The Word Of God, For The People Of God: Examining The Impact Of The Bible On Personal Policy Preferences

For Christians, the Bible represents a unique document that contains holy messaging about how they should live their life. However, the connection between biblical messages and personal policy preferences is unclear. This research utilizes a unique survey-embedded experiment to discover how a liberal Bible message can impact personal policy preferences. Ultimately, I conclude that exposure to a liberal Bible message does not show more liberal differences in policy perspectives relative to a control passage amongst Christians. Similarly, I also conclude that Christians exposed to a liberal Bible message do not demonstrate statistically more liberal policy preferences relative to Christians exposed to a control passage across a spectrum of religiosity and political involvement

“Visitor to All, Native to None”: How Digital-Native Teacher Education Students Use Bricolage and Multiple Modalities to Construct Knowledge

The focus of this hermeneutic phenomenological study is the current generation of “digital native” or “millennial” pre-service teachers and how, in their dual roles as last-semester students and future teachers, they adopt and use multiple modes to construct knowledge. The study is concerned with the lived experiences of the participants and the multiple “texts” they create. The researcher uses the multimodal concept of bricolage as a frame for describing and analyzing how pre-service teacher education students engage multiple learning modes. Using data collected from an original survey (Multimodal Knowledge Construction Survey), student-participant interviews, teaching methods faculty interviews, and classroom observations, the author provides extensive description, analysis and discussion of how these “digital native” pre-service educators construct, synthesize and interpret meanings through multiple modes. As technologies and media forms proliferate, these simultaneous student-teachers must be aware of and actively reflect upon how different modalities contribute to and shape their own learning experiences as well as the learning experiences of their future students. The researcher calls this process “modal and textual awareness,” or MTA. The conceptual framework and guiding research questions are based on the multimodal studies of Gunther Kress, the pioneering work of the New London Group, Gardner’s multiple intelligences, Mayer’s principles of multimedia learning, and media forms. The two major themes of the study are students’ modal and textual awareness and an inherent, shared tension between structure & guidance and creativity & choice. The three major implications of the study address critical media literacy, assessment, and 21st century learning skills

The History Of Elise Academy

Moore County, established in 1784 by splitting Cumberland County in two, is a large wedge shaped area of 408,960 acres or 639 square miles. Most of the area in the southern portion of the county is sandhills or pine barren, with the remainder of the soil being a loamy clay . . . Early residents were primarily of Scotch descent with German, Irish, and English settlers immigrating to the area during the two succeeding decades after 1750 . . . The academy movement in Moore County, previously traced, came to a close with the establishment of Elise Academy in 1904 in Hemp, a small community in the northwestern portion of the county

An Analysis of the Growth of the Palm Oil Industry in Sumatra, Indonesia: As Detected by Satellite Imagery, 2000-2018

Palm oil trees are rapidly spreading across the landscape in Sumatra, Indonesia. The province of Bengkulu is a prime example of this, and it is hard to go anywhere and not see palm oil trees. Finding an accurate way to monitor plantation growth would be of great benefit as scientists and others attempt to monitor how Indonesia’s palm oil boom is affecting climate change. Several studies have indicated that the surge of palm oil production is causing great environmental and social harm to Indonesia as well as the rest of the world. This research details a methodology for utilizing satellite imagery to accurately differentiate palm trees from other forms of vegetation on a plantation scale. The research applied as unsupervised classification process found in ArcMap to a series of LANDSAT’s 4-5, 7, and 8 satellite imagery for palm tree detection. The results of this study show that the rate of palm oil expansion was still growing up to 2018. However, the study was inconclusive as to whether or not the Indonesian government is in compliance with the New York Declaration on Forests, signed in 2014, where they pledged to not deforest any new land

Beliefs about item memorability affect metacognitive control in item-method directed forgetting

Across six experiments, I examined the role of metacognitive control in item-method directed forgetting. In Experiment 1, participants studied loud and quiet items, which were subsequently cued as to-be-remembered (TBR) or to-be-forgotten (TBF). Typically, the volume of stimuli does not influence recall, although loud items are judged as more memorable than quiet items (Rhodes & Castel, 2009). In contrast, there was a unique recall advantage for loud TBR items when participants engaged in directed forgetting. Giving participants extra opportunities to engage rehearsal does not produce the selective advantage for loud items (Experiment 2), nor does emphasizing the importance of some items over others (Experiments 3 and 4). Experiment 5 manipulated the encoding fluency of the stimuli using a font type manipulation, which did not produce recall differences between the fluently and less fluently processed items despite the effect of font type on judgments of learning. Finally, Experiment 6 investigated participants' beliefs about what helps them disengage from TBF items and what helps them retain TBR items. Specifically, after TBF or TBR items, participants were told to select earlier studied line drawings that varied both in perceptual size (small vs. large size image) and conceptual size (drawing of a small vs. large object in real life). I propose two mechanisms to explain the results. According to the rehearsal strategy mechanism, people use beliefs about item memorability to selectively rehearse certain items as a way to forget other items. According to the salience mechanism, people are drawn to perceptually salient stimuli when performing directed forgetting

