Toward a Systematic Evidence-Base for Science in Out-of-School Time: The Role of Assessment

Analyzes the tools used in assessments of afterschool and summer science programs, explores the need for comprehensive tools for comparisons across programs, and discusses the most effective structure and format for such a tool. Includes recommendations

2010 Fine Art Graduation Exhibition Catalogue

Party\u27s Over Graduation Exhibition 2010 Fanshawe College Fine Art Program The ARTS ProjectApril 13-24, 2010 Guest Speaker: Scott Everingham The Bijan\u27s Art Studio Award will be presented at the Opening Receptionhttps://first.fanshawec.ca/famd_design_fineart_gradcatalogues/1020/thumbnail.jp

Effect of daily light integral treatments on free amino acids and sugars contributing flavor and acrylamide formation in potato tubers of Solanum tuberosum L.

To study the effect of photoperiodic conditions on the chemical composition of potato tubers, seven cultivars, grown under controlled conditions, were evaluated for the content of free amino acids (FAA) and sugars. The differences in these compounds may have an effect on the susceptibility of acrylamide formation during potato processing as well as on the flavor profile of potato products. Tubers were produced in growth chambers under two artificially induced photoperiods; 8 h light and 15 h light per day, resulting in conditions with two different daily light integral (DLI) levels. The photoperiodic treatments influenced the total FAA and free sugar contents and composition. Of the analyzed 19 FAAs, the concentrations of 14 FAAs were significantly lower in tubers exposed to the 15 h light period compared to 8 h light, whereas the glucose content was significantly higher. The total FAA concentrations were 15–46% lower and the glucose concentrations 6–64% higher in the seven cultivars exposed to the 15 h light conditions than in those grown in 8 h light

PromOTing Quality of Life for Individuals with Huntington’s Disease

Objectives of Presentation: Describe the symptoms of Huntington’s disease and their impact on functional performance. Recognize the role of occupational therapy in improving quality of life for individuals with Huntington’s disease. Discuss how occupational therapy interventions for individuals with Huntington’s disease can be applied in a variety of settings. Clinical Question: What is the effectiveness of occupational therapy interventions in improving quality of life for individuals with Huntington’s disease? Presentation: 46 minute

Evaluation of Elementary Students’ Attitudes Toward Science as a Result of the Introduction of an Enriched Science Curriculum

One of the challenges facing school educators is motivating students to learn science. This study is part of an evaluation of enriched science curriculum introduced in five western Canadian (Alberta) urban schools. The objective was to develop a multidimensional instrument suitable for evaluating the attitudes of students toward science with a potential to be used for classroom assessments. The study addressed instrument validity and reliability by testing a 40-item questionnaire using data from grade 4 students. The six-factor solution provided a conceptual foundation for future studies and instrument refinement. Overall, students who had been learning the experimental curriculum for three years displayed more positive attitudes toward science than control students.Un des défis auquel font face les enseignants est celui de motiver chez les élèves le désir d’étudier les sciences. Cette étude fait partie d’une évaluation du programme enrichi de sciences qui a été présenté dans cinq écoles canadiennes (albertaines) en milieu urbain. Cette étude vise à développer un outil multidimensionnel propice à l’évaluation des attitudes des élèves face aux sciences. L’outil pourrait éventuellement servir dans les évaluations en salle de classe. La validité et la fiabilité de l’outil ont été étudiées en faisant passer un questionnaire de 40 questions à des élèves en quatrième année. La solution à six variables a fourni un fondement conceptuel pour des études ultérieures et l’amélioration de l’outil. Sur l’ensemble, les élèves qui suivaient le programme expérimental depuis trois ans ont démontré des attitudes plus positives face aux sciences que les élèves du groupe contrôle

Schoolchildren or citizen shareholders? : Provincial repertory audiences, letters to the editor, and public subscription

When the Abbey Theatre installed a nightly police cordon to silence protesting playgoers during the 1907 run of Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, spectators voiced their objections in newsprint. Under pseudonyms like “A Western Girl,” “A Commonplace Person,” “A Much Interested Foreigner,” and “A Lover of Liberty,” correspondents sent letters to the Dublin Evening Telegraph, Freeman's Journal, and Dublin Evening Mail. “Vox Populi” wrote that the arrested protesters “showed an admirable public spirit, which in any other country would be highly honoured.” “Oryza” reported a conversation overheard from the stalls in which Synge had said that the audience's hissing was “quite legitimate.” After journalist and Galway MP Stephen Gwynn penned a letter supporting the Abbey, biographer D. J. O'Donoghue responded that “the vindictiveness which has been shown night after night in expelling and prosecuting people who ahve [sic], in their excitement, called out ‘It's a libel’ or ‘shame,’ or otherwise mildly protested, is a serious menace to the freedom of an audience.” He referred to the furor as a “newspaper controversy”; others called it a “newspaper war.” In a public discussion at the Abbey after the play's run, Yeats quoted from the correspondence when defending his decision to call in the police. According to playwright William Boyle, the controversy boiled down to political representation. In a letter to the Freeman's Journal, he argued that protesters had not reacted “by staying away,” as some supporters had suggested they should, “because the ‘Abbey’ is a subsidised theatre, independent of the money taken at the door. Therefore … the public had no remedy, but the one resorted to.” Private subsidy had muffled the democratic shuffling of playgoers’ pocketbooks; forced to shut their mouths inside the theatre, playgoers opened up to the newspapers that circulated around it

Whistleblowing as a means to raise concerns, or a means to an end!

This is a reflection on a whistleblowing policy in practice.  This will be linked to a specific issue from practice.  Consideration will be given to the impact of culture within an organisation of a staff member decision to use the whistleblowing policy.While whistleblowing is an option where a staff member has serious concerns about quality of care, it is one that is only taken when all other avenues are exhausted.  It will explore some of the challenges that staff and students can encounter when making a decision to whistleblow.  It will explain how a whistleblowing policy can support professionals in practice.It argues how those on the receiving end of care may have limited choice on the quality of that care, but as health professionals we do have choices and it is about what choices we make