The Adventures of Detective Hopper

Cynthia Bennett was the Fiction Editor for Tahoma West in 2019. Tahoma West editors who submitted work went through the same blind submission process as other contributors, sending in work anonymously and outside their genre. In print, editor works were placed in their own designated section at the end of the book to highlight outside contributors

Research Note: The Coverage of War: Do Women Matter? A Longitudinal Content Analysis of Broadsheets in Germany

Our social consciousness reserves the role of fighter solely for men. Women are not considered as being authoritative or decisive actors in the context of war and violence. During armed conflicts or other violent crises, female acting subjects seem to leave the public (i.e. media) stage – a place where they are underrepresented even under normal circumstances. Furthermore, media coverage of war, it is said, largely assigns the role of the victim to women. However, there is not much empirical evidence to support this view due to the significant lack of longitudinal quantitative studies on media coverage of women during wartime. In order to investigate this, a framing analysis of media coverage of war between 1989 and 2000 was conducted in Germany. This article reports on the results of this framing analysis and the representation of women during wartime in quality German newspapers. It is the first longitudinal gender-specific framing analysis of war coverage ever carried out in any country

The Use of iPads for Event Recording and Anecdotal Recording in Observations of Classroom Management

The presentation will explain how the preservice special education teacher candidates used iPads as a device to collect data on teacher behaviors in the classroom as they relate to classroom management. The students observed 3 different classrooms and teachers, using the iPad apps to conduct event recording and anecdotal recording. Once the data was collected, the preservice teacher candidates compared the data between the classrooms, as well as the data between the observers. The analysis of the data helped the preservice teacher candidates gain a new understanding of how often feedback is given to students, and the kind of feedback that is given. The presentation will also include implications and impacts on preservice teacher candidates

Online Courses The Real Challenge Is Motivation

Among the academic disciplines, business has led the way in offering Internet courses to its students. While online classes give students more opportunity and flexibility to integrate courses into their daily schedules, many concerns have developed from this form of distance education. Research on distance education indicates that the keys to effective online versus traditional classes includes the development of new teaching methods, frequent and timely interaction through e-mail, weekly discussion boards, the use of collaborative student groups, and an appreciation for students with multiple backgrounds and experiences. All of these keys are practical; however, when you consider the old adage you can take a horse to the water, but you cant make him drink, the researcher believes that intrinsic motivation can play a key role in online student success. This research paper was designed to 1) exam literature related to online courses, 2) discuss some indicators that support the notion that intrinsic motivation is attributable to student success; and 3) provide some strategies that may be used to increase intrinsic motivation in online courses

Fatherhood

Cynthia Bennett was the Fiction Editor for Tahoma West in 2019. Tahoma West editors who submitted work went through the same blind submission process as other contributors, sending in work anonymously and outside their genre. In print, editor works were placed in their own designated section at the end of the book to highlight outside contributors

Education for WIC Peer Counselors About Breastfeeding the Late Preterm Infant

Mothers of late preterm infants need ongoing support because they often find establishing breastfeeding (BF) to be complex and difficult. Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children peer counselors provide BF information and emotional support to new mothers in many communities. However, their current training does not include education about BF for the late preterm infant. The purpose of this report is to present important information about BF and the late preterm infant that can enhance peer counselors\u27 ability to offer appropriate support. The effect of this education on outcomes such as BF rates, maternal self-efficacy, infant hospital readmissions, and peer counselors\u27 self-efficacy needs to be investigated

The Influence of Nonmarital Childbearing on the Formation of First Marriages

We examine the association between nonmarital childbearing and the subsequent likelihood of first marriage and document a negative association between these variables controlling for a variety of potentially confounding influences in several large survey data sets for the United States. We then subject possible explanations of this finding to empirical test. The analyses performed support the following conclusions: Nonmarital childbearing does not appear to be driven by low expectations of future marriage. Rather, the direction of causation is just the reverse: Nonmarital childbearing tends to be an unexpected and unwanted event that has multiple effects, which on balance are negative, on a woman's subsequent likelihood of first marriage. Further, the upward trend in the proportion of childbearing that occurs outside of marriage may account for one-fourth of the increase in the proportion of women never marrying in the United States over cohorts separated by almost two decades. We do, however, find that nonmarital childbearers are more likely to enter informal cohabitational unions than are their single counterparts who do not bear a child. We find evidence that the negative association between out-of-wedlock childbearing and subsequent marriage is particularly strong among welfare recipients as well as evidence that out-of-wedlock childbearing increases the likelihood that a woman marries her child's biological father. On the other hand, we find no evidence that (a) stigma associated with nonmarital childbearing plays an important role in this process or (b) the demands of children reduce the time that unmarried mothers have to devote to marriage market activities

Preservice Teachers’ “Revelations and Connections”: Fostering Deep Conversations While Reading Multicultural Literature

We investigated strategies that a literacy teacher educator used to develop preservice teachers’ culturally responsive pedagogy. This study focused on (a) implementation of literature circles, (b) preservice teachers’ (n= 29) reading and analysis of multicultural children’s literature, (c) preservice teachers’ reader response reflective journals (RRRJ), and (d) reading comprehension strategies. We analyzed interviews with the professor and RRRJ (87 responses) as well as the course syllabus, reader response guidelines, and course evaluations to understand the lived experiences of the participants. We found preservice teachers recognize the benefits of literature circles and the utilization of RRRJ to develop an understanding of reading comprehension strategies and ways to talk about culture

The Impact of Adaptive Learning in Principles of Microeconomics

Abstract The spread of Covid-19, which forced almost all learning to move to online in March, 2020, abruptly increased the number of undergraduates taking at least one online course by approximately 177% between the fall of 2019 and the spring of 2020 (Koksal, 2020; Carey, 2020; National Center for Education Statistics, 2020). Even without the Covid-19 disruption, online education has become increasing prevalent due to the decreasing allocation of resources to higher education and the pressure on college administrators to make a college education effective, affordable, and accessible for more students. Originally online instruction differed from in-class instruction only be the method of delivery of the material, viewing a lecture online versus being present in a live classroom lecture. Although there have been many studies on the effectiveness of traditional online instruction over the last several decades, there have been fewer studies on the efficacy of the relatively new adaptive learning courseware. This initial study found that adaptive learning had a consistently positive and statistically significant impact on all principle of microeconomics students in the study, regardless of aptitude, ethnicity, and gender. However, students with high aptitudes appeared to benefit more from adaptive learning than their peers