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Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/46 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Senior school board officials' perceptions of a national achievement assessment program / Marielle Simon [and] Renée Forgette-Giroux.

Inventory, State University System Of Florida Academic Degree Programs, September 2002, State University System Of Florida

SACS Historical Forms and Applications

An inventory of academic degree programs offered at institutions within the State University System of Florida. Universities included are the University of Florida, Florida State University, Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, University of South Florida, Florida Atlantic University, University of West Florida, University of Central Florida, Florida International University, University of North Florida, and Florida Gulf Coast University.

Commencement Convocation Program, Tampa Campus, August 10, 2002, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Honorary Doctorate of Humanities - Randall Robinson; Outstanding Senior - Dan Parshall; King O'Neal Scholars - Alexander Jackson and Yolanda Jamison

The Effects Of Animated Textual Instruction On Learners' Written Production Of German Modal Verb Sentences, Elizabeth A. Caplan

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated the effects of animation for a technology-assisted German grammar presentation on modal verbs. The premise was that many intangible concepts of dynamic grammar involve syntactic components that possess visuo–spatial characteristics. It was further speculated that these characteristics could be more effectively represented by animated versus static instructional presentations.

The supposition that animation would lend pedagogical advantage was supported by dual coding theory (Paivio, 1971, 1990), which posits two functionally separate representational systems, the verbal and the nonverbal, with dynamic mental imagery residing solely in the nonverbal system. The strength of dually coded information is that it is …

Global Collective Resources: A Study Of Monographic Bibliographic Records In Worldcat., Anna H. Perrault

School of Information Faculty Publications

In 2001, WorldCat, the primary international bibliographic utility, contained 45 million records with over 750 million library location listings. These records span over 4,000 years of recorded knowledge in 377 languages.1 Under the auspices of an OCLC/ALISE research grant, a bibliometric study was conducted of WorldCat. A 10% systematic random sample of the database was analyzed utilizing the OCLC iCAS product to profile the monographic bibliographic records in WorldCat by type of library, subject, language, and publication date parameters. The profile details the Ainformation commons@ of global publication made accessible through the OCLC international network. There were 3,378,272 usable records …

Documents From The Usf Phi Beta Kappa Application, June 27, 2002 - November 1, 2003, University Of South Florida

USF University Archives and Documents

Records from June 27, 2002 to November 1, 2003; Includes internal documents discussing USF's experiences with the Phi Beta Kappa application procedure. Most of the records are minutes from the USF Group for Phi Beta Kappa submitted by Alvin W. Wolfe, Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology.

Mentoring Narratives On-Line: Teaching The Principalship, Alison I. Griffith, Svitlana Taraban

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

… This article reports on the new model of principals' training that has been used in York University's Principals' Qualification Program (PQP) from the late 1990s onward. One component of the program brings traditional case methodology into a computer-mediated/on-line environment. The on-line cases are narratives from the everyday lives of the Ontario school administrators who serve as mentors in the on-line environment. ...

Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/27 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Mentoring narratives on-line : teaching the principalship / Alison I. Griffith [and] Svitlana Taraban.

Policy And Practice: Restructuring Teachers' Work, Lisa Kirtman

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

Despite repeated attempts to reform schools, teachers' work has remained surprisingly stable. The purpose of this study was to investigate implementation of a state-funded restructuring initiative that intended broad changes in teachers' professional roles. ...

Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/25 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Policy and practice : restructuring teachers' work / Lisa Kirtman.

