Interview with Mildred Frederick

An interview with Mildred Fredrick regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/ors/1128/thumbnail.jp

Apprehensions and Expectations of Preservice Teachers relative to Practicum during Pandemic: A Sentiment and Qualitative Analysis

The study aimed to surface the apprehension and expectation of pre-service teachers in their practicum during the pandemic. The study used text mining, sentiment analysis, and qualitativedescriptive method in analyzing the apprehension and expectation of the participants relative to their practicum during the pandemic. Online, learning, and class appeared to be the top three frequently appeared words in the corpus while positive, trust, and anticipation garnered the highest emotional affect scores. Meanwhile, lack of actual exposures and failure to develop rapport were the source of apprehension of the participants while new learning amid challenging situation and more developed and capable self to address challenges were their expectations in their practicum amid the pandemic. The participants are eager to return to traditional face-to-face classes for their practicum despite the threat posed by the on-going pandemic. They are fully aware of what student teaching requires of them and can do for them which are highly technical and social in nature. Finally, optimism and resiliency of participants were surfaced when asked about their expectations in their student teaching amid the pandemic. It is recommended to apply new and other existing text mining analytical techniques to further analyze the text datasets in this study. A large dataset is also recommended for future analysis. This study also offered the potential use of the findings of this study to make informed decisions and policies to both educational institutions and educators

Representing Interests and Interest Group Representation

Interest groups and other “group concepts” of politics dominated explanations of American government and policy-making in the 1950s and early 1960s and, as filtered through the concept of pluralism, have provided what is arguably the most lasting and perhaps the most persuasive theorizing on political decision-making in the United States. Representing Interests and Interest Group Representation explores both the strengths and weaknesses of the current research on interest groups. It points to what needs to be done, the major intellectual concerns that should guide the research, and some of the more productive ways to approach the significant research questions.https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/representing_interests/1000/thumbnail.jp

The Relationship Between Coping Style and School Adjustment Amongst Secondary School Students in Kisumu East Subcounty, Kenya

The objectives of the study were to: establish gender differences in coping style; to establish differences amongst high and low achievers in their use of coping style and to determine the relationship between coping style and school adjustment. The study was guided, by Lazarus and Folkman’s Transactional theory, and Utretcht Work Engagement theory by Schaufeli and Bakker A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The study population consisted of 4500 students. A sample size of 450 was selected using Stratified random sampling technique. Questionnaires and document analysis guide were used for data collection. Reliability was computed using Cronbach’s alpha and the results were as follows:- 0.6 for coping style 0.8 for school engagement and 0.7 for satisfaction with school. Content validity was ascertained in literature by the author. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics as well as inferential statistics. It was found that there were no gender differences in coping style used. Low achievers reported more use of problem focused coping style. There were significant positive correlations between problem focused coping style and absorption as well as engagement. There were significant negative correlations between emotion focused coping and school adjustment among high achievers. The study may be useful to teachers, counselors, administrators and parents who will be able to assist students use appropriate coping styles

Chronicles of Oklahoma

Article explores the history of an American stagecoach donated to the Oklahoma Historical Society by the Miller Brothers of 101 Ranch in 1921. John and Mildred Frizzell also describe two other stagecoaches in Oklahoma today and provide pictures of the vehicle

Verbal accessibility between marital partners as studied in a court of domestic relations

