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The Ucf Report, Vol. 12 No. 19, April 18, 1990, University Of Central Florida Apr 1990

The Ucf Report, Vol. 12 No. 19, April 18, 1990, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

Council to draft UCF strategic plan; Cobb-Hooker chair occupied by 20-Yr. veteran of Optics research; Stay tuned: WUCF Report 2 weeks away; News clips.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 57, April 12, 1990 Apr 1990

Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 57, April 12, 1990

Central Florida Future

Student dies after beating; Decal fee increased for parking; Aphitheater in Bufman's hands.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 55, April 5, 1990 Apr 1990

Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 55, April 5, 1990

Central Florida Future

Faculty gets space; Sigma Gamma Rho gets chapter at UCF; Graduate students unite to recognize needs.


Use Of Departmental Review As Part Of The Assessment Process, James H. Mcbath Apr 1990

Use Of Departmental Review As Part Of The Assessment Process, James H. Mcbath

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article examines departmental review as a central instrument in outcomes assessment for higher education communication programs. Situating the practice within escalating legislative accreditation and board level accountability, it traces common anxieties that reviews may prompt program closure or reconfiguration. Through case analysis, this article identifies pitfalls arising from unclear objectives, partial data, and uneven participation, and then articulates two guiding principles: evaluation must rest on transparent standards and on evidence grounded in disciplinary knowledge. The discussion links evaluation criteria curriculum adequacy faculty quality resource allocation and graduate performance, with attention to external audiences who often misunderstand communication studies. Concluding …


The Assessment Movement: A Challenge And An Opportunity, Gary T. Hunt Apr 1990

The Assessment Movement: A Challenge And An Opportunity, Gary T. Hunt

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article surveys the evolving assessment movement in higher education, focusing on its implications for communication departments and curriculum planning. It contextualizes accountability pressures from federal policy, regional accreditation, and state legislatures, and outlines four assessment domains: basic skills, general education, major content, and student development. By comparing standardized instruments with locally designed measures such as portfolios, capstone courses, exit interviews, and assessment centers, this article highlights emerging strategies for documenting institutional effectiveness and student learning outcomes. Discussion addresses administrative faculty and student challenges, particularly in evaluating oral communication competency and critical thinking within speaking across the curriculum initiatives. Concluding …


Assessing Achievement With Standardized Tests: The Nte Speech Communication Examination, Robert N. Bostrom Apr 1990

Assessing Achievement With Standardized Tests: The Nte Speech Communication Examination, Robert N. Bostrom

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article evaluates standardized achievement testing as a tool for documenting communication competence and for certifying secondary school teachers, focusing on the National Teacher Examination in speech communication. It outlines historical rationales for objective assessment, reviews the structure of the Pre Professional Skills Test, Core Battery, and specialty area components, and describes ongoing revision of the speech communication specialty test. Detailed content specifications identify eight knowledge domains, including interpersonal communication, public speaking, media literacy, play production, and assessment. By comparing these domains with typical undergraduate curricula, this article exposes misalignments that create barriers for teacher preparation, and it recommends curricular …


Nontraditional Approaches To Assessment, Ellen A. Hay Apr 1990

Nontraditional Approaches To Assessment, Ellen A. Hay

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article examines innovative assessment strategies in higher education designed to satisfy accreditation mandates for demonstrable oral communication proficiency while fostering learning outcomes. It details oral communication across the curriculum, in which faculty embed speaking tasks and feedback mechanisms within diverse disciplinary courses, supported by systematic training, student resources, and administrative oversight. It then analyzes the assessment center model, adapted from industrial practice, where students engage in simulated organizational scenarios, submit written and oral artifacts, receive multi rater evaluations, and reflect through self assessment. By comparing these approaches, this article emphasizes the reciprocal relationship between assessment and pedagogy, underscores the …


Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 53, March 29, 1990 Mar 1990

Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 53, March 29, 1990

Central Florida Future

Committee will review SG statutes; Four chairs resign posts; Sheridan: new arts dean; Intramural game ends in fight, suspensions.


The Ucf Report, Vol. 12 No. 17, March 21, 1990, University Of Central Florida Mar 1990

The Ucf Report, Vol. 12 No. 17, March 21, 1990, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

Conference to focus on the pressures of student-athletes; Administrative audits to begin March 26; BOR here Friday; News clips.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 49, March 8, 1990 Mar 1990

Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 49, March 8, 1990

Central Florida Future

Faculty senate: Don't support discrimination; Profs dropping students who haven't paid up; System changes shut down computer labs.


The Ucf Report, Vol. 12 No. 16, March 7, 1990, University Of Central Florida Mar 1990

The Ucf Report, Vol. 12 No. 16, March 7, 1990, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

Soviet brings Glasnost to UCF; UCF joins science/tech consortium; Senate: 'No' to discrimination; News clips.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 47, March 1, 1990 Mar 1990

Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 47, March 1, 1990

Central Florida Future

Students demand apology; Laing and DiBona triumph; Students petition to change WUCF's format.


The Ucf Report, Vol. 12 No. 15, February 21, 1990, University Of Central Florida Feb 1990

The Ucf Report, Vol. 12 No. 15, February 21, 1990, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

Inaugural Fair begins April 20; Salaries, enrollment top UCF priority list; UCF bids a fond farewell to Milly; UCF tapped NASA Space Grant College; News clips.