Commencement Convocation Program, Tampa Campus, May 4, 2002, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

King O'Neal Scholars - Aaron Anthony Anderson, Leanne Elise Fannin, Alynne Marie Frewin, Binh T. Huynh, Alexander Jackson, Hope Liberty Leblanc, Carolyn Rose Lyon, Kathleen Elizabeth Mierau, Neha Gopal Parikh, Edith Carolyn Phillips, Susan Marie Riedmuller, Naomi Elizabeth Connor, Gerabed R. Sarkissian, Bradley Jay Siefken, Teresa Marie Armentano, Jeanetta Lynn Dean, Alynne Marie Frewin, Desa-Rae Herndon Shirley, and Carrie Elizabeth Thoman; Outstanding Senior - Monica Andrea Mejia; Honorary Doctor of Humanities - J. Dennis Sexton; President's Medallion - Wrner H. Von Rosensteil and J. Patrick "Rick" Michaels

Selection Of Clinical Trials: Knowledge Representation And Acquisition, Savvas Nikiforou

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

When medical researchers test a new treatment procedure, they recruit patients with appropriate health problems and medical histories. An experiment with a new procedure is called a clinical trial. The selection of patients for clinical trials has traditionally been a labor-intensive task, which involves matching of medical records with a list of eligibility criteria.

A recent project at the University of South Florida has been aimed at the automation of this task. The project has involved the development of an expert system that selects matching clinical trials for each patient. If a patient's data are not sufficient for choosing …

The Diffusion Of New Media Scholarship: Power, Innovation, And Resistance In Academe, Judith R. Edminster

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) are an evolving genre of graduate student research that is gaining widespread acceptance among universities in the international community. ETDs are also beginning to diffuse slowly among American universities; however, a number of issues continue to work against more rapid adoption among intitutions in the United States. This dissertation examines ETDs as an evolving electronic research genre by (1) historicizing the situated development of its predecessor, the traditional print dissertation, in nineteenth century German and American Universities; (2) reporting on the current state of the Networked Digital Library of Electronic Theses and Dissertations, an initiative …

Public Participation In Environmental Management: Seeking Participatory Equity Through Ethnographic Inquiry, John V. Stone

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation reports the activities, methods, and key findings of a doctoral research project in applied anthropology and an environmental anthropology fellowship. The research project was conducted through the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, while the fellowship was sponsored jointly by the Society for Applied Anthropology and the United States Environmental Protection Agency and was conducted through the Great Lakes Fellowship Program of the Great Lakes Commission, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Together, these projects demonstrated the utility of an ethnographic approach called Risk Perception Mapping (RPM) to the public consultation and social research interests of the Commission …

The Possibility Of Reform: Micropolitics In Higher Education, Susan Haag, Mary Lee Smith

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

The purpose of this case study was to examine the restructuring of an institution of higher education's teacher preparation program and to assess the possibility for systemic reform. Although teacher education represents a vital link in not only the educational system but in curricular reform, the increased expectations for educational reform made this institution unavoidably more political. ...

Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/21 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Possibility of reform : micropolitics in higher education / Susan Haag [and] Mary Lee Smith.

¿Exito En California? A Validity Critique Of Language Program Evaluations And Analysis Of English Learner Test Scores, Marilyn S. Thompson, Kristen E. Dicerbo, Kate Mahoney, Jeff Macswan

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

… We first discuss the background, media coverage, and previous research associated with California's Proposition 227. We then present a series of validity concerns regarding use of Stanford-9 achievement data to address policy for educating LEP students; these concerns include the language of the test, alternative explanations, sample selection, and data analysis decisions. Finally, we present a comprehensive summary of scaled-score achievement means and trajectories for California's LEP and non-LEP students for 1998-2000. Our analyses indicate that although scores have risen overall, the achievement gap between LEP and EP students does not appear to be narrowing.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/07 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

¬øExito en California? :a validity critique of language program evaluations and analysis of English learner test scores / Marilyn S. Thompson, Kristen E. DiCerbo, Kate Mahoney, [and] Jeff MacSwan.

