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Education Policy Analysis Archives 12/34 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Southern association of colleges and schools accreditation : impact on elementary student performance / Darlene Y. Bruner [and] Lance Lamar Brantley.

Commencement Convocation Program, Tampa Campus, May 1, 2004, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

King O'Neal Scholars - Cindy Bethel, Christopher Hagemo, Olumide Olulade, Ralph Skibinski, Brad Decker, Oluwaseun Akinbo, Stephanie Alford, Ricardo Berrios, Susan Kremmel, Erin Laureano, Roxanna Paulin, Patricia Summers, and Steffanie Wilson; Honorary Doctorate of Visual and Performing Arts - Dick Hyman; Honorary Doctorate of Engineering and Military Science - General Tommy Franks; President's Fellow Medallion - Lee Bird Leavengood; President's Fellow Medallion - Victor Leavengood; Outstanding Senior - Julia Lucille Licorish

Organizational Uncertainty Management: Developing A Framework For Public Relations Practitioner Involvement, Marcia L. Watson

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the concept of organizational uncertainty and the involvement of public relations practitioners. Understanding organizational uncertainty is imperative to the success of an organization, but the effects of uncertainty have been relatively undertheorized within public relations.

To close the gap, this study blended multidisciplinary theories pertaining to uncertainty with a triangulated methodological approach. First, this study took a macro-organizational look at uncertainty by analyzing trends in the literature and conducting qualitative in-depth interviews with members of management and employees in an organization. The results of this portion of the study found uncertainty to be multi-layered and the most …

Assessment Of Organizational Readiness To Change And An Intervention Program, Kimberly H. Richards

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This purpose of the study was twofold: to create and assess factors affecting organizational preparation for change and to assist the USF College of Medicine's administrators in developing and implementing an initiative in order to comply with regulations of the accreditation board. Randomly selected program directors participated in three training modules between September and November 2002. The training was targeted toward the development and implementation of learning objectives for medical residents. A panel evaluated the learning objectives developed by both trained and control directors to see whether the training resulted in the development of superior objectives. Additionally, program directors, residents …

Teachers' Perceptions Of Constructivism As An Organizational Change Model: A Case Study, Leanna Stohr Isaacson

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This research described and analyzed a single-site case study of an elementary school of 930 pupils, pre-kindergarten through grade five. The six and one-half-year longitudinal study examined teacher's perceptions of both constructivism as an educational organizational change model and of developing a constructivist philosophy in an entire elementary school. The study examined the background and steps that evolved throughout the reform process.

Specific constructs most frequently appearing in the literature relating to developing an organization were studied: (a) philosophical foundations, (b) change, (c) perception, (d) leadership, (e) teachers as leaders and (f) affect. Research on teachers' perspectives examined key elements …

Article, New Faculty/Administration Profiles, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg, 2004, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

SACS Historical Forms and Applications

An article with a list of new faculty and administrations joining the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.

An Exploration Of The Pay Levels Needed To Attract Students With Mathematics, Science And Technology Skills To A Career In K-12 Teaching, Anthony Milanowski

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

In an exploratory study of the role of salary level and other factors in motivating undergraduate math, science, and technology majors to consider a career as a K-12 teacher, the salary level students said would motivate them to consider a career in teaching was related to the salary expected in their chosen non-teaching occupation, but not to three of the Big 5 personality dimensions of extroversion, agreeableness, and openness, nor concern for others or career risk aversion. ...

Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/50 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Exploration of the pay levels needed to attract students with mathematics, science and technology skills to a career in K-12 teaching / Anthony Milanowski.

Toward An Integrated Communication Theory For Celebrity Endorsement In Fund Raising, Tracie M. Domino

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Throughout the history of the United States, Americans customarily have given away their money, as well as their time to serve the common good. Americans will give "to build something, to fight something, or to save something" (Fink, 1990, p. 136). They make gifts to causes, or the societal problems represented by organizational missions, that are important to them. Individuals give not only to advance a common good, but also to receive private goods, or benefits that are internal, intangible, and in some cases, tangible (Steinberg, 1989).

To create this feeling of reciprocity for prospective donors who have not actually …

Systems Of Practice: How Leaders Use Artifacts To Create Professional Community In Schools, Richard R. Halverson

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

This article explores how local school leaders construct the conditions for professional community in their schools. This paper argues that professional community is a special form of social capital that results, in part, from the design and implementation of facilitating structural networks by instructional leaders in schools. The structural aspects of a school community can be conceived as a system of practice, that is, a network of structures, tasks and traditions that create and facilitate complex webs of practice in organizations.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/37 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Systems of practice : how leaders use artifacts to create professional community in schools / Richard R. Halverson.

