May 1970
The events of May 1970 changed higher education in many ways. This book argues those events also played a significant, yet largely forgotten role in the rise of composition studies as an academic...
View ArticleThe Social Register: Staying Relevant in the Post-Industrial Age.
The Social Register has been since 1888 a defining feature of the American social upper class which has been argued by Baltzell, Domhoff and others as a governing class. From its beginnings in the...
View ArticleAddressing the Crisis in Education: External Threats, Embracing Cognitive...
This chapter examines current issues in education that may impede progress in the field. A variety of external threats are analyzed, including k-12 and university funding and ideological threats in...
View ArticleAn Integrated Review of Recent Research on the Relationships Between...
Religious ideology and extremism have had an increasing influence on political agendas in the United States and much of the developed world in the past 60 years, with right-wing ideology becoming more...
View ArticleImproving Content Knowledge in Social Studies for Upper Elementary Students
This study investigated the effects of the instructional method Promoting Acceleration of Comprehension and Content through Text (PACT) on the social studies content acquisition, reading...
View ArticleAn Assessment of Intergroup Dynamics at a Multi-Campus University: One...
Research on Intergroup Contact Theory has suggested that more positive environments develop when individuals have greater exposure to diverse groups, though minority students and White students often...
View ArticleThe [Latinx] Darling: Lorraine López Reads the Canon
Judith Ortiz Cofer describes “a migrating consciousness” that is explored in a “liminal space” that involves “linguistic decoding” of experience to find that freedom. These concepts can be employed to...
View ArticleRed Sparrow: Cold War Redux and the Treatment of Corruption
Examining why many U.S. citizens fail to see President Trump as corrupt, Peter Beinart, in a recent Atlantic article, argues “what the president’s supporters fear most isn’t the corruption of American...
View ArticleAn Empirical Study of Skype Data Retrieval from Physical Memory
Instant messaging technology is increasingly becoming popular among individuals, businesses, as well as criminals. Technologies such as Skype is widely used due to its secure and cheap services....
View ArticleHaimo of Auxerre's Angry Smile: Emotional Experience in Ninth-Century Francia
Haimo, the master of the monastic school at Saint-Germain (Auxerre) never wrote a treatise on emotions. Understanding his thoughts about anger, therefore, requires reconstructing them from the various...
View ArticleThe Effects on Instructional Conversations on English Language Learners
This research examined the effectiveness that the Instructional Conversations (ICs) teaching method had on elementary-aged English Language Learning (ELLs) students. Specifically, how ICs impact...
View ArticleThe Effects of Schema-Based Instruction on Solving Mathematics Word Problems
The purpose of this study was to investigate the frequency with which students use math word problem strategies during and after schema-based instruction. It examines the extent to which students...
View ArticleTechnological Developments in Computer Art from the Mid-20th Century to the...
This paper recounts the history of important milestones in computer art, including pre-digital influences and imagery created with electronic/new media and analog computers, specifically built for...
View ArticleEXISTENCE OF A SOLUTION FOR GENERALIZED FORCHHEIMER FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA WITH...
This paper is focused on the generalized Forchheimer flows for slightly compressible fluids, described as a system of two nonlinear degenerating partial differential equations of first order. We prove...
View ArticleSolution of the Mixed Formulation for Generalized Forchheimer Flows of...
This paper focuses on the generalized Forchheimer flows of isentropic gas in a porous medium, described by a system of two nonlinear degenerate partial differential equations of first order. We prove...
View ArticleMultiple Linear Regression: Identify Potential Health Care Stocks for...
College‐level statistics courses emphasize the use of the coefficient of determination, R‐squared, in evaluating a linear regression model: higher R‐squared is better. This often gives students an...
View ArticleThe Art of Life History: Novel Approaches, Future Directions
This issue is premised on the belief that a thorough understanding of the 21st century social and cultural milieu necessitates scholarly inquiry that prioritizes depth, nuance, and context. Each of...
View ArticleIn Pursuit of Respect: The Adult Learner Attending Community College in the...
This qualitative study of 43 adult learners in an urban community college critically examines the theory of andragogy’s relevance in today’s “New Economy.” Findings encompass 1) an individual...
View ArticleLife History Methods
This entry on life history research is separated into four distinct, yet interrelated, sections. First, it depicts the evolution of life history research by highlighting several impactful works of the...
View ArticleInstitutional Barriers to Innovation: Lessons from a Digital Intervention to...
This article draws upon two conceptual frameworks—institutional culture in education and innovation studies—to contextualize findings from a digital intervention for underrepresented students applying...
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