Journal Article Perceptions of Elder Abuse and Help-seeking Patterns Among African-American, Caucasian American, Korean-American Elderly Women Get access Ailee Moon, PhD, PhD Assistant professor 2School Social Welfare, University California at Los Angeles247 Dodd Hall, 405 Hilgard Ave., Angeles, CA 90024 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Oliver Williams, 3School Work, Minnesota Minneapolis The Gerontologist, Volume 33, Issue 3, June 1993, Pages...

Recent science education reform efforts have emphasized scientific practices in addition to knowledge. Less work has been done at the tertiary level consider students' engagement practices. In this work, we physical chemistry argumentation and construction of causal explanations. Students two POGIL classrooms were videotaped as they engaged discourse while solving thermodynamics problems. Videos transcribed transcripts analyzed using Toulmin Argument Pattern (TAP). Arguments then...

Encouraging students to participate in collaborative discourse allows constructively engage one another, share ideas, develop joint understanding of the course content, and practice making scientific arguments. Argumentation is an important skill for learn, but need be given opportunity class argumentation. To investigate importance instructor facilitation on argumentation, two iterations instructor's Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) physical chemistry were studied using...

This article presents a comparative analysis of the level awareness and utilization 15 community-based long-term care services by 213 elderly Korean 201 non-Hispanic White Americans. We found extremely low levels longterm health social among Americans, in both absolute relative terms. finding challenges success Older Americans Act, an important funding source those services, meeting its stated objectives to increase service availability delivery minority elders socioeconomically...

Abstract Writing is widely recognized as fundamental to the construction and communication of scientific knowledge. Building on this relationship between writing knowledge construction, writing‐to‐learn (WTL) activities have shown be effective in many science classrooms, but not been implemented at postsecondary level. To address lack implementation, we investigated potential adopters pedagogy. Potential adopters, faculty, are unique given key role plays their professional practice...

We conducted a study to examine how writing-to-learn assignment influenced student learning of polymer behavior. In particular, we examined the role specific content and rhetorical framework as well structured writing process including peer review revision. The student-generated was analyzed via content-directed rubric. Students' conceptual understanding stress–strain behavior gauged multitiered assessment. Finally, interviews were probe students' experiences during process. Results indicate...

One aim of inquiry activities in science education is to promote students' participation the practices used build scientific knowledge by providing opportunities engage discourse. However, many factors influence actual outcomes and effect on learning when using materials. In this study, discourse from two physical chemistry classrooms Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) approach was analyzed a lens argumentation. Analysis complexity reasoning arguments progression chemical...

Chemical kinetics is a highly quantitative content area that involves the use of multiple mathematical representations to model processes and context under-investigated in literature. This qualitative study explored undergraduate student integration chemistry mathematics during problem solving chemical kinetics. Using semi-structured interviews, participants were asked make their reasoning thinking explicit as they described provided equations worked though problems. Here we describe results...

Fundamental quantum chemistry concepts—quantization of energy, electronic structure, and light–matter interaction—are essential for understanding spectroscopy, an important tool studying molecules. However, very few studies have investigated how students learn understand these concepts or their learning can be supported. Drawing on the capacity writing to support difficult concepts, we designed intervention that targeted in context use spectroscopy identifying chemical composition Orion...

Science educators recognize the need to teach scientific ways of knowing and reasoning in addition knowledge. However, characterizing assessing is challenging. Writing-to-learn offers one way eliciting supporting students’ reasoning; further, writing serves externalize make traceable reasoning. For this reason, it a useful formative assessment The utility hinges on researchers’ ability understand what students can do think from their writing. Given challenges writing, research an adapted...

Thermodynamics and kinetics are key topics in the chemistry curriculum that pose challenges to students across a range of educational levels. These struggles arise from complexity mixed representations inherent topics. Additionally, while thermodynamics related, struggle make conceptually correct connections, sometimes seeing them as two separate with no relation other times conflating their meanings explanatory powers. Herein we captured student conceptions about through Writing-to-Learn...

Abstract Graduate students play an integral role in undergraduate chemistry education at doctoral granting institutions where they routinely serve as instructors of laboratories and supplementary discussion sessions. Simultaneously, graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) balance major research academic responsibilities. Although GTAs have substantial instructional facetime with large numbers students, little is known about their conceptions or identities teachers. To investigate the knowledge...

Recent science reform documents have called for incorporating authentic scientific discourse into classes as engaging in has shown to result numerous benefits. Whether these benefits are observed students depends upon the quality of which they engage. However, characterizing student–student can be an ambiguous task. In this work, we introduce decentering one feature effective interactions that used evaluate discourse. Decentering refers process differentiating between one's own perspective...

Light is used ubiquitously across science and engineering to explore, characterise, understand matter, catalyse processes. Relative its utility in engineering, very little research has been conducted on how students develop an understanding of light-matter interactions, especially at the quantum level, which necessary many modern applications. To begin addressing this gap, we present results from a cross-sectional qualitative investigation postsecondary chemistry students’ conceptions light...

Across science disciplines, light is a common tool for measuring, characterizing, and catalysing molecules molecular processes. Despite the ubiquity of light-based tools, little research has been done to investigate how students understand light–matter interactions (LMI). This topic typically first introduced in first-year undergraduate chemistry courses where initially encounter quantum nature matter. How make sense this content transition from classical concepts relatively unknown. To gain...

Abstract Graduate and Undergraduate Teaching Assistants’ Perspectives on Their First-Year Engineering TA PositionsThis study aims to understand (G/UTAs’)perspectives of their positions in a (FYE) program at research intensiveMidwestern university. In this large FYE (~1800 students), G/UTAs have moreinteraction with first-year engineering students than the primary instructors. The TAs areresponsible for office hours, addressing student emails, grading most assignments. Theirgrading...

Providing students in STEM courses the opportunity to write about scientific content can be beneficial learning process. However, it is a logistical challenge provide feedback students' written work large-enrollment courses. Motivated by these reasons, study presented herein considers method identify depth of reasoning their work. A writing-to-learn (WTL) activity was implemented large undergraduate general chemistry class. An analytical framework cognitive operations that characterizes...

Effective teaching assistants (TAs) are crucial for effective student learning. This is especially true in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs, where TAs enabling large programs to transition more student-centered learning environments. To ensure that able support these types of environments, their perspectives training, abilities, other work related aspects must be understood. In this paper a survey was created based on interviews conducted with eight...

While uncertainty is inherent to doing science, it often excluded from science instruction, especially postsecondary chemistry instruction. There are a variety of barriers infusing into the classroom, including ensuring productive struggle with uncertainty, evaluating student engagement and facilitating in way that fits within context. In this study, we aimed address these difficulties by designing an argumentation task enables direct observation students interacting epistemic uncertainty....