2016 Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences & Education PROCEEDINGS

University/Organization
Fayetteville State University, NC.

Title
Assessing the Student Learning

Synopsis
In this paper, we discuss the importance of the performance-based assessment as a part of assessing student learning in a Basic Probability and Statistics course. We will share our experience of creating a Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) style performance task and scoring rubrics to score students’ papers.

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University/Organization
Hanyang University, South Korea.

Title
Action Research on a Global Training Program of Intercultural Communication Model

Synopsis
This study aims to present an action research on the 28-day-long global training program which was organized and practiced as an intercultural communication model. The objective of the program was to introduce the model of Korean higher education system to other countries.

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University/Organization
Minerva College Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea

Title
The Principle of Transforming the Archetypal Feminine in Korean Myth and Folklores

Synopsis
This paper aims to achieve (1) to introduce that different versions of Mago Halmi story has something of a family resemblance via philological studies, (2) to analyze the archetype of the ‘Feminine’ and to establish the mythological significance of the story of Mago Halmi, finally (3) to explain the ambivalence of Mago Halmi by the method of analytic psychology.

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University/Organization
Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf, Germany

Title
Other Times, Other Manners: How Do Different Generations Use Social Media?

Synopsis
In our study we investigate the differences in social media usage between generations. Furthermore, we determine whether there are gender-dependent inter-generational differences in user behavior. The outcomes of our investigation might be a valuable guide for businesses focusing on online marketing, social shopping, or e-commerce in general, and desiring to reach the right target groups.

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University/Organization
California State University, Chico

Title
Educational Impact of REUT (Research Experiences in Mathematics for Undergraduates and Teachers) Program in California State University, Chico

Synopsis
Within the last 11 years, we have completed three very successive REUT programs funded by NSF. Our programs targeted secondary teachers with a strong interest in mathematics or math education and students who have completed their junior year. The participants were engaged in research problems with a high potential for publication and to create a research experience that broadens participants’ perspective both of mathematics as a discipline and of research as an exciting exploratory process.

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University/Organization
Shinshu University, Japan

Title
Words that Seem to Denote “Places” in English and Japanese: English Prepositions and Japanese Postpositions

Synopsis
The usual dichotomy of “content” words and “function” words imply that prepositions and postpositions have only functions. This presentation would argue that such “function” words nonetheless have semantic meanings and English prepositions and Japanese postpositions differ in some respects, which is homologous to what Ikegami (1997) calls “do-language” and “become-language” respectively.

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University/Organization
Kansai Gaidai University, Japan

Title
Development of Compound Numerals in English Bibles, Letters, Diaries and Documents

Synopsis
My objective is to investigate the processes underlying the shift from the Old English type to the Modern English type of compound numerals 21-99. Data are collected from diaries, letters, other literature including the Bibles mainly in the early Modern English periods.

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University/Organization
Murray State University, Kentucky

Title
Shake It, But Don’t Break It. The History and Evolution of Maracas

Synopsis
PowerPoint presentation detailing the history and anthropological evolution of maracas. Live performance using examples of maracas from centuries past and present will bring the often overlooked “side” instrument to center stage.

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University/Organization
University of West Alabama, AL

Title
Wellness as a Framework for Counselor Education and College Student Intervention

Synopsis
This study assessed needs of both students in counselor training and entering freshmen in overall wellness through use of an assessment and intervention within a wellness paradigm The Personal Wellness Questionnaire and Plan developed from this study supports use of wellness assessment and planning as tool for work with college students and graduate students training to be counselors.

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University/Organization
Shinshu University, Japan

Title
An Analysis of -ing form and its Application to English Education

Synopsis
Japanese learners of English have difficulties in fully mastering the usages of –ing form. This presentation will examine the mistakes of using –ing form made by Japanese EFL learners, and through such analysis, we will seek to find a better pedagogy in teaching –ing form to Japanese EFL learners.

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University/Organization
Keio University Tokyo, Japan

Title
Learning from Study Abroad Experience: Case of University Students Who Participated in an Exchange Program during High School

Synopsis
This study focuses on the Japanese individual’s experience of a 10-month long exchange program during high school, and aims to explain how they learn longitudinally from that experience. 25 university students were interviewed and the data was analyzed qualitatively.

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University/Organization
Kyoto University, Japan

Title
Recent Grammatical Changes in Contemporary British English: Verb Complementation in Academic Writing

Synopsis
This paper discusses some recent changes in the usage of the verb “forbid” in English. Despite the statement in dictionaries and grammars that it is usually followed by to- infinitive, it is increasingly followed by gerund complements in contemporary English. This paper examines this alleged tendency by analyzing some corpora, and concludes that the increase of the gerund complementation in English will be further accelerated in the near future.

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University/Organization
Southwestern Oklahoma State University, OK

Title
Community Art Project

Synopsis
This paper is a case study of a community tapestry art project, a multi-year effort to plan, fund, design, construct, and exhibit a collaborative public art in Western Oklahoma. Though my study is particular to Oklahoma, it posits generalizable knowledge for artists and arts administrators undertaking collaborative community art projects.

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University/Organization
Yonsei University, South Korea

Title
Artwork Viruses: What Viruses Teach Us about Art

Synopsis
Viruses are parasitic marginal existences living in the borders between life and non-life. Likewise artworks are lifeless by themselves, and it only receives life through artists, who serve as the intermediate hosts for artworks. The audience are the definitive hosts, who maintain and spread corresponding artworks. We combine ideas and concepts of philosophy and biology to suggest that artworks are spiritual and ontological existences, which gain life only through living human beings.

