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What Does An Exemplary Middle School Mathematics Teacher Look Like? The Use Of A Professional Development Rubric, M. Mason, D. Johnson, J. Rozelle, A. Koziol, Y. Smith-Jones, R. Cofer, L. Quick, E. O'Brien, W. M. Geiger, K. Grass Jan 2004

What Does An Exemplary Middle School Mathematics Teacher Look Like? The Use Of A Professional Development Rubric, M. Mason, D. Johnson, J. Rozelle, A. Koziol, Y. Smith-Jones, R. Cofer, L. Quick, E. O'Brien, W. M. Geiger, K. Grass

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

A School University Research Network (SURN) committee composed of current mathematics teachers, central office math supervisors, building administrators, mathematicians, and mathematics educators researched numerous sources regarding best practices in mathematics instruction. The resulting professional development rubric synthesizes their findings and can serve a professional development role by providing teachers and administrators with a tool to develop clarity and consensus on best mathematics instructional practices, and how these practices are implemented in the classroom. It is also being used as a tool for cooperating teachers in their supervision of student teachers and as a reflective method for self-evaluation.

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Virginia Commonwealth University B.S. In Science Degree Program, R. W. Farley Jan 2004

Virginia Commonwealth University B.S. In Science Degree Program, R. W. Farley

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

The initiation of the Virginia Commonwealth University B.S. in Science program was reported in this journal Fall 1999 as a program designed to meet the academic content major of a teacher preparation program for elementary and middle school mathematics and science teachers [1]. This paper reports the current status of the interdisciplinary B.S. in Science degree program including program enrollment data and trends. Also described are refinements in the required curriculum, which include a newly developed geometry, a mathematical computing course, and an emerging teaching technology course featuring graphing calculators, CBLs, and computer software applications.

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A Case For Proof Making For Prospective Middle School Teachers, J. W. Whitenack, L. A. Lovin, L. Cavey Jan 2004

A Case For Proof Making For Prospective Middle School Teachers, J. W. Whitenack, L. A. Lovin, L. Cavey

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

In this article, we discuss how we, as mathematics teacher educators, might help our prospective middle school teachers develop a disposition toward mathematics that involves making sound arguments and, more generally, making proofs about mathematical ideas. First, we illustrate what we mean by making sound mathematical proofs. We then use this definition to characterize what ninety-two prospective middle school teachers consider to be proof making, based on a survey that we administered in their first mathematics course. Following our findings, we discuss how we, as teacher educators, might realign our instruction to provide opportunities for prospective teachers to develop new …

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Transition To Teaching: An Alternative Certification Program Through Partnership Between A Public School District And A Public University, R. Q. Berry Iii Jan 2004

Transition To Teaching: An Alternative Certification Program Through Partnership Between A Public School District And A Public University, R. Q. Berry Iii

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

The reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act has had a significant impact on licenses for teachers working in school programs. The act refers to highly qualified teachers in both Title I and Title ll. This paper defines alternative certification programs. This paper then describes a partnership, funded by the US. Department of Education, between a school district and a university to establish an alternative licensure program to train highly qualified secondary mathematics teachers.The goal of this partnership is to provide an infrastructure that supports the recruitment. preparation, placement, induction, and retention of highly qualified teachers through a new …

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Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 2 Winter 2004, Grand Valley State University Jan 2004

Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 2 Winter 2004, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

Grand Valley Magazine is a quarterly publication about Grand Valley State University produced by University Communications since 2001.

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Blood On The Third Coast: Causes And Consequences Of Madison's 1970 Sterling Hall Bombing, Andrea Rochelle Blimling Jan 2004

Blood On The Third Coast: Causes And Consequences Of Madison's 1970 Sterling Hall Bombing, Andrea Rochelle Blimling

Lawrence University Honors Projects

Causes and consequences of Madison's 1970 Sterling Hall Bombing.

