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Digital Commons Annual Summary 2018
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The Impact of Project-Based Learning on Student Content Knowledge in an Undergraduate, Teacher Preparatory, Foundations of Education Course
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Does the Theory of Reasoned Action Inform the Willingness of Individuals Undergoing Genetic Testing to Seek Disclosure of Incidental Findings Related to the Risk for Alzheimer Disease?
Get PDFBackground: In recent years, researchers have increasingly employed genetic testing as a means for understanding and treating diseases like Alzheimer disease, a common progressive disease affecting cognition and behavior. Genetic studies hold the potential for major breakthroughs in treatment of diseases like Alzheimer disease. However, with the increase in the use of genomewide association, microarray, and whole genome sequencing comes the potential for a greater number of incidental findings in genetic research—findings not central to the aim of a study but nonetheless informative about a participant’s health. Although many studies have documented the ethical implications around disclosure of such findings from the point of view of the researcher, fewer studies have examined the attitudes of genetic research participants to the disclosure of incidental findings. Purpose: It is critical that healthcare professionals and genetic researchers understand genetic research participants’ views so that they may appropriately discuss findings with participants and encourage applicable health measures. The purpose of this study was to assess the willingness of members of the general public who might participate in genetic research to request disclosure of incidental findings indicating a future Alzheimer diagnosis, and to apply the Theory of Reasoned Action to explain their intentions. The Theory of Reasoned Action posits that one can explain a person’s decision on the basis of his or her attitudes toward the object of the decision and subjective norms about that object. The potential for variability in people’s desire for awareness of genetic predispositions for Alzheimer disease makes Alzheimer disease an ideal case example for testing this model and improving our understanding of participants’ views toward incidental findings. ii Method: The researcher surveyed an online panel of volunteer participants who have been selected by pre-determined criteria from Survey Monkey to represent responses from adult American men and women asked about a hypothetical genetic testing situation in their lives. The researcher employed the Perceptions Regarding Investigational Screening for Memory in Primary Care (PRISM-PC) questionnaire to assess participants’ beliefs about Alzheimer disease and incidental findings. Results: The researcher employed one-way ANOVA and ordinal logistic regression to analyze the results. The results indicated that household income and level of education were significant predictors of participants’ attitudes toward Alzheimer screening. The two components of the Theory of Reasoned Action—the Attitudes and Subjective Norms subscales—significantly predicted participants’ likelihood to request incidental findings, confirming the hypothesis. Demographic differences did not demonstrate a predictive impact on the likelihood to request incidental findings. Conclusions: The research question in this study was “Does the Theory of Reasoned Action predict the likelihood to request results of incidental findings related to Alzheimer disease risk?” The results of the study confirmed the predictiveness of the Theory of Reasoned Action. Participants’ attitudes toward Alzheimer screening and subjective norms toward Alzheimer disease significantly predicted their likelihood to request incidental findings from the hypothetical genetic study. This finding provides important insight to nurses and other healthcare professionals treating patients with possible links to Alzheimer disease
JETstream Volume 3 Issues 1
Get PDFIt was the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus that once said: the only thing that is constant is change.” Over the last several years, we have certainly witnessed many exciting changes here at Molloy and the library is no exception. At the JET Library we are constantly evolving and transforming to best provide the Molloy community with premium resources, high-level services and accommodating spaces. Although the library lost a stack room this past summer with recent campus renovations, we did gain some space when we repurposed one of our stack rooms into a much needed and highly requested by students, Quiet Study Area. This past year we also welcomed our first Access Services Librarian, David Nochimson, per diem librarians Leslie Wong Look and Debra Bernstein and a new per diem staff member, Iain Mawhinney. Among other library news, included in this issue you will learn about several new electronic resources added to the collection, as well as innovative systems to help make your visit more time-efficient. Our students have been very excited and appreciative of the addition of test prep books and textbooks to our collection for both their convenience and cost savings. Need to use a laptop but you left yours at home? No worries, the library now offers laptop lending. In being consistent with change, this year also marks the end of Bob Martin’s career at the JET Library as he embarks on a new chapter of his life as a retiree. Although Bob will certainly be missed at the JET Library and by so many at Molloy College, we are forever grateful for his valuable contributions to Molloy and the JET Library. As always, we welcome you to stop by the library to check out our new resources, perhaps read one of the books from our collection reviewed in this issue or to stop by and say hello to our new JET Library members
