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Critical Thinking In Teacher Education: A Process-Oriented Research Agenda, Paul Hager, Michael Kaye

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

In recent years, critical thinking has become a central focus of education, especially in North America. Within this focus, there has been a major debate regarding the generalisability of specificity of critical thinking. The main issue in this connection appears to have been whether critical thinking needs to be closely linked with traditional disciplines. If critical thinking is really as vital as its proponents maintain, then it will also be important in applied fields such as teacher education. It is our intention in this paper to explore the implications, for teacher education, of taking critical thinking seriously.

Never Mind The Edu, What About The Cate? The Background To Current Developments In English Teacher Education, Tony Becher

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

If anyone were misguided enough to offer a prize for the sector of English education most subject to government intervention, the institutions concerned with initial teacher training would win it hands down. The intervention (a less polite word would be interference) has, over time, taken three main forms: alterations to the structure and organisation of provision; attempts to match student numbers to subsequent demand; and control over curricular content. This paper is an attempt to take a relatively longterm view of relevant developments, setting the present situation in its historical context. It will thus necessarily adopt a broad-brush rather than …

Contextualizing The Competency-Based Schooling, Victor V. Soucek

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

To a classroom teacher the current debate about work-related competencies might appear far removed from his/her classroom and have no significance for teacher education. Yet the proposed policy changes are likely to affect the work and the professional status of teachers in a very direct way. As Whitty and Willmott (1991: 312) point out, one of the fundamental problems of competency-based teaching/training (CBT) approach consists in the difficulty to define just how narrow or broad the competencies might be. A too narrow definition based on observable work-related skills might indicate a radical departure from the traditional role teachers played in …

The National Schools Project At Belmont Senior High School: A Formative Review Of The First Nine Months, Rod Chadbourne

Research outputs pre 2011

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Partnerships, Steven A. Waters, Matthew D. Goetz

SMU Law Review

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Criminal Law, Chuck Miller, Lisa Dotin, Kathryn Holland

SMU Law Review

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Judicial Deference To Nonlegal Decisionmakers: Imposing Simplistic Solutions On Problems Of Cognitive Complexity In Mental Disability Law, Donald N. Bersoff

SMU Law Review

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Something Special In The Fares - Regulating Commercial Airline Advertising, Amy Nicol Marlowe

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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Christian Charities And Cultural Changes: A Descriptive Study , Floyd C. Babcock

ATS Dissertations

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Developing The Family's Spiritual Life Through The Spiritual Disciplines , Milan Brown Dekich

ATS Dissertations

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Mission Possible: United Methodist Church Renewal In New England , Stephen D. Martin

ATS Dissertations

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A Search For The Christology Of The Jehovah's Witnesses As Interpreted Through Its Historical Development, Bart Leu

ATS Dissertations

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A Descriptive Dissertation On The Effective Utilization Of Word Pictures In Distinctive Narrative Sermon Designs As Interpreted By The Boyd Stokes Reaction Questionnaire In The Adult Sunday School Classes Of The Whiteville United Methodist Church, Homer Edward Morris

ATS Dissertations

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Statement Of Position Regarding Mandatory Rotation Of Audit Firms Of Publicly Held Companies, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Sec Practice Section

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

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Minimizing Homeowner Expenses: Cost Cutting Tips, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Communications Division

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

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Internal Control, Integrated Framework: Evaluation Tools September 1992, Committee Of Sponsoring Organizations Of The Treadway Commission

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

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The Ute Mode Of War In The Conflict Of 1865-1868, Albert Winkler

Faculty Publications

The Ute Indians of Utah rebelled in 1865 which led to war for the next three years. Throughout the conflict, small numbers of Utah warriors showed great skill in raiding white settlements of central Utah and in keeping their enemies at bay.

Law Librarianship: A Forum, Bob Berring, Mark Estes, Penny Hazelton, Kathie Price, Joanne Zich

Articles

Law librarianship is a profession that has a proud history and a bright future, yet it is not without its problems and concerns. For this issue of Law Library Lights, we have gathered together a number of luminaries in the field and asked them a number of questions related to the most important issues facing our community: professional image, additional roles, education and training, ethics, minority recruitment, budget crunch, technology, vendors, and the future.

