21 research outputs found
Literacy Applications for Today\u27s Learner
Get PDFCommon Core English Language Arts Standards and changing technologies have shifted the ways students and teachers select and read text. Reasons for the lack of digital literacy implementation in instruction are due to the large amount of choices available without sufficient background information on how to critically evaluate literacy applications. This article presents the framework of the Common Core English Language Arts Standards and how they are used to enhance literacy instruction through implementation of literacy technology applications. Limitations and advantages of digital applications are explored, descriptions of the applications are provided, and strategies for implementation in the English/Language Arts classroom are discussed
Where Does Conflict Management Fit in the System\u27s Leadership Puzzle?
Get PDFSuperintendents are faced with conflicts every day. The conflicts arise around issues of personnel, community roles, funding, politics, and work/life balance. Good leadership involves an understanding of how to deal with conflict, whom to involve in the conflict resolution, how to set up structures and processes that ensure conflict doesn\u27t reoccur, and the ability to use conflict in a positive manner. Superintendents look to current literature to assist with the development of positive conflict resolution skills. These skills are not only preferable for current superintendents, but necessary for positive career development of future superintendents. Several authors have examined the various types of conflicts that leaders typically encounter. The Sphere of Conflict model, proposed by Moore (2003), offered five types of conflicts: (1) Data; (2) Interests; (3) Relational; (4) Structural; and (5) Values-based. This article offers brief descriptions of these types of conflicts and possible interventions
University Students Diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Hermeneutical Phenomenological Study of Challenges and Successes
Get PDFThis hermeneutic phenomenological study inquired about the challenges and successes of eight university students diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder at a university in the southeastern United States. The data collection methods involved documentation, questionnaires, focus groups, and individual interviews. The analysis of data involved open coding and in vivo coding; conversational interview methods through member checks were employed at the end of each interview. Several themes emerged from the data regarding the factors in academic success and challenges, the environments and learning styles most conducive to learning, individual factors that contributed to academic success, and the reading and study strategies that were most beneficial to participants. Participants found social supports, such as family, friends, study groups, or organizations, and university resources to be key factors in their academic success. The university schedule was seen as support, as participants shared their ability to adapt their schedule to their needs. Participants mentioned their social struggles, and struggles with focus and attention and shared strategies for controlling the distractions. Participants preferred a hands-on learning environment; and although they were confident in their reading and study strategies, almost all of the participants expressed their frustration with math. Participants cited time management and organizational strategies, reading and study strategies, as well as their individual self-determination as factors that contributed to their academic success
AIDS survey methodology with black Americans
Full text linkUnique substantive and methodological issues are involved in conducting survey research on sexual and HIV risk related behaviors among Americans of African descent. Problem conceptualization, sampling, design of instruments, mode of data collection, interviewer/respondent characteristics, community resistance, and data analysis and interpretation are discussed. The lack of survey research on sensitive health issues is noted. Possible methods for addressing these issues are drawn from the experiences of the authors in conducting national research on the general and at risk Black community populations. It is concluded that attention to these issues can substantially improve the quality of research on AIDS related behaviors in Black communities. Finally, it is suggested that behavioral theories and sophisticated methodological and analytic approaches, sensitive to the special cultural dimensions of racial/ethnic life in the United States, would contribute substantially to the scientific armamentarium needed to successfully meet the challenge of the AIDS epidemic.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/29527/1/0000614.pd
