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Coding Success through Math Intervention in an Elementary School in Rural Amish Country
Full text linkCoding in the elementary classroom is a relatively new movement in K-12 education that intends to engage young people in computer science and technology-related study. Coding initiatives focus on introducing young learners to coding and developing their computational thinking abilities. Coding helps enhance problem solving, mathematics skills, and higher-order thinking. Nevertheless, educators face many challenges with teaching coding at the elementary school level, because of the newness of computer science concepts and programming languages, gaps in student mathematics knowledge, use of technology, a relatively short attention span of young students and not fully developed reasoning, logic, and inferential skills among many others. This report describes how math interventions helped elementary school students in rural Amish Country become more successful with their coding activities
Motivational Factors of Why Traditional-Age College Men Volunteer
Full text linkService outreach at the collegiate level has gained in popularity over the last 30 to 40 years to engage undergraduates volunteering off-campus communities in ways prior generations had not experienced; yet, traditional-aged collegiate males volunteer less than their female counterparts. The lack of volunteer service by collegiate men affects communities with financial and social implications but there are developmental and educational consequences for men as well. Few phenomenological studies look at the factors for why collegiate men perform volunteer service and this study explored those reasons. Using Deci and Ryan’s (2002) Self-Determination Theory (SDT) in referencing motivational outcomes, this study will inform us why men who volunteer are motivated to do so. This study dealt directly with motivational factors of traditional-age college men who volunteer while attending a small liberal arts institution in southern California. Performing public service to the community is required to graduate at the institution studied but voluntary service is an individual choice. Archival quantitative data from the institution will show the results of student survey assessments submitted by male and female students of the same demographic showing their satisfaction level to the university’s graduation service requirement. Primary research conducted through qualitative analysis was used to pinpoint what motivates “some” men to volunteer after their compulsorily service graduation requirement is completed. Both assessments will indicate how males view service experiences. The quantitative research for the compulsory service requirement and the qualitative feedback may pinpoint insightful, motivational, and thematic factors for why collegiate men elect to volunteer in their communities. This insight may implicate broader delivery for other institutions concerned with volunteer outreach within higher education
Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science Principles: Searching for Equity in a Two-Tiered Solution to Underrepresentation
Full text linkThe purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between students’ participation in the two high school AP computer science exam options and their selected fields of study once they enter post-secondary education. Two studies using national public-use datasets of participation and performance were conducted. Study 1 compared score distributions for the traditional Computer Science A exam to those of the newer Computer Science Principles exam during its first two years of implementation. In Study 1, Chi-square analyses revealed large differences in performance between the two exams, with the Computer Science Principles scores clustering more around marginal pass rates. Descriptive data indicate that African American, Latino, and female students participated in larger proportions on the new exam, whereas traditionally overrepresented groups are continuing to opt more for the traditional Computer Science A course. In Study 2, logistic regression analyses were conducted on the 2016 second follow-up data collection of the High School Longitudinal Study 2009 (HSLS:09). Those analyses revealed that 11th Grade enrollment in computer science courses that concentrate on computer programming significantly predicted selection of a STEM major as the first declared major after high school. Although students who enrolled in Computer Science A were five times as likely to declare a STEM major, a comparison of the curricula and assessments for the two courses suggests that the Computer Science Principles exam places far less emphasis on programming. The potential implications of the differential foci and emphases of the two courses are discussed
Toward an Open Knowledge Research Graph
Full text linkKnowledge graphs facilitate the discovery of information by organizing it into entities and describing the relationships of those entities to each other and to established ontologies. They are popular with search and e-commerce companies and could address the biggest problems in scientific communication, according to Sören Auer of the Technische Informationsbibliothek and Leibniz University of Hannover. In his NASIG vision session, Auer introduced attendees to knowledge graphs and explained how they could make scientific research more discoverable, efficient, and collaborative. Challenges include incentivizing researchers to participate and creating the training data needed to automate the generation of knowledge graphs in all fields of research
A Qualitative Phenomenological Study on the Impact of Teacher Attitudes on Physical Activity Programs tied to Academic Achievement in the Elementary School Classroom
