Rachel Hansen and Dr. Wendy Baker, Linguistics and English Language The creation of adaptive learning environments is crucial for students’ success. Teachers often use written feedback to encourage improvement in their students’ work. The manner and content of feedback greatly affects how it is perceived (Brinko, 1993). Also, studies have shown for almost two decades […]
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Gender Politics and Education in 1920s Ireland: Public and Private Editorializing in TCD: A College Miscellany
Katherine Fisher and Dr. David Hatch, English When I began this project, I planned to investigate the ways in which Irish students engaged with and wrote about certain philosophical and literary tenets of modernism. As I conducted background research on the social and political climate in Ireland during the 1920s, however, my focus shifted somewhat […]
Wives of Rural Mexican Migrants: Gender Roles and Mental Health?
Jared Wilkerson and Dr. Niwako Yamawaki, Psychology Rural Mexican communities near Irapuato, Guanajuato are an ideal place to discover the effects of migration on a population. This area of Mexico contains many villages known as “sending communities” due to a high number of migrants who mostly travel to and from the United States. These sending […]
Study Abroad, Gender, and the Speaking Experience How Gender Mediates Speaking Opportunities for Students Studying Abroad in the Middle East
Andrew Smith and Dr. Jennifer Bown, Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages Introduction The study abroad experience as an opportunity to increase learning about a foreign language and culture is becoming more popular in the United States (Gore, 2005; Kinginger, 2009). As a part of this expansion in education, study abroad to the Middle […]
The Gendering of Choice of Majors What do College Students Perceive Influences Them?
Miriam Walther and Dr. Mikaela Dufur, Sociology While 13.8% of workers in architecture and engineering occupations are women, 77.6% of personal care and service workers are female (Bureau of Labor and Statistics 2005). What is the cause of this discrepancy? While these occupations are so heavily gendered, 50.3% of workers in management, professional, and related […]
Men, Women, and Russian Requests: The Influence of Gender on the Pragmatic Competence of Second Language Learners
Elizabeth Hassell and Professor Jennifer Brown, Russian How we got started Dr. Jennifer Bown and I wished to assess how gender affects the pragmatic competence of students learning Russian. By analyzing the differences between men and women’s ability to form appropriate requests in their second language, we hoped to assist other researchers in developing better language-teaching […]
Sexual Psychology: Eighteenth-Century Gender Theory and the Philosophy of Friedrich Schiller
Jeffrey Tucker and Professor Paul E. Kerry, History Perhaps the most difficult thing about doing scholastic research is coming up with a good question. The philosopher Imre Lakatos has suggested that the modern research programme works by establishing positive and negative heuristics which dictate the questions that are and are not profitable to ask. As Thomas […]
Social Equality Norms for Race, Gender, and Religion in the American Public During the 2008 Presidential Primaries
Scott Riding and Dr. J. Quin Monson, Political Science During the course of last year’s U.S. Presidential Election, many political analysts speculated that racial prejudice among American voters would hurt Democratic nominee Barack Obama in his bid for the White House. Candidates Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney faced similar questions about gender and religious biases […]
Ambivalent Sexism and the Law: The Myth of Gender Equality
Jennifer Edgley and Dr. Niwako Yamawaki, Department of Psychology The women’s liberation movement of the sixties and seventies has ushered in several important social and political changes in the United States. Gender inequality, however, remains an enduring problem in various institutions (Lips, 2007). The theory of Ambivalent Sexism conceptualizes and may be the key to […]
Gender Equity in Ugandan Secondary Schools
Martha Howard and Dr. Julie Hite The International Bill of Rights declares education to be a human right (UN, 1948) which, if denied, limits the opportunities for personal development and growth. At the World Education Forum in 2000 held in Dakar, Senegal by UNESCO, the international community agreed to the Dakar Framework for Action. This […]
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