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Item The Relation of Normal School Music to Public School Work(1909-12) Butler, Mary StuartNo abstract prepared.Item Item Fifty Years of Teacher Education: A Brief History of Southwest Texas State Teachers College, San Marcos, Texas, 1901-1951(Southwest Texas State Teachers College, 1951-01) Vogel, Joe B.No abstract prepared.Item LBJ as a Student Editor(Society of Professional Journalists, 1964-02) Roche, BruceNo abstract prepared.Item Rugged Summit(Southwest Texas State University, 1970-01) Nichols, Tom WatsonThe core of this story is a biography of Dr. Cecil Eugene Evans (1871-1958) who was President of Southwest Texas State 1911-1942. However, it was impossible to present the life of this man with a true and accurate perspective apart from the whole stage, the cast of characters, and the drama in which he so effectively played his part. Therefore, this is also the story of the Teacher’s Colleges in Texas and the struggle to survive and thrive in the first half of the 20th century. The Author of this book, Tom Nichols, was secretary to President Evans and a member of the teaching faculty at Southwest Texas University for many years.Item Organizational Communication and Higher Education(American Association for Higher Education, 1981-01) Gratz, Robert D.; Salem, Philip J.This research report examines major themes in the literature related to organizational communication and higher education. Academic institutions are social systems whose primary function is information processing, and, as such, they are prone to problems common among social systems. Academic institutions have often devoted great energy to communication with external publics, but their focus on internal communication problems usually has had a lower priority. Several previous studies have examined external communication from an institution with emphasis on the public relations aspects. This report concentrates on the internal aspects of organizational communication in higher education.Item Contact Improvisation: Integrating Laban Movement Analysis as Creative Connection Rhythm of Risk(2006-08) Stone, PatriciaNo abstract prepared.Item Beauty: Ours for the Sharing(Texas State University, 2007-12) Housefield, JamesNo abstract prepared.Item The Seven Communication Reasons Organizations Do Not Change(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2008-01) Salem, Philip J.Data describe six common communication behaviors during failed organizational change efforts. The combination of these behaviors suggests a seventh pattern. Communication during failed efforts seldom involves enough communication opportunities, lacks any sense of emerging identification, engenders distrust, and lacks productive humor. These problems are compounded by conflict avoidance and a lack of interpersonal communication skills. Members decouple the system, sheltering the existing culture until it is safe for it to reemerge later.Item Children with Late Language Emergence: Effects of Maternal Education and Language Use(Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2008-01) Domsch, Celeste; Camarata, StephenThis study investigated the effects of maternal education and language use on vocabulary and mean-length-of-utterance (MLU) in 20 children with late language emergence (LLE). Multiple home visits were conducted over an 8-month period to measure child vocabulary growth using a standardized checklist and to collect spontaneous mother-child language samples. Standardized receptive and expressive test scores for the 20 children were obtained at the end of the 8 months. Results indicated that maternal education was positively associated with child MLU. Furthermore, the number of different words (NDW) used by mothers was positively associated with child receptive vocabulary scores but curiously not with expressive vocabulary scores. Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) indicated that children with LLE differed in their vocabulary sizes and rates of growth, but that these differences were not accounted for by maternal education. Children with LLE appeared to benefit from hearing a wide variety of words, even though they may not immediately produce them. The primary mechanism driving vocabulary growth in children with LLE may differ from that in typical children, where maternal education has been argued to play a significant role. In any case, SLPs have further evidence that use of a large variety of words may be helpful in treating children with LLE, and they should continue to recommend this strategy to parents.Item Identifying Morphological Impairment in Young African American English Speakers: Phase 1(2008-04-18) Burns, Frances A.; Marks, Rachel L.Purpose: Copula/auxiliary verb forms were examined for differences in the production rates between typically-developing (TD) and specific language impaired (SLI) children who spoke African American English (AAE). Method: The narratives of TD (n=38) and SLI (n=20) children, who spoke "some" and "strong" variations (V) of AAE were examined for auxiliary/copula verb forms (is, are, am, was, were). The verbs and allomorphs were coded as present/absent, and the prephoneme for each form was identified. Proportions of present/absent forms and preceding phonemes were calculated using sample proportion statistics. Results: No significant differences were found between TD and SLI participants for combined auxiliary/copula forms for any preceding phonemes; no difference was found between "strongV" TD and SLI" auxiliary/copula form production for any phoneme; nor for "someV" TD and SLI" auxiliary/copula form production for any consonant. Participants in the "someV-TD" and "strongV-SLI" groups outperformed the "someVSLI" group in the production of auxiliaries when there was a preceding vowel. The "someV-TD" group produced copula forms at a higher rate than the "strongV-TD and "someV-SLI" groups when there was a preceding vowel. Conclusion: Dialect variation appears to play a role in