The Ucf Report, Vol. 12 No. 14, February 7, 1990, University Of Central Florida Feb 1990

The Ucf Report, Vol. 12 No. 14, February 7, 1990, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

Convocation first step to diversity; Morrison 'beloved' by audience; UCF kicks off pilot recycling program; Deans search continues; News clips.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 40, February 6, 1990 Feb 1990

Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 40, February 6, 1990

Central Florida Future

2 candidates get cut from race; Sparks cause fire in Biology; Temporary recruiter to try attracting more minorities.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 39, February 1, 1990 Feb 1990

Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 39, February 1, 1990

Central Florida Future

ROTC catches robber; Macintosh lab virus cured; UCF set to examine ethics.


The Ucf Report, Vol. 12 No. 13, January 24, 1990, University Of Central Florida Jan 1990

The Ucf Report, Vol. 12 No. 13, January 24, 1990, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

UCF holds on to research status; Restructuring means new job titles for employees; Florida's only center for parallel computation opens; Pulitzer prize winner Toni Morrison to speak Feb. 1; News clips.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 36, January 23, 1990 Jan 1990

Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 36, January 23, 1990

Central Florida Future

Student program to air this week; Cold weather caused $10,000 damage to landscaping; Micarelli will resign, teach here.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 35, January 18, 1990 Jan 1990

Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 35, January 18, 1990

Central Florida Future

AASU rallies for King; Magazine's college quality rankings may be misleading; Residents alarmed about chlorine levels in water.


The Ucf Report, Vol. 12 No. 12, January 10, 1990, University Of Central Florida Jan 1990

The Ucf Report, Vol. 12 No. 12, January 10, 1990, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

Administrator returns to classroom in August; Committee elicits campus-wide support to recruit minorities; Convocation to explore cultural diversity on campus; New parking lot adds 598 spaces.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 32, January 9, 1990 Jan 1990

Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 32, January 9, 1990

Central Florida Future

Manatees dissected at UCF; Oren to leave hospital soon; Open beer ruins evening for fraternity; Departmental audits shed light on strengths, needs.


Rollins College Winter Term 1990, Rollins College Jan 1990

Rollins College Winter Term 1990, Rollins College

Text Materials of Central Florida

Rollins College catalogue with list of faculty and students and courses by department.


Rollins College Catalogue, 1990-1991, Rollins College Jan 1990

Rollins College Catalogue, 1990-1991, Rollins College

Text Materials of Central Florida

Rollins College catalogue 1990-1991 with list of faculty and students and courses by department.


The Influence Of Structure On The Function Of An Administrative Unit: Single Focus Academic Structure Or Multiple Focus Academic Structure Raising -- Some Of The Issues, Robert F. Ross, Philip Emmert Jan 1990

The Influence Of Structure On The Function Of An Administrative Unit: Single Focus Academic Structure Or Multiple Focus Academic Structure Raising -- Some Of The Issues, Robert F. Ross, Philip Emmert

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article applies systems theory to examine how academic structure influences departmental functions within small universities, it contrasts single focus academic departments and multiple focus academic departments, assessing their effects on instruction, research, service, enrollment stability, credit hour production, faculty workload, budget flexibility, and administrative power. Through conceptual analysis and illustrative cases, this article argues that multiple focus configurations foster interdisciplinary curriculum, broaden student recruitment, and enable efficient resource allocation, while single focus units face constrained scheduling, program vulnerability, and duplicated governance tasks. It details how structure shapes faculty roles, advising practices, laboratory sharing, graduate program coordination, and external relations, …


"Cinderella" In The Swamp: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Fractured Fairy Tale, Janet L. Boyd Jan 1990

"Cinderella" In The Swamp: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Fractured Fairy Tale, Janet L. Boyd

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature

No abstract provided.


Volume Ii (1989-1990) Jan 1990

Volume Ii (1989-1990)

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature

No abstract provided.


Counterpropagation Neural Network Detection Of Visual Primitives, Cynthia Lynn Johnson Jan 1990

Counterpropagation Neural Network Detection Of Visual Primitives, Cynthia Lynn Johnson

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

Psychological testing has shown that there is an early preattentive stage in the human visual system. At this level, simple features and properties of objects known as visual primitives are detected spatially in parallel by groupings of cells in the visual cortex known as feature maps. In order to study this preattentive stage in a machine vision system, the biologically inspired, highly parallel architecture of the artificial neural network shows great promise. This paper describes how the unique architecture of the counterpropagation neural network was used to simulate the feature maps which detect visual primitives in the human visual system. …


Declines In Student Achievement In Science-- Implications For Public Education, Robert P. Hogan Jan 1990

Declines In Student Achievement In Science-- Implications For Public Education, Robert P. Hogan

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

During the 1960s and 1970s, major innovative science curricula were introduced into public schools in the United States, and federal funds were used to improve the quality of science teachers. Nevertheless, student achievement in science has generally declined since 1963. This research focused on changes in four of the key variables related to science achievement--teachers, students, curricula, and school goals. The research examined (a) meta-analyses of the effectiveness of the innovative science curricula on student achievement, (b) research on changes in teacher and student characteristics during the last 30 years, (c) educational literature on changes in the goals of public …


The Ucf Report, Vol. 12 No. 11, December 14, 1989, University Of Central Florida Dec 1989

The Ucf Report, Vol. 12 No. 11, December 14, 1989, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

Community musters for UCF research status; Orlando Businessman's gift makes banking hair reality; Transportation woes/solutions charge of newly formed group.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 30, December 5, 1989 Dec 1989

Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 30, December 5, 1989

Central Florida Future

Oren still on slow road to recovery after October fight; Burnett donates million for chair; Auxiliaries new fee target.