The study design was quantitative and descriptive. The researcher used a customized survey as the instrument to collect data regarding familiarity and experiences with SVS, formal education to mitigate SVS and support post-medication errors. The survey was distributed via email to nurses licensed in Mississippi. Study findings indicated most participants lacked familiarity with the term SVS, received no formal training to navigate the emotional turmoil post-error, felt that they had experienced or witnessed another nurse experiencing SVS, and reported inadequate support post-medication error to mitigate the detrimental effects of SVS. The findings of this study highlight the urgent necessity for a paradigm shift in the culture within nursing and health care. Further research is needed to deepen understanding of SVS in nursing and best practices for mitigating its occurrence
A Comparison Study of Vocational Factors Influencing Academic Satisfaction for Marginalized and Majority Students
Get PDFMarginalized college students experience increased rates of discrimination resulting in poorer academic outcomes whereas majority students are often afforded more privilege and access to resources allowing them to be more successful (Bardhardt et al., 2017; Milkman et al., 2015; Hanson, 2021). Psychology of Working Theory (PWT; Duffy et al., 2016) posits that experiences of discrimination and marginalization can negatively impact the chances for one to be successful in the world of work. PWT argues that decent work is a desired outcome by marginalized individuals and research confirms that securing future decent work is important to marginalized college students (Ma et al., 2021). Research appears to argue that future occupational prestige is most important for majority students (Walker & Tracey, 2012). Currently, the literature suggests the needs of marginalized students and majority students are different, but it is possible these two groups overlap (Schreiner et al., 2011). The proposed study seeks to fill this gap in the literature by comparing the perceptions of future decent work and future occupational prestige via occupational aspirations in marginalized and majority students as well as the impact these perceptions have on academic satisfaction. A total of 323 participants recruited via the School of Psychology’s research recruitment system, SONA, were used in a multi-group structural equitation model with invariance testing between the two groups. No meaningful differences were found between the two groups and future decent work was found to significantly affect academic satisfaction for the group as a whole, but not occupational prestige. Implications for this study include informing colleges and universities about the needs of marginalized students and aids in efforts to increase retention across all students, with an emphasis on marginalized students which colleges particularly struggle to retain
The Impact of Differing Instability Devices on Postural Sway Parameters
Get PDFSingle-limb balance training is an integral part of preventing and rehabilitating lower extremity injuries. Practitioners use instability devices to provide a progressive overload to an individual during single-limb balance training sessions. Previous investigations have shown that when using instability devices, differences may or may not exist in postural sway parameters during use depending on the specific devices being assessed. Thus, this investigation sought to examine differences between a commonly used foam pad and a novel instability device (block) in measures of postural sway.
This experiment consisted of 22 healthy individuals with no history of lower extremity injury and neurological disorders. Participants performed three single-limb static balance conditions on a force platform sampling at 120 Hz. Each condition contained three 20-second trials separated by thirty seconds. The mean center of pressure (CoP) values of the three trials in each condition were then compared using a within-subjects repeated measures analysis of variance.
After evaluating the results, statistically significant differences were seen in sway area between conditions (f(2,42) = 5.28, p = 0.009), with the control (9.64 ± 4.53 cm) being significantly lower than both the foam pad (13.05 cm ± 4.25 cm) and block (12.33 ± 3.37 cm). Statistically significant differences were seen in CoP path length between conditions (f(2,42) = 5.52, p = 0.007), with the control (67.51 ± 9.49 cm) being significantly lower than both the foam pad (74.36 cm ± 9.76 cm) and block (76.38 ± 14.84 cm). Maximal medial-lateral CoP displacements were significantly different between conditions (f(2,42) = 6.24, p = 0.004). Lower displacements were seen in the control (1.39 ± 0.20 cm), which was statistically different from both the foam pad (1.59 ± 0.24 cm) and block (1.53 ± 0.25 cm). Maximal anterior-posterior CoP displacements were not significantly different between conditions (f(2,42) = 1.50, p = 0.23).
In conclusion, this investigation provides supporting evidence that different instability devices may provide similar changes in postural sway parameters in comparison to control conditions. The novel block instability device used in this investigation may be used in a similar fashion to the traditional foam pad in both prevention and rehabilitation settings based on no differences being found between the two devices