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The Child Status Protection Act: Does Immigration Math Solve The Family Unity Equation, Shane Dizon Jan 2004

The Child Status Protection Act: Does Immigration Math Solve The Family Unity Equation, Shane Dizon

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

This note focuses on the Child Status Protection Act, passed by Congress in 2002 to allow individuals who turn 21 while their permanent residence paperwork is pending to preserve their eligibility as children. The note addresses the various reactions of the enforcing government authorities, practitioners, and courts since the Act's passage. In addition, the author explores the Act's place among other recent legislation and government agency policies purporting to advance the theme of family unity in immigration. Ultimately, the author suggests that the statutory stop-the-clock approach embodied by the Act seems not only inconsistent with its predecessors, which have expanded …

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Accent On Learning, 2004-2005, University Of South Florida Jan 2004

Accent On Learning, 2004-2005, University Of South Florida

USF Catalogs (Accent on Learning)

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Valparaiso University School Of Law, 1879-2004: A Contextual History, Michael I. Swygert Jan 2004

Valparaiso University School Of Law, 1879-2004: A Contextual History, Michael I. Swygert

Valparaiso University Law Review

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Evolution, Politics And Law, Bailey Kuklin Jan 2004

Evolution, Politics And Law, Bailey Kuklin

Valparaiso University Law Review

No abstract provided.

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For God Or Grades? States Imposing Fewer Requirements On Religious Home Schoolers And The Religion Clauses Of The First Amendment, Laura J. Bach Jan 2004

For God Or Grades? States Imposing Fewer Requirements On Religious Home Schoolers And The Religion Clauses Of The First Amendment, Laura J. Bach

Valparaiso University Law Review

No abstract provided.

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"Children Are Not Second Class Citizens": Can Parents Stop Public Schools From Treating Their Children Like Guinea Pigs?, Beth Garrison Jan 2004

"Children Are Not Second Class Citizens": Can Parents Stop Public Schools From Treating Their Children Like Guinea Pigs?, Beth Garrison

Valparaiso University Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Damages For Personal Injury Or Wrongful Death In Canada, D. Bruce Garrow, Do-Ellen S. Hansen, Meredith L. Parkes Jan 2004

Damages For Personal Injury Or Wrongful Death In Canada, D. Bruce Garrow, Do-Ellen S. Hansen, Meredith L. Parkes

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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Utb/Tsc Student Handbook 2004-2005, University Of Texas At Brownsville, Texas Southmost College Jan 2004

Utb/Tsc Student Handbook 2004-2005, University Of Texas At Brownsville, Texas Southmost College

Student Handbooks (UTB/UTPA)

No abstract provided.

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Wrong From The Start? North Carolinaís "Predatory Lending" Law And The Practice Vs. Product Debate, Donald C. Lampe Jan 2004

Wrong From The Start? North Carolinaís "Predatory Lending" Law And The Practice Vs. Product Debate, Donald C. Lampe

Chapman Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Wittgenstein And The Recovery Of Virtue, G. Scott Davis Jan 2004

Wittgenstein And The Recovery Of Virtue, G. Scott Davis

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Modern, scientific, man doesn't see miracles, only odd phenomena that call out for more thorough study. Ethics, like the miraculous, doesn't defy scientific explanation; it just doesn't exist. In what follows I hope to do two things., On the one hand, I want to embrace Wittgenstein's rejection of ethics as theory, in the sense of a systematic body of knowledge about the world. On the other, I hope to suggest that this rejection opens up conceptual space for understanding ethics as a critical human enterprise.

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Utb/Tsc Commencement – Winter 2004, University Of Texas At Brownsville, Texas Southmost College Jan 2004

Utb/Tsc Commencement – Winter 2004, University Of Texas At Brownsville, Texas Southmost College

Brownsville Archives - Legacy Commencement Programs

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Empirical Study Of Expenditures Models, Jason A. Richmond Jan 2004

Empirical Study Of Expenditures Models, Jason A. Richmond

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

In this paper we examine four expenditure models: Residential Construction, Medical Services, Consumption of Motor Vehicles, and Investment in Motor Vehicles. Each model is examined in a number of functional forms with and without lagged dependent variable specifications; Level, Double Log, Change, and an Error Correction model.

