My name is Laura Cody, and I am a Community Health Specialist at the Regional Center for Healthy Communities in Cambridge, MA. We work with many substance abuse prevention coalitions helping them build on their strengths and reduce underage drinking in their communities. I will describe a process we used with a group of youth …
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My name is Stacy Carruth and I am a Community Health Specialist at a Regional Center for Healthy Communities in Massachusetts. Much of the work we do is supporting community coalitions working on substance abuse prevention. Two communities we work with are funded to reduce fatal and non-fatal opiate overdose, an issue of concern in …
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Hello. I’m Antonio J. Castro, and I am an assistant professor in the Department of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum at the University of Missouri-Columbia. I teach courses in qualitative research and have been project director and coordinator for a variety of grant-funded initiatives. Project directors are constantly tasked with trying to represent the quality of …
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Hello! We are LeKisha M. Harris and Chris St. Vil, interns in AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program. GEDI interns are graduate students who, through a nine-month internship and participation in various workshops throughout the year, gain hands-on experience in evaluation. LeKisha is a 2nd year Master’s student at the University of Georgia School …
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I am Dr. Jill Ostrow, an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum at the University of Missouri. I coordinate and teach a yearlong online capstone graduate course titled, Classroom Research. The first half of the course is devoted to learning about Classroom Research: developing the question, collecting data, and beginning …
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My name is Brian Silvey, and I am an Assistant Professor of Music Education and the Director of the Symphonic Band at the University of Missouri. I constantly struggle with how to best assess my students. One thing I do know is that using a point system does not seem to work for me. What …
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Greetings. I’m Joi Moore, Associate Professor in the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri. I also serve as a faculty member for the Information Experience Lab. Teaching an online application development course, such as Flash animation, can easily become overwhelming for students and the instructors. Students must acquire the …
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Hello! We are Xin Wang, Neeley Current, and Gary Westergren. We work at the Information Experience Laboratory (IE Lab) of the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri. The IE lab is a usability laboratory that conducts research and evaluates technology. What is usability? According to Jakob Nielsen’s definition, usability …
Hello! My name is Nancy Aguinaga. I am an assistant professor in the College of Education at Southeast Missouri State University. For the last five years, I have worked with pre-service and in-service teachers on the importance of moving away from the traditional “one size fits all” approach to teaching and assessment and moving towards …
Hello AEA! This is Tamara Williams and Ciara Zachary, and we are members of the seventh cohort for the Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) Program. Tamara is a doctoral student at the University of Colorado-Boulder in the department of Sociology. Ciara is doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the department …
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