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Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council
No full textGirl Scouts working on a badge during Girl Scout Badge College, December 16, 2023, on the Marshall University, Huntington campus.https://mds.marshall.edu/bd_girl_scout_badge_college_2023/1009/thumbnail.jp
Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council
No full textGirl Scouts working on a badge during Girl Scout Badge College, Saturday, November 2, 2019, on the Marshall University, Huntington campus.https://mds.marshall.edu/bd_girl_scout_badge_college_2023/1000/thumbnail.jp
Aural and Oral Culture
Get PDFThis is a PDF of the slide deck and notes for a presentation Robert Ellison and Larry Sheret gave at the “Off the Grid” conference, which was held at the College of William and Mary in June 2023. Dr. Ellison’s part of the presentation was entitled “Orality, Aurality, and The Library of Appalachian Preaching,”https://mds.marshall.edu/aa_about_the_library/1012/thumbnail.jp
Post-integration effects of behavioral interview techniques in the Resident Assistant selection process
Get PDFThe Resident Assistant (RA) position is the foundational role in the student affairs staffing structure. RA job description has expanded exponentially since the earliest iterations (Boone et al., 2016). The selection of RAs presents unique challenges because it is costly, requires a lot of staff, typically draws a large candidate pool, and candidates are usually professionally immature. This combination of challenges and the extensive job description requires thoughtful consideration when an institution develops their selection process. Successful RAs have strong interpersonal skills, commonly referred to as soft skills. Soft skills are commonly assessed during interviews via the use of behavioral interview where past behavior is used to reliably predict future performance (Altmaier et al., 1992). Behavioral interview techniques are not standard in RA selection processes due to innate inter-rater reliability issues. This study used ex post facto research design to assess inter-rater reliability across undergraduate, graduate, and professional level staff tasked to administer RA interviews at a mid-sized public institution that fully integrated behavioral interview techniques into the RA interview process. Additionally, pre- and post-integration effects related to housing student retention, incident reporting, RA retention, and RA performance were compared. Results of the inter-rater reliability analysis showed that by year three, post-integration, there was no significant difference between how the different levels of staff were scoring RA candidate interview responses. RA performance evaluation scores significantly improved in RAs hired post-integration and encouraging trends were observed in RA retention, incident reporting, and housing student retention compared to the academic years prior to behavioral interview integration. This study highlights the advantages and applicability of behavioral interview techniques in RA selection practices and the potential RAs selected under these practices have in positively effecting other aspects of campus life when executing job responsibilities
The purpose of and factors in interim assessments in grades 3-8
Get PDFThis study specifically sought to examine district test coordinators\u27 perspectives on the purpose(s) of interim assessments within a district\u27s assessment agenda and to identify factors the district test coordinators consider when selecting district-required interim assessments. Interim assessments are part of many local school districts\u27 strategies to monitor and measure student academic performance before the end-of-year summative assessment. The research method for this case study incorporated a non-experimental, descriptive, mixed-methods design to identify the degree to which West Virginia\u27s school district test coordinators perceive interim assessments to function as effective instructional, evaluative, and/or predictive tools. The study additionally investigated potential factors (e.g., costs, stakeholder feedback, technology limitations, etc.) that influence school districts’ interim assessment selection. The investigation employed sequential explanatory model in which electronic survey data were analyzed and then focus group questions were designed to elicit more information. The analysis of both the quantitative and qualitative data indicates the prevalence of instructional, evaluative, and predictive perceptions towards interim assessments. The analysis identified existing barriers such as teacher feedback, school district structures, local and federal tax structures to be primary concerns as school districts select interim assessment instruments. This study concluded that policy makers and the state education agency must shoulder the responsibility of providing a robust support system consisting of formal guidance, technical support, and professional learning to support local education agencies select, evaluate, and implement interim assessment programs
0883: John O\u27Brien Collection, 1547-2017
Get PDFThis collection of O’Brien materials includes a large number of CDV, stereo card, and photograph images of prominent individuals from the nineteenth century, various locations in the United States and Europe, and Confederate military and political leaders. Other items include wartime and postwar broadsides, election tickets, pamphlets, and newspapers. There are two photographs signed by Jefferson Davis and letters from Shelby Foote and Douglas Southall Freeman. In addition to the manuscript and photograph materials, the collection includes a number of rare books, with the earliest published in 1546
\u3cem\u3eLychas jakli\u3c/em\u3e sp. n. (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Indonesia
Get PDFA new species Lychas jakli sp. n. (Scorpiones: Buthidae) is described from Indonesia, fully illustrated with color photos showing its morphology and habitus. A new synonymy is proposed: Lychas kotao Lourenço, 2020 = Lychas mucronatus (Fabricius, 1798), syn. n
Temple Israel User Guide
No full textThe User Guide for the Library of Appalachian Preaching is a Google Sheet that can be searched, sorted, and downloaded for offline use.
This part of the Guide provides information about sermons preached at Temple Israel from October 2020 through April 2022. It includes the title, Torah portion/scripture text, the time stamp at which the sermon begins, and so on. This information is available in the master list of sermons as well.https://mds.marshall.edu/temple_israel_charlestonwv/1001/thumbnail.jp
Prisoner of Conscience: Terry Albury vs. FBI
No full textIn this paper, I examine how the FBI’s history of targeting the African American civil rights movement against police brutality and racial inequality. This content analysis focuses on the 2021 New York Times interview transcript with former counterterrorism and undercover FBI agent Terry Albury. He was interviewed about his capture, trial, and imprisonment for leaking information to the press about the FBI’s racist post-9/11 operations against what it called “Black Identity Extremists.” Albury’s transcript illustrates how the FBI causes undue panic and fear in law enforcement officers about the civil rights movement. Borrowing from rhetorical theory on prisoners of conscience, I argue that the language used internally by the FBI leads to unnecessary and sometimes fatal force against these organizations and exploits their purposes.
Gerard Hauser states in Prisoner of Conscience “...relationship between the POC and the prison, which is based on the prisoner’s commitments of conscience and the prison’s dedication to breaking his or her strength. The biopolitics of the prison or the camp ostensibly strips the prisoner’s individuating qualification of political conscience. It is enacted through systematic attempts to control the body in a way that puts it beyond oppression, since the oppressed body is one with rights that have been abused.