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Students Creating Their Own Thinking-Learning Contexts, Marino C. Alvarez, Geoffrey Burks, Goli Sotoohi, Terry King, Bobby Hulan, Adelicia Graham

Teaching and Learning Faculty Research

This paper focuses on two high school students and their thoughts and feelings as they engaged in a topic of their choosing during a two-month summer action research program. Their high school astronomy teacher monitored their choice of topic and progress. The students engaged in authentic tasks and materials couched in problem-oriented formats within meaningful learning contexts designed to foster thinking and learning. These students worked as a team, but pursued individual paths of inquiry using critical and imaginative thinking, and engaged in social and solitary contexts that involved them in writing, intervening, and reflecting on ideas gleaned from conversations …

Improving Numeracy Learning (Conference Proceedings), Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

2000 - Improving Numeracy Learning

ACER’s annual national Research Conferences review current research-based knowledge in key areas of educational policy and practice. The Research Conference 2000 brings together leading numeracy researchers to examine and discuss research evidence relating to the improvement of numeracy learning in schools. The objective of the Conference is to identify major research findings and to study the implications of those findings for improved numeracy teaching and learning.

C-Club Newsletter, 2000 Vol.6 No2, State University Of New York College At Cortland

C-Club Documents

The Official Red Dragon Sports Club Newsletter. Vol.6 No.2 Summer 2000.

C-Club Newsletter, 2000 Vol.6 No.1, State University Of New York College At Cortland

C-Club Documents

The Official Red Dragon Sports Club Newsletter. Vol.6 No.1 Winter 2000.

2000 Scholar's Day Schedule, State University Of New York At Cortland

Transformations

Scholars' Day was established in 1997 and is a day-long conference devoted to showcasing the wide array of scholarship, research and creative activities occurring on campus. In 2012, a new emphasis on student research lead to a name change to Transformations: A Student Research and Creativity Conference. This event focuses on student research, which is defined as an original investigation or creative activity through the primary efforts of a student or group of students. The work should show problem-solving skills and demonstrate new conceptual outcomes.

2000 Scholar's Day Abstracts, State University Of New York At Cortland

Transformations

Scholars' Day was established in 1997 and is a day-long conference devoted to showcasing the wide array of scholarship, research and creative activities occurring on campus. In 2012, a new emphasis on student research lead to a name change to Transformations: A Student Research and Creativity Conference. This event focuses on student research, which is defined as an original investigation or creative activity through the primary efforts of a student or group of students. The work should show problem-solving skills and demonstrate new conceptual outcomes.

Images Of African Americans In Contemporary American Novels: A Sociological Study, Sadie Pendaz

McNair Scholars Journal

In this study we examined nine novels from three time periods: the 1930s, the 1960s and the 1990s. We looked at two best-selling novels and one novel by an African American from each time period. We examined how African Americans were portrayed in these novels. From the content analysis of the novel, A Time to Kill, we developed eight themes with which to examine the other nine novels. Then we undertook a content analysis oj each oj the nine novels individually. Lastly, we looked at the interrelationships between the nine novels over the three time periods by breaking them down …

Effect Of Auto Plant Openings On Net Migration In The Auto Corridor, 1980-1997, Kenneth M. Johnson, Thomas H. Klier

Sociology

In linking demographic trends of the last two decades to the geographic dispersion of the auto industry, this article finds that the addition of a large plant significantly influences the migration experience of the host county as well as counties adjacent to it.

Apprenticeship And Conservation Incentives, Robin Alden, Jennifer F. Brewer

Geography

Apprentice programs offer a method to encourage responsible individual behavior by laying the foundation for successful collective property rights. Apprenticeship has three purposes: to restrict the rate of entry, to affect the quality of the participant, and to create the conditions for collective action for sustainability. Apprenticeship could be an important fishery management tool, particularly in decentralized, adaptive management regimes that require ongoing, multi-party negotiation for success. It is not vocational training; instead it serves a public purpose: to create the conditions for stewardship and participation in management. This perception of collective property right mimics customary practice in some successful …

Online Victimization: A Report On The Nation’S Youth., David Finkelhor, Kimberly J. Mitchell, Janis Wolak

Crimes Against Children Research Center

The Internet is an exciting new territory for many young people. Nearly 24 million youth ages 10 through 17 were online regularly in 1999, and millions more are expected to join them shortly. They go there to Iearn, play, meet people, and explore the world. But stories from law-enforcement officials, parents, and young people themselves suggest that not every online adventure is a happy one. The Internet has a seamier side that young people seem to he encountering with great frequency.

This national survey confirms many of the stories. Large numbers of young people are encountering sexual solicitations they did …

On Jesus: Quests For Historicity, And The History Of Recent Quests, Paul Anderson

Quaker Religious Thought

No abstract provided.

