bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
AVALIAÇÃO DO USO DAS FERRAMENTAS DE GESTÃO DA QUALIDADE NA EXECUÇÃO DE OBRAS DE EMPREENDIMENTOS IMOBILIÁRIOS DENTRO DO CONTEXTO DO CICLO PDCA
Authors: ELIAS PEDRO CUPELLI , DOS SANTOS FLADIMIR FERNANDES , DE SOUSA MARCO AURÉLIO BATISTA
Published: March 2024

O objetivo desta pesquisa foi averiguar, em empresas de construção civil, a aplicaçãode ferramentas de gestão da qualidade dentro no contexto do Ciclo PDCA (Plan, Do,Check, Act). Como procedimentos metodológicos realizou-se uma pesquisabibliográfica e, posteriormente, elaborou-se um questionário eletrônico, o qual foienviado, para os gestores das empresas construtoras atuantes na cidade deAlegrete/RS/Brasil. Também foi questionado sobre a utilização, ou não, deferramentas de gestão da qualidade. Ademais, buscou-se entender os motivos pelosquais as empresas utilizavam, ou não, dessas ferramentas na execução de suasobras, além de identificar os resultados obtidos por quem as utilizavam. Quanto aosresultados, as ferramentas foram analisadas em cada uma das etapas do Ciclo PDCA.Após a coleta e o processamento dos dados, concluiu-se que as empresasconstrutoras de Alegrete/RS fazem pouco uso das ferramentas de gestão daqualidade. Ademais, pôde-se evidenciar que os esforços praticados pelas empresasde construção civil pesquisadas, na execução de suas obras, concentram-se nasegunda etapa do Ciclo, ou seja: fazer, executar, em detrimento da etapa deplanejamento, onde se deveria estabelecer um plano que contemplasse os objetivospré-determinados para a execução das obras.
Pengaruh Sistem Perpajakan, Keadilan, dan Teknologi Terhadap Persepsi Wajib Pajak Orang Pribadi Atas Perilaku Penggelapan Pajak Pada Kantor Pelayanan Pajak Pratama Pekanbaru Tampan
Authors: Pratiwi Nadila Eka , Mirna Yolanda , Monika Resti Dea , Fionasari Dwi
Published: March 2024

The purpose of this research is to determine the influence of the tax system, justice and tax technology on individual taxpayers' perceptions of tax evasion behavior at KPP Pratama Pekanbaru Tampan. The population in this study are individual taxpayers registered at KPP Pratama Pekanbaru Tampan. The number of research samples was determined using the Slovin formula, so that the sample size was 100. This research used primary data in the form of a questionnaire. The analytical method carried out in this research is multiple linear regression analysis using the SPSS version 26 program. The results of the research can prove that tax fairness, the tax system and technology can influence tax evasion at KPP Pratama Pekanbaru Tampan.
A Comparative Cohort Study of Laparoscopy Versus Laparotomy for the Treatment of Iranian Endometrial Cancer Patients
Authors: Khoshravesh Sahar , Arab Malieheh , Nouri Nasim , Nouri Behnaz , Pirastehfar Zanbagh , Ghavami Behnaz
Published: March 2024

Background: In recent decades, laparoscopy and robotic surgery are mostly used for the treatment of endometrial cancer. Laparoscopic surgery's popularity has grown due to rapid postoperative recovery and reduced post-surgical morbidity and complications compared with open surgery. Objectives: This study aimed to compare laparoscopic surgery and laparotomy in terms of their advantages and disadvantages for treating early-stage endometrial cancer in a population of Iranian patients in a referral center of gyneco-oncology. Methods: In this cohort study at Imam Hossein Medical Center in Tehran, Iran, from 2019 to 2022, early-stage endometrial cancer patients were included. Advanced disease, patients with medical comorbidity not suitable for laparoscopy, previous surgery for endometrial cancer, and prior chemotherapy or radiotherapy for treatment of the endometrial cancer were excluded from the study. The study compared two groups regarding operative findings, including FIGO stage, grade, postoperative complications, and hospitalization days. Results: The study included 17 patients in the laparoscopic group with a mean age of 56 (+ 12.5) years old and 44 patients in the laparotomy group with a mean age of 57 (+10.2) years old. Two groups were well-matched in terms of Body Mass Index and menopausal status. The median intraoperative blood loss was significantly in terms of statistical less in the laparoscopic group (200 mL versus 500 mL, P = 0.001). Four (23.5%) patients in the laparoscopic group needed intraoperative blood transfusion versus 22 (50.0%) in the laparotomy group, P = 0.061. Hospital stay days were shorter in the laparoscopic group, with a median of three versus six days (P < 0.001). Conclusions: In conclusion, the minimally invasive operation caused less blood loss, hospital stay, and blood transfusion in comparison to laparotomy in Iranian endometrial cancer patients, confirming the preferred method of laparoscopy in these patients.
Investigating the Characteristics of Suicide And its Relationship with Family History of Suicide
Authors: Owliaey Hamid , Salehabadi Razie , Kadivari Raheleh , Bidaki Reza , Salimi Zanireh
Published: March 2024

