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Using Q-Method to Identify Student Learning Styles: An Interdisciplinary Research Project

Wednesday, April 4
12:40 to 1:30 p.m.
ILC 315

Dr. Trevor Hall, Department of Communication, will discuss the following: 

One of the challenges of traditional student learning from an instructor’s perspective, involves achieving a deep understanding of how students learn.

This project involved using Q-Method as a tool to identify learner styles.

The authors adapted an existing learning styles instrument to a Q Method analysis in courses across three different disciplines:  Communication, Geography, and Recreation Management.

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Students of the Great Recession: Learning from an Intensive Undergraduate Research Training Project

Wednesday, April 25
12:40 to 1:30 p.m.
ILC 315

Dr. Arthur Scarritt & Dr. Sergio Romero, Department of Sociology, will discuss the following:

This year marks the maiden voyage of the Inter-Mountain Social Research Lab (IMSRL) of the Department of Sociology.

In a yearlong intensive research training program, faculty guide a small group of undergraduate students through developing and executing all aspects of an original research project, from inception to dissemination.

This presentation discusses the general contours of this program, and the challenges we have encountered in attempting to integrate teaching into a rigorous research project.

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Assessing the Process and Outcomes of a Family Justice Center

A Tale of Two Counties: How Clark County, Idaho and Clark County, Nevada Tell the Story of Counties in the Intermountain West

SSPA’s Speaker Series

Dr. Stephanie Witt, Department of Public Policy & Administration

Wednesday, April 18
12:40 to 1:30 p.m.
ILC 315

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Six hundred and eighty four miles of Interstate 15 separate Clark County, Idaho from Clark County, Nevada, but it some respects it might as well be a million miles.

These two Clark counties represent the extremes of counties in the Intermountain West.

Whether facing rapid growth or a long, slow slide in population, both must address their future using an antiquated form of government held over from British tradition.

This study examines how well suited the counties in the Intermountain region are to dealing with issues such as fiscal stress, vast tracts of public lands and energy siting.

 

Assessment of Student Skills and Abilities: A Critical Yet Unfulfilled Task

SSPA’s Speaker Series

Dr. Eric Landrum, Department of Psychology

Wednesday, April 11
12:40 to 1:30 p.m.
ILC 315

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Many disciplines have identified broad learning outcomes desired in social science graduates.

Many of these outcomes focus on skills; however, many faculty are preoccupied with the delivery of content without concern for retention.

The reverence of content over skills will be gently challenged during this presentation.

Additionally, the meaningful assessment of skills is woefully inadequate in many areas of undergraduate education, which complicates matters further. A clarion call is issued with specific needs identified–ultimately, it could (and should) be social scientists who save the day.

Assessing the Process and Outcomes of a Family Justice Center

SSPA’s Speaker Series

Dr. Lisa Bostaph, Department of Criminal Justice
Dr. Andrew Giacomazzi, Department of Criminal Justice
Dr. Cynthia Sanders, School of Social Work

Wednesday, March 21
12:40 to 1:30 p.m.
ILC 315

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The family justice center model (FJC) has been touted as showing great promise to promote enhanced domestic violence victims’ services and offender accountability.

This presentation discusses a multi-method process and outcome evaluation of the Nampa Family Justice Center, one of 80 FJC’s in operation across the country, which provides for the co-location of victims’ services and offender accountability through collaborative, problem-solving partnerships.

Elite Interviewing: Canada-US Borderlands

Dr. Les Alm, Department of Public Policy & Administration, will speak at the next SSPA’s Speaker Series on Wednesday, February 29, from 12:40 to 1:30 p.m. in ILC 315. 

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The event is free and open to the public. 

This presentation discusses the process of interviewing from a study on the Canada-U.S. borderlands relationship along the two geographic corridors bounded by Lake Superior: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario–Sault Ste. Marie,MichiganandThunder Bay,Ontario–Duluth,Minnesota.

Borderland communities—driven by their shared cultural characteristics (ethnicity, language, religion)—are said to challenge the border as a dividing device and undermine the very essence of international borders.

Moreover, borderlands regions are dynamic and overlapping, providing the first point of contact and interaction between nations.

Our results depict inherent differences between these particular border regions, with each illustrating characteristics that both connect and divide.

Despite the passage of time and both countries’ determined efforts to make the passage safe and less demanding, the peoples in these border regions perceive a continuing frustration with crossing the border and connecting to the people on the other side of the border.

Interrogations, False Confessions and Actual Innocence

The SSPA Speaker Series will begin again on Wednesday, February 8.

Dr. Charles Honts from the Department of Psychology will present.  The event is free and open to the public. It will be held in the ILC Room 315 from 12:40 to 1:40 p.m.

Interrogations, False Confessions and Actual Innocence

The last 20 years have seen an ever increasing list of actual innocent individuals who were wrongfully convicted of crimes and who have been exonerated (primarily by DNA).

Examination of those cases has revealed a number of contributing factors, several of which fall within psychological
science (eyewitness identification, deception detection and interrogations/confessions).

Over the last 7 years Honts’ research has explored confession phenomena with juveniles.

That research produced some surprising findings that have implications for science, practice and policy.

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Brown Bag Series – Remaking the Boise River on the Eve of the Millennial Flood

Please join Dr. Todd Shallat, Department of History, for a presentation on the “Remaking the Boise River on the Eve of the Millennial Flood” for the next Brown Bag series.

Wednesday, November 9 @ 3:00 p.m.

ILC Room 213

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Brown Bag Series – Dr. Mark Plew, Anthropology Chair

Optimal Foraging Approaches to Prehistoric Salmon Fishing on the Snake River Plain:  The Ecological Dynamics of Trade-Offs and Strategic Responses

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Anthropologists and historians have long presumed that indigenous peoples of the Snake River Plain procured large quantities of salmon for winter storage and that the abundance of these anadromous fish populations were the basis for the emergence of village life on the plain.

An examination of  biological and ecological factors influenencing  fish populations as well as archaeological data,  suggest that while anadromous species were procured they were most likely only seasonally supplemental to the diet.

What appears to be a recent temporal use of salmon is considered in regard to the early Euro-American use of the Snake River corridor and to tribal claims regarding fishing rights.

Wednesday, December 7 @ 3:00 p.m.
ILC 213

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