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CNDLS Review of Piloted Tools to Advance Experiential Teaching and Learning with Technology
No full textLearning designers will review ed tech tools they piloted in order to experiential teaching and learning across all learning modalities (online, in-person, and hybrid)
ההשפעה של השתייכות פוליטית על איכות שירותי ממשלה דיגיטליים
No full textM.P.P.The rise of the internet, alongside the various technological means related to it revolutionized the way our society works, communicates, and interacts (Prabhu, 2012). This rapid change in human behavior affected governments as well, leading them to adapt their services and organizational practices to fit the new and evolving lifestyle in a process known as E-governance (West, 2008). Although E-governance has been part of our lives since the late 90’s, not all U.S. states have developed sufficient E-governance services (Government Technology, 2023). The reasoning behind these disparities is still unknown, as very little research has been done to unlock the effect of E-governance quality in the public sector. I use a combined dataset from the ‘Digital State Survey’ between the years 2010-2022 alongside the ‘United States Governors 1775-2020’ from the University of Pennsylvania and additional government resources to examine whether or not political affiliation has an effect on the E-governance. My analysis suggests that political affiliation does not explain differences between the state’s E-governance. This finding provides an important contribution to the existing research that is useful for future policies as it sheds light on the relationships between e-gov, political affiliation, GDP, and more. Yet, additional research is required to unlock the actual drivers of E-governance and assist policymakers in eliminating digital disparities
Effects of China’s Economic Coercion on the Elections of Heads of State in the Indo-Pacific
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Differential Effect of Covid-19 on the College Completion Rates with Various Pell Grant Percentages
No full textM.S.As an important indicator of college strength and academic success, college completion rates are widely discussed in higher education research and have received attention from policymakers. The Covid-19 pandemic has negatively impacted college completion rates from different perspectives at the individual and institutional levels, and the Pell Grant program, which represents students’ needs, may have been affected through its means of assisting students in completing their education.This study analyzes the relationship between Covid-19 and college completion rates through Pell Grant at the institutional level across the United States from the 2017-18 academic year through the 2021-22 academic year. Universities with higher proportions of Pell Grant recipients have lower completion rates during the pandemic, suggesting that these colleges should receive more policy support and resources to allow them to better serve their students. The study also noted a surprisingly favorable impact of Covid-19 on college graduation rates, although this could be attributed to the heterogeneity of the dataset used for analysis
Media Coverage of Political Violence in 2022
No full textPolitical violence has been on the rise in the United States over the last decade. Given that
the media has historically had an outsized influence on public opinion, it is important to
understand how they frame the pertinent issue of political violence for the American public. This qualitative study analyzes transcripts from seven major audio and visual media outlets in 2022, the first federal election since the January 6th attack on the Capitol, to better understand what frames are used in political violence coverage. It finds that viewers and impressions of political violence vary depending on what kind of media they consume. In particular, Fox News framed political violence as a violence and crime issue, while MSNBC and CNN were more likely to frame political violence as a threat to democracy
Who Chooses: Politicians or People? Examining the Relationship Between State-Level Support for School Vouchers and Legislative District Characteristics
No full textM.P.P.The determinants of legislator roll-call voting have been oft studied in recent years. However, many studies have focused exclusively on federal legislators or on specific issues of interest to various constituent populations. This study seeks to understand the impact that the various characteristics of state legislative districts and the legislators that represent them have on roll-call voting behavior on state-level school voucher programs. A Linear Probability Model analysis of a dataset consisting of 2023 school voucher roll-call votes in five U.S. states finds that there is a significant positive relationship between district median income and votes in favor of school vouchers program. However, when characteristics of the districts and their legislators are controlled for, the significance of this effect disappears entirely – providing evidence that legislator party identification, a legislator’s racial identification, and the district’s K-12 enrollment are stronger predictors of school voucher roll-call support. Though these findings are limited to the state level, they provide important information about the key drivers of legislative support on education policy
More Than Murder: A Chronological Analysis of Gender Exploration in Agatha Christie Mysteries
No full textM.A.Since feminist scholars first brought the works of Agatha Christie into the realm of academic discussion in the 1970s, the author’s exploration of gender has been a recurring subject of critical analysis. In part building on the consensus among contemporary academics that Christie assumes a generally progressive stance towards gender concerns, this thesis argues that the exploration of gender in Agatha Christie’s mysteries is more nuanced than conveyed in existing scholarship and should be read chronologically to reveal the conservative values that consistently seep into and undercut her progressive framing of the female form.Throughout her career, Agatha Christie crafted characters to subvert and challenge prevailing conceptions of gender ideals in twentieth-century British society, but both the specific figures deployed, and the specific questions of gender addressed shifted over time. At the start of her career, in the 1920s and into the 30s, Christie primarily used male figures to challenge the perceived superiority of the English gentleman, juxtaposing them against female characters who prove to be the mysteries’ true sources of cunning and intellect. Many of Christie’s early mysteries follow the dueling investigations of Hercule Poirot and Scotland Yard. By linking her Belgian detective and his sleuthing techniques to femininity and having him solve the very cases that baffle the stereotypically masculine officers of Scotland Yard, Christie subverts conventional depictions of femininity as inherently inferior to masculinity. These mysteries also oftentimes feature Hercule’s aide Captain Arthur Hastings. Functioning as a foil to the women with whom he interacts, Hastings provides Christie with the opportunity to champion her feminine figures as independent and self-reliant.As Christie moved into the third decade of her career, the 1940s, she became more focused in dissecting gender norms using a female detective figure. Though first introduced in 1930, Miss Marple did not become a recurring sleuth for Christie until twelve years later, at which time the author focused more narrowly on the elderly spinster identity, a figure increasingly both prominent and maligned in Great Britain following the First and Second World Wars.By the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, Christie turned to novel-specific female characters as the primary means of exploring questions of gender, in particular the expectations of marriage and motherhood forced upon the female identity. In these novels, the mystery plotlines came to function as the texts’ structural scaffolding, providing a narrative framework around Christie’s critical scrutiny of prescriptive gender roles assigned to the middle- and upper-class Englishwoman. Christie’s postwar female figures convey to readers both the complexities of marriage and motherhood as well as the possibility that women can lead lives of fulfillment and satisfaction even when they eschew the linear life trajectory of domesticity.
