bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Development and Testing of the Psychometric Properties of the Emotional Response and Disclosure of Errors in Clinical Practice Instrument
Authors: Swartwout Ellen , Rodan Margaret
Published: April 2017

Background and Purpose: A tool to measure the nurses’ emotional response after an error in clinical practice and the potential impact emotion can have on disclosure is lacking. This study tested the psychometric properties of the Emotional Response and Disclosure of Errors in Clinical Practice instrument. Methods: The instrument was tested among 497 nurses with psychometric evaluation for validity, reliability, and exploratory factor analysis. Results: Exploratory factor analysis revealed a 3-factor solution which accounted for 55.4% of the total variance. Internal consistency results were Cronbach’s alpha = .935 for the overall scale and each domain: concern = .907, anxiety = .888, and disbelief = .775. Conclusions: Use of this valid and reliable instrument in practice and education can assist with patient safety efforts. Further testing of the instrument is recommended among other health care professionals.
Treatment of Gummy Smile of Multifactorial Etiology: A Case Report
Authors: Gibson Monica P. , Tatakis Dimitris N.
Published: April 2017

Introduction: This case report describes the management of a patient diagnosed with excessive gingival display caused by altered passive eruption and hyperactive lip. Treatment for this patient was staged and included esthetic crown lengthening and a subsequent lip repositioning procedure.

Case Presentation: A 17‐year‐old female was referred for assessment of a “gummy smile.” The patient reported a history of mouth breathing and a sports injury causing a non‐vital tooth #9, which had been temporarily restored. After periodontal evaluation, the patient was diagnosed with plaque‐induced gingivitis and excessive gingival display due to hyperactive lip and altered passive eruption. After initial therapy, an esthetic crown lengthening procedure was performed on the maxillary anterior sextant, resulting in ideal maxillary anterior crown contours. Six weeks after esthetic crown lengthening, the patient was treated for hyperactive lip by a modified lip repositioning surgery. Subsequently, the patient received a permanent restoration on tooth #9. During the 1.5‐year follow‐up time the patient repeatedly expressed her satisfaction with the improvement of her smile. Persistent mouth breathing and associated recurrent gingival inflammation remained a challenge.

Conclusions: The presented case illustrates results of sequentially applied techniques for management of a gummy smile of multifactorial etiology and limitations imposed by unresolved factors. Excessive gingival display can be a significant esthetic concern for patients. Understanding the etiology can be challenging due to multiple factors that may be concomitantly involved. Accurate diagnosis and treatment planning are critical for proper management. When multifactorial etiology is present, multiple treatment modalities, including various surgical approaches, are necessary to obtain positive outcomes in such patients.
Implementing A Business Intelligence (BI)/Corporate Performance Management (CPM) Solution: Challenges Faced By A Major National Retailer
Authors: Schiff Andrew D. , Warren Mark T.
Published: April 2017

Based on actual events, this case is concerned with the practical and managerial challenges associated with analyzing, designing and implementing a Business Intelligence (BI) / Corporate Performance Management (CPM)information technology solution in a large national retailer. Secondary issues examined include strategy, project management and conflict resolution. This case is appropriate for upper-level undergraduate and masters-level graduate courses in information technology, accounting information systems and project management. It is designed to be taught in about one class hour, and requires four to six hours of outside preparation by students.
Who’s Taking the Accounting Class? Leveraging Professional Skepticism While Teaching Accounting Online
Authors: Johnson Nancy L. , Larson Faye , DeMersseman Anne
Published: April 2017

The shortage of academically qualified accounting professors makes this a relevant time to increase the use of online tools for content delivery, assignment completion and assessment. Accounting students employed as teaching assistants (TA) can develop professional skills including skepticism, problem solving, analysis, organization and electronic documentation, while in academia. Certified Public Accountants (CPA) and educators are held accountable to high ethical standards through a code of conduct and academic integrity policies. This teaching case incorporates ethical decision making from an experience in an online virtual classroom where power differentials and analysis of student activity require research in a learning experience.
Assessment of quality of life in outpatients with osteoarthritis
Authors: Pudelewicz Anna Maria , Mazurkiewicz Kamila , Bączyk Grażyna
Published: April 2017

Introduction. Osteoarthritis is a chronic and one of the most often appearing causes of the afflictions on the part of the motor organ. A chronic condition has a negative impact on all areas of human functioning. Its occurrence, but mainly the severity of its symptoms results in significant reduction in quality of life, which is why it is important to assess the effects of the treatment process and rehabilitation. Aim. Assessment of quality of life of patients with osteoarthritis as regards variables such as age, gender, duration of the disease.Material and Methods. The study includes a group of 40 patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis treated in the Health Centre of General Physicians in Mieścisko, Poland in the period from October 2014 to January 2015. The tool which was used to investigate the quality of life of people with osteoarthritis was the Polish version of the scale Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales 2 (AIMS-2).Results. The lowest level of the quality of life was indicated by the subjects in the areas of: arthritis pain (6.54 ± 1.96), walking and bending (6.51 ± 2.81) and mobility (7.21 ± 2.06). The highest level of quality of life occurred in the areas of: support from family and friends (1.56 ± 2.16), household tasks (2.47 ± 3.16), self-care (2.50 ± 2.92), arm function (2.58 ± 2.72), hand and finger function (2.71 ± 3.03), work (2.67 ± 2.38) and mood (3.14 ± 1.56). The youngest participants obtained a result of higher level of the quality of life, which was subject to deteriorate with age.Conclusions. Patients with osteoarthritis require a permanent, comprehensive, multifaceted and multidirectional proceedings in order to improve comfort and quality of life.
Mortalidade de Mytella falcata e M. guyanensis submetidos a diferentes temperaturas
Authors: ONODERA Fabio Kiyoshi , HENRIQUES Marcelo Barbosa
Published: April 2017

