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What’s Troubling You? Examining How Biology Teaching Assistants Talk About Teaching Concerns
No full textUndergraduate students in science classes are more engaged and demonstrate increased performance when instructional methods include authentic science practices and active learning strategies. Non-majors students (i.e., those enrolled in science classes to fulfill a degree requirement) typically receive instruction that is more lecture-based and prescribed, however, which contributes to disinterest, diminished self-expectations, and lower performance. Teaching assistants (TAs) often interact with undergraduate students more closely in science classes than faculty and thus could potentially have far-reaching impacts on these students. Therefore, understanding how TAs think about their science teaching and the concerns they have about their methods can lead to designing more effective TA professional development (PD). In this qualitative study, we explored TA written reflections and employed first-and second-cycle analysis techniques to identify themes reflecting TAs’ perceptions of their science teaching and concerns for improvement. We found that TAs’ concerns about their teaching centered on three themes: subject-specific concerns, student-centered concerns, and delivery and presentation concerns. Further, these concerns changed over time and varied across TA experience level. We offer insight into how TAs’ teaching concerns evolve and discuss the implications of these insights for TA PD
Conservative, Progressive, Republican, Liberal: Ideology and Political Theory in America\u27s Constitutional Framing
No full textJoin Dr. Jay Steinmentz in discussing the ideological motivations and influences of America\u27s constitutional framing. How can we evaluate conservative and progressive impulses in shaping the American Constitution? How did classical republicanism and classical liberalism influence our founders? Dr. Steinmetz argues that we should see the American framing as a composite of well-intentioned political theories, one that led to the creation of a liberal democratic constitutional republic.
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AI@FHSU Magazine - Issue 1
No full textTable of Contents:
Letter from the Editor... 03
QnA with Provost Jill Arsendorf... 05
ChatGPT-- Our New Favorite Committee Member... 07
Dialogue, Learning, and GenAI in the University... 11
The Intersection of AI and Multilingual Learners... 19
An Uncommon Cross-Disciplines Collaboration... 21
Google Gemini as a Consultant for Quantitative Data Analysis... 24
Purpose-Built Intelligence... 28
Adventures with AI... 31
Artificial Intelligence in School Psychology... 34
The Infrastructure of AI at FHSU... 38
Embracing Generative AI in Business Education... 42
From Hesitation to Confidence: AI’s Role in Student Communication & Expression... 44
FHSU Hosts AI Symposium to Help K-12 Educators Embrace the Future of Teaching... 47
AI and Philosophy of Thought... 53https://scholars.fhsu.edu/ai_fhsu_magazine/1000/thumbnail.jp
Knowing One\u27s Place at the Table: Taste as a Means of Othering in the American Colonies, 1700-1775
No full textThis thesis began as an inquiry into a simple question. How did people in the American colonies talk about the food that they ate? This question led to a fascinating look into the social dynamics of the people living in eighteenth century America. Their own personal writings demonstrate how they understood their place in society through the food that they ate. Moreover, they often wrote about the way that other people ate in ways that alienated or discriminated against different ethnic groups. A look into the secondary historiography revealed that other historians had noticed this trend. However, very few addressed it directly. Their work highlights it as tangential to the arguments that they intended to make.
Each chapter of the research presented here analyzes a different aspect of the trend of othering. With the exception of the last, these chapters are dedicated to a different classification of person that was experienced othering through the lens of taste. These classifications include race, religion, economic status, and gender. The final chapter analyzes another fascinating component of taste-based othering. That is that those at the top of colonial society often did not follow the expectations that they imposed on those beneath them.
Finally, this thesis attempts to act as a sensorial history. A sensorial history tells a story of the past through the experiences of at least one of the five senses. In this case, the reader is invited to better understand the lives of those living in eighteenth century colonies through the medium of taste. Special attention is paid to the flavor experiences so that you, as the reader, may more fully appreciate the humanity of the subjects. In this way, the separation between the past and the present becomes less stark
Everyone Wore Masks: Winter Baseball during the Flu Pandemic of 1918–1919, Revised
Full text linkEfforts to control the influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 were in the hands of local officials, creating a mosaic of regulations. Among the aspects of society affected by these regulations were organized sports, which attracted large groups of people that could contribute to the spread of the disease. Infection rates were highest during the cooler months, so baseball was largely unaffected. However, southern California had an active winter baseball season that attracted major league players, who earned money by playing for teams such as the Pasadena Merchants. Pasadena and the Standard-Murphy team from the oil field region near Whittier were in the midst of a five-game series for the self-proclaimed semipro championship of southern California, when the Pasadena City Commission passed an ordinance requiring everyone to wear a cloth face mask in public. Baseball players would not be exempt, and they refused to play under these conditions. However, instead of moving the game to another city, the players changed their minds and donned the masks on 26 January 1919 for what turned out to be an 11-inning contest. The novelty of the game attracted photographers, and news of the event was reported by newspapers across the country. Four days later, the mask ordinance in Pasadena was rescinded. This narrative summarizes the events surrounding the game, in which several major league players participated. This essay was originally published in 2020 and has undergone revisions and corrections for its release in 2025 as part of the five-volume anthology Peeking through the Knothole. The open-access, digital version of this essay is available through the “Download” button on this webpage. The print-on-demand version is available through the “Buy this Book” button for volume five of the anthology (Essays on Baseball from Various Viewpoints, 1856–1940).https://scholars.fhsu.edu/all_monographs/1018/thumbnail.jp
I’ve Wanted to Leave
Full text linkI’ve Wanted to Leave by Mariam Sears Organizational Leadership/Medical Diagnostic Imaging, Undergraduat
