The Domino Effect: Impact of African-American Women's Empowerment on Systems

Also PCMA Working Paper #43.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51283/1/519.pd

On Listening as an Integral Element of Praxis in Feminist and Womynist Research

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/113733/1/jftr12081.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/113733/2/jftr12081_am.pd

1: Diversity and Its Discontents: Rays of Light in the Faculty Development Movement for Faculty of Color

Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/138845/1/tia200359.pd

Evaluating International Consumption Risk Sharing Gains: An Asset Return View,

International consumption risk sharing studies often generate counterfactual implications for asset return behavior with potentially misleading results. We address this contradiction using data moments of consumption and asset returns to fit a canonical international consumption risk sharing framework. Introducing persistent consumption risk, we find that its correlation across countries is more important for risk sharing than that of transitory risk. To identify these risk components, we jointly exploit the comovement of equity returns and consumption. This identification implies high correlations in persistent consumption risk, suggesting a strong degree of existing risk sharing despite low consumption correlations in the data

The Assessment Of Online Degree Programs: Lessons From Recent Alumni

The main focus of this study was the assessment performed by recent alumni as an important component of online degree program outcomes assessment. A model of components of the online learning environment was developed and tested to predictive various levels of educational outcomes of online degree programs separately for bachelor and master degree programs' alumni. The educational outcomes include direct educational outcomes and attributed educational outcomes. The model was then validated in predicting summative outcomes assessment. The model played an important role in understanding degree program's online educational outcomes and its predictive validity across all outcomes and degree levels is very high. The alum assessment of the quality of the learning model was found to be the most dominant predictor of educational outcomes for all assessment criteria and for all levels of degree programs. Finally, the explanations and implications of these findings were discussed

Quality of Faculty Feedback and Its Effects on Learning and Educational Effectiveness of Online Master Degree Programs

This study assessed the unique contribution of quality of faculty feedback in the first course of online master degree programs, by itself, on a wide range of student educational effectiveness indicators: retention, degree completion, performance in the integrative capstone course, overall program GPA, and overall program time-to-degree while statistically controlling for the effects of student academic performance in the same first course. This assessment was conducted in the context of the Robust Learning Model with Spiral Curriculum. Using logistic regression and multiple regression models, the results of this study confirmed that not only the quality of faculty feedback was crucial to student learning and educational outcomes but this element was of utmost importance in the first core course in an online master degree program. The study presented several important conclusions and evidence for the improvement of online learning. One of the most promising paths for improving online degree program\u27s educational effectiveness was the selection of faculty for teaching the core courses of the program

The Assessment Of Online Degree Programs: Lessons From Recent Alumni

The main focus of this study was the assessment performed by recent alumni as an important component of online degree program outcomes assessment. A model of components of the online learning environment was developed and tested to predictive various levels of educational outcomes of online degree programs separately for bachelor and master degree programs\u27 alumni. The educational outcomes include direct educational outcomes and attributed educational outcomes. The model was then validated in predicting summative outcomes assessment. The model played an important role in understanding degree program\u27s online educational outcomes and its predictive validity across all outcomes and degree levels is very high. The alum assessment of the quality of the learning model was found to be the most dominant predictor of educational outcomes for all assessment criteria and for all levels of degree programs. Finally, the explanations and implications of these findings were discussed

The Robust Learning Model with a Spiral Curriculum: Implications for the Educational Effectiveness of Online Master Degree Programs

This study integrated the Spiral Curriculum approach into the Robust Learning Model as part of a continuous improvement process that was designed to improve educational effectiveness and then assessed the differences between the initial and integrated models as well as the predictability of the first course in the integrated learning model on a wide range of educational effectiveness indicators for online master degree programs. Meaningful improvement in educational effectiveness was validated by the study. The importance of the first course\u27s predictors in predicting and explaining the various degree program educational effectiveness indicators was also very instrumental. The theoretical and practical implications of the study\u27s findings for online faculty, university administrators, and policy makers were examined

Janet Lady Clarke (1851-1909) \u27Leader in the good work\u27

This thesis is a biographical study which examines the life and career of Janet Lady Clarke. As a leader of women\u27s philanthrophic, health, educational and political organisations in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Victoria, she promoted new ideas within a conservative colonial society. Her legacies remain an integral part of Victoria\u27s cultural heritage