Social-Emotional Learning: Effects on Teacher Attrition, Retention, and Self-Efficacy

The rise in teacher attrition rates have been examined since the 1970s (Croasmun et al., 2000). Teachers have reported leaving the profession early due to many factors, including salaries, student discipline, administrative support, parental involvement, working conditions, and lack of professional respect (Cochran-Smith, 2004; Hughes, 2012). Teachers have felt unprepared in dealing with the high demands of teaching, especially in handling student discipline (Thibodeaux et al., 2015). Up to 35% of teachers have reported leaving the profession based on their difficulties with student discipline (Schonert-Reichl, 2017, para. 21; Schonert-Reichl et al., 2017, p. 18). The Collaboration for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) has identified social-emotional learning competencies for students in Pre- K through 12th grade with developmental benchmarks to assist teachers in addressing the social-emotional needs of students (2013). This study was conducted to see if a significant relationship existed among states with statewide freestanding comprehensive PreK-12th grade social-emotional learning standards and states without PreK-12th grade socialemotional learning standards concerning teachers’ perceived sense of self-efficacy, statewide teacher attrition, and statewide retention rates. Teacher attrition and retention ratings from the four Midwest states of Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska were analyzed, along with the Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale from kindergarten through third-grade teachers in these states. The study revealed no significant difference between having social-emotional learning standards or not and statewide teacher attrition and retention rates. The study also showed no significant difference between having social-emotional learning standards or not and teachers’ sense of self-efficacy levels or in any efficacy subscale

Monitoring Relative Abundance of American Shad in Virginia’s Rivers 2000 Annual Report

Since the moratorium, there have been no monitoring programs that provided direct assessment of stock recovery until this project began in 1998. The ban on in-river fishing in Virginia remained in effect, creating a dilemma for managers who needed reliable information in order to make a rational decision on when the in-river ban could safely be lifted. To address this deficiency, we proposed a method of scientific monitoring to estimate catch rates relative to those recorded before the prohibition of in-river fishing in 1994. This monitoring program began in 1998 and consisted of sampling techniques and locations that were consistent with, and directly comparable to, those that generated historical logbook data collected by VIMS during the period 1980-1992 in the York, James and Rappahannock rivers. The results of the third year in the sampling program (2000) are reported in this document. The results of the first two years of sampling (1998 and 1999) are reported in previous annual reports (Olney and Hoenig 2000a, 2000b)

Introduction to the proceedings of the symposium Fish Larvae and Systematics: Ontogeny and relationships

The International Larval Fish Conference was held in Sydney, Australia (26- 30 June 1995) as part of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Early Life History Section of the American Fisheries Society. At the conference, we convened a symposium ( Fish Larvae and Systematics: Ontogeny and Relationships ) that was intended to stimulate the application of ontogenetic data to solve problems in fish systematics. The brief we gave the contributors to the symposium was this: The theme of this symposium will be the use of information gained from egg and larval ontogeny in solving problems in systematics and phylogeny. Thus, we are seeking, not papers that just described larval development of various taxa (although we anticipate many papers will include this), but papers which go beyond description and use the larval characters, developmental patterns, etc. to attack problems in fish systematics. For example, we would welcome papers on how larval morphology solved problems of cryptic species amongst adults, or papers that made use of ontogenetic information to assess relationships at species, genus, family or higher level. Twenty-one papers by authors from 10 countries were presented at this successful symposium

Questioning Classic Patient Classification Techniques in Gait Rehabilitation: Insights from Wearable Haptic Technology

Classifying stroke survivors based on their walking abilities is an important part of the gait rehabilitation process. It can act as powerful indicator of function and prognosis in both the early days after a stroke and long after a survivor receives rehabilitation. This classification often relies solely on walking speed; a quick and easy measure, with only a stopwatch needed. However, walking speed may not be the most accurate way of judging individual’s walking ability. Advances in technology mean we are now in a position where ubiquitous and wearable technologies can be used to elicit much richer measures to characterise gait. In this paper we present a case study from one of our studies, where within a homogenous group of stroke survivors (based on walking speed classification) important differences in individual results and the way they responded to rhythmic haptic cueing were identified during the piloting of a novel gait rehabilitation technique

Monitoring Relative Abundance of American Shad in Virginia\u27s Rivers Annual Report 1999

A moratorium on the taking of American shad (Alosa sapidissima) in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries was established by the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) beginning 1 January 1994. The prohibition applied to both recreational and commercial fishers. The moratorium was imposed at a time when commercial catch rates of American shad in Virginia\u27s rivers were experiencing declines. Data from the commercial fishery were the best available for assessing the status of individual stocks. Catch-per-unit-effort (CPUE) data were compiled from logbooks that recorded landings by commercial fishermen using staked gill nets at various locations throughout the middle reaches of the James, York and Rappahannock rivers. The logbooks were voluntarily provided to the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) during the period 1980-1993, and subsequently used in an assessment ofthe status of American shad stocks along the Atlantic coast by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) (ASMFC 1999). Since the moratorium, there have been no monitoring programs that provided direct assessment of stock recovery. The ban on in-river fishing in Virginia remained in effect, creating a dilemma for managers who needed reliable information in order to make a rational decision on when the in-river ban could safely be lifted. To address this deficiency, we proposed a method of scientific monitoring to estimate catch rates relative to those recorded before the prohibition of in-river fishing in 1994. This monitoring program began in 1998 and consisted of sampling techniques and locations that were consistent with, and directly comparable to, those that generated historical logbook data collected by VIMS during the period 1980-1993 in the York, James and Rappahannock rivers. The results of the second year in the sampling program (1999) are reported in this document. The results of the first year of sampling ( 1998) are reported in Olney and Hoenig (2000)

Question Generation from Concept Maps

In this paper we present a question generation approach suitable for tutorial dialogues. The approach is based on previous psychological theories that hypothesize questions are generated from a knowledge representation modeled as a concept map. Our model automatically extracts concept maps from a textbook and uses them to generate questions. The purpose of the study is to generate and evaluate pedagogically-appropriate questions at varying levels of specificity across one or more sentences. The evaluation metrics include scales from the Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge and a new scale specific to the pedagogical nature of questions in tutoring

A study of the river origin of American shad captured in the Atlantic Ocean intercept fishery in Virginia : Final report, 2001

The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) has been releasing larval American shad into the James and York river systems since 1993 and these fish are given river-specific marks before release. Our in-river monitoring program had established that we could estimate the proportion of fish returning to spawn in the rivers that have hatchery marks. Furthermore, we were able to obtain a sample of 200 fish from the intercept fishery off Chincoteague Island, Virginia, in 2000 and screening of the otoliths by VDGIF personnel revealed the presence of one fish with a James River hatchery mark and one with a York River mark. No marks from any other river were found. Thus, it appeared that hatchery markings would allow the opportunity to estimate the proportion of Virginia stocks that were harvested in the offshore fishery. On the basis of these preliminary findings, we proposed the present study

Measurements of Load Train Motion on a Stratospheric Balloon Flight

Attitude measurements using gyros and magnetometers placed on a stratospheric balloon during a non-pointed test flight were used to observe the natural azimuth and elevation motions of a balloon/load train/gondola at an altitude of 36 km over a total flight time of 400 minutes. Time traces of the entire flight are presented. This flight, conducted under nominal atmospheric conditions, had significant motion about the azimuth. Some discussion on balloon disturbances is also included