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Ability Of The Urban Teacher Selection Interview To Identify Teachers Who Are Likely To Be Retained In The Buffalo Public Schools, Patricia Frey Oct 2003

Ability Of The Urban Teacher Selection Interview To Identify Teachers Who Are Likely To Be Retained In The Buffalo Public Schools, Patricia Frey

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

The rate of teacher turnover appears to be higher than employee turnover in many other occupations. What is currently perceived as a teacher shortage may in reality be a problem of teacher retention. This study examined the use of the Urban Teacher Selection Interview, developed by Martin Haberman, Ph.D., as a tool for choosing teachers for urban districts. Almost 36% of those teachers eligible for employment in Buffalo refused employment. This compares favorably with a national average of 40% of teachers who choose not to teach. In general, the higher the interview scores the longer a teacher was retained in …

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The Influence Of Item Wording On Questionnaire Scale Scores, Nicole Anne Benn Oct 2003

The Influence Of Item Wording On Questionnaire Scale Scores, Nicole Anne Benn

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

Psychological researchers need methods for obtaining accurate responses from participants when using questionnaire data. The current study looked at the influence of negatively worded scale items on the overall scale. The NEO-PI (Costa & McCrae, 1992) and four versions of that scale were used to test the impact of negatively worded items. The NEO-PI and each of its versions contained differing amounts of negatively worded items. More than 1,100 participants were used in this study, with approximately 230 people responding to each version of the NEO-PI. Confirmatory factor analysis and associated chi-square tests and goodness-of-fit measures were used to evaluate …

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The Cloudy Crystal Ball: Genetics, Child Abuse, And The Perils Of Predicting Behavior, Robert D. Stone Oct 2003

The Cloudy Crystal Ball: Genetics, Child Abuse, And The Perils Of Predicting Behavior, Robert D. Stone

Vanderbilt Law Review

In the cinematic world of Minority Report, mankind stands on the brink of a society without murder. Police can see the future, predicting murders and arresting perpetrators before they act. This utopian system is the ultimate evolution in preventative policing because it offers perfect prediction; it does not show what people intend to do, only what they will do. Society accepts the incarceration of pre-murderers, people who have committed no crimes, because there is no such thing as the "wrongfully accused.' Is the ability to predict behavior only science fiction, or can a combination of genetic and environmental factors actually …

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Instruction Cost Report, Fall 2003, University Of Northern Iowa Oct 2003

Instruction Cost Report, Fall 2003, University Of Northern Iowa

Institutional Effectiveness & Planning Documents

Shows the costs associated with running the University of Northern Iowa broken down by college and department

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Faculty Tenure Report, Fall 2003, University Of Northern Iowa. Office Of Information Management And Analysis. Oct 2003

Faculty Tenure Report, Fall 2003, University Of Northern Iowa. Office Of Information Management And Analysis.

Institutional Effectiveness & Planning Documents

Statistical report showing the number of faculty that are tenured, on the tenure track, or not on the tenure track, broken down by college, department, gender, minority status, and if full or part time.

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How Reading Recovery Teaches The Five Essential Elements Of Reading Instruction And More, Mary Anne Doyle, Salli Forbes Oct 2003

How Reading Recovery Teaches The Five Essential Elements Of Reading Instruction And More, Mary Anne Doyle, Salli Forbes

Curriculum & Instruction Faculty Publications

In 1997 Congress called for the director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to convene a national panel to assess the status of research-based knowledge, including the effectiveness of various approaches to teaching children to read (NICHD, 2000a, p. 1). The resulting 14- member National Reading Panel (NRP or Panel) included reading researchers, representatives of colleges of education, educational administrators, a classroom teacher, a parent, and a medical doctor (Yatvin, 2002). The work completed by the NRP involved identification and meta-analyses of the experimental and quasi-experimental research literature …

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Common Data Set 2003-2004, University Of Minnesota, Morris Office Of Institutional Research Oct 2003

Common Data Set 2003-2004, University Of Minnesota, Morris Office Of Institutional Research

Institutional Effectiveness and Research Reports

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The Advocate (Fall 2003), Lewis & Clark Law School Oct 2003

The Advocate (Fall 2003), Lewis & Clark Law School

The Advocate

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The Role Of Field Dependence And Independence In Visual Search, Elizabeth A. Schmidt Oct 2003

The Role Of Field Dependence And Independence In Visual Search, Elizabeth A. Schmidt

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

Research has shown that individuals are faster at searching for the presence of features in displays than the absence of features. The present study was designed to examine whether differences in the ability to search for the presence and absence of features are moderated by differences in the ability of individuals to perceive separate parts of the visual field as distinct from the background (field dependence/independence). In addition, spatial ability was examined to assess its relationship to field independency. Participants were administered the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) and the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT) and were divided into field …

