Combining Reading and Writing With Science to Enhance Content Area Achievement and Attitudes

Reading through science is different because you are reading and learning science at the same time. And plain reading is boring because you do reading book and when the teacher says group two we have to go up to the reading table. And read for a half hour then she makes us do a reading work sheet about the story we read. And reading science is better because... the activ ties and experiments we did helped me understand science better

Regulation of Systemic Risk Through Contributory Endogenous Agent-Based Modeling

The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) was created to identify and respond to emerging threats to the stability of the United States financial system. The research arm of the FSOC, the Office of Financial Research (OFR), has begun to explore agent-based models (ABMs) for measuring the emergent threat of systemic risk. We propose an ABM-based regulatory structure that incentivizes the honest participation and data contribution of regulated firms while providing clarity into the actions of the firms as endogenous to the market and driving emergent behavior. We build this scheme onto an existing ABM of a single-asset market to examine whether the structure of the scheme could provide its own benefits to market stabilization. We find that without regulatory intervention, markets acting within this proposed structure experience fewer bankruptcies and lower leverage buildup while returning larger profits for the same amount of risk

A Model for Using Television and Video to Motivate Writing

Three university consultants developed a model to explore the effectiveness of using television and video to motivate writing. Following a series of motivational and brainstorming sessions using television, video, and popular literature, twenty-three fifth grade students were assigned to cooperative groups where they wrote and videotaped dramatizations of short teaser scripts. Observations derived from the completed model reveal the compelling influence of television and video on the lives of children

Reading Retreats: Faculty Efforts to Revive Their Reading Program

In the United States, education and particular Reading education has undergone serious scrutiny over the past twenty years. From the Nation at Risk (1983) publication to the No Child Left Behind Act (2001), reading educators, who work directly with pre-service teachers, have had to confront several important challenges including establishing high academic standards for all students, developing and enhancing teachers’ knowledge of the latest and most effective educational practices and initiating systematic reform within the school system so that new curriculum frameworks are aligned to key state educational policy.The following paper describes how faculty in a reading program at a large metropolitan university along the southeastern coast of the United States reflected on current practice and discovered a means of maintaining their professional integrity while at the same time using professional development opportunities to create a reading program which is current, dynamic and effectively able to prepare future teachers who thrive in an environment of change.

Taste as a determinant factor in critically exercising design

A partir de algunas reflexiones gadamerianas y de otras discusionescontemporáneas en torno a la idea de juicio estético, se propone entender el papel del gusto en el ejercicio valorativo en los procesos evaluativos y, por lo tanto, críticos de las disciplinas del diseño, entendidas como un saber-hacer artístico y comunicacional.Based on several Gadamerian reflections and other contemporary discussions on the aesthetic judgment idea, this article intends to achieve an understanding of taste in the value-assessing exercise of the evaluative and, therefore, critical processes of the design disciplines, understood as an artistic and communicational know-how.A partir de alguns gadamerianas reflexões e outras discussões contemporâneas em torno da idéia de juízo estético, propõe-se a compreender o papel de gosto no exercício de avaliação em processos de avaliação e disciplinas de design, portanto, críticas entendida como um perícia artístico e comunicacional

Prime beef cuts : culinary images for thinking 'men'

The paper contributes to scholarship theorising the sociality of the brand in terms of subject positions it makes possible through drawing upon the generative context of circulating discourses, in this case of masculinity, cuisine and celebrity. Specifically, it discusses masculinity as a socially constructed gender practice (Bristor and Fischer, 1993), examining materialisations of such practice in the form of visualisations of social relations as resources for 'thinking gender' or 'doing gender'. The transformative potential of the visualisations is illuminated by exploring the narrative content choreographed within a series of photographic images positioning the market appeal of a celebrity chef through the medium of a contemporary lifestyle cookery book. We consider how images of men 'doing masculinity'are not only channelled into reproducing existing gender hierarchy and compulsory heterosexuality in the service of commercial ends, but also into disrupting such enduring stereotyping through subtle reframing. We acknowledge that masculinity is already inscribed within conventionalised representations of culinary culture. In this case we consider how traces of masculinity are exploited and reinscribed through contemporary images that generate resources for rethinking masculine roles and identities, especially when viewed through the lens of stereotypically feminised pursuits such as shopping, food preparation, cooking, and the communal intimacy of food sharing. We identify unsettling tensions within the compositions, arguing that they relate to discursive spaces between the gendered positions written into the images and the popular imagination they feed off. Set against landscapes of culinary culture, we argue that the images invoke a brand of naively roughish "laddishness" or "blokishness", rendering it in domesticated form not only as benign and containable, but fashionable, pliable and, importantly, desirable. We conclude that although the images draw on stereotypical premeditated notions of a feral, boisterous and untamed heterosexual masculinity, they also set in motion gender-blending narratives

Exploring perceptions of advertising ethics: an informant-derived approach

Whilst considerable research exists on determining consumer responses to pre-determined statements within numerous ad ethics contexts, our understanding of consumer thoughts regarding ad ethics in general remains lacking. The purpose of our study therefore is to provide a first illustration of an emic and informant-based derivation of perceived ad ethics. The authors use multi-dimensional scaling as an approach enabling the emic, or locally derived deconstruction of perceived ad ethics. Given recent calls to develop our understanding of ad ethics in different cultural contexts, and in particular within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, we use Lebanon—the most ethically charged advertising environment within MENA—as an illustrative context for our study. Results confirm the multi-faceted and pluralistic nature of ad ethics as comprising a number of dimensional themes already salient in the existing literature but in addition, we also find evidence for a bipolar relationship between individual themes. The specific pattern of inductively derived relationships is culturally bound. Implications of the findings are discussed, followed by limitations of the study and recommendations for further research

Twenty-Five Years of Word-of-Mouth Studies: A Critical Review of Tourism Research

It has been 25 years that the topic of word of mouth (WOM) related to the tourism industry has been addressed in top-level marketingjournals. However, there has not yet been a thorough synthesis of the articles, nor has there been an analysis of the approach and the directionthe research has taken. This article will try to address that deficiency, collecting and analysing 25 five years of research following thisstream, utilizing a literature review technique known as the paradigm funne