Using Bloom\u27s taxonomy to teach college English in China: A handbook for educators

With the modernization and globalization of China, the Chinese need to study and utilize English to be a part of the world. College students are essential to learning English. However, the purpose of college English in China still focuses on the national College English Tests. College students are not able to meet their original goal of learning English. The purpose of this project is to create some teaching materials that improve students’ motivation and ability to learn English instead of raising exam grades. The project is a handbook which composes two model units based on Bloom’s taxonomy. Each unit contains four model lesson plans which are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Educators can adapt these lesson plans in the classroom and learn how to apply Bloom’s taxonomy to their own teaching situations. All in all, this handbook provides educators with different samples of the application of Bloom’s taxonomy in teaching materials. For teachers, applying Bloom’s taxonomy optimizes their teaching methods and strategies. They can avoid using only one teaching approach. Also, they have a chance to better interact with students. College students will have benefits from the teaching materials and increase their motivation to learn English. Therefore, students can attain more sense of achievement in learning English

WOMEN STRENGTH: USING PHOTOVOICE TO EXPLORE FEMALE CHINESE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES

Female Chinese international students face discrimination and stereotypes in Western academia based on race and gender, yet they possess unique “Women Strength” characterized by agency, resilience, and self-advocacy. This study explores how these students navigate cultural differences and develop their strengths while studying in the U.S. Drawing upon “Women Strength” as a theoretical framework, including Community Cultural Wealth, Critical Feminist Theory- Chinese feminism, decolonial feminism, and transnational feminism, transformative agency, resilience theory, and self-advocacy theory, this research employs a qualitative approach, including Photovoice and autoethnography. Three research questions guide the study: 1) What cultural differences do female Chinese international students experience in the U.S. related to race and gender? 2) How do they navigate these cultural differences? 3) How do they develop agency, resilience, and self-advocacy, or “Women Strength,” in response to these challenges? Findings reveal participants’ cognitive awareness of cultural differences and their strategies for coping and finding purpose and joy in their U.S. experience. While social support plays a significant role in their lives, notably absent is support from universities, highlighting a need for institutional acknowledgment and tailored support. Recommendations include university stakeholders recognizing the unique needs of these students and fostering a supportive and inclusive environment. Additionally, students are encouraged to recognize their own strengths and seek peer support, while future research should continue exploring the experiences of female Chinese international students and other marginalized groups. This study contributes to a nuanced understanding of the challenges and strengths of female Chinese international students and informs interventions and policies to better support them in their academic journey

Sexual Harassment by Top Managers: Impacts on Public Company

We investigate firms that fired the CEOs who are accused of sexual harassment and make this information public instead of entering into Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA), and we find that sexual harassment of CEOs have no significant influence on firm and firms do not suffer from the negative market reactions and long-term consequences. Contrary to precious literature suggesting the firm should enter into Non Disclosure Agreement because of its negative effects on firm, we believe that firing the accused CEO will not negatively affect firm and director should have more incentive to dismiss them instead of entering into NDA with victims. For CEOs who engaged in this event suffer the consequence from the labour market, because majority of them cannot obtain an equivalent job in job market as shown in our results. In very few cases they do, they are not hired by public firms. Moreover, we also find that the directors who made the dismissal decision of CEO did not suffer from the consequences and the number of employees was not affected by this event in 3 years either

New Perspectives of Quantum Analogues

In this dissertation we discuss three problems. We first show the classical q-Stirling numbers of the second kind can be expressed more compactly as a pair of statistics on a subset of restricted growth words. We extend this enumerative result via a decomposition of a new poset which we call the Stirling poset of the second kind. The Stirling poset of the second kind supports an algebraic complex and a basis for integer homology is determined. A parallel enumerative, poset theoretic and homological study for the q-Stirling numbers of the first kind is done. We also give a bijective argument showing the (q, t)-Stirling numbers of the first and second kind are orthogonal. In the second part we give combinatorial proofs of q-Stirling identities via restricted growth words. This includes new proofs of the generating function of q-Stirling numbers of the second kind, the q-Vandermonde convolution for Stirling numbers and the q-Frobenius identity. A poset theoretic proof of Carlitz’s identity is also included. In the last part we discuss a new expression for q-binomial coefficients based on the weighting of certain 01-permutations via a new bistatistic related to the major index. We also show that the bistatistics between the inversion number and major index are equidistributed. We generalize this idea to q-multinomial coefficients evaluated at negative q values. An instance of the cyclic sieving phenomenon related to flags of unitary spaces is also studied