Background: Several factors contribute to suicide attempts. To the best our knowledge, there is no study has been conducted to investigate the impact of a family history of suicide on suicide attempts. Objectives: This study aims to examine the characteristics of suicide and its association with a family history of suicide. Materials and Methods: This historical cohort study was carried out on individuals admitted to Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Taft and Shah Wali Hospital in Yazd for suicide attempts between 2018 and 2019. The study examined 73 individuals with a family history of suicide and 332 without such a history. It recorded demographic details, methods of suicide attempts, and family histories concerning the patients' mothers, fathers, and siblings. Data were collected and subsequently analyzed using ndependent t-tests, Mann-Whitney tests, chi-square and Fisher's exact test. A significance level of P < 0.05 was considered. Results: The average age of the subjects was 28.02 ± 10.8 years, with 295 (72.8%) of the participants being women. There were no significant differences in mean income (P = 0.99), marital status (P = 0.06), gender (P = 0.35), place of residence (P = 0.06), and education level (P = 0.37) between individuals with and without a family history of suicide. Furthermore, our results indicated that the prevalence of mental illness was significantly higher in individuals with a family history of suicide (P < 0.001). The average number of suicide attempts was 1.05 ± 1.90 for those with a family history and 1.21 ± 0.50 for those without, a difference that was statistically significant (P = 0.002). The timing, method, and reasons for suicide attempts were not associated with a family history of suicide. Conclusions: A family history of suicide was associated with an increased number of suicide attempts. There was no correlation between family history and gender, occupation, place of residence, number of children, timing of suicide, method of suicide, reason for suicide, and educational status of the patients. However, a significant relationship was found between a family history of suicide and a history of mental illness among the patients, indicating a higher prevalence of mental illness in the group with a family history compared to those without.
Profiling Bilateral Skills in High-Performance Male and Female Gaelic Footballers
Authors: Dillon Karol , Kearney Philip , Sherwin Ian
Published: March 2024

Background: Bilateral skill in sport refers to an individual’s ability to successfully perform sporting actions with both sides of the body. Two scarcely researched areas in relation to bilateral skills are the effects of opposition proximity on skill execution and bilateral skill in high-performance female athletes. Methods: All skill executions (hand pass, kick pass, hop, solo and shot) during 121 games (76 male, 45 female) were coded using Nacsport, with the participants including male and female tier 1 (n = 181, 134) and Tier 2 (n = 238, 115) adult, high performance Gaelic football players. Irrespective of tier or gender, Gaelic football players relied upon their dominant side for the majority of skill executions. Results: No consistent differences existed between tiers and genders in relation to dominant side use, but top tier male players were generally less reliant on the dominant limb than all female players. In general, top tier male players performed more successfully than the other three tiers. Most skills were executed under low opponent proximity, limiting the requirement to use the non-dominant limb. Conclusions: These findings illustrate the demands of Gaelic football in relation to bilateral skill and identify key questions for future research.
The Power of Data for Impact Part I: A study of data-driven practices & solutions in the social sector
Authors:   Indian School of Development Management, Ojha Anirudh , Madenahally Sreenivasa
Published: March 2024

A study of data-driven practices for social impact
Analisis Produksi Kelapa Sawit Indonesia
Authors: Fevriera Sotya , Devi Fhrista Safara
Published: March 2024

As the biggest producer in the world, trend of Indonesia palm oil production keeps increasing. Therefore, palm oil industry is favorite in Indonesia’s plantation sector and agriculture export. Besides having contribution on Indonesia GDP, palm oil industry also absorbs many labors. The objective of this research is to study the effects of micro and macro economics variables on the total palm oil production, crude palm oil and kernel palm oil. Using time series data 1986-2020 and non linear multiple regression model estimated using ordinary least square method, this research found that area, palm oil export and exchange rate has a positive significant effect, inflation rate and interest rate has a negative significant effect whereas palm oil import has no significant effect on the production of total palm ol, crude palm oil and kernel palm oil. Hence, besides maintaining the stability of exchange rate, inflation rate and the interest rate fluctuation, the government have to put some efforts to develop researches to increase the productivity of palm oil area.
Multi-grade Teaching and its Detrimental Effects on the Performance of Primary School Teachers in District Hub, Balochistan
Authors: Abdul Qayoom  , Abdul Aziz  , Muhammad Akram  , Muhammad Faseehullah Khan
Published: March 2024

