There is a growing interest in what constitutes effective practice in faculty-led research based ... more There is a growing interest in what constitutes effective practice in faculty-led research based learning experiences that involve students learning research by doing research. There is a particular need for research-based evidence about the student experience, their intellectual and personal gains, and the learning processes that contribute to those gains. To address these concerns, this qualitative case study investigates the intellectual collaboration-the meaning making practices-in two research groups of faculty and students doing qualitative data analysis. Negotiation is a key aspect of coding and reliability methods that use measures of agreement among multiple coders to ensure rigor. Negotiation means that participants worked through their differences until they reached agreement. The groups were cooperative not competitive but there was a tension between research productivity and learning goals. "Getting on the same page" required getting novice coders up to speed in a short period of time.
This paper presents the results of a research study in which we developed a cultural model and ap... more This paper presents the results of a research study in which we developed a cultural model and applied it to a content/feature analysis of Uzbek secondary school Web sites. Our assumption was that Web sites designed by local producers for local users would exhibit identifiable cultural dimensions. We found that the analyzed sites followed a general design template and exhibited many identifiable cultural markers: e.g., a focus on institutions, images of authority, a lot of blue coloring. This study can serve as a methodological guide for technical communicators interested in localizing Web sites or in developing appropriate cultural models in untested domains and countries. We identify some key challenges in using such methods in unfamiliar, cross-national, and cross-cultural settings. This report presents a study in which we developed a cultural model and then used it in evaluating cultural preferences in Web site design, specifically Uzbek secondary school Web sites. This research...
This report describes work undertaken by Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL} and its contractors t... more This report describes work undertaken by Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL} and its contractors to assist the Bonneville Power Administration in evaluating the potential environmental consequences of new power resources. The report describes and evaluates the available techniques for assigning economic values to environmental impacts. It also documents their use to value selected environmental impacts associated with each of the new powergeneration alternatives discussed in Bonneville's Resource Program Environmental Impact Statement. ENVIRONMENTAL COST EVALUATION Techniques for valuing environmental impacts, or externalities, associated with power generation have become increasingly sophisticated in recent years. !•I Extern a 1 it i es can be incorporated into resource evaluation decisions in two ways: qualitatively or quantitatively. Qualitative assessments do not enter directly into cost calculations but can be used to differentiate resources with similar costs. Although qualitative assessments can cover all impacts that can be identified, it is difficult to assess the relative importance of each impact when each is measured differently. On the other hand, quantitative assessments, at least in principle, place each of the impacts of the resource choice decision on a common footing, namely dollars. Economic costs then can be compared easily with the other costs of the generation resource, and, ultimately, different resources can be compared to each other. dollar damage estimates However, it can be difficult and expensive to develop for each environmental impact. As a result, efforts to quantify damages from externalities are usually limited to a handful of major damages. The so-called damages-based approach used in this analysis to estimate environmental costs requires two types of quantified information: the extent (a) The term 11 externalities,. refers to residual environmental impacts that are not included in the internal resource costs. Externalities often represent uncompensated environmental damages although they may also represent benefits. i Cancer Costs Acute Morbidity Total Costs
2009 39th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2009
It is considered good practice to teach with an awareness that groups of students will not be hom... more It is considered good practice to teach with an awareness that groups of students will not be homogeneous, and will differ. Research tells educators to take into account specific student differences, including learning styles, socioeconomic status, race, and culture. This important issue has been debated and discussed; however, little has been written about how engineering educators examine, consider, and use student differences in their teaching practice. This paper addresses the extent to which, and the ways in which, engineering educators take student differences into account when making teaching-related decisions.
Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 2010
Although academy-industry partnerships have been a subject of interest in professional communicat... more Although academy-industry partnerships have been a subject of interest in professional communication for many years, they have barely been considered in terms of globally networked learning environments (GNLEs). This empirical case study of an academy—industry partnership, in which the authors participated, examines the opportunities and challenges in applying GNLE practices to the design of a corporate engineering communication workshop. Using genre-ecology modeling as the analytical framework, the study demonstrates how the pedagogical processes considered for inclusion in such a workshop may be embedded in a network of institutional genres, some of which are associated with strong regulating controls. The findings from this study have implications for those who are interested in applying GNLE practices in workplace contexts and for those interested in using a principled framework for representing the work of such partnership activities.
Abstract: In this project, we are addressing the question: how do engineering educators take stud... more Abstract: In this project, we are addressing the question: how do engineering educators take student motivation into account in the context of teaching decisions? Using educator self reports of teaching decisions as our data source and theories of student motivation to guide our ...
The Bonneville Power Administration (Bonneville) commissioned the Pacific Northwest Laboratory (P... more The Bonneville Power Administration (Bonneville) commissioned the Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) 1 ' 1 to prepare this report to aid the agency in the preparation of environmental documents to support conservation programs.
Objective To evaluate the impact of Pain Skills Intensive trainings (PSIs) as a complement to the... more Objective To evaluate the impact of Pain Skills Intensive trainings (PSIs) as a complement to the Indian Health Service (IHS) and the Chronic Pain and Opioid Management TeleECHO Program (ECHO Pain) collaboration. Design On-site PSIs conducted over two to three days were added to complement ECHO Pain at various IHS areas to enhance pain skills proficiency among primary care teams and to expand the reach of ECHO collaboration to ECHO nonparticipants. Setting This evaluation focuses on two PSI trainings offered to IHS clinicians in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Spokane, Washington, in 2017. Methods The mixed-methods design comprises CME surveys and focus groups at the end of training and 12 to 18 months later. Quality of training and perceived competence were evaluated. Results Thirty-eight participants attended the two PSI workshops. All provided CME survey results, and 28 consented to use of their postsession focus group results. Nine clinicians participated in the virtual follow-up f...