Mytella falcata e M. guyanensis são espécies de potencial valor comercial para a aquicultura. O presente estudo teve como objetivo estimar a tolerí­¢ncia média (TM50) das duas espécies de bivalves estuarinos, expostas a diferentes temperaturas da água. Observaram-se diferenças significativas, através de análise de varií­¢ncia (p=0,02), entre a mortalidade acumulada de ambas as espécies, sendo M. falcata mais resistente que M. guyanensis na temperatura de 33Â°C, com TM50, respectivamente, de 87,42 e 53,36 horas de exposição. Apesar de não ocorrer mortalidade dos organismos expostos í­Â s outras temperaturas, controle (24Â°C), 27Â°C e 30Â°C, constatou-se a diminuição da formação de bisso nas temperaturas de 30Â°C e 33Â°C, indicando possí­­vel estresse fisiológico.
Suplementação de selênio na dieta alimentar de jundiá
Authors: ROCHA Maria Shimelly Soares , PUNTEL Robson Luiz , LOPES Paulo Rodinei Soares , HOSHIBA Márcio Aquio , CUNHA Larissa da , TAMAJUSUKU Alessandra Sayuri Kikuchi
Published: April 2017

O estudo objetivou avaliar os efeitos antioxidantes da suplementação de disseleneto de difenila na concentração de 3,0 ppm na dieta alimentar de jundiás (Rhamdia quelen). Para isso, 80 peixes foram distribuí­­dos em oito unidades experimentais compostas por oito caixas dââ‚¬â„¢água. Dois grupos de peixes foram constituí­­dos, sendo denominados: T1 í  Grupo controle e T2 í  Grupo tratado com ração aditivada com selênio, com quatro réplicas de cada tratamento. Foram avaliadas as atividades especí­­ficas das enzimas Superóxido Dismutase (SOD) e Catalase (CAT) no tecido hepático; os ní­­veis de Peroxidação Lipí­­dica (Ní­­veis de TBARS) nos tecidos musculares e hepáticos; e a toxicidade do selênio através do teste de Micronúcleo Pí­­sceo (MN). A adição de disseleneto de difenila não alterou significativamente o crescimento dos animais, nem as atividades enzimáticas da SOD e da CAT ou, ainda, os ní­­veis de TBARS. A concentração testada não se mostrou tóxica para os animais, como evidenciado pelo teste da contagem de micronúcleos.
Colagenase de pescada branca: extração, purificação parcial, caracterização e teste de especificidade ao colágeno para aplicação industrial
Authors: OLIVEIRA Vagne de Melo , ASSIS Caio Rodrigo Dias , HERCULANO Polyanna Nunes , CAVALCANTI Maria Taciana Holanda , BEZERRA Ranilson de Souza , PORTO Ana Lúcia Figueiredo
Published: April 2017

Resí­­duos do processamento do pescado são fontes ricas em biomoléculas com potencial industrial, como as enzimas com propriedades colagenolí­­ticas empregadas nos segmentos farmacêuticos, têxteis e de couro. No presente trabalho, serino-proteases colagenolí­­ticas dos resí­­duos (ví­­sceras) do processamento de pescada-branca, Cynoscion leiarchus, foram parcialmente purificadas e caracterizadas, visando í­Â  obtenção de um produto de valor agregado, maximizando o aproveitamento de recursos pesqueiros. A atividade da melhor etapa de extração foi 72,5 U mL-1, com temperatura e pH ótimos de 55Â°C e 8,0 respectivamente. A enzima manteve-se estável em faixas amplas de temperatura (25í 60Â°C) e pH (6,5-11,5). Os í­­ons Ca2+ e Mg2+ aumentaram a atividade proteolí­­tica, ao passo que Pb2+, Al3+ e Cu2+ inibiram essa atividade, assim como os inibidores de serino-proteases (Benzamidina e TLCK). A hidrólise foi detectada após 48 h de incubação com colágeno bovino tipo I. Assim, sugere-se o emprego de ví­­sceras digestivas de C. leiarchus como fonte alternativa de enzimas com capacidade de clivar o colágeno do tipo I e com propriedades bioquí­­micas semelhantes í­Â s das colagenases bacterianas, já empregadas nas etapas de processamento industrial como forma de redução de custo e agregação de valor ao produto pesqueiro, contribuindo assim para minimizar o impacto ambiental deste tipo de resí­­duo.
Tobacco Town: Computational Modeling of Policy Options to Reduce Tobacco Retailer Density
Authors: Luke Douglas A. , Hammond Ross A. , Combs Todd , Sorg Amy , Kasman Matt , Mack-Crane Austen , Ribisl Kurt M. , Henriksen Lisa
Published: April 2017

Objectives. To identify the behavioral mechanisms and effects of tobacco control policies designed to reduce tobacco retailer density.

