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2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristie J Sun ◽  
Mary Jane E Vaeth ◽  
Matthew L Robinson ◽  
Maryam Elhabashy ◽  
Ishaan Gupta ◽  
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SARS-CoV-2 continues to develop new, increasingly infectious variants, such as delta and omicron. Here, we evaluate the efficacy of the Abbott BinaxNOW Rapid Antigen Test against the gold standard of Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) in 1054 pediatric participants presenting to a state-owned high-volume Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) testing site. During the testing period, the delta variant was predominant. Prior to sample collection, symptomatic and exposure status was collected for all participants based on Centers for Disease Control (CDC) criteria. RT-PCR results demonstrated an overall prevalence rate of 5.2%. For all participants, the sensitivity of the rapid antigen tests was 92.7% (95% CI 82.4% - 98.0%) and specificity was 98.0% (95% CI 97.0%-98.8%). For symptomatic participants, the sensitivity was 92.3% (95% CI 74.9% - 99.1%), specificity was 96.6% (95% CI 93.6%- 98.4%), positive predictive value (PPV) was 72.7% (95% CI 54.5% - 86.7%) and negative predictive value (NPV) was 99.2% (95% CI 98.2% - 100%). Among asymptomatic participants, the sensitivity was 92.6% (95% CI 75.7% - 99.1%), specificity was 98.6% (95% CI 97.5% - 99.3%) the PPV was 71.4% (95% CI 53.7% - 85.4%) and the NPV was 99.7% (95% CI 99.0% - 100%). Our reported sensitivity and NPV are higher than other pediatric studies, but specificity and PPV are lower. Importance Children are especially impacted by the disease and its ability to disrupt educational opportunities. Although vaccinations have been approved for children 5 years and older, many children remain unvaccinated. Widespread testing may improve the ability for children to remain in in-person activities, minimizing absences from school and extracurriculars. Highly accurate rapid antigen tests may be vital to containing future COVID-19 waves while mitigating detrimental effects.


2022 ◽  
pp. 289-317
Author(s):  
Cassandra R. Decker ◽  
Merci Decker

Responsive research serves as an alternative platform to address issues of human rights violations, ACEs, structural violence, and systemic poverty in particular as it relates to educational opportunities. This chapter identifies four step-by-step processes that can be used when conducting community-led research and education. Activist anthropology, studying up, studying through, and financial implications of debt foreground earlier efforts made by anthropologists to use their research as a way to examine how policy decisions shape cultural practices and impact the livelihood of specific communities. These efforts are expanded upon by examining the controversy, pitfalls, and rewards found within the epistemological paradigms and research methodologies. The second half of the chapter identifies four pathways researchers can use when engaging in activist anthropology: teaching to a goal; responsive mapping to uncover mystical barriers; community building as the goal for focus groups, interviews, and surveys; and responsive programs and events.


2022 ◽  
pp. 233-250
Author(s):  
Nil Goksel ◽  
Abdulkadir Karadeniz

Amid the vast spread of the coronavirus pandemic, educational institutions have shifted to online learning across the world. In this connection, people of different cultures are experiencing a rigid period in which mainly school administrators, instructors, and students have to teach and learn at a distance due to corona restrictions. In this context, institutions that have already adopted the principles of ODL and have integrated these principles into their online courses utilized the promises that extend further educational opportunities and potentials from the beginning of the corona process. Therefore, the primary aim of this chapter is to shed light to the promises and pitfalls of ODL in terms of the steps to be taken and the necessary features of an appropriate course design. In addition, this chapter is intended to contribute to the related literature with the updated sources of recent developments during corona lockdown and guide professionals, researchers, and instructors who would benefit from theoretical and practical knowledge for effective distance course design.


2022 ◽  
pp. 172-187
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Gilblom

This chapter provides an overview of the benefits of utilizing geographic information systems (GIS) to explore the intersections of school choice policy, educational equity, space, and race. The author discusses the theory of racial space, a framework for understanding the complex interactions between spatial processes and race. Additionally, the author offers an overview of GIS functionality and discusses research that incorporates GIS as a tool to examine the role of charter schools in shaping educational opportunities and outcomes across neighborhoods, cities, and states. Finally, this chapter will introduce emerging research areas and interdisciplinary research approaches, including advanced geospatial techniques, used to examine the intersections of geography and educational equity.


