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Project Based Learning (PBL): the Cognitive and Motivational Impact on Secondary Students of Mathematics
No full textThe Phase one of this longitudinal study investigated the impact of cognitive and motivational factors of Project-Based Learning (PBL) on Secondary mathematics’ students in order to determine the effectiveness of this pedagogical approach on learning. Specifically, for two years, this study followed two comparable groups of 8th and 9th graders from a PBL school and a conventional public high school, which represented a wide range of mathematical abilities (deep vs. superficial conceptual knowledge) and demographic diversity (race/ethnicity/SES). Each semester, both quantitative (i.e., on-line surveys) and qualitative assessments (student and teacher interviews and classroom observation) were conducted and analyzed. These results showed that at-risk and minority students benefited from PBL in learning mathematics; the academic performance gap was present, but the width of the gap diminished significantly. Compared to conventional high school students, PBL students were stronger in employing or regulating effective study strategies, critical thinking skills self-efficacy and self-regulation, while showing significantly lower test anxiety
A Theoretical Understanding of Housing and Homeless Policy: Pennsylvania and New York as Examples of Punctuated Equilibriums and Advocacy Coalitions
No full textHomelessness and housing insecurity have gained increasing attention since the 1980s in the United States. The federal level policy responses to homelessness – from Homeless Persons’ Survival Act and the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act and current reauthorizations under the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act of 2009 – potentially reflect stasis of ideologies and thus policy responses with a few key punctuated changes in the U.S. housing policy framework. This research employs the lens of Punctuated Equilibrium Theory (PET) and Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) as theoretical vantage points through which to understand federal level US homelessness policy creation and how it is reflected at the state level as seen in New York and Pennsylvania
Influence of Gender on Parent-Child Activity Preferences
No full textrior research has established a relationship between parents’ activity preferences and the activity preferences of children. However, parents failed to accurately predict the activities that their children preferred. In particular, parents tend to evaluate their children as more active than they actually are. This study collected data on parents and children from the Holland, MI area in order to assess the relationship between parent and child activity preferences. The influence of gender and gender stereotyping on parents’ predictions of child activity preferences and the preferences of children themselves is undeniable. The relationship between parents and children with respect to their activity preferences has a great impact on important issues like childhood obesity and other health-related concerns. Understanding how and why parents interpret their children’s preferences the way they do provides opportunities to re-educate them in how to train their children in healthy, active behavior
The Impact of Teens on Mothers\u27 Perspectives on Work and Family
No full textMuch of the research on a mother’s work choice and its effects on family life is limited to non-longitudinal data. This qualitative study fills that void by providing data regarding mothering when their children were toddlers and then again when their children were teenagers. By using a holistic approach, this research assesses how various factors in a woman’s life are affected by her child’s aging. Using a sample of twenty-one mothers, changes in marriage and work choice were analyzed in their life as their children grew older, and the stress of these changes. We found that a woman’s work choice affected selfperceptions as well as spousal relationship. We discovered that full-time employed mothers valued family time, part-time employed mothers, however, valued the flexibility to choose when they could take time for themselves through work or personal activities, and stay at home mothers were found to value being always present in their children’s lives. While lack of time is a permanent quality in every woman’s life, mothering appears to be less demanding of time. Mothers will identify themselves as mothers whether they are employed or not. It was found that women reported an increase in the strength of their marriage as their children aged. This research could be used as a resource to women looking to become mothers and to those interested in how aging can impact perceptions of work choice and family
Hacking\u27 and \u27Yacking\u27 About the Digital Humanities
No full textDH scholars will, increasingly, be \u27working in packs\u27 and chasing down bigger topic
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No full textArtists\u27 Statement: Tommy Storm and the Galactic Knights. A tale chock full of imaginative phrases, scenes, and characters, telling the story of five adolescent kids on a mission to save the universe. Sounds crazy, right? But by drawing inspiration from the story and my childhood, I was led to create this book--a book that illustrates a child\u27s imagination and the adventures that unfold.\u27https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/altered_book/1082/thumbnail.jp
From Craft to Industry: The Boat Builders of Holland (Entrance: View B)
No full textFrom Craft to Industry: The Boat Builders of Holland was an exhibition at the Holland Museum on display from June 14, 2013 through December 30, 2013. Materials for the exhibit were used from both the Joint Archives of Holland and Holland Museum.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/boat_builders/1001/thumbnail.jp
From Craft to Industry: The Boat Builders of Holland (Second Hall View E, Towards Center)
No full textFrom Craft to Industry: The Boat Builders of Holland was an exhibition at the Holland Museum on display from June 14, 2013 through December 30, 2013. Materials for the exhibit were used from both the Joint Archives of Holland and Holland Museum.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/boat_builders/1024/thumbnail.jp