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Associations Between Learning Environment and Study Satisfaction Across Time: Two Cross-Sectional Analyses of Occupational Therapy Students
Get PDFThere is increasing attention toward students’ satisfaction and how they perceive the quality of the program they attend. This study examined stability and change across time with regard to the relationships between learning environment factors and occupational therapy students’ satisfaction with the program. In the two consecutive cross-sectional analyses performed in this study, 163 second-year students and 193 third-year students from all six occupational therapy education programs in Norway participated. The Course Experience Questionnaire was used to assess learning environment factors and study satisfaction. The data were analyzed with Pearson’s correlation coefficient r and with hierarchical linear regression. Bivariate associations between the learning environment scales were positive and most associations were statistically significant in both study years. Relatively stable associations between the learning environment variable “good teaching” and higher study satisfaction were detected, while other associations differed between years of study. Embedding quality into the learning process, in particular by emphasizing good teaching and the clear dissemination of goals and standards, is important for student satisfaction throughout years of study
Interview with Ruijie Liu
No full textInterview with Ruijie Liu recorded on March 27, 2023 at Forest Hills Northern High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mr. Liu is interviewed by Forest Hills Northern High School students Andrew Conrad and Emmy Kamp as a part of WMU’s Telling Our Stories: A Video Collection Celebrating AAPI Heritage. During the interview Mr. Liu discusses the following topics: Immigrating from China to the U.S. for graduate school; Difficulties learning to speak English with natives; Feeling academically, professionally, and personally successful in the U.S.; Staying in the U.S. for a better educational environment for his kids; Difficulties being separated from and visiting family; Differences between American and Chinese culture; Celebrating both American and Chinese holidays; His perspective on the American Dream; His personal experience of obtaining a green card; Choosing a country to live in depending on one’s goals; How his views about the U.S., and people in general, have changed over time; Working in biomedical research at Grand Valley State University; Bonding with international students that he teaches; Moving to and loving Grand Rapids; Advice to international students in the U.S.; Differences in American and Chinese education systems; Wishing his hometown could stay as it was when he was a child; His upbringing and how he is raising his kids; and Advice to immigrants coming to the U.S.https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/our-stories-aapi/1005/thumbnail.jp
Wills and Testaments in Medieval England from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century
No full textThis volume explores the will-making process in late medieval England for all levels of society. Wills are some of the most studied records of the late Middle Ages and capture the evidence of what people owned and the patterns of family relationships. These documents, compiled from several archives and city records, cast a light on many aspects of medieval life, including gender distinctions and the heavy influence of the church. Included are wills from widows, tradespeople and artisans, clergy, and high-ranking wealthy people, and through these sources he shows how wills, inventories, and testaments prepared people and their souls for the afterlife.https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/mip_teamsdp/1009/thumbnail.jp
Establishing Initial Content Validity, Interrater Reliability, and Intra-rater Reliability of the Revised Visual Activity Sort for At-Risk Adolescents and Young Adults
Get PDFBackground: The purpose of this study was to establish the content validity and inter- and intra-rater reliability of the revised Visual Activity Sort, which is a card sorting assessment designed specifically for at-risk adolescents and young adults.
Method: Six content experts were selected and asked to rate the relevancy of each of the 121 Visual Activity Sort cards. Two trained raters participated in the establishment of inter- and intra-rater reliability with 30 high school students attending a charter school for at-risk adolescents and young adults in a socioeconomically disadvantaged urban area.
Results: Based on the content experts’ ratings, a final summary content validity index of 74 maintained cards was established as high (CVI = 0.91, p \u3c 0.05). Both inter- and intra-rater reliability were found to be high with ICCs of 0.83 and 0.84 (p \u3c .000), respectively.
