...On the date and time listed above Sgt. Purcell responded to 6217 Tradewinds Way located in Lacasa Trailer park in referance to juveniles kicking a ball against the complainants trailer. When Sgt. Purcell arrived to the area he observed numerous juveniles in the area of the complaint. Sgt. Purcell stopped in front of the complainants (Pamela Mcdougald) residence and a black female was standing on the porch. The complainant started to tell Sgt. Purcell what was taking place and before Sgt. Purcell could even approach the complainants Sgt. Purcell could hear yelling from the complainants neighbor yard. When Sgt. Purcell exited his patrol car he observed the offender (JaJa Johnson) walking from his yard towards the complainants yard yelling profanity...
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...Research on Educational Impact of Games A Literature Review Institute for Games for Learning NYU Education/Assessment Group CUNY Education/Assessment Group White Paper # 02/2009 Version 0.1 June 25, 2009 Florrie Ng Helen Zeng Jan L. Plass Gaming Literature Coding In response to researchers’ calls for more systematic investigations of the use of games for learning, we conducted an extensive literature review on this topic. By surveying prior research, we examined the themes that emerged, the methodology employed, and the findings yielded, the ultimate goal being to identify knowledge gaps in the literature. To this end, we reviewed the relevant research conducted in the last 15 years by following the procedures outlined below. (a) Using the widely used social science database PsycINFO, we searched for articles which focused on both games and learning. The keywords chosen were “gam*” and either “learn*”, “teach*”, or “educat*” (the wildcard * can stand for any of a defined subset of all possible characters; for example “gam*” includes “game,” “games,” “gaming,” etc.). This generated about 4000 peer-reviewed articles from the earliest date (i.e., before 1960) to the end of 2008. (b) Given that studies conducted a decade ago tended to be less rigorous methodologically or yield obsolete results, we decided to focus our attention on more recent research. Once we narrowed down the time period to the years of 1995 to 2008, about 2400 peer-reviewed articles were left in the...
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