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Efficacy Of Blended Learning Model: A Comparative Study In The Context Of Developing Countries, Wasim Qazi, C. Tik, K. Rawat, M. Rehman, S.B. Butool

Wasim Qazi

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The Role Of Institutional Agents In The Socialization Of Minority Students: Implications For Research And Practice, Kathleen Neville, Samuel D. Museus

Kathleen Neville

Potential Driven Polyelectrolyte Adsorption Onto Monolayer Modified Electrodes, Mark Anderson, Weslie Sanders

Mark R. Anderson

Preparation of interfacial structures by molecular self-assembly has been actively studied for many years. Well-defined modified interfaces can be used to study fundamental interfacial properties, or they can be used in different practical applications. To broaden the utility of interfaces prepared by molecular self-assembly, monolayers containing terminal functionality are frequently used. These interfaces have structural and physical properties that can be controlled by both the identity of the functionalization as well as the ensemble structure of the modified interface. This suggests that the chemical and physical properties of an interface can be designed and/or controlled to some extent by altering …

Los Dilemas Del Profesorado En La Educación Superior Mexicana, Jesús F. Galaz-Fontes, Laura E. Padilla-González, Manuel Gil-Antón, Juan J. Sevilla-García

Jesús Francisco Galaz Fontes

El presente artículo se refiere a las tensiones que experimentan los académicos mexicanos como consecuencia de los desafíos que enfrenta la educación superior en México: aumentar la cobertura, lograr la pertinencia económica de los programas educativos, fortalecer las funciones de investigación y hacer más eficiente y transparente la gestión en las instituciones. Lo anterior ha derivado en expectativas de que realicen, de manera “equilibrada”, funciones de docencia, investigación, inculación y gestión, ejerciendo una presión desmedida sobre ellos y propiciando el rendimiento mínimo requerido en cada uno de los ámbitos, a fin de cumplir con los requisitos que diversos programas demandan …

Time For A National Approach To Teacher Quality, Stephen Dinham, Lawrence Ingvarson, Elizabeth Kleinhenz

Dr Elizabeth Kleinhenz

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Teacher Quality: If It’S So Important, What Should Be Done?, Stephen Dinham, Lawrence Ingvarson, Elizabeth Kleinhenz

Dr Elizabeth Kleinhenz

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Paving The Road To The Terminal Degree, Sherwood Thompson

Sherwood Thompson

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School Size And Educational Equity In Kentucky's Public Schools: An Investigatin Of Race And Gender-Based Achievement Gap, Sherwood Thompson, Jerry Austin

Sherwood Thompson

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Investing In Teacher Quality, Stephen Dinham, Lawrence Ingvarson, Elizabeth Kleinhenz

Dr Elizabeth Kleinhenz

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Miseducation To Misedutainment, Sherwood Thompson

Sherwood Thompson

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Selective Formation Of A Symmetric Sc3n@C78 Bisadduct:  Adduct Docking Controlled By An Internal Trimetallic Nitride Cluster, Ting Cai, Liaosa Xu, Chunying Shu, Hunter Champion, Jonathan Reid, Clemins Anklin, Mark Anderson, Harry Gibson, Harry Dorn

Mark R. Anderson

In this paper we report a regioselective Bingel−Hirsch reaction of Sc3N@C78 yielding a single mono- and a dominate bis-ethyl malonate derivative for the first time. The Cs-symmetric monoadduct 1 and C2v-symmetric bisadduct 2 were isolated by HPLC and characterized by MS, UV−vis, and NMR spectroscopy. The symmetric bisadduct 2 clearly demonstrate the remarkable regioselectivity control exerted by the encapsulated Sc3N cluster. We have employed a LUMO electron density surface computational approach to predict multiadduct docking sites on the ellipsoidal fullerene cage surface.

Walking Through The Storm, Norman Powell

Norman W. Powell

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The Appreciative Advising Revolution, Jennifer Bloom

Jennifer L Bloom

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Lost In Transition: Navigating And Exploring Alternative Education, Norman Powell

Norman W. Powell

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Every Student Graduates, Norman Powell

Norman W. Powell

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Advancement Of Educational Research, Sherwood Thompson

Sherwood Thompson

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The Balancing Act: Gender Perspectives In Faculty Roles Andwork Lives, Jennifer Duffy

Jennifer O'Connor Duffy

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Strategies For Working With Children From Diverse Backgrounds, Norman Powell

Norman W. Powell

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Sustainable Teachers' Development: Exploring The Effect Of Follow-Up Support An An Element, Wasim Qazi

Wasim Qazi

A professional development program with built-in follow up support mechanism was offered during years 2004-06 in selected districts of Pakistan. The training reportedly had sustained impact on teachers’ attitude toward teaching.

This paper investigates the role of follow up support as an element of sustainable teacher development, and the part of teachers’ learning they could have implemented over the period after the end of project. Data was collected through classroom observations, interviews with these teachers and the head teachers of these schools, and analysis of lesson plans and reflective journals maintained by the teachers.