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Feeding Responses Of Juvenile And Adult Streblospio Benedicti Webster (Spionidae) To Organic Chemicals Bound To Glass Microbeads, Heidi Kathryn Mahon Oct 2003

Feeding Responses Of Juvenile And Adult Streblospio Benedicti Webster (Spionidae) To Organic Chemicals Bound To Glass Microbeads, Heidi Kathryn Mahon

Biological Sciences Theses & Dissertations

Spionid polychaetes feed at the sediment-water interface using a pair of ciliated palps. Polychaetes select food particles based upon characteristics including size, texture, specific gravity and organic coatings. Juvenile and adult spionids have different stable isotopic carbon signals, indicating the potential to differentiate organic cues ontogenetically. In the present study, the feeding responses of juvenile and adult Streblospio benedicti Webster to seven organic coatings bound (five amino acids and two carbohydrates) to glass microbeads were tested. Juveniles and adults were highly selective for all seven types of organically coated beads. Juveniles were highly selective for threonine; whereas adults were highly …

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Parental Use Of Corporal Punishment As Related To Family Environment, Psychological Well-Being, And Personality In College Students, Corrine E. Leary Oct 2003

Parental Use Of Corporal Punishment As Related To Family Environment, Psychological Well-Being, And Personality In College Students, Corrine E. Leary

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

The association between use of corporal punishment as a disciplinary technique and specific aspects of the family environment was examined through surveying undergraduate students enrolled in psychology classes at Old Dominion University. Also investigated was the relationship between corporal punishment and certain affective and personality variables. The Conflict Tactics Scale CTSPC-CA was utilized to measure the level of corporal punishment experienced by all 274 participants. However, only those respondents with the 75 highest and 75 lowest corporal punishment scores were compared in statistical analyses. Results indicated a significant difference between the higher and lower corporal punishment groups on the variables …

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Response Of Sudanese Doctors To Domestic Violence, Awad M. Ahmed, Mohy E. Abdella, Elsading Yousif, Ahmed E. Elmardi Oct 2003

Response Of Sudanese Doctors To Domestic Violence, Awad M. Ahmed, Mohy E. Abdella, Elsading Yousif, Ahmed E. Elmardi

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to assess the awareness, and response of the Sudanese doctors to domestic violence. METHODS: The study was carried out among the doctors of the Police University Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to all doctors who were attendants at the hospital, one morning in July 2002. The information required from the surveyed doctors included their familiarity, and views on domestic violence as a health problem, number of cases of abuse encountered, barriers to diagnose or screen cases, their views on intervention beyond physical treatment and if they had been taught or trained …

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The Effects Of Cardiac Rehabilitation In Patients With Coronary Artery Disease, Abbas Afrasiabi, Mehrnoosh Toofan, Leila Pirzad, Susan Hassanzadeh, Habib Pirzad Oct 2003

The Effects Of Cardiac Rehabilitation In Patients With Coronary Artery Disease, Abbas Afrasiabi, Mehrnoosh Toofan, Leila Pirzad, Susan Hassanzadeh, Habib Pirzad

Saudi Medical Journal

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Justification And Excuse, Law And Morality, Mitchell N. Berman Oct 2003

Justification And Excuse, Law And Morality, Mitchell N. Berman

Duke Law Journal

Anglo-American theorists of the criminal law have concentrated on-one is tempted to say "obsessed over"-the distinction between justification and excuse for a good quarter-century and the scholarly attention has purchased unusually widespread agreement. Justification defenses are said to apply when the actor's conduct was not morally wrongful; excuse defenses lie when the actor did engage in wrongful conduct but is not morally blameworthy. A near-consensus thus achieved, theorists have turned to subordinate matters, joining issue most notably on the question of whether justifications are "subjective"-turning upon the actor's reasons for acting-or "objective"-involving only facts independent of the actor's beliefs and …

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The Law And Economics Of Disability Accommodations, Michael Ashley Stein Oct 2003

The Law And Economics Of Disability Accommodations, Michael Ashley Stein

Duke Law Journal

The Americans with Disabilities Act provides a clear mandate that disabled workers be provided with "reasonable" accommodations, but does not meaningfully articulate the standards by which reasonableness ought to be measured. Until now, neither courts nor commentators have provided a systematic model for analyzing accommodation claims. This Article articulates an initial law and economics framework for analyzing disability-related accommodations. In doing so, it demonstrates how accommodations span a cost continuum that can be divided into areas of Wholly Efficient and Semi-Efficient Accommodations to be funded by private employers, Social Benefit Gain Efficient Accommodations where the costs should be borne by …

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The Economics Of Total Maximum Daily Loads, Keith Keplinger Oct 2003

The Economics Of Total Maximum Daily Loads, Keith Keplinger

Natural Resources Journal

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Faculty Senate Degree Candidates, Fall 2003, Vol 30, P 615-719, Unm Faculty Senate Oct 2003

Faculty Senate Degree Candidates, Fall 2003, Vol 30, P 615-719, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Documents

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Faculty Senate Degree Candidates, Fall 2002, Vol 29, P 1013-1105, Unm Faculty Senate Oct 2003

Faculty Senate Degree Candidates, Fall 2002, Vol 29, P 1013-1105, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Documents

No abstract provided.

