In her November 9, 1976 interview with Sally Tyler, Julia Mobley Irwin details her life as a day student in the early 1900s. Irwin recalls her favorite classes, describes uniforms, insists that there was never a swimming pool at...
Alumna Amelia Mays Woods has been chosen to give this year's Julia H. Post Lecture in Plowden Auditorium. Woods earned her B.S. in physical education at Winthrop in 1983.
ESG reports contain crucial information about the corporations' environmental impact, social responsibilities, and governance. Many compliance audits rely on answering questions based on these reports. Moreover, for tasks such...
Science anxiety refers to students' negative emotions about learning science. Across two studies, we investigated the psychometric properties of the newly developed Abbreviated Science Anxiety Scale (ASAS), which was adapted...
College graduates appear to be struggling to find and retain their jobs today. Alarmingly, many graduates report they did not develop employable skills in college. The reasons for this predicament may be due to generational...
Although several studies have compared the representation of fractions and decimals, no study has investigated whether fractions and decimals, as two types of rational numbers, share a common representation of magnitude. The...
BACKGROUND: Two hypotheses were tested regarding the characteristics of children with mathematical learning disabilities (MLD): (a) that children with MLD would have a 'core deficit' in basic number processing skills; and (b)...
This article examines the photographic narratives of the Second World War produced by Jewish Polish-Belgian e´migre´ photographer Julia Pirotte and their post-war trajectory. It begins by proposing a set of critical frames which...
This article examines the photographic narratives of the Second World War produced by Jewish Polish-Belgian e´migre´ photographer Julia Pirotte and their post-war trajectory. It begins by proposing a set of critical frames which...
Quantization of images containing low texture regions, such
as sky, water or skin, can produce banding artifacts. As the bit-depth of each color channel is decreased, smooth image gradients are transformed into perceivable...
The idea of a committee like the Institutional Review Board (IRB), whose aim is to safeguard ethical research, sounds complementary to current principles of equity. However, many researchers and academics view these boards with...
Obesity is a complex disorder where the genome interacts with diet and environmental
factors to ultimately influence body mass, composition and shape. Numerous studies have
investigated how bulk lipid metabolism of adipose...
Null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) has several shortcomings that are likely contributing factors behind the widely debated replication crisis of (cognitive) neuroscience, psychology, and biomedical science in general....
This paper provides a historical snapshot of personal ICT usage in 2005/2006, specifically shedding light on how Australian and German couples (N= 48) had integrated the internet into their homes with a focus on spatial and...
The new digital age introduces new challenges and opportunities for leaders to engage their followers in voice behavior. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, the objective of this paper is to examine the mediating...
A major myth of gifted education is the idea that gifted and advanced learners should already possess the knowledge and skills necessary to engage in rigorous learning experiences. This myth reinforces the underrepresentation of...
The need to create culturally authentic and specific learning experiences is a call to action that all teachers must answer. Current definitions of differentiation either avoid or exclude topics of culture and race. These...
We review how stress induction, time pressure manipulations and math anxiety can interfere with or modulate selection of problem-solving strategies (henceforth "strategy selection") in arithmetical tasks. Nineteen relevant...
Science anxiety refers to students’ negative emotions about learning science. Across two studies, we investigated the psychometric properties of the newly developed Abbreviated Science Anxiety Scale (ASAS), which was adapted...
Algorithms have emerged in past years as an object of public interest and debate. However, this term is used to name very different conceptions. The chapter presents the different definitions of the term “algorithm,” especially...