Agenda And Minutes, University Of South Florida Board Of Trustees Meeting, August 21, 2003, University Of South Florida. Board Of Trustees

SACS Historical Forms and Applications

Agenda, minutes, and agenda items for meetings of the University of South Florida's Board of Trustees. Most of the documents are for the August 21, 2003, meeting.

Directory, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Faculty Directory, Academic Year 2003-2004, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

SACS Historical Forms and Applications

Screenshots of the faculty directory of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg for the 2003-2004 academic year.

Secondary Education In Argentina During The 1990s: The Limits Of A Comprehensive Reform Effort, Jorge M. Gorostiaga, Clementina Acedo, Susan E. Xifra

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

… This study describes the main policies on secondary education implemented during the last decade, including their objectives and rationales. Focusing on how the reform can be seen to relate to issues of access, quality and equity, the study presents an analysis of its implementation, and discusses some of its effects. We argue that political, economic and technical factors as well as the strategies chosen by the national government resulted in a limited implementation, and we highlight the need for considering more focused reform strategies, alternative models of teacher training, and a more active involvement of teachers.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/17 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Secondary education in Argentina during the 1990s : the limits of a comprehensive reform effort / Jorge M. Gorostiaga, Clementina Acedo [and] Susana E. Xifra.

Agenda And Minutes, University Of South Florida Board Of Trustees Meeting, May 15, 2003, University Of South Florida. Board Of Trustees

SACS Historical Forms and Applications

Agenda and minutes for the University of South Florida's Board of Trustees. The majority of the documents relate to the May 15, 2003, meeting of the Board.

An Examination Of The Relationship Between Organizational Structure And Transit Performance, Cutr

Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Leading Learning Through Imposition Of Leadership Learning Standards, Raymond D. Jorgensen

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study explored the impact of an imposed standards movement on attitudes and behaviors of a team of line leaders. A case method was employed to describe, to explain, and to draw conclusions about results of standards imposition. Standards were designed and implemented by an executive leadership team frustrated with lack of effective leadership practices of a line leaders team under their supervision. The investigation took an historical perspective, chronicling the story of the company, emerging leadership challenges, and executive leadership responses leading up to the research.

The line or team leaders of an educational software company served as participants. …

Minutes, Juvenile Welfare Board, October 10, 2002, Janet Caramello

Juvenile Welfare Board Agendas, Minutes, and Historical Audits

Minutes from the October 10, 2002, meeting of the Juvenile Welfare Board. Attached as supplemental files are previous meeting minutes and reports to review before the meeting.

Minutes, Juvenile Welfare Board, September 12, 2002, Cecilia Burke

Juvenile Welfare Board Agendas, Minutes, and Historical Audits

Minutes from the September 12, 2002, meeting of the Juvenile Welfare Board. Attached as supplemental files are previous meeting minutes and reports to review before the meeting.

Innovatively Saving The Future Of Transportation: Small Aircraft Transportation System (Sats), Jocelyn Nickerson, Brent Bowen, Russell Smith, Scott Tarry, Massoum Moussavi

Journal of Public Transportation

The aviation industry is a rapidly changing entity of the world’s economy. Millions of travelers consistently choose aviation as their mode of transportation because it is reliable, time-efficient, and safe. However, high demand has led to delays, cancellations, and gridlock. As the need for efficient travel options increases, passengers will look for other avenues of travel. Fortuitously, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its partners are developing a unique and innovative alternative to this problem. The solution, known as the Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS), will likely change the face of general aviation (GA) as it is known …

Conditions That Promote Creativity At Public Transit Agencies, Cutr

Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Home Schooling In The United States: Trends And Characteristics, Kurt J. Bauman

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

... This report uses the 1994 October CPS, and the National Household Education Survey of 1996 and 1999 to examine popular characterizations of the home school population. The article assembles evidence from several sources to confirm that home schooling is growing. ...

Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/26 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Home schooling in the United States : trends and characteristics / Kurt J. Bauman.

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

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.

Minutes, Juvenile Welfare Board, April 11, 2002, Cecilia Burke

Juvenile Welfare Board Agendas, Minutes, and Historical Audits

Minutes from the April 11, 2002, meeting of the Juvenile Welfare Board. Attached as supplemental files are previous meeting minutes and reports to review before the meeting.

Entrepreneurial Ambitions In The Public Sector: A Random Effects Model Of The Emergency Of Charter Schools In North Carolina, Linda A. Renzulli

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

In this article, I study charter schools as social innovations within the population of established public educational institutions. I begin by briefly outlining the history of public schools in the United States. I apply organizational theories to explain the perpetuation of the structure of public schools since World War II. ...

Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/19 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Entrepreneurial ambitions in the public sector : a random effects model of the emergence of charter schools in North Carolina / Linda A. Renzulli.