2022 ◽  
pp. 87-111
Author(s):  
Emily Saavedra ◽  
Leonard Sanders

Learning experiences and educational opportunities around the world have been disrupted due to the outbreak of COVID-19. This chapter outlines a case study involving foundation-level students enrolled at an urban university in Aotearoa New Zealand. The case study is designed to gain a deeper understanding of student experiences during this time of crisis. Student narratives are analysed to identify common experiences and gain a clearer understanding of the self-reported factors that students identified as affecting their success, allowing academic and support staff to improve the pre-degree experience for foundation students. Affordable access to connectivity, increased pastoral care, and a digitally responsive curriculum were identified as key considerations to addressing inequities present in a crisis context (COVID-19) within the educational context and wider community.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fangyao Zhang

There are prominent gaps in educational opportunities and academic outcomes in the Australian education system. The government has made efforts to narrow the gaps and increase the proportion of Australians with higher education qualifications. However, disadvantaged students still lack access to educational opportunities and resources, and are underrepresented in university populations. This essay explores the influential factors that can affect young people's academic and transition outcomes, which involve students' socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds, engagement in extra-curricular activities and geographical locations. This essay also mainly draws on Bourdieu's theory on social and cultural capital to explain the associations between those factors and students' transitions to university in Australia. 


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 273
Author(s):  
Norhafizah Binti Ahmad ◽  
Wan Ainaa Mardhiah binti Wan Zahari ◽  
Arwansyah Bin Kirin

<p>Hadis merupakan sumber kedua agama dalam Islam selepas al-Quran. Ia memainkan peranan yang sangat penting dalam Islam, terutama ketika menguraikan serta menjelaskan kehendak al-Quran. Pengajian hadis bagi tuna netra amat signifikan dan diperlukan dalam sistem pendidikan khusus. Untuk melestarikan pengajian hadis tuna netra, terdapat beberapa tantangan yang perlu dihadapi dan difikirkan. Tantangan ini harus dihadapi bersama dalam usaha mewujudkan kesamarataan peluang pendidikan hadis bagi seluruh umat Islam tanpa menganggap kekurangan pada diri. Namun, pemaparan bagi tuna netra terhadap pengajian hadis masih belum berlaku sedangkan hadis juga memainkan peranan yang penting sebagai sumber kedua syariat Islam. Justru, objektif utama artikel ini adalah untuk menjelaskan isu dan tantangan yang dihadapi oleh tuna netra dalam pengajian hadis. Kajian ini merupakan kajian kualitatif dengan menggunakan metode analisis dokumen yang terdiri dari buku-buku, artikel-artikel, jurnal, dan bahan-bahan yang berkaitan. Hasil kajian mendapati pengajian hadis bagi tuna netra di Malaysia menghadapi tantangan yang besar. Diantaranya ialah ketidaksediaan tenaga pengajar, kelemahan institusi pendidikan dan kekurangan bahan bantu mengajar. Implikasi kajian ini ialah dapat mengenal pasti tantangan yang dihadapi oleh tuna netra dalam mendalami hadis dan seterusnya membantu golongan ini mengenal, mencintai dan meneladani Rasulullah SAW melalui hadis-hadisnya.</p><p>[<strong>The implementation of hadith studies for visually impaired people in Malaysia: Issues and challenges</strong>. Hadith is the second source in Islam after Quran. The role of hadith is very important in Islam especially in explaining and justifying the contents of Quran. The study of hadith for visually impaired people is very important and necessary in the special education system. There are some challenges that need to be considered in preserving the study of hadith for visually impaired people. These challenges must be faced together in order to create an equality of hadith educational opportunities toward visually impaired people regardless of their shortcomings. However, the exposures of hadith study occur only on a small scale while hadith also plays an important role in Muslim daily life. Therefore, the main objective of this article is to explain the issues and challenges faced by visually impaired people in implementing hadith studies. The qualitative approach is used in this research by using document analysis method from books, articles, journals, internet etc. The early finding shows that the hadith study for visually impaired people in Malaysia facing great issues and challenges. These challenges exist in several aspects including the lack of instructional resources, the weakness of educational institutions and the lack of teaching aid. Hence, this research is able to identify the issues and challenges faced by visually impaired people to pursuit hadith and guiding them to learn and love the Prophet SAW and his Sunnah.]</p>


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