Students’ Experiences in Summer Enrichment Engineering Courses: An Input–Process–Outcome Model of Collaborative Creativity

2021 ◽  
pp. 1932202X2110407
Author(s):  
Mehdi Ghahremani ◽  
Nielsen Pereira ◽  
Ophélie Allyssa Desmet ◽  
Marcia Gentry
Keyword(s):  
Group Processes ◽  
Classroom Environments ◽  
Input Process ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Collaborative Creativity ◽  
Summer Enrichment ◽  
Challenging Tasks ◽  
Enrichment Program ◽  
Open Coding ◽  
K 12

In this study, we examined students’ experiences regarding precollege engineering curricula, classroom environments, and their experiences with the creative process in two engineering courses offered in a university-based summer enrichment program. Applying provisional and open coding to interview data from 16 participants, an Input–Process–Outcome Model of Collaborative Creativity (IPOCC model) was developed. The IPOCC model expands the 4P model of creativity to incorporate more collaborative contexts. The IPOCC model suggests that in K–12 collaborative practice, creativity involves group-level considerations in addition to individual-level components. The IPOCC model offers insights for educators in terms of input components, group processes, and mediating factors that can facilitate learners’ engagement in creative teamwork. The findings of this study indicated that a combination of challenging tasks, open-ended problems, and student teamwork provides a rich environment for learners’ engagement to think creatively.

scholarly journals The contribution of political skill to the implementation of health services change: a systematic review and narrative synthesis

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenelle M. Clarke ◽  
Justin Waring ◽  
Simon Bishop ◽  
Jean Hartley ◽  
Mark Exworthy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Political Skill ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Narrative Synthesis ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Health System Change

Abstract Background The implementation of strategic health system change is often complicated by informal ‘politics’ in healthcare organisations. Leadership development programmes increasingly call for the development and use of ‘political skill’ as a means for understanding and managing the politics of healthcare organisations. The primary purpose of this review is to determine how political skill contributes to the implementation of health services change, within and across organisations. The secondary purpose is to demonstrate the conceptual variations within the literature. Methods The article is based upon a narrative synthesis that included quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research papers, review articles and professional commentaries that deployed the concept of political skill (or associated terms) to describe and analyse the implementation of change in healthcare services. Results Sixty-two papers were included for review drawn from over four decades of empirically and conceptually diverse research. The literature is comprised of four distinct literatures with a lack of conceptual coherence. Within and across these domains, political skill is described as influencing health services change through five dimensions of leadership: personal performance; contextual awareness; inter-personal influence; stakeholder engagement, networks and alliances; and influence on policy processes. Conclusion There is a growing body of evidence showing how political skill can contribute to the implementation of health services change, but the evidence on explanatory processes is weak. Moreover, the conceptualisation of political skill is variable making comparative analysis difficult, with research often favouring individual-level psychological and behavioural properties over more social or group processes.

Gifted Classroom Environments and the Creative Process: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
pp. 016235322110014
Author(s):  
Lindsay Ellis Lee ◽  
Melanie S. Meyer ◽  
Kacey Crutchfield
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Classroom Culture ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Process Skills ◽  
Classroom Environments ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
K 12

As the expectations for including creativity in K–12 education continually grow, creative process skills equip students with thinking strategies to generate and evaluate ideas. This systematic review explored existing research on elementary and secondary gifted classroom environments that promote creative process skills. A database search yielded peer-reviewed literature, empirical and practitioner-focused, for systematic evaluation. A critical examination of literature published from 2011 to 2019 identified characteristics of educational environments that foster creative processes and highlighted key themes, including integrating creative process skills, adaptive environments, reflective classroom culture, and challenges to implementation. Implications for classroom application and suggestions for future research are discussed.

Digital Mega-Studies as a New Research Paradigm: Governing the Health Research of the Future

2021 ◽  
pp. 155626462110414
Author(s):  
Jessica Bell ◽  
Megan Prictor ◽  
Lauren Davenport ◽  
Lynda O’Brien ◽  
Melissa Wake
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Governance Challenges ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
New Research

‘Digital Mega-Studies’ are entirely or extensively digitised, longitudinal, population-scale initiatives, collecting, storing, and making available individual-level research data of different types and from multiple sources, shaped by technological developments and unforeseeable risks over time. The Australian ‘Gen V’ project exemplifies this new research paradigm. In 2019, we undertook a multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder process to map Digital Mega-Studies’ key characteristics, legal and governance challenges and likely solutions. We conducted large and small group processes within a one-day symposium and directed online synthesis and group prioritisation over subsequent weeks. We present our methods (including elicitation, affinity mapping and prioritisation processes) and findings, proposing six priority governance principles across three areas—data, participation, trust—to support future high-quality, large-scale digital research in health.

