Guides To Reading Research Articles

Using Reading Guides and On-line Quizzes to Improve Reading Compliance and Quiz Scores

This study compared students’ daily in-class reading quiz scores in an introductory Child Development course across five conditions: control, reading guide only, reading guide and on-line practice quiz, reading guide and on-line graded quiz, and reading guide and both types of on-line quizzes. At the beginning of class, students completed a 5-item quiz over the assigned readings. With the exception of the control section, all students had access to an instructor-designed reading guide for each of the 20 assigned readings. Results revealed that reading guides significantly increased student learning as demonstrated by increased scores on the in-class reading quizzes, with marginal additional gains when practice quizzes were also utilized. The addition of online graded quizzes resulted in lower scores on in-class quizzes. Results held even after multiple subsidiary analyses controlling for time spent studying. These findings suggest that reading guides may be a valuable study aid for improving student learning.

Summer Reading Guide

8 wlt may / august 2015 Summer Reading Guide by Skyler Stanley Summer is here, and that means one thing: vacation! Whether you’re on a grand exploration or simply relaxing with a staycation, WLT is here to provide a getaway that you can hold in your hands. For “Supernatural” Junkies Ipsita Roy Chakraverti Spirits I Have Known (HarperCollins) For the Year-Round Classics Disciple Toni Morrison God Help the Child (Knopf) For the Family-Bonding Fanatic T. C. Boyle The Harder They Come (Ecco) Sarah Elizabeth Schantz Fig (Margaret K. McElderry Books) For the Summer-School Academic Peter Longerich Goebbels: A Biography Alan Bance, Jeremy Noakes, & Lesley Sharpe, trs. (Random House) Juan Enriquez & Steve Gullans Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Changing Life on Earth (Current) Jørn Olav Løset The Viking Longship: From Skinboat to Seagoing Warship (Westholme Publishing) For the Long Car Ride Christopher McDougall Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance (Random House Audio) Notebook Skyler Stanley is a WLT intern with a fascination for coffee, pugs, and superheroes. She hopes to work in the publishing field after graduation. worldliteraturetoday.org 9 For the Socially Engaged Malala Yousafzai & Christina Lamb I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Little, Brown) For the Stand-up Comedian and Motivational Speaker Jason Kotecki Penguins Can’t Fly: +39 Rules That Don’t Exist (St. Martin’s Griffin) For the Wannabe Rebel Mario Vargas Llosa The Discreet Hero Edith Grossman, tr. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) For the Lover of Tear-Jerkers Juan Gabriel Vásquez The All Saints’ Day Lovers Anne McLean, tr. (Bloomsbury Publishing) For the Anthropomorph Mia Couto Confession of the Lioness David Brookshaw, tr. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) For the Scandal Lover John LeFevre Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals (Grove/Atlantic) 10 wlt may / august 2015 Benjamin Saltman Poetry award Final Judge: Carl Phillips deadline: August 31, 2015 This award is for a previously unpublished original collection of poetry. Awarded collection is selected through an annual competition which is open to all poets. Award is $3000 and publication of the awarded collection by Red Hen Press. Entry fee is $25.00. Name on cover sheet only, 48 page minimum. Please submit at www.redhen.org/awards or mail submissions and entry fees to Attn. Benjamin Saltman Award, Red Hen Press, P.O. Box 40820, Pasadena, CA 91114. Send SASE for notification. The Ends of the Earth Roger Willemsen Translated by Peter Lewis Roger Willemsen is a highly respected foreign correspondent from Germany. This collection of his essays takes readers to the far-flung, forgotten places of the earth, from a Kamchatkan volcano to an Arctic icebreaker to a Minsk hospital ward. CLOTH $30.00 Barbarian Spring Jonas Lüscher Translated by Peter Lewis “Lüscher’s fascinating novella plays out in the near future, yet describes the hubris of capitalism and economic collapse in a wonderfully old-fashioned manner without moralizing.”—Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, on the German edition PAPER $16.00 This Place Holds No Fear Monika Held Translated by Anne Posten With its sensitive treatment of two people struggling to confront the Holocaust’s atrocities from very different vantage points, This Place Holds No Fear is a powerful novel of finding love after experiencing unimaginable loss. “A quite extraordinary book.”—Focus, on the German edition CLOTH $22.95 Distributed by the University of Chicago Press www.press.uchicago.edu New from HAUS PUBLISHING ...

What Is the Role of Carbohydrates in the Management of Diabetes?

What Is the Role of Carbohydrates in the Management of Diabetes?

