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I Do The Dishes
Get PDFThe poem describes the separate moments, throughout life, that the persona does the dishes. It follows from childhood, to college, to being married, then to having one\u27s own children to do the dishes
The Relationship Between Leadership Behaviors, Trust In Leadership and Teacher Organizational Citizenship Behavior
Get PDFAs greater accountability is placed on school districts, in response to the increased demands of federal and state policies and mandates, teacher workloads and responsibilities have been increased to meet those demands. School districts rely on teachers’ commitment to students’ educational pursuits and their willingness to demonstrate behaviors that exceed their formal role expectations to facilitate student success. These behaviors, known as organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB), cannot be required, but play a critical role in ensuring a district’s success. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the relationship between teachers’ trust in their administrator and teachers’ OCB through the analysis of the data collected from 121 elementary, middle, and high school teachers using The Faculty Trust Scale and the Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale for Schools. Three separate inferential statistical procedures were performed to analyze the relationship between teachers’ trust and OCB and predictor variables: years of service, gender, and grade level taught. The Pearson product-moment correlations (Pearson r) was performed to identify a possible relationship between teachers’ trust and organizational citizenship behavior. The researcher found a negative statistically significant relationship between teachers’ years of service and teachers’ trust in their administrator. The results of the current study suggest the need for further exploration into the antecedents of teachers’ OCB. The results further demonstrate that teachers’ trust in their administrators erodes over time in response to administrator behaviors
AC INJURY PREVENTION PARTICIPATION AMONGST COLLEGIATE FEMALE ATHLETES
Get PDFBackground: A common injury for athletes is a tear in the anterior cruciate ligament, with a disproportionally higher rate of injury among female athletes rather than male athletes due to many anatomical and physiological differences. One of the proposed causes of increased injury is the difference in hormone levels during the phases of the menstrual cycle. While ACL injury prevention programs have been used to help reduce the number of injuries among athletes, it is not yet well known if changing hormone levels throughout the menstrual cycle is predictive of ACL injury risk among athletes that engage in injury prevention programs and those that do not. Here, we use the Lower Extremity Scoring System (LESS) as a way to evaluate an athlete’s risk of sustaining an ACL injury for athletes that have and have not participated in ACL injury prevention and correlate those scores with phases of the menstrual cycle.
Methods: 122 female collegiate athletes were tested using the LESS model and a questionnaire on the injury prevention and menstrual cycle history of the athlete. The average LESS scores were compared in order to determine significant differences between athletes who had participated in injury prevention, and those who had not, as well as athletes in different phases of the menstrual cycle.
Results: One out of the eight teams had been actively participating in ACL injury prevention and had the lowest average LESS score of 5.43. The menstrual phases all had similar averages of LESS scores ranging from 7-8.
Conclusion: The results of the study concluded ACL injury prevention had lowered the risk of an ACL injury among female collegiate athletes However, fewer athletes were participating in ACL injury prevention than expected. The hypothesis for the menstrual cycle was rejected due to the follicular phase having the lowest average LESS score
Aurora Volume 108
Get PDFCollege formerly located at Olivet, Illinois and known as Olivet University (1912-1923) Olivet College (1923-1939), Olivet Nazarene College (1940-1986), and Olivet Nazarene University (1986-Present).https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/arch_yrbks/1174/thumbnail.jp
An Examination of Grit And Academic Capital In First And Continuing-Generation Doctoral Students
No full textThe current study utilized a convergent mixed method design to examine Grit and Academic Capital in first (n = 80) and continuing-generation (n = 35) doctoral students. Specifically, the researcher was interested in comparing the two factors of Grit: passion and perseverance and the eight aspects of Academic Capital: concerns about cost, supportive networks, navigation of systems, trustworthy information, college knowledge, overcoming barriers, family uplift, and family expectations to determine how each contributes to first-generation doctoral student persistence. Data were collected online using the Short Grit Scale (Duckworth & Quinn, 2019) and the Academic Capital Scale (Winkler & Sriram, 2015). Data analysis included descriptive statistics, 10 independent sample t-tests, and a deductive-inductive reasoning procedure. Results indicated there was not a statistically significant difference between first- and continuing-generation doctoral students in either factor of Grit (passion and perseverance). However, a statistically significant difference between first- and continuing-generation doctoral students was discovered in five of the eight factors of Academic Capital: college knowledge (p = .001), supportive networks (p = .004), family expectation (p = .012), concerns about cost (p = .043), and overcoming barriers (p = .054). Both first- and continuing-generation doctoral students attributed their educational success to having a supportive network. Suggestions for improving first-generation doctoral student persistence were included along with recommendations for future research.
