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Mental Health - New Beginnings and Real Feelings
No full textMy poster described how important mental health is and ensuring that students take good care of themselves while taking their next step in their journey through college.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/cor101posters/1114/thumbnail.jp
Motivation, Mindset, and Managing Stress: Keys to Freshman Success
No full textMy lesson focuses on Psychological Factors Affecting Freshman Students’ Academic Performance and ways to manage them. This includes topics like Motivation, stress, test anxiety, and self efficacy. Emphasizing the ones that were most prominent amongst the students in my class.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/cor101posters/1117/thumbnail.jp
Optimizing Free Time and Opportunities
No full textIn students time at college the amount of resources and opportunities available to us here on campus often times goes unnoticed. I wanted to make it known to students that their time here is extremely valuable and they need to take advantage of everything that is offered to them here so they leave college with absolutely zero regrets, feeling like they made the most of their time.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/cor101posters/1120/thumbnail.jp
A Freshman’s Path to Success: Study Strategies, Managing Stress, and Maintaining Motivation
No full textI chose to facilitate a lesson on a freshman\u27s path to success, which focuses on study strategies, managing stress, and maintaining motivation for first-year college students. All three of these things were challenges I struggled with during my first year of college, so I can understand and relate to what they are going through. My goal was to help students recognize how different college learning is compared to high school, understand effective study habits, and develop practical strategies to stay motivated and manage stress throughout the year. Research supports the importance of these topics — as Aljaffer et al. note, “Global research shows that study habits impact academic performance and are the most important predictor of it.” I feel as though it is a common struggle for many first-year students to adjust both academically and mentally. “Although schoolwork is still doable while students struggle with mental health, it can feel as though they have to prioritize one over the other in order to keep their grades” (“Stressed & Depressed: How College Students’ Mental Health Is Affected by Online School”). I designed my lesson to be interactive and self-reflective so that students can take what they’ve learned and apply it to succeed. First-year students often struggle with time management, heavy workloads, and stress, which can negatively affect both their academic performance and overall well-being. By providing students with helpful resources, I hope to encourage them to study more strategically while staying motivated and maintaining a healthy balance under stress. These skills are not only essential for their first year of college, but they also lay the foundation for effective study habits, stress management, and sustained motivation throughout life.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/cor101posters/1121/thumbnail.jp
Professional Writing
No full textThis presentation focused on how students can help themselves improve writing with minor adjustments in conciseness and professional phrasing etc. Students were also informed on peer editing significance and writing center resources.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/cor101posters/1164/thumbnail.jp
Animation Therapy
Full text linkCan viewing a meditative animation help student athletes with their mental health? My creative project involves seven one-minute animations that are based on the concept of the seven chakras found in the physical body. Each chakra has specific characteristics that can affect our emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. If we can learn how to keep these energies stable within the body, we can learn how to become mentally and physically balanced. My animation consists of animals that best represent each chakra\u27s characteristics. The viewer can imagine themselves as that animal and incorporate those characteristics into their daily life. I presented each animation weekly to the Cortland State Swimming and Diving Team during the winter semester. I collected data on how meditative animation affects the team’s mental and physical state before swim practice. This project aimed to find out if the use of sound and animation can put athletes in a better state of mind before practice
Investigating Preservice Elementary Teachers (PSTs’) Views of Nature of Science (VNOS) and Science Attitudes Following Engagement in an Integrated Physics and Chemistry Content Course
No full textStudents’ classroom experiences affect their views of science, placing importance on teachers’ instructional approaches. Current reform suggests that inquiry-based science instruction supports positive views of science. However, students and teachers have been shown to hold developing views of nature of science (VNOS), or understanding what science is and how it progresses. Compounding matters, every student has their own personal science experiences that shape their science understandings and attitudes. This project investigates the attitudes and VNOS among preservice elementary teachers (PSTs) enrolled in an integrated physics and chemistry content course (SCI142). Two course sections were surveyed throughout one semester (n = 77 students total) to track their views and attitudes and how those changed over time. Data was collected via open-ended surveys and analyzed using open coding. Results revealed a range of attitudes and VNOS, and that PSTs understood certain NOS aspects more than others. Findings supported previous VNOS research and provided concrete entry points to supporting elementary PSTs\u27 NOS understandings via inquiry-based approaches.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/posters/1060/thumbnail.jp
The Impact of Information Sources on Malingering Dissociative Identity Disorder Symptoms
No full textDissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is a significant concept in forensic psychology due to the potential for individuals to malinger, exaggerate, or fabricate symptoms to avoid legal consequences. Previous research has utilized simulation designs where participants are given a description of DID to guide the malingering of self-reported symptoms, but this design may not accurately reflect how defendants utilize the information when exaggerating symptoms in legal settings. This study examined how individuals use various sources of information to malinger DID on forensic evaluation instruments. Participants were randomly assigned to respond honestly or malinger DID after reading diagnostic criteria or searching online for information. They then completed the Dissociative Experiences Scale and Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test to assess for malingering. Preliminary analyses tested the hypothesis that malingerers will score significantly higher on instruments compared to honest responders, with those searching online showing more exaggerated symptoms than those reading diagnostic criteria.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/posters/1054/thumbnail.jp
Post-COVID Realities: The Role of School Social Workers in Supporting Behavioral and Social-Emotional Changes in Grades 3-5
No full textEarly elementary grades, K-2, are regarded as crucial grades for a child’s development. Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, children who were in grades K-2 and are now in grades 3-5 have missed the crucial opportunity for the conventional learning experiences that aid their academic, social, and emotional development. Social workers play a vital role in recognizing and addressing these gaps by providing support and resources to children and their families. The focus of this research is to qualitatively compile data through exploratory interviews on the experiences and evolving practices of school social workers currently working with children in grades 3-5 to uncover the observed behavioral and emotional changes and needed supports. In addition to highlighting shifts in service delivery and increased collaboration with teachers and families, findings also revealed systemic barriers, such as high caseloads, emotional strain, and inconsistent referral processes, that impact the effectiveness of school-based support. Understanding these key changes from the social worker’s perspective can inform future interventions and improve the identification and support of students\u27 mental health, academic progress, and social-emotional development. This study is guided by the following research questions: (1) How do school social workers describe the social emotional effects on students since COVID-19? (2) How have social workers\u27 roles evolved? (3) What challenges are school social workers reporting
‘Maybe it\u27s what we\u27ve been doing?’: Exploring MTSS for Emergent Bilingual Students with Disabilities
Full text linkThis qualitative study investigated the interpretation and implementation of Multi-Tiered Systemof Supports (MTSS) as it related to emergent bilingual students with disabilities in one of thelargest suburban school districts in Upstate New York. The purpose of this study was to explorethe needs, experiences, beliefs, and practices (individual and collaborative) of teachers whosupport a growing population of emergent bilingual students with and without disabilities and theirfamilies in an increasingly diverse suburban community. The goal of this study is to inform bestpractices as well as new directions in research, policy, and educators’ continued and supportiveprofessional learning at the crossroads inclusive special education and the education of emergentbilingual students