This exchange was published in volume 35, issue number 5, May/June 1992.

A Superfund Trivia Test: A Comment On The Complexity Of Environmental Laws, William H. Rodgers, Jr.

Articles

Professor Rodgers examines the reasons for the American obsession with trivia. While unable to determine the cause of the obsession, he does provide some insight on the usefulness and need for the information in the study of environmental law.

The Keepers And The Kept: The First Hundred Years Of The Tennessee State Prison System, 1830-1930. (Volumes I And Ii)., Larry D. Gossett

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Tennessee built its first state penitentiary in Nashville in 1830 on Sixteenth and Church Streets on land that is now a downtown parking lot. Revisions in the criminal code made many offenses punishable by imprisonment instead of corporal or capital punishment, and the convict population grew steadily. Continuing concern was expressed by the General Assembly that the penitentiary be self-supporting, and much effort was expended at all levels of government to accomplish that end. This study covers the history of approximately the first one hundred years of the Tennessee State Prison System. It begins with an overview of the criminal …

Improvement Of The Data Analysis Algorithm By Applying The Decision Tree Method., Won Chan Jung

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Data analysis (reconstructability analysis) is an area used on a data set which has several variables and a function value to find the most important factor that causes the function values to fall within a desired range. Normal data analysis algorithm (1) finds the most important factor in O (2$\sp{n})$ time. This dissertation introduces a newly developed system of algorithms called the Data Analyzing Tree (DAT) which is designed to either reduce the time complexity or produce more accurate results. DAT-1 uses O $(n\sp2)$ time to produce the same results as the normal data analysis method, and DAT-2 produces the …

Photophysics And Photoredox Reactions Of Molybdenum(Iii) And Molybdenum(V) Complexes., Abdul Kabir Mohammed

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The solution photophysics and photoredox reactions of several Mo$\sp{\rm III}$ and Mo$\sp{\rm V}$ complexes have been studied. Acetonitrile solutions of (Me$\sb3$ (9) aneN$\sb3$)MoX$\sb3$ (X = Cl, Br, I; Me$\sb3$ (9) aneN$\sb3$ = 1,4,7-trimethyl-1,4,7-triazacyclononane) are phosphorescent at room temperature, with the following emission maxima, lifetimes, and quantum yields: X = Cl, 1120 nm, 1.0 $\mu$s, and 6.1 $\times$ 10$\sp{-5}$; X = Br, 1130 nm, 800 ns, and 9.6 $\times$ 10$\sp{-5}$; X = I, 1160 nm, 400 ns, and 1.2 $\times$ 10$\sp{-4}$. HB(Me$\sb2$pz)$\sb3$MoCl$\sb3$ (Me$\sb2$pz = 3,5-dimethylpyrazole), (Me$\sb3$ (9) aneN$\sb3$)WCl$\sb3$ and mer-MoCl$\sb3$(pyridine)$\sb3$ phosphoresce more weakly. All three molybdenum-Me$\sb3$ (9) aneN$\sb3$ complexes undergo reversible …

Normal And Pathological Breakdown In Arabic., Sabah Safi-Stagni

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The grammatical structure of Arabic allows for significant cross-linguistic comparisons in the study of Slips-of-the-tongue as well as aphasia. The dissertation presents a case study of the aphasic deficit in the speech of a speaker of Arabic, in particular, the Hijazi dialect spoken in the Western Province of Saudi Arabia, with a subsequent comparison with regular slips-of-the-tongue in the same dialect collected and analyzed by the same author. Both the slips-of-the-tongue data and the aphasia data have been collected in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by the present investigator. It was observed that in such a highly inflected language, …

American Civil Religion And The Presidential Rhetoric Of Jimmy Carter., Michael James Adee

