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The Determinants Of Academic Performance Of African American Males, Marvin K. Hall Jul 2005

The Determinants Of Academic Performance Of African American Males, Marvin K. Hall

Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations

In this research on the academic performance of African American males I used data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study: Base Year 1988 to examine the factors that effect academic performance of one small group, the African American male. Independent variables that were used were SES, self-efficacy, self-esteem, two cultural variables, marital status of parents, and discipline. After controlling for SES two variables were related to GPA. The higher the self-efficacy of African American males the higher their GPA and the more discipline problems they had the lower their GPA. Results of this research identify the need to address cultural …

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Social Network Discovery By Mining Spatio-Temporal Events, Hady Lauw, Ee Peng Lim, Hwee Hwa Pang, Teck-Tim Tan Jul 2005

Social Network Discovery By Mining Spatio-Temporal Events, Hady Lauw, Ee Peng Lim, Hwee Hwa Pang, Teck-Tim Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Knowing patterns of relationship in a social network is very useful for law enforcement agencies to investigate collaborations among criminals, for businesses to exploit relationships to sell products, or for individuals who wish to network with others. After all, it is not just what you know, but also whom you know, that matters. However, finding out who is related to whom on a large scale is a complex problem. Asking every single individual would be impractical, given the huge number of individuals and the changing dynamics of relationships. Recent advancement in technology has allowed more data about activities of individuals …

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Jury Sentencing In Non-Capital Cases: Comparing Severity And Variance With Judicial Sentences In Two States, Nancy J. King, Rosevelt L. Noble Jul 2005

Jury Sentencing In Non-Capital Cases: Comparing Severity And Variance With Judicial Sentences In Two States, Nancy J. King, Rosevelt L. Noble

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Recently, commentators have championed sentencing byjury as more democratic and better suited to current theories of punishment than sentencing by judge alone. Yet discussions of noncapitaljury sentencing either fail to address empirical questions or rely on outdated and incomplete studies. This study is the first to present basic information on the comparative severity and variance of jury and judge sentencing as practiced in the 21st century. We use archival sentencing data from two of the six states that authorize jury sentencing-Arkansas and Virginia. In both states, voluntary sentencing guidelines govern judicial sentencing after bench trial or guilty plea, but juries …

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The Classic, Summer 2005, Public Relations Jul 2005

The Classic, Summer 2005, Public Relations

The Classic, 2000-2009

President's Report: Committee Community; Theatre facility wins architectural award; Actuarial courses approved to meet professional standard; Northwestern hires Daumer to build nursing program; Van Peursem joins board; Remembering a pioneer; Sociology students' scores soar; Westenberg receives staff award; Board votes to continue planning for learning commons project; Athletic training program receives accreditation; NWC welcomes new vice presidents; SIFE team finishes among top 40 nationally; Vocation exploration continues through summer; Faculty/staff news; Faculty awarded mini-grants for summer research; Students selected for competitive summer programs; History student wins award for essay; Athletic training student wins scholarship; Face Value: Barbara Turnwall; Outside the …

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Becoming Culturally Responsive Teachers Through Service-Learning: A Case Study Of Five Novice Classroom Teachers, Elinor L. Brown, Bobby R. Howard Jul 2005

Becoming Culturally Responsive Teachers Through Service-Learning: A Case Study Of Five Novice Classroom Teachers, Elinor L. Brown, Bobby R. Howard

Service Learning, General

In the effort to augment teacher candidate education beyond text-based direct instruction, universities and teacher preparation programs are incorporating more field-based interactions through which teacher candidates can master skills and reinforce pedagogy through experience. The term "service-learning" was first used by the Southern Regional Education Board in 1969 to describe "the accomplishment of tasks that meet genuine human needs in combination with conscious educational growth" (Staton, Giles & Cruz, 1999).