Methods. We developed the Tobacco Town agent-based simulation model to examine 4 types of retailer reduction policies: (1) random retailer reduction, (2) restriction by type of retailer, (3) limiting proximity of retailers to schools, and (4) limiting proximity of retailers to each other. The model examined the effects of these policies alone and in combination across 4 different types of towns, defined by 2 levels of population density (urban vs suburban) and 2 levels of income (higher vs lower).

Results. Model results indicated that reduction of retailer density has the potential to decrease accessibility of tobacco products by driving up search and purchase costs. Policy effects varied by town type: proximity policies worked better in dense, urban towns whereas retailer type and random retailer reduction worked better in less-dense, suburban settings.

Conclusions. Comprehensive retailer density reduction policies have excellent potential to reduce the public health burden of tobacco use in communities.
Prediction of groundwater levels using evidence of chaos and support vector machine
Authors: Huang Faming , Huang Jinsong , Jiang Shui-Hua , Zhou Chuangbing
Published: April 2017

Many nonlinear models have been proposed to forecast groundwater level. However, the evidence of chaos in groundwater levels in landslide has not been explored. In addition, linear correlation analyses are used to determine the input and output variables for the nonlinear models. Linear correlation analyses are unable to capture the nonlinear relationships between the input and output variables. This paper proposes to use chaos theory to select the input and output variables for nonlinear models. The nonlinear model is constructed based on support vector machine (SVM). The parameters of SVM are obtained by particle swarm optimization (PSO). The proposed PSO-SVM model based on chaos theory (chaotic PSO-SVM) is applied to predict the daily groundwater levels in Huayuan landslide and the weekly, monthly groundwater levels in Baijiabao landslide in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area in China. The results show that there are chaos characteristics in the groundwater levels. The linear correlation analysis based PSO-SVM (linear PSO-SVM) and chaos theory-based back-propagation neural network (chaotic BPNN) are also applied for the purpose of comparison. The results show that the chaotic PSO-SVM model has higher prediction accuracy than the linear PSO-SVM and chaotic BPNN models for the test data considered.
Calculation method for steady-state pollutant concentration in mixing zones considering variable lateral diffusion coefficient
Authors: Wu Wen , Wu Zhouhu , Song Zhiwen
Published: April 2017

Prediction of the pollutant mixing zone (PMZ) near the discharge outfall in Huangshaxi shows large error when using the methods based on the constant lateral diffusion assumption. The discrepancy is due to the lack of consideration of the diffusion coefficient variation. The variable lateral diffusion coefficient is proposed to be a function of the longitudinal distance from the outfall. Analytical solution of the two-dimensional advection–diffusion equation of a pollutant is derived and discussed. Formulas to characterize the geometry of the PMZ are derived based on this solution, and a standard curve describing the boundary of the PMZ is obtained by proper choices of the normalization scales. The change of PMZ topology due to the variable diffusion coefficient is then discussed using these formulas. The criterion of assuming the lateral diffusion coefficient to be constant without large error in PMZ geometry is found. It is also demonstrated how to use these analytical formulas in the inverse problems including estimating the lateral diffusion coefficient in rivers by convenient measurements, and determining the maximum allowable discharge load based on the limitations of the geometrical scales of the PMZ. Finally, applications of the obtained formulas to onsite PMZ measurements in Huangshaxi present excellent agreement.
CAIRO'S AL-AZHAR PARK: MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS ETCHED IN GREEN
Authors: El-Kishin Khaled
Published: April 2017

This paper sheds light on a grand new park that has been inaugurated in Cairo on March 25'", 2005. The park is just one element of a far-reaching urban renewal scheme which seeks to restore a slum of Islamic Cairo where many cultural assets and monuments exist. The ambitious project, which has galvanized the nation, has drawn on the resources of international, national and local agencies in addition to grassroots organizations. Upon completion, the integrated development project is envisaged to rehabilitate many dwellings, monuments and urban spaces, in addition to creating employment, drawing droves of tourists and improving the quality of life in its vicinity. Thus, the impact of the project will most certainly fulfill some of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set forth by the UN at the tum of the century.
Anti-HLA Antibodies in Lung Transplantation
Authors:   Department of Pathology, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0612, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA, Morris Gerald P.
Published: April 2017

