EDUCATION; Board 04 PROJECT TEAMS (TEACHER EDUCATION at AKRON for MATH- MEDICAL; SOCIAL SCIENCES EMATICS and SCIENCE)
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Program Abstracts A-7. relatively low SAT-Math scores. Such accommodations, while upholding academic POSTER SESSION standards and admissions policies, would include frank and early advising of at-risk students and early and continuous remedial assistance. BIOLOGICAL; EDUCATION; Board 04 PROJECT TEAMS (TEACHER EDUCATION AT AKRON FOR MATH- MEDICAL; SOCIAL SCIENCES EMATICS AND SCIENCE). Annabelle Foos1, [email protected]. Katharine Owens2, [email protected]. David McConnell1, [email protected]. Sandy 9:00 -10:00 AM Coyner2, [email protected]. Francis Broadway2, [email protected]. The University of Akron, department of Geology, College of Education, Akron TOLERTON & HOOD HALL OF SCIENCE OH 44325-4101. Project TEAMS addressed the need at The University of Akron forfocused dialogue Board 01 DEVELOPMENT OF A WEB-SITE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. on national standardsfor science and mathematics teaching, science and mathemat- Frederick J. Kluth, [email protected]. 1060 DeLeone Dr., Kent OH 44240-2026. ics content course development, and incorporation of inquiry-based methods in The value of the Internet has been widely touted with demands made for computer undergraduate science and mathematics courses. Faculty from institutions of higher equipment for the classroom. Much emphasis has been placed on the development education in the local area, science and mathematics teachers from grades 6-12 of physical infrastructure for the classroom with less on the content to be presented. schools, and UA faculty members came together for focused discussions on these The purpose of this paper is to focus on the development of content. The hypothesis topics. Initially, a series of "brown bag" luncheon seminars were held. These seminars was that if a numberof different web pagesondifferentsubject areas were combined were followed by an in-depth three-day workshop at which faculty members' defini- into one web site then those pages of interest would receive attention and response tions of inquiry1, inquiry learning', and 'inquiry teaching' were protMBd. SubsequentJy, while the others would be ignored. The idea was to build on the pages of interest to UA faculty members developed or modified science and mathematics courses taught develop the site. Forty-two content pages were developed in three general areas: to preservice teacher education students and have made progress in changing large Computers, Visual Arts, and the Environment. The requirements of the various lecture classes into learning communities. Emerging from these discussions and search engines were studied. The pages were modified to suit them and descriptive activities, project directors developed an instrument to assess college faculty mem- material was submitted so the pages could be found on the search engine. The result bers' attitudes toward inquiry. In 2001 UA's model for ongoing collaborative activities was that for more than a year the web site received less than 10 hits per day. In and conversations across colleges is being disseminated to two-year colleges across November of 1999, some students found one of the art pages, and they requested northeast Ohio through an extension of Project TEAMS. help in that area. I was able to help them only after I set up a system where I could receive their questions anonymously. That system was applied to all 42 content Board 05 THE INVESTIGATION OF VARIABLES AFFECTING COLLEGIATE pages. Now, the art page of interest to the students receives more than 500 hits a day PRECISION SKATERS' BODY IMAGE PERCEPTIONS. Melissa S. Troy, while hits on the other pages increased only slightly. [email protected]. Sarah M. Buck, [email protected]. Diana M. Spillman, [email protected]. Miami University, Department of Physical Educa- Board 02 LIVING-LEARNING COMMUNITY FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMAT- tion, Health and Sport Studies, Phillips Hall, Oxford OH 45056. ICS MAJORS - EFFECTS ON RETENTION. Lisa M. Unico, The purpose of this investigation was to identify the variables that affect college-aged [email protected]. Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. Chemis- precision ice skaters' perceptions of their body image. It was hypothesized that the try Department, Cooper Hall, Edinboro PA 16444. subscales of the Eating Disorder Inventory - 2 (EDI-2) would have an influence on In an effort to increase the retention of undergraduates enrolled in majors within the body image perception. Twenty-two volunteers from two world-class precision School of Science, Management and Technologies, a Living-Learning Community skating teams participated. The measurements used in this study were the EDI-2 and was established for these students in August, 1998 in Rose Hall. The goals for this The Nutrition & Health Survey. The results showed that those skaters who perceived community include: a) fostering a community environment in which the students are themselves as endomorphic (i.e., possessing a larger body structure) scored pro- able to work together towards academic success; b) increasing the retention of these gressively higher on the EDI-2 subscales of drive for thinness, body dissatisfaction, students not only at the University, but also within the School of Science, Manage- and social insecurity. A set of variables from the EDI-2 (drive for thinness, bulimia, ment and Technologies; and c) recruiting even higher caliber science students to body dissatisfaction, and ineffectiveness) was found to have a multiple regression Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Rose is the residence hall closest to Cooper with self-image perception. An independent t-test for high and low EDI-2 scores and Hendricks Halls where most science courses are taught. Rose was also the first showed that most variables were not statistically significant. In conclusion, high residence hall to be completely renovated and wired into the campus network. A small scores on certain EDI-2 subscales were found to have a significant influence on computer laboratory and a Living-Learning Community library were added. Several precision skaters' perceptions of their body image. trips are planned throughout the academic year, the most notable of which is the annual retreat weekend to Allegheny National Forest. These trips include academic Board 06 ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN FOOD QUANTITY AND BEHAVIOR: forums and provide students with extensive access to faculty. In addition to the OBSERVATIONS OF A LOWLAND GORILLA FAMILY. Kate E. Rosenberg, Resident Assistants, each floorin the Living-Learning Community has a Scholar-in- [email protected]. (James L. Dooley Jr., [email protected]) Residence: an upperclassman who acts as an academic resource for the others. We Muskingum College, New Concord OH 43762. are in the third year of this "experiment" and the assessment of the Living-Learning Advancing strategies for successful management of captive specimens in zoos and Community is continuing. Retention rates forthefirsttwo years were higher, not only other facilities is an important area of concern within the fields of conservation, zoo than those for residential students at large, but also than those for the other Living- science, and conservation medicine. Within the broad domain of issues attendant to Learning Communities on campus (i. e. Education, Criminal Justice, Gen- captive management, one particularly important challenge is to further understand eral Studies). about the linkages between diet and behavior. To date, there has been little study of such linkages in primates. Further, the few existing investigations have been largely Board 03 LOW SAT-MATH SCORES AND PERFORMANCE IN SCIENCE conducted without appropriate consideration of potentially confounding variables, COURSES. Harry E. Spencer1, [email protected]. Yolanda P. Cruz2, such as the amount or quantity of food received. The objective of this research was [email protected]. Oberlin College, Department of Chemistry1, De- to observe changes in behavioral patterns (particularly changes in the frequency of partment of Biology2, Oberlin OH 44074. aggression, playfulness, grooming and communication) among captive gorillas as a To discover if the generalizations made in the 1998 book, The Shape of the River(R. function of the amount offood received. Between May and August 2000afamily group Bowen and D. Bok, Princeton University Press) concerning the academic perfor- of lowland gorillas {Gorilla gorilla gorilla) were observed for 100 hours at the mance of black and white students applied to an individual institution, we examined Columbus Zoo. Dietary data and behavioral observations were recorded. Initial 1989-1998 Oberlin enrollment data. Our results confirm two findings reported in this results suggest increases in aggression and time spent napping may be associated book: 1) on average, SAT-Math scores of black are significantly lower than those of with decreases in food quantity. Analyses of other potential associations between white students and 2) approximately equal proportions of black as white students food quantity and behavior continue. earned majors in biology or chemistry. We report here a third finding, not examined in The Shape of the River. While 56% of white science or math majors have SAT-Math Board 07 NMDARS AND VDCCS MAY ACT SYNERGISTICALLY IN THE scores in the top third of the range for all graduates, only 13% of black majors do (N ACQUISITION OF A CONDITIONED TASTE AVERSION. Amy L Zmarowski1, = 972 and 73, respectively). The percentage of high grades in introductory biology [email protected]. Brian Woodside2, Kimberley A. Phillips1,