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Model Learning Outcomes For Introductory Rural Sociology: A Proposal And Rationale, Jennifer Steele

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

While rural sociologists have demonstrated their commitment to sharing ideas about teaching approaches and methods, they have given less systematic attention to the content of introductory rural sociology and its connections to the field’s mission of improving rural well-being. The purpose of this note is to make a case for developing model learning outcomes for introductory rural sociology and to present an organizing framework and sample outcomes for initiating discussion. First, a rationale for using learning outcomes as the means of sharing professional expectations is presented. Next, the methods used to arrive at a proposed organizational framework are described. It …

Assessing Introductory Rural Sociology, Joseph F. Donnermeyer, Benjamin Gray

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

This article reports on the results of an assessment of an introductory rural sociology course offered at two land-grant universities, which are very different in size. These institutions are North Carolina A&T State University and The Ohio State University. The authors use similar assessment tools, including an embedded pre and post test of knowledge gained, students’ written comments to open-ended questions administered at the end of term about the quality of the class and the instructors, and the traditional, standardized Student Evaluation of Instruction, an instrument used across many universities. In addition, at OSU, a small group diagnostic of students …

The Mobile Bay Watershed Project: An Experiment In Collaborative Learning About The Social Construction Of Environmental And Natural Resource Problems, Michelle Worosz

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

A collaborative research project was developed for a multidisciplinary class of advanced undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in Sociology of Natural Resources and the Environment. The goals of the project were to determine the feasibility of offering an experiential learning opportunity and to explore its usefulness in enhancing students’ thinking about the social constructedness of natural resource and environmental (NRE) problems. The context was the Mobile Bay watershed, which is the site of a variety of concerns such as land use, pollution, and habitat destruction. To explore these types of problems, students completed a series of assignments including a media …

Ketepatan Metode Mantel-Haenszal, Sibtest, Dan Regresi Logistik Untuk Mendeteksi Differential Item Function, Budiyono Budiyono

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

Penelitian dilakukan untuk mengetahui (a) urutan ketepatan pendeteksian Differential Item Functioning (DIF) antara metode Mantel-Haenszel, the Simultanous Item Bias Test (SIBTEST), dan regresi logistik, (b) persentase kandungan DIF, Mantel-Haenszel, SIBTEST, dan regresi logistik tidak melakukan kesalahan. Simulasi dipilih dengan desain sebagai berikut (a) peserta tes sebanyak 1000 orang untuk kelompok acuan dan 1000 orang untuk kelompok fokus, dan (b) tiga kelompok tes pilihan ganda dengan 5 pilihan jawaban. Ada 20 buah tes masing-masing terdiri dari 25 butir soal, 40 buah tes masing-masing terdiri dari 50 butir soal, dan 60 buah tes masing-masing terdiri dari 75 butir soal. Muatan …

Keefektifan Program Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Teknologi Dan Industri (Smkti), Sumarno Sumarno

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui keefektifan program pendidikan Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Teknologi Industri (SMKTI), yang mencakup: (1) angka partisipasi lulusan Jurusan Mesin, Elektro, dan Bangunan pada industri utama dan unit produksi, dan (2) indikator pasar tenaga kerja lulusan pada waktu mendatang. Subjek penelitian ini adalah tenaga kerja lulusan SMKTI Kota Bandar Lampung. Data penelitian dikumpulkan melalui dokumentasi dan dianalisis secara deskriptif. Untuk mengetahui indikator prospek pasar tenaga kerja lulusan SMKTI digunakan persamaan Grip dan Heijke (1998). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa: (1) pada unit produksi, jurusan teknik mesin mempunyai angka partisipasi 0,66 sampai 0,76 (efektif), jurusan teknik bangunan mempunyai angka partisipasi …

Winona Currents Annual Report 2009, University Advancement - Winona State University

Winona Currents

This magazine published by Winona State University’s University Advancement was intended to inform WSU Alumni, students, faculty, staff and the greater community about Alumni and the university.Winona Currents Annual Report for 2009.

