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Cave Research Foundation Quarterly, Volume 31, No. 3, September 2003, William Payne

KIP Articles

Contents: Caving Hawaii's Big Island: The Kapuka Kanohina System -- William Thomas Austin: 1927-2003 An Appreciation / Phillip M. Smith -- Burn Hamilton Valley? Options for Future Management / Mick Sutton and Sue Hagan -- Introducing the Cave Conservancy of Hawaii / Don Coons -- Regional Expedition Reports -- 2003 Expedition Calendar

Embracing Pedagogical Pluralism: An Educator's Case For (At Least Public) School Choice, David J. Ferrero

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

… Three objections to a conception of school choice grounded in a notion of reasonable pluralism among educational doctrines are addressed: 1) that it would undermine educators' efforts to secure status for themselves as professionals by admitting that “best practices” in education offer rough guidance at best; 2) that it would leave parents and students vulnerable to quackery; 3) that it abandons the common school tradition and its aspirations. ...

Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/30 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Embracing pedagogical pluralism : an educator, Äôs case for (at least public) school choice / David J. Ferrero.

Comments On Weiner, Resnick And Scientific Debate, Jonathan Goodman

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

Lois Weiner (2003) and Lauren Resnick (2003) have advanced substantially different views of the success of the reforms undertaken by Community School District Two (CSD2) in New York city. Weiner's position vis a vis District Two has probably conferred a greater measure of objectivity to her views. Criticisms of scholarly work, even when sharply worded, are neither personal nor unscientific; indeed they are quite common in all the sciences.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/29 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Comments on Weiner, Resnick and scientific debate / Jonathan Goodman.

Commencement Convocation Program, Tampa Campus, August 9, 2003, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

King O'Neal Scholars - Jeni Elaine Norstrom and Candee Lynn West; Outstanding Senior - Juno Priscilla Paramadevan; Honorary Doctorate of Humanities - Robert W. Saunders, Sr.

The Role Of Theory And Policy In The Educational Treatment Of Language Minority Students: Competitive Structures In California, Tom T. Stritikus, Eugene Garcia

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

… In this article, we examine the theoretical and policy-based positions currently competing to shape the nature of educational practice for language minority students. We highlight the salient theoretical differences between additive and subtractive conceptions for the education of language minority students and their policy- and practice-based implications. ...

Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/26 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Role of theory and policy in the educational treatment of language minority students : competitive structures in California / Tom T. Stritikus [and] Eugene Garcia.

Roster, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Faculty Roster, Fall 2003 And Spring 2004, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

SACS Historical Forms and Applications

Roster of faculty at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg for the academic year 2003-2004.

Educational Policy Formation In Loosely Coupled Systems: Some Salient Features Of Guatemala's Public And Private School Sectors, Carlos R. Ruano

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

The purpose of this article is to analyze the formulation and implementation of educational policy processes in relation to private schools in Guatemala. Specifically, how bilingual education is defined and implemented in the private education sector in Guatemala City where the largest number of privately run establishments exist. ...

Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/21 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Educational policy formation in loosely coupled systems : some salient features of Guatemala's public and private school sectors / Carlos R. Ruano.

Representation And Interpretation Of Manual And Non-Manual Information For Automated American Sign Language Recognition, Ayush S. Parashar

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Continuous recognition of sign language has many practical applications and it can help to improve the quality of life of deaf persons by facilitating their interaction with hearing populace in public situations. This has led to some research in automated continuous American Sign Language recognition. But most work in continuous ASL recognition has only used top-down Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based approaches for recognition. There is no work on using facial information, which is considered to be fairly important. In this thesis, we explore bottom-up approach based on the use of Relational Distributions and Space of Probability Functions (SoPF) for …

Music Programs That Engage Our Communities: Making A Stronger Connection, La Gretta Snowden

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to review a significant body of literature that related to music and arts education in the context of community engagement. An examination of the literature identified several issues affecting the engagement of communities in arts education pertaining to arts education policies, the role of arts organizations and the relationship between schools and communities. The summation of this research included an overview of models of successful collaborations between the public school and community institutions at national, state, and local levels in the United States with implications of future reform to the arts education policy.