Women wearing white: Discourses of menstruation and the experience of menarche

This study examines how dominant societal discourses of menstruation are appropriated, rejected, or interpreted as adolescent girls make meaning of their menarche. Thirteen women ages 18–21 participated in flexible in-depth interviews to retrospectively recount their menarcheal experience. A variation of the Reading Guide was used for primary data analysis, which identified four themes highlighting girls’ ambivalence regarding menarche. Participants were conflicted at menarche about their putative status as ‘women’; used imprecise, distancing language when discussing menstruation; engaged in material and discursive practices of concealing menstruation; and referenced a community of menstrual suffering. Further, discourse analysis of participants’ talk suggests their continued discomfort. We argue that girls experience menarche ambivalently in relation to menstrual taboos, body shame and emergent womanhood. Negative discourses of menstruation and women’s bodies converge to set girls on a problematic gendered trajectory at menarche that can be expected to inform meaning making and experiences across the lifespan.

The Bad Bugs Book Club: Science, Literacy, and Engagement

The Bad Bugs Bookclub was launched in 2009. It comprises scientists and non-scientists. The aim of the Bookclub is to read and discuss novels where infectious disease forms part of the plot, in order to enhance learning about microbiology. The focus of the discussion is on appreciation of the novel, its scientific (microbiologic) accuracy and relevance to contemporary microbiology. There are several potential audiences for the Bad Bugs Bookclub, for example students in a classroom setting, or in a more social environment, and/or the general public. Meeting reports and reading guides have been posted on a dedicated website. For education purposes, additional project work for assessment is suggested for students reading each novel. Bookclub meetings may be held on particular dates in the microbiologic calendar, coupled with additional public engagement activities and student participation. The approach has significant flexibility in terms of intended audience, assessment and extension work, and provides a refreshing and stimulating alternative means for talking about microbiology.

NOAM REISNER, John Milton's Paradise Lost: A Reading Guide. * PAUL HAMMOND AND BLAIR WORDEN (eds), John Milton: Life, Writing, Reputation.

NOAM REISNER, John Milton's Paradise Lost: A Reading Guide. * PAUL HAMMOND AND BLAIR WORDEN (eds), John Milton: Life, Writing, Reputation.

Aztecs on Stage: Religious Theater in Colonial Mexico. Edited by Louise M. Burkart. Translated from the Nahuatl by Louise M. Burkhart, Barry D. Sell, and Stafford Poole. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. Pp. ix, 244. Illustrations. Reading Guide. Pronunciation Guide. Glossary. Appendix. References. $24.95 paper.

Aztecs on Stage: Religious Theater in Colonial Mexico. Edited by Louise M. Burkart. Translated from the Nahuatl by Louise M. Burkhart, Barry D. Sell, and Stafford Poole. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. Pp. ix, 244. Illustrations. Reading Guide. Pronunciation Guide. Glossary. Appendix. References. $24.95 paper. - Volume 69 Issue 1

Aztecs on Stage: Religious Theater in Colonial Mexico. Edited by Louise M. Burkart. Translated from the Nahuatl by Louise M. Burkhart, Barry D. Sell, and Stafford Poole. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. Pp. ix, 244. Illustrations. Reading Guide. Pronunciation Guide. Glossary. Appendix. References. $24.95 paper.

Aztecs on Stage: Religious Theater in Colonial Mexico. Edited by Louise M. Burkart. Translated from the Nahuatl by Louise M. Burkhart, Barry D. Sell, and Stafford Poole. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. Pp. ix, 244. Illustrations. Reading Guide. Pronunciation Guide. Glossary. Appendix. References. $24.95 paper.

And God Said: How Translations Conceal the Bible's Original Meaning (review)

And God Said: How Translations Conceal Bible's Original Meaning, by Joel M. Hoffman. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2010. 256 pp. $25.99. A little learning, they say, is a dangerous thing. Joel Hoffman's background would seem to have lefthim with more than just a little learning, but a reading of his book And God Said demonstrates that he still falls well within danger area. It's too bad, because his topic is one that deserves a good book for a general readership; and Hoffman himself has a few worthwhile things to say. book is divided into two sections, each comprising about half book. first, Getting Started, consists of three chapters explaining why all previous translations of Bible are wrong, and demonstrating correct approach to Bible translation. second, Moving Forward, applies Hoffman's method to five biblical phrases or passages: b'chol levavcha u-v'chol nafshecha (Deut 6:5); YHWH ro'i (Ps 23:1); ahoti kallah (Song of Songs, passim); lo tirtzach and lo tahmod (in Ten Commandments of Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5); and almah (Isa 7:14). Part of book, Getting Started, is intended to prove inadequacy of all translation methods other than Hoffman's (which he does by demonstrating that pushed to extremes they all lead to absurdity) and to demonstrate his own approach. This is method of functional equivalence (p. 238)- though reader will not learn this phrase without reading Guide to Translations and Further Reading that appears in a significantly smaller type size as an appendix at back of book. In main text, explanation is more or less limited to one sentence saying that the goal is to understand not just vocabulary but also grammar of source ... and then try to do same thing in target language (p. 69) and a diagram, labeled Table I (it is only graphic feature in book), showing translation as a process of decoding function of phrase in source and encoding same function in target (p. 69). This technique, too, could be shown to lead to absurd results if carried to extremes. amazing thing about book is that Hoffman himself provides absurdities of his own method. Take, for example, the Lord is my from Psalm 23. Hoffman explains what is wrong with this translation: The problem is that shepherds, once common, are now rare (p. 126). Nowadays, a shepherd is meek, humble, powerless, and . . . not a part of mainstream society (p. 133), whereas in biblical times shepherds provided sustenance and were powerful, romantic, and common-none of which apply to shepherds today. So Hoffman tries out various other options: marine, fireman, lawyer, lumberjack, cowboy, pilot, doctor, nurse, veterinarian, zookeeper, farmer. …