Subclinical Eating Disorders Among Female

The purpose of this present study was to examine subclinical eating disorders among female collegiate athletes. Specifically, this study investigated the prevalence of subclinical eating disorders among athletes, compared the prevalence among athletes and non-athletes, and explored differences in the prevalence among sports. Also, the present study investigated athletic identity and self-presentational perfectionism as possible risk factors associated with subclinical eating disorders. Two hundred forty-five female athletes from ten different sports at four universities and sixty-one female non-athlete students from two different universities participated in this study. Those over the age of 24 or who had previously been diagnosed with a clinical eating disorder were excluded. All participants completed surveys including demographic information, the Drive for Thinness, Body Dissatisfaction, and Bulimia subscales of the Eating Disorder Inventory, the Eating Attitudes Test, the Body Shape Questionnaire, the Body Attractiveness subscale of the Physical Self Perception Profile, the Eating Disorder Inventory Symptom Checklist, the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale, and the Perfectionistic Self-Presentation Scale. The results indicated that athletes do not have a greater prevalence of subclinical eating disorders than non-athletes. However, 7% of athletes still met the classification criteria for a subclinical eating disorder. Also, athletes exhibited a high frequency in meeting each of the 6 criteria (ranging from 8.2% to 71.8%), which indicated that eating pathology was evident among the athletes. There was no significant difference in the prevalence of subclinical eating disorders among different sports, which suggests that all sports are at risk. Finally, athletic identity and self-presentational perfectionism were found to be risk factors associated with subclinical eating disorders for athletes

Interpretations of Oliver Cromwell, 1647-1970

In 1658 Oliver Cromwell was buried in Westminster Abbey with more pomp and ceremony than had been given to any other Englishman except a king; two years later his body was exhumed, hanged, drawn, and quartered as if he had been a common thief or traitor. Since then men have had remarkably different and often violent reactions towards Cromwell. Historians have been digging him up ever since; such a paradoxical figure, it would appear, could never be allowed to remain peacefully in his grave. The complex evolution of historical interpretation of Cromwell illustrates not only the general development of British historiography but also how popular judgments are often perverted and subject to the political climate of a particular age. Moreover, certain assessments transcend the age or school of history, as in the case of the repeated stress on Cromwell's contradictory character and the excellence of his foreign policy. Men have continued to bring him into their own time, and have reinterpreted him in terms of their own age

A comparative analysis of funding formulas applied to the North Carolina Community College System

The purpose of this study was to contrast the FTE funding formula used to fund the North Carolina Community College System with other funding formulas used in other states to fund their respective community colleges. The methodology for this study included surveying four senior level administrators—one representing either academic affairs, continuing education, financial affairs or student affairs--at each of the fifty-eight community colleges in North Carolina concerning the concepts of adequacy and equity in funding along with other factors that should be included in a funding formula. Predicated on an analysis of data, it was concluded that North Carolina's present FTE funding formula does not address the concepts of adequacy and equity in funding; that the formula should be expanded to include new program start-up funding, a more timely cost recovery system for the colleges, allowance for unanticipated program growth in the formula along with funding for equipment and facilities; and that North Carolina should consider revisions to its FTE formula to allow for differentiated funding based on program costs

Individual differences in forgetting strategies

Two experiments employed a combination of item method and list method directed forgetting methodologies (Bjork, LaBerge, & Legrand, 1968). Participants studied two lists of items, half of which were subsequently cued to-be-forgotten (TBF) or to-be-remembered (TBR). After the first study list, half of the participants were told to forget the entire list, whereas the remaining participants were told to remember it for a later test (e.g., list-method). The list-method forgetting instruction impaired recall of List 1 TBF and TBR items to the same extent. However, it enhanced recall of List 2 TBR items, but not TBF items. These results were found only among participants who reported engaging in effortful forgetting, whereas participants who reported doing nothing showed no effects of list-method directed forgetting. In Experiment 2, along with receiving a mid-list forget instruction, participants were given specific types of forgetting strategies that were most frequently reported in Experiment 1. The results showed that some strategies produced greater forgetting of List 1 items than others. Taken together, these findings highlight the role of effort required to achieve intentional forgetting. Implications for directed forgetting theories are discussed

Factors affecting high-level college administrators' attitudes toward information from and frequency of use of various sources of information

The purpose of this study is to explore the following for high-level college administrators: identify the attitudes toward arid frequency of use of information from various sources; investigate factors affecting the attitudes toward and frequency of use of information from various sources. Information sources were modeled along two dimensions, degree of systemization (formal or informal) and location of the source (internal or external to the user’s organization). A questionnaire was mailed to 155 administrators of the University of North Carolina system. These administrators held the rank of chancellor, vice chancellor, associate vice chancellor, or assistant vice chancellor. Usable responses were received from 89 of the administrators