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A Phenomenological Study: Understanding Teacher Experiences with Grief in the Classroom
Get PDFTeachers entering the classroom along with teachers who have been in the classroom for a long time often find themselves dealing with grieving students. Grief is something that everyone is familiar with, especially when dealing with a death. Often what is not so familiar are other events that can cause a grief response. Teachers spend a lot of time in training and being trained on many facets of education, emergency drills, and many things they may or may not encounter. Yet, a student expressing some type of grief is something nearly every teacher has encountered but has not been trained to handle. The purpose of this study was to gain insight into teacher experiences when dealing with grief in the classroom, to understand how teachers are trained to handle grief in the classroom and understand the support systems in place to support teachers in this endeavor. The study revealed teacher experiences that included grief triggering events and showed a lack of training for teachers to handle these grieving students. In addition to the lack of training, the study confirmed that there is no clear process to implement or support training for teachers to deal with grief in the classroom. The study also showed there is a lack of communication to assist teachers in dealing with grieving students and, in some cases, even recognizing grieving students. This study brings to the forefront the importance of training teachers to handle grief in the classroom along with the effectiveness of having a support system for the implementation of the training to produce positive outcomes
Super PACs and Agenda Setting
Get PDFSeveral Supreme Court rulings, starting with Buckley v. Valeo and culminating with Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, have created two unequal campaign finance systems: One where party and candidate committees must follow strict fundraising regulations from the Federal Election Commission, and another populated with Super PACs and similar organizations which are allowed to take in unlimited donations. This paper sets out to see if Super PACs, which are freer to operate under the law, have challenged the party and candidate committees’ agenda-setting ability in an election
Methodist Episcopal Pulpit 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 the 4 Appalachia-related.sermons in The Methodist Episcopal Pulpit. It includes the author, title, scripture text, date and place the sermon was preached (if known), and so on. This information is available in the master list of sermons as well.https://mds.marshall.edu/methodist_episcopal_pulpit/1001/thumbnail.jp
Next Generation Open Textbooks: A Case Study
Get PDFDesign Across the Disciplines: Learning the value of communication design through practice” is an OER (open educational resource), digital textbook under prototype testing in a media design course. The text is created in collaboration with a librarian, two faculty from different colleges and two students who have completed the course. This interdisciplinary team was formed with the directive to embrace the powers of design thinking through digital content to develop a product that truly recognizes the needs of the primary users, our students and key stakeholders, the faculty. Several semesters of student feedback provided the insights for considering textbook cost; the need for continual access to the text even after the course is completed; simplicity of use; and the need for multi-modal content. From this feedback, the design evolved to employ the chunking of content with scalable vector illustrations; limited and direct text; short, highly directive instructional videos; and assessments that provide internship and employment artifacts that are evidence of a student’s digital design capabilities. The design is a prototype in action being tested in class as well as through a research study on faculty perceptions to OER textbooks. The execution of this textbook is based not only in the empathetic approach to gathering user needs through the employment of several prototypes and observations, but also through student and faculty interviews to determine desirability, viability and feasibility conditions for success. This presentation shares what a librarian, marketing professor, design professor and graphic design student learned through a two-year process in developing a OER digital textbook
School Climate for LGBTQ Youth: Principals’ Perceptions and Experiences
Get PDFThis study explored the practices that can mitigate a hostile school climate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth and the barriers that negatively affect implementation of those practices. LGBTQ youth are at higher risk for bullying, harassment, and other characteristics of a harsh learning environment, which can result in negative outcomes, both short- and long-term. Principals of West Virginia public high schools were surveyed to collect data on the frequency at which LGBTQ-supportive practices are implemented in their schools and the barriers, if any, they faced. A total of n = 29 (x̄ = 27.6%) participants completed the survey instrument designed to collect data related to the research questions. Data were analyzed to determine which practice(s) LGBTQ youth in schools represented by the sample are most likely to have access to and which practice(s) they are least likely to encounter. Supportive school personnel was the practice most likely to be implemented and a GSA was the practice least likely to be implemented. The barriers reported by principals were most often in the form of stakeholder groups located outside of the school (external). Based on dependent t-tests, no statistically significant difference was observed in the frequency high school principals reported barriers both by type (stakeholder group and logistical component) and location (internal and external). Further research is needed to better understand how the barriers explored in this investigation affect school climate for LGBTQ youth
Early post-immobilization pain at rest, movement evoked pain, and their ratio as potential predictors of pain and disability at six- and 12-months after distal radius fracture
Get PDFBackground: Removal of immobilization is a critical phase of distal radius fracture (DRF) rehabilitation, typically occurring by 2 months post injury. This study examined the extent to which pain at rest (PAR), movement evoked pain (MEP), or the ratio between those (MEPR) assessed at 2-months after DRF predicts the occurrence of chronic pain or disability at 6- and 12-months after the injury.
Methods: This secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study was done at the Hand and Upper Limb Centre (HULC), London, Ontario, Canada. A total of 229 patients with DRF (159 (69.4%) women) were included. Scores for the pain and function subscales of the Patient-Rated Wrist Evaluation (PRWE) were extracted for 2, 6 and 12 months after DRF. Logistic as well as nonlinear quartile regression examined whether PAR and MEP predicted the severity of chronic pain and disability at 6- and 12-months after DRF. Receiver Operating Characteristics Curve were plotted, where area under the curve (AUC) examined the accuracy of the PAR and MEP scores in classifying those who experienced chronic pain and disability.
Results: Scores of ≥3 (AUC of 0.77) for PAR or ≥ 6 (AUC of 0.78) for MEP at 2 months after DRF predicted moderate to severe wrist pain at 6-months, whereas scores of ≥7 (AUC of 0.79) for MEP at 2-months predicted ongoing wrist disability at 6-months after the injury. The MEPR of 2 ≤ or ≥ 8 at 2-months was associated with adverse pain at 6-months and functional outcomes at 6- and 12-months (R-square = 0.7 and 0.04 respectively), but prediction accuracy was very poor (AUC ≤ 0.50).
Conclusion: Chronic wrist-related pain at 6-months can be predicted by either elevated PAR ≥ 3/10) or MEP (≥ 6/10) reported at 2-months after the injury, while disability experienced at 6-months after DRF is best predicted by MEP (≥7/10) reported at 2-months. The ratio of these two pain indicators increases assessment complexity and reduces classification accuracy
1981-2021: The Early Development of the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and its Department of Medicine
Get PDFWhen we arrived in Huntington, the physician shortage was so extreme that we, who had great medical connections, found it difficult to locate physicians who accepted new patients. We invited the first class of medical students, the Class of 1981, who began medical school in January 1978, their spouses, and all faculty and spouses to our home for an evening of fellowship and food (Appendix 1: The First Graduating Class, the Class of 1981). The first class included twenty-four students, and everyone invited fit in our house for the gathering. Within three years, the medical students and staff had grown so much that they all no longer fit in our home. Since then, the School of Medicine has grown immensely. Class size now numbers about eighty medical students in each year and the faculty numbers several hundred