Koinonia, Eric Spiecker, Lynne Sparks, Brent D. Ellis, George D. Kuh, Edee Schulze, Greg Bish

Koinonia

In This Issue
The Outward Bound "Temporary Community": A Practical Framework for Understanding Residence Life, Eric Spiecker

Community Service Learning and Christian Higher Education, Lynne Sparks

Diversity Education: Helping Students Find a Common Ground, Brent D. Ellis

Student Bashing: An Unseemly Academic Tradition, George D. Kuh

In The Field
Gender Dynamics in the Classroom at an Evangelical Christian Liberal Arts College, Edee Schulze

Around Campus
From Service to Learning, Greg Bish

CoCCA Hot Tip: Celebrating Diversity

Regular Features
President's Corner

Editor's Disk

Annual Conference: New Professionals Retreat

Book Review: More Light Less Heat: How Dialogue Can Transform Christian Conflicts Into …

Taylor University Catalog 2000-2002, Taylor University

Undergraduate Catalogs

The 2000-2002 academic catalog of Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

World Wide Campus 2000-2001 Course Catalog, Taylor University Fort Wayne

Institute of Correspondence Studies

The 2000-2001 catalog of the World Wide Campus at Taylor University Fort Wayne.

The New & Revised World Wide Campus 2000-2001 Course Catalog, Taylor University Fort Wayne

Institute of Correspondence Studies

The New & Revised 2000-2001 catalog of the World Wide Campus at Taylor University Fort Wayne.

Should The Government Recognize Same-Sex Marriage? Session One: Social, Cultural, And Philosophical Issues, Gregory Dell, Dwight Duncan, Hannah Garber-Paul, Martha Nussbaum, Vincent Samar, Arnold Wolf

The University of Chicago Law School Roundtable

No abstract provided.

@Govst.Edu, 2000-01, Office Of Public Affairs

@govst.edu

Monthly newsletter published by Governors State University between 1996-2001.

Alumni News & Notes

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Sparking Innovative Learning, Susan Feightner

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

The Redwood, V.96 1999-2000, Santa Clara University

The Redwood

No abstract provided.

Survey Of Existing I&R Services And A Nebraska 211 System Cost/Benefit Analysis

University of Nebraska Public Policy Center: Publications

In June, 1999, the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (NHHSS) and the United Way of the Midlands requested that the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center coordinate a feasibility study of a statewide Information and Referral (I&R) system for health and human services. Because several I&R systems around the country make use of the 2-1-1 three digit number for I&R information, and there are a number of states investigating reserving 211 for statewide I&R services, this report uses the 211 nomenclature although there has been no state Public Service Commission designation of 211 for this purpose in Nebraska. …

Symposium: Medicare Private Contracting (The "Kyl Amendment") -- Introduction: Kyl Amendment Symposium, Maxwell J. Mehlman

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

No abstract provided.

Composing Research: A Contextualist Paradigm For Rhetoric And Composition, Cindy Johanek

All USU Press Publications

In Composing Research, Cindy Johanek offers a new perspective on the ideological conflict between qualitative and quantitative research approaches, and the theories of knowledge that inform them. With a paradigm that is sensitive to the context of one's research questions, she argues, scholars can develop less dichotomous forms that invoke the strengths of both research traditions. Context-oriented approaches can lift the narrative from beneath the numbers in an experimental study, for example, or bring the useful clarity of numbers to an ethnographic study.

Virginia Commonwealth University Undergraduate And Professional Programs Bulletin [2000], Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Bulletins

Undergraduate and professional bulletin for Virginia Commonwealth University for the academic year 2000-2001. It includes information on academic regulations, degree requirements, course offerings, faculty, academic calendar, and tuition and expenses for undergraduate and professional programs.

Front Matter

The Bridge

No abstract provided.

One Boss Or Many? Decision Making And Coordination In The Multi-Plant Firm, Lynn Hunnicutt

Economic Research Institute Study Papers

Multi-plant organizations have trouble including both local and global information in their decisions. Outlets know local conditions but headquarters is able to coordinate outlets. In allocating decision-making power, firms must balance coordination and flexibility. I model this tradeoff, and show that the decentralized firm may standardize to avoid costs due to miscoordination. That is, increasingly variable local conditions cause decentralized choices to become less variable. Ex ante, decentralization is more profitable; neither form dominates ex post. Signals from outlets to headquarters improve the performance of the centralized firm, but one can always find conditions under which decentralization is preferred.

Higher Level Learning: A Taxonomy For Identifying Different Kinds Of Significant Learning, L. Dee Fink

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

An in-depth look at strategies for Higher Level Learning.

Report Of A Comprehensive Visit To Indiana State University February 28, 2000 - March 1, 2000, North Central Association Of Colleges And Schools (U.S.). Commission On Institutions Of Higher Education

Office of the President

No abstract provided.

Generation Angst And The Ethical Paradox Of Postmodernity, Larry L. Lichtenwalter

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

The Return Of Ashtoreth To The Groves And High Places: Feminist Ideology, The Politics Of Vicitmization, And The Gospel Of Jesus Christ, Gary F. Novak

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of God the Mother and Other Theological Essays (1997), by Janice Allred