The Treatment and Use of Best Practices for Diversity in Position Announcements for New Presidents     

Jeffery L. Wilson  Katrina A. Meyer 《Innovative Higher Education》2013,38(2):91-104

This study investigated how well institutions were communicating their commitment to diversity within position announcements for presidential openings and whether or not this communication reflected best practices in forwarding the diversity agenda for institutions. The sample included 70 institutions that advertised for a new campus president in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Using documents pertaining to the search, we applied content analysis to position announcements and campus websites dealing with presidential searches and diversity. Evidence indicated that within our sample only 13 (19 %) of institutions stated directly that they were looking for a diverse applicant pool and that only 28 (40 %) of the announcements mentioned diversity.  相似文献   

A plan to encourage home reading     

Katrina E. Bulkley  Leslie Nabors Oláh  Suzanne Blanc 《Peabody Journal of Education》2013,88(2):115-124

Museums have the capacity to enhance social cohesion, which is the product of a trusting, connected community. History museums and historic sites, in particular, can serve communities by stimulating dialogue on difficult issues, accurately representing all the people of a nation, and creating forums for discussion among groups with disparate opinions. History museums promote social cohesion by solidifying the identities of their audiences—as members of communities, ethnic groups, nations, and the world. This article combines extensive research with firsthand experience in history museums to accurately portray the ways different museums affect social cohesion. It looks first at what social cohesion is, and the ways in which both civil society and educational organizations contribute to it. It makes the argument that museums share attributes of both civil society and educational organizations. This article then addresses the different ways museums contribute to defining identity, bridging community divides, and addressing society's most difficult issues. It does this with in-depth analysis of several Holocaust museums and the movement in Russia to memorialize sites of Stalinist terror.  相似文献   

P. O’Neill, C. Moore and B. Hout, Review of: A Guide to College Writing Assessment , Utah State University Press, Logan, UT, USA (2009) 219 pp. (excluding the TOC through acknowledgments, pp. i–vii), ISBN-978-0-87421-732-2 (paper); ISBN-978-087421-733-9 (e-book).     

Katrina Dunbar  Pennie L. Gray  Betsy L.F. Hall  Jamison Lee  Emily McClintick  Anjanette Riley   《Assessing Writing》2010,15(3):204

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Designing an Affordable Usability Test for E‐Learning Modules     

Corliss A. O'Bryan  Donald M. Johnson  Katrina D. Shores‐Ellis  Philip G. Crandall  John A. Marcy  Steve C. Seideman  Steven C. Ricke 《Journal of Food Science Education》2010,9(1):6-10

ABSTRACT: This article provides background and an introduction to a user‐centered design and usability test in an inexpensive format that allows content experts who are novices in e‐learning development to perform testing on newly developed technical training modules prior to their release. The use of a small number of test participants, avoidance of elaborate testing laboratories, and the establishment of clear, concise objectives with a detailed test outline are supported by the discount usability testing approach. This approach reduces testing cost, provides faster results, and yields a more successful product and increased customer satisfaction. Discount usability testing should have broad appeal to new e‐learning developers as a final step before releasing their newly developed training modules.  相似文献   

Boxed in or Coming out? On the Treatment of Science,Technology and Gender in Educational Research     

Flis Henwood  Katrina Miller 《Gender and education》2001,13(3):237-242

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Algebraic manipulation as motion within a landscape     

Michael C. Wittmann  Virginia J. Flood  Katrina E. Black 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2013,82(2):169-181

We show that students rearranging the terms of a mathematical equation in order to separate variables prior to integration use gestures and speech to manipulate the mathematical terms on the page. They treat the terms of the equation as physical objects in a landscape, capable of being moved around. We analyze our results within the tradition of embodied cognition and use conceptual metaphors such as the path-source-goal schema and the idea of fictive motion. We find that students solving the problem correctly and efficiently do not use overt mathematical language like multiplication or division. Instead, their gestures and ambiguous speech of moving are the only algebra used at that moment.  相似文献   

Home Away from Home: Acclimatization of Filipino Elderly from being Home to a Sense of being “At Home” in an Elderly Institution     