(1) Background: Lung transplantation is an increasingly utilized treatment for end-stage lung disease. Scarcity of organ donors limiting transplantation underscores the importance of optimal histocompatibility testing approaches to facilitate organ allocation and avoid immunologic rejection. Significant data has emerged over the past decade to define the role of alloantibodies against HLA in the pathogenesis of post-lung transplant complications. (2) Methods: Medical literature from 1996–2016 related to search term “lung transplant” was reviewed using PubMed. (3) Results: Review of published literature demonstrated a progressive understanding of the contributions of anti-HLA antibodies to antibody-mediated rejection, bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome, and chronic lung allograft dysfunction. This coincided with implementation of refined histocompatibility testing methods with improved sensitivity and specificity. (4) Conclusions: Antibodies against donor-specific HLA (DSA) contribute to the pathogenesis of immune-mediated complications after lung transplantation. Detection of DSA in peripheral blood is associated with poor outcomes. Current histocompatibility methods have improved prognostic and diagnostic testing to assist directing patient care.
A Truly Multivariate Approach to Manova
Authors: Grice James W. , Iwasaki Michiko
Published: April 2017

All too often researchers perform a Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) on their data and then fail to fully recognize the true multivariate nature of their effects. The most common error is to follow the MANOVA with univariate analyses of the dependent variables. One reason for the occurrence of such errors is the lack of clear pedagogical materials for identifying and testing the multivariate effects from the analysis. The current paper consequently reviews the fundamental differences between MANOVA and univariate Analysis of Variance and then presents a coherent set of methods for plumbing the multivariate nature of a given data set. A completely worked example using genuine data is given along with estimates of effect sizes and confidence intervals, and an example results section following the technical writing style of the American Psychological Association is presented. A number of issues regarding the current methods are also discussed.
Getting Published: An Editor’s Perspective
Authors: Kirk Roger E.
Published: April 2017

The process of publishing journal articles is examined from the perspective of an editor. Suggestions are given for starting the writing process, producing a good manuscript, and improving your chances of having your manuscript accepted. The manuscript review process is discussed as well as reasons why editors reject manuscripts.
Generalized Procrustes Analysis: A Tool for Exploring Aggregates and Persons
Authors: Grice James W. , Assad Kimberly K.
Published: April 2017

Gower (1975) introduced Generalized Procrustes Analysis (GPA) as a multivariate statistical technique for analyzing three-dimensional data matrices. The current paper presents a non-technical introduction to the logic underlying GPA and then presents a completely worked example using genuine data. Specifically,self and peer ratings obtained from students attending a Summer Science Academy are analyzed and discussed. It is shown that GPA offers a powerful set of tools for exploring data at both the aggregate and individual level. A number of issues regarding the current analysis methods are also discussed.
Constructing Portfolios Together: Promoting Student/Faculty Metacognition
Authors: Dwyer Sonia Corbin , Patterson Donna
Published: April 2017

This article is intended both to share the authors’ experiences using portfolios as a teaching and evaluative tool in post-secondary undergraduate educational psychology courses, and to act as a means of reflecting on their own teaching. Their work arises out of a desire to find better ways of assessing both their students, and their own performance, as well as to deal conceptually with assessment. What they recount here are their struggles and successes in modeling an alternative assessment technique with their students, while also using the same technique as a tool for self-examination of their own practice. Much of the article is presented in a unique voice/countervoice format.
Exploring Tensions in the Lives of Professors of Teacher Education: A Canadian Context
Authors: Badali Sal J
Published: April 2017

This article explores the major satisfactions and frustrations of professors of teacher education from faculties of education in Western Canadian universities. Data were collected in semi-structured interviews with 31 professors of various ranks. The purpose of the study weas to explore the manner in which these teacher educators frame their professional experiences and construct their roles within complex institutional contexts. The findings indicate that although professors view their work as highly positive, there are significant observable tensions in the professional lives. Two major themes characterizing the work of professors discussed: 1) satisfactions (working with students; delight in teaching; and fulfillment in research writing and scholarship), and 2) frustration (workload and time press issues; research and scholarship). Overall, results indicate a number of issues: many of the same things that gave them satisfaction as K-12 teachers give them satisfaction as professors; workloads and expectations are increasing; and professors acknowledge the centrality of scholarship as it relates to teaching.
Toward an Inclusive Teacher Education Program
Authors: Kurz Nan , Paul Peter V.
Published: April 2017

Although definitions of high quality teaching vary considerably, a good teacher capitalizes on the strengths of every student. Yet, novice teachers struggle to identify all students’ abilities. Many teachers describe inclusion practices as just another obstacle encountered in the classroom. Scholars seek to identify ways of changing this burden of inclusion mindset to a welcoming/enriching notion aligned with social justice agendas. In this paper, we discuss the need for pre-service teachers to enter the classroom with the disposition to focus on individual strengths and to understand how the diversity of students’ abilities and backgrounds contributes to the subjective well-being of the student population.
Factors Affecting Teacher-Candidates’ Practicum Evaluations
Authors: Ralph Edwin
Published: April 2017

This report is an extension of a study that examined the final

evaluations of 17 cohorts of teacher-candidates (n=374), who

completed their 16-week extended-practicum through one Western Canadian university in one of the years from 1986 to 2002. Evaluation results based on nine instructional categories were analyzed according to four factors: (a) grade level taught; (b) school location; (c) year of the internship; and (d) gender of the intern.

