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Conducting a training needs assessment for the MTSU NASA FOCUS Lab
Get PDFFor the last decade, Middle Tennessee State University has established itself as a leader in training the next generation of aviation professionals through its Flight Operations Center – Unified Simulation program, also known as the NASA FOCUS Lab. The FOCUS Lab is a complex operation involving around a dozen students per team, who are assigned to nine different positions within the lab, as well as positions within a remotely operated flight simulator. As a high-fidelity simulation, the Lab requires detailed training protocols and documentation for each position, which incorporate duties and tasks designed to simulate those required by positions within real world airline flight operations centers. This proposal is for the collection and analysis of research data pertaining to training evaluations given to participants in MTSU’s FOCUS Lab, with the goal of evaluating efficacy and improvements made to training protocols over time, as well as conducting a training needs assessment to help enhance future training protocols. Research will include an in-depth examination of training evaluation data collected from FOCUS Lab participants over the last several years, including both qualitative and quantitative data. This data will be used as part of both personnel and task assessments
Teachers and 1:1 technology in classroom activities: A quantitative study comparing perceptions and stage of adoption
Get PDFThis quantitative research study examined high school teachers’ perceptions concerning the incorporation of 1:1 technology into classroom activities. The study collected data from teachers at rural, southeastern high schools with 1:1 technology programs. Data were collected from teachers via an online survey. The Technology Acceptance Model (Davis, 1989; Marangunic & Granic, 2015) was used as a basis for examining teachers’ incorporation of 1:1 technology into class work. Teachers’ adoption of the technology into pedagogy was analyzed to determine if relationships exist between level of adoption, perceptions of usefulness and ease of use, organizational factors, and teacher characteristics. Identification of relationships provided insights that may inform future decision-making about 1:1 technology integration into curricula and pedagogy, allowing opportunities for interventions that might influence adoption
The Zumbrota
Get PDFMy thesis is a creative project that consists of a craft introduction and Act I of my novel, The Zumbrota. In part one, the craft introduction, I look at the history of the serial detective in crime fiction and examine how serial detectives fit into the discussion of round and flat characters as defined by E.M. Forster and James Wood. Through the discussion of serial detectives as round and flat characters, I ultimately examine the fundamental differences between literary and genre fiction. Then in part two, readers go back to 1940 as my detective, Wes Grizzly, uncovers a conspiracy between mobsters and Nazis to undermine America’s recovering economy. The Zumbrota is my love letter to the detective genre, a grand tradition that goes back almost two centuries
From suffrage to Congress: Chattanooga women at the polls and in the House
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The Bard and The Word: the influence of the Bible on the writings of William Shakespeare
Get PDFWidely hailed as the single greatest writer and poet of the English language, William Shakespeare is not only revered for the sheer quantity and wide-ranging genres of his writing, but also the exceptional written quality, well-executed thematic diversity, and ability to explore the timelessness of the human experience. With the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible occurring in 2011 and the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death following in 2016, scholarship on Shakespeare’s use of biblical material underwent a significant resurgence. The focus of much of this scholarship has been on simply identifying the numerous references rather than on attempting to determine why Shakespeare chose to include these specific references and, more importantly, what larger purpose they serve within the plays. As the plays written between 1600 and 1606 are widely recognized by critics as Shakespeare’s most biblical, they are ideal for studying his motivations and the different effects his biblical borrowings have on both his original and modern audiences. By examining Othello (1602) and Measure for Measure (1603), it becomes clear that Shakespeare intentionally employed biblical elements in his plays to add deeper levels of meaning and implications for audience members, thus making a thorough knowledge of biblical material essential to fully enjoying the richness of Shakespeare’s dramatic works. As modern audiences have grown increasingly biblically illiterate, the moral and emotional significances of the biblical elements Shakespeare employs are often overlooked or misinterpreted, causing contemporary audiences to be unable to fully grasp the additional levels of meaning these passages add to his plays. Only when these plays are viewed with careful attention being paid to the biblical elements can the full weight of Shakespeare’s intended message be felt