The purpose of the present study is to explore challenges faced by teachers in multigrade classes. Many rural Pakistani primary schools lack resources and teachers, so they provide multi-grade classroom instruction. In this arrangement, a single teacher oversees the entire classroom while students from two or three grades are housed in combined classes. This study looked at the elements that lead to poor instruction in multi-grade classrooms in Hub district primary schools. Time and funding constraints limited the study to thirty teachers. For this study, a quantitative research methodology was used. The quantitative research methodology was chosen due to temporal constraints. The research instrument that was used was the questionnaire. Teachers working in Balochistani primary schools in the Hub district made up the research population for this study. As a research sample, thirty primary school teachers were chosen from the Hub district. The data was tabulated and then graphically analyzed. With the aid of their interview guide, the researchers themselves serve as the primary research instrument in this study. Information gathered from one-on-one interviews was coded, transcribed, and question responses were categorized for this study. A questionnaire can be used as one research instrument. It was found that teaching multiple grades negatively affected the ability of teachers to instruct. Teachers' comments revealed that teaching in multi-grade classrooms also calls for a number of advantageous adjustments. Based on the results, constructive recommendations and suggestions were made.
Sustainable Service Learning Programs
Authors: Cushman Ellen
Published: March 2024

The role of the professor in community service writing courses factors into the teaching, research, and overall institutional viability of these initiatives, yet too little has been written about the role of the professor in service learning. Through an analysis of recent publications on service learning and data gathered during an outreach initiative at University of California, Berkeley, this article reveals a few of the obstacles that hinder the sustainability of community literacy programs. I find that professors in service learning courses can better sustain these initiatives when they view the community site as a place where their research, teaching, and service contribute to a community’s self-defined needs and students’ learning.
Difficult Stories: Service-Learning, Race, Class, and Whiteness
Authors: Green Ann E.
Published: March 2024

By addressing race and class through the stories we tell about service-learning in the classroom and in our scholarship, I argue that we can more effectively negotiate the divide between the university and the community and work toward social change.
Infrastructure and Composing: The When of New-Media Writing
Authors: DeVoss Dànielle Nicole , Cushman Ellen , Grabill Jeffrey T.
Published: March 2024

New-media writing exerts pressure in ways that writing instruction typically has not. In this article, we map the infrastructural dynamics that support—or disrupt—newmedia writing instruction, drawing from a multimedia writing course taught at our institution. An infrastructural framework provides a robust tool for writing teachers to navigate and negotiate the institutional complexities that shape new-media writing and offers composers a path through which to navigate the systems within and across which they work. Further, an infrastructural framework focused on the when of newmedia composing creates space for reflection and change within institutional structures and networks.
Understanding Problems in Critical Classrooms
Authors: Thelin William H.
Published: March 2024

Some scholarship suggests that critical pedagogy should be abandoned for more pragmatic goals. While the democratic and political sensibilities of critical pedagogy require more from the instructor, classrooms that on the surface do not appear to work in teaching students should not be seen as signs that the pedagogy is not worth the extra effort. The classroom experience recounted in this piece suggests that blundered implementation can function as an opportunity to advance knowledge and to understand the ongoing project of critical pedagogy, strengthening it even as we realize that critical pedagogy cannot look and feel like status quo teaching and still enact progressive goals.
Reinventing WAC (Again): The First-Year Seminar and Academic Literacy
Authors: Brent Doug
Published: March 2024

Academically oriented first-year seminars can be good venues for teaching many of the concepts important to WAC programs, including extended engagement with a research topic and situated writing. A qualitative study of a first-year seminar program at the University of Calgary highlights faculty members’ and students’ responses.
Who Owns Writing?
Authors: Hesse Douglas D.
Published: March 2024

2005 CCCC Chair’s Address: Who Owns Writing?
Ideology, Textbooks, and the Rhetoric of Production in China
Authors: You Xiaoye
Published: March 2024

Xiaoye You is a Ph.D. student in the English as a Second Language (ESL) programat Purdue University. He isinterested in comparative rhetoric and issues of Englishwriting instruction in international contexts. Currently he is working on his dissertation, exploring the intersections of Anglo-American and Chinese rhetorical traditions in the historical evolution of English writing instruction in Chinese colleges.
Toward a New Discourse of Assessment for College Writing Classroom
Authors: Huot Brian
Published: March 2024

Focuses on the kind of assessment that takes place within a classroom context, and therefore looks at assessing, grading, or testing writing, since when educators talk about classroom assessment they talk of grades and tests, at times using all three terms interchangeably. Hopes to draw educators into new conversations about assessment and the teaching of writing.
Living to Tell the Tale: The Complicated Ethics of Creative Nonfiction
Authors: Bloom Lynn Z.
Published: March 2024

Offers a presentation of creative nonfiction addressing the author’s personal family experiences. Addresses ethical issues involved in creative nonfiction. Describes how she decided to narrate her history and contemplates in depth the artistic choices she made.
Learning to Let Them Learn: Yielding Power to Students in a Literacy Methods Course
Authors: McCallister Cynthia
Published: March 2024

Describes the process and product of a revision of the author’s literacy methods course, a revision that grew from a student’s comment questioning the student’s "right" to evaluate another student’s work. Theorizes the role of authority in the course and explains how contours of power and freedom create spaces in which prospective teachers have opportunities to develop a habitus for teaching.
Epistemology and Preservice Teacher Education: How Do Beliefs about Knowledge Affect Our Students’ Experiences?
Authors: Many Joyce E. , Howard Frances , Hoge Pamela
Published: March 2024