Descriptive statistics calculated for each of these four factors revealed minor differences in the intern sub-groups’ aggregates of final evaluation ratings. For grade level, interns who taught K-3 were rated slightly higher than those in the other grade levels in six of the nine instructional skills. The interns who taught grade 7-12 were rated lowest of the three groups in three of the teaching categories. With respect to urban/rural school location of the internship, interns from rural schools were evaluated slightly higher than their urban counterparts for six of the nine skills. For year of the practicum, calculations showed slightly better evaluations in three teaching skills for interns who completed the practicum after 1996, than for those who completed it during the 1986-1995 period. Female interns were rated slightly higher in eight of the nine teaching categories than were their male colleagues.

Possible explanations accounting for these minor differences are provided, and implications discussed for the program under study and for their “transferability” (Donmoyer, 1990) to pre-service teacher preparation programs.
The Challenge of Accommodation in Higher Education: A Survey of Adaptive Technology Use in Ontario Universities
Authors: Abreu-Ellis Carla , Ellis Jason Brent
Published: April 2017

This paper provides an overview of adaptive technologies currently being used in Ontario Universities. Results of this study may help disability service providers in Ontario in understanding the current challenges of training students with disabilities in using adaptive technologies as well as improving service delivery methods. Participants were recruited through a listserv and asked to answer an online survey. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and anecdotal narratives. Results indicated that students with learning disabilities are not familiar with adaptive technologies that would best suit their academic needs and that training in adaptive technology occurred on an individual basis or in small group settings as opposed to large groups. Participants indicated that they use low-cost equivalents and adaptive technologies housed in open laboratories in order to serve students with financial needs. Challenges faced by Assistive technologists included: consistency in assistive technology use by the students they serve, effective training while semester coursework is in progress, and fitting individuals with very unique needs to the available technology. A series of best practices and accomplishments were identified by the participants.
“We’ve Got to Stick to the Curriculum, Right?” An Exploration of Female High School Physical Educators’ Beliefs about Competition in Their Classes
Authors: Singleton Ellen
Published: April 2017

In order to examine physical educators’ personal beliefs about competition, seven female high school teachers took part in individual interviews. Participants discussed their personal beliefs concerning competition, and what they thought their female students believed about competition. Further, they described their pedagogical decision-making in light of these beliefs. Themes emerging from the interviews indicated these teachers believed competition meant experiences that demanded intensity, focus, best performance, skill, and winning. They also believed that students understood competition only to mean winning or losing. Wide variations in skill competency led teachers to highlight participation and fun and downplay competition in class. These pedagogical responses and their implications for physical education teacher educators, student teachers, and practicing physical educators are discussed.
Reflections on the implications of technology-mediated learning: A teacher educator perspective
Authors: Badali Sal J
Published: April 2017

In this paper, I report on how my practice was influenced by re-designing an existing introductory teacher education course that included an online component. The purpose of the study was to explore the degree to which integrating technology affected my professional relationship with pre-service teachers and with sessional seminar leaders who taught the seminar portion of the course. The findings indicate positive benefits associated with the information technology. Two major themes characterizing my experiences are discussed: (1) relationships with students (seeking personal connections, engaging students in learning, and maximizing communication and expectations), and (2) relationships with seminar leaders (being an administrator and being a supporter). Overall, results indicate a number of issues: students embrace the technology as a way of learning, the electronic component of the course benefited face-to-face contact among students and instructors, and the online features of the course encouraged cooperation among students and instructors.
Finding Our Way Home (At School): A Study Of Students’ Experiences Of Bringing Their Home Culture Into The Classroom
Authors: Parker Christina A.
Published: April 2017

This study is concerned with how children conceptualize their cultural identity, and how this conceptualization may impact their learning and socialization at school. It explores how students’ self-concept and perception of others can develop through investigations of their own cultural and ethnic backgrounds while situating their familial history within the multicultural city in which they live. Participants in this study, a class of 29 grade four students in the Greater Toronto Area, conducted online research, interviewed relatives, and created family trees to learn about their cultural heritage and gain a better understanding of themselves and their family’s history. The following paper provides an in-depth case study of three of these participants. Insights into their experiences and learnings as they engaged in this process of cultural investigation are explored and implications for policy and practice are identified.
Fostering Professional Learning through Relational Teacher Development: Reconceptualizing the Delivery of Professional Development
Authors: Kitchen Julian
Published: April 2017

This article explores the importance of relationship in professional development and professional learning. The four-year relationship between the author and an experienced elementary school teacher is examined. Central to the research puzzle is how the relational stance adopted by the author contributed to the dramatic professional renewal of the teacher. Field notes and journal entries are primary sources of data for this narrative inquiry. Relational teacher development, seven learnings identified as contributing to their shared professional growth, is used as a framework for analysis of the data and is then interpreted in relation to continuing professional learning and school improvement.
Mediating the Message of Action Research
Authors: Sefton Terry , Windle Sheila
Published: April 2017