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Curriculum Minutes 10/01/2003, Curriculum Committee Oct 2003

Curriculum Minutes 10/01/2003, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

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Equality And The Forms Of Justice, Susan Sturm Oct 2003

Equality And The Forms Of Justice, Susan Sturm

University of Miami Law Review

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An Autopsy Of The Structural Reform Injunction: Oops . .. It's Still Moving!, Myriam Gilles Oct 2003

An Autopsy Of The Structural Reform Injunction: Oops . .. It's Still Moving!, Myriam Gilles

University of Miami Law Review

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Re-Inventing Sicily In Italian-American Writing And Film, Fred L. Gardaphé Oct 2003

Re-Inventing Sicily In Italian-American Writing And Film, Fred L. Gardaphé

Publications and Research

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Copyrighting Facts, Michael S. Green Oct 2003

Copyrighting Facts, Michael S. Green

Faculty Publications

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Corporate Social Responsibility Reputation Effects On Mba Job Choice: Controlling For Region Of Origin, David B. Montgomery, Catherine A. Ramus Oct 2003

Corporate Social Responsibility Reputation Effects On Mba Job Choice: Controlling For Region Of Origin, David B. Montgomery, Catherine A. Ramus

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

In a preliminary study with 279 MBA’s from two European and three North American business schools we find that reputation-related attributes of caring about employees, environmental sustainability, community/stakeholder relations, and ethical products and services are important in job choice decisions. We use an adaptive conjoint analysis survey tool to discover the relative weighting of a new set of social responsibility job search criteria, including these attributes with traditional job search criteria like financial package, geographical location, etc. In addition, our results show that more than ninety percent of the MBAs in the sample were willing to forgo financial benefits in …

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Wittgenstein, Moorean Absurdity And Its Disappearance From Speech, John N. Williams Oct 2003

Wittgenstein, Moorean Absurdity And Its Disappearance From Speech, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

G. E. Moore famously observed that to say, "I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I don't believe that I did" would be "absurd." Why should it be absurd of me to say something about myself that might be true of me? Moore suggested an answer to this, but as I will show, one that fails. Wittgenstein was greatly impressed by Moore's discovery of a class of absurd but possibly true assertions because he saw that it illuminates "the logic of assertion". Wittgenstein suggests a promising relation of assertion to belief in terms of the idea that one "expresses …

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Validating Digital Signatures Without Ttp’S Time-Stamping And Certificate Revocation, Jianying Zhou, Feng Bao, Robert H. Deng Oct 2003

Validating Digital Signatures Without Ttp’S Time-Stamping And Certificate Revocation, Jianying Zhou, Feng Bao, Robert H. Deng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In non-repudiation services where digital signatures usually serve as irrefutable cryptographic evidence for dispute resolution, trusted time-stamping and certificate revocation services, although very costly in practice, must be available, to prevent big loss due to compromising of the signing key. In [12], a new concept called intrusion-resilient signature was proposed to get rid of trusted time-stamping and certificate revocation services and a concrete scheme was presented. In this paper, we put forward a new scheme that can achieve the same effect in a much more efficient way. In our scheme, forward-secure signature serves as a building block that enables signature …

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Learning And Teaching And Then, Learning All Over Again: Part One, Herb Thompson Dr. Sep 2003

Learning And Teaching And Then, Learning All Over Again: Part One, Herb Thompson Dr.

Faculty Journal Articles

Intelligence quotient tests (and our examining processes) largely deal with verbal-linguistic and mathematical-logical intelligence. The point at issue is that a basic understanding of multiple intelligence theory should modify lecturer behavior and utilization of computer-mediation.

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Ua25/2 25 Year Club Recognition Banquet, Wku Human Resources Sep 2003

Ua25/2 25 Year Club Recognition Banquet, Wku Human Resources

WKU Administration Documents

Program for 25 year service awards banquet with list of recipients.

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Campus Assembly Minutes 09/30/2003, Campus Assembly Sep 2003

Campus Assembly Minutes 09/30/2003, Campus Assembly

Campus Assembly

No abstract provided.

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Daily Eastern News: September 30, 2003, Eastern Illinois University Sep 2003

Daily Eastern News: September 30, 2003, Eastern Illinois University

September

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