Zalecenia dotyczące czytania książek beletrystycznych w polskich poradnikach czytelniczych z międzywojnia

Zalecenia dotyczące czytania książek beletrystycznych w polskich poradnikach czytelniczych z międzywojnia

A Discursive Dominance Theory of Economic Reform Sustainability: The Case of India

This article hypothesizes that economic reforms become sustainable when the discursive conditions prevailing in society tip against the existing paradigm under exceptional circumstances. Thus, unless the pro-liberalization constituencies dominate the development discourse, economic reforms, initiated under the exigencies of crisis and conditionalities, or carried out by a convinced executive with or without the stimulus of a crisis, will be reversed. The discursive conditions are determined based on eight factors: the dominant view of international intellectuals, illustrative country cases, executive orientations, political will, the degree and the perceived causes of economic crisis, attitudes on the part of donor agencies, and the perceived outcomes of economic reforms. The paper seeks to prove this “discursive dominance” hypothesis for the Indian case through a cross-temporal, comparative review of the evolution of economic policy in India over six different phases.

Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide (8th edition)

Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide (8th edition)

読むことの学習指導における「学習のてびき」の一源流 : E. A. クロス編『文学 : アンソロジーシリーズ』を中心に

A purpose of this paper is to investigate on source of for in Junior high school Japanese language classes of Hama Ohmura, an excellent secondary Japanese teacher. In order to Ohmura's testimony, her guides for learning were influenced by any American textbooks and workbooks for English language in 1940s-50s. One series of textbooks, Literature: a series of anthologies (A. E. Cross et.al eds.), which is one of American Educational Library collections, founded in Hiroshima University Library, was analyzed in this paper. By comparing the study questions in textbooks with Ohmura's guides for learning in her practical reports, any considerations were founded. At least, Literature: a series of anthologies seemed to give any hints for guides for learning by Ohmura, however, it would be not a only source of it, but also any other textbooks an workbooks used in USA would give any cues for generating Ohmura's ideas of guides for reading in 1950s. In addition, Such considerations in this paper would give a significant starting point for investigating a post-WW2 history of Japanese language textbooks and instructions.

Emerging Perspectives on Aminata Sow Fall: The Real and the Imaginary in Her Novels ed. by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo (review)

