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Cultural Bias in Assessment: Can Creativity Assessment Help?
Get PDFCulture and background cause the results of standardized assessments to be inaccurate. These tests intend to measure intelligence and general knowledge. However, standardized tests are normed based on the knowledge and values of the majority, which can create bias against minority groups. Creativity is as important as intelligence and creativity assessment measures are normed on individual cultures. To reduce bias, it is suggested that creativity assessment be added to traditional standardized testing.
Community Voices: Integrating Local and International Partnerships through Storytelling
Get PDFThis essay describes a new global service-learning project focused on integrating local and international partnerships through storytelling. Providence College faculty and students partnered with a local organization, CityArts, and an international organization, Waves of Hope, to empower young people to share their stories through a community lens. Using art and literacy in transnational contexts, the voices and images depict beauty and justice in communities, while also representing a more collaborative model of engagement
The impact of appreciative advising on a first-year, faith-based leadership learning community.
No full textThe study investigated the impact of a first-year, faith-based leadership learning community in a Catholic, urban and northeastern institution of higher education. The research assessed the impact of the organizational model of appreciative advising, utilized as the framework for the curriculum of this first-year program. Participants included fifty-five Catholic students representing samples of a first-year, faith-based leadership learning community, faith-engaged students and non-faith engaged students. The Appreciative Advising Inventory (AAI) was utilized for the three groups of participants to assess the impact of appreciative advising. Grounded theory was also utilized as a qualitative methodology to assess the impact of appreciative advising in the leadership learning community. The findings indicated that the appreciative advising framework had an impact on the students’ first year experience and self-identification of assets. Students also recognized the importance of appreciative advising in their first year development.
Collectivizing our Impact: Engaging Departments and Academic Change
No full textThis article invites readers to consider foundational assumptions about community-engaged work. The author envisions a path forward to help “un-stall” the community engagement movement and to deepen and broaden practice. Connecting cutting edge thinking emerging out of the public, private, and nonprofit sectors – all suggesting the need to collectivize our work – the author argues in favor of refocusing community engagement efforts on the backbone of higher education: academic disciplines and departments. The article concludes with a composite vision, compiled from data and experiences collected at multiple postsecondary institutions in the United State and beyond, for a partnership landscape that positions the academic unit closer to the center of the community engagement enterprise
Governing Academic Civic Engagement: Lessons and Challenges from Four Engaged Campuses
Get PDFThis article explores the art of governing academic civic engagement. Due to the diversity in institutional missions, locations, faculty cultures, and capacities, civic engagement projects are shaped in different ways and in accordance with context-specific possibilities. While recognizing that diversity, the article highlights central lessons, in leadership and organizational design, emerging from the practices of four highly engaged campuses. It also explores the relationship between academic civic engagement, faculty workload configurations, and the criteria for faculty promotion (and, where granted, tenure). The article concludes by pointing to the leadership imperative in finding and maximizing a genuine link from the mission to academic civic engagement opportunities and the need to build boundary-spanning capacities into campus coordinating bodies. While there are clear operational elements to faculty governance, it is nonetheless an art to getting it right and being a reflective participant in the national debate on the role academic civic engagement in 21st century higher education
Numerical Solutions of American Options with Dividends Using Finite Difference Methods
Get PDFWe study the Black-Scholes model for American options with dividends. We cast the problem as a free-boundary problem for heat equations and use transformations to rewrite the problem in linear complementarity form. We use explicit and implicit finite difference methods to obtain numerical solutions. We implement and test the methods on a particular example in MATLAB. The effects of dividend payments on option pricing are also considered
The Battles of King's Mountain and Cowpens: The American Revolution in the Southern Backcountry - Review
No full textDr. Maasss reviews the book The Battles of King's Mountain and Cowpens: The American Revolution in the Southern Backcountry by Melissa Walker
Trouble in Tucson: Using The Hunger Games to teach Freirean principles post HB 2281
Get PDFThis article explores the effects of Arizona’s HB 2281 and Tucson Unified School District’s purging of its Mexican American Studies program on the utilization of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed in the public K-12 classroom. As the use of the text becomes more controversial, educators who wish to teach Freirean principles must choose between assigning the text to their students, at the risk of career ending consequences, or seeking out a substitute text that embodies Freire’s philosophies. It is suggested that a text popular within current youth culture be assigned in order to help students make personal connections with the content. The Hunger Games is presented as an appropriate alternative text due to having themes parallel to those presented in Freire’s text. The responsibility of teachers to help students integrate Freirean principles into their everyday lives is also discussed