Provides information about the authors’ course and how they collected and analyzed data. Shares what they learned about the range of epistemological perspectives of their students. Explores how students’ beliefs may have shaped their experiences in the courses and their reflections on their work in the field. Finds many students drew on multiple lenses to frame their beliefs.
Living a Literate Life, Revisited
Authors: Kaufman Douglas
Published: March 2024

Douglas Kaufman declares in ℌLiving A Literate Life, Revisited,ℍ ℌif I want my students to become passionately literate people, I, too, must be a passionate, literate person, who reads, writes, and learns in front of them.ℍ
Authentic Intellectual Achievement in Writing
Authors: Sisserson Kendra , Manning Carmen K. , Knepler Annie , Jolliffe David A
Published: March 2024

What does increased intellectual quality of student work look like in their writing? The authors tell how Authentic Intellectual Achievement, or AIA, can be used to measure this increase when used to evaluate authentic student writing. The article defines and gives examples of using authentic writing, which is vital to attaining this intellectual increase.
Whose Community? Where Is the “YA” in YA Literature?
Authors: Gauthier Gail
Published: March 2024

Suggests that educators need to accept that the young adult audience is unique and find a way to deal with it in order to create a literature from which teenagers can expect to gain a satisfying “sense of comradeship among equals.”
Promoting Academic Literacy with Urban Youth through Engaging Hip-hop Culture
Authors: Morrell Ernest , Duncan-Andrade Jeffrey M. R.
Published: March 2024

Ernest Morrell and Jeffrey M. R. Duncan-Andrade present a plan for using hip-hop music and culture to connect students to literature.
Shall We Bury Caesar or Praise Him? Ideas for the Revitalization of an Old Standard
Authors: Sklar Stacey M.
Published: March 2024

Notes that “Julius Caesar” is required in nearly every high school curriculum, but that making the play accessible to students is not easy. Tries new teaching ideas to see whether students would more readily take to “Julius Caesar” using a more interdisciplinary approach. Describes three of these ideas that were particularly successful.
Enter Here: Personal Narrative and Digital Storytelling
Authors: Kajder Sara B.
Published: March 2024

Through the creation of a digital story, urban high school students gain confidence and a new understanding of literacy. Sara B. Kajder offers a step–by–step plan for replicating this project, grounded in sound theory and research about how adolescents expand their literacies.
Speaking My Mind: Grading Student Writing
Authors: Thomas P. L
Published: March 2024

“Speaking My Mind” invites readers to speak out about controversial issues relevant to the teaching of English language arts.
Educating for Democracy: The Vital Role of the Language Arts Teacher
Authors: Mantle-Bromley Corinne , Foster Ann M.
Published: March 2024

According to Corinne Mantle-Bromley and Ann M. Foster, English language arts teachers more than any others help students to connect skills they learn in school with the larger purposes of democracy. Therefore, they contend, â€œthe future of our nation depends at least in part on the commitment of our current language arts teachers toward democracy and social justice.â€
The Role and Responsibility of the Experienced Teacher
Authors: McCann Thomas M. , Johannessen Larry R.
Published: March 2024

Relying on research and case studies focusing on the stated needs of new teachers, Thomas M. McCann and Larry R. Johannessen describe a variety of ways that experienced teachers can proactively help newcomers in their schools.
More Than Just a Web Site: Representing Teacher Research through Digital Portfolios
Authors: Autrey Tara M. , Edington Cathy O’Berry , Hicks Troy , Kabodian Aram , Lerg Nicole , Lift-Gardner Rebecca , Russo Anne , Stephens Rebecca
Published: March 2024

The authors have made digital portfolios and blogging the centerpieces of their teacher-research group as ways to share their research and get input from their peers. The group discusses the many benefits this collaborative project has offered their teaching.
Misconceptions about a Curriculum-as-Inquiry Framework
Authors: Pataray-Ching Jann , Roberson Mary
Published: March 2024

Attempts to strengthen the connection between theory and practice in the inquiry discussion. Presents three curricular perspectives prevalent today and situates inquiry curriculum among these perspectives. Addresses several critiques of inquiry curriculum. Provides scenarios and identifies the beliefs underlying these opposing perspectives in an attempt to articulate the connection between practice and theory.
Exploring the Past through Multigenre Writing
Authors: Grierson Sirpa T. , Anson Amy , Baird Jacoy
Published: March 2024

Research comes alive when students explore a range of alternate genres instead of writing the traditional research report.
Art Influencing Art: The Making of An Extraordinary Life
Authors: Kerper Richard M.
Published: March 2024

The collaborative process of creating an award-winning nonfiction book is traced through interviews with the author, illustrator, editors, and designer.
Going Past Done: Creating Time for Reflection in the Classroom
Authors: Douillard Kim
Published: March 2024

A teacher describes how she developed Reflective Fridays, a day with time set aside to think, as a way to support young children in using reflection as a learning tool.
“Wen the Flood Km We Had to Lv”: Children’s Understandings of Disaster
Authors: Shreve Roberta , Danbom Karen , Hanhan Sara
Published: March 2024

