<p>A cooperative learning approach to involving students with diverse backgrounds, an Affinity Research Group (ARG) is an effective means of ensuring student engagement. Through a structured team approach, students learn how to conduct scholarly research, lead effective team discussions, kick off a research project, and much more. The ARG model, researched and documented with the support of the National Science Foundation, delivered results at the University of Texas, El Paso. During an evaluation of 175 group members over five years: * 78% of members participating in undergraduate research came from underrepresented student groups; * 30% of undergraduates continued to graduate school; * 100 papers have been published with student coauthors. Now, with this practical handbook, supplemented by author workshops nationwide, the success of the Affinity Research Group model can spread to all sorts of programs in a wide range of institutions.</p>

The Affinity Research Group Model: Creating And Maintaining Effective Research Teams

Education & Teaching

Roach, Steve

Gates, Ann

Villa, Elsa

Kephart, Kerrie

Della-Piana, Connie

Della-Piana, Gabriel

Schools & Teaching

IEEE Computer Society Press

<p>Delirium, Madness & Death - collected fiction from Steve Roach.Includes: The Whaler - A Dog's Life - The Farda - The Beast - Bebe - The Superhero of Small Things - Twins - Ruiner - People of the Sun. Nine tales of horror and madness, nine twisted gems of savage beauty. From the heat of the jungle to the icy void of space, from the barren desert to the urban wilderness, nowhere is safe! Many of the stories are / have been available as ebook singles and have garnered impressive reviews on Amazon and elsewhere.</p>

Delirium, Madness and Death

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

RESONANCE Eighteen stories. Each one stands alone and yet all are somehow interconnected. Resonating with each other. Stories impacting other stories. Changing them. From the author of ‘Delirium, Madness & Death’ comes a collection that does something new with the short story format. Although each story is a complete entity in its own right, events in one affect the outcome of another, sometimes cascading across multiple stories. RESONANCE A search for immortality involving the common house fly. A family trapped in their attic as the storm waters from Katrina drown New Orleans. An experiment that isolates children from the outside world. The secret that binds us all to corporate slavery. A locked room mystery involving the disappearance of an astrophysics professor. Aliens. Time loops. Black holes. Murder. And, behind it all, shadowy figures move through the stories, members of the mysterious Pandemonium Club. A book unlike any other.

Resonance

Createspace Independent Pub

DELIRIUM, MADNESS & DEATH  Collected fiction of Steve Roach (2011-13)   THE WHALER  Something terrible lurks in the ocean, even more formidable than Grice, the most insane of whaling captains.   A DOG'S LIFE  An elderly dog is rehoused and his final days are plagued by a monstrous child.   THE FARDA  A lonely man takes comfort in an arachnid house guest.   FOX  A worn out farmer has no sympathy for a noisy fox.   THE BEAST  A man confronts the terrors of his childhood.   BÉBÉ  A harrowing tale of child abuse and terror.   THE SUPERHERO OF SMALL THINGS  Disgusted by what she reads in the news one day, a woman decides to fight back against the people who make life miserable for all of us.   TWINS  Two brothers, bound by blood and a terrible hatred for each other. How many times can they kill each other? How many times can each come back even more powerful than before?   RUINER  An old man makes a private Eden in the middle of a vast desert. All goes well until, one day, the Ruiner comes and begins to destroy everything the old man has created.   PEOPLE OF THE SUN  A team of men head into the Amazon jungle, searching for Inca gold that was smuggled out of Peru centuries before. They must survive the horrors they find in the jungle and, even worse, the horror they find within each other.   Praise for stories in this book:   THE WHALER  This short story is a real, old fashioned 'song of the sea' in that it is related by and old sailor who worked on on a whaling ship. It's a well told tale and the descriptions of the hardships of life aboard a whaling ship, especially during the butchering, flensing and rendering stages are graphic and believable. I live near a town with a museum largely dedicated to the old whaling fleets and I've seen some of the tools used. Steve Roach knows of what he speaks.  AMAZON UK REVIEW   This is a gem floating among the flotsam of self published stories on Amazon.  AMAZON US REVIEW   A DOG’S LIFE  The blurb hinted at the dark turn the story takes yet I was still shocked by the finale. I felt there were various layers of hidden narratives; the cruelty of children, loyalty of a beloved pet and almost a kharmic climax. A good read and i'll look out for more by this author.  AMAZON UK REVIEW   This story is one to keep. It made me cry. This story is nicely told. It makes you think about what a dog has to go through after losing loved ones.  AMAZON US REVIEW   THE FARDA  I enjoyed this well written short story. The author definitely has talent.  AMAZON UK REVIEW   BÉBÉ  Describing the ugliness that can happen in life is a delicate business, something that is handled sensitively in this unusual tale. It draws you in in a menacing way, and within its obvious desire to shock it also carefully balances a very human story throughout. Raw and thought provoking, i found it to be well written and an enjoyable read, which surprised me given the nature of its subject matter.  AMAZON UK REVIEW

Delirium, Madness & Death

All That Will Be Lost: Fiction 2011 - 2017

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