With …

Contribution Of Ivan Gams To The Development Of Slovene Karst Terminology, Jurij Kunaver

KIP Articles

The stage of the scientific terminology is by all means one of the indicators of the development of the scientific branch, to which it belongs. Therefore the publishing of the Slovene karst terminology in 1973 was an important event for further development of Slovene karstology. Still more, the efforts for a comparative national karst terminologies of former common state Yugoslavia were successfully achieved in publishing the Serbian and Croatian karst terminology also, a year later. In fact, the former Association of the geographical societies of Yugoslavia decided to give full support to its subcommission in preparing the project Karst terminology …

French Native Shares French Culture With Usf St. Petersburg, May 30, 2003, Pam Bellis

USF St. Petersburg Campus News and Press Releases

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Computer Mediated Peer Response And Its Impact On Revision In The College Spanish Classroom: A Case Study, Ruth Roux-Rodriguez

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Peer response in which students work together in dyads or small groups to critique and provide feedback on one another's writing is compatible with communicative approaches to foreign language teaching and process approaches to the teaching of writing. Computer-mediated communication has been considered a viable tool for both the teaching of languages and the teaching of writing. There is, however, scant information on how computer-mediated peer response functions in the foreign language classroom. This dissertation investigated how college Spanish learners provided feedback to their peers and the impact of feedback on revision. It also examined the factors that influenced how …

Commencement Convocation Program, Tampa Campus, May 3, 2003, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

King O'Neal Scholars - Amanda Celeste Hall, Philip Charles Hart, Aida E. Kuri, Sarah Lahlou-Amine, David Joseph Lienhart, Laura Marie Woodruff, David Larocque, Kristen Renee Moore, Kimberly Marie Palubin, Elizabeth Ann Perkins, Rebecca Hope Russell, Carolina Yael Sznajderman, Kelly Suzanne Roark, Jennifer Dean Taylor, Ashley Megan Hopkins, and Gregory Donald Price; Outstanding SEnior - Carlene Rachel Brown; President's Distinguished Citizen - Honorable Dick Greco; Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters - Joy Daugherty; Honorary Doctorate Business Administration - Fassil Gabremariam

Hearing Evaluation In Infants: An Update For Pediatricians, Janet E. Sullivan

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This paper provides an overview of developmental timetables relevant to hearing and of current pediatric audiological techniques and practices. The first sections summarize structural and functional development of the auditory pathway and the development of primary auditory processing. These developmental sequences appear to follow similar paths in humans and animals. Speech and music perception involve more complex processing and are strongly influenced by experience. Hearing disorders affect the perception of complex sounds in a variety of ways, depending on the site(s) of lesions. Early onset hearing impairment, including conductive loss from chronic otitis media, can seriously impede language development.

Language …

Designing Interactive Multimedia For The Anthropology Exhibit Gallery, Kelley Curtis

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Computer-based multimedia offer an alternative means of providing instruction to learners in two primary, yet disparate, ways. Multimedia can be used to convey information to learners, or alternatively, learners can make use of multimedia to impart information. One example of the use of multimedia technologies at the University of South Florida is an interactive computer kiosk installed in the Anthropology Exhibit Gallery. The development of the educational program featured on the kiosk's touchscreen computer is the subject of this paper.

The purpose of the kiosk's program was twofold: 1) to introduce the field of anthropology to university students and the …

Charitable Choice In Florida: The Politics, Ethics And Implications Of Social Policy, Angela Gomez

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation research is a study of the anthropology of policy with welfare reform in general and charitable choice in particular as its focus. The study begins with the notion that policies work as instruments of governance and consequently have social and political implications. These policies are examined by exploring the manner in which Catholic Charities and policy makers in Florida are responding to the charitable choice mandate and how their views are shaping local policies.

The study is framed within anthropological principles pertaining to economic, humanistic and philosophical tenets. The study provides a historical background of poverty, the development …

Pipe Dreams And Primitivism: Eugene O'Neill And The Rhetoric Of Ethnicity, Donald P. Gagnon

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Eugene O'Neill included within his vision of humanity a series of complex, emotionally and psychologically developed black characters. Despite critical controversy over his methods or effectiveness, from his eerily silent mulatto in "Thirst" through the grandiose incarnation of The Emperor Jones and the everyman of Joe Mott and The Iceman Cometh, O'Neill created characters of African descent that thrilled and infuriated critics and audiences alike.

