(2013). Middle School English Second Language (ESL) Teachers' Usage of Technology for Literacy Instruction and Their English Language Learners' (ELL) Responses. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas Woman's University. Digital technologies surround our lives today and many adolescent students are actively engaged in reading and writing through multimodal digital technologies. The omnipresence of digital technologies in today's society inevitably influences students' literacy practices. Thus, there is an imminent need on the teacher's part to infuse technologies as instructional tools in the classroom in order to connect with students' lives. Recent research evidences teachers' and researchers' responses to this need. English language learners (ELLs) are included in this generation of youths actively engaged in digital technologies outside the classroom. However, little is known about ESL teachers' use of technologies for literacy instruction in the classroom and their ELLs' responses to these technologies. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine middle school teachers' use of technologies for literacy instruction and their ELL student's responses. Two middle school ESL teachers… [Direct]
(2012). A Comparative Analysis of Indian Gaming in the United States. American Indian Quarterly, v36 n1 p50-74 Win. Previous research on Indian gaming in South Dakota discovered very restrictive and unfavorable tribal-state compacts that appear to border on economic racism. This article expands this previous research by exploring the influence of tribal-state Indian gaming compacts for the Indian casinos located in the contiguous United States. The purpose is to describe the current state of the Indian gaming industry. For the states that have Class III Indian gaming the authors document the number of casinos, numbers of gaming devices, and gaming revenues. They also provide an in-depth analysis of common practices in compact negotiation and how tribal-state compacts vary geographically. States are ranked based on the degree of control that they attempt to exercise over sovereign Native American tribes. Concern is raised over the growing interest by certain states to require greater revenue sharing from the tribes' gaming operations. The authors find that the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA)… [Direct]
(2014). Applying the Intervention Model for Fostering Affective Involvement with Persons Who Are Congenitally Deafblind: An Effect Study. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, v108 n5 p399-413 Sep-Oct. Introduction: In this study, we applied the Intervention Model for Affective Involvement (IMAI) to four participants who are congenitally deafblind and their 16 communication partners in 3 different settings (school, a daytime activities center, and a group home). We examined whether the intervention increased affective involvement between the participants and their communication partners and whether it increased positive emotions and reduced negative emotions in the participants. Methods: We used video observations in a multiple-baseline design across subjects to assess the effects of the 20-week intervention on the communication partners' interactions with the participants. Results: After onset of the intervention, affective involvement increased for three participants, while all four participants showed an increase in positive emotions and a decrease in negative emotions. During follow-up, the positive effect on the participants' behaviors decreased in most cases, but remained… [PDF]
(2014). Challenges and Opportunities for Business Communication: A Facebook Approach Conundrum. Research-publishing.net, Paper presented at the 2014 EUROCALL Conference (Groningen, The Netherlands, Aug 20-23, 2014). Facebook is currently one of the most popular platforms for online social networking among university students. The ever-growing prevalence of Facebook has led business educators to explore what role social networking technology might play in business training and professional development. Nonetheless, much is left to be learned about how Facebook is influencing student learning in the area of business communication. This paper examined the effect on learners' satisfaction of incorporating Facebook into business communication courses. A total of 147 undergraduate students from a national university in Taiwan participated in this web-supported study. To analyze the students' reflection quantitatively, a survey was employed. The findings showed that the incorporation of Facebook into coursework effectively assisted students' learning of business communication. Facebook worked as the social glue that connected students together in a learning community, provided opportunities for… [PDF]
(2019). Migration, Education and Translation: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Human Mobility and Cultural Encounters in Education Settings. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group This multidisciplinary collection examines the connections between education, migration and translation across school and higher education sectors, and a broad range of socio-geographical contexts. Organised around the themes of knowledge, language, mobility, and practice, it brings together studies from around the world to offer a timely critique of existing practices that privilege some ways of knowing and communicating over others. With attention to issues of internationalisation, forced migration, minorities and indigenous education, this volume asks how the dominance of English in education might be challenged, how educational contexts that privilege bi- and multi-lingualism might be re-imagined, what we might learn from existing educational practices that privilege minority or indigenous languages, and how we might exercise 'linguistic hospitality' in a world marked by high levels of forced migration and educational mobility. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the… [Direct]