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What Sort Of Mental Health Problems Are Experienced By Women In Contemporary British Society? What Do Different Feminist Perspectives Offer As Alleviation?, Penny Halliday Jul 2005

What Sort Of Mental Health Problems Are Experienced By Women In Contemporary British Society? What Do Different Feminist Perspectives Offer As Alleviation?, Penny Halliday

Journal of International Women's Studies

This essay argues that by labelling British women’s mental health distress and treatment in terms of a purely medical model, underlying contributory social structures and phenomena such as gendered roles, ethnicity and poverty, have largely been ignored by the (male dominated) psychiatric profession. This labelling is historically rooted in the pathologisation of the feminine condition; therefore, women’s mental ill health is substantially a social construct and a product of a patriarchal society. To fully explore a way through mental health distress - a term used by MIND to emphasise the inorganic origins of many mental health problems - labels need …

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Introduction: Winning And Short Listed Essays From The Second Annual Essay Competition Of The Feminist And Women’S Studies Association, Kristin Aune, Karen Throsby Jul 2005

Introduction: Winning And Short Listed Essays From The Second Annual Essay Competition Of The Feminist And Women’S Studies Association, Kristin Aune, Karen Throsby

Journal of International Women's Studies

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Refracting Mothertongues: Considering Mobility Through Language, Michaela Fay Jul 2005

Refracting Mothertongues: Considering Mobility Through Language, Michaela Fay

Journal of International Women's Studies

In this article I explore the interplay between language and mobility. As the number of debates about mobility and belonging has grown both in the social sciences and in feminist theory, there has been an increasing discussion about the interaction between language and place and I argue here that increased mobility leads to changes in one’s understanding and experience of the languages one dwells in. My argument is that the ways in which language is reflected upon shapes the ways in which subjects experience and define their mobility and further, that when individuals reflect about language, they also reflect, in …

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Librarians As Disciplinary Discourse Mediators: Using Genre Theory To Move Toward Critical Information Literacy, Michelle H. Simmons Jul 2005

Librarians As Disciplinary Discourse Mediators: Using Genre Theory To Move Toward Critical Information Literacy, Michelle H. Simmons

Faculty Publications

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Assessing The Role Of Values In Developing Service Competence And The Relationship Between Competence And Job Performance, Bernard J. Brunsman Jul 2005

Assessing The Role Of Values In Developing Service Competence And The Relationship Between Competence And Job Performance, Bernard J. Brunsman

Student Scholarship

This paper describes research to establish and test a model that proposes relationships between Learning Experiences and Job Performance. Service Competence--a construct that integrates technical, cognitive, and social/emotional competencies--was adapted from social learning, emotional intelligence, and emotional labor theories and was proposed as mediating the relationship between learning experiences and job performance. Individual values were proposed to moderate the relationship between Learning Experiences and Service Competence. Alignment of an individual's dominant value with the organization's dominant value was proposed to moderate the relationship between Service Competence and Job Performance. Technical help desk employees at a major US retailer participated in …

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Exclusionary Amenities In Residential Communities, Lior Strahilevitz Jul 2005

Exclusionary Amenities In Residential Communities, Lior Strahilevitz

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

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2005 July, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University. Jul 2005

2005 July, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases for July of 2005.

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Openline Newsletter, July 2005, Civil Service Council Jul 2005

Openline Newsletter, July 2005, Civil Service Council

OpenLine Newsletter

A monthly newsletter for Civil Service employees, Volume XXX, Number 1, July 2005.

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After Two Wars: Reflections On The American Strategic Revolution In Central Asia, Stephen J. Blank Dr. Jul 2005

After Two Wars: Reflections On The American Strategic Revolution In Central Asia, Stephen J. Blank Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

The author explains how this newly won access to the Transcaspian has come about and describes why it will remain important to the United States. He then offers analysis and recommendations as to how we might retain access to deal with future contingencies and examines intersecting geopolitical and strategic trends.

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Minority Access To Higher Education And Its Social Outcomes, Noga Admon Jul 2005

Minority Access To Higher Education And Its Social Outcomes, Noga Admon

Essays in Education

The social disadvantage of minority groups has been attributed to their inability to compete in the labor market due to lower rates of obtaining higher credentials, compared with middle-class Whites. During the 70’s and the 80’s, several large-scale policies attempted to promote minority access to higher education. This paper reviews two of these policies – the CUNY open admissions and the expansion of community colleges – and suggests that even though minority access to higher education has increased, this increase was counterbalanced by a rise in internal stratification within higher education. As a result, increased access did not generate equality …

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On The Influence Of Grouping Practices On Classroom Teaching, Emin Aydin, Ilker Tugal Jul 2005

On The Influence Of Grouping Practices On Classroom Teaching, Emin Aydin, Ilker Tugal

Essays in Education

The article starts with a historical overview, discusses the arguments for and against ability grouping. It surveys the literature on different practices of grouping that exist in the American and British literature. The study mainly focuses on instructional grouping practices based on ability and on cooperation. It discusses arguments for and against ability grouping. The study also presents information about the use of mastery learning with cooperative strategies.

