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Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/23 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Dec 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/23 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Atención a la diversidad: del modelo del déficit al modelo curricular / Pilar Arnaiz Sánchez,José-Manuel Guirao Lavela [and] Carlos F. Garrido Gil.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/22 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Dec 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/22 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

School commitment and alcohol use : the moderating role of race and ethnicity / Tamela McNulty Eitle [and] David James Eitle.


Affective Responses Of Overseas Student Teachers, Michael W. Firmin, Ruth L. Firmin, Brenda B. Mackay Dec 2007

Affective Responses Of Overseas Student Teachers, Michael W. Firmin, Ruth L. Firmin, Brenda B. Mackay

Education Faculty Publications

Universities offering teacher education degrees are finding the world to be significantly smaller than did previous generations. Increasingly, American students are completing their required student teaching in foreign contexts. The present research study used rigorous qualitative methods in order to appraise the affective experiences from a sample of 13 students who completed their student teaching overseas. Results showed, affectively, students experienced a bell-shaped curve phenomenon. Particularly, they underwent stages of excitement when entering the teaching experience, followed by significant dysphoria, and then completed their student teaching with a positive emotional set.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/21 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Nov 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/21 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Modelo pedagógico en un contexto no formal : el museo / Mª Begoña Alfageme González [and] Nicolás Martínez Valcárcel.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/20 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Oct 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/20 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Equipos docentes en la dnseñanza Secundaria Obligatoria : Posibilidades e Incertidumbres/ Mª Teresa González González.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/19 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Sep 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/19 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

¿Sirven las políticas y prácticas de formación del profesorado para mejorar la educación?: Una respuesta desde el análisis de la construcción social de la docencia / Jesús Romero Morante [and] Alberto Luis Gómez.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/18 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Sep 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/18 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Fissures in standards formulation : the role of neoconservative and neoliberal discourses in justifying standards development in Wisconsin and Minnesota/ Samantha Caughlan [and] Richard Beach.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/17 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Aug 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/17 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Actitudes de los dstudiantes de odontología de la UAM-Xochimilco frente a su formación profesional / Laura Sáenz Martínez, Leonor Sánchez Pérez, Isabel Luengas Aguirre [amd] Edgar Jarillo Soto.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/16 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Jul 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/16 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

From policy design to campus : implementation of a tuition decentralization policy / Michael S. Harris.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/15 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Jul 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/15 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Reformas curriculares y educación física: los conocimientos teórico- conceptuales de la población escolar Española / Juan Luis Hernández Álvarez, Roberto Velázquez Buendía [and] Ma Eugenia Martínez Gorroño.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/14 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Jun 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/14 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Descentralización, poderes locales y participación social en educación en Bolivia. Los casos de Tarabuco y la Paz (1997-2003) / Mario Yapu.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/13 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Jun 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/13 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Bureaucratic discretion and alternative teacher certification : understanding program variation in Missouri / Ethan B. Heinen [and] Jay Paredes Scribner.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/12 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida May 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/12 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Niveles y perfiles de funcionalidad como dimensión de calidad universitaria. Un estudio empírico en la Universidad Complutense/ Arturo de la Orden Hoz, Inmaculada Asensio Muñoz, Chantal-María Biencinto López, Coral González Barberá [and] José Mafokozi Ndabishibije.


Disrupting The Status Quo: The Action Research Dissertation As A Transformative Strategy, Margaret Grogan, Joe Donaldson, Juanita Simmons May 2007

Disrupting The Status Quo: The Action Research Dissertation As A Transformative Strategy, Margaret Grogan, Joe Donaldson, Juanita Simmons

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

Summary: As a contribution to the lively debate that has been recently spawned among scholars about leadership preparation embedded in doctoral studies, this chapter explores the relationship between the current conception of the quality practitioner of educational leadership and the usefulness of learning how to conduct action research. The first section describes the quality practitioner and shows how various theories lend themselves to this concept. Building on the theoretical underpinnings for the very practical work of educational leadership, the second section offers a brief discussion of the background and development of action research. In the third section, we consider the …


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/11 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida May 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/11 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Teacher community in elementary charter schools/ Marisa Cannata.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/10 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida May 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/10 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Cuatro concepciones sobre el planeamiento educativo en la reforma educativa Argentina de los noventa/ Gustavo Fischman [and] Pablo Gentili.