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Creating A Video Device Application, Kevin Septor Jan 2004

Creating A Video Device Application, Kevin Septor

Honors Theses

A video device, such as a webcam, has the capability to be used in many ways, including recording video and behaving like a security camera. A TV tuner card can also record video, and in addition be used for watching television. However, the video hardware and device driver the operating system uses to access it are only capable of delivering raw frames of video. A user space application is necessary for exploiting the capabilities of such a device beyond reading sequential frames of video. This research explores the desiderata in a powerful video device application, and introduces a program that …

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Mapping Of Diepoxybutane Damage In The Cytochrome B Domain Of Mitochondrial Dna And The Β-Globin Domain Of Nuclear Chicken Dna Using Quantitative Pcr, Justin Juskewitch Jan 2004

Mapping Of Diepoxybutane Damage In The Cytochrome B Domain Of Mitochondrial Dna And The Β-Globin Domain Of Nuclear Chicken Dna Using Quantitative Pcr, Justin Juskewitch

Honors Theses

Diepoxybutane (DEB), a known industrial carcinogen, reacts with DNA primarily at the N7 position of deoxyguanosine residues and creates interstrand cross-links at the sequence 5'-GNC. Since N7-N7 cross-links cause DNA to fragment upon heating, quantative polymerase chain reaction (QPCR) is being used in this experiment to measure the amount of DEB damage (lesion frequency) with three different targets-mitochondrial (unpackaged), open chromatin region, and closed chromatin region. Initial measurements of DEB damage within these three targets were not consistent because the template DNA was not the limiting reagent in the PCR. Follow-up PCR trials using a limiting amount of DNA are …

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Wealth Effects On Consumer Spending In The Us Economy, Andriy Avramenko Jan 2004

Wealth Effects On Consumer Spending In The Us Economy, Andriy Avramenko

Honors Theses

This paper investigates the effects of wealth on consumer spending in the United States. A traditional life-cycle model is estimated first. Although it does find a statistically significant wealth effect, its findings are unusable due to the presence of autocorrelation and non-stationarity. Variables in logarithmic forms are found to be cointegrated. Thus, a logarithmic model with the Stock-Watson adjustment and an AR(I) term is estimated instead. Three extensions to this model are offered. First, wealth is divided into stock market and non-stock market components, second into liquid and illiquid components. Finally, a new approach to the wealth division is introduced, …

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High-Resolution, Slant-Angle Scene Generation And Validation Of Concealed Targets In Dirsig, Kris E. Barcomb Jan 2004

High-Resolution, Slant-Angle Scene Generation And Validation Of Concealed Targets In Dirsig, Kris E. Barcomb

Theses

Traditionally, synthetic imagery has been constructed to simulate images captured with low resolution, nadir-viewing sensors. Advances in sensor design have driven a need to simulate scenes not only at higher resolutions but also from oblique view angles. The primary efforts of this research include: real image capture, scene construction and modeling, and validation of the synthetic imagery in the reflective portion of the spectrum. High resolution imagery was collected of an area named MicroScene at the Rochester Institute of Technology using the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science's MISI and WASP sensors using an oblique view angle. Three Humvees, …

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Do Caucasian And African American Students Have Different Learning Styles?, Robin J. Black-Vannoy Jan 2004

Do Caucasian And African American Students Have Different Learning Styles?, Robin J. Black-Vannoy

Masters Theses

This study explored whether African American and Caucasian students have different learning styles. It specifically examined differences in preferred modes of information processing and instruction. Participants in the study completed the Dunn and Dunn Learning Style Inventory and the Kolb Learning Style Inventory. Subsequent analyses revealed that there were no significant differences in how African American and Caucasian students choose to process information for learning. However, there were some significant differences in preferred modes of instruction. African American students were more likely to prefer noisier and warmer learning environments, to snack while learning, and to learn in the late morning. …

