Correlates of Filipino Students’ Perspectives on Filipinizing the Philippine History Curriculum, Language Preference and Demographics

Abstract In the following article we try to re-evaluate, the place drama occupies in contemporary elementary education. By limiting the role of drama to literature studies and theatre productions, we lose a greater potential Theatre Pedagogy has to offer to a much broader educational spectrum. The participatory practices of Theatre and Drama in Education (TiE, DiE) promote active learning, based on a most organic children’s activity - play. While students co-create the fictional world of drama, teacher's guidance is crucial in setting new challenges, encouraging students to find creative solutions and reflect on often-complex social issues. Because of its art component, drama challenges the participants on a cognitive as well as emotional level, becoming a truly transformational experience. As such, Drama in Education is especially useful when approaching sensitive and controversial topics. This thesis is presented on a case study observing Year 6 students at St’ Michael’s CE Academy in Birmingham, UK, using Drama in Education method as part of History curriculum.

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Intentional, tacit, contingent: knowledge recontextualization in the official History curriculum - a Critical Discourse Analysis

Journal of Curriculum Studies ◽

10.1080/00220272.2021.1904007 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Siobhan Dickens

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

History Curriculum ◽

Official History

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Analysis of count data in the setting of cervical cancer detection

Journal of Investigative Medicine ◽

10.1136/jim-2020-001381 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 68 (6) ◽

pp. 1196-1198

Author(s):

Christina G Bracamontes ◽

Thelma Carrillo ◽

Jane Montealegre ◽

Leonid Fradkin ◽

Michele Follen ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sexual Abuse ◽

Count Data ◽

Pap Smear ◽

Negative Binomial ◽

El Paso ◽

Language Preference ◽

A Value ◽

History Of ◽

Zip Model ◽

Endocervical Canal

Women with an abnormal Pap smear are often referred to colposcopy, a procedure during which endocervical curettage (ECC) may be performed. ECC is a scraping of the endocervical canal lining. Our goal was to compare the performance of a naïve Poisson (NP) regression model with that of a zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) model when identifying predictors of the number of distress/pain vocalizations made by women undergoing ECC. Data on women seen in the colposcopy clinic at a medical school in El Paso, Texas, were analyzed. The outcome was the number of pain vocalizations made by the patient during ECC. Six dichotomous predictors were evaluated. Initially, NP regression was used to model the data. A high proportion of patients did not make any vocalizations, and hence a ZIP model was also fit and relative rates (RRs) and 95% CIs were calculated. AIC was used to identify the best model (NP or ZIP). Of the 210 women, 154 (73.3%) had a value of 0 for the number of ECC vocalizations. NP identified three statistically significant predictors (language preference of the subject, sexual abuse history and length of the colposcopy), while ZIP identified one: history of sexual abuse (yes vs no; adjusted RR=2.70, 95% CI 1.47 to 4.97). ZIP was preferred over NP. ZIP performed better than NP regression. Clinicians and epidemiologists should consider using the ZIP model (or the zero-inflated negative binomial model) for zero-inflated count data.

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Development and Evaluation of a Prediabetes Decision Aid in Primary Care: Examining Patient-Reported Outcomes by Language Preference and Educational Attainment

The Science of Diabetes Self-Management and Care ◽

10.1177/26350106211009189 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 216-227

Author(s):

Keerthi Bandi ◽

Maria C. Vargas ◽

Azucena Lopez ◽

Kenzie A. Cameron ◽

Ronald T. Ackermann ◽

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Keyword(s):

Educational Attainment ◽

Decision Aid ◽

Patient Reported Outcomes ◽

Office Visit ◽

Decisional Conflict ◽

Language Preference ◽

Intention To Adopt ◽

Patient Reported ◽

Evidence Based Treatments ◽

Almost All

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the development and preliminary effectiveness of a novel Prediabetes Decision Aid on adoption of intensive lifestyle interventions (ILIs) and metformin. Little research has focused on increasing uptake of these evidence-based treatments, especially among non-English speakers and those with low educational attainment. Methods Investigators developed an English and Spanish decision aid displaying information about type 2 diabetes (T2DM) risk and treatments to prevent T2DM and prompting patients to identify next steps for management. This pilot study was a single-arm, pretest-posttest trial of 40 adult patients with prediabetes, obesity, and ≥1 office visit within the prior 12 months. Participants reviewed this tool briefly with a study team member, and data were collected on 3 coprimary outcomes: knowledge about T2DM risk, decisional conflict, and intention to adopt treatment. Exploratory outcomes included subsequent documentation of prediabetes in chart notes and adoption of ILIs or metformin. Results Almost all participants were women, with nearly half expressing Spanish language preference and low educational attainment. A nonsignificant increase in knowledge was observed across all subgroups. Decisional conflict was significantly reduced from pretest to posttest and was similar between subgroups defined by language preference and educational attainment. While intention to adopt ILIs increased across all subgroups, this change was only significant among Spanish speakers and participants with low educational attainment. At 6 months, 17 participants had subsequent provider documentation of prediabetes, and 12 adopted ILIs or metformin. Conclusions The decision aid improved patient-reported outcomes and promoted treatment adoption in a diverse patient sample.

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Insights into codeswitching from online communication: Effects of language preference and conditions arising from vocabulary richness

Bilingualism Language and Cognition ◽

10.1017/s1366728921000122 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Laurie Beth Feldman ◽

Vidhushini Srinivasan ◽

Rachel B. Fernandes ◽

Samira Shaikh

Keyword(s):

Online Communication ◽

Language Preference ◽

Lexical Diversity ◽

Information Theoretic ◽

Vocabulary Richness ◽

Twitter Data ◽

Language Mixing ◽

Communication Effects ◽

Information Theoretic Measures ◽

Spanish Bilinguals

Abstract Twitter data from a crisis that impacted many English–Spanish bilinguals show that the direction of codeswitches is associated with the statistically documented tendency of single speakers to prefer one language over another in their tweets, as gleaned from their tweeting history. Further, lexical diversity, a measure of vocabulary richness derived from information-theoretic measures of uncertainty in communication, is greater in proximity to a codeswitch than in productions remote from a switch. The prospects of a role for lexical diversity in characterizing the conditions for a language switch suggest that communicative precision may induce conditions that attenuate constraints against language mixing.

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