The Power-Discourse Relationship In A Croatian Higher Education Setting, Renata Fox, John Fox

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

Croatian higher education system's public space is researched through a critical analysis of a Croatian faculty's discourse. Representing a typical faculty social situation, two council meetings— recorded in minutes—are critiqued. Both meetings' minutes provide evidence of discourse strategies of deception used by faculty power holders to create an illusion of consent. We attribute the success of the deception to council members' ideas about the Faculty's groups/individuals, relations and issues related to the Faculty's hierarchy, their rank within that hierarchy, and their position within the Faculty's social network. To support our argument, we explore how the Faculty power holders' discourse is …

Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/05 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Power-discourse relationship in a Croatian higher education setting / Renata Fox [and] John Fox.

Excerpts Of Directory, University Of South Florida, 2002-2003, University Of South Florida

Excerpts of University Directories

Excerpts from the 2002-2003 University of South Florida directory. The pages include numbers for the St. Petersburg campus.

Graduate Education And The Evolving Genre Of Electronic Theses And Dissertations, Joseph M. Moxley

English Faculty Publications

Electronic writing spaces are transforming graduate education-enhancing mentoring and the shape of dissertation content. In this article, we review international efforts to develop the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). We examine the need to amplify access to current scholarship, the need for training materials and centralized metadata, and the need to develop multi-language search interfaces. We explore ways traditional print dissertations are being remediated by electronic writing. We analyze challenges to implementing ETD initiatives, including concerns about preservation, attitudes toward intellectual property, and the training challenges involved in deploying technology to present new research using media and …

Armenians Of Tampa Bay : A Long Way Home, Anna Nefedova

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

Genocide would probably account for more than a half of all the historical research and literature endeavors that have something to do with the Armenian nation. The events of 1915, when the Turks attempted to eradicate the whole nation, and the preceding massacres of the late 19 century give food for reflection enough for many centuries to come. The accounts of the survivors are filled with terror and dismay; there have not been many events in the history of the past century as appalling or as huge in scale and consequences as the genocide of the Armenian nation.

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, December 15, 2001, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

King O'Neal Scholars - Deborah Lee Hart, Laura Michelle Smith, Sherry Lynn Stilley, Timothy M. White, Esther Diane Terry, Jason Trevor LeMay, and Amanda Wilson Newman; Outstanding Senior - Jill Reagan; Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts - Skitch Henderson; Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters - Connie Mack; Honorary Doctorate of Business - Elizabeth "Liz" Girvin Lindsay; President's Distinguished Citizen's Award - Emanuel Stewart; President's Distinguished Citizen Award - C. John A. Clarke

School Choice Policies In The Political Spectacle, Linda Miller-Kahn, Mary Lee Smith

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

This article presents research on school choice. It takes the case of a school district in Boulder, Colorado, through the decade of the 1990s and shows how interest groups took advantage of federal, state, and district policies meant to promote school choice and molded them into a system of schools that met individualistic interests rather than the common good. Extensive interviewing and analysis of documents and media reports served as sources of evidence. The authors argue that district officials accommodated the demands of elite groups of parents to transform the district. ...

Education Policy Analysis Archives 09/50 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

School choice policies in the political spectacle : Linda Miller-Kahn [and] Mary Lee Smith.

High School Size, Achievement Equity, And Cost: Robust Interaction Effects And Tentative Results, Robert Bickel, Craig Howley, Tony Williams, Catherine Glascock

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

… This article has two objectives. First, to determine if the size-by-socioeconomic status interaction effect proves robust across alternative regression model specifications, as it did across differing states. Second, to make a tentative judgment as to whether the equity gains associated with smaller schools are incompatible with the need for fiscal efficiency. ...

Education Policy Analysis Archives 09/40 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

High school size, achievement equity, and cost : robust interaction effects and tentative results / Robert Bickel, Craig Howley, Tony Williams, [and] Catherine Glascock.

Theory And Research In Social Education 29/04 , National Council For The Social Studies. College And University Faculty Assembly

College of Education Publications

No abstract provided.

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, August 11, 2001, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Outstanding Senior - Arian Oriente Marquez; Distinguished Citizen Award - Dr. Sändra Helen Wilson