A Survey of the Family Life Pilot Program in the First Through Sixth Grade in the Lewis Central Community Schools

This investigation concerned an analysis of the family life pilot program at Lakeview Elementary School in the Lewis Central Community School District in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Authorities have indicated a need for a close observation of sex education programs around us, and the evaluation of the factors currently affecting similar programs in the country

Perceived Inservice Needs of Omaha Catholic Elementary Teachers

It is widely recognized in the field of education that a four year teacher education program is but a minimum prerequisite for entry into the teaching profession. Teachers need to continue to develop professionally throughout their teaching careers. Staff development activities are seen as a vital means of ensuring that practicing educators are exposed to new techniques, programs, and other innovations, and are given assistance with classroom-related and subject-related areas of concern (Pansegrau, 1984)

Phosphoproteins from calf-thymus nuclei: Studies on the method of isolation

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/32869/1/0000247.pd

Towards Learning Affective Body Gesture

Robots are assuming an increasingly important role in our society. They now become pets and help support children healing. In other words, they are now trying to entertain an active and affective communication with human agents. However, up to now, such systems have primarily relied on the human agents' ability to empathize with the system. Changes in the behavior of the system could therefore reult in changes of mood or behavior in the human partner. This paper describes experiments we carried out to study the importance of body language in affective communication. The results of the experiments led us to develop a system that can incrementally learn to recognize affective messages conveyed by body postures

Heterogeneity and specificity of non-histone nuclear phosphoproteins

1. 1. Extensive heterogeneity has been observed amongst the non-histone chromatin phosphoproteins from a variety of species, tissues and cell types.2. 2. Each tissue and each cell type exhibits a unique protein pattern and radioactivity profile when labeled with [32P].3. 3. The differences in nuclear phosphoproteins of liver from different species were found to increase as the species being compared diverged evolutionarily.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/21851/1/0000255.pd

Multi-score Learning for Affect Recognition: the Case of Body Postures

An important challenge in building automatic affective state recognition systems is establishing the ground truth. When the groundtruth is not available, observers are often used to label training and testing sets. Unfortunately, inter-rater reliability between observers tends to vary from fair to moderate when dealing with naturalistic expressions. Nevertheless, the most common approach used is to label each expression with the most frequent label assigned by the observers to that expression. In this paper, we propose a general pattern recognition framework that takes into account the variability between observers for automatic affect recognition. This leads to what we term a multi-score learning problem in which a single expression is associated with multiple values representing the scores of each available emotion label. We also propose several performance measurements and pattern recognition methods for this framework, and report the experimental results obtained when testing and comparing these methods on two affective posture datasets

Nuclear phosphoproteins : III. Increase in phosphorylation during histone-phosphoprotein interaction

The effects of histones on the enzymatic phosphorylation of nuclear phosphoproteins have been extensively studied in vitro. Histones cause a 5- to 10-fold increase in the rate and extent of phosphorylation of nuclear phosphoprotein, with the lysine-rich histones being the most effective at stimulation. Evidence suggests that the histones are not being phosphorylated themselves, but rather act to make more sites available for phosphorylation in the phosphoprotein itself. The possible physiological significance of histone-phosphoprotein interactions is discussed.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/33683/1/0000195.pd

Student midwives' experiences of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) at a University in the Western Cape

Magister Curationis - MCurThe Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is a formative and summative assessment method used in several health science disciplines. The primary focus of this research study was to explore and describe the experiences of student midwives of the OSCE as used in a specific university context and determine how effective it is in preparing student midwives for clinical practice. However the researcher acknowledges the value of the OSCA (Objective Structured Clinical Assessment), which was not used in the context where the study was conducted. Due to the scarcity of academic literature in South Africa and internationally regarding the experiences of student midwives of OSCE assessments, this research study attempted to increase evidence of students’ experiences for improving the OSCE as an assessment method at a school of nursing used in this study. Research purpose: The purpose of the study was to explore and describe student midwives’ experiences of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination, at the SoN, at a university in the Western Cape, and ascertain whether it prepared them adequately for clinical practice. Research design: A qualitative approach with an exploratory descriptive design was used for the investigation of the student midwives' experiences of this assessment method. Sample: Purposive sampling was utilised to select third year Bachelor of Nursing students, who completed the OSCE during semester one in 2014, at a University in the Western Cape. Nine participants were interviewed. Data collection: The data collection was obtained through semi-structured interviews. Data analysis: The data analysis was done manually using the Thomas (2003) data analysis process. Saturation was reached after nine interviews, when no new relevant knowledge was being acquired. Findings: OSCE preparation was supported by theory and clinical learning opportunities. The OSCE environment was found to be challenging and stressful. Alignment of OSCE stations to clinical skills, theory, clinical practice and appropriateness of time allocation. Students had differing views about their level of confidence and competence. Recommendations: Although the OSCE is a valued instrument in the summative assessment of midwifery students, attention must be given to the careful planning of the OSCE environment and the use of simulation techniques. Adequate support for students is essential, and adherence to a standard method of facilitation in clinical learning, in the skills laboratory, is crucial to fairness in learning and assessment. The direct input from valuable stakeholders in clinical training, such as educators and clinical supervisors, must be considered in order to identify ways to improve the OSCE

The effects of using Padlet on the academic performance and engagement of students in a fifth grade basic skills mathematics classroom

The purpose of this study was to: (a) examine the effectiveness of Padlet in increasing the engagement of students in a fifth grade basic skills mathematics classroom, (b) examine the effectiveness of Padlet in increasing the academic achievement of students in a fifth grade basic skills mathematics classroom, and (c) determine if students in a fifth grade basic skills mathematics classroom are satisfied with the use of Padlet. The research was conducted using single-subject design methodology. The study followed an ABABAB alternating baseline pattern. Student academic achievement was evaluated through daily assessments, while student engagement was evaluated in one minute intervals for ten minutes daily. The results of this study suggest that the use of Padlet may help to increase the engagement and academic achievement of students in a fifth grade basic skills mathematics classroom. Padlet was found to increase the weekly mean engagement score for 4 out of the 6 students and the weekly mean academic achievement score for 3 out of 6 students. Results also show that all students were satisfied with the use of Padlet. Implications for educating students in a basic skills setting include the recommendation to utilize additional education technologies such as Padlet in the classroom