“Is There a Correlation Between being Creative with
Visual Art and Retaining Visual Knowledge for Learning?”
Margaret Allard, Shawnee State
University
Mentor: Dr. Kenneth W. Carlson
This poster will present a research project done with middle school
students to determine if there is a correlation between visual art
performance and learning visually, such as with spelling terms.
“Perceptions of Social
Problems in the greater Portsmouth, Ohio Area”
Jerilyn Sheets/Lindsay Hays, Shawnee State University
Mentors: Drs. Scott Douthat and Chris Kacir
Over the past 25 years the grater Portsmouth area has seen a
dramatic decline in population, employment, and commerce while at
the same time experiencing a steady rise in related social problems
such as crime, poverty, and substance abuse. This presentation is
about a community assessment designed to examine the perceptions of
long-term residents, relative newcomers, and community leaders on
the following variables: crime and drugs, municipal appearance,
infrastructure and environment, recreation, economic development,
downtown, access to resources, race relationships, education,
advertising and community image, poverty, and governance.