Skill underutilization and collective turnover in a professional service firm

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 787-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Mitchell ◽  
Christopher D. Zatzick
Keyword(s):  
Group Processes ◽  
Professional Service ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Turnover Rates ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Service Firm ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Professional Service Firm ◽  
Collective Turnover

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine skill underutilization and collective turnover in a large professional service firm (PSF). The authors hypothesize that skill underutilization is positively related to collective turnover, that skill underutilization is greater among professionals than nonprofessionals, and that the positive relationship between skill underutilization and collective turnover is stronger for professionals than for nonprofessionals. Design/methodology/approach – Using survey data from a large PSF, the authors test these predictions across 191 groups (professional and nonprofessional) in 80 offices. Collective turnover rates were taken from company records one year after the survey was administered. Findings – The authors find support for the prediction that skill underutilization is positively related to collective turnover. In addition, skill underutilization is greater among professionals than nonprofessionals within a PSF. However, the relationship between skill underutilization and collective turnover did not differ between professionals and nonprofessionals. Research limitations/implications – While the authors find that skill underutilization is positively related to collective turnover, future research is needed to measure the group processes that occur among group members and lead to collective turnover. Limitations of this study include the inability to validate the aggregation of data from the individual level to the group level, and the generalizability of findings to other PSFs or to involuntary turnover situations. Practical implications – Understanding the antecedents of collective turnover is of particular concern to PSFs, as they are composed of highly skilled, intrinsically motivated professionals, who generate value for the firm. These findings are particularly timely, given the significant levels of underemployment in countries throughout the world. Originality/value – In addition to extending skill underutilization and collective turnover research to the occupational group level, the findings highlight the importance of providing development opportunities for employees during difficult economic conditions in order to minimize collective turnover.

More than a babysitter: Looking back on an effective summer enrichment program

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benterah Morton ◽  
Kelly Byrd ◽  
Elizabeth Allison ◽  
Andre Green
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Summer Programs ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Fifth Grade Students ◽  
Summer Enrichment ◽  
Enrichment Program ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Summer Enrichment Program ◽  
Opportunity Gaps

Each summer families across the globe send their children to summer camps and daycares for what amounts to babysitting. This study takes the discussion beyond babysitting and explores a unique summer enrichment program offered to rising second through fifth grade students in a modified enrichment camp model. During the four-week program, students were engaged in standards-based academic instruction in reading, mathematics, and science designed to provide enrichment activities to better prepare them for academic success in the upcoming year. Students were pre-tested over standards from the first quarter of the upcoming year. Then, they were taught the standards and post-tested. Analysis of the pretest and posttest data suggests that the program was successful in increasing students’ content knowledge in each of the subject areas taught. The findings imply that summer programs intentionally offering standards-based academics in an enrichment camp environment can be used to provide learning opportunities that diminish academic opportunity gaps.

Reducing intergroup bias through intergroup contact: Twenty years of progress and future directions

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 606-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Dovidio ◽  
Angelika Love ◽  
Fabian M. H. Schellhaas ◽  
Miles Hewstone
Keyword(s):  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Intergroup Bias ◽  
Contact Theory ◽  
Conceptual Foundation ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Equitable Outcomes

Classic research on the contact hypothesis focused on the direct relationship between the antecedents (conditions under which contact occurs) and the outcomes (primarily, the reduction of prejudice) of intergroup contact. Recent work has taken a broader view of contact processes and effects. We review key developments over the past 20 years, identifying different forms of contact, factors that mediate and moderate the effects of contact, and both the nature and temporal stage and the varied outcomes of contact. We then identify several research directions to address pressing theoretical and practical issues. These issues concern (a) group processes and intergroup relations, (b) intergroup contact in the context of multiple categorization, (c) structural- and individual-level processes, (d) a broader range of individual-level outcomes (e.g., health), and (e) impact on social change. Contact theory and research provides a comprehensive conceptual foundation, allied to a range of powerful empirical techniques, for important new advances and practical applications for improving intergroup relations and producing more equitable outcomes across groups.

Programming Arduino Boards With the C/C++ Interpreter Ch

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curtis Turley ◽  
Maria Alessandra Montironi ◽  
Harry H. Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Environments ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Introductory Courses ◽  
Mechatronic Systems ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Electrical Circuits ◽  
Function Call ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Avr Microcontroller ◽  
User Friendly

This paper presents the ChArduino package which is designed to control the Atmel AVR microcontroller based Arduino boards through the C/C++ interpreter Ch. Traditionally, Arduino boards are programmed using the official Arduino IDE or lower-level AVR C libraries. These methods require specific cross-compilation tools to compile the code and upload it onto the board. Whenever a change is made to the source code, it needs to be recompiled and uploaded, making application development cumbersome, especially for beginners and as the size of the application grows. The approach presented in this paper is aimed at reducing the effort associated with code compilation, especially in classroom environments where microcontroller programming is first introduced. In fact, when using this method, code is executed in an interpreted manner and every function call is processed separately by the interpreter, thus compilation and uploading are not required to make changes effective. The ChArduino package consists of a library of functions running on a computer and a specialized firmware loaded onto the Arduino board. The firmware on the Arduino board is pre-compiled and the latest version is automatically uploaded at run time, if not already. At power-up, the firmware initializes the board and then waits for a command from the computer. The use of the C/C++ interpreter Ch also makes available line-by-line debugging, numerical analysis, and plotting capabilities. The supported communication protocols between the Arduino board and the computer are serial and Bluetooth. The application code written using this package is completely compatible with the entire spectrum of Arduino boards and can be ported to the Arduino IDE with minimal changes. The applications of the method described in this paper are general but apply especially to the K-12 education field in that the package creates a simple, user-friendly, environment for the absolute beginner to learn the basic principles of mechatronic systems including programming, microcontrollers, and electrical circuits. Lesson plans are being developed to use the ChArduino package in microcontroller introductory courses and the package is currently being introduced for preliminary testing in schools through the UC Davis C-STEM Center.

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