Sickness and contamination in The yellow wallpaper and Maggie: a girl of the streets
Get PDFSickness and Contamination in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets” looks at feminism through the lens of nineteenth-century medical practices and how both Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Stephen Crane used them to argue against social standards for women. Most women during this time were seen as mentally ill or sick because they were in fact women. However, sexually active women were seen as even more sickly. Gilman in particular exposes sexism within the medical practice, and Crane builds on that by exposing sexism towards sexually active women through the idea of contamination. This paper refers to research concerning both Gilman and Crane, but also to common nineteenth-century medical treatment and diagnosis to demonstrate its argument
Influential factors of academic performance and course retention in college mathematics: face-to-face versus online
Get PDFMany lower-level mathematics courses were redesigned in the Fall 2012 semester, after the Complete College Tennessee Act of 2010 eliminated developmental programs from state universities. This study examined the predictive relationships between students’ characteristics and their final grades in an entry-level math course that was taught in both online and face-to-face settings. Additionally, the study compared the course grades of students in different learning environments. Research questions: 1. Is there a significant, predictive relationship between students’ final grades in a math course and their characteristics? 2. How well does the combination of students’ characteristics predict academic performance in the face-to-face sections of the math course? 3. How well does the combination of students’ characteristics predict academic performance in the online sections of the math course? 4. Is there a statistically significant difference among students’ final math grades in different classroom environments, while controlling for ACT math subscores? Of the 566 participants, 85.3% and 14.7% were registered in face-to-face and online sections of the math course, respectively. Approximately two-thirds of the participants were female, 72.4% were freshmen, 3.2% were considered adult learners, and 70.1% of the students had ACT math subscores below 22. Multiple regression analyses were used to answer questions 1, 2, and 3. Verification of the assumptions for multiple linear regression revealed that the standardized residuals for the raw data were not normally distributed; therefore, a reverse score, logarithmic transformation was conducted to eliminate the negative skew. Analyses using the raw and transformed data values were conducted to improve the predictive validity and credibility of the models’ results. Gender and ACT math subscore were consistent, significant predictors of students’ grades in the face-to-face sections, whereas ACT math subscore was the only significant predictor of students’ final grades in the online sections. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) were used to answer question 4. The results revealed no significant differences in students’ grades between the large face-to-face, medium face-to-face, and medium online environments. This study provides a foundation to assist in decision-making processes and assists with understanding the relationships between students’ characteristics and course outcomes
Will d-amphetamine’s effect on impulsive choice be consistent when the environmental context changes by using decreasing delays to reinforcement?
Get PDFImpulsivity (choosing a smaller, more immediate reward over a larger, more delayed reward) and substance abuse are positively correlated. It is important to understand how factors like delay to reward and drug effects determine impulsive choice, which can be studied using animal models. This study evaluated impulsive choice in rats, where delays to the larger reward (three food pellets) were presented in decreasing order versus one food pellet delivered immediately. Then, effects of d-amphetamine were assessed. It was found that in three of four rats, d-amphetamine increased impulsive choice when the larger option was presented with decreasing delays. This effect is contrary to what has generally been found with increasing delays. Thus, environmental context can influence drug effects on impulsive choice
Investigating chronic pain as an in-group using the prisoner’s dilemma
Get PDFKinship is a strong predictor of altruism. However, chronic pain is a homeostatic threat to survival that creates a social in-group which we predicted would result in increased altruism over and above kinship, because it is driven by shared empathy. Participants included 139 individuals that were divided into a chronic pain or control group. Participants completed six Prisoner’s Dilemma scenarios with a sibling or chronic pain accomplice. Pain altruism and sibling altruism scores were calculated based on decisions to cooperate with or defect on an accomplice. A mixed ANOVA revealed that there were no significant differences between groups. The marginal difference between the groups suggests that chronic pain may create an in-group altruism that is just as strong as kinship