Columbia College Chicago

About: Columbia College Chicago is a education organization based out in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Dance & Higher education. The organization has 180 authors who have published 296 publications receiving 2700 citations.

Directing the documentary

Abstract: The Director's Role Defining Your Artistic Identity Developing Your Story Ideas Proposing and Pitching a Short Documentary Documentary Language Elements and Grammar Research Developing a Crew Camera Equipment Lighting Location Sound Directing Editing: From Start to Viewing the First Assembly Editing: The Process of Refinement Editing: From Fin Cut to Sound Mix Titles and Acknowledgements Point of View and the Storyteller Dramatic Development, Time, and Story Structure Form, Control, and Style Reenactment, Reconstuction, and Docudrama Advanced Research Values, Ethics and Choices Proposing an Advanced Documentary Preparing to Direct Optics Advanced Cameras and Equipment Advanced Location Sound Organization, Crew, and Procedures Advanced Directing Conducting and Shooting Interviews Transcript to Film Script Creating Narration Using Music and Working with a Composer Editing: Refinements and Structural Problems Education From School to Film Industry NEW CHAPTER NEW CHAPTER

The Accuracy of Academic Self-Evaluations in Adolescents with Learning Disabilities

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to document the degree of overestimation of academic skills among students with learning disabilities (LD) and to evaluate the role of reference group and metacognitive awareness in such overestimation. High school students with (n = 52) and without (n = 49) LD in Grades 9 through 12 completed a self-concept scale and a survey requiring them to rate their own academic skills in 17 specific skill areas. Students were further asked to predict their performance on two academic tasks prior to actually performing the tasks. The students' mothers or fathers, their English teachers or academic advisors, and (in the case of the students with LD) their special education case managers also completed the skill rating inventory and predicted student performance on the two tests. Despite reporting significantly lower academic self-concepts, students with LD overestimated their academic skills relative to the ratings of others and to their actual test performance. Such overestimation was l...

Beyond Words: Movement Observation and Analysis

Abstract: Human Perception. Process and Structure: Observation in Practice. Perception of Movement. Enhancing Movement Awareness. Body Knowledge/Body Prejudice. Deciphering Human Movements. Functions of Movement in Human Life. Movement as Metaphor. Movements in Context. Basic Parameters of Movement . As Experts See It. Challenges and Horizons. Process and Structure: Observation in Practice

The Arts Make a Difference.

Abstract: (2006). The Arts Make a Difference. The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society: Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 25-32.