Daring You to Ask, What If?

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In the Middle of Appalachia: Balancing Teacher Talk with Student Discourse

Appalachian students co-constructed knowledge with their teacher while examining a non-fiction book about Thanksgiving. Fifth grade students used an informational trade book to promote student discourse while using text-based evidence. Students learned about Native Americans and Pilgrims as they engaged in student discourse balanced with teacher talk. Students used an inquiry arc that involved questioning texts and examining sources, and inquiry helped students to investigate narrative text as a source of data. Students used inquiry to enhance their metacognition about historical events. Students exercised agency as they recounted family history and their heritage as part of their memory. Remembering was an important part of family rituals. Students worked within the disciplinary framework of history and shared their conclusions with one another

Comparison of Cultural Self-Efficacy Between Urban and Rural Nurse Educators

Integration of an inclusive educational environment requires nursing faculty to embrace a transformational change in academics. The cultural interactions of an educator teaching in an urban district may differ from the relations experienced by a rural nurse educator. The purpose of this quantitative study, guided by Bandura’s social cognitive theory, was to determine whether there is a difference between the cultural self-efficacy scores of nurse faculty teaching in a rural location compared to those in an urban location as well as whether the demographics of age, ethnic background, and years in the nursing profession predict cultural self-efficacy scores. Nursing faculty in seven southeastern states were asked to complete the Culturally Responsive Teaching Self-Efficacy Scales, which were distributed through social media; 68 participants responded. Independent t-test results showed no statistically significant difference between the cultural self-efficacy scores of nurse faculty teaching in a rural location compared to an urban location. Evaluation of the second research question, multiple regression results showed denoted ethnic background as the only one of three variables that significantly predicted the cultural self-efficacy scores. Further research is needed to expand the scope and composition of the participants and to enhance professional development for nursing faculty, regardless of location. Positive social change can occur in the health care system through the training of nursing students caring for diverse patient populations

Comparison of Cultural Self-Efficacy Between Urban and Rural Nurse Educators

Integration of an inclusive educational environment requires nursing faculty to embrace a transformational change in academics. The cultural interactions of an educator teaching in an urban district may differ from the relations experienced by a rural nurse educator. The purpose of this quantitative study, guided by Bandura’s social cognitive theory, was to determine whether there is a difference between the cultural self-efficacy scores of nurse faculty teaching in a rural location compared to those in an urban location as well as whether the demographics of age, ethnic background, and years in the nursing profession predict cultural self-efficacy scores. Nursing faculty in seven southeastern states were asked to complete the Culturally Responsive Teaching Self-Efficacy Scales, which were distributed through social media; 68 participants responded. Independent t-test results showed no statistically significant difference between the cultural self-efficacy scores of nurse faculty teaching in a rural location compared to an urban location. Evaluation of the second research question, multiple regression results showed denoted ethnic background as the only one of three variables that significantly predicted the cultural self-efficacy scores. Further research is needed to expand the scope and composition of the participants and to enhance professional development for nursing faculty, regardless of location. Positive social change can occur in the health care system through the training of nursing students caring for diverse patient populations

Relationship of Adolescent Risk-taking to Self-esteem and Other Selected Variables

Family Relations and Child Developmen

Alumni Presentation and Panel: Engaging the Past

The Alumni Panel featured three black, Dayton-area, UD alumni: LaShea Smith, B.A. International Studies, 1991; Veronica Morris, B.A. Communications Management, 1992; and J.W. Terry, B.S. Business Economics, 2010, Master’s of Public Administration, 2013. The alumni offered insightful perspectives on UD and race from their positions as graduates, as local business people, and, for one, as the mother of a UD student graduating in May 2016. The panelists were asked to prepare a short set of responses to two questions: 1) What were your most salient experience of race at UD? 2) Now, as a graduate of the university, what reflections about race on campus can you offer current students?https://ecommons.udayton.edu/afs_symp/1016/thumbnail.jp

Frailty predicts short-term incidence of future falls among British community-dwelling older people: a prospective cohort study nested within a randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Although population-based studies have shown frailty predicted future falls, their follow-up periods were one year or longer and short-term fall risks associated with frailty are unknown. METHODS: A prospective cohort study nested within a randomised controlled trial was conducted to examine associations between frailty and short-term incident future falls among community-dwelling older people. Two hundred forty eight community-dwelling people > =65 years without history of > =three falls and allocated to a usual care arm of exercise intervention trial were prospectively monitored for falls over 24 weeks. Frailty index (FI) was constructed from 40 deficits at baseline. The future fall risks according to frailty status was examined using logistic regression models. RESULTS: Of 248 participants, 46 were classified as frail and 57 had one or more falls during follow-up. Both each 0.01 increase in FI and frailty defined as FI > =0.25 were significantly associated with higher risks of future falls in multivariate logistic regression models adjusted for age, gender and history of two falls in the previous year (odds ratio (OR) = 1.05, 95 % confidence interval (95 % CI) = 1.02-1.07, p < 0.001; OR = 3.04, 95 % CI = 1.53-6.02, p = 0.001, respectively). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis showed FI predicted future falls with fair accuracy with area under ROC curve of 0.62 (95 % CI = 0.53-0.71, p < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: Frailty was a significant and independent predictor of short-term future falls among community-dwelling older people who had volunteered for a physical activity study. It is important for healthcare practitioners to recognise frailty as a risk factor of imminent future falling even in older people who appear to be ageing well

History of POIC Capabilities and Limitations to Conduct International Space Station Payload Operations

Payload science operations on the International Space Station (ISS) have been conducted continuously twenty-four hours per day, 365 days a year beginning February, 2001 and continuing through present day. The Payload Operations Integration Center (POIC), located at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, has been a leader in integrating and managing NASA distributed payload operations. The ability to conduct science operations is a delicate balance of crew time, onboard vehicle resources, hardware up-mass to the vehicle, and ground based flight control team manpower. Over the span of the last ten years, the POIC flight control team size, function, and structure has been modified several times commensurate with the capabilities and limitations of the ISS program. As the ISS vehicle has been expanded and its systems changed throughout the assembly process, the resources available to conduct science and research have also changed. Likewise, as ISS program financial resources have demanded more efficiency from organizations across the program, utilization organizations have also had to adjust their functionality and structure to adapt accordingly. The POIC has responded to these often difficult challenges by adapting our team concept to maximize science research return within the utilization allocations and vehicle limitations that existed at the time. In some cases, the ISS and systems limitations became the limiting factor in conducting science. In other cases, the POIC structure and flight control team size were the limiting factors, so other constraints had to be put into place to assure successful science operations within the capabilities of the POIC. This paper will present the POIC flight control team organizational changes responding to significant events of the ISS and Shuttle programs

Sketching as a Tool to Measure Concept Application in an Informal Learning Environment

The primary goal of this activity was to encourage students to draw on the content taught to them throughout the program, to identify and then develop ideas through sketching, and to solve the design challenge innovatively. Repeated sketching was intended to build on concepts toward a final comprehensive design. Here we report on the value of sketching as a tool to measure concept application