In this paper we argue that a multimedia composition of various data sources is an ideal and appropriate medium for conveying the complex, context-specific, teacher-directed, multi-layered, non-linear nature of collaborative action research (CAR). This compilation also expresses the main outcomes of eight CAR studies conducted by eight teams of teacher-researchers in southwestern Ontario during 2007-2008.
Gender Issues in Mathematics: An Ontario Perspective
Authors: Hall Jennifer
Published: April 2017

In many developed countries, including Canada, it is often perceived that gender issues in mathematics have been ‘solved’ and are no longer a relevant and timely issue. In this article, I challenge this perception by providing an overview of gender issues in mathematics in three domains – achievement, attitude, and participation – ranging from the elementary school level to the university level. My analysis of several sources of data from Ontario is compared to a meta-analysis of research involving data from culturally similar countries to Canada (e.g., Australia, United Kingdom). The data primarily arise from large-scale mathematics assessments (e.g., PISA, EQAO) and national statistics databases (e.g., Statistics Canada, National Center for Education Statistics). Counter to the aforementioned perception, this analysis indicates that gender issues still exist in mathematics in developed countries, including Canada. The gender gap is particularly wide in terms of students’ attitudes and participation: Males have substantially more positive attitudes toward mathematics and higher levels of participation in non-mandatory levels of mathematics than do females. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of the findings and suggestions of possible steps that may be taken to help ameliorate the current situation.
Linking Past and Present: John Dewey and Assessment for Learning
Authors: Kucey Sharen , Parsons Jim
Published: April 2017

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore the principles of Assessment for Learning (AFL) in light of John Dewey’s writing about the purpose and possibility of education. In this paper, we compare Dewey’s ideas to the goals of assessment for learning (AFL) – a practice emerging globally and, more locally, moved forward by the Alberta Initiative for School Improvement (AISI) program. We believe the principles behind Dewey’s educational philosophy are congruent with fundamental principles of AFL. In this paper, we attempt to explicate key intersections between Dewey’s teachings and AFL. We review AFL strategies and the foundational philosophy of AFL in an attempt to reveal its connection points to Dewey’s educational philosophy. Specifically, we will outline seven AFL strategies and compare these to insights put forth in Dewey’s work. Although there is far from adequate space to consider all the matches of Dewey’s philosophy and the core principles of Assessment for Learning, we hope our quest for initial commonality might provide curriculum insight for those now working these new pedagogical activities.
Valuable but Flawed: Stakeholder Perceptions of the Ontario Mandatory Community Involvement Program
Authors: Harrison Barbara
Published: April 2017

The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of five groups of people—students, parents, community organization representatives, guidance counsellors, and principals—in dealing with a community involvement requirement for secondary school graduation in Ontario. Ten people were interviewed, resulting in insights as to what makes the program work for the various groups, and suggestions for improvement. Interviewee recommendations include creating a more structured program to increase the consistency of program implementation, reducing the administrative burden on schools, increasing the number of required hours, and having more support for the program from the Ontario government and the Ontario Ministry of Education.
Student Washback from Tertiary Standardized English Proficiency Exit Requirements in Taiwan
Authors: Pan Yi-ching , Newfields Tim
Published: April 2017

In recent decades more and more tertiary institutions around the world have adopted some sort of English proficiency exit requirements. This study explores, from students' perspectives, what washback effects have been brought about by such exit requirements. Extensive questionnaire and interview data were collected from 737 students from 8 tertiary institutions with English proficiency exit requirements and 678 students from 9 institutions without. Results suggest minor differences between the two groups of students in terms of their motivation to learn English, how they prepared for tests, and the time they reputed devoted to their English studies. Implications and directions for further research are suggested.
Teaching Core French Through the Arts.
Authors: Rovers Anne Catherine
Published: April 2017

This study is concerned with Grade nine applied level students’ attitudes toward learning French. The following paper provides an in-depth case study of one group of 18 students from a Core French class in a South-Western Ontario inner city high school. Specifically students’ attitudes toward learning French through the Arts were examined. Guided by the tenets of Constructivism and Arts-based research, with the collaboration of the classroom teacher, French/Arts lesson plans were prepared through which I examined students’ motivation, attitudes, and enthusiasm to speak French whilst in the process of creating art. Students’ comments of learning French through Art were compared with their stories of past experiences within Core French programme. Grounded theory, an emerging theme design using qualitative methods of data collection and analysis was used to address the research concerns of this study. Observational data, questionnaires, and focus group interviews were conducted in order to triangulate the data collection for analysis. Students’ attitudes toward learning French via Arts-based activities found that students learned French in meaningful ways in the Arts (visual art, music, movement, and drama) and their enjoyment, motivation to learn, and spoken French in the classroom increased.
Editor's Comments
Authors: Sefton Terry
Published: April 2017