Findings affirm that the follow up …

A Statewide Study Of Transitions Of Youth At Risk In Non-Traditional Educational Programs, Norman Powell

Norman W. Powell

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The Best-Laid Plans: A Case Of Cross-Cultural Online Learning, Beth Rubin

Beth Rubin

This article describes a case of cultural barriers affecting the success of an online course developed in one country and co-taught from two locations, and analyzes the cultural, communication and procedural factors that contributed to failure.

Abbott: Istep+ Scores — It Depends On How You Look At Them, Jeff Abbott

Jeff Abbott

This paper uses control charts and trend lines to suggest that Indiana teachers may be doing a better job educating Indiana students than policy makers think.

What Would Vincent Do? Vincentian Higher Education And Poverty Reduction, Marco Tavanti, Craig Mousin

Marco Tavanti

The worldwide Vincentian major higher education institutions have best practices and pedagogical innovative strategies for linking their educational mission with poverty alleviation. This edited volume includes experiences from DePaul University, St. John;s University, Niagara University, Adamson University, Santa Isabelle University and All Hallows College.

Honors 2025: The Future Of The Honors College, Richard Ira Scott, Philip Frana

Philip L Frana

As we attempt to foresee the future, we recognize that the increase in the number of honors colleges over the past decade appears to be an accelerating trend. We base our predictions on the continuation of this trend and on our need as honors administrators to anticipate and welcome the multiple impacts it will have on current and future honors colleges. We have selected four connected areas as the focus of our consideration: mission; curriculum; assessment and accreditation; and recruiting.

Kentucky Youth At Risk Transitions: A Report To The Commonwealth, Doris Pierce, Norman Powell, Amy Marshall, Ronnie Nolan, Elaine Fehringer

Norman W. Powell

In the Commonwealth of Kentucky, there are over 22,000 youth being educated in programs that are funded, operated or contracted by state agencies. These state agency children come from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds and bring a multiplicity of social, psychological, behavioral and educational problems that challenge teachers and staffs. These particular Kentucky students, more than any others, are at the greatest risk of not making successful transitions into adulthood. It is critical that all such young people be afforded the highest quality of transition planning and support so that they can become successful and productive adults.

This report is …

More Fully Human: Principals As Freirian Liberators, Brian R. Beabout

Brian R. Beabout

This article calls for an investigation into a new breed of urban school leadership consistent with Freirean notions of dialogue, praxis, and pedagogy (Freire, 1993) in work with youth. Critical theorists have called for educational practices that emphasize the political role that teachers and students play in the educational process. Their vision of education calls for students to locate themselves in the historical process that has left them with little to count on and to struggle against social reproduction that gives life to the inequality that is so pernicious in capitalist American society. The central question is: How can principals …

A Synthetic Teaching-Learning Model: A Contextualized Study, Wasim Qazi

Wasim Qazi

The paper aims at institutionalizing instructional technology with a view to improving the quality of education. The conceptual framework developed in this paper reviews the existing status of training programs in light of the suggested initiatives of education sectors reforms (Ministry of Education, Government of Pakistan -August-2003). It has been argued that major purpose of imparting professional training to teachers and administrators should be directed towards improvement of quality of education. In stating the problem the malaise underlining the teaching-learning process has been identified as a core issue. The teaching-learning process which is the hallmark of quality of education has …

Demystifying The Black Student Experience At Ucla, La'tonya R. Rease-Miles

La'Tonya R. Rease-Miles

Explores the specific challenges facing Black students at UCLA and discusses how to create and sustain meaningful dialogue about racial diversity.

Health Education Achievement Test, Dr. Uche J. Obidiegwu

Prof. Uche J. Obidiegwu

This study developed and validated a diagnostic health education achievement test for adult learners in Anambra State. Two research questions and a research hypothesis guided the study. The instrument was pretested. Following the result of the pilot test, a total of 96 multiple choice test items were administered to 1, 342 adult learners. The analysis of the data was carried out using item analysis. Kuder-Richardson formula ‘21’ was used to determine the internal consistency of the instrument. Finally, t-test was used to test the hypothesis. Based on the results, some recommendations were made.

Teacher Perception About Implementation Strategy Of B.Ed Teaching Practice In Real School Classrooms: Issues And Challenges, Wasim Qazi, Khalid Jamil Rawat, Muhammad Yousuf Sharjeel, Shila Devi

Wasim Qazi

Teaching practice is the core component of all pre-service teacher education programs. Through teaching practice, a novice teacher is assumed to have inculcated a supposedly viable pedagogic experience to transfer the core competency of the subject knowledge to students in real classroom situation.

This study encompasses the challenges and issues that the novice teachers experience at post-training level of their B.Ed programme of studies. The investigations also enlighten the gaps that the trained teachers have shared with the researchers. The study highlights the extent to which the on-training components of teaching practice is reflected in the attitude of the trained …