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Scholars have long speculated about the role of American civil religion and political discourse. Of particular interest to rhetorical scholars is the function of a civil religion idiom within presidential discourse. The cornerstone of this study is founded upon Rod Hart's ideas in The Political Pulpit (1977) wherein the nature of American civil religion is described through the metaphor of a legal contract. A rhetorical approach to civil religion provides the framework for this study. Nine major public speeches by Carter as candidate and president, from 1974 to 1979, are examined in order to locate and identify the symbolic breeches …

A Formal Methodology For The Specification Of Distributed Systems From An Object Perspective., Sangbum Lee

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Distributed computing systems are systems in which multiple processors run independently by communicating with each other. The design of distributed systems is difficult to achieve as the execution patterns of distributed system are typically more complex than those of non-distributed computing systems. The application of object-oriented techniques to the design of distributed systems has the potential to increase the power of modeling and computing. A formal methodology which includes a specification language, developed from an object perspective, for the development of distributed systems is presented. The formal specification language, DOSL (Distributed Object-based Specification Language), represents the specification of distributed systems …

Shell-Model Description Of Rotational Motion In Odd-Mass Nuclei., Husney Ahmed Naqvi

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

An algebraic shell-model realization of a quantum rotor for integral and half-integral angular momenta is introduced. The underlying symmetry of the theory is the SU(3) $\supset$ SO(3) group structure. The algebraic model reproduces the eigenvalues of the quantum rotor hamiltonian well for normal shell-model configurations; the mapping is exact for small values of the angular momentum in large SU(3) representations. A shell-model hamiltonian using this algebraic realization of the quantum rotor and other non-central one-body interactions is used to reproduce the experimental spectra of representative even and odd-mass ds-shell nuclei.

Stratigraphic Architecture Of An Extensional Orogen: The Mojave Extensional Belt, Southern California., Christopher John Travis

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Field-based studies and quantitative models provide new insights into the stratigraphic architecture of a developing continental extensional orogen. The early Miocene age Mojave Extensional Belt of southern California (MEB) exhibits a tripartite stratigraphy, consisting of (1) pre- to early synextension volcanic deposits, unconformably overlain by (2) syntectonic basement-derived megabreccia and breccia with local finer-grained units, overlain by (3) a posttectonic fining-upward sequence of gravel, sand, shale, and limestone. On a more local scale, stratigraphy and sediment dispersal within the MEB reflect the evolution of the major tectonic elements of the belt: (1) Breakaway zone. Strata of the western Newberry Mountains …

Internal Labor Markets: Labor Process And Market Power Effects., Rebecca Grace Long

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study contends that previous investigations into the nature of internal labor markets have been hampered by their dependence on various macro-level variables (e.g., sectors, industries, strategies) that ignore the often wide variation of employment arrangements within individual firms. It proposes that a better understanding of the employment arrangements associated with individual jobs may be gained by not only examining a job's technological components, but also the relative power of a firm's various coalitions. The data used in the reported study were acquired from the headquarters of the U.S. Bureau of Employment and Training's Occupational Field Analysis Centers in Raleigh, …

Identification Of Plant Science Concepts Needed In Agriscience Programs Of The Future., Camile Patrick Gaspard

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to identify the plant science concepts which should be taught in secondary agriculture programs of the future as perceived by innovators in the field of plant science. The Delphi technique was used to gain the perceptions of a nation-wide panel of plant science professionals. The panel was comprised of three groups of plant scientists: secondary plant science teachers, university plant scientists, and plant scientists working in industry. The secondary plant science teachers were selected from the national and regional winners of the agriscience teacher award. The university plant scientists and plant scientists working in …

Musical Invention And Poetry In The Late Vocal Works Of Anton Webern., Melanie S. Kronick

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

From the time of his composition of Op. 23 (1933-34) until his death, Anton Webern composed a series of important twelve-tone vocal works whose texts are drawn exclusively from the poetry of Hildegard Jone. Yet Webern scholars typically ignore the texts of these works when analyzing the scores in which the poems are embedded. My discussion shows, however, that Webern made important musical choices as a result of the poetic content of his texts. While Jone's poems are plentiful in metaphors of natural phenomena and images from German romantic poetry, I argue that they are concerned as much with poetic …