Monday, February 7, 2011
Finding and evaluating extrinsic proofs: Part II
Before the end of the class, I would like you to work together in your peer review groups and for each writer, find three promising sources that could help you strengthen your appeals extrinsic proofs in your first essay. Use the search tools we discussed today in class (Academic Search Complete, Access World News, and Google Scholar), and aim to find three different kinds of sources. For example, you might find a news source, an article or study written by an academic expert, and information from a credible non-profit or advocacy organization. In your comment, identify each source (author, title, sponsoring organization or publication) and describe why you think it is credible.
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"Testing Moderator and Mediator Effects in Counseling Psychology Research." This is taken from a journal of counseling psychology. It is written by three credible authors, Patricia A. Frazier University of Minnesota,Kenneth E. Barron James Madison University, and Andrew P. Tix Augsburg College. The source gives specific information on testing that has been done by professionals on adolescence' (same age group as students discussed in my paper).
ReplyDelete"Stress Among Students" is an article published to an online library, (Wiley Online Library). The article references authors that have written books on the topic such as "New Directions for Student Services." It also gives options for further reading, specifically books written by credible authors.
Also on Wiley Online Library, I found a chapter "The Effects of Standardized Testing on Teaching and Schools" written by Joan L. Herman and Shari Golan. Even better, the book that the chapter is in "Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice" will give me great information that will support my topic and paper.
The site gave me the abstract of the book: "How much influence does standardized testing exert on teaching and learning in upper elementary classrooms? Is there any difference between the impact of testing on low-SES and high-SES classrooms? How much impact does “teaching to the test” appear to have on test scores?" This sounds perfect for help and support that my paper definitely needs. The online library was a quick and easy way to find books on my specific topic.
Article 1- Can We Make High School More Relevant by Henry Kranendonk. It was published in the Mathematics Teacher Journal. This article seems credible because it was posted on the academic search complete as well as has been cited a couple of times in other academic journals.
ReplyDeleteArticle 2-Sources of Stress and Coping responses of High School Students by Allison Mates. It was published in the Adolescence Journal. I believe this source is credible because one it was found on Google Scholar, but also, the author is in the Department of Prevention and Health Promotion within the Canadian Government. Also, this article has been cited 40 times by other academic articles.
Article 3- what’s New in High School? Stress Reduction 101 by Melissa Block. This piece was published through NPR, a credible new source. It was on Academic search as well as being broadcasted to the entire nation.
I found an article on High School Stress. The article is Relationships Among Stress, Coping, and Mental Health in High Achieving High School Students by Shannon M. Elizabeth, Shaunessy, and Robin Hardesty from the University of South Florida Psychology of the Schools. I found this article by searching in Academic complete search under the DU Penrose library website. This article is reliable because of the resources this article uses. This article uses resources the Department of Health and Human Services and Center for Disease of Control and Prevention. This article also uses graphs, tables and actual facts from reliable sources. Another article I found under Academic Complete in DU Penrose library website is Success with Less Stress by Conner, Jerusha, Pope, Denise, Galloway, Mollie from Educational Leadership. This article show that the authors and researchers talked to actual students and didn’t go off of websites. They went to the students and asked them what stresses them out about High School. This article did also use other resources, but there main resource was High School students.
ReplyDeleteI used the Academic Search Complete database to search “student stress”. I found an article titled, “Perceived Stress, Academic Workloads and Use of Coping Strategies by University Students”. By: Kausar, Rukhsana. Journal of Behavioural Sciences, Jun2010
ReplyDeleteAnother titled, “Relationship between the stress-coping levels of university students and their probability of committing suicide”. By Ugurlu, Nezihe; ONA, Neslihan An international journal, 2009
One more titled “Study of relationships between personality traits and education”. By Ahadi, B.; Narimani, M.. Trakia Journal of Sciences, 2010
Locus of Control; Differences Among College Students’ Stress Levels”. By de Carvalho, Catherina F.; Gadzella, Bernadette M.; Henley, Tracy B.; Ball, Steven Individual Differences Research, Sept 2009
Source 1: G. Koretz, EBSCOhost, American Students are Falling behind faster than ever.
ReplyDeleteSource 2: John Aubrey Douglass, The Waning of America's Higher Education Advantage, Google Scholar.