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Peer Mentoring: An Intrusive Approach, Monica Shea Correll Jul 2005

Peer Mentoring: An Intrusive Approach, Monica Shea Correll

Essays in Education

The profile of the postsecondary student is changing. Support services must be willing to change and adapt in order to better serve students. One possible method for meeting students’ diverse needs is through peer mentoring. The following article is a peer mentoring program administered through a federal grant program for disadvantaged students as defined by the Department of Education’s TRiO programs. The participants and peer mentors are students at a Master’s College and University I institution as listed by the Carnegie Foundation. The results listed are from the 2003-2004 academic year, with findings of the majority of students responding to …

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An Anglo-American Rethinks Native American Education: Can We Avoid Yesterday’S Tragedies?, Mitchell J. Moore Jul 2005

An Anglo-American Rethinks Native American Education: Can We Avoid Yesterday’S Tragedies?, Mitchell J. Moore

Essays in Education

“It’s ironic that Indian people are not allowed to be experts in themselves—it’s usually someone else ‘defining’ the Indian” (Pewewardy, 1992, p.5). Tragically, this is an accurate representation of much of the history of Native American education. Major changes have taken place in the last thirty years to correct this tragedy and to return the education of Native Americans to Native Americans. Progress, however has been slow; years of cultural, geographic and educational genocide by Europeans and Non-Indigenous governments have been difficult to overcome. To understand the historical underpinnings of the modern Native American education movement, three general eras of …

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Current Policies And Practices Around Public High School Advanced Mathematics Course Taking, Mehmet A. Ozturk Jul 2005

Current Policies And Practices Around Public High School Advanced Mathematics Course Taking, Mehmet A. Ozturk

Essays in Education

The present article is a national overview of current policies and practices around advanced mathematics course taking in public high schools. It begins with an explanation of the mathematics courses in public high schools. Importance of course taking in mathematics in general and advanced mathematics course taking in particular is highlighted. Then, academic excellence and educational equity concerns surrounding advanced mathematics course taking are discussed. A major part of the article is a detailed account of current policies and practices as they are related to excellence and/or equity in advanced mathematics course taking. Under this section, three topics are discussed: …

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Kondratieff Cycles And Long Waves Of Educational Reform: Educational Policy And Practice From 1789 To 2045, Hasan Simsek Jul 2005

Kondratieff Cycles And Long Waves Of Educational Reform: Educational Policy And Practice From 1789 To 2045, Hasan Simsek

Essays in Education

The purpose of this article is to develop a new perspective of large-scale educational reform as long waves or long cycles in the history of Western industrialized countries (specifically the US). Kondratieff cycles refer to a “law of motion” in the capitalist mode of production: Since the establishment of the industrial capitalism in the late 18th century, capitalism has moved through long waves of upswings followed by long waves of downswings, each complete cycle comprising about 50 to 60 years intervals. So far, four Kondratieff cycles have been identified: 1789-1849, 1849-1894, 1894-1945, 1945-1995. It is argued that we are in …

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Communication Technology And Pedagogical Power, Maurice Tardif Jul 2005

Communication Technology And Pedagogical Power, Maurice Tardif

Essays in Education

The ideas put forward here, although supported by empirical studies on the work of teachers and their profession (Mukamurera, 1998, 1999; Lessard and Tardif, 1996; Tardif and Lessard, 1999), examine, mostly from a philosophical and sociological perspective, the foundations of educational communication with respect to the role and meaning of ICTs in education. This article presents a critical reflection, wholly theoretical and non-objectifying, on the relation between ICTs and teaching. Because it is critical in nature, this reflection is not neutral. It is based on suppositions concerning the nature of teaching, and, in broader terms, on human communication and the …

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The Impact Of Cultural And Religious Values On Television And Newspaper Advertising Content And Appeal: A Cross-Cultural Study Of The United States And The Arab World, Morris A. Kalliny Jul 2005

The Impact Of Cultural And Religious Values On Television And Newspaper Advertising Content And Appeal: A Cross-Cultural Study Of The United States And The Arab World, Morris A. Kalliny

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

Standardization versus adaptation of advertising has been a subject of great controversy that has been debated for more than 50 years. Scholars have pointed out the increasing demand for more cross-cultural research on advertising content that can contribute to the standardization versus adaptation debate. Scholars have also pointed out that although the Arab world offers great opportunities for multinational corporations, the Arab world has been severely neglected in academic research. To comply with this demand, this study investigates the similarities and differences of the manifestation of cultural and religious values in the U.S. and the Arab world (Egypt, Lebanon, Kuwait, …

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Catalog 2005-2006, Saint Mary's College Of California Jul 2005

Catalog 2005-2006, Saint Mary's College Of California

Academic Catalog

No abstract provided.

