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Identifying Gender Bias in College Culture: Descriptive and Prescriptive Stereotypes, Hostile and Benevolent Sexism, and Cognitive Justification
No full textThe concept of equality between men and women is a controversial and important subject for continued business and psychological research. This study aimed to gain greater insight into gender bias by surveying college students. Sexism has been thought to be manifested in two ways: hostile or benevolent. Hostile sexism pertains to overt discrimination against women for their sex. Benevolent sexism places females in a restrictive role like hostile sexism, but it does so in a nicer tone. Accordingly, some may not even recognize benevolent sexism to be an issue at all. Bias has also been thought to be manifested in a descriptive or prescriptive way. Descriptive bias assesses what people think women currently are like. On the other hand, prescriptive bias assesses how people believe women should be like. Constructs were used to assess hostile or benevolent sexism and descriptive or prescriptive bias, which have all been used in previously published research. Additional items were developed by the researcher to assess the possibility of stereotyping being followed up with rationalization. Results indicated that there was a difference in gender attitudes between men and women. Specifically, males displayed higher sexism overall and were more likely to associate benevolent sexism with hostile sexism than females were. The item developed by the researcher for the purposes of examining a potential rationalization for stereotyping exhibited a greater correlation for females pertaining to descriptive bias. Practical and theoretical implications and suggestions for future research are discussed
Give Me My A... And That Beer!: Examining the Relationship Between Academic Entitlement, Major, and Alcohol Use
No full textAcademic entitlement (AE) is a relatively new area of research. AE is defined as expecting higher grades for minimum effort and demanding behaviors towards teachers, such as expecting to receive a good grade in a class just for showing up (Greenberger, Lessard, Chen & Faruggia, 2008). Alcohol is also a reoccurring problem on college campuses, and is associated with many other negative behaviors and consequences (Wesley, 2002). It has been found that students who drink more are less likely to schedule Friday classes (Paschall, Kypri, & Salt). It has also been found that the later a student schedules their first Friday class, the more they are apt to drink on Thursday night (Wood, Shere, & Rutledge, 2007). If students are likely to change their schedule to accommodate their drinking, it is also likely that their choice of major influences their drinking behavior. Since AE is tied directly to a student’s classwork, it also stands to reason that different majors would have differing levels of AE. Will a student with higher levels of AE be more likely to drink more because they feel they don’t need to spend time on course work to achieve good grades or that showing up to class hung over is acceptable? Are the academic majors that tend towards having heavier drinkers also the same majors that have more academically entitled students? Examining these questions will better help us understand the relationship between academic entitlement and other factors common to college students. The data will be collected from students at a mid-sized Midwestern university via an online survey. The survey is currently in progress. Implications will be discussed
Investigation of Double Resonance Spectroscopy of Iodine Molecules for Use in Quantum Beat Experiments
No full textThe resonant B3PI+u to X0+g and resonant E0+
g to D02g to B3PI+u to X0+g transitions of I2 vapor have
been studied by direct observation of fluorescence emitted from the B, E and D' states,
respectively. Potential energy curves for the X0+g , B3PI+u , D0+u , D02g, A02u and E0+g states are calculated using Dunham coefficients from literature via the Rydberg-Klein-Rees Inversion
Method. The generated turning points are then used to calculate Franck-Condon factors and
Einstein A-coefficients. Both one and two-photon emission spectra are observed and analyzed
Book Lovers, Technophiles, Printers and Pragmatists: The Social and Demographic Structure of User Attitudes toward e-Books
Get PDFQ-methodology was used to identify clusters of opinions about e-books at
Miami University. The research identified four distinct opinion types among
those investigated: Book Lovers, Technophiles, Pragmatists, and Printers.
The initial Q-methodology study results were then used as a basis for a
large-n survey of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty so that
we could have a more complete picture of the demographic and social
makeup of the campus population. Results from that survey indicate
that academic discipline is strongly associated with the respondents’
opinion types. Gender and educational status are also associated with
respondents’ opinion types
Effects and Implications of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 on Social Service Organizations
No full textThis inquiry illustrates the effects of a piece of legislation, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, on social service organization providing welfare to low-income individuals in the United States. The theory is based on a model by Rainey and Steinbauer (1999) that links the inputs of stakeholders and resources to task design and, eventually, organizational effectiveness. When the legislation was enacted, the size of the stakeholder group was enlarged without the immediate provision of additional resources to the social service organization. As a result, the organizations reacted by altering three variables in their task design: client service provision, operational norms, and mission and scope
Demystifying Measurement, Valuing Narrative
Get PDFCharlie Blaich, Director, Center of Inquiry, Wabash College, and the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium.
Respondent: John Jeep, German, Russian, and East Asian Languages Department, Miami Universit
Evaluation of Ohio's Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
Get PDFIn 2011, the Ohio Legislature asked the Scripps Gerontology Center to evaluate Ohio's two PACE sites and make recommendations for further expansion. This report describes the findings from that evaluation
Always Further: Following in the Footsteps of La Salle
No full textMy honors thesis project focuses not only on the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, but also looks at three modern men who strive to capture some aspect of La Salle's legacy. La Salle was the first explorer to sail a ship through the Great Lakes after building a fort in what is now Kingston, Ontario. He was also the first European to travel to the end of the Mississippi, and in doing so claimed for France the land that would one day become the Louisiana Purchase. The men who are interested in La Salle now look at numerous aspects of his life. Steve Libert works in intelligence and scuba dives in the Great Lakes. His passion was always searching for "Le Griffon," the ship La Salle used to travel the Great Lakes which sunk and was never recovered. In 2001 Libert found a wreck that matched descriptions of "Le Griffon" and since then he has been doing archaeological work to confirm whether or not the ship is La Salle's. Reid Lewis is a schoolteacher who organized a re-enactment of La Salle's trip down the Mississippi. In 1976 he and 22 other men (16 of whom were recent high school graduates) took off in handmade canoes and period clothing, equipped with food they themselves prepared, ready to spend a year traveling by canoe down to the Gulf of Mexico. Since then Lewis has used his trip as material for motivational speeches in schools and businesses around the world. Finally, Rich Gross is trained as a biologist but is passionate about the history of La Salle. After taking part in Reid Lewis' voyage as a high school student, Gross decided to devote all his free time to the pursuit of La Salle's history. He is working now to prove that one of La Salle's forts, Fort Crevecoeur, was located not in Peoria, IL (as previously believed), but in Beardstown. This project tackles ideas of the tangibility of history, the desire to escape the present, and the longing for adventure
Implementation of the 2010 Ohio Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey: Final Reportf
Get PDFIn 2010, the Scripps Gerontology Center conducted the fifth biennial Ohio Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey under a contract to the Ohio Department of Aging. This year the survey had the largest number of family response ever, with 97% of facilities participating and nearly 30,000 involved family and friends responding. An online version of the family survey was also made available for the first time. The report includes information about the survey process, psychometric analysis of the survey, and recommendations for future implementation of the family survey. The family satisfaction survey is one important component of the comprehensive nursing home information shown on the Ohio Long-Term Care Consumer Guide (www.ltcohio.org). Overall scores are also used as a quality component of Ohio's nursing home Medicaid reimbursement formula