Moral Turbulence and the Infusion of Multimodal Character Education Strategies in American Elementary Schools

Pockets of American society are marked by increase in violent crime with concurrent decline in moral character. This phenomenon is infiltrating the nation’s school system as evidenced by growing numbers of aggressive incidents in the classroom. As a result, there is an increasingly accepted need for effective character education programs in the schools as a means to help change the décolleté trajectory of the behavior of the nation’s school children. While more money and growing numbers of legislation have been put forth to support such an endeavor, research is still lacking as to what activities, skills, goals, and approaches would be best incorporated for optimal outcomes. This article makes a case for assessing the effectiveness of a multimodal approach incorporating cognitive, social, and sociocultural learning elements is than a single approach using cognitive elements alone, and considers the complexity of a Christian perspective on character education in schools

A Resource Manual for Mainstreaming Students with Behavioral Disabilities in the Middle School

The purpose of this project was to develop a resource manual to facilitate the use of effective components for mainstreamed or included Behavior Disabled (BD) students in the regular classroom. The manual will be used by Wapato Middle School, Wapato, Washington, to enhance the current mainstream/ inclusion program. To accomplish this purpose, current research and literature related to BD student characteristics, legal issues, instructional strategies and policies were reviewed

The Establishment and Comparison of Prediction Equations for Determining Minimum GPA\u27s in Applied Arts Programs at Dixie College

This study was an attempt to establish and compare prediction equations for determining a minimum GPA of 2. 00 in the Applied Arts programs at Dixie College. It also attempted to compare the derived predict ion equations used to determine mini mum GPA 1 s in both the Academic Arts and Applied Arts Divisions. The study compared the derived prediction equations used to determine minimum GPA\u27s for each vocational program in the Applied Arts Division. The study attempted to determine and compare t he most reliable predictor in the Academic Arts Division, total Applied Arts Division, and each vocational program in the Applied Arts Division. In conclusion, the thesis illustrates what percent of the total variation of GPA could be accounted for by the derived prediction equations in the Academic Arts Division, total Applied Arts Division, and in each vocational program in the Applied Arts Division. It also determined that the ACT Social Science subtest score proved to be the best single predictor for both the Academic Arts and Applied Arts Divisions at Dixie College as well as for the vocational programs of Architectural Drafting and Airline Stewardess. The ACT Composite score proved to be the best single predictor in the vocational programs of Auto Mechanics, Electronics, and Business Education at Dixie College

Across The Hot Sands

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Correspondence - R. Hubbard Hamrick & Mary L. Cobb

A correspondence from Mary L. Cobb to Hubbard Hamrick, about her father Needham Bryan Cobb.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/first-baptist-shelby-needham-bryan-cobb/1000/thumbnail.jp

Cheops : Egyptian Intermezzo

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Validation of a Sun-Exposure Questionnaire for Adolescent Girls

Sunlight is a major contributor to an individual\u27s vitamin D status. Determinants of sun exposure have been used in conjunction with dietary data to study the effect of sunlight on bone health of elderly populations. Sun-exposure questionnaires to assess vitamin D status have not been utilized or tested in populations of children in the United States. This is the first questionnaire, used in accordance with vitamin D research, to be tested against an objective measure of sun exposure and to account for diurnal variation in ultraviolet B (UVB) ray strength. The objective of this study was to develop and validate a sun-exposure questionnaire for adolescent girls and to further investigate the potential for skin synthesis of previtamin Dg (preD3) in northern climates. Thirty-five girls (ages 9-15) from northeastern Maine wore a polysulphone (PS) film badge for one day. The sun-exposure questionnaire was administered the following day. Minutes spent outdoors during each hour of the day were corrected for the strength of the UVB rays during that hour. The correction. factor was established using UVB data generated from a USDA UVB Monitoring Site. Corrected minutes were compared with PS badge readings for each subject. A series of PS badges and ampules containing 7dehydrocholesterol were exposed each hour of the day to further investigate the effect of time of day on cutaneous preD3 synthesis. Subject self-reported minutes outdoors, corrected for the time of day, strongly correlated with the change in absorbance (AA) of PS badges (~0.71, p=0.000). In conclusion, relative to each other, adolescent girls were able to report time spent outdoors, and time of day spent outdoors is a crucial component of a sun exposure questionnaire. Because daily UVB data is available in virtually any locale in the United States, the questionnaire and the correction factor for the time of day can be easily adapted for use in a variety of research settings