distinguishing TD and SLI groups when the preceding phoneme is considered. Use of the preceding phoneme is thought to be influenced by the type of pronoun (i.e. first-person singular "I’m" and third-person singular neuter pronoun "it’s") that precedes the verb form. Both pronoun types are obligatory in AAE, thus typically-developing AAE speaking children are expected to produce auxiliary/copula forms when they are preceded by a vowel, at a higher rate than AAE speaking children with SLI.Item Connections: Lyndon B. Johnson in San Marcos(2009-04) Murdock, Pat; Rowe, T Cay; Barnes, SeanThis book sets forth the connections between Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the United States, and the unique relationship he had with his Alma Mater, now Texas State University-San Marcos. The story of LBJ's relationship with the University is told from his earliest days as a student to his last visit to campus, just 6 days before his death in January, 1973.Item Keynote Address: Finding the Sweet Spot in Human Communication(2010-07-24) Salem, Philip J.The dynamic tension in all living systems is between similarity and difference. There are many sets of polarized terms representing this tension, but chaos and complexity scholars recognized this tension as amounts of information. Information represents the amount of relative variety – a mix of similarity and difference, and when the amounts were high, but not too high, the system moved to transformation – to the edge of chaos, to the complexity regime, to strange attractors, or to chaos, depending on the model. The sweet spot is that range of relative variety, just the proper mix of similarity and difference, leading to transformation. Human communication is an emergent social process. It occurs when individuals in a social relationship create messages cueing each other as part of an ongoing episode. Human communication is an effort to make sense of an episode created by the process itself. The process constitutes our social and psychological life together. This paper explores the dynamic tension in communication constituting three phenomena: (a) self, (b) trust in immediate and extended relationships such as social networks, and (c) organizations. In each case I will describe current literature highlighting tensions between similarity and difference, and I will explore the potential to move from one basin of attraction to another. The primary constraints on modeling communication transformations are discovering the appropriate parameters and bracketing sequences to define initial conditions, constraints common to modeling all nonlinear processes.Item Making “Academic Talk” Explicit: Research Directions for Fostering Classroom Discourse Skills in Children from Nonmainstream Cultures(Academic Press Fribourg, 2011-01) Van Kleeck, Anne; Schwarz, Amy LouiseThis article focuses on making “school talk,” or classroom discourse, more explicit on two levels. One level involves making explicit for teachers both the nature of school talk, and the reasons why many children may come to school unfamiliar with the school talk register. Providing teachers with this awareness enables them, in turn, to make school talk explicit for their students by directly explaining the rules for engaging in this type of discourse to them. As tools for enhancing teacher awareness, this article clearly distinguishes the school talk and everyday social talk registers and provides information regarding the cultural variation in children learning to use school talk at home. The shortcomings of previous implicit approaches to teaching school talk are examined, and ways to make the rules for engaging in this register explicit for children are suggested.Item Retelling Stories in Organizations: Understanding the Functions of Narrative Repetition(Academy of Management, 2013-10) Dailey, Stephanie; Browning, LarryScholars have yet to explore narrative repetition—when a story is recalled and retold from another narrative—for its rich conceptual depth. To build a case for this area, we analyze stories from scholarly research to identify the functions of narrative repetition. We distinguish three dualities produced through repetition, which are grounded in cultural issues of sameness and difference. These dualities—control/resistance, differentiation/integration, and stability/change—bring a more sophisticated understanding of the inherent complexity of narrative as a mode of interpretation and offer a transformative view of narrative that describes how the meaning of stories shifts over time. When people repeat stories, some individuals may interpret a narrative of stability, whereas others may hear a hint of change. Furthermore, we offer narrative repetition as a new methodology for organizational research with the recommendation that scholars use the recurrence of a story as a starting point for inquiry into the cultural life of organizations.Item Infinitival Clauses in Children with Typical and Late Language Emergence: Supporting a Dimensional Account of Language Delay(Pennsylvania Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2013-12) Domsch, Celeste; Richels, Corrin; Resendiz, MariaChildren who do not speak single words by 2 years of age have been labeled as having late language emergence (LLE). While the majority of children with LLE recover by school-age, it has been argued that they often still perform below the level of their typical peers for specific linguistic skills. In this case, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) should consider language skills as varying along a dimension, rather than as simply impaired vs. unimpaired. To examine the dimensionality of language skill, this study compared infinitival clause production in 22 school-age children with and without LLE. The infinitive clauses were: catenatives, such as gonna; let us + verb, typically produced as let’s; unmarked infinitives such as make it go; and simple infinitives such as We want to run. The 22 participants included 11 with typical