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The Effect of the Involvement within Career Academies by Elective Participation of Eleventh and Twelfth Grade High School Students During the Implementation Year

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of elective participation in one of three implementation year Career Academies, Education, Entrepreneurship, or Finance, on upper-class high school academic grades, Grade Point Average, and school academy participation measures. Significance of the junior and senior year of high school, the meaning of a high school diploma and graduation requirements, and the connection to preparation for postsecondary studies and the world of work, career readiness, have become a focus of high school improvement efforts throughout the country. The implementation of the Millard Public Schools Career Academies in August of 2009 was an answer in providing an additional opportunity for students interested in pursuing college credit within a specialized field of study as called for by two of the district Strategic Plan strategies including the utilization of instructional best practices, formative and summative assessments, and student data designed to ensure high achievement for all students and all demographic subgroups and the development of innovative approaches to motivate and educate those students who learn in nontraditional ways

Alien Registration- Johnston, Nancy A. (Bangor, Penobscot County)

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Development and Implementation of a Reflective Writing Assignment for Undergraduate Students in a Large Public Health Biology Course

Reflective writing may be undervalued as purely expressive rather than a critical or an academic tool in undergraduate public health biology courses. When grounded in course concepts and academic learning, a reflective essay can be a learning tool for students that helps them use discipline knowledge and apply it to real-world issues. Studies on teaching reflection have identified its value for training students in critical thinking and improving self-regulated learning. Considering Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle framework, in this article, we detail the design, implementation, and evaluation of a reflective writing assignment integrated into a lower-year undergraduate public health biology course. Through the design and implementation of the reflective writing assignment, four key lessons are drawn. First, reflective writing assignments facilitate learning and course enjoyment. Second, writing workshops improve the quality of reflective writing assignments. Third, a detailed grading rubric clarifies expectations for students and creates consistency in grading. Fourth, reflective writing assignments can help teachers effectively evaluate how students apply the knowledge gained from the course to promote personal and community health. By implementing the reflective assignment, we have created a narrative on how reflective writing could maximize learning in public health pedagogy and provided recommendations and lessons for course designers and instructors to consider in light of Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle framework

Taking Quantitative Genomics into the Wild

A key goal in studies of ecology and evolution is understanding the causes of phenotypic diversity in nature. Most traits of interest, such as those relating to morphology, life-history, immunity and behaviour are quantitative, and phenotypic variation is driven by the cumulative effects of genetic and environmental variation. The field of quantitative genetics aims to quantify the additive genetic component of this trait variance (i.e. the "heritability"), often with the underlying assumption that trait variance is driven by many loci of infinitesimal effects throughout the genome. This approach allows us to understand the evolutionary potential of natural populations and can be extended to examine the genetic covariation with fitness to predict responses to selection. Therefore, quantitative genetic studies are fundamental to understanding evolution in the wild. Over the last two decades, there has been a wealth of studies investigating trait heritabilities and genetic correlations, but these were initially limited to long-term studies of pedigreed populations or common-garden experiments. However, genomic technologies have since allowed quantitative genetic studies in a more diverse range of wild systems and has increased the opportunities for addressing outstanding questions in ecology and evolution. In particular, genomic studies can uncover the genetic basis of fitness-related quantitative traits, allowing a better understanding of their evolutionary dynamics. We organised this special issue to highlight new work and review recent advances at the cutting edge of "Wild Quantitative Genomics". In this Editorial, we will present some history of wild quantitative genetic and genomic studies, before discussing the main themes in the papers published in this special issue and highlighting the future outlook of this dynamic field.Comment: 17 page (plus references) Editorial for a special issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Revised submissio

Nancy Johnston Ferro: Master of Arts Thesis Exhibition Show Card

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An infrared study of unordered poly- L -proline in CaCL 2 solutions

Infrared spectra have been obtained of poly- L -proline in aqueous CaCl 2 solutions. As the salt concentration is increased, the C[bouble bond]O stretching band develops a component at the frequency found in the solid state while the CH 2 bending band broadens to higher frequency. Since circular dichroism spectra indicate progressive disordering of the chain with increasing salt concentration, we associate the infrared spectral changes with the same phenomenon. Our interpretation of these changes, particularly in the CH 2 bending modes, is that disordering is associated primarily with an increase in the range of accessible C Α –C′ ([bouble bond]O) rotation angles rather than with the random introduction of cis imide bonds in the chain.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/37829/1/360101219_ftp.pd