Digital Images: Getting the Picture on to the Screen

Abstract

Getting images and pictures on to a screen is the theme of this article. It looks at analog and digital images and at the process of comparison, as well as digital comparison and displaying the images.     

Motivating Factors of Nontraditional Post-Baccalaureate Students Pursuing Initial Teacher Licensure

This study examines the motivating factors that prompted post-baccalaureate students to change careers and to pursue an initial teaching license. Researchers collected survey data from 346 nontraditional teaching candidates who were part of either an initial licensure master's degree program or a statewide nontraditional licensure program. Results indicated that most candidates chose to enter the education profession for noble causes such as the opportunity to share their love for learning or to make a difference in society or students' lives. More pragmatic motivators were also noted such as a need for a career change or the perceived benefits of the teaching career. Findings from this study have provided insights for program coordinators to recruit and support prospective and current candidates on the realities of the teaching profession.     

‘From where I’m looking it just seems like two people have missed the boat …’: understanding set behaviour from a socioanalytic perspective

Accounts of practice within the action learning literature tend to omit the more mundane session-to-session details of the inner-workings of the action learning set. As well as concentrating on the problem, individuals in all sets spend some of their time in unproductive interpersonal exchanges. These exchanges may be considered trivialities and not worthy of mentioning within an account of practice. The behaviour could, however, hold the key to understanding how the action learning group manages its unconscious anxieties associated with problem solving. In this article, using empirical research from his Ph.D. dissertation, the author explores how the insights developed by Wilfred Bion on groups, their unconscious behaviour and the anxiety of problem solving can help both action researchers and set participants better understand the working of their sets.     

The urban dilemma and research gaps: Explorations into scholarship and identity

This essay addresses the difficulty communication scholars have in addressing public policy regarding urban life which results, in large part, from the discipline's fractionalized, turf‐bound nature. Recommendations for future directions in research and academic responsibility will be offered and linked to concurrent developments in the technology of mediation.     

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Western Youth Meets Eastern Culture. By Frances G. Sweeney, Emily Fanning Barry, and Alice E. Schoelkopf. Columbia University, 1932. Pp. xvi + 335.

Journalistic Vocations. By Charles Elkins Rogers. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1931. Pp. ix + 354.

Educational Views of Benjamin Franklin. By Thomas Woody. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co. 1931. Pp. ix + 270.

The Austrian Educational Institutes. By Beryl Parker. Vienna and Leipzig : Austrian Federal Publisher for Education, Science, and Art, 1931. Pp. 12 + 184.

Secondary Education. By Herbert G. Lull. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1932. Pp. xxii + 356.

Case Studies of Normal Adolescent Girls. By Elsie M. Smithies. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1933. Pp. ix + 284.

The Road to Health. Books I and II. By Bundesen &; Manry. New York: Laidlaw Brothers, 1932. Pp. 96 + 127.

Our Neighbors Near and Far. By Carpenter. Book One. American Book Company.

English Practice Books. Books 3, 4, and 6. By Fennek and Madden. The American Book Company.

The Art of Educational Research. By Harold H. Abelson. New York: World Book Company, 1933. Pp. xi + 332.

Educational Psychology. By Harry L. HoixingsworTh. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1933. Pp. xvi + 540.

Arithmetic Workbook, Grade I. By Clifford B. Upton. New York: American Book Company, 1933. Pp. 128.

Clothing. By Friend and Shultz. Pp. x + 300. Living in Our Homes. By Friend and Shultz. Pp. xviii + 274. New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1933.

Lina Sarger. By Marque Maier. Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1932. Pp. 249.

Study Guide in Secondary Education. By Edgar M. Draper and Alexander G. Roberts. New York : The Century Co., 1933. Pp. xi + 151.

Survey of Higher Education in Maine. By the University of Maine. Pp. x + 430.

Archery Simplified. By Phillip Rounsevelle. New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1931. Pp. vii + 120.

The Dawn of Literature. By Cam, Holliday. New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Pp. 377.

Problem Solving in Arithmetic. By Leon Nelson Neulen. New York City: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1931. Pp. v + 87.

A Text‐Book of Physics. Fourth Edition. By Louis Bevier Spinney. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931. Pp. v + 679.

The Junior College. By Walter C. Eells. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. Pp. xxviii + 833.

Realism in American Education. By William Setchel Learned. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1932. Pp. 2 + 70.

Paraguay. By Arthur Elwood Elliott. New York City : Teachers College, Columbia University, 1931. Pp. v + 210.

Modern Business Geography. By Ellsworth Huntington and Sumner W, Cushing. New York : World Book Company. Pp. xii + 352.

The World We Live In. By Gertrude Hartman. Macmillan.

The Measurement of Certain Aspects of Personality Among Hard of Hearing Adults. By Henry Hunter Welles, III. New York : Columbia University, 1932. Pp. viii + 77.

The Educational and Occupational Preferences of College Seniors. By Marlin Ray Chauncey. New York: Columbia University, 1932. Pp. 72.

Making the Most of Books. By Leal A. Headley. Illinois: American Library Association, 1932. Pp. 342.

Relations of Religious Training and Life Patterns to the Adult Religious Life. By Luther Ellis Woodward. Teachers College, Columbia University, 1932. Pp. v + 75.     

Near-peer Mentor Model: Synergy within Mentoring

The near-peer mentor model provides undergraduates and recent post-baccalaureates in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields with an internship in two related disciplines, STEM research and STEM education. The near-peer mentor is both a mentored research intern and a mentor to pre-college students. During the 2013 summer, 43 near-peer mentors from seven sites reported on the benefits, challenges, and personal development they experienced during the internship. In addition, 1,328 pre-college students reported their perceptions of near-peer mentors. In this qualitative study, we indicate that learning by being mentored, while simultaneously acquiring the abilities to mentor and teach, is an effective model for promoting career advancement and the psychosocial support associated with the acquisition of professional behaviors.     

Teacher use of the interactive whiteboard in primary schools: towards an effective transition framework

abstract

The growing use of the interactive whiteboard (IWB) in primary school teaching forms part of a number of initiatives within the schools of the United Kingdom to develop the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in teaching and learning. The IWB presents both challenges and opportunities to teachers, particularly in terms of staff development and training. This study uses classroom observation and semi-structured interviews with teachers now working in a recently built, technology-rich primary school to develop a generic progressive framework and developmental model for schools introducing the IWB. This framework can be used to assess and guide teacher progress on the continuum towards becoming a ‘synergistic user’. As teachers make this transition there is a fundamental requirement to adopt an interactive teaching style, alongside the gradual development of specific ICT skills. The study also examines implications for teacher education and training for schools, both prior and subsequent to the introduction of the IWB into classroom use. These include specific technical and pedagogical competencies which need to be addressed for effective interactive use of the IWB in classroom teaching     

The impact of a communication intervention on work‐unit productivity and employee satisfaction

This study investigated the impact of a 10‐week program, designed to communicate job‐specific and general company information, on levels of worker satisfaction and work‐unit productivity. Data were collected from assembly line workers in a large health care industrial plant. Differences between scores on a general satisfaction measure administered before and after the program were observed suggesting that attitudes about the organization did improve after the program. When compared with a control period, work‐unit productivity also improved after the program. Implications of these findings for future organizational communication research were discussed.