Allan B. de Guzman  Katrina Illyana J. Guevara  Frances Jane B. Guiang  Anton Lorenzo I. Gutierez  Alayne S. Habaluyas  Marc Alison P. Hizon 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(11):799-811

This grounded study examined the process of acclimatization or the process of changing perspectives of a person so as to get used to or feel “at home” among a select group of Filipino elderly in a nursing care facility. As institutionalization of the elderly is not typical in the Philippine context, varied responses were analyzed to understand the factors and the course that an elderly person undergoes over a set period of time to achieve acclimatization. Twenty elderly (n = 20) residents were purposively recruited and subjected to an in-depth interview that chronicled their experiences on their previous and present lives and on the process by which they were able to adjust to a relatively new setting. Preliminarily, a robotfoto was devised to obtain demographic data including visitation frequencies and familial relationships, and this was followed by an in-depth interview. Through the constant comparison method, an interesting model called the Hourglass of Acclimatization emerged. This model yielded two distinct phases contributing to successful acclimatization. One is the Conversion phase, or imbibing the main notion of transforming one's perspectives of him or herself and his or her environment; there is also the Immersion phase, which describes how an elderly involves him or herself completely into the life he or she is supposed to live. This emerged model can contribute to the development of nursing interventions focusing on elderly experiences in the entire course of relocation to a new environment other than what they call “home.”  相似文献   

Creativity and inspiration for problem solving in engineering education     

Katrina Nordstrom  Päivi Korpelainen 《Teaching in Higher Education》2013,18(4):439-450

Problem solving is a critical skill for engineering students and essential to development of creativity and innovativeness. Essential to such learning is an ease of communication and allowing students to address the issues at hand via the terminology, attitudes, humor and empathy, which is inherent to their frame of mind as novices, without the attempt to have to be the expert. Deep learning of scientific fact can be facilitated by using non-conventional tools for teaching, learning and presentation such as drama, video, posters, model making and other similar means. It may be time to break free of the PowerPoint tradition to generate successful approaches for establishing student engagement and maintaining such engagement.  相似文献   

Knowledge management in a small knowledge intensive organisation: research design process at the Cochrane Child Health Field     

Iva?SetoEmail author  Brad?Arkison  Katrina?Williams 《知识管理研究与实践》2011,9(4):378-384

At the Cochrane Child Health Field, we embarked on a complex project to develop short one-page clinical summaries of health evidence to answer questions posed by paediatricians. Subsequently, our priority was to test these ‘Clinical Answers’ (CAs) to ensure that our product was meeting their needs. This paper provides a reflection of the process of developing a research design to evaluate the CAs format, particularly focusing on the process of partnership. Schön's concept of reflection-on-action is used as a framework.  相似文献   

The effect of short-duration sprint interval exercise on plasma postprandial triacylglycerol levels in young men     

Edward Allen  Partick Gray  Angeliki Kollias-Pearson  Erlend Oag  Katrina Pratt  Jennifer Henderson 《Journal of sports sciences》2013,31(10):911-916

Abstract

It is well established that regular exercise can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, although the most time-efficient exercise protocol to confer benefits has yet to be established. The aim of the current study was to determine the effects of short-duration sprint interval exercise on postprandial triacylglycerol. Fifteen healthy male participants completed two 2 day trials. On day 1, participants rested (control) or carried out twenty 6 s sprints, interspersed with 24 s recovery (sprint interval exercise – 14 min for total exercise session). On day 2, participants consumed a high-fat meal for breakfast with blood samples collected at baseline, 2 h and 4 h. Gas exchange was also measured at these time points. On day 2 of control and sprint interval exercise trials, there were no differences (P < 0.05) between trials in plasma glucose, triacylglycerol, insulin or respiratory exchange ratio (RER). The area under the curve for plasma triacylglycerol was 7.67 ± 2.37 mmol · l^–1.4 h^–1 in the control trial and 7.26 ± 2.49 mmol · l^–1.4 h^–1 in the sprint interval exercise trial. Although the sprint exercise protocol employed had no significant effect on postprandial triacylglycerol, there was a clear variability in responses that warrants further investigation.  相似文献