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Implementation Of Problem-Based Learning In Senior Engineering Design-I (Ece 485w), Fawaz Muzaffer Hussain Jul 2005

Implementation Of Problem-Based Learning In Senior Engineering Design-I (Ece 485w), Fawaz Muzaffer Hussain

Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Problem-Based Learning is an approach where knowledge is acquired in the context of the problem. Students are provided with the problem specifications and resources that might prove to be helpful in solving the problem. They attack these real world problems in groups, analogous to the practice in the professional engineering world. This mode of teaching was adopted to deliver the Senior Engineering Design — I course (ECE 485W), offered to freshman engineering undergraduate students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Old Dominion University, Norfolk. This thesis documents the various pedagogical methods implemented into the course, which were introduced …

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Rural America: Historical Overview, Jami C. Curley Jul 2005

Rural America: Historical Overview, Jami C. Curley

Center for Social Development Research

This paper provides a historical overview of rural America. To understand the dynamics of rural areas today, we have to understand how they evolved. Demographic trends, economic factors, and government policies have all contributed to the current state of development in rural areas. The impact of each of these aspects has shaped and influenced rural areas in their own unique way. This paper examines the role of all three aspects. a definition of rural is also included.

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In Between Employment And Volunteer Work: Serving As A 'Volontaire' And As A 'Corpsmember' In France And The United States, Maud Simonet Jul 2005

In Between Employment And Volunteer Work: Serving As A 'Volontaire' And As A 'Corpsmember' In France And The United States, Maud Simonet

Center for Social Development Research

In Between Employment and Volunteer Work: Serving as a 'Volontaire' and as a 'Corpsmember' in France and the United States

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Statism, Youth And Civic Imagination: A Critical Study Of The National Youth Service Corps (Nysc) Programme In Nigeria, Ebenezer Obadare Jul 2005

Statism, Youth And Civic Imagination: A Critical Study Of The National Youth Service Corps (Nysc) Programme In Nigeria, Ebenezer Obadare

Center for Social Development Research

Statism, Youth and Civic Imagination: A Critical Study of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Programme in Nigeria

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Increasing Life Chances For Orphaned Children In Africa: Testing An Asset-Based Development Strategy, Fred Ssewamala, Jami Curley Jul 2005

Increasing Life Chances For Orphaned Children In Africa: Testing An Asset-Based Development Strategy, Fred Ssewamala, Jami Curley

Center for Social Development Research

Increasing Life Chances for Orphaned Children in Africa: Testing an Asset-Based Development Strategy

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International Service: History And Forms, Pitfalls And Potential, Amanda Moore Mcbride, Dolly Daftary Jul 2005

International Service: History And Forms, Pitfalls And Potential, Amanda Moore Mcbride, Dolly Daftary

Center for Social Development Research

International voluntary service represents the contribution of one’s time to some cause, which is largely uncompensated and spent in a country other than one’s home country. The forms of international service have evolved from roots in missionary service to a focus on development of the host communities and the volunteers. Current trends emphasize mutuality, accountability, and participation by host communities, but against a historical and contemporary backdrop, inequality remains between the volunteers and hosts. This paper speculates a range of possible positive and negative developmental outcomes, programmatic strategies to mediate negative effects, and research to inform program and policy development.

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Inclusion In Asset Building: Testimony For Hearing On "Building Assets For Low-Income Families” Subcommittee On Social Security And Family Policy Senate Finance Committee, Michael Sherraden Jul 2005

Inclusion In Asset Building: Testimony For Hearing On "Building Assets For Low-Income Families” Subcommittee On Social Security And Family Policy Senate Finance Committee, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Inclusion in Asset Building: Testimony for Hearing on "Building Assets for Low-Income Families” Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy Senate Finance Committee

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