The Murray Ledger And Times, December 31, 2009, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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“Make It Happen With Momentum”, Stavros Michailidis

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

The “Make it Happen with Momentum” workshop is a 90 minute interactive experience developed for the 11th Annual European Conference on Creativity and Innovation.  It was first presented on October 29, 2009 in Brussels, Belgium by Stavros Michailidis and Donald M. Drost, Phd.  The workshop was well received and selected amongst the best workshops of the conference.

The purpose of the workshop is to introduce participants to the Momentum Framework, developed by Stavros Michailidis to diagnose and nurture the successful implementation of creative works.  Work to date includes a formula for momentum, a diagnostic tool for assessing momentum and basic …

Does Patronage Still Drive Politics For The Rural Poor In The Developing World? A Comparative Perspective From The Livestock Sector, David K. Leonard, Jennifer Brass, Michael Nelson, Sophal Ear, Dan Fahey, Tasha Fairfield, Martha Johnson Gning, Michael Halderman, Brendan Mcsherry, Devra Coren Moehler, Wilson Prichard, Robin L. Turner, Tuong Vu, Jeroen Dijkman

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Is the analysis of patron–client networks still important to the understanding of developing country politics or has it now been overtaken by a focus on ‘social capital’? Drawing on seventeen country studies of the political environment for livestock policy in poor countries, this article concludes that although the nature of patronage has changed significantly, it remains highly relevant to the ways peasant interests are treated. Peasant populations were found either to have no clear connection to their political leaders or to be controlled by political clientage. Furthermore, communities ‘free’ of patron–client ties to the centre generally are not better represented …

Foreword To The Special Edition Of The Ebr On Environmental Changes, Janez Prašnikar

Economic and Business Review

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Climate Change And Future Adaptation, Lučka Kajfež Bogataj

Economic and Business Review

This paper provides a summary of the current scientific understanding of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the natural and anthropogenic drivers of changes in global climate. It presents an overview of observed changes in the climate system and their relationships with physical processes as well as an overview of projections for future climate changes. A summary of observed climate changes in Slovenia in the last decades is given and future projections are discussed. Europe has warmed by almost 1°C in the last century, faster than the global average. Precipitation has significantly increased in northern Europe, whereas drying …

Environmental Strategies And Their Motives And Results In Slovenian Business Practice, Tomaž Čater, Janez Prašnikar, Barbara Čater

Economic and Business Review

The results of a survey on 153 Slovenian manufacturing companies show that companies implement environmental strategies primarily as a refl ection of the commitment of their top management, followed by public concern, regulatory forces and expected competitive advantage. They report a relatively high level of implementation of the corporate environmental strategy while, among functional strategies, environmental issues are most commonly included in the production and marketing strategies, followed by purchasing and personnel strategies. Large companies develop and execute environmental strategies to a greater extent than small companies. The results also reveal a positive but very weak relationship between environmental strategies …

Active Ageing On The Company Level: The Theory Vs. The Day-To-Day Practice In Slovenia, Jana Žnidaršič, Vlado Dimovski

Economic and Business Review

The need to improve the labour market participation of older people has received ever greater attention in recent years, especially in view of the significant demographic changes the European Union will undergo due to population ageing. Besides the macroeconomic level, implications of this trend are strongly seen at the company level, particularly when it comes to managing the ageing workforce. Companies are thus introducing new approaches, policies and instruments which seek to foster the higher employment rates of the elderly by implementing the active-ageing concept in business and HRM practice. The paper aims to highlight the development of active-ageing initiatives …

The Weekly Challenger, December 31, 2009, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The December 31, 2009, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Davidson V. Davidson Appellant's Brief Dckt. 36535

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Halvorson V. North Latah County Highway Appellant's Brief Dckt. 36825

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

"Ex Occidente Frux": Jeffers, Thoreau, And The Strange Fruit Of The West, J. Bradford Campbell

Jeffers Studies

No abstract provided.

