Value orientations of Anglo and Spanish American high school sophomores

The hypotheses of this study are: 1. The value orientations of urban Spanish American majority sophomore students are more similar to those of urban Anglo sophomore students than to the value orientations of the rural Spanish American sophomore students. 2. The value orientations of the urban Spanish American majority sophomore students are more similar to those of urban Anglo sophomore students than are the value orientations of any other sample in the present study. 3. Spanish American sophomore students vary more in their value orientations than do the Anglo sophomore students. Importance of the Study More than ten percent of the population of the United States speaks a language other than English in the home The children must learn the language and culture of their parents . Problems develop when the first language and culture are supplemented or replaced by a second language and culture imposed by the larger society. Parents require their children to go through the first process and the school system requires them to go through the second

AN EXPLORATORY INTRA-SCHOOL STUDY OF HOW PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES HAVE BENEFITTED A HIGH PERFORMING SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA MIDDLE SCHOOL

The purpose of this study was to explore the extent to which teachers in one high performing Southwestern Pennsylvania Middle School view the model and use of Professional Learning Community teams in their school with an existing survey instrument. Twenty-three of twenty-four teachers participated in this voluntary mail survey. The researcher used Shirley Hord’s School Professional Staff as a Learning Community survey instrument in an attempt to measure the maturity level of Professional Learning Communities within one high performing middle school. Prior to this study, the survey was used to compare schools to other schools. Upon receiving completed surveys, the researcher, based on Frick and Semmel’s (1978) use of marginal agreement, measured observer agreement in three seventh and three eighth grade Professional Learning Communities. In doing so, the researcher provided summary tables of the variation within teams and grade levels. Further data analysis led the researcher to recognize that many participants responded to survey items with a four or five on the survey’s five point Likert Scale. Also, the survey’s format included descriptions only under the 1, 3, and 5 rating levels that were designed to measure maturity. Additionally, the descriptions were written in a vague manner which does not measure the maturity or internal processes of the school, evidence of change, or the school’s high ranking. While it is important to see the number of responses to the specific questions of the survey’s five constructs, it is equally important to have data that demonstrate the lack of overall observer agreement so that teachers and administrators are aware that the survey itself is insufficient for measuring the maturity of Professional Learning Communities within one school. Finally, after making several recommendations for school administrators and teachers with regard to Professional Learning Communities and school policy, it is important for individual schools to do their own research and recognize that the administration of one survey on one occasion may not provide adequate data for program planning and/or evaluation.

PERSPECTIVES OF THE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF STUDENTS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS

The low-incidence disability of visual impairment has led to many challenges in the field of education. The present study compared school related issues of adolescents with a visual impairment and their parents to adolescents who do not have a visual impairment and their parents. The purpose of this study was to examine the perspectives of students with a visual impairment and their parents to determine the level of satisfaction of the education the students are receiving. A sample of n = 180 parents and 10th grade students were used to answer the questions regarding various factors of education. The predicted outcome will be that overall parents are satisfied with their child’s education but will have negative feelings regarding the quality of education. It is also predicted that the students with a visual impairment will have similar feelings regarding education.  Article visualizations

PERSPECTIVES OF THE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF STUDENTS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS

The low-incidence disability of visual impairment has led to many challenges in the field of education. The present study compared school related issues of adolescents with a visual impairment and their parents to adolescents who do not have a visual impairment and their parents. The purpose of this study was to examine the perspectives of students with a visual impairment and their parents to determine the level of satisfaction of the education the students are receiving. A sample of n = 180 parents and 10th grade students were used to answer the questions regarding various factors of education. The predicted outcome will be that overall parents are satisfied with their child’s education but will have negative feelings regarding the quality of education. It is also predicted that the students with a visual impairment will have similar feelings regarding education