Reflection can support both teachers and students in the aftermath of a disaster. Time isneeded for children to reflect on their experiences and for teachers to reflect collectively on their students' art and writing.
Inviting Reflection on Reading through Over the Shoulder Miscue Analysis
Authors: Davenport M. Ruth , Lauritzen Carol
Published: March 2024

This reading assessment procedure offers teachers a way of using miscue analysis in the course of a busy classroom day.
Provocative Questions That Animate My Thinking about Teaching
Authors: Commeyras Michelle
Published: March 2024

A commitment to an education that promotes social and economic justice for all has led Commeyras to ask herself provocative questions so that she can better align her practices with her beliefs.
What Pokemon Can Teach Us about Learning and Literacy
Authors: Vasquez Vivian
Published: March 2024

We can learn much about the codes and ways of talking and doing associated with popular culture texts by closely observing children.
“On the Lookout for Language”: Children as Language Detectives
Authors: Monahan Mary Beth
Published: March 2024

A teacher researcher describes how she invited her students to be detectives on the lookout for language and to take a critical perspective on how it varies with each speaker, purpose, and context.
Al’s Story: Overcoming Beliefs That Inhibit Learning
Authors: Henson Janice , Gilles Carol
Published: March 2024

Shares the author's minute-by-minute decisions in working with an alienated student whose beliefs about reading created a wall of resistance to learning. Notes the student's beliefs about his learning potential and his lack of strategies were at the root of his reading problems. Concludes that before alienated students can overcome the restrictive situations imposed by the present educational system,educators must learn to see struggling students in a new way.
Building on the Strengths of Families: The Promising Readers Program
Authors: Brenner Devon , Jayroe Teresa , Boutwell Angela
Published: March 2024

Describes one rural school's development of a literacy program in which family members collaborate with educators to provide literature-based experiences and tutoring for struggling readers. Concludes that family literacy programs are more successful when they involve family members in working with children as they learn the literary strategies to use in school.
Supporting Young Children’s Thinking through Tableau
Authors: Wilson G. Patricia
Published: March 2024

Children can use tableau to move beyond language in developing new understandings about life and literature.
Social Narrative Writing: (Re)Constructing Kid Culture in the Writer’s Workshop
Authors: Heffernan Lee , Lewison Mitzi
Published: March 2024

Children move from personal to social narratives in writing workshop to create stories as tools for social action, addressing inequities in their school lives.
A Pedagogy of Control: Worksheets and the Special Needs Child
Authors: Lesley Mellinee
Published: March 2024

A worksheet-driven curriculum violates the literacy rights and learning potential of special needs children.
Multigenre Research: The Power of Choice and Interpretation
Authors: Allen Camille A. , Swistak Laurie
Published: March 2024

In the article Multigenre Research: The Power of Choice and Interpretation, the authors give an overview of multigenre research and then describe how Camille’s university preservice teachers collaborate with Laurie’s fifth graders to write multigenre papers. They explain a systematic process that helps students select meaningful topics. Then they guide readers through a precedure called the FQI. This helps students to organize facts from multiple sources, to generate questions that that they would like to answer, and to brainstorm genres they might choose to write in their multigenre papers. The article concludes with a summary of the ways that this collaborative multigenre project helps both the university preservice teachers and the fifth graders.
A Generation in Cyberspace: Engaging Readers through Online Discussion
Authors: Carico Kathleen M. , Logan Donna
Published: March 2024

Real time, online chats provide an alternative space for engaging reading in making meaning through literature.
We’ve Got to Talk: Redefining Our Work with Families
Authors: Klassen-Endrizzi Charlene
Published: March 2024

Teachers and families create time and space for talking about literacy issues.
Teaching/Learning Centers: Professional Development for Teachers of Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students
Authors: Mahn Holbrook , McMann Dee , Musanti Sandra
Published: March 2024

This article describes an innovative professional development model that uses on-site Teaching/Learning Centers in which teachers work and collaborate with other teachers to learn about effective methods of literacy instruction for linguistically and culturally diverse students. This model fosters collaborative, sustained, on-site, and practical development in which teachers plan, model, observe, discuss, and reflect together as they transform their practice.
Behind Closed Doors: Discovering the Literacies in Our Children’s Everyday Lives
Authors: Cook Sharon R.
Published: March 2024

Parents often question teachers on what they can do to help their children succeed in school. Because research indicates that reading aloud helps a studentâ€™s overall academic success, teachers tell parents to do just that.
What’s the Purpose? Students Talk about Writing in Science
Authors: Tower Cathy
Published: March 2024

Interviews with fourth grade students about their writing in science revealed their perspectives on purposes for writing, understandings of intended audiences, and use of visuals. A discussion of these themes is situated in a consideration of theory and research on genre. The article includes suggestions for teachers related to the teaching of science writing to elementary students.
What’s Lunch Got to Do with It? Critical Literacy and the Discourse of the Lunchroom
Authors: Heffernan Lee , Lewison Mitzi
Published: March 2024