Yet while Christie’s depiction of women and her contestation of rigid gender roles and expectations generally do follow a progressive arc, at no point in her career does the author fully reject the norms or values pervasive in British society during her prewar upbringing. From assigning the responsibility of child rearing exclusively to mothers to having Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot always spare the egos of the masculine institutions of Scotland Yard and the British police force, Christie remains throughout her literary career at least partially tethered to prewar constructions of gender dynamics and the social hierarchy
Impact of Frailty Screening in a Burn Center: A Quality Improvement Project
No full textD.N.P.Burn injuries create significant risk for the development of new or worsening frailty. Identifying patients’ risk for frailty is key to recognizing patients who are at risk for negative health outcomes and who may benefit from consultation by a geriatric medicine specialist. The FRAIL scale screening tool is an efficient self-reported assessment tool which utilizes the five Fried frailty phenotype components to classify risk for frailty. A quality improvement project was conducted in a burn center setting to examine if implementation of the FRAIL scale screening tool would impact the frequency of consultation to the geriatric medicine team within a 10-week period. The primary aim was to determine how many burn patients received a consultation for a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) with secondary aims to evaluate the feasibility of implementing a frailty screening tool in a burn center and to stratify adult burn patients’ risk of frailty into categories based on the FRAIL scale measurements: robust (FRAIL score 0), prefrail (FRAIL score 1-2), or frail (FRAIL score 3 or greater). The data revealed a three-fold increase in the number of consultations to the geriatric medicine team noted between the pre-frailty tool and post-frailty tool groups with statistical significance (X2(1) = 9.17, p = .002). The frailty screening tool was most often administered on the first (54.5%) or second (31.8%) hospital day, with 13.6% of patients having the tool administered on the third or later hospital day. Among the post-frailty tool group, the stratification of frailty risk was as follows: 27.3% robust, 45.4% pre-frail, and 27.3% frail. The FRAIL scale is shown to be useful in identifying patients who would benefit from a CGA as compared to routine clinical practice. Through review of the timeline of administration of the FRAIL scale screening tool, the tool is also shown to be feasible to implement in the burn center setting. Further, the clinical significance of the majority of patients being classified as pre-frail, and at risk for deterioration of health, underscores the need to accurately identify patients’ frailty risk and implement measure to mitigate adverse outcomes
Increasing and Equalizing Internet Connectivity in American Homes to Improve Health Outcomes
No full textM.A.L.S.Tens of millions of people in the United States do not have access to high-speed internet at home because nearby infrastructure to support it does not exist, they cannot afford it, or they
do not have the skills to use it. This is an anomaly in the year 2024 when the internet’s rapid data
exchange powers everything from modern romantic and business relationships to classwork and
health appointments. The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the major health consequences of the
digital divide, a phrase used to describe the demarcation between those with reliable internet
connectivity and those without. In 2024, while COVID-19 is no longer considered an emergency,
it has still raised significant concerns about preparedness for other public health emergencies.
For example, weather related events increasingly pose a threat to the public’s health, especially
in vulnerable communities. Internet can play a tremendous role in providing timely alerts and
information. Current research, however, does not adequately demonstrate the extent to which
internet connectivity can improve health outcomes.
This report attempts to close these gaps. Though not a prescription for how to create
specific policy, this work aims to prove to policymakers, health care practitioners, and patients
alike why broadband connectivity is an important factor to measure in efforts to improve health
outcomes in the United States. Telehealth, also known as telemedicine, is often cited briefly in
government proposals, studies, and other articles about why internet access is important, but is
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rarely expanded upon in a cohesive manner demonstrating how internet connectivity can be
directly correlated to improving health outcomes.
The following report aims to add to this body of research in four ways. First, it examines
the current state of internet access across the United States. Secondly, it dissects programs from
the four major federal government agencies that fund broadband connectivity programs and
explores how that money gets disbursed. Third, it provides insight into how health is impacted
by connectivity to reliable internet, especially in under-invested communities such as the Black
Rural South and on Indigenous tribal lands. Finally, this report looks at Texas as a case study to
illustrate how these concepts play out in practice