An Autoethnography: Writing Culture of the Hyphened Hearts

The transformative aspects of qualitative research offer meaningful alternatives to pedagogy. Spanish speaking students and instructor share their autoethnographic experiences when teaching/learning cultural and linguistic competence in Spanish in a family therapy master’s level course. Crossing the borders of the academia into the personal/cultural to bring up to date their hyphened identities will be discussed in tandem with their new discoveries evoked while writing and exchanging stories

The Youth Collaborative Mental Health Survey: A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach Using Constructivism With Majority Hispanic Youth

Youth today face novel mental health challenges compared to youth of previous generations. Youth voice in research is necessary to better understand and alleviate this national youth mental health crisis, but current U.S. nationally representative datasets on youth mental health lack youth voice in their survey designs. The academic team collaborated with 19 high school students to design a comprehensive youth mental health survey called the Youth Collaborative Mental Health Survey (YCMHS). The youth co-investigators represented the diversity of San Antonio, Texas, and were majority Hispanic. The constructivism pedagogy in education, which empowers youth voice in the learning process, was utilized to facilitate the youth-led creation of the YCMHS. During eight 2-hour meetings, the youth co-investigators designed the YCMHS with 20 domains and 195 questions. The YCMHS embraced respondent flexibility and voice and included 42 conditional response questions and 29 free-text response questions. The youth co-investigators led the survey administration at five schools during the 2020–2021 school year. The youth-led research design also strengthened collaboration between community and school partners. Takeaways from the academic team include the importance of being flexible and patient and advocating for the youth collaborators. Takeaways from the youth co-investigators include the importance of being open-minded, asking honest questions related to youth mental health, and being persistent. Future work will strengthen the scientific rigor of the YCMHS and highlight preliminary survey results

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead

Models of classroom assessment for course-based research experiences

Course-based research pedagogy involves positioning students as contributors to authentic research projects as part of an engaging educational experience that promotes their learning and persistence in science. To develop a model for assessing and grading students engaged in this type of learning experience, the assessment aims and practices of a community of experienced course-based research instructors were collected and analyzed. This approach defines four aims of course-based research assessment—(1) Assessing Laboratory Work and Scientific Thinking; (2) Evaluating Mastery of Concepts, Quantitative Thinking and Skills; (3) Appraising Forms of Scientific Communication; and (4) Metacognition of Learning—along with a set of practices for each aim. These aims and practices of assessment were then integrated with previously developed models of course-based research instruction to reveal an assessment program in which instructors provide extensive feedback to support productive student engagement in research while grading those aspects of research that are necessary for the student to succeed. Assessment conducted in this way delicately balances the need to facilitate students’ ongoing research with the requirement of a final grade without undercutting the important aims of a CRE education

El faro de Castilla : semanario de intereses morales, materiales y noticias. Defensor de agricultura, industria y comercio: Año VI Número 253 - 19 Enero 1893

Copia digital. Madrid : Ministerio de Cultura. Subdirección General de Coordinación Bibliotecaria, 200

La Perspectiva Literaria Del Realismo Mágico En Trabajos Con Quienes Hablan Español

La Perspectiva Literaria Del Realismo Mágico En Trabajos Con Quienes Hablan Español Catalina Perdomo, Daisy Ceja, and Kristen Garza El propósito de las presentadoras es el de explorar las posibilidades de las prácticas investigativas en el campo de la terapia de familia para el mejoramiento de servicios en Español. En este caso particular, las presentadoras hablarán sobre un estudio qualitativo de texto para explorar la influencia en la comunicación en Español por parte de las terapeutas tras adoptar una perspectiva literaria a su trabajo, como el realismo mágico. Ellas se enfocaran en los resultados de la investigación con particular interés en la influencia que este género literario tiene en lo que ellas llaman los “sentidos imaginarios” del cuerpo. Ellas harán énfasis en el proceso terapéutico por medio de preguntas, que incluyen elementos de los sentidos imaginaros que invitan a las personas a considerar sus experiencias más allá del olfato, vista, oído, gusto, y tacto. El trabajo investigativo incluye como metodología investigativa un análisis qualitativo del texto de transcripciones durante el transcurso de terapia con una cliente de habla Español. Las presentadoras identifican el estudio dentro de su experiencia como terapeutas bilingües. Esta investigación ayudara a disminuir la falta de estudios en Español; respetando el contexto lingüístico como parte de una propuesta descolonizadora

Effects of Eliminating Distractions during Medication Administration

During medication administration, how does having a "no distraction" protocol compare with the standard protocol and what is the influence on medication errors?Honors CollegeNursing, College o

Measuring the Impact of CSIRO's Non-Formal Education Programs

We developed and implemented a system to assess the impact of two programs of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) that stimulate Australian students' interest in science. Student questionnaires and teacher interviews before and after the programs and student observations during the programs showed that students were well engaged during the programs but exhibited no long-term, statistically significant changes in interest. Drawing on interviews, observations and questionnaires, we identified several strategies to improve both engagement and long-term impact

Dynamic DNS Web Usability for a Target Market

This project examined the usability of the DynDNS website and specifically investigated the process of signing up for services. To achieve the company's goal of attracting new users, particularly those who are not experts in networking, the MQP team examined ways to make Dyn's services easier to access, utilize and understand. These examinations were carried out through three laboratory experiments, including an eye tracking study. Through the analysis of the results of these experiments the MQP team provided recommendations to improve the usability of DynDNS' current website as well as recommendations to improve the processes of signing up for services