Critical literacy practices in a third’grade classroom involved working with texts that disrupted commonplace assumptions about social norms. As students read and talked about social issues such as racism, ageism, and sexism, they became “border crossers” in their school lunchroom.
Permitanme Hablar: Allow Me to Speak
Authors: Norton Nadjwa E L
Published: March 2024

This multicultural feminist critical narrative inquiry examines how one Dominican Spanish and English speaking poor immigrant first grader, Pam, utilizes her critical literacies to intervene against inequitable teaching practices and affirm her cultures. Implications for early childhood educators to develop culturally responsive practices that better support children are discussed.
Lessons from a Classroom Teacher’s Use of Alternative Literacy Assessment
Authors: Bauer Eurydice Bouchereau , Garcia Georgia Ernest
Published: March 2024

Investigates the possible link between a classroom teacher’s implementation of alternative literacy assessment and her classroom instruction. Illuminates the role that alternative literacy assessments can play in the classroom in terms of reflecting literacy task performance, presenting information on students’ strengths and weaknesses, and improving the quality of instruction provided to all students.
Children’s Literature at the Turn of the Century: Political Economy of the Publishing Industry
Authors: Taxel Joel
Published: March 2024

This essay outlines the beginnings of a political economy of the children’s literature publishing industry. Central to the analysis is a consideration of the continuing commodification of children’s literature, the increase in the licensing and merchandizing of characters from children’s books and popular films, and the proliferation of series books that have assumed the status of brand names comparable to other commercial commodities.
Contexts, Genres, and Imagination: An Examination of the Idiosyncratic Writing Performances of Three Elementary Children within Multiple Contexts of Writing Instruction
Authors: Schneider Jenifer Jasinski
Published: March 2024

A year-long, 2-level case study was conducted to examine both the complex writing performances of three students in a 2nd-3rd grade class and the instructional strategies of their teacher, focusing on the interplay between the children’s strategy use and the teacher’s instruction.
Testing and Student Engagement with Literature in Urban Classrooms: A Multi-layered Perspective
Authors: Anagnostopoulos Dorothea
Published: March 2024

Though high-stakes testing currently dominates educational policy, few studies examine the consequences of such testing for the teaching and learning of literature in secondary English classrooms. This study takes a multi-layered approach to specify how a high-stakes exam positioned students as readers of literary texts.
Discourse in the Composition Classroom: Agency, Personal Narrative, and the Politics of Disclosure
Authors: DeBlase Gina L.
Published: March 2024

Discusses how social identity plays a significant role in defining the nature of classroom interaction. Describes how unresolved conflict emerged when the development of authentic student voice in narrative autobiography was the primary and perhaps only objective. Presents an example of the ways in which asymmetrical power relations influence how discourse works in the expressionist composition classroom.
Process Intervention: Teacher Response and Student Writing
Authors: Giberson Greg A.
Published: March 2024

Addresses past and current issues concerning teacher response to first-year student writing and suggests that teacher intervention should be viewed as a writing process itself. Describes the author’s own process of responding to student writing, which he hasfound to be very effective. Concludes that individual teachers must decide for themselves what ways of responding best suit their teaching styles.
Welcoming Grammar Back into the Writing Classroom
Authors: Devet Bonnie
Published: March 2024

This article describes three approaches with which grammar may be welcomed back into the composition classroom.
Technology as a Tool for Literacy in the Age of Information: Implications for the ESL Classroom
Authors: Kasper Loretta F.
Published: March 2024

A curriculum of technology-enhanced and sustained content study helps ESL students develop literacy skills necessary for college work.
Asynchronous Electronic Peer Response in a Hybrid Basic Writing Classroom
Authors: Crank Virginia
Published: March 2024

E-mail peer response teaches students about audience and text more effectively than synchronous peer response.
What a @%#!: Listening to What Students Say about Their Composition Teachers Online
Authors: Heyden Todd , Henthorne Tom
Published: March 2024

Unexpected and most welcome is the discovery that technology-mediated teacher evaluation can increase our access to our students’ world and help us be more responsive to their needs.
Designing and Teaching an Online Composition Course
Authors: Brickman Bette
Published: March 2024

This article describes the development and implementation of an online writing course for advanced ESL students.
See Me: Conference Strategies for Developmental Writers
Authors: Boynton Linda
Published: March 2024

Various strategies can be employed to design a student-centered conference environment that helps developmental students find a place in the academic community.
Teaching Literacy as Rap at Southeast Community College
Authors: Sundeen Jim
Published: March 2024

This article describes how the author became critically aware of the dynamics of literacy and race in a composition classroom.
Reflections on a Democratically Constructed Canon
Authors: Shafer Gregory
Published: March 2024

Empowering students to develop their own canon can generate excitement in the classroom and a sense of ownership over literature.
Service-Learning and the D.I.S. in the First-Year Writing Classroom
Authors: Kincaid Nita Moots , Sotiriou Peter
Published: March 2024

