The DLESE Community Review System: Gathering, Aggregating, and Disseminating User Feedback about the Effectiveness of Web-based Educational Resources

NOTE: This is a large file, 8 mb in size! The Community Review System (CRS) of the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is intended to help educators seeking high-quality digital resources and resource creators who are seeking recognition for their resources. This article describes how CRS gathers web-based feedback from educators and learners who have used DLESE educational resources, plus specialist reviews by science and pedagogy experts. This information is used to identify exemplary resources to be showcased in the DLESE Reviewed Collection. Detailed, but anonymous, feedback is provided to the resource creator to encourage improvement of the resource. Educational levels: Graduate or professional, Graduate or professional

An Auction Market for Journal Articles

Economic articles are published very slowly. We believe this results mainly from the poor incentives referees face. We recommend that an auction market replace the current system for submitting papers and demonstrate a strict Pareto-improvement of equilibrium. Besides the benefits of speed, this mechanism increases the average quality of articles and journals and rewards editors and referees for their effort. In addition, the "academic dollars" for papers sold at auction go to the authors, editors and referees of cited articles. This income indicates academic productivity (facilitating decisions on tenure and promotion); its recirculation to journals further stimulates quality competition.Academic Journals;Academic Productivity;Market Design. JEL codes

An Auction Market for Journal Articles

Economic articles are published very slowly. We believe this results from the poor incentives referees face. We recommend that an auction market replace the current, push system for submitting papers and demonstrate that our proposed market has a stable, Pareto-improving equilibrium. Besides the benefits of speed, this pull mechanism increases the quality of articles and journals and rewards referees for their effort. Although the auction price gives a prior on a paper's future value, its actual value|as a published article|depends on later citations. Since the auction price of later papers goes to the editors, authors and referees of earlier, cited articles, "auction earnings" give a direct measure of the value of articles, journals (the sum of articles) and academics - as authors, editors and reviewers - rewarding good writing, decisions and effort, respectively.Academic Journals;Academic Productivity;Market Design.

Through the Eyes of a Child: The Portrayal of South Africa’s Apartheid in Children’s Cinema

August 1977: a thirteen-year-old African American girl stands at the gate of an airport holding a bouquet of flowers. Standing with her mother, she is anxiously awaiting the arrival of Mahree, a South African school girl her family has offered to host for the upcoming academic school year. The young African American girl, Piper, is excited to meet this South African girl, hoping their African heritage will bond them together. The passengers all exit the plane, and Piper starts to worry that they are at the wrong gate because neither Piper nor her mom spotted a fourteen-year-old South African girl leaving the plane. In hopes of locating Mahree, Piper calls out Marhee’s name. Suddenly, a young white girl turns around and says “I’m Mahree Bok.” Both parties are stunned; Piper pictured Mahree to be black South African, while Mahree pictured her host family to be white. The scene described above is a scene from the children’s movie, The Color of Friendship, released in 2000. From the outside, this scene seems to be an innocent interaction-- two young girls are meeting for the first time. However, put in the context of the South African apartheid, one learns that this scene carries certain historical truths that warrant a deeper understanding. Its 1977 and South Africa is still entrenched in a strict and oppressive system of racial segregation. When meeting her African American host family for the first time, is it safe to assume that Mahree’s shock comes from a set of apartheid cultural ideologies that believe blacks to be inferior to whites. Directed by Kevin Hook, The Color of Friendship is a children’s TV film that seeks to address issues of race in the context of the South African apartheid. The Color of Friendship raises important questions about the genre of children’s film, memory, and history when analyzed through a historic lens. How can children’s film be used to address important but difficult themes of discrimination and race? Can directors use children’s film to accurately portray historical injustices? These series of questions can be answered through a deep historical analysis of the film, The Color of Friendship. The film’s representation of South African race relations through the portrayal of Steven Biko’s death and Afrikaner ideologies illustrates that difficult historical themes can be accurately portrayed through children’s cinema

MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING, NORTHEASTERN AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION, HOLIDAY INN, ATLANTIC CITY, NJ, JUNE 24, 1996

Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,

Construction of Readership in \u3cem\u3eEbony\u3c/em\u3e, \u3cem\u3eEssence\u3c/em\u3e, and \u3cem\u3eO, the Oprah Magazine\u3c/em\u3e

Miller et al examine the construction of readership in Ebony, Essence and O, The Oprah magazine, three popular magazines that purport to be a vehicle of identity and awareness for their target audience. Upon evaluation, they found that Ebony and Essence both challenge the hegemonic process with the incorporation of cultural artifacts that call upon collective memory to form reader association