Faculty Influence On Fraternal Residential Learning Communities, Charles G. Eberly, Andrew F. Wall, Brian Warren May 2007

Faculty Influence On Fraternal Residential Learning Communities, Charles G. Eberly, Andrew F. Wall, Brian Warren

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

This paper described a survey of fraternity members' satisfaction with their experiences in a Residential Learning Community within Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity. RLCs include a faculty member who has an office within the chapter facility, who teaches a course for credit within the chapter, and who supervises educational programming within the chapter. Chapters who attain RLC status must apply for re-accreditation as an RLC on a periodic basis.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/09 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Apr 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/09 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Examining the streams of a retention policy to understand the politics of high-stakes reform / Christopher P. Brown.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/07 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Apr 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/07 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Making use of what teachers know and can do : policy, practice, and national board certification / Julia E. Koppich, Daniel C. Humphrey, [and] Heather J. Hough.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/08 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Apr 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/08 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Efectos contextuales del nivel socioeconómico sobre el rendimiento académico en la educación secundaria obligatoria en la comunidad autónoma Vasca (España) : Estudio diferencial del nivel socioeconómico familiar y el del centro escolar/ Luis Lizasoain, Luis Joaristi, José Francisco Lukas [and] Karlos Santiago


To Pay Or Not To Pay?: Legal And Ethical Issues In International Students’ Participation In Research, Ana A. L. Baumann, Melanie M. Domenech-Rodriguez Apr 2007

To Pay Or Not To Pay?: Legal And Ethical Issues In International Students’ Participation In Research, Ana A. L. Baumann, Melanie M. Domenech-Rodriguez

Psychology Faculty Publications

Research methods are typically drafted carefully to ensure that the research question on hand can be answered. Sample selection is influenced by issues of feasibility. For example, in the case of researchers interested in cross-cultural research, the cost of traveling abroad and the practical matters involved in data collection in another country may make cross-cultural research impossible to conduct. Research with samples of recently immigrated persons in the ethnic, national, and/or cultural group of interest might present a viable and defensible alternative to examine crosscultural differences in the constructs of interest. Recently, however, the authors learned that there are major …


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/06 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Mar 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/06 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Heterogeneidad en el acceso a la educación media y el trabajo infantil / Facundo Luis Crosta.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/05 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Mar 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/05 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Responding to the education reform agenda :a study of school superintendents, Äô instructional leadership / Paul V. Bredeson [and] Brad W. Kose.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/04 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Feb 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/04 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Cambio curricular en el bachillerato tecnológico Mexicano : el caso de la disciplina de ciencia, tecnología, sociedad y valores/ Guadalupe Tinajero Villavicencio, Guadalupe López Bonilla [and] Carmen Pérez Fragoso.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/03 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Feb 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/03 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Digital equity in education :a multilevel examination of differences in and relationships between computer access, computer use and state-level technology policies/ Jonathan D. Becker, J.D., Ph.D..


Strengthening The Scientific Foundations Of Professional Psychology: Time For The Next Steps, Timothy Melchert Feb 2007

Strengthening The Scientific Foundations Of Professional Psychology: Time For The Next Steps, Timothy Melchert

College of Education Faculty Research and Publications

The field of professional psychology has been tremendously successful, although it has also been characterized by many competing preparadigmatic theoretical orientations, which have led to a great deal of contention as well as conflicting views regarding psychological development, functioning, and behavior change. There is now widespread agreement regarding scientific explanations of many psychological processes, however, and, consequently, it is time to update the basic conceptual frameworks used for professional psychology education and practice. Replacing the traditional reliance on an array of theoretical orientations with a science-based biopsychosocial framework would resolve many of the contradictions and conflicts that characterized the preparadigmatic …


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/02 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Jan 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/02 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Democratización de la gestión escolar en la Argentina : una comparación de políticas provinciales / Jorge M. Gorostiaga.


Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/01 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Jan 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/01 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Hugging the middle : teaching in an era of testing and accountability, 1980, Äì2005 / Larry Cuban.


A New Voice In Science. Patient Participation In Decision‐Making On Biomedical Research, Annette J. Braunack-Mayer Jan 2007

A New Voice In Science. Patient Participation In Decision‐Making On Biomedical Research, Annette J. Braunack-Mayer

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Book review


2007 Nebraska Beef Cattle Report Summaries, Dennis R. Brink Jan 2007

2007 Nebraska Beef Cattle Report Summaries, Dennis R. Brink

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide briefly summarizes recent beef research reported on in the 2007 Beef Cattle Report.