There is a growing interest in what constitutes effective practice in faculty-led research based ... more There is a growing interest in what constitutes effective practice in faculty-led research based learning experiences that involve students learning research by doing research. There is a particular need for research-based evidence about the student experience, their intellectual and personal gains, and the learning processes that contribute to those gains. To address these concerns, this qualitative case study investigates the intellectual collaboration-the meaning making practices-in two research groups of faculty and students doing qualitative data analysis. Negotiation is a key aspect of coding and reliability methods that use measures of agreement among multiple coders to ensure rigor. Negotiation means that participants worked through their differences until they reached agreement. The groups were cooperative not competitive but there was a tension between research productivity and learning goals. "Getting on the same page" required getting novice coders up to speed in a short period of time.
This paper presents the results of a research study in which we developed a cultural model and ap... more This paper presents the results of a research study in which we developed a cultural model and applied it to a content/feature analysis of Uzbek secondary school Web sites. Our assumption was that Web sites designed by local producers for local users would exhibit identifiable cultural dimensions. We found that the analyzed sites followed a general design template and exhibited many identifiable cultural markers: e.g., a focus on institutions, images of authority, a lot of blue coloring. This study can serve as a methodological guide for technical communicators interested in localizing Web sites or in developing appropriate cultural models in untested domains and countries. We identify some key challenges in using such methods in unfamiliar, cross-national, and cross-cultural settings. This report presents a study in which we developed a cultural model and then used it in evaluating cultural preferences in Web site design, specifically Uzbek secondary school Web sites. This research...
This report describes work undertaken by Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL} and its contractors t... more This report describes work undertaken by Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL} and its contractors to assist the Bonneville Power Administration in evaluating the potential environmental consequences of new power resources. The report describes and evaluates the available techniques for assigning economic values to environmental impacts. It also documents their use to value selected environmental impacts associated with each of the new powergeneration alternatives discussed in Bonneville's Resource Program Environmental Impact Statement. ENVIRONMENTAL COST EVALUATION Techniques for valuing environmental impacts, or externalities, associated with power generation have become increasingly sophisticated in recent years. !•I Extern a 1 it i es can be incorporated into resource evaluation decisions in two ways: qualitatively or quantitatively. Qualitative assessments do not enter directly into cost calculations but can be used to differentiate resources with similar costs. Although qualitative assessments can cover all impacts that can be identified, it is difficult to assess the relative importance of each impact when each is measured differently. On the other hand, quantitative assessments, at least in principle, place each of the impacts of the resource choice decision on a common footing, namely dollars. Economic costs then can be compared easily with the other costs of the generation resource, and, ultimately, different resources can be compared to each other. dollar damage estimates However, it can be difficult and expensive to develop for each environmental impact. As a result, efforts to quantify damages from externalities are usually limited to a handful of major damages. The so-called damages-based approach used in this analysis to estimate environmental costs requires two types of quantified information: the extent (a) The term 11 externalities,. refers to residual environmental impacts that are not included in the internal resource costs. Externalities often represent uncompensated environmental damages although they may also represent benefits. i Cancer Costs Acute Morbidity Total Costs
2009 39th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2009
It is considered good practice to teach with an awareness that groups of students will not be hom... more It is considered good practice to teach with an awareness that groups of students will not be homogeneous, and will differ. Research tells educators to take into account specific student differences, including learning styles, socioeconomic status, race, and culture. This important issue has been debated and discussed; however, little has been written about how engineering educators examine, consider, and use student differences in their teaching practice. This paper addresses the extent to which, and the ways in which, engineering educators take student differences into account when making teaching-related decisions.
Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 2010
Although academy-industry partnerships have been a subject of interest in professional communicat... more Although academy-industry partnerships have been a subject of interest in professional communication for many years, they have barely been considered in terms of globally networked learning environments (GNLEs). This empirical case study of an academy—industry partnership, in which the authors participated, examines the opportunities and challenges in applying GNLE practices to the design of a corporate engineering communication workshop. Using genre-ecology modeling as the analytical framework, the study demonstrates how the pedagogical processes considered for inclusion in such a workshop may be embedded in a network of institutional genres, some of which are associated with strong regulating controls. The findings from this study have implications for those who are interested in applying GNLE practices in workplace contexts and for those interested in using a principled framework for representing the work of such partnership activities.
Abstract: In this project, we are addressing the question: how do engineering educators take stud... more Abstract: In this project, we are addressing the question: how do engineering educators take student motivation into account in the context of teaching decisions? Using educator self reports of teaching decisions as our data source and theories of student motivation to guide our ...
The Bonneville Power Administration (Bonneville) commissioned the Pacific Northwest Laboratory (P... more The Bonneville Power Administration (Bonneville) commissioned the Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) 1 ' 1 to prepare this report to aid the agency in the preparation of environmental documents to support conservation programs.
Objective To evaluate the impact of Pain Skills Intensive trainings (PSIs) as a complement to the... more Objective To evaluate the impact of Pain Skills Intensive trainings (PSIs) as a complement to the Indian Health Service (IHS) and the Chronic Pain and Opioid Management TeleECHO Program (ECHO Pain) collaboration. Design On-site PSIs conducted over two to three days were added to complement ECHO Pain at various IHS areas to enhance pain skills proficiency among primary care teams and to expand the reach of ECHO collaboration to ECHO nonparticipants. Setting This evaluation focuses on two PSI trainings offered to IHS clinicians in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Spokane, Washington, in 2017. Methods The mixed-methods design comprises CME surveys and focus groups at the end of training and 12 to 18 months later. Quality of training and perceived competence were evaluated. Results Thirty-eight participants attended the two PSI workshops. All provided CME survey results, and 28 consented to use of their postsession focus group results. Nine clinicians participated in the virtual follow-up f...
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