(2019). Trends in Assessment: Ideas, Opportunities, and Issues for Higher Education. Stylus Publishing LLC "Trends in Assessment" provides readers with a survey of the state-of-the-art of the enduring assessment concepts and approaches developed over the past twenty-five years, and includes chapters by acknowledged experts who describe how emerging assessment trends and ideas apply to their programs and pedagogies, covering: (1) Community Engagement; (2) ePortfolios; (3) Faculty Development; (4) Global Learning; (5) Graduate and Professional Education; (6) High-Impact Practices; (7) Learning Improvement and Innovation; (8) Assessment Trends from NILOA; (9) STEM; and (10) Student Affairs Programs and Services. The concluding chapters point to a future of assessment and identify several meta-trends in assessment. The book was conceived by organizers and contributors of the Assessment Institute in Indianapolis, the nation's oldest and largest higher education assessment event, and includes contributions by the following partners of the Institute: Association for the Assessment of… [Direct]
(2019). Project Education Impact: Achieving Educational Success for Washington's Children, Youth and Young Adults in Foster Care and/or Experiencing Homelessness. Joint Agency Report to Legislature. Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families Research nationally demonstrates that children and youth experiencing foster care and/or homelessness achieve academic outcomes significantly below their peers due to trauma and loss, multiple changes in homes and schools, and emotional upheaval. When youth fail to graduate from high school, they are much more likely to live in poverty, require public assistance, experience adult homelessness, and be incarcerated. For the class of 2015, only 41.5% of Washington State youth in foster care and only 38.4% of youth who have experienced homelessness graduated high school on time. A coalition of state agencies and nonprofit organizations began meeting about strategies to improve outcomes in October 2017. A 2018 budget proviso (Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6032) codified their charge, directing the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF), in collaboration with the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), the Office of Homeless Youth (OHY), and the Washington… [PDF]
(2016). "No, Do You Know What 'Your' Treaty Rights Are?" Treaty Consciousness in a Decolonizing Frame. Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, v38 n4 p381-408. "Idle No More" represents a watershed moment of treaty education, with treaty-related teach-ins, direct actions, and information sharing happening in diverse public spaces across Canada and around the globe. Although unprecedented in scope, depth, and intensity, "Idle No More" rests in a centuries-old continuity of Indigenous treaty pedagogy: efforts on the part of Indigenous peoples, going back to the time of first contact, to educate newcomers to their territories regarding the principles, meanings, protocol, and implications of treaty relationships. Yet despite centuries of such efforts, as well as more recent efforts on the part of solidarity organizations and even mainstream educational institutions, treaty ignorance and denial remain rampant in Canada, and treaties themselves continue to constitute a lightning rod of contention and entrenched conflict between Indigenous and settler peoples. For critical educators committed to dismantling colonial mindsets,… [Direct]
(2016). Librarians and Instructional Designers: Collaboration and Innovation. ALA Editions With online education options more ubiquitous and sophisticated than ever, the need for academic librarians to be conversant with digital resources and design thinking has become increasingly important. The way forward is through collaboration with instructional designers, which allows librarians to gain a better understanding of digital resource construction, design, goals, and responsibilities. In this book, the authors demonstrate that when librarians and instructional designers pool their knowledge of curriculum and technology, together they can impact changes that help to better serve faculty, students, and staff to address changes that are affecting higher education. Illustrated using plentiful examples of successful collaboration in higher education, this book: (1) introduces the history of collaborative endeavors between instructional designers and librarians, sharing ideas for institutions of every size; (2) reviews key emerging issues, including intellectual property,… [Direct]
(2012). Power, Oppression, Liberation, Religious Education. Religious Education, v107 n3 p230-235. In this article, the author begins by talking about power and his early vocational discernment. He continues by sharing his ongoing vocational discernment and religious education for liberation. Over the past twenty years the author has worked for a Catholic diocese and two Catholic universities. He has also done significant volunteer work in several Catholic parishes to which he has belonged. During this time he has, in his life and work, become more and more committed to: (1) making accessible the unique potential of religious education to be a freeing, liberating activity; (2) exploring how social power can be used in life-giving rather than oppressive ways in ministerial and educational relationships; and (3) drawing attention to the necessity of balancing academic enquiry with pastoral involvement and the importance of addressing pressing sociomoral issues from a religious educational perspective. (Contains 4 footnotes.)… [Direct]
