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Student Thinking Profiles Within a Small Group Addressing Problems in Thermodynamics as part of a Physical Chemistry Unit: Reflections for Students and Instructors
No full textThis paper reports on how a group of students think when trying to solve a set of thermodynamic revision exercises in the context of collaborative small group conversation at the undergraduate level. The revision exercises involved exploring the relationship between enthalpy and temperature, entropy and temperature, and entropy of a gas under compression. Four students enrolled in a science or science teaching degree comprised the group. Two workshops, conducted about one month apart, were convened and student and instructor diaries were used to explore the thinking profiles illuminated in the diaries. The thinking profiles fitted into the categories: routine-level, object-level, process-level and meta-level. A surprisingly large amount of meta-level thinking was exhibited by the students. It was found advantageous to add adjectival qualifiers to object-level and process-level profiles to more fully interpret what the students had to say. The qualifiers were: incoherent, intuitive, algorithmic, and integrative. The workshops proved beneficial not only to the students but also to the instructor. The use of equations like mixes the result of a definite integral symbolic format (left-hand side) with the indefinite integral symbolic format (right-hand side), and leads to students finding it difficult to distinguish between H, dH, and ΔH for enthalpy and S, dS, and ΔS for entropy. Students communicated their feelings freely and there was a general consensus within the group that the workshops were really beneficial
Protocol for a Study Investigating the Influence of Graded Levels of Human Support on Adherence and Outcomes of an Online, Multimodal Lifestyle Intervention to Improve Mental Health
No full textIntroduction: Mental health is in global jeopardy and devising effective preventative and curative solutions are vital. Lifestyle interventions have been shown to be efficacious for improving mental health; however, in a progressively digital culture, face-to-face (F2F) interventions are being replaced by online and mobile options.1 While online delivery can overcome ‘hurdles’ of inaccessibility and may also be more ‘scalable’, it poses unique challenges, as decreasing levels of human support can affect adherence to lifestyle interventions and associated outcomes.2,3,4 Research is needed to better understand the importance of human support in online interventions and the type and dosage of human support required to optimise adherence and outcomes.5
Aim: To determine the influence of graded levels of human support on the adherence to and outcomes of an online, multimodal lifestyle intervention targeting mental health.
Methods: The online intervention will be administered to a total of 360 participants who will be randomised into three equal groups: standard (S) which includes automated emails and helpdesk support; standard plus personalised SMS support (S+pSMS); and, standard plus a weekly online group discussion via videoconferencing (S+OGD). Measures of mental health, including the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS-21), the ‘mental health’ and ‘vitality’ sub-scales from the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) and the ‘Flourishing’ scale, will be taken at baseline, ten weeks and twenty weeks. Outcome measures will be compared across each ‘arm’ and stratified analysis will be utilised to explore the influence of demographic variables. Adherence will be explored through mixed methods.
Outcomes: The proposed study will provide a better understanding of the influence of human support on the adherence to, and outcomes of, online lifestyle interventions, which will inform best practice for the design of online intervention
Flavus Rostro
No full textFlavus Rostro is two-dimensional assemblage which was short listed for inclusion in the 58th Fisher Ghost Art Award held at Campbelltown Arts Centre Gallery between October 30 and December 5, 2020. The dimensions of the work are approximately 100cm x 90cm x 5cm
Observations on the Biology of the punctate worm skink Anomalopus (Vermiceps) swansoni Greer and Cogger, 1985, (Sauria: Scincidae)
No full textObservations on the small, specialised, fossorial and legless Punctuate Work-skink (Anomalopus (Vermiseps) swansoni) both in captivity and of museum specimens show: 1. A patchy distribution but with a range extension to the north-west. 2. Exclusive or near exclusive termite feeding. 3. Production of two or three young in late summer. 4. Possible thermoregulatory behaviour. 5. A longevity of at least ten years. 6. An indeterminate conservation status
Some Observations on Reproduction and Behaviour in the Bardick Echiopsis curta (Schlegel, 1837) (Serpentes: Elapidae)
No full textA Metacognitive Program for Improving the Word Identification and Reading Comprehension Skills of Upper Primary Poor Readers
No full textThis project consisted of a pilot study to assess the effectiveness of a metacognitive approach to teaching word identification and reading comprehension skills to upper primary poor readers, followed by two investigations of effective methods for implementing the metacognitive program in the regular classroom. To improve word identification skills, experimental subjects were trained to: Consider the context, Compare with known words, and Carve up the word parts. To help monitor and control the use of these strategies, subjects were taught to: Be flexible, Look for the cues, and Ask: Does it make sense. Reciprocal teaching procedures, incorporating the above word identification strategies, were used for comprehension training.
In Study One, (conducted by the experimenter) experimental subjects were given reciprocal instruction in metacognitive word identification strategies prior to reciprocal teaching of comprehension. Subjects in the control group received reciprocal teaching of comprehension combined with traditional methods of word identification. In Study Two, the experimenter set up the metacognitive word identification and reciprocal teaching program for the poor readers in the experimental classrooms, and then gradually ceded responsibility for its implementation to the class teachers. Subjects in control classrooms received their normal word study and comprehension activities (in some cases combined with phonics-based instruction). In Study Three, school-based personnel were responsible for conducting the program from the beginning. Subjects in the experimental condition received the combined metacognitive word identification and reciprocal teaching program. Subjects in two control conditions received either normal classroom word study and comprehension activities or reciprocal teaching of comprehension combined with traditional methods for identifying unfamiliar words. Measures of improvement in word identification and comprehension, metacognitive awareness and monitoring of reading strategies, and self-perceptions of academic ability, were taken on several occasions during each study.
Results from Study One indicated that a combination of metacognitive word identification strategies and reciprocal teaching of comprehension was clearly more effective than reciprocal teaching of comprehension with traditional methods of word identification. Results from Studies Two and Three indicated that a classroom-based model of implementation appears to be more successful when teachers have responsibility for its implementation from the beginning.
The implications of these findings for classroom practice are discussed, along with the limitations of the study and suggestions for further research
Christensen, Jerald Elvin (1914-2011) and Rose Madonna (Merth) (1915–1989)
No full textJerald Christensen served approximately forty years as a missionary in China, a tenure marked by seemingly endless war conditions for the first decade but then emerging safely to minister for years in the relative peace of Taiwan
Chone District Mission (1934-1936)
No full textThe Chone District Mission卓尼区会was a short-term sub-entity of the Northwest China Union Mission. Its territory spanned the southeast portion of Qinghai province and the southwest portion of Gansu province, a very mountainous and picturesque district through which flowed the Taohe River. The population was composed of Han Chinese, Muslims, and Tibetans who had migrated north into China. The Tibetans were known as Chone (otherwise Cone, Choni, Zhuoni Xian 卓尼县, or Jonê). Local Chinese called them Sangemao 三根毛, meaning “three bundles of hair” because it was the custom for the women to wear their hair in three thick plaits
Liao Chi Mission (1918-1950)
No full textThis brief essay covers the history of the Seventh-day Adventist mission in Kirin Province (now Jilin Province 吉林省), China. The entity was initially named the Kirin Mission, a subdivision of the Manchurian Mission. In 1939 the name was changed to the Central Manchuria Mission, and after the Second World War it was renamed the Liao Chi Mission
Libby, Raymond Henry (1901-1976)
No full textRaymond H. Libby was an educator, conference youth director, and church pastor who contributed to the early development of Adventist mass media evangelistic ministries