No full textIt has been questioned whether physical activity programs in general education classrooms contribute to academic achievement in students. A literature review has been done to analyze that existing relationship in which it was found that as physical activity increases, so does academic achievement. Three overall themes were extracted: The Importance of General Participation, The Differentiation of Instruction, and The Effect of Intensity Levels. Furthermore, due to the gap in the literature, the current study aimed to assess teachers’ roles in these situations. Observations of classrooms and interviews with four public school elementary teachers were conducted to discover that role. The results demonstrated four major findings: movement is important, the attitude towards physical exercise in the classroom is positive, physical activity should be implemented into activities, and valid limitations to physical exercise exist but it is worthwhile. The implications of this study suggest that the attitudes of teachers match the behavior of students and their general academic level. Thus, acting as predictors of successful implementation of physical activities. Therefore, future teachers should learn to have a positive attitude in general, but especially towards physical activity, as physical activity is essential for the betterment of student performance
Ecosystem service flows from a migratory species: Spatial subsidies of the northern pintail
No full textMigratory species provide important benefits to society, but their cross-border conservation poses serious challenges. By quantifying the economic value of ecosystem services (ESs) provided across a species’ range and ecological data on a species’ habitat dependence, we estimate spatial subsidies—how different regions support ESs provided by a species across its range. We illustrate this method for migratory northern pintail ducks in North America. Pintails support over 30 million in subsidies to wintering regions, with the “Prairie Pothole” region supplying over $24 million in annual benefits to other regions. This information can be used to inform conservation funding allocation among migratory regions and nations on which the pintail depends. We thus illustrate a transferrable method to quantify migratory species-derived ESs and provide information to aid in their transboundary conservation
Advancing Dialectical Wisdom to the Non-Human World
Full text linkAdam Smith and his 18th century Enlightenment contemporaries played an integral role in shaping modern western thought, which is fundamental to rationalizing ecological wreckage. In this discussion I follow a line of contextual inquiry into Smith’s work, beginning with the concept of “nature,” and then shifting into how Smith built upon his understanding of “nature” to rationalize an economic system both isolated from the non-human world and predicated upon infinite growth.
After discussing Smith’s economics, I then situate his political economic mechanisms with his last edition of The Theory of Moral Sentiments, an often-missed step in understanding Smith. Reviving Smith’s teachings on morality, read as a comment on the political economics of the 18th century, gives room to discuss the material crisis of the 21st century, which I claim comes from the complete separation of humans from the agency of all things, abiotic and biotic. Lastly, I advance Smith’s teachings on dialectical wisdom to incorporate contemporary political ecology in the hopes that amidst a crisis of western imagination he can remain relevant as a caution to those who continue to adopt his mechanisms to rationalize ecological exploitation
The Effects of Neoliberalism and Globalization on Thailand\u27s Sex Industry
Full text linkSex work is a common profession across the globe. In Thailand, the work has been incorporated into society since the early development of the country. With the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis and 2008 Global Financial Crisis came the implementation of neoliberal policies, stipulated by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. These changes along with increased migration and competition caused by globalization have disproportionally effected women, leading many of them to seek employment in the sex industry. This research aims to break down the ways neoliberalism and globalization have affected the sex industry in Thailand by assessing policies, and nongovernmental intervention
Cover Art 2019
No full textWhen designing this piece I looked deeply into the meaning behind, “The Differences Among Us.” The idea of “us” referring to humankind as a community or family. We all live on this world together and the reality of that fact being that we are all different, yet still one people. We choose to put faith in different things, dress different ways, love different people and yet we remain as a united species. This piece is meant to encourage the concept that we all can hopefully embody a little bit of others within ourselves. The differences among us should not divide us, but instead allow for us to embrace the beauty that is uniqueness.https://inspire.redlands.edu/wgs_sconf_carousel/1010/thumbnail.jp
The Dark Side of Religious Individualism: A Marcusian Exploration
No full textSociologists of religion have recently focused on the growth of religious individualism in Western societies. Whether seen as a new religious trend or as a cultural correlate to the general weakening of civic organizations in the contemporary era, it is often presented as the growing tendency in religious life. It is also frequently presented in a positive light. This article explores a different alternative. Based in the work of Herbert Marcuse, it asks whether religious individualism heightens or undercuts the possibility of opposition to the status quo. Marcuse’s underlying argument implies that when religion becomes a lifestyle choice, it becomes just another consumer good — one that encourages a one-dimensional ‘happy consciousness’ that lacks the depth to support true social critique. In this view, religious individualism undercuts human emancipation