development and 11 with a history of LLE, sampled in a conversational context at 8-years of age. Analysis indicated that the groups did not statistically differ for use of the four types of infinitival clauses. However, the LLE group did use fewer simple infinitives, offering support for a dimensional model of language development.Item Social Media and Health: Current and Future Healthcare Provider Perspectives(ScopeMed Publishing, 2014-07) Campbell, Brittany C.; Craig, Clay M.Objective: As over 80% of active United States internet users are using social media (SM) sites, it is important for healthcare students (HCS) and healthcare professionals (HCP) to become educated on proper SM usage behaviors to effectively understand and apply SM policies. This research was designed to examine HCS and HCP motivations for utilizing SM sites, to determine the concerns HCS and HCP have with SM usage, and if these concerns are being addressed through SM policies and education. Methods: In 2012, 4370 HCS and 4269 HCP from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center participated in the Institutional Review Board approved online survey. Of those contacted, 187 HCS and 180 HCP completed the survey. Applying uses and gratifications theory, the authors conducted a mixed method survey and analyzed HCS and HCP motivations for utilizing SM sites and the concerns associated with SM usage, while simultaneously analyzing whether concerns are being addressed through SM policies and education. Results: Analysis reveals HCS and HCP were motivated by social entertainment, convenience of information, and professional self-expression. In addition, HCS and HCP top concerns associated with SM use in a professional and academic setting are patient privacy. This study also indicates HCP was more aware of their institutional SM policies. Yet, both view SM policies necessary to help educate them on effective SM use. Analysis of the qualitative responses reveals HCS and HCP’s top concerns with SM usage are Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act violations and patient privacy. Conclusion: This study offers insight into HCS’ and HCP’ SM motivations and behaviors. It also expands on issues HCS and HCP have with SM usage and if SM policies effectively address these concerns. Future research should examine if and how patients use SM when seeking health information and analyze patient’s opinion of HCS’ and HCP’ usage of SM sites.Item Data Science on the Ground: Hype, Criticism, and Everyday Work(Wiley-Blackwell, 2016-01) Carter, Daniel; Sholler, DanModern organizations often employ data scientists to improve business processes using diverse sets of data. Researchers and practitioners have both touted the benefits and warned of the drawbacks associated with data science and big data approaches, but few studies investigate how data science is carried out “on the ground.” In this paper, we first review the hype and criticisms surrounding data science and big data approaches. We then present the findings of semistructured interviews with 18 data analysts from various industries and organizational roles. Using qualitative coding techniques, we evaluated these interviews in light of the hype and criticisms surrounding data science in the popular discourse. We found that although the data analysts we interviewed were sensitive to both the allure and the potential pitfalls of data science, their motivations and evaluations of their work were more nuanced. We conclude by reflecting on the relationship between data analysts' work and the discourses around data science and big data, suggesting how future research can better account for the everyday practices of this profession.Item Do Acting Out Verbs with Dolls and Comparison Learning between Scenes Boost Toddlers’ Verb Comprehension?(Cambridge University Press, 2016-03) Schwarz, Amy Louise; Van Kleeck, Anne; Maguire, Mandy J.; Abdi, HerveTo better understand how toddlers integrate multiple learning strategies to acquire verbs, we compared sensorimotor recruitment and comparison learning because both strategies are thought to boostchildren’s access to scene-level information. For sensorimotor recruitment, we tested having toddlers use dolls as agents and compared this strategy with having toddlers observe another person enact verbs with dolls. For comparison learning, we compared providing pairs of: (a) training scenes in which animate objects with similar body-shapes maintained agent/patient roles with (b) scenes in which objects with dissimilar body-shapes switched agent/patient roles. Only comparison learning boosted verb comprehension.Item Final Conversations: Overview and Practical Implications for Patients, Families, and Healthcare Workers(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2017-04) Keeley, Maureen P.; Generous, Mark A.The current paper presents a summary of a 12-year body of research on final conversations, which will be useful for healthcare providers who work with patients and family nearing the end-of-life, as well as for patients and their family members. Final conversations encompass any and all conversations that occur between individuals with a terminal diagnosis and their family members (all participants are aware that their loved one is in the midst of the death journey). Final conversations take the family member's perspective and highlights what are their memorable messages with the terminally ill loved one. In this paper the authors highlight the message themes present at the end-of-life for both adults and children, the functions each message theme serves for family members, and lastly, the communicative challenges of final conversations. Additionally, the authors discuss the current nature and future of final conversations research, with special attention paid to practical implications for healthcare providers, patients, and family members; also, scholarly challenges and future research endeavors are explored.
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