A concerning feature of this study is a lack of a true representation of one’s knowledge of firearms use and safety. The survey relies on self-reports, and while it may be some time before a study is conducted to access this phenomenon in regards to actual competency, such as having participants operate a firearm to evaluate their actual ability. The current study is utilizing a Qualtrics survey to recruit WSU students to access this phenomenon as it relates to firearms use and safety. The…
Most students that attend college do so to increase their human capital and receive a meaningful return on their college investment. Because college is an investment for many students, the decision to attend college is constrained by price and some students do not attend or complete college because they find the price of college to be too high. In the United States, in recent years, a few states have began offering broad-based merit scholarship programs to help students reduce the cost of…
The Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SRQ) Self-regulation is the ability to develop, implement, and flexibly maintain planned behavior in order to achieve one's goals. Building on the foundational work of Frederick Kanfer (Kanfer, 1970a, 1970b), Miller and Brown formulated a seven-step model of self-regulation (Brown, 1998) (Miller & Brown, 1991). In this model, behavioral self-regulation may falter because of failure or deficits at any of these seven steps: 1. Receiving relevant information 2.…
For EDA 6503 The Principalship, the final course of the Educational Leadership program, I worked closely with Patricia Carson, principal at Mandarin Oaks Elementary School in Jacksonville, FL, to complete my practicum experiences. Ms. Carson has been a school principal for 22 years and the principal of Mandarin Oaks for the last 14 years. According to Ms. Carson, the job of a principal has changed immensely in the last 10 years, and it is more important than ever to keep up with current…
The Economics of Terrorism It is rumored that for every game of Michael Jordan’s fifteen-year basketball career, he wore his University of North Carolina basketball shorts under his uniform. This presented a problem, since his Chicago Bulls shorts were not large enough to fit over his other pair of shorts. To fix this, Jordan instead opted to wear baggy shorts that came down to his knees. Due to the public attention on Jordan, this simple adaptation, interestingly enough, ended up causing every…
Is college actually preparing students or are students wasting their time attending college? Freeman Hrabowski, the president if University of Maryland wrote an article “Colleges Prepare People for Life.” Most people think that college is a waste of time. On the other hand, some disagree and believe that college can be beneficial. A college student is mostly independent and they have to make their own decisions. In the beginning of this article Hrabowski make it seems like college is too…
except for a lower age and moderately lower kt/v in the former. No differences in the levels of troponin t and CRP were found. In echocardiograms, the prevalence of LV hypertrophy and systolic dysfunction was assessed along with troponin t and CRP quartiles. No trend was found for LV hypertrophy, but depressed systolic function was quite high in patients in the highest troponin t…
difficult time in elementary school, middle school, and high school. (Harris 99) These students don 't get the education that they need, and in the long run, they are unprepared for college. In fact, “Compared with the lowest income quartile, students in the highest income quartile are almost three times as likely to enter college and almost six times as likely to complete a bachelor 's degree” (Harris…
Four types of explanatory variables are used, which are commonly used in the literature to explain health outcomes – demographic/household/socioeconomic, enabling, need, and life-style variables. Demographic, household, and socioeconomic variables capture differences in morbidity for individuals of different age, sex, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Gender is represented by a dummy variable (female = 1, male = 0). Marital status is characterized by two dummy variables (currently married = 1, 0…
The book “Our Kids: the American Dream in Crisis” by Robert Putnam, argues that societies income gap is increasingly getting wider, and as a result opportunity gap is getting wider for young children in American. The rich kids of America are given better opportunities to prosper in society, but those in the lower class aren’t given the same chances. Furthermore, the author uses statistic and stories from other’s lives to prove his thesis right. Also the author provides a solution to this…