While most service-learning courses at the college level establish a hierarchical connection between mentor and student, the service-learning program at Los Angeles City College encourages a reciprocal relationship in which mentor and mentee benefit from each other. First-year composition students are paired with intermediate ESL composition students in a semester-long program.
Written Commentary: A Systematic, Theory-Based Approach to Response
Authors: Sprinkle Russell S.
Published: March 2024

This article presents a systematic method for examining and evaluating written commentary. When used by writing instructors in authentic responding contexts, these reflective models can help instructors better understand their commenting practices in light of current response theories, establish clearer goals for making written commentary, and develop new commenting strategies that provide increased revision options for students.
Drive-by English: Teaching College English to High School Students via Interactive TV
Authors: Blackstock Alan , Exton Virginia Norris
Published: March 2024

This paper outlines challenges in and essential criteria for the success of dual-credit or concurrent-enrollment writing and literature courses delivered via interactive video technology and suggests specific strategies for administrators, instructors, and classroom facilitators regarding student selection, appropriate technology, and classroom management.
Instructional Note: E for Ease in E-Grading
Authors: Ryan-Thompson Lin A.
Published: March 2024

This essay offers a method to ease the burden of grading for writing instructors, to simplify checking online sources, and to help prevent plagiaristic recycling of student work.
The NRP Comparison of Whole Language and Phonics: Ignoring the Crucial Variable in Reading
Authors: Krashen Stephen
Published: March 2024

In this article, Krashen examines the results of the NRP’s comparison of skills-based and whole language approaches through the lens of reading comprehension. His findings reveal that even when one accepts the restrictions on what is acceptable research imposed by the panel, when one considers the actual amount of reading done by children and examines the results for tests of reading comprehension, the research does not show that skills-based methods are superior.
New Insights: Eye Fixations and the Reading Process
Authors: Duckett Peter
Published: March 2024

New computer technology offers a tool for following the path and focus of the eyes during reading. Reading educator and researcher Peter Duckett reveals the complexity of what goes on as readers read.
Teaching Moral Education and Social Action through Drama
Authors: Hanley Mary Stone , Gay Geneva
Published: March 2024

Discusses social action through drama.
Overcoming the Silence of Generational Poverty
Authors: Beegle Donna M.
Published: March 2024

Donna Beegle speaks from both personal and professional points of view as she presents her research on college graduates who come from generational poverty. She discusses the barriers to education faced by students from poverty backgrounds and suggests some strategies that teachers can use to help reach these students.
Reading from Efferent and Aesthetic Stances Makes Books Come Alive
Authors: Swafford Jeanne , Akrofi Amma
Published: March 2024

The authors discuss Louise Rosenblatt’s concepts of efferent reading (reading for information) and aesthetic reading (reading for personal and experiential purposes) and her view that what makes a text literature is the experience that a reader has during reading. They show how these concepts can be applied to literature study in classrooms ranging from the elementary grades into graduate school.
Expository Text and Middle School Students: Some Lessons Learned
Authors: Street Chris
Published: March 2024

Presents the “Structured Reading Lesson” as one simple way to structure reading activities so that the before, during, and after phases of the reading experience are all touched upon. Considers how reading strategies that students have developed to comprehend fictional narratives do not always help them with textbooks. Presents strategies to engage students with expository text.
The Energy to Teach
Authors: Graves Donald H.
Published: March 2024

Learns from teachers themselves what gave and took away energy from their teaching experiences. Considers what gives teachers energy or takes it away and what is a waste of time. Outlines and discusses eight energy principles. Concludes that most individuals are energy-filled when they are learning themselves.
The Literature Circle: Rethinking Role Sheets
Authors: Daniels Harvey
Published: March 2024

If you are doing literature circles in your classroom, chances are you have run across a set of tools called “role sheets.” These handouts, adapted from standard collaborative-learning practice, assign students a set of jigsawed tasks to perform while reading and meeting in their book clubs.
What’s the Gist? Summary Writing for Struggling Adolescent Writers
Authors: Frey Nancy , Fisher Douglas , Hernandez Ted
Published: March 2024

The ability to write tight, concise, and accurate summaries of texts is often a struggle for our students. With specific focus on prÃ©cis writing, the authors used the GIST (Generating Interaction between Schemata and Text) learning strategy to increase comprehension of expository texts. By breaking down texts into logical sections and writing one–sentence summaries of each, students were able to produce well–written summaries. A rubric for summary assessment is included.
A Hand Up: Walk Along and Understand
Authors: Crutcher Chris
Published: March 2024

“I’ve said before that you have the toughest job there is: that of combining relationship with academics.” It is his respect for kids, for teachers, and for the balancing act they both perform that comes through in Chris Crutcher’s anecdote of being there for one child. There is wisdom for all of us in his words: “Most of the time you can’t fix it, but you can walk along and understand.”
Literacy on the Edge: How Close Are We to Closing the Literacy Achievement Gap?
Authors: Alvermann Donna E.
Published: March 2024