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The Effects of Parent Training and Information Centers on Parent Empowerment
No full textParents of children who receive special education services from the public school are considered equal partners in their child’s education along with school professionals on the Individual Education Program team. Each state has a Parent Training and Information Center (PTIC) that seeks to empower parents to fulfill their right as an equal partner. This current study compared the advocacy, knowledge, competence, self-efficacy, and empowerment of two groups of parents of children with disabilities who received special education services in Tennessee. The experimental group of parents (n=36) had attended a workshop provided by a PTIC and the control group (n=21) had not attended a workshop. Participants received an email from PTIC with a link to the survey or received a hard copy of the survey at a workshop. The survey included demographic information, Likert-scale questions, and open-ended questions about their experiences and suggestions for how school professionals and parents can increase the effectiveness of the Individual Education Program process from the Family Empowerment Scale (Koren, DeChillo, & Friesen, 1992) and the Fish survey (2008). Quantitative results from the likert-scale questions about parent advocacy (p=.847), knowledge (p=.117), competence (p=.669), self-efficacy (p=.992), and empowerment (p=.459) were not statistically significant. Parent responses to the open-ended questions aligned with a current literature review and emphasized the importance of educating themselves about the special education process, being an involved and equal partner on the Individual Education Program team, and communicating regularly with school professionals.
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The reliability and validity of the Open Enneagram of Personality Scales
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The purpose of this study is to assess the reliability and validity of the 36-item Open Enneagram of Personality Scales (OEPS). Our general hypothesis was that the OEPS would show adequate reliability evidence but not validity evidence. Participants were acquired through a small denominationally affiliated Midwest university, Amazon Mechanical Turk, and social media. Test-retest reliability was done with 249 participants while internal consistency reliability, factor analysis, and correlations with the Big Five Inventory (BFI; John, Donahue, & Kentle) were done using 1039 participants. An average Pearson’s correlation of .68 (range: 0.54 - 0.75) showed inadequate test-retest reliability for the OEPS factors. The average Cronbach’s Alpha was .46 (range: 0.27 - 0.56) for the internal consistency of the OEPS factors. Confirmatory factor analysis found insufficient evidence for the OEPS (χ2 = 1255, p \u3c .001, CFI = 0.56, TLI = 0.50, and RMSEA = 0.08). This study used Pearson’s correlation coefficient to correlate OEPS factors with the BFI factors and found many correlations (-0.30 \u3e r \u3e 0.30) that support several of our predictions for criterion-related validity (See Table 2). There were also some relationships between the OEPS and BFI that were to be expected but were not supported in this study’s analysis which is most likely due to the lack of strong psychometric support for the OEPS. Overall, this study showed OEPS did not show strong reliability or validity evidence
Investigating relationships between religiosity, sense of power, and prejudice.
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Prejudice has been demonstrated throughout time in various ways. Prejudice can be manifested on the basis of race, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, gender, and/or religious affiliation. A psychological approach to prejudice focuses on variables that correlate with prejudice. Consistent with this, this study will be investigating relationships between religiosity, sense of power, and prejudice. Olivet Nazarene University undergraduates and other individuals were recruited through the use of social media outlets to serve as participants. An online survey measuring the study’s main variables (e.g., religiosity, sense of power, and prejudice) has been distributed, and data collection will finish on March 22, 2021. Relationships between the study’s main variables will be assessed using Pearson’s correlation and multiple regression
Redefining districts: Fulfilling a new model for administrative boundaries in the Church of the Nazarene
No full textIn this article, we explore the unlikely beginnings of many districts in the Church of the Nazarene and their odd placement in light of urban centers. Our analysis focuses on the USA/Canada Region and USA–Mexico border, with some suggestions for further study on a global scale. Dean Blevins, General Editor for Didache: Faithful Teaching, says our article “serves a needed contribution to the nature of polity within the denomination, and many of the implicit assumptions that may spill over to global decision making. While ecclesiology has long served as a topic of theological investigation in this journal, the actual organizational assumptions that influence a lot of leadership decisions often remains overlooked. Hopefully Lillie and Perabeau’s recommendations open the door for a fresh consideration of the organizational dynamics that often underlie more lofty views of the church.
Gender Roles Reviewed through Shakespeare\u27s Twelfth Night with 21st Century Applications
Get PDFThis thesis focuses on a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night which aims to address negative gender stereotypes that are still in existence today. Through Shakespeare’s use of character representation and language, he creates a story that confronts the issue of gender stereotypes in the Elizabethan age. However, much is to be said about how gender roles in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is applicable to the 21st century. In this thesis, gender roles in both the Elizabethan age and the 21st century are explored in depth to provide examples of gender stereotypes. Thus, the study of gender roles is applied to the writing process of the modern adaptation of Twelfth Night and how gender stereotypes in Shakespeare’s time are still prevalent today. In creating an adaptation of Twelfth Night, I intend to demonstrate how Shakespeare’s confrontation of gender stereotypes in the Elizabethan age can still be applied to the 21st century