This study investigated the concept of verbal accessibility in marriage. It is an example of the interactional approach to the study of marriage, which is concerned with the on-going socialization process in marriage. Verbal communication is one component of the socialization process and also of problem solving in marriage. Interpersonal communication is influenced by many variables-- personality, culture and social situation. Polansky (1 965) conceptualized verbal accessibility as the degree of readiness to communicate verbally and to participate in communication about determinant attitudes. Determinant attitudes are those which have the most far reaching influence on other attitudes and on behavior. One of the goals of this study was to develop a scale which would permit examination of the verbal accessibility of attitudes relevant for marriage, and also to measure the VA between marital partners. The scale of fifty-seven items covered such areas as child-rearing, sex, money, education, in-laws, religion, employment, health, and the like. The items were then roughly categorized by Goffman’s scheme of social structure, interaction, and personality referents. Items were also judged as to their positive, negative and neutral connotation. Subjects were asked to report how fully they would talk with their spouses about each of the items, and also how fully they thought their spouse would talk with them about the same items. The responses were weighted in order to arrive at scores of verbal accessibility. The scale was administered to twenty-six couples who had requested conciliation services at the Court of Domestic Relations. The scale was constructed to measure verbal accessibility in such a way that persons as well as items could be ranked along a continuum from least accessible to most accessible. Scalogram analysis with the interaction and personality items for husbands and for wives produced a total of six scales. These scales appeared to reflect a dimension of self-protectiveness. There was no significant difference between the medians for husbands and wives, although the mean of the medians for husbands was slightly higher. Since this is in contrast to previous findings, we assumed that our sample was abnormal, biased, or both. Women did have a higher median score for interaction items, however, which may be due to the woman’s affective role in the family, and to the greater specificity of the interaction items. The scale appears to have potential for future use because it was able to elicit differential responses; items around such areas as sex and health had low accessibility and items around such areas as children and employment had higher accessibility. It was hypothesized that: 1) The more similar the marital partner’s verbal accessibility, the greater the likelihood of reconciliation. 2) The greater the marital partners’ assumed similarity of verbal accessibility the greater the likelihood of reconciliation 3) The higher the verbal accessibility on positive items, the greater the likelihood of reconciliation. 4) The higher the verbal accessibility on negative items, the less the likelihood of reconciliation. 5.) The higher the verbal accessibility of the respondent on positive and neutral items, the greater the likelihood of reconciliation. The data did not support the hypotheses. We concluded that our study was weakened by the small sample size, the lack of other measures of VA, and the uncertain significance of marital reconciliation. Responses apparently were biased by the stress of the situation, the desire to appear cooperative and the preponderance of female interviewers. We do not believe that the scores we obtained were actual measures of VA, but rather a reflection of the special situation of our subjects. Our sample appeared to have unique characterological, motivational, and interactional patterns which had an undetermined influence on our findings. We suggest that future research consider social, cultural and personality measures as part of any study of VA. Interactional patterns, orientations to marriage and barriers to marital breakdown down should also be studied. A normal sample would be useful for purposes of comparison

Assessing Nurses’ Capacity for Health Research and Policy Engagement in Nigeria

Nurses account for a significant proportion of the health care workforce in most countries. In the African continent, it is estimated that nurses constitute about 80% of the health care professionals, however they are marginally represented in health research investigations and policy/decision-making roles. A descriptive research design was used to obtain data from 120 registered nurses in Calabar municipality, Nigeria. The study aimed at assessing the extent of nurses’ involvement in research and policy development. The findings revealed that only 30(25.0%) of the respondents indicated that they had been involved in research activity. Majority 74(61.7%) utilized research findings and perceived research as a tool to enhance development of nursing. 93(77.5%) respondents were not aware of any financial support for research and only 4(3.3%) had ever received research grant to support research activities. The results also revealed minimal 8(6.7%) involvement of nurses in health care policy development. A significant relationship (P \u3c 0.05) existed between nursing educational qualification and involvement in research activities after school. These findings therefore suggest the building of supportive research environments and strengthening nurses’ research capacity for effective participation of nurses in health care policy decisions in low and middle income countries (LMICs) and global health priorities

Análisis de riesgos de la seguridad de la información para la institución universitaria Colegio Mayor del Cauca.

Diagramas, Tablas e ImágenesEl contenido de este trabajo muestra la necesidad de la Institución Universitaria Colegio Mayor del Cauca, de llevar a cabo un análisis de riesgos de tipo informático basado en la metodología MAGERIT que es una metodología de análisis y gestión de riesgos de los sistemas de información elaborada por el consejo superior de administración electrónica, para minimizar los riesgos de la implantación y uso de las tecnologías de la información, enfocada a las administraciones públicas con el fin de clasificar adecuadamente los riesgos y de esta forma con los resultados obtenidos generar recomendaciones para la selección e implementación de controles que mitiguen los riesgos más altos o críticos además de proponer la creación de algunas políticas de seguridad de la información que puedan llegar a ser articuladas más adelante con un Sistema de Gestión de Seguridad de la Información (SGSI) para la institución.The content of this study, shows the need of the University Institution “Colegio Mayor del Cauca”, to conduct a risk analysis in computer science based on MAGERIT methodology. It is a methodology of analysis and risk management of the information systems, developed by the higher board of electronic management to minimize the risk of the introduction and use of information technologies, focused on public management with the purpose of classify the risks properly, and thus, the obtained results generate recommendations for the selection and implementation controls to mitigate the higher or critical risks, besides proposing the creation of some security policy information, which later, may become articulated with an Information security Management System (ISMS) for the institution