Housing Is Harm Reduction: The Case For The Creation Of Harm Reduction Based Termination Of Tenancy Procedures For The New York City Housing Authority, Megan Stuart

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Negusie V. Holder: The End Of The Strict Liability Persecutor Bar?, Karl Goodman

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Lawyers As Resource Allies In Workers' Struggles For Social Change, E. Tammy Kim

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Role Of Legal Services In Workers' Organizing, Nadia Marin-Molina, Jamie Vargas

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Solitary Hero Verus Social Man In Jeffers's Dear Judas And Yeats's Calvary, Deborah Fleming

Jeffers Studies

W. B. Yeats’s play Calvary (1920) may have inspired or influenced Jeffers’s Dear Judas (1928). Both use the Easter story to explore not only with betrayal and redemption, but also archetypes of betrayer and savior, solitary hero and communal man. Both examine the psychology of the participants in order to evoke the meaning of the events and their importance in western culture. Yeats conceived of his play as an illustration of the distinction in his visionary psychology between objective men who exist in relation to others and subjective men who exist for themselves. For Jeffers, conversely, communal man, absorbed in …

"The Phantom Rulers Of Humanity": Influence Of Robinson Jeffers's Roan Stallion, Tamar And Other Poems On Joseph Campbell's The Masks Of God: Creative Mythology, Gere Dizerega, M.D.

Jeffers Studies

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The Kyoto Protocol In A Global Perspective, Andreja Cirman, Polona Domadenik, Matjaž Koman, Tjaša Redek

Economic and Business Review

The global climate has changed notably since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gasses (GHG) have increased dramatically followed by an increase in global average temperature. In order to avoid negative potential outcomes of global warming, countries have adopted the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that has so far been ratified by 192 countries. In 1997 the Kyoto Protocol, a binding GHG reduction plan, was adopted and entered into force in 2005. But several countries, including the USA, have had doubts about the potential negative consequences of the planned 5% global joint reduction of …

Income Tax Gap: Kajian Deskriptif Dan Empiris Atas Koreksi Pajak Di Indonesia, Siti Nuryanah, Christine Christine

Jurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan Indonesia

Income tax could provide insights into the effectiveness o f tax policy and the role o f accounting. This paper examines the Indonesia income tax gap by focusing on accounts o f taxpayer ’s income statements frequently adjusted by tax auditors. The study also examines the reasons for these tax audit adjustments. This paper finds that the tax non-compliance can be traced into some accounts which are: 1) general and administrative costs; 2) COGS; and 3) sales. This study reveals that the main reason of the tax adjustments is due to the lack o f evidence or supporting documents. The …

The Role Of Teachers In The Academic English Literacy Acquisition Experiences Of Deaf College Students, Kathryn L. Schmitz

Articles

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe deaf college students’ perceptions of their experiences learning academic English literacy vis à vis their teachers. The study examined the narrated academic English literacy acquisition experiences and practices of 11 deaf and hard-of-hearing students at a hearing university with a large deaf student population. Through paradigmatic analysis of narrative data, the study located common themes, which revealed students’ perceptions of academic English literacy acquisition, particularly with regard to their teachers. Methods employed in the study were phenomenological interviewing and recursive analysis. The primary data sources were participant interviews and a focus …

State V. Johnson Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 35635

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

How To Cope With Distance In The Future?, Guy Fournier

Economic and Business Review

Mobility is essential to life, human needs, and economic development. Diminishing oil reserves, a growing dependency on oil and global warming will all strongly impact on mobility. However, innovative solutions exist. To keep mobility affordable it is likely that fossil-oil-based mobility will not be substituted by just one technology. Secondand third-generation biofuels and electric vehicles are some of the best ways to be energy and CO2 efficient in a well-to-wheel view. In contrast, fuel cells do not seem to be an alternative. Original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and suppliers will be firmly impacted by this evolution. The fastest and most innovative …

Annual Report 2009, Banco Central De Reserva Del Perº / Central Reserve Bank Of Peru

Documents

No abstract provided.

Fannie Mae Form 10-K: December 31, 2009, Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)

Documents

No abstract provided.