Strategic pleasure: Gendered anger as collective emotion in WANTED
Get PDFMuch current television analysis focuses on the impending demise of the medium,[1] in which audiences are conjectured to splinter into ever more fragmented, minute bundles of viewers, in the aftermath of a proliferating multi-channel environment and as we move further into the digital era with its ever-enhanced viewing options. However, one of the advantages of digitalisation, in the current environment that forces program providers to compete for proportionately harder-to-come-by content to offer consumers, is the increasing availability of international series. Audiences are no longer necessarily – albeit, in the US still dominantly – confined to national fare, but can seek out programming that originates beyond once largely restricted borders. A pressing issue, then, is how to account for characters and narratives that global viewers engage with and come to care about despite differences of geography and other sociocultural factors
Towards an Understanding of the Testing Opt-Out Movement: Why Parents Choose to Opt Out or Opt In
Get PDFLong Island, New York has led the nation in parent opt-out rates. The Opt-Out Movement is a grassroots coalition of opposition to high-stakes tests that are used to sort students, evaluate teachers, and rank schools. Approximately 50% of students in grades three to eight opted out of the English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics tests in 2019 (“Projects: ELA and Math Opt-Outs 2016-2019,” 2019). Quantitative research has shown a racial disparity between parents who opted out and opted in with White, middle-class parents participating in the opt-out movement at greater rates than Latinx, Black, and Asian parents (Au, 2017; Bennett, 2016a; Hildebrand, 2017; Klein, 2016; Murphy, 2017; Phi Delta Kappa & Gallup Poll, 2017; Pizmony-Levy & Green Saraisky, 2016; Ryan, 2016; Tompson, Benz, & Agiesta, 2013). Yet, there is a lack of qualitative research regarding how and why White, middle-class parents are more likely to participate in the opt-out movement. Grounded in the theories of Christiansen’s (2009) four-stage model of a social movement, Bourdieu’s (1973, 1984) social capital theory, and rational choice theory (Abell, 1992; Coleman & Fararo, 1992; Mooney-Marini, 1992; Münch, 1999; Scheff, 1992), this study utilized a phenomenological multi-case research design to examine how parents in high, medium, and low opt-out districts made their decision to opt out or opt into the ELA and math tests in the fourth and fifth grade. It also explored how superintendents and principals made sense of their opt-out rates in their respective districts and how each district’s procedures and policies that are in place, if any, regarding information about testing and opting out influenced the process. I conducted face-to-face, 30-60 minute, semistructured interviews with three superintendents, four principals (two from one district), and 16-20 parents from each district (n = 59). I sought to understand and make sense of the essence of the opt-out movement by asking participants about their lived experiences. The compiled interview data were triangulated with district documents and observational field note data obtained from PTA and PTSA meetings. As a result of the transcribed and coded interview data, three overarching findings emerged. First, I discovered that the districts’ messaging about state testing and parents’ right to opt out was reflected in the opt-out rates. The high opt-out district disseminated the most information about testing and parents’ rights to opt out. Meanwhile, the low opt-out district held pep rallies and pizza challenges to incentivize opting in. Second, although the opt-out movement’s original aim was to improve public school education for the greater good, the parents interviewed in this study made individualistic choices for their child about opting out or opting in based on the information they had access to from the district and social networks of information, as well as their philosophies of parenting and education. Finally, regardless of parent involvement levels, race/ethnicity, and socio-economic status, parents’ reasons for opting out or opting in were based on superficial reasoning and were more similar than different across the three districts. Parents are powerful policy actors that have been shown to influence policy at the district and school level (Bakeman, 2018). This dissertation has important implications for state legislation that supports a more equitable assessment and accountability system—one that (a) does not undermine the student and teacher relationship, (b) reports reliable individual growth of the students, (c) does not put undue pressure on low-income districts of color to raise scores or get sanctioned, and (d) fosters teaching and learning grounded in comprehensive educational pedagogy instead of test-prep materials for corporate profit
