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Teaching Statistics to Elementary Children: Using a Problem-Solving Approach to Enhance Learning
Get PDFWhen teaching statistics (or data analysis) to elementary children, it is beneficial to use a problem-solving approach that incorporates meaningful tasks to enhance the students\u27 learning. This was determined through a careful review of literature, observations of elementary teachers, and the creation and instruction of data analysis unit. The unit required the students to collect data on heights, organize the data in charts, and display the data in line plots. In addition, the students analyzed the data to recalculate the average and other measures of central tendency and to answer questions that arose through the implementation of the lessons. In conclusion, using a problem-solving approach to teach statistics (or any mathematics) to elementary children is highly recommended
Hirshhorn Museum
No full textExhibits at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. The Hirshhorn is an architectural landmark and includes an outdoor sculpture garden on its grounds. The Hirshhorn Museum is a Smithsonian institution located on the National Mall.
The museum is named for its founding donor, Joseph H. Hirshhorn. Hirshhorn immigrated from Latvia when he was only eight years old to the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York. Hirshhorn became a financier, but he was also known for his philanthropy and his extensive collection of modern art. His gift of over 6,000 pieces of art established the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 1974.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/1385/thumbnail.jp
Bristol 4th of July Parade
No full textThe annual 4th of July parade held in Bristol, RI. Bristol has partaken in celebrating our national independence since 1785, earning the title of the “Home of America’s Oldest Forth of July Celebration”. Here, the Colonial Navy of Massachusetts on Hope St., in the background is the Guiteras Memorial School.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/1166/thumbnail.jp
Triple-decker
No full textElevated view of Central Falls apartment homes on Fletcher St., adjacent to Jenks Park. Located within Jenks Park is the historic landmark Cogswell Tower. The parcel of land for the park was donated by Alvin Jenks in 1890 and built around Dexter’s ledge.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/1182/thumbnail.jp
Aerial of State House and Downtown Providence
No full textThe downtown area of Providence, is the oldest business district in the city. In this area, many buildings can be seen dating from the late Federal and Greek Revival periods. Also seen in this aerial is the Rhode Island State House built between 1891 and 1901 by McKim, Mead, & White.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/1128/thumbnail.jp
Eye on Ethics: Use of Self and Ethics Risk-Management
No full textSocial workers who firmly grasp the concept of “use of self” are better equipped to skillfully manage ethically challenging situations with clients. First and foremost, social workers must protect their clients’ rights even, and perhaps especially, when the clients’ behaviors toward the clinician are troubling and challenging. In addition, social workers should address ethical issues with an eye toward preventing errors that exacerbate the risk of ethics complaints and ethics-related litigation
The Changing Forms of Contracting in a Society of Transnational Networks
Get PDFWhereas the new millennium brought with it a focus on collision rules within global governance and corporate governance, the economic crises emerging out of 2008 turned the focus to the failure of regulatory practices. The current crises challenge not only a neoliberal hegemony but the New Deal/Great Society coordinating state model as well; as we have moved not only beyond a society of individuals to a society of organizations. We live now in a society of transnational network contracting and corporate governance practices. This society of networks can no longer be clearly associated with traditional conceptions of state, market or civil society/ public versus private. Amidst this crisis, emerging legal challenges can no longer be coped with by institutions and ritualized routines of laissezfaire liberalism, social liberalism or neoliberalism. This paper redirects focus to an increasingly disembedded style of contracting amidst multi-polar and multi-rational regimes of conflict regulation/ dispute resolution. In doing so this paper starts from the prism of contracting practices and rituals: arguing that an understanding of how the discourse of governing contracts is continually and irreversibly implicated in the evolution of a network of heterarchical private relationships and public institutions
Sometimes Saying Nothing...Says the Most
Get PDFAfter nearly one hundred years of publication and copious literary criticism, Emily Dickinson remains one of the most enigmatic figures in American literature and her poetry among the most inscrutable. In deceptively simple ballad stanza, Dickinson can be by turns, mysterious or playful or deadly serious or misleading or insightful or obscure, but, above all, puzzling. Her poems consistently and continually resist easy paraphrase or simple interpretation, very often towards the end of challenging accepted truth by revealing inherent contradictions. She has some clear affinities to both the methodologies of apophatic discourse and to différance, which Derrida himself has said are virtually indistinguishable. By analyzing Dickinson\u27s style and content and by offering readings of a number of her poems, I ask the reader to understand her poetry in a postmodern theoretical context that makes deconstruction a viable reading strategy
The Perceived Impact of Diabetes Support Groups
Get PDFA dearth o f research exists describing the perceived impact o f diabetes support groups from the perspective o f support group participants. This study examined the subjective experience of being a participant in a diabetes support group upon a person\u27s physical and emotional well being. Participants were recruited from a diabetes support group and interviewed individually through a series of open ended interview questions. The participants reported various physical and emotional challenges related to their diabetes. The support group was a source of information, hope, shared experience and group problem solving as individuals strived to maintain lifestyle behaviors required to manage their diabetes. This support group was a positive source of support for these participants. More studies, with larger sample sizes, examining support group interventions or strategies would be beneficial in order to gain an understanding of which aspects of a support group promote positive client outcomes. Advanced practice nurses play a pivotal role in designing further studies that examine the impact of support groups. This will enhance our understanding of a support group\u27s role in sustaining and promoting positive health behaviors and well being. In order to continue this form of support in the community, health policy needs to address the funding of this resource to sustain it as a tertiary intervention in the future