Book Reviews139 Reviews Literary Studies Azodo, Ada Uzoamaka, ed. Emerging Perspectives on Aminata Sow Fall: The Real and the Imaginary in Her Novels. Trenton, NJ and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, INC., 2007. Pp 319. $34.95. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo's Emerging Perspectives on Aminata Sow Fall: The Real and the Imaginary in Her Novels, provides a comprehensive study of Sow Fall's life and work by combining biography, bibliography, interview, and a series of critical essays in French and English from a variety of theoretical platforms and differing methodologies. Emerging Perspectives on Aminata Sow Fall addresses all of Sow Fall's novels, while situating her life and her works within their socio/cultural context. Sow Fall is considered "truly the first Senegalese female writer" (24) whose "first novel, Le Revenant (1976), was the first by a woman in the Senegalese post independent era" (7). This volume addresses an important lack in the critical reception of Sow Fall's works: "critics' acknowledgment of Sow Fall's social vision has given rise to the bulk of social-realistic studies on the author and her works. But, the imaginary side has not received consistent and sustained treatment yet" (25). This collection is divided into sections. First is Uzoamaka Azodo's introduction which includes a biography of Sow Fall, and situates her works in context with other Senegalese writers such as Sembène Ousmane and Mariama Ba. Sow Fall's social realism is contrasted with more abstract writers such as Seyni Mbengue and Amadou Ndiaye. Following this introduction—which also offers short synopses of each of Sow Fall's novels—are the text's two main sections ("books"). The first book is a group of essays by several scholars who "focus on the study of social realism in Aminata Sow Fall's work" (159). Lucy M. Schwartz's chapter discusses conflicts in contemporary Senegal and how for Sow Fall, "African tradition is the anchor which will help steady the country in the midst of these cultural storms" (44). Kahiudi Claver Mabana offers a feminist analysis of Sow Fall's Douceurs du bercail. Jeanne-Sarah de Larquier turns to Senghor, Fanon and Sartre in her reading oí Douceurs du bercail as an example of Sow Fall's "humanism." Mame Selbee Diouf Ndiaye's chapter is a postcolonial critique of Douceurs du bercail. Marco D. Roman's discussion, informed by Bourdieu, is of the Islamic tradition of zakat (almsgiving) in La Grève des Battu. Lea Kalaora, in her treatment of Sow Fall's oeuvre, finds that "Ainsi Sow Fall, à la différence de nombreux écrivains africains qui ont commencé à écrire en situation d'exil, s'est mise à écrire au retour au pays" (148). The essays written in French—by Mabadana, de Larquier, and Kalaora— are each preceded by a brief synopsis in English, which serves as a helpful guide for the mid-level French student. 140Women in French Studies The second "book," entirely written by the editor, considers the "imaginary." This section provides a close analysis of each of Sow Fall's eight novels in order "to fathom the African soul embedded in her literary works, enabling us to explore the deeper meanings of the symbols and images in these works, not to mention the lessons in such African genres as tale, legends, epics, allegories and myths" (162). Here, Uzoamaka Azodo labels Sow Fall's novels "sagas" or "songs" in order to "reflect the particular aspect(s) of African tradition highlighted" (160) in the work in question. The third section, an interview with Sow Fall conducted in French and translated into English by the editor, is entitled "Towards a Search for the African Soul: Writing and the Imagination in the Novels of Aminata Sow Fall." The last part is an extensive bibliography of works relevant to Sow Fall as well as to Francophone women's writing. This collection is an outstanding resource for a course of Francophonie, contemporary French language women's writing, women's studies and/or Francophone women's writing. It is particularly useful since in one book it compiles reading guides to Sow Fall's entire oeuvre, and as such, would function very well as a companion to both students reading...

Copulas for Finance - A Reading Guide and Some Applications

Copulas are a general tool to construct multivariate distributions and to investigate dependence structure between random variables. However, the concept of copula is not popular in Finance. In this paper, we show that copulas can be extensively used to solve many flnancial problems.

Advising as Teaching: Establishing Outcomes, Developing Tools, and Assessing Student Learning

In every way that matters, advising is a form of teaching. Using Bloom's (1956) taxonomy of educational outcomes, I explain how to develop learning objectives within advising contexts. The article also suggests commonly available educational materials, such as university catalogs, as content delivery mechanisms for students; in addition, it offers ideas such as reading guides and on-line lectures. Finally, I explain how to assess student learning, that is, how to determine the extent to which students' learning outcomes mirror the objectives established by the advisor. Relative Emphasis: practice, theory, research

:Church, Religion and Society in Early Modern Italy

List of Maps Preface Acknowledgements Religious Crises and Challenges in Early Sixteenth-Century Italy The Council of Trent and Bases for Continuing Reform Centre and Peripheries: The Papacy, Congregations, Religious Orders Episcopal Leadership Parish Priests and Parishioners Religious Education Confraternities, Hospitals and Philanthropy Nunneries and Religious Women Repression and Control Churches, Cultural Enticement and Display Conclusion: Successes and Failures Popes in Early Modern Europe Appendix: The Italian Bishoprics A Brief Reading Guide Bibliography Index

ENCOURAGING STUDENTS TO READ MATHEMATICS

ABSTRACT It is generally agreed that the ability to read mathematics is an important skill—one that few of our students possess. A number of people have published some suggestions for helping students learn to read their mathematics textbooks. What these have in common is suggestions for getting students more active while reading. Using these resources as a basis, I developed structured reading guides and other interventions to help my students learn to read their college algebra and pre-calculus textbooks. I found that when I emphasized reading in this way, students participated more in class, handed in more homework assignments, and kept attending.

Teaching Economics with Less Lecture: Using reading Guides to Cover Content

Although there has been much discussion of active learning to engage and interest students in economics, lecture is still the prominent pedagogical approach in most economics classes. This paper proposes the use of reading guides as an alternate method of delivering content so as to allow more time for active learning. Specifically, it will describe how reading guides are used, discuss the benefits of using them, present useful tips for using reading guides, and lastly present results from student surveys.

Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Crime Fiction (new edition)

Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Crime Fiction (new edition)