English 101 - Fall 2010

MACARIO, EVERLY, et al. "Factors Influencing Nutrition Education for Patients with Low Literacy Skills." Journal of the American Dietetic Association 98.5 (1998), 559-564. This article discusses factors that influence people's choice of eating, these factors include cultural differences, children, and not know what is healthy. This article interviews professionals asking about the literacy of their patients, how they know this, and how they would help them to make healthy eating choices. Finally, this article talks about the time different health care providers spend with their patients and how this also influences their patients habits.

Smith, Fran. "Why Arts Education Is Crucial, and Who's Doing It Best." Edutopia. The George Lucas Educational Foundation, Feb. 2009. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. This article discusses the various positive effects of art to the student. It shows how it contributes to being an individual. This includes academic achievement and emotional development. It analyzes factors that are contributing to a lack of the arts in education. It discusses why this is a problem and how new initiatives are working against it.

Gullatt, David E. "Enhancing Student Learning Through Arts Integration: Implications for the Profession." High school Journal (2008): 12-25. EBSCO. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. This article discusses how student learning can be enhanced by the arts. There is an analysis of how schools in America are doing this in comparison to other countries. It looks at how much the arts influence education presently. In addition creates ideas of how schools should integrate the arts in the future. The piece looks at how art affects cognition and benefits many areas of thinking.

Wechsler, Henry, Meichun Kuo. "Environmental Correlates of Underage Alcohol Use and Related Problems of College Students." America Journal of Preventive Medicine 19.1 (2000): 24-29. OhioLink. Web. 13 Nov. 2010. This article explains the immediate and longterm effects underage drinking has upon our youth. It tells how underage students drink less often but consume more drinks per occasion. The article also explains how underage drinkers usually don't have to pay as much for drinks and therefore are able to consume more.

Kuther, Tara L., Alexandra Timoshin. "A Comparison of Social Cognitive and Psychosocial Predictors of Alcohol Use by College Students." Journal of College Student Development 44.2 (2003): 143-154. OhioLink. Web. 13 Nov. 2010. This article explains the amount of college students who drink alcohol and the effects it has upon them. It talks about what college students think the positive and negatives of drinking are.Their attitudes towards alcohol are examined and outcomes of continuous drinking are revealed.

Thome, Jennifer, and Dorothy L. Espelage. "Relations among exercise, coping, disordered eating, and psychological health among college students." Eating Behaviors 5.4 (2004): 337-351. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Nov. 2010. This article talks about the negative and positive affects of exercising on men and women. It explains how the two are able to handle certain things and how it affects their mental health. It also shows the positive and negative affects on eating between the sexes. It is shown that trying to be healthy can have a bad impact on a person as well.

An open debate about whether college freshman have changed and, if so, why.

Deasy-Spinetta, Pat. "School issues and the child with cancer." Cancer 71 (2006): n. pag. Web. 11 Nov. 2010. This article discusses how hospitals are trying to put programs together to help those children that are long term patience with the learning process. Many children are posing disabilities that need to be confronted before they are put back into a regular classroom. The article goes on to talk about that teachers need to empower parents and hospital staffs to come up with innovative ways to teacher children the curriculum that they should be learning. Children with learning disabilities are popping up more frequently and we need to take action as a society to address those issues at an early age.

The NCAA posted graduation rates that show that their athletes are graduating at record rates this year.

In the past, students with learning disabilities have had trouble finding a way to get extra time to take tests, but new regulations may help change that.

A newspaper article about the large number of Chinese students choosing to study abroad in the United States.

Discusses a study released by researchers at Case Western Reserve University that found a correlation between amount of time teenagers spent text messaging and social networking and their propensity to participate in risky behaviors such as drinking, smoking, doing drugs, and having sex. If anyone is interested in this, you might try tracking down the original Case Western study.

Simon, Joan B, and Elena A. Savina. "Transitioning Children from Psychiatric Hospitals to Schools: The Role of the Special Educator." Residential Treatment for Children & Youth 27 (2010): 1-14. Education Resources Informaiton Center. Web. 3 Nov. 2010. This article is all about transitioning children from a psychiatric hospital into school and the role special education teachers plan in that transition. It discusses the relationship between parents, hospital staff, and the special educators in the efforts to make the transition for the child less dramatic. It also talks about the behavior problems of the child once they are back in a school setting. This research was conducted with special educators to develop what skills and resources they need to help the child succeed.

Boman Krister K., Frank Lindblad, Anders Hjern. "Long-term outcomes of childhood cancer survivors in Sweden: A population-based study of education, employment, and income" Cancer 116 (2010): 1385-1391. Wiley Online Library. Web. 12 Nov. 2010. This article was a study was about childhood cancer survivors in Sweden. It gives statistics about what type of education the survivors acquired and then how many of them were employed. The article then discusses how much each of the survivors is making working in their profession and how their schooling was a direct affect on that number.

This Article is about how scholars would always focused on males and their math skill but overlook females. They look into why famales have diadvantages come about and how it keeps increasing but they also are good at certin maths. You will see the contrast between the males and females.

Rosewater, Ann. "Learning to Play and Playing to Learn: Organzied Sports and Educational Outcome." MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO, Sept. 2009. Web. 10 Nov. 2010. The article expresses the benefits of playing sports to increase academic performance. In the article it provides data on why it is beneficial for youth to participate in organized sports including the effects on brain functions critical to learning.

O'Brien, Justin, et al. "Discriminating children with autism from children with learning difficulties with an adaptation of the Short Sensory Profile." Early Child Development & Care 179.4 (2009): 383-394. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 9 Nov. 2010. In the autistic spectrum, there are two groups of responders to sensory stimuli. One is hyper-sensitive and the other is hypo-sensitive. Autistic kids who are hyper-sesitive often have habits of flicking the ear, clapping or moving the hands in front of the eyes, and grinding the teeth. Some studies have shown that kids with autism have greater sensory symptoms than children with regular learning disabilities, although some say that they have vey similar symptoms. From the studies, autistic children showed more impairment in auditory hyper-sensitive and visual factors compared to the learning disability group or the control group.

Nemeth, Dezso, et al. "Learning in Autism: Implicitly Superb." PLoS ONE 7 (2010): 1-7. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 9 Nov. 2010. Autistic people have memory and learning impairments, but recently researchers have studied how implicit learning in ASD is affected as well. ASD stands for Autism Spectrum Disorder, which includes social, motor, and communicative impairments. Implicit learning is the developing of a skill or information without consciousness to what was learned. Neurocognitive (thought) studies, and implicit cognition (unconcious influences such as knowledge) studies have received less attention. Studies have shown that children with Asberger's syndrome have better cognitive abilities that children with normal autism. Autistic children are more likely to forget the skills they have learned over the long term, but can use the results of implicit learning over a long period of time. ASD children compared to controlled show similar learning patterns in specific and general skill learning.

Zeigler, Donald W., Claire C. Wang. "The Neurocognitive Effects of Alcohol on Adolescents and College Students." Journal of Preventive Medicine 40 (2005): 23-32. OhioLink. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. This article is about the cognitive effects high-risk drinking has on college students. It explains how underage alcohol use is connected to brain damage and neurocognitive deficits, with implications for learning and intellectual development.

This study dealt with the long-term effects of different kinds of child abuse. Nearly four hundred college students studied many aspects of child abuse history. What these students found was that when abuse is present, it is typical for more than one kind to be used. Every type of abuse was followed by certain symptoms, and whoever experienced more than one kind of abuse experienced numerous symptoms. Therefore, it is essential to study all types of abuse when doing research.