Assessing the Quantity of Information in SROIs by Major

In this paper, we demonstrate how to identify whether different groups of students (classified by their major) provide different quantities of information in their student ratings of instruction (SROIs). As a corollary, we identified specific groups of students who provided a greater/lesser quantity of information in their responses. All calculations were undertaken using Microsoft Excel, and no prior statistical training was required to create or interpret our information measures. We used SROI data taken from a first-year logical reasoning course for health professions majors and found that the quantity of information provided by pharmacy and other health majors in their SROIs exceeded the quantity of information provided by nursing majors for every single SROI question. We also found that specific majors gave relatively greater quantities of information (relative to other majors) for specific types of SROI items

Correlation of Elongation in Primary and Secondary Branches of Pinus resinosa

In a previous paper dealing with duration, rate, and magnitude of elongation of primary, secondary, and tertiary axes in two trees of P. resinosa and one of P. strobus, it was found that: (1) Elongation began at approximately the same time on all branches over the entire contour of the tree. (2) Primary axes showed greater total and higher daily rate of elongation than was shown in any of the secondary or tertiary axes in each of the 3 trees studied. (3) Secondary axes exhibited successively shorter total elongation, shorter duration of growth and slower daily growth rate from the topmost whorl downward. (4) Duration of elongation in the primary axis was greater than in secondaries in P. strobus, but in P. resinosa, duration of elongation in the upper 2-4 secondaries equalled that of the primary axes. All of these data covered the elongation exhibited during the 1942 season only. No other published work dealing with comparison of amount of elongation in primary and secondary axes of pines is known to the writers

Survival of hemlock seedlings in a relict colony under forest conditions

It would thus appear that in areas where hemlock is a component of the climax, and not merely a relict, reproduction is dependent primarily upon a combination of three factors, viz. a good seed year followed by a good germinating year and these in turn followed by several years of favorable moisture conditions

An ecological survey of Berkey woods: A remnant of forest primeval in Kosciusko county, Indiana

In July 1942, we published results of a detailed study of Cox Woods, a remnant of forest primeval in Orange county, located in southern Indiana. In the present study we place on record quantitatively a relatively undisturbed stand of forest in the northern part of Indiana

Phytosciology of the Cox woods: A remnant of forest primeval in Orange county, Indiana

Today Indiana forests are primarily in a stage of secondary succession, and small tracts, comparatively little disturbed by cultural influences, with tree giants which have ahsorbed for centuries the radiant energy of light, and stored it in their massive trunks, have become so large that they arouse interest and curiosity of the public at large