The Journal of Teaching and Learning focuses on issues of teaching and learning – obviously. However, teaching and learning are anything but straightforward, in all their many permutations and implications in school and in life. In this issue, each article approaches teaching and/or learning from a different vantage point: from the view of teachers, of teacher candidates, of school students, of administrators, ministries of education, and curriculum designers, in Canada, Africa, and Asia. Despite the apparent diversity of this collection, the articles contain many areas of overlap and points of convergence. While taking the Journal of Teaching and Learning online, and providing open access has been a great boon to our ever-increasing readership, I wonder, “What are we missing?” What has been lost, from the days when we sat down with a hard copy in our hands, started by scanning the table of contents, and then dove in, reading articles willy-nilly, in or out of order? I encourage you to read more than one of the articles in this issue, and to read ‘across’ for meanings that can be found between texts.
Aux sources nietzschéennes de La nausée
Authors: Béland Martine
Published: April 2017

Cet article propose une lecture parallèle du premier essai de Friedrich Nietzsche, La naissance de la tragédie (1872), et du premier roman de Jean-Paul Sartre, La nausée (1938). L’auteure propose de dégager les sources nietzschéennes de la pensée sartrienne en montrant que La nausée est un roman nietzschéen. Dans son roman, qui relate les étapes de l’expérience existentielle que traverse le narrateur, Antoine Roquentin, Sartre a mis en situation un processus de prise de conscience de la vérité que Nietzsche a décrit au début des années 1870. En effet, l’auteure du présent article montre que le parcours sartrien de la conscience nihiliste, tel qu’il est illustré dans La nausée, recoupe les étapes du processus de prise de conscience de la vérité que Nietzsche a décrit au début des années 1870. Sartre et Nietzsche s’entendent quant aux formes que prennent la vérité et la découverte de celle-ci. Afin de dégager le nietzschéisme de Sartre, l’auteure décrit d’abord les étapes du processus qui est décrit par Nietzsche en 1872, pour ensuite souligner que ce processus sous-tend le déroulement du roman de Sartre, ainsi qu’en témoignent les étapes de la transformation existentielle de Roquetin. En montrant que le Sartre de La nausée est un nietzschéen conséquent, cette étude dégage un terrain d’entente entre Sartre et Nietzsche quant à la détermination de la vérité et à la création. Cet article espère ainsi contribuer à l’étude de la complexe réception de la pensée nietzschéenne au 20e siècle.
Introduction to Hegel's Theory of Tragedy
Authors: Roche Mark W.
Published: April 2017

This is an invited introductory discussion of tragedy in Hegel.
The Limits of Transcendence
Authors: Matthews Richard
Published: April 2017

A central ethical and political worry in Heidegger and Nietzsche is the philosophical irrelevance of everyday moral, epistemological and political norms, as well as of individual suffering and evil. In consequence they offer little to help us think about ethical experience. I argue that Albert Camus' analysis of moral and epistemic limits offers a more fruitful alternative. But this requires us to take ordinary experience as central to philosophical analysis, rather than simply viewing it as a clue to the real philosophical issues.
Barrage sur la ligne de fuite. Considérations sur Nietzsche et la prudence philosophique
Authors: Giroux Dalie
Published: April 2017

Ce texte présente une tentative de trouver une notion de «prudence philosophique» chez Nietzsche. Il procède de la critique d’une contribution de Daniel Tanguay dans laquelle l’auteur s’oppose au diagnostic posé par certains exégètes de l’œuvre de Leo Strauss d’une certaine proximité entre la pensée du maître américain et celle de Nietzsche. L’argument principal de Tanguay tient en cette idée que la prudence, qui est le propre de la sagesse philosophique et qui est au cœur de la pensée de Strauss, est absente chez Nietzsche. La démonstration proposée est sous-tendue par une thèse sur la figure du philosophe et sur la nature de la vie philosophique. Développant une argumentation contre cette conclusion, je veux préciser les conditions de possibilité et le sens d’une prudence philosophique nietzschéenne. En particulier, la recherche d’une notion de prudence chez Nietzsche demande d’explorer d’une part une possible distinction entre eros et volonté de puissance, et d’autre part une possible distinction entre nature et volonté de puissance. Cette double distinction permet de définir une conception nietzschéenne du philosophe et de la philosophie qui n’est pas dogmatique, et dans laquelle on trouve une autre forme de la prudence, celle du don.

[This paper finds its starting point in a critique of Daniel Tanguay’s opposition to the idea of a kind of proximity between the thought of Leo Strauss and Nietzsche. Tanguay’s argument is to the effect that Strauss provides us with a notion of prudence philosophique, while Nietzsche, a dogmatic thinker, doesn’t. Underlying this diagnosis is a thesis regarding the nature of the philosopher and of the philosophical life. To counter this interpretation, this paper attempts to flesh a notion of prudence out of Nietzsche’s published works. More specifically, it explores the distinction between Eros and Will-to-Power on the one hand, and the distinction between Nature and Will-to-Power on the other. This twofold distinction allows for a non-dogmatic Nietzschean notion of philosophy in which can be found another brand of prudence that takes the form of a gift.]
(Making) Animal Tracks
Authors: HOULE KAREN
Published: April 2017