(2024). Essays in Labor Economics and Industrial Organization. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan. Chapter 1 studies how the interaction of student information with constraints dictated by market design determines higher education choices and outcomes. I study strategic application incentives in imperfect implementations of centralized assignment mechanisms in higher education. I ask whether, in markets with both a central match for public colleges and a broader private market, choices on the match are affected by the availability good private outside options. It is unclear whether the common market configuration with outside private options and application size restrictions generates strategic incentives in applications on the public match that is advantageous to students with higher socioeconomic backgrounds. I assemble data from the college match in Albania and utilize a policy change that incorporated all private colleges in the centralized platform to generate insight. The policy does two things: first, it removes private programs as an outside alternative to the match,… [Direct]
(2013). Policy Formulation and Networks of Practice in European eLearning: The Emergence of a European E-Learning Area. European Journal of Education, v48 n2 p292-310 Jun. This article discusses the emergence of a European E-Learning Area (EELA) as a consequence of three factors that can be observed in the e-learning developments over the past decade. The first factor consists of the carving of a policy sector in e-learning via formal instruments such as the eLearning Programme, the Lifelong Learning Programme and an array of other e-learning policy stipulations embedded in larger policy instruments at European level (e.g. Framework Programme). The second factor is represented by the mainstreaming of e-learning activities, both through formal and informal measures across multiple domains. Finally, the proliferation and consolidation of interlinked networks of practice as incubators of e-learning innovation and sharing of expertise act as the third factor in the shaping of EELA. The conceptualisation of EELA is substantiated through an analysis of the European e-learning policy documentation and the findings of a questionnaire distributed to the… [Direct]
(2017). Under the Wheels of a Juggernaut: Education Programs in the Midst of a Moral Quandary. Philosophical Studies in Education, v48 p30-44. The authors begin this essay by sharing excerpts taken from two events at their own liberal arts institution. One was from an opening convocation in 1967, and the second from an accreditation visit in 2014. The two episodes have been presented in order to illustrate the major differences in the ways university experiences have been thought about in the past compared to the neoliberal manner in which they are now understood. From reading the two provided scenarios, it becomes difficult to deny that the language related to higher education and the rationale given for attending college has changed since 1967. Language and rhetoric have moved away from having, at least at times, those who "worried" about the role of the academy in such things as the well-being of the community and the development of thinking individuals, or of viewing the university as a site where contested ideas could be verbalized, to now mainly stressing job acquisition and accountability. In this change,… [PDF]
(2017). Leading across Boundaries: Collaborative Leadership and the Institutional Repository in Research Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges. ProQuest LLC, D.Bibl. Dissertation, Simmons College. Libraries often engage in services that require collaboration across stakeholder boundaries to be successful. Institutional repositories (IRs) are a good example of such a service. IRs are an infrastructure to preserve intellectual assets within a university or college, and to provide an open access showcase for that institution's research, teaching, and creative excellence. They involve multiple stakeholders (librarians, IT experts, administrators, faculty, and students) and are typically operated by academic libraries. They have existed since the early 2000s. Collaborative leadership has been studied in areas such as health care and business, but it has received little attention in studies of library leadership and management. Collaborative leadership has been shown to be an effective leadership style for an increasingly networked world; it is an interactive process in which people set aside self-interests, share power, work across boundaries, and discuss issues openly and… [Direct]
(2014). Immediate Dissemination of Student Discoveries to a Model Organism Database Enhances Classroom-Based Research Experiences. CBE – Life Sciences Education, v13 n1 p131-138 Mar. Use of inquiry-based research modules in the classroom has soared over recent years, largely in response to national calls for teaching that provides experience with scientific processes and methodologies. To increase the visibility of in-class studies among interested researchers and to strengthen their impact on student learning, we have extended the typical model of inquiry-based labs to include a means for targeted dissemination of student-generated discoveries. This initiative required: 1) creating a set of research-based lab activities with the potential to yield results that a particular scientific community would find useful and 2) developing a means for immediate sharing of student-generated results. Working toward these goals, we designed guides for course-based research aimed to fulfill the need for functional annotation of the "Tetrahymena thermophila" genome, and developed an interactive Web database that links directly to the official Tetrahymena Genome… [Direct]