Exploring Agency for Equity in Teacher and Leadership Education Programs: A Self-study Approach
Get PDFIn a social-justice-centered graduate education program, three faculty researchers studied and synthesized their personal ideas of social justice and their impact on students. Utilizing ideas from Rios\u27(2018) conscious engagement framework for teacher agency, data was collected on notions of identity as teachers of social justice as well as student perceptions on the development of their individual and collective agency as a result of being in their classrooms. Preliminary results indicate that personal cross-cultural, interfaith, and cross-linguistic experiences of the faculty had great impact on the evolutionary progress of both individual student agency and collective classroom movement
The Experience of Songwriting in Music Therapy for Adults with Intellectual Disability
Get PDFThis research study investigated the lived experience of adults with Intellectual Disability (ID) in a music therapy songwriting session. Three study participants, referred to here as Emma, Anne, and Abdoul, took part in individual songwriting music therapy sessions. The participants each completed an original song in collaboration with a board certified music therapist. The songs were recorded and the lyrics of the song were transcribed. After the songwriting experience was complete a 10-20 minute semi-structured interview was conducted to gather data about the participants’ subjective experiences. This data was analyzed according to the interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) framework. Themes were identified intuitively and refined through multiple iterations and then compared across cases in order to answer the following research question: What is the lived experience of a music therapy songwriting session for an adult with intellectual disability? All three of the study participants reported that they found songwriting to be a positive experience. Additional themes were present in two interviews: Songwriting could be used to raise the individual’s esteem in the eyes of their community, songwriting was a novel experience, and songwriting was related to feelings of altruism. Unique themes emerged in individual interviews which related to the participant’s personal context
Vertical Farms and the New Green City
Get PDFUrban agriculture, urban farming, or urban gardening is the practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in or around urban areas. In densely populated regions, urban agriculture offers a new frontier for land use planners and landscape designers to become involved in the development and transformation of cities to support community farms, rooftop gardening, and vertical farms. Vertical farming is an agricultural method of cultivating vegetables that combines the design of building and farms all together in a high-rise building inside the cities. This form of farming can produce food in vertically stacked layers, vertically inclined surfaces and/or integrated in other structures, such as a skyscraper or warehouse. Technology now exists for indoor farming techniques, where all environmental factors can be controlled, and large cities are becoming pioneers of vertical farming. While urban agriculture has historically been an important source of food in many developing countries, recent concerns about economic and food security have resulted in a growing movement to produce food in cities of developed countries, including the United States and Europe. It is beginning to play an important role in the economic development of cities by repurposing vacant industrial buildings, supplying fresh and healthy food, and providing jobs in distressed areas. This industry, however, faces both challenges and opportunities. Using both case-based and survey research, this study provides a better understanding of vertical farming, and explores the potential to raise public awareness and garner community support for the continued growth of this industry in urban areas of developed economies
Dewey in China: A Historical Look at His Message of Peace and Understanding
Get PDFNot long after he arrived in East Asia, a journey he eagerly welcomed, John Dewey quickly turned his thoughts to the past world war. It was a conflict that traversed the globe, ravaged the European landscape beyond anyone’s comprehension, led to almost seventeen million deaths, and tumbled dynastic empires forever. As he began to pen an article for the liberal journal, The New Republic, he kept abreast of developments at the Treaty of Versailles. He had hoped that the victorious Allies would find common ground by putting aside partisan hatred and bitterness in favor of lasting peace. His wish was not granted. In some respects, he only had himself to blame. Although he would not admit that he was not entirely wrong for sacrificing his pragmatism to the call to arms, he did hav