Incorporating Critical Thinking Skills Into the Language Arts Curriculum, Particularly in the Field of Detective Fiction

In this age of accelerated change and continuing complexity, there is a widely-recognized need to incorporate critical thinking skills into all aspects of everyday life and not simply as an optional philosophy class at the post-secondary level of American education. Chapter One of this culminating project investigates the historical roots of critical thinking, with a brief investigation into the history of bow education in America (with slight digressions such as Alcott/Emerson\u27s Temple School and John Dewey\u27s Chicago experiments) has historically failed to foster the development of critical thinking skills in America\u27s students by its centuries old tradition of emphasizing rote memorization, passive learning, and social indoctrination. Chapter Two discusses how the realization of the importance of critical thinking skills has affected teacher education programs and has rekindled debates regarding the content versus process approach to including critical thinking skills in the curriculum. This chapter also investigates the current renaissance regarding wait-time and the importance of cooperative learning in the classroom. Echoing Ralph Waldo Emerson\u27s :sentiments regarding education, Chapter Three discusses techniques to foster creative and critical reading skills in the high school student as well as critical thinking skills. Included in this chapter are lateral thinking puzzles, word games, and exercises to stimulate critical thinking. Chapter Four investigates the application of critical thinking exercises into a discussion of one of the most popular literary genres, detective fiction. This chapter also provides a transcript of the actual implementation of this approach in a Detective Fiction class at Saint Francis Borgia Regional High School in Washington, Missouri. Chapter Five reiterates the guiding principles of the Center for Critical Thinking and Moral Critique and how they apply to the inclusion of critical thinking skills into the language arts curriculum, specifically in the field of detective fiction

Towards Containing Terrorism in North East Nigeria: A Befitting Strategy for a Protracted War

This paper discusses the application of the containment strategy in combating terrorism in North East Nigeria. To achieve this aim, secondary data in the form of written texts, journal articles, newspaper reports and internet webpages are utilized. This research is pertinent for the Nigerian Armed Forces is yet to discover a befitting strategy at quelling terrorism in the north east region. Also, the retrogressing effects of the current strategy adopted by the Nigerian government makes the findings of this work a compelling alternative to the existing strategy. A detailed hypothesis on how the containment strategy can be applied in the north east region has been attempted in this work. There is, however, a necessity for further needs analysis and more specific and elaborate study by strategists and tacticians of the Nigerian armed forces to weigh the potency, strength, weakness, the opportunity cost and the threats of this idea in regard to the general and peculiar Boko Haram conflict context. Keywords: Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Radicalization, Boko Haram, Containment Strategy, Deradicalization, Indoctrination, Radical Islamism, Ideolog

The Ursinus Weekly, January 10, 1944

Fine cast chosen for coming play, Jupiter Laughs • Ensign Miriam Waltemyer to speak on Navy waves • Senator Ball will speak at Ursinus this Wednesday on post-war world • Ursinus honor grad to speak tonight • Dorothy Waltz engaged • Intersorority dance postponed • Students joyful at belated banquet • Rosicrucians elect girls to fill coveted offices • Memorial marks site of girls\u27 seminary • Post-war employment ideas solicited in Pabst contest • Dr. Hartzell holds office on Collegeville council • Combined Y\u27s will sponsor amateur night on Friday • Rev. Shaffer addresses student body at vespers • Ursinus students speak • Publishers offer awards to writers in services • German Club features sing • James Boswell to teach mathematics at Illinois • Leona Miller to give make-up demonstration • Captain Fury presented • Loraine Walton to review Taps for Private Tussie • The librarian\u27s angle • Courtmen lose close tilt to F. & M. when Mackin scores in last minute • Garnet crushes Ursinus grapplers • Carney beats Shope in intramural games • Men\u27s varsity defeats Valley Forge hospital • Five girls return from 1943 varsity • Freshman receives rating in 1943 tennis lineup • Basketball five downs Superior Tube team • War cannot stop Russian colleges • Ursinus students flock to Thompson-Gay gymhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1722/thumbnail.jp

Record linkage to obtain birth outcomes for the evaluation of screening biomarkers in pregnancy: a feasibility study

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Linking population health data to pathology data is a new approach for the evaluation of predictive tests that is potentially more efficient, feasible and efficacious than current methods. Studies evaluating the use of first trimester maternal serum levels as predictors of complications in pregnancy have mostly relied on resource intensive methods such as prospective data collection or retrospective chart review. The aim of this pilot study is to demonstrate that record-linkage between a pathology database and routinely collected population health data sets provides follow-up on patient outcomes that is as effective as more traditional and resource-intensive methods. As a specific example, we evaluate maternal serum levels of PAPP-A and free <it>β</it>-hCG as predictors of adverse pregnancy outcomes, and compare our results with those of prospective studies.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Maternal serum levels of PAPP-A and free <it>β</it>-hCG for 1882 women randomly selected from a pathology database in New South Wales (NSW) were linked to routinely collected birth and hospital databases. Crude relative risks were calculated to investigate the association between low levels (multiples of the median ≤ 5^thpercentile) of PAPP-A or free <it>β</it>-hCG and the outcomes of preterm delivery (<37 weeks), small for gestational age (<10^thpercentile), fetal loss and stillbirth.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Using only full name, sex and date of birth for record linkage, pregnancy outcomes were available for 1681 (89.3%) of women included in the study. Low levels of PAPP-A had a stronger association with adverse pregnancy outcomes than a low level of free <it>β</it>-hCG which is consistent with results in published studies. The relative risk of having a preterm birth with a low maternal serum PAPP-A level was 3.44 (95% CI 1.96–6.10) and a low free <it>β</it>-hCG level was 1.31 (95% CI 0.55–6.16).</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>This study provides data to support the use of record linkage for outcome ascertainment in studies evaluating predictive tests. Linkage proportions are likely to increase if more personal identifiers are available. This method of follow-up is a cost-efficient technique and can now be applied to a larger cohort of women.</p