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Student Evaluation Of Teaching: A Methodological Critique Of Conventional Practices, Robert Sproule

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

The purpose of the present work is twofold. The first is to outline two arguments that challenge those who would advocate a continuation of the exclusive use of raw SET data in the determination of "teaching effectiveness" in the "summative" function. The second purpose is to answer this question: "In the face of such challenges, why do university administrators continue to use these data exclusively in the determination of 'teaching effectiveness'?" ...

Education Policy Analysis Archives 08/50 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Student evaluation of teaching : a methodological critique of conventional practices / Robert Sproule.

The Cowl - V.64 - N.9 - Nov 2, 2000

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 64 - No. 9 - November 2, 2000. 32 pages.

Universal Quantum Limits On Single-Channel Information, Entropy, And Heat Flow, Miles Blencowe, Vincenzo Vitelli

Dartmouth Scholarship

We show that the recently discovered universal upper bound on the thermal conductance of a single channel comprising particles obeying arbitrary fractional statistics is in fact a consequence of a more general universal upper bound, involving the averaged entropy and energy currents of a single channel connecting heat reservoirs with arbitrary temperatures and chemical potentials. The latter upper bound in turn leads, via Holevo's theorem, to a universal (i.e., statistics independent) upper bound on the optimum capacity for classical information transmission down a single, wideband quantum channel.

The Learning Marketspace, November 1, 2000, Bob Heterick

The Learning MarketSpace (7/99 - 2/03)

No abstract provided.

November 1, 2000 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

Sfde's As Dynamical Systems (Symposium 2000/2001, University Of Warwick), Salah-Eldin A. Mohammed

Miscellaneous (presentations, translations, interviews, etc)

No abstract provided.

Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 3, November 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University

BITs and PCs Newsletter

A ten page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.

Tabletop Accelerators Are Brighter And Faster, Phil Schewe, Ben Stein, Donald P. Umstadter

Donald Umstadter Publications

At last week's APS plasma physics meeting, Donald Umstadter of the University of Michigan's Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (734-764-2284, [email protected]) reported on advances at his lab and elsewhere in tabletop laser accelerators, devices that use light to accelerate beams of electrons and protons to energies of a million volts in distances of only microns. This acceleration rate or "gradient" is up to a thousand times larger than in conventional accelerators because the tabletop laser light can now exert pressures of gigabars, the highest ever achieved, and approaching the pressure of light near the Sun. Not only that, but Umstadter's …

Hexapod Herald - Vol. 12, No. 5, November 2000

Hexapod Herald and Other Entomology Department Newsletters

Calendar of events

Grants

Welcome

Congratulations

Publications

Travel

From the office

American Square Dance Vol. 55, No. 11 (Nov. 2000), Juiare, Ed, Juiare, Pat

American Squares

Monthly square dance magazine that began publication in 1945.

Cwu Faculty Senate Minutes - 11/01/2000, Nancy Bradshaw

Faculty Senate Minutes

These are the official Central Washington University Faculty Senate Minutes for the 11/01/2000 regular meeting.

Proceedings Of The Arkansas Water Resources Center Annual Conference: Environmental Hydrology, Kenneth F. Steele

Arkansas Water Resources Center Technical Reports

The papers and abstracts in these proceedings are the result of a joint conference of the Arkansas Water Resources Center (A WRC) with the SouthCentral Section of the Geological Society of America. The joint conference was a success with about 250 participants. A WRC sponsored two sessions on Environmental Hydrology and a short course titled "Hydrogeology and Geochemistry of Salt Water Contamination." The Environmental Hydrology presentations covered wide-ranging topics that reflect the diversity of the environmental settings across Arkansas. Topics ranged from salt water and critical ground water issues in the Delta to endangered species and interbasin ground-water recharge in …

Codebook: The Lsay 1999 School Survey For The Y98 Cohort Technical Report No. 23, Sue Fullarton

LSAY Technical Reports

Students participating in this LSAY cohort were originally sampled in 1998 from 296 schools nationally. In 1999, the schools from which the original sample of students was drawn took part in a survey to collect information about the features and programs of schools, as well as features of teachers and teaching, which might influence the progress of students in their school and in their later work careers. The survey involved two questionnaires: (1) a school questionnaire to be completed by the principal (or other school representative) and (2) a questionnaire to a sample of ten Year 10 teachers. The assistance …

17th Annual Reception Bibliography, 1999-2000, Leonard H. Axe Library

Bibliographies

Since 1984, Leonard H. Axe Library at Pittsburg State University has honored book authors and other creators for their outstanding scholarship and contributions to their fields.

Holography, A Covariant C Function, And The Geometry Of The Renormalization Group, Vatche Sahakian

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

We propose a covariant geometrical expression for the c function for theories which admit dual gravitational descriptions. We state a c theorem with respect to this quantity and prove it. We apply the expression to a class of geometries, from domain walls in gauged supergravities, to extremal and near extremal Dp-branes, and the AdS Schwarzschild black hole. In all cases, we find agreement with expectations.

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

Paramagnetic Meissner Effect In Nb Disks, Petru S. Fodor, Lowell E. Wenger

Physics Faculty Publications

Further details of the zero-field-cooled-magnetization and field-cooled-magnetization results on Nb disks exhibiting the paramagnetic Meissner effect (PME) are described. These studies indicate that two well-defined temperatures can be associated with features in the magnetization results. The higher characteristic temperature Tu is correlated with appearance of the paramagnetic moment and is strongly dependent upon the process used in forming the disk-shaped geometry of these Nb samples. The lower temperature Tp is associated with the “intrinsic coupling” of the interior Nb platelets. These latest results are shown to be consistent with the flux compression model for the appearance of the PME.

