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Perceptions Of Elementary Teachers Who Educate Linguistically Diverse Student, Renee Greenfield

The Qualitative Report

This study investigated elementary teachers’ perceptions of linguistically diverse students (LDS). Using Sociocultural Theory as a lens, nine elementary teachers responded to a case study dilemma about a LDS. This study was guided by the following question : How do elementary teachers from the same teacher preparation program perceive the LDS they educate? Data were analyzed using qualitative methods, including domain analysis. The majority of teachers associated the following perceptions with the LDS case: concern for the student, use of deficit language to describe student, assumption that the student’s families had limited English proficiency, and difficulties and assumptions surrounding the …

Dense Recordings Reveal Typical And Atypical Development Of Tense Productivity In A Child Previously Diagnosed With Asd, Iris Chin

Master's Theses

Research on tense development has found that typically developing (TD) children are productive with tense morphology starting between two to two-and-a-half years old. Research findings on children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), however, have been mixed. To better understand how tense development may differ between TD children and children with ASD, we examined the speech of two children, one TD [Cleo] and one that previously presented symptoms of ASD [Audrey]. This study is novel in its use of the Speechome Recorder, which collects dense audio-video recordings of children’s speech in home environments. We found that both children were productive with …

Lanthorn, Vol. 48, No. 28, November 25, 2013, Grand Valley State University

Volume 48, July 1, 2013 - June 2, 2014

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Factors Influencing Vaccination Decisions In African American Mothers Of Preschool Age Children, Chauntel Mckenzie Mcnair

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Rates and coverage levels of immunizations of African-American children are reduced compared to other races. Few studies have identified factors that influence vaccination decisions of African-American mothers. This study assessed the mothers' vaccination decisions using a self-administered questionnaire and a screening instrument for determining health literacy. This instrument is called Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM). The sample was 92 African American mothers, recruited from a large metropolitan church in Jacksonville, Florida, who had at least one child under the age of seven. A cross-sectional research design was used to administer survey instruments to identify and interpret parental …

The Hero Legend In Colonial Southeast Asia, Thomas; University Gibson

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Four legends that originated in the different religious and colonial contexts of the Tagalog and Makassar peoples are shown to conform to Edward Tylor’s classical “hero pattern.” Using structural anthropology and cognitive linguistics, thisarticle argues that hero legends generated metaphors from concrete relationships in the domestic domain to conceptualize abstract relationships in a series of other domains. The hero pattern underwent transformations in tandem with changes in the political and economic institutions in which it was embedded. From its beginnings as a charter for rival city-states in the ancient Middle East, it became a charter for the universalistic world religions …

A German Travels To The North In 1878: Golden Anitos, Bird-Scaring Machines, And The Tree Of Justice, Ramon Guillermo, Maria Eliza Agabin

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

After finishing his education at the University of Munich, the German pharmacist Dr. Heinrich Rothdauscher (1851–1937) spent the years 1873 to 1883 working in drugstores in Manila, Cebu, and Vigan. He eventually finished writing an account of his experiences in a work entitled “Memoirs of a German Pharmacist” in 1932. Presented here is a translation of two chapters of a short expedition to the Cordilleras in 1878, which contain interesting literary, historical, and ethnographic elements.Keywords: Travel memoirs • German • PhiliPPines • The Cordilleras • ifuGao

Improving Business Intelligence Design Process Using A Multi-Perspective Inter-Disciplinary Communication Approach, Michael Albert Tomasura

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

Organizations are continually accumulating large amounts of business data, as an increasing number of business processes are being conducted electronically. Analyzing these large data sets is often referred to as the “Big Data” problem because of the complexity and distributed nature of the data. While there is an abundance of business data available to business users for analysis, it is not being used due to lack of Business Intelligence (BI) Tools’ capability and a growing backlog of requests to Enterprise IT departments for new and modified data models to support continuously evolving reporting and analysis requirements. In addition, current processes …

The Bg News November 25, 2013, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 25, 2013. Volume 93-Issue 40.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, November 24, 2013, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2013

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, November 24, 2013, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2013

No abstract provided.

Knowledge Area Module V: Theories Of Organizational And Social Systems, Francis E. Howard

Faculty and Staff Publications

In this section the theories of Perry, Erikson, Kegan, Parks, as well as Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger and Tarule are compared and contrasted. The significant ideas of each theorist on the stages of human development are analyzed and assessed in terms of their underlying assumptions about meaning making and the internal motivation to learn. The strategy that guided this examination focuses on the process of learning and its relation to the stages of development from infancy through adulthood.

Archives Annual Report, 2012-2013, Meg Miner

Administrative Reports

No abstract provided.

Rethinking Library Instruction: Using Learning Outcome Based Design To Teach Online Search Strategies, Meagan Lacy, Hsin-Liang Chen

University Libraries Faculty Research & Creative Works

Given the growing pressure on academic institutions and, by extension, academic libraries to establish student learning outcomes and demonstrate their impact on student learning, researchers at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) explored how outcome-based instructional design can be used to 1) collect student data, 2) assess student learning, and 3) improve instruction. Two surveys were distributed to 59 undergraduate students who were enrolled in an introductory composition course at IUPUI. Because previous studies (e.g. Ford, Miller and Moss 2005) have linked human individual differences with web search strategy, the first survey collected information about the students’ demographic features. …

November 23, 2013 (Pages 6873-7000), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 43 (2013)

No abstract provided.

Program, Contact, 2013, Studio At 620

Program Collection

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Parental Psychological Control On College Students’ Relational Aggression And Friendship Quality, Megan F. Snider

Honors Theses

The present study investigated the relationships between parental psychological control and college students’ relational aggression and friendship quality. Based on previous research, it was expected that parents’ use of psychological control would be associated with students’ increased use of relational aggression with peers and lower friendship quality. Students completed a series of survey measures assessing their mothers’ and fathers’ use of psychological control, behavioral control, and warmth/acceptance. Students also completed a series of survey measures assessing their friendship quality, social skills, relational aggression, self-esteem, and social desirability. The study’s findings revealed that parental psychological control was associated with and predicted …

Comment Letters On Proposed Statements On Standards For Accounting And Review Services, Preparation Of Financial Statements, Compilation Engagements, Association With Financial Statements, October 23, 2013, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting And Review Services Committee

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

No abstract provided.

A Lived-In Life, Sara Basher

Theses

A Lived-In Life documents the creation of my thesis work and accompanying discoveries. The movement of Fauvism and artists Vincent van Gogh, Alice Neel and Henry Darger are named as historical inspirations. Contemporaries named as influential include female figurative painters Jenny Saville, Xenia Hausner, Hung Liu, Elizabeth Peyton and Anna Bjerger.

I reflect on my position within contemporary art culture, placing myself between abstraction and photo realism. I discuss graduate school epiphanies on material, asserting my commitment to sustainable and safe practice. I address the historical use of photographic reference, as well as the role of photography in contemporary culture …

First In Reform: The Adoption Of Common Core State Standards In Kentucky, Richard Day

Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning

Kentucky first drew national attention when its Supreme Court declared the entire system