Conclusion: Raters and authors recommended the addition of five cards addressing social media and internet safety, setting and maintaining healthy boundaries, managing social media and internet use and addiction, and navigating government agencies. These cards will be added and examined by content experts in a future study
Application of a Model of Family-Centered Harm Reduction in Community-Based Programming
Get PDFCoupling high substance use disorder rates with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, our nation faces a growing mental health crisis and a shortage of adequately trained mental and behavioral health providers. As occupational therapists work toward recognition as qualified providers in this practice area, we must ensure that future therapists can meet client needs. Traditional mental and behavioral health educational practices in occupational therapy use a model of harm reduction that minimizes negative outcomes for a select subset of the population engaging in specific “high-risk” behaviors, such as individuals engaging in substance use and sexual activity. Expanding our understanding of the harm reduction model and incorporating a more holistic trauma-informed care lens can better ensure beneficence for all clients. To do this, educational institutions must train students to identify harm in all of its contexts, such as the household dysfunction of cohabitating with a family member with substance use disorder, and apply practical treatments for addressing the impacts of dynamic family systems through occupation-based interventions. This paper illustrates a family-centered harm reduction model and offers a community-based educational intervention that allows occupational therapy students to gain valuable trauma-informed care practice skills through hands-on experiences
The Myth of Programmatic Intervention to Tackle Intergenerational Poverty in Post-industrial Societies: A Longitudinal Study in Hong Kong as a Vantage Point
Get PDFThrough tracking the educational and career trajectories of the young adult members (aged 24–26) of 154 families over 13–15 years, this study suggests that the problem of intergenerational poverty is serious in Hong Kong. Quantitative data indicates that adolescents with poor parents have a 104 percent higher chance of being poor in young adulthood, and nearly 60 percent (58.4%) of the samples follow “the-poor-begets-the-poor; therich- begets-the-rich” pattern across generations. However, the explanatory power of the logistic regression models consisting of confounding factors are weak (R2=0.15). Subsequent focus group discussions with 30 mothers from the samples point to myriad forms of individual-environment interactions which determine their children’s life chances. These findings pose challenges to policymakers and researchers who attempt to formulate specific programs to eliminate the “root causes” of intergenerational poverty. This paper pinpoints the epistemological incompatibility between the nature of the poverty cycle and evaluable programmatic interventions, particularly in post-industrial societies, and calls for a holistic approach to intervention
The Excremental Ecology of Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair
No full textThis article explores the excrementality of Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair by examining how Ursula’s hidden chamber pot is representative of both Jonson’s fictionalized Fair and the entire play text, and is embodied for an early modern audience through sensory experience. This sensory experience relies on cultural understandings of both gender and excrement, on playgoers’ memories of the actual Bartholomew Fair, and on the fact that the play’s opening night occurred at the Hope Theater. Thus, various spaces reflect one another to craft an immersive playgoing experience through the excremental, a fact enhanced by the metatheatrical aspects of the play. This results in the transformation of the play and initial performance—the only performance during Jonson’s lifetime—into an excremental ecology, or a system in which places, and the ability of places to signify once another, are manifest through waste. The article ends by considering possible contemporary means of staging these aspects of the play
Female Authorship, Patronage, and Translation in Late Medieval France: From Christine de Pizan to Louise Labé
Get PDFWriting Without Audiences: A Comprehensive Survey of State-Mandated Standards and Assessments
Get PDFWriting studies professionals agree that students must learn to write for specific audiences. Despite this professional consensus, there is reason to believe that this skill is not widely tested in state-mandated writing assessments. In this study, we survey the state content standards for English Language Arts and the state-mandated writing tests for high school students in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. While all states have adopted standards that require students to write for specific audiences, only a small percentage test this skill on state-mandated assessments. We argue that the consequences of this misalignment between standards and assessment are potentially severe. Since teachers often narrow the curriculum to content that appears on state tests, it could be that pre-service writing teachers will encounter an educational environment in which students are not taught how to adapt their writing to specific audiences
We\u27re All We Have : Envisioning the Future of Mutual Aid from Queer and Trans Perspectives
Get PDFMutual aid has prevailed for as long as humans have existed. However, the concept of mutual aid became popularized in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the racial uprisings in response to the continued police brutality toward Black people, and an increase in global climate crises. Mutual aid spread as a way of survival and collective care when formal systems, such as federal and local governments within the U.S., were failing to meet people\u27s needs. Using a subset of data from semi-structured interviews, the current study relied on a desire-based research framework and foresight lens to capture the perspectives of queer and trans individuals (n=10) and how they envision mutual aid in the future. Findings show how queer and trans participants of mutual aid envision the structure of the future of mutual aid and the need for a system overhaul to world build. Implications for social work practice and education will be discussed