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The Effectiveness of Interdependent Group Contingency in Decreasing Disruptive Behaviors while Increasing Academic Achievement for Students with or at Risk for Emotional Behavioral Disorder
Get PDFManaging disruptive behaviors of students with emotional and behavioral disorders can be a significant challenge for teachers, impacting academic achievement and instructional time. Research has well-established the negative effects of such behaviors, highlighting the need for effective interventions. Group contingency interventions such as Interdependent Group contingencies, have shown promise in reducing behaviors and the prospect of improving academic performance. Interdependent Group Contingencies involve rewarding students based on their behavior, with positive reinforcement for minimizing inappropriate behaviors, enhancing academic performance, and staying on task. Previous studies have demonstrated the efficacy of group contingency intervention for students of different ages, including preschoolers. Interdependent Group Contingencies have also been successful in improving academic achievement and reducing disruptive behaviors in students with or at risk of emotional and behavioral disorders
Relieving Students\u27 Institutional Debt and Student Success: A Correlational Study
Get PDFHigher education costs have risen dramatically over the last forty years, leaving many students unable to pay the total cost, even after aid is applied. This results in outstanding debt to the institution they attend. This outstanding institutional debt leads to registration, and transcript holds, resulting in students\u27 inability to continue pursuing their educational goals. Research has shown that students with outstanding institutional debt are twenty-five times less likely to persist. This study aimed to determine if there was a correlational relationship between institutional debt relief and success, with success defined as graduating, re-enrolling, or transferring during the three terms after the debt payoff. As a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Higher Education institutions had the opportunity to use grant dollars to relieve students of debt accumulated during the pandemic. I use logistic regression modeling in this quantitative correlational study to predict the relationship between debt payoff status and success. Results suggest that even when a student’s outstanding debt is relieved using grants, they continue to encounter a decreased likelihood of success. My study also sought to determine if there was a correlational relationship between certain demographics such as age, gender, socioeconomic level, debt payoff, and success. This study contributed to the limited research by scholars attempting to understand the ramifications of outstanding institutional debt for students. My study also provides valuable data that may help administrators develop equitable policies relating to past-due student accounts
St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report, Vol. 25, No. 2
Get PDFThis report found confirmation from area business leaders that a recession is at hand. 68% of our respondents thought a recession was coming when surveyed in December 2022 and still believe so six months later. Survey respondents were concerned about financial tightening resulting from disruptions in the banking industry, but very few have changed banks, and most did not see those disruptions as a significant factor in bringing about a recession
Writing in a Secondary English Classroom Using Online Tools to Enhance Engagement and Creativity
Get PDFTeaching in a digital world, an online world, became a reality for many teachers during the spring of 2020. Teachers were thrust into online learning settings, feeling overwhelmed and underprepared. However, the experience showed teachers how engaging online tools can be to students, especially when writing. To engage students and increase their creativity, I created and implemented a three-week unit using online editing tools, blogging, and podcasting. Students then took a survey to see the benefits and engagement the unit created. Overall, the unit engaged students by piquing their interest and improved their writing abilities through writing smooth sentences, creating an outline/rough draft before writing, and noticing simple sentence errors
St. Cloud State Magazine [Spring/Summer 2023]
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Study on Neural Network for Analysis and Prediction of Tensile Results in Material Science Development
Get PDFNeural networks are a rapidly increasing field to analyze and predict trends in every area of industry. The increasing importance of companies to find areas where humans do not need to look over massive amounts of data and accurately predict trends is a perfect use for neural networks. Another area of industry that is rapidly increasing is additive manufacturing. Additive manufacturing (AM) can be used in every area of industry from medical equipment to automotive design. The ability to create complex geometries with cheap polymers has set additive manufacturing ahead of traditional methods of designing plastic molds. The tensile properties of an AM material are a good indication of how the material mechanically performs. The focus of this thesis will be to categorically analyze the tensile break of an AM material into brittle, tough, or plastic categories using Multilayer Perceptron (MLP)
The English Writing Journey of L2 International Graduate Students
Get PDFThis qualitative holistic multiple-case study examined how L2 international graduate students\u27 preparedness for English writing influenced their transition to graduate-level writing in the United States. I leveraged a descriptive and explanatory holistic multiple-case study for this investigation. Data were analyzed from 13 L2 international student case study participant interviews, five university employee interviews, and hundreds of pages of document analysis. These data captured the actions, influences, and outcomes of these L2 international students relative to their English writing experiences, their preparation to come to the United States for graduate education, and their writing success once they arrived. The findings were that international students who came to the United States as L2 English language learners had a primary and secondary education with a limited emphasis on English despite attending English-medium schools. English writing education was a low priority, and there were few writing opportunities at the post-secondary level, negatively impacting their writing skills. These L2 International graduate students decided to come to the United States with a relatively short lead time. They did not prepare for English writing but did prepare for their English proficiency exams. Upon arrival, these L2 international students struggled with their initial writing assignments and had ongoing issues primarily with vocabulary, plagiarism, and the time it took them to write. Despite these challenges, these L2 international students improved their English writing abilities, enjoyed English writing, and were motivated to improve further. They knew what support systems helped them improve their writing skills, including feedback, practice, and group work. Providing English writing expectations to prospective and recently admitted L2 international students, questioning the importance of the English proficiency exam, giving new L2 international students opportunities to practice and receive feedback on their writing, and finding opportunities for university-offered writing support services to incoming L2 international students are options for administrators to explore
When was the Last Time that You Heard of Ian McKellen Blowing out His Knee? The Performance and Practice of Risk in British Professional Wrestling
Get PDFProfessional wrestling has a poor record of caring for athlete-artists’ health and wellbeing. The data gathered through the Health and Wellbeing in Professional Wrestling project aims to confront this issue. During the data collection process, we noted that interviewees’ reflections shifted the meaning of terms and ideas associated with wrestling but, until now, not fully understood. One such concept is risk. Wrestling has been criticised for being too risky by parents’ groups and teachers, and not risky enough by those who dismiss it as fake and phony. This article recognises that such miscomprehensions of wrestling risk have broader implications: an absence of suitable medical support, a lack of appreciation for its artistry, performing dangerous moves without professional training, and more. In order to comprehend wrestling risk in this deeper sense, this article reads it through the notion of edgework. Wrestling enables a reimagining of edgework more generally through the real-not-real spectrum, and as collaborative rather than competitive endeavor. There are broader implications here, then: a study of wrestling provides a model for comprehending the health and wellbeing benefits and challenges of contemporary risk. Finally, the article asks what difference this more nuanced and multifaceted version of risk makes to future innovations in wrestling health and wellbeing