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University/Organization
Minerva College, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea

Title
The Japanese Elite’s Perception of Foreign Countries in the 18th Century

Synopsis
The study aims to focus on an 18th century intellectuals, Ueda Akinari, and examine his encounters with Joseon and foreign countries. Furthermore, to examine his recognition on his own country and foreign countries, including Joseon, through the “sun-god debate” that caused between the Motoori Norinaga.

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University/Organization
University of South Florida, FL

Title
Problem Solving Process

Synopsis
The goal of this work is how to develop and how to foster the problem solving process. Observing the problem solving process as a puzzle solving/game playing process, we make a serious efforts to provide a detailed conceptual procedure of the development, understanding and applying the proposed problem solving process in a systematic and unified way. In this context, the concept of decomposition-aggregation problem solving
process is introduced, and its strategy is outlined.

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University/Organization
Sahmyook University Seoul, South Korea

Title
A Study on Barrier Free Dwelling Standards of Domestic and Foreign Countries

Synopsis
The purpose of this study is to explore similarities and differences between various regulations and guidelines for the disabled housing, especially focusing on adaptability and accessibility, to analyze inaccessible problems in the case of housing, and to provide suggestions for the housing design.

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University/Organization
Auburn University, Auburn AL

Title
Assessment of Simulation for Training Pre-internship Health Administration Students

Synopsis
Our conference proposal highlights the results of Auburn University’s Health Services Administration program’s multi-year assessment of the impact of simulation training on undergraduate pre-internship students. The study employed a two pronged approach of utilizing both qualitative and multi-dimensional quantitative methods to measure the impact of a two day simulation training seminar.

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University/Organization
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan

Title
Analyzing Attractiveness of Specific Location Names of Tourist Destination from a Closed Caption TV Corpus

Synopsis
This paper describes some statistical facts about the data in our closed caption TV corpus in order to investigate the attractiveness of location names in the corpus. We will confirm whether target locations are preferred places for use in TV programs on the basis of simple word frequency, co-ocuring words, and words yielded by word2vec. In this paper, we report the result in which we analyze the attractiveness of specific location names of tourist destination from a CCTV corpus.

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University/Organization
The Scholastic Research Institute (SRI)
Capella University

Title
Application of Double-Loop Learning With Leaders in Higher Education

Synopsis
The current qualitative research study examines the decision-making process of leaders in higher education to identify difficulties of measuring the quality of decision making, examines perceptions of higher education leaders on how poor decision making arises and how poor decision making might be remedied.

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University/Organization
University of Texas at Dallas, TX

Title
What Makes Jewish Philosophy Jewish?

Synopsis
This paper examines the categories of thought, such as creation, revelation, and redemption, that impart a Jewish aspect to the thinking. It contrasts those categories with those that shape Western speculative thought, such as causation, reason, and personal autonomy.

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University/Organization
Wake Forest University, NC

Title
Producing Bioethics Radio — New Media and Bioethics Pedagogy

Synopsis
This paper details a strategy by which a class of undergraduate Communication majors learned audio production while in the process also learning critical and analytical skills in bioethics.

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University/Organization
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC

Title I
Obstacles and Opportunities in Implementing e-Portfolios

Synopsis I
A pilot implementation of e-portfolios across several disciplines at two universities yields insights regarding how to address barriers in adopting, using, and assessing these collections of student work. Lessons from this project suggest the primary technical, instructor, student, institutional, and attitudinal factors that can impede or impel the successful use of e-portfolios in higher education.

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Title II
Taming the Email Monster in Online Basic Communication Courses

Synopsis II
Much of the information overload in online courses stems from the volume of student emails. Controlling for instructor and course content in an online basic oral communication course, this study demonstrates how recursive analysis of thematic content in student emails enables course redesign that dramatically reduces the quantity and improves the quality of incoming student messages.

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University/Organization
Comenius University of Bratislava, Slovakia

Title
Smart ICT Technologies in Support of E-Government

Synopsis
The paper is dealing with some problems of the implementation of the EU strategies on e-Europe in the conditions of the EU new member states regarding the most important and crucial application area i.e. e-Government.

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University/Organization
The College of Wooster, OH

Title
Politeness and Business Hierarchy in Buenos Aires Spanish

Synopsis
Data from Buenos Aires, Argentina illustrate that instructional practices for students of Business Spanish must include the concepts of hierarchy, respect and politeness. Norms of politeness dictate that one should be accommodating toward the addressee. This can be manifest in the form of the respectful, deferential usted. Alternatively, politeness also can dictate informal (vos) usage toward those sharing equal social status, or to show confidence and solidarity toward the consumer.

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University/Organization
Kent State University, OH
The College of Wooster, OH

Title
Spanish Culture as Reflected in the Built Environment of Spanish Cities, Part II

Synopsis
By examining public communal gathering spaces in Bilbao and Barcelona, Spain, we have attempted to show that the spaces we use reflect our needs, both functional and aesthetic. The design of these spaces directly affects the behavior of the population, including intergenerational interaction and dissolving boundaries between social classes.

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University/Organization
Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand

Title
Sui Sin Far: the Pioneer of Asian American Tricksters

Synopsis
Like trickster, the purpose of this paper is to disrupt because it discusses trickster strategies Sui Sin Far, the pioneer of Asian American authors, employed in “The Smuggling of Tie Co” and in “An Autumn Fan.” By engaging in tricksterism, Sui Sin Far not only to get her writings published but also to counter the Anglo-American discourse on race and gender.

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