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Novel N-Body Orbits For Constrained Potentials Including The Unusual Figure Eight Three Body Orbit, Jan M. Dudzik Jan 2004

Novel N-Body Orbits For Constrained Potentials Including The Unusual Figure Eight Three Body Orbit, Jan M. Dudzik

Masters Theses

Recently new n-body planar orbits have been discovered which are known as choreographies. These orbits correspond to small n, generally n<20, and exhibit unexpected patterns with respect to given initial conditions. Here we shall examine numerical solutions to the three-body problem and the restricted three-body problem for three body potentials that are the sum of three two-body potentials. Then for an everywhere attractive three body potential with non-collinear and collision-less orbits with a strictly monotone decreasing potential function there exist bound states that are not chaotic that are choreographies. For the right initial conditions these orbits can be mapped numerically and visualized. We will display a number of these cases corresponding to the three body problem, restricted three body problem, the chaotic restricted three body problem and the new figure eight bound state choreography for the Kazalov potential orbits to exhibit some of their special features and to take note of a number of open questions dealing with simple orbital problems.

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Low Stress Algorithms For Children With Difficulty In Mathematics, Amanda B. Boyer Jan 2004

Low Stress Algorithms For Children With Difficulty In Mathematics, Amanda B. Boyer

Masters Theses

The purpose of this research was to examine the effectiveness of low-stress algorithms with third and fourth grade students who struggle with mathematics. It is important to study mathematics interventions because math is a neglected area of research (Gersten & Chard, 1999). This research examined the effectiveness of low-stress addition and subtraction instruction for low-achieving students compared to a control group of students receiving traditional instruction in the regular classroom. Additionally, half of the students in the experimental group (low-stress) self-monitored the number of problems they correctly completed. Results indicate that low-stress addition did not result in an increased number …

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A Similarity Based Concordance Approach To Word Sense Disambiguation, Ramakrishnan B. Guru Jan 2004

A Similarity Based Concordance Approach To Word Sense Disambiguation, Ramakrishnan B. Guru

Masters Theses

This study attempts to solve the problem of Word Sense Disambiguation using a combination of statistical, probabilistic and word matching algorithms. These algorithms consider that words and sentences have some hidden similarities and that the polysemous words in any context should be assigned to a sense after each execution of the algorithm. The algorithm was tested with sufficient sample data and the efficiency of the disambiguation performance has proven to increase significantly after the inclusion of the concordance methodology.

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Distinct Group Differences And Discriminant Validity Of The Adjustment Scales For Children And Adolescents: Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder Versus Conduct Disorder, James Richard White Jan 2004

Distinct Group Differences And Discriminant Validity Of The Adjustment Scales For Children And Adolescents: Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder Versus Conduct Disorder, James Richard White

Masters Theses

The present study examined the distinct group differences and discriminant validity of the Adjustment Scales for Children and Adolescents (ASCA; McDermott, Marston, & Stott, 1993). Participants included 37 children in kindergarten through twelfth grade. Thirty children met DISC-IV/DSM-IV criteria for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and 7 met DISC-IV/DSM-IV criteria for Conduct Disorder. Participants were classified based on the results of the DISC-IV parent interview administered by school psychology interns. The teacher completed the ASCA when the student was initially referred. Results of the present study provided further support for the discriminant validity of the ASCA. The results of the MANOVA …

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Practical Approach To Incorporating Maple Into The Finite Mathematics Course: 3 Modules And 8 Case Studies, Jonica Helene Craft-Mcbride Jan 2004

Practical Approach To Incorporating Maple Into The Finite Mathematics Course: 3 Modules And 8 Case Studies, Jonica Helene Craft-Mcbride

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

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Cyclic Rings, Warren K. Buck Jan 2004

Cyclic Rings, Warren K. Buck

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

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Rugose Corals Of The Livingston Limestone Member, Bond Formation, Coles And Edgar County, Illinois, John Tobias Burke Jan 2004

Rugose Corals Of The Livingston Limestone Member, Bond Formation, Coles And Edgar County, Illinois, John Tobias Burke

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

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