Digitally Recorded Japanese Speech Audiometry Materials

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Patience A. Mastny and Dr. Richard W. Harris, Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Speech audiometry is essential to audiologists in answering questions regarding a patient’s degree of hearing loss for speech; the levels of comfortable and uncomfortable loudness; the range of comfortable loudness; and, their ability to identify accurately the sounds of speech at suprathreshold levels. […]

Implementation of an English Curriculum in China

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Julie Ann Ludwig and Dr. M. Winston Egan, Teacher Education Introduction Last year I submitted a research proposal designed to make a structural analysis of early childhood education in a kindergarten in the People’s Republic of China and to determine how to best insert a new component into the already established curriculum. I participated in […]

The Effect of Variable Intra-stimulus Interval on the Auditory P50 Gating Response

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Mandi A. Kimball and Dr. David L. McPherson, Audiology and Speech Language Pathology When a person is presented with a tone pip or a click, his or her brain waves, in response to the auditory stimulus can be measured. This response is called the auditory evoked potential (AEP). AEPs can be classified as short-, middle-, […]

Learning and the Classroom: A Study of Student Learning and Journal Keeping

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Emily Eckman and Dr. Ramona Cutri, Teacher Education Student learning in the classroom has been researched by educators for many years. Many studies have focused on the most effective method of teaching a subject, course, or specific learning style. Dr. Cutri and her staff were concerned about the student level of learning in the Elementary/Secondary […]

National Development: Education in The Republic of Kiribati

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Julie N. Church and Dr. Macleans A. Geo-JaJa, Educational Leadership Foundations The Republic of Kiribati, located in Micronesia, has been recognized by the United Nations as one of the world’s poorest nations. One crucial aspect of the underdevelopment of this small Pacific atoll is that of education. Education plays a major role in the empowerment […]