1) My first source is "Adolescents' attachment and coping with stress." It is written by Michelle Howard and Fredrick Medway, and it works because piece is about coping with stress, and this piece takes 75 high school age kids and their parents and put them through stress coping tests. This would be great because that's exactly what I could use in my paper. It was published in Psychology in the Schools.
ReplyDelete2) My second source is "High school student stress and the role of counselors." It is written by Armacost, Robert L. and was published by School Counselor. This can show how counselor's can help students to cope with stress which will provide a a different angle to prove my point that coping with stress is the important deal of the stress argument.
3) My third and final source is "Emotional intelligence, coping and exam-related stress in Canadian undergraduate students." I have to go because class is done, but this will also work for me.
Social Structure, Life Stress, and Depressive Symptoms in a High School-Age Population by Susan Gore, Robert H. Aseltine, Jr. and Mary Ellen Colten is a credible source that I found on Google Scholar, which was published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
ReplyDeletePerfectionism, stress, and social (dis)connection: A short-term study of hopelessness, depression, and academic adjustment among honors students by Nancy Robinson was published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. I think this source is credible because I found it through the psycARTICLES database and it was published by the American Psychology Association.
1) My first source is "Youth: Transition to Adulthood", written by J.S. Coleman for the NASSP bulletin journal. I found it by looking up "benefits of boarding school" on google scholar. It talks about how well does schooling actually prepare you for adulthood and the life after school. It uses examples of boarding school, and if you learn more in school or outside of school. I feel that I will be able to strengthen my argument about why boarding school is the best in terms of coping with stress and preparing you for life after school.
ReplyDelete2)My second source was "Life in a University residence: Issues, concerns and responses" written by Babar Shaikh for an educational volume set. It is not entirely about boarding school but it does talk about stresses that kids have upon entering a university residence hall and being away from home for the first time. I feel that i could use this as an applicable source for my essay because i personally feel that these stresses are eliminated through boardings chool.
I found an article by Sringer, Karen, Peyser, Marc, and Newsweek called The Rat Race Begins At 14. This article talks about the stresses on high school students and has quotes from the Dean of the University of Chicago saying that some of the things students do is unnecessary and puts too much stress on kids. This article also has information on AP classes and how they impact students. I found this by using the academic search complete tab. This also
ReplyDelete1) My first source is by Dave Bustard, Tammy J, the article is called Junior High School Interventions for Student Stress and Workload from the Guidance & Counseling. I believe the article is credible because in the abstract it describes all the topics involved in my stress and high school essay.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Parker conducted a study on one high school choral ensemble and how being in the ensemble improved the students’ overall feeling of belonging. The study connects to the value of arts in high school education. This article has a fancy publishing logo, which means it was published in an academic journal. From Academic Search Complete
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Shaunessy and Shannon Suldo outline stress coping strategies used by International Baccalaureate students in their study. The author is from the Universtiy of South Florida. From Academic Search Complete
An article “Academics burnout profiles in Korean Adolescents,” by Jayoung Lee, Ana Puig, Kim Young-Bin and some other authors appears to be a study on specific environmental factors that lead to academic burnout in Korean kids. This comes from the Department of Education in South Korea, which I am sure conducts lots of survey studies. From Academic Search Complete
Ellen Winner and Gail Martino have a published article on the Giftedness of students in correlation to the visual arts and music. The article touches on how the intelligence of a student (IQ) is generally greater when they study both music and and other academic areas. From google scholar
Using Google Scholar, I was able to find three sources on stress and familial structures and the effects on high school students.
ReplyDelete"The Good High School: Portraits of Character and Culture" by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Basic Books Inc..
This sources takes ambition, success, high school setting, and stress into account of how students progress (or not progress) through high school.
"Navigating the Psychosocial Pressures of Adolescence: The Voices and Experiences of High School Youth" by Patricia Phelan, Hanh Cao Yu, and Ann Locke Davidson, Amercian Educational Research Journal.
This source is credible due to the analysis of the problems and pressures in families and how it affects students in school.
"Family Structure, Parental Practices and High School Completion" by Nan Marie Astone and Sara S. McLanahan, American Sociological Review.
This source looks at children and how parents affect school work and if they give proper encouragement that would help students in high school.