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Helping Students Gain A Better Understanding of Writing
Get PDFThe primary purpose of this study is to develop a curriculum for first-year writing that can be taught at the two-year college to help students transfer writing skills to courses taken afterwards. The second chapter aims to define what transfer is and identify a few different approaches to teach for transfer, which led to the discovery of the Writing about Writing pedagogy as developed by Douglas Downs and Elizabeth Wardle. This research was influenced heavily by Anne Beaufort’s College Writing and Beyond as well. Following this, the third chapter examines the nature of the two-year college that makes it uniquely difficult to teach for longer term transfer of writing skills. Finally, chapter four features a review of the Writing about Writing pedagogy and textbook, which leads to development of a course sequence for use at a two-year college. This study supports the implementation of an introduction to writing studies course sequence at the two-year college level to aid in the transfer of writing skills
Development of a Community-Based Lactation Support Program
Get PDFBackground. Despite the recommendations from leading health organizations and the documented health benefits for both mother and infant, breastfeeding success rates continue to be suboptimal.
Design. A program development design was used for this Community-Based Lactation Support Program. This pilot was the first step in accomplishing the long term goal of expansion of the program to the entire community of Scituate and the state of Rhode Island.
Objectives. The objectives of this program were to increase exclusive and sustained breastfeeding rates in the town of Scituate through education and support and to ensure a positive breastfeeding experience for the breastfeeding family. The program was designed to enhance, not replace, existing breastfeeding support services and healthcare providers.
Method. The objectives were accomplished through individual support, education, and empowerment in the home environment using a public health nurse implemented program.
The pilot consisted of a program design utilizing the Precede/Proceed framework for: project promotion and recruitment; pre-natal interview and breastfeeding education; postpartum home visit; and follow-up phone assessments at one week, two weeks, one month, and three months after delivery.
Results. The four mothers who participated in the pilot reported an increase in confidence and knowledge and sustained, exclusive breastfeeding during follow-up phone assessments
Tsalal
Get PDFIn “Tsalal: The 19th Century American Nightmare” I examine Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket through Toni Morrison’s theory that an African presence exist in 19th-century American literature. In “Black Matter(s)” Morrison argues that this African presence in 19th century literature expresses the fears of American society. Thus, I examine The Narrative of Gordon Arthur Pym in order to see how blackness symbolizes the fears of 19th-century America
The Mathematics of the Card Game Set
Get PDFSET is a card game of visual perception. The goal is to be the first to see a SET from the 12 cards laid face up on the table. Each card has four attributes, which can vary as follows: 1. Shape: oval, squiggle, or diamond 2. Color: red, green, or blue 3. Number: the number of copies of each symbol can be 1, 2, or 3 4. Filling: solid, unfilled, stripped Each card has a unique combination, for a total of 34 = 81 different cards in a deck. A SET consist of three cards for which each of the four attributes are either all the same or all different. We can represent SET cards by 4-tuples of numbers, where each coordinate represents one characteristic
Engaging Students in Authentic Discussion in the Secondary English Classroom
Get PDFUsing the social constructivist lens, I frame a call for action that advocates for the use of critical literacy and a protocol for discussion in the English language arts classroom. Salon authentic discussion will present teachers with a powerful new pedagogy for critical literacy instruction in the secondary ELA classroom especially in this critical time when standards and accountability for both students and teachers is being redefined.
As a teacher-researcher, I am in the best position to investigate how students can become equipped to meet proficiency in speaking and listening a standards based era. Using grounded theory methodology, I examine authentic discussion that has the power to stir controversy, recognize the claims of others, and continually engage participants in the search for identity and meaning (Ayers, 2004).