Alvermann introduces us to a new metaphor for thinking about the ways in which teachers might intervene in their students’ reading lives: re/mediation. Ultimately, it involves fixing the conditions in which students learn rather than attempting to fix the students per se (remediation).
Literacy Specialists in Math Class! Closing the Achievement Gap on State Math Assessments
Authors: DiGisi Lori L. , Fleming Dianne
Published: March 2024

If you were ever intimidated by word problems in math, imagine how it would feel to take a math test when you didn’t speak the language! Here, literacy specialists worked with classroom and ESL teachers to help ELLs recognize the critical components of math concepts and problems, and become familiar with math vocabulary. As a result, there were increases in scores, learning, and confidence.
The Middle School High Five: Strategies Can Triumph
Authors: Goodman Amy
Published: March 2024

A literacy support teacher leads a district-wide initiative to organize content-area teachers in an effort to help their students become better readers by offering instruction and practice in five reading strategies across the curriculum. At the end of the 10-week program, teachers felt that students’ comprehension had improved, and many felt some of the credit for improved reading scores could be traced to the effort.
Tech Connect: Computerized Writing Assessment: Technology Gone Wrong
Authors: Patterson Nancy
Published: March 2024

An avid fan of technology, Patterson still warns against computerized essay scoring, recognizing that no matter how sophisticated, it cannot read for content. She offers several examples of computer scoring gone wrong, and urges teachers to fight it in their districts and states.
Evaluation Of Primary Stability In Mono- And Bicortical Anchored Implants. A Finite Element Analysis
Authors:   Private Practice Dentist And Student Of The Career Of Specialization In Oral Implantology At The Faculty Of Medicine, Catholic University Of Córdoba, Argentina, Guelfi Matías , Fuks David ,   Associated Professor The Career Of Specialization In Oral Implantology At The Faculty Of Medicine, Catholic University Of Córdoba, Argentina, Constanza Ibáñez María ,   Associated Professor The Career Of Specialization In Oral Implantology At The Faculty Of Medicine, Catholic University Of Córdoba, Argentina, Ibáñez Juan Carlos ,   Dr. In Dentistry, Director And Professor Of The Career Of Specialization In Oral Implantology At The Faculty Of Medicine, Catholic University Of Córdoba, Argentina
Published: March 2024

Objective: To analyze by means of a 3D finite element model the effect of anchoring dental implants in one or two cortical. Materials and Methods: An in vitro experimental investigation was performed using Finite Elements Analysis. Six conical implants of three different designs and different lengths were designed and placed in a 3D model of the anterior maxilla with type III bone, anchoring a first group of implants only in the occlusal cortical of the bone, while in a second group the apex of the implants was anchored in the cortex of the nasal passages too, so they become monocortical or bicortical anchored. Micromovements of the implants in the bone were generated by simulating a 60-degree inclined force applied at the abutment level with 170 Ncm and 700 Ncm. Amount of micromovements were measured. Results: Micromovements obtained when the implants were monocortical anchorage and subjected to forces of 170 Ncm, were similar for all the implants (average 27.4um). Whereas with forces of 700 Ncm, the micro-movements increased in all cases. (average 113.49 µm.) Micromovements decreased in all implants when bicortical anchorage was used, both when applying 170Ncm forces (average 8.58 µm) or applying 700Ncm forces (average 34.71µm). In relation to length, short implants showed less micromotion. Conclusion: According to the results obtained, bicortical anchoring reduces the micromotion of conical implants especially when they are subjected to parafunctional forces and in implants of greater length, ensuring levels of micromotion more compatible with osseointegration, at least in a three-dimensional simulation through FEA.
Innovation in Healthcare through Technology and Artificial Intelligence – Case Study: VitalView Blood Pressure Monitoring System
Authors: KOTE Amanda
Published: March 2024

The rising prevalence of chronic diseases and the advancement of artificial intelligence and machine learning are driving significant shifts in the healthcare industry. Chronic diseases pose an urgent threat to the world’s healthcare systems due to the rising number of fatalities, making the demand for innovative approaches imperative. Applying VitalView, a blood pressure monitoring system, as a case study, this thesis explores the intersection of these fields. The system’s main goal is to employ AI and machine learning to offer personalized treatment for chronic diseases, especially blood pressure. To accomplish this, the study commences by examining the challenges faced by Albania’s healthcare system, in particular issues connected to access, costs, and service quality. The study then digs into the development of VitalView, an innovative solution that meets the needs of patients and healthcare professionals. The creation of an algorithm for data analysis and communication is at the core of this work. Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA), among other machine learning models, improves the platform’s ability to forecast blood pressure trends and simplify doctor-patient communication. The system also provides advice and recommendations for the patient’s general state of health. The case study methodology is employed with the objective of putting this system’s applications into action in real life situations. Its findings show the potential of AI and machine learning to boost communication, improve the management of chronic blood pressure diseases, and boost patient outcomes. This thesis demonstrates how innovative technologies could cope with pressing concerns of our time and contributes to the discussion on artificial intelligence in the healthcare industry. The VitalView system serves as an example of how innovation, data analysis, and user-centered design function together. It highlights how AI and machine learning have the potential to improve healthcare.