Freshwater Mussels of the Big Muddy River

While broad geographic information is available on the distribution and abundance of mussels in Illinois, systematically collected mussel-community data sets required to integrate mussels into aquatic community assessments do not exist. In 2009, a projectfunded by a US Fish and Wildlife Service State Wildlife Grant was undertaken to survey and assess the freshwater mussel populations at wadeable sites from 33 stream basins in conjunction with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR)/Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) basin surveys. Inclusion of mussels into these basin surveys contributes to the comprehensive basin monitoring programs that include water and sediment chemistry, instream habitat, macroinvertebrate, and fish, which reflect a broad spectrum of abiotic and biotic stream resources. These mussel surveys will provide reliable and repeatable techniques for assessing the freshwater mussel community in sampled streams. These surveys also provide data for future monitoring of freshwater mussel populations on a local, regional, and watershed basis.unpublishednot peer reviewe

Freshwater Mussels of the Mississippi South/South Central Basins

While broad geographic information is available on the distribution and abundance of mussels in Illinois, systematically collected mussel-community data sets required to integrate mussels into aquatic community assessments do not exist. In 2009, a project funded by a US Fish and Wildlife Service State Wildlife Grant was undertaken to survey and assess the freshwater mussel populations at wadeable sites from 33 stream basins in conjunction with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR)/Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) basin surveys. Inclusion of mussels into these basin surveys contributes to the comprehensive basin monitoring programs that include water and sediment chemistry, instream habitat, macroinvertebrate, and fish, which reflect a broad spectrum of abiotic and biotic stream resources. These mussel surveys will provide reliable and repeatable techniques for assessing the freshwater mussel community in sampled streams. These surveys also provide data for future monitoring of freshwater mussel populations on a local, regional, and watershed basis.U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service INHS Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Office of Resource Conservationunpublishednot peer reviewe

Integration Of Basic And Clinical Sciences In Health Professions Education

Part of the Journal of Dental Education\u27s series “Peer Education: Reviews of the Literature,” this manuscript details different aspects of the vertical integration technique of incorporating didactic knowledge into a clinical setting within dental education

Intact implicit processing of facial threat cues in schizophrenia

An emerging body of research suggests that people with schizophrenia retain the ability to implicitly perceive facial affect, despite well-documented difficulty explicitly identifying emotional expressions. It remains unclear, however, whether such functional implicit processing extends beyond emotion to other socially relevant facial cues. Here, we constructed two novel versions of the Affect Misattribution Procedure, a paradigm in which affective responses to primes are projected onto neutral targets. The first version included three face primes previously validated to elicit varying inferences of threat from healthy individuals via emotion-independent structural modification (e.g., nose and eye size). The second version included the threat-relevant emotional primes of angry, neutral, and happy faces. Data from 126 participants with schizophrenia and 84 healthy controls revealed that although performing more poorly on an assessment of explicit emotion recognition, patients showed normative implicit threat processing for both non-emotional and emotional facial cues. Collectively, these results support recent hypotheses postulating that the initial perception of salient facial information remains intact in schizophrenia, but that deficits arise at subsequent stages of contextual integration and appraisal. Such a breakdown in the stream of face processing has important implications for mechanistic models of social cognitive impairment in schizophrenia and treatment strategies aiming to improve functional outcome

Freshwater mussels of the Vermilion and Little Vermilion Rivers in the Wabash River in Illinois

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Freshwater Mussels of the Spoon River Basin

While broad geographic information is available on the distribution and abundance of mussels in Illinois, systematically collected mussel-community data sets required to integrate mussels into aquatic community assessments do not exist. In 2009, a project funded by a US Fish and Wildlife Service State Wildlife Grant was undertaken to survey and assess the freshwater mussel populations at wadeable sites from 33 stream basins in conjunction with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) / Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) basin surveys. Inclusion of mussels into these basin surveys contributes to the comprehensive basin monitoring programs that include water and sediment chemistry, instream habitat, macroinvertebrate, and fish, which reflect a broad spectrum of abiotic and biotic stream resources.These mussel surveys will provide reliable and repeatable techniques for assessing the freshwater mussel community in sampled streams. These surveys also provide data for future monitoring of freshwater mussel populations on a local, regional, and watershed basis.unpublishednot peer reviewe