An investigation into the literature reveals the difficulties associated with conducting authentic discussion as well as the gap in the literature that provides educators with the necessary ingredients for its success. Grounded theory emerges in an argument advocating the use of a combination of literary theory, social motivation, Accountable Talk, and critical literacy that can be used to best prepare senior high school students for authentic literary discussion. Most importantly, the study’s findings point to the need to make students comfortable in the classroom, finding ways to allay their fears of embarrassment, and ensuring that social justice and tolerance is integral part of the classroom community
The Effect of Facial Attractiveness on Recognition Memory
Get PDFThe ability to recognize the faces of others has been significant throughout human history. The in-group and out-group bias show that humans remember more faces of people in their own group in most circumstances. This study focused on gender of perceiver and target effects in recognition when faces vary in attractiveness. There were 15 white male and 15 white female participants who engaged in a facial recognition task with a manipulation of target attractiveness. This consisted of the participant encoding 15 male and 15 female computer generated faces for future recognition. The participants saw the same 30 faces randomly mixed with 15 new male and 15 new female faces making a total of 60 faces. They were asked to recognize the faces that they saw in the first set and rate how confident they felt about their answers. The faces used ranged from highly attractive, average, and highly unattractive for both male and female faces. The findings supported the hypothesis that the more attractive or unattractive the faces, the more they will be remembered. Also the findings showed a gender difference in the recognition of faces of the same and other gender
Indian Parents Prefer Vaccinating their Daughters against HPV at Older Ages
Get PDFIncreasing uptake of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine should be a priority in developing countries since they suffer 88% of the world’s cervical cancer burden. In many countries studies show that age at vaccination is an important determinate of parental acceptability. This study explores parental preferences on age-to-vaccinate for adolescent school-going girls
Student and Teacher Attitudes Toward Giftedness in a Two Laboratory School Environment: A Case for Conducting a Needs Assessment
Get PDFProviding effective professional development in laboratory schools around topics that can be divisive, such as preparing a school environment for expansion of gifted education services, can be quite difficult. However, doing so based on data collected through a needs assessment can be invaluable to the planning process. As part of a needs assessment in preparation to enroll 100 new gifted students, students and teachers (N=171) from a unique setting in which a residential school for gifted high school students is housed within a laboratory school were surveyed using F. Gagné and L. Nadeau’s (1991) Opinions about the Gifted and Their Education instrument. Clustering participants based on their responses identified 3 distinct clusters showing varied support for gifted education. Most laboratory school students and teachers opposed special services for gifted students. A group of supporters, made up of some laboratory school and residential school teachers and approximately a third of residential school students acknowledged the needs and social value of gifted students to some degree and strongly supported gifted education. Most students in the residential school (59%) were conflicted, recognizing the needs of gifted students and the value of giftedness, but showing opposition to gifted education. In addition to its usefulness in designing effective professional development, the needs assessment identified attitudes that have implications for the larger gifted education community
Chasing Reference: Librarians and Collaborative Blogging
No full textIn 2012, the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Publications and Communications Committee proposed an Emerging Leaders project to create a blog for RUSA members. This blog would encourage professional conversations about emerging trends relevant to the members of RUSA. The blog would encourage RUSA members to share ideas about issues relevant to reference and user services. Am- ber Prentiss, committee chair, helped to instigate the project; Michael Hermann, incoming committee chair, served as the project’s mentor for the Emerging Leaders team; and Andrea Hill served as the RUSA staff liaison
Folk River
Get PDFAmerica’s technology-infused society is cluttered with torrents of information and often scarcity of facts. Many people never bother to check where information is coming from, whether the sources have been documented and if the presentation is fair, balanced and worthy of our democratic nation. Hundreds of experienced journalists have left or been forced out of newsrooms due to financial pressures in the industry and monumental changes in technology. These experienced journalists have been dedicated to serving as the eyes and ears of citizens who do not have time to attend hours of meetings, question those in authority, analyze details from multiple sources and request documents through the freedom of information process. Journalism is the ‘fourth estate,’ charged with maintaining a watchdog presence over the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government. As newspapers, radio and television lean toward entertainment and sports programming, a vital stream of diverse voices comes through folk music. Long a channel for commentary on war, peace, work and social issues, folk music is a valuable, and increasingly critical, element for preserving a healthy democracy