The Computational Complexity Of N-K Fitness Functions, Alden H. Wright, Richard K. Thompson, Jian Zhang

Computer Science Faculty Publications

N-K fitness landscapes have been widely used as examples and test functions in the field of evolutionary computation. Thus, the computational complexity of these landscapes as optimization problems is of interest. We investigate the computational complexity of the problem of optimizing the N-K fitness functions and related fitness functions. We give an algorithm to optimize adjacent-model N-K fitness functions which is polynomial in N. We show that the decision problem corresponding to optimizing random-model N-K fitness functions is NP-complete for K > 1 and is polynomial for K = 1. If the restriction that the ith component function depends …

Geosciences Newsletter - 2000, Department Of Geosciences

Geological and Environmental Sciences News

Vol.1, No. 25

• Greetings All
• Faculty News
• Groundwater Education in Michigan News
• Graduate Student News
• Alumni News
• Advisory Council News

Mathematics & Statistics Newsletter November 2000, Rit Department Of Mathematics And Statistics

RIT Digital Archives

No abstract provided.

Surface Extrapolation Length And Director Structures In Confined Nematics, Nikolai V. Priezjev, Robert A. Pelcovits

Mechanical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications

We report the results of Monte Carlo simulations of the Lebwohl-Lasher model of nematic liquid crystals confined to cylindrical cavities with homeotropic anchoring. We show that the ratio of the bulk to surface couplings is not in general equal to the corresponding parameter K/W used in elastic theory (where K is the Frank elastic constant in the one-constant approximation and W is the surface anchoring strength). By measuring the temperature dependence of K/W (which is equivalent to the surface extrapolation length) we are able to reconcile the results of our simulations as well as others with the predictions of elastic …

Balanced And Purposeful Departures: Fixing A Jurisprudence That Undermines The Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Douglas A. Berman

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.

Numerical Simulations Of Steady And Pulsed Non-Adiabatic Magnetised Jets From Young Stars, Stephen O'Sullivan, Tom Ray

Articles

No abstract provided.

Transgenic Crops: An Environmental Assessment, David E. Ervin, Sandra S. Batie, Rick Welsh, Chantal L. Carpentier, Jacqueline I. Fern, Nessa J. Richman, Mary A. Schulz

Economics Faculty Publications and Presentations

The report focuses on the environmental impacts of transgenic crops, and covers biosafety regulations in the US and EU, intellectual property rights, and market and trade developments.

The Winonan, Winona State University

The Winonan - 2000s

No abstract provided.

Kesan Sosio Ekonomi Migrasi Keluar Desa Terhadap Komuniti Pertanian : Satu Kajian Kes Di Empat Daerah Di Semenanjung Malaysia, Liew Chei Sing

Student Works (2000-2009)

ABSTRAK Migrasi daJaman memainkan peranan penting dalarn proses pembangunan ekonomi, pertumbuhan perbandaran dan perkembangan industrialisasi negara. Objektif kajian ini adalah untuk mengkaji kesan sosio-ekonomi migrasi keluar desa ke atas komuniti pertanian. yang mengalami pengurangan penduduk. Data yang digunakan dalam kajian ini berasaskan survei isi rumah yang dijalankan di Kerian, Hilir Perak, Sabak Bemam dan Rembau. Keputusan Regresi Logit Multinomial menunjukkan rnigrasi keluar desa memberikan kesan positif ke atas taraf hidup isi rumah melalui wang kiriman yang dihantar oleh migran. Dalam konteks kajian ini, lawatan oleh migran bukan merupakan cara yang efektif dalarn mengeratkan hubungan kekeluargaan kerana hanya 46.2% daripada tanggapan …

Crystallization And Preliminary X-Ray Diffraction Studies On The Dna-Binding Domain Of The Multidrug Transporter Activation Protein (Mtan) From Bacillus Subtilis, M. H. Godsey, N. N. Baranova, A. A. Neyfakh, R. G. Brennan

CUP Faculty Research

The N-terminal DNA-binding domain of the multidrug transporter activation protein (MtaN) was crystallized by the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method using lithium chloride as a precipitant. The crystals are orthorhombic and belong to the space group I2₁2₁2₁, with unit-cell parameters a = 49.4, b = 67.8, c = 115.0 Å. Diffraction data have been collected at 100 K to 2.75 Å resolution at a synchrotron-radiation source.

Web Schemas In Whoweda, Sourav S. Bhowmick, Wee Keong Ng, Sanjay Kumar Madria

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

The term schema denotes whatever way a data model chooses to model its data. In this paper we discuss schemas of a set of HTML or XML documents retrieved from the Web in the context of our web warehousing system called WHOWEDA (Warehouse of Web Data). Web schemas are used to bind a web table that contains a collection of interlinked web documents called web tuples. These schemas specify some of the metadata, content and structural properties (in the form of predicates) shared by some of the Web documents and hyperlinks in the web table. They also summarize the hyperlink …

The Expected Wet Period Of Finite Dam With Exponential Inputs, Eui Yong Lee, Kimberly Kinateder

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

We use martingale methods to obtain an explicit formula for the expected wet period of the finite dam of capacity V, where the amounts of inputs are i.i.d exponential random variables and the output rate is one, when the reservoir is not empty. As a consequence, we obtain an explicit formula for the expected hitting time of either 0 or V and a new expression for the distribution of the number of overflows during the wet period, both without the use of complex analysis.