Using an experience of animal perception and tracking as my guide, I track for the reader a recent sequence of readings and writings of mine, but not just my own. I want to show a map of an intellectual meander outward toward animality and toward the question of the ethical status of the non­human animal . With hindsight, we can spy the blind spots, blind corners, of a pursuit, intellectual or otherwise. Through this exercise, I want to try to illustrate how that path of questions about the non-human animal in the first instance permits a suspension of attention to ourselves--the human animal--as contested moral subjects and an oblivion about that suspension. But, in the second instance, the questions posed by the animal, on the meander outward, lead to other questions which in turn make our oblivion so crystal clear that it calls our apparent naiveté and goodwill into question. The result is, literally, a sudden about-face which (re)contests ourselves--the human animal--as moral subjects. An implication of this paper is to call into question our adequacy, as epistemic agents, to the task of what feminist epistemologists call "critical self-reflection"; that is, knowing oneself more fully by perceiving what one is up to in ones line of questioning, catching oneself unawares in particular. My experience of tracking an animal and then finding myself suddenly being tracked by that animal casts what I hope is a useful doubt on the capacity of the isolated rational agent to accomplish a making-visible of what is invisible about her own perceptions; that is, reveals the very real limits of her evidence-gathering capacities. I want above all to argue that our own blind spots are disabled and critical self-reflexivity becomes possible, not by a willing and able isolated self but by a strange-making encounter wit h a non-self who stops us in our tracks. The final section of the paper focuses on two kinds of non-selfs who 'summons' us, and our capacities to hear one of these summons more readily than the other. It asks whether the question of the fetus is perhaps like the question of the animal, yet, even more than that of the animal, one that still cannot be heard or seen
La vie végétative des animaux : la destruction heideggérienne de l’animalité
Authors: BAILEY CHRISTIANE
Published: April 2017

La déconstruction heideggérienne de l’animalité qui a lieu dans les Concepts fondamentaux de la métaphysique va jusqu’à faire disparaître l’idée même d’une vie animale, d’une vie propre aux animaux. La vie, comme le disait déjà Heidegger dans Être et temps, est « un mode d’être propre », ce qui veut dire, comme le confirmera le cours de 1929-1930, que la vie est « le mode d’être de l’animal et de la plante ». D’emblée conçus comme « organismes », les animaux se retrouvent désormais privés de monde, plongés dans une torpeur végétative, dans une Benommenheit, du fond de laquelle ils ne font, comme les végétaux, « rien de plus que vivre ». La méthode de l’ontologie de la vie -- annoncée dans Sein und Zeit comme une « interprétation privative » -- se révèle être une réduction au biologique : la stratégie consiste à trouver des équivalences fonctionnelles pour tout ce qui a trait chez les animaux à quelque chose comme une vie, à quelque chose comme une existence biographique, pour ne leur laisser que la vie, au sens strictement biologique du terme. Du se-mouvoir jusqu’à la perception en passant par cette forme de désir irrationnel qu’est l’impulsion, les traditionnelles facultés animales seront instituées en propre de l’homme, ne laissant plus aux animaux qu’une forme de vie organique, hors sens, hors possible, hors monde.
Night Animals
Authors: MAYS MARIIANNE
Published: April 2017

"Night Animals" is part of a larger investigation into the relationship between humans and animals. Traditionally humans have distinguished themselves from other animals and from their own animality; the question of the animal, however repressed or uncanny, nonetheless encroaches upon our symbolic spheres and our very psyches. We might ask about the possibilities for human-animal interrelation, and what these possibilities indicate about the future: what promise is held there?

This poem forwards the possibility of a companion animal that might be followed, or mounted and ridden--perhaps in a dream--and with which one could communicate in some fashion, perhaps even telepathically. As with all dreams, one wonders whether there is a point of no return, and what going beyond might mean.
Monstrous Women
Authors: TAYLOR DIANNA
Published: April 2017

In this paper I argue that “monstrous” women – violators of both moral and gender norms – mark the limits of acceptable behavior through such violation and thus provide particular insight into the workings of gendered power relations within contemporary western societies.  Drawing upon Michel Foucault’s 1975 College de France course titled Abnormal, I begin by arguing that gendered power relations in western societies can be characterized as “normalizing.”  Next, I refer to Foucault’s discussion of “natural” and “moral” monsters in order to provide a sketch of the monstrous woman, and then show how specific monstrous women violate moral and gender norms.  By way of conclusion I argue that the figure of the monstrous women is not wholly negative but rather ambivalent.  As Foucault asserts, monsters are “limit figures;” monstrous women challenge limits – including prevailing norms governing the feminine and the human – in ways that render them explicit such that they are denaturalized and ultimately opened up to critical interrogation.
Between Disciplinary Power and Care of the Self: A Dialogue on Foucault and the Psychological Sciences
Authors: CHLOË TAYLOR CRESSIDA HEYES And
Published: April 2017

A Dialogue on Foucault and the Psychological Sciences.