A closer exploration of the issues involved in his portrayal of ethnically identified characters seems necessary, an exploration that does not limit itself to an interrogation of ethnicity per se in O'Neill's plays, but …

Effects Of Bilingualism, Noise, And Reverberation On Speech Perception By Listeners With Normal Hearing, Dashielle M. Febo

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The accurate perception of spoken English is influenced by many variables, including the listener's native language, reverberation, and background noise. Few studies of speech perception by bilingual listeners have carefully controlled for second language proficiency and even fewer have presented speech in everyday listening environments that contain noise and reverberation. In the present study, detailed language background, language proficiency information, and individual language samples were collected and the speech stimuli were presented in a variety of quiet, noisy, and reverberant listening environments.

The effects of noise and reverberation on the perception of American English monosyllabic words was examined for two …

The Weekly Challenger, January 23, 2003, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The January 23, 2003, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

The Weekly Challenger, January 16, 2003, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The January 16, 2003, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Impact Of Globalisation On Information Seeking: The Role Of Cultural Lenses And Indigenous Knowledge, Ardis Hanson

Dean's Office Publications

How can understanding cultural lenses help us rethink constructs that have been taken for granted and assist in identifying new problems of significance in the delivery of information and the establishment of discrete, culturally based cyber-communities? With the increased access of global information, a critical question is how does an individual (or political entity) acquire information that is bias-free as possible that can be reviewed and interpreted in the appropriate context (indigenous knowledge). This paper attempts to provide a discussion of cultural lenses and indigenous knowledge in the development of information seeking behaviours and the design of information systems.

Pair-Bonding And The Evolutionary Trajectory Of Homo: Disease Avoidance As An Adaptive Trait, Ronald S. Immerman, Wade C. Mackey

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

As the ancestors of both the great apes and humans began to separate into two lineages, several distinctions emerged and solidified for the separate genera. It is suggested here that the sequelae to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and subsequent behavioral tendencies to avoid sexually transmitted diseases played an important role in forging the unique character of the Australopithecine/Homo line. In particular, the advantage of pair-bonding versus promiscuity in avoiding STDs would facilitate the crystallization of both the nascent nuclear family and the man-to-child affiliative bond. In addition, the unexpectedly small sexual dimorphism of Homo is suggested to be a …

Body Image As A Function Of Colorism: Testing A Theoretical Model, Alicia V. Hall

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

A Covariate Structure Model was used to examine a possible relationship between colorism as a component of body image and global psychological functioning in the hypothesized model. Two hundred-fifty-five African-American women were recruited from undergraduate psychology and social work classes to participate in the current study from state and community colleges in the southeastern United States, and from social groups and church organizations. The results indicated that the hypothesized model was not a good fit to the data; therefore, the model was re-evaluated. The results of the analysis of the revised model indicated that the revised model was not plausible. …

Hamlet Haven: An Online, Annotated Bibliography, Harmonie Loberg

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The Challenge: Today a daunting quantity of scholarship relating to Hamlet exists. While databases and electronic catalogues aid research, these directories present a virtual wall of minimal bibliographic data. Sorting through lists still takes eons. Meanwhile, new publications are constantly added to the academic stacks that ever threaten to tumble over.

The Solution: A web site that groups together scholarly publications using similar approaches and treating similar subjects will translate the overwhelming into the maneuverable. The online medium will provide accessibility to everyone--student, research assistant, instructor, scholar--and will guarantee the opportunity to update this resource on a regular basis.

Scope: …

Belonging In Parent-School Partnerships: Perspectives Of Parents Of Middle School Students With Autism, Michael Wayne Riley

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The goal of this study is to contribute to understandings of parent-school relationships involving parents of students with autism by exploring notions of belonging with a small group of parents. The purpose of the study is to describe the experiences of middle school parents of children with autism. From these descriptions, I examined how parents of students with autism might contribute to understandings of belonging in school-family partnerships and enable schools and families to collaborate more effectively. This study addresses an apparent gap in understandings of belonging of parents of children with autism in their relationships with their child's school. …

Senior School Board Officials' Perceptions Of A National Achievement Assessment Program, Marielle Simon, Renée Forgette-Giroux

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

The School Achievement Indicators Program (SAIP) has been collecting data across Canada on 13- and 16-year-old student achievement in mathematics, in science, and in reading and writing since 1993. In 1999, it completed its second assessment cycle and was reviewed in Spring 2000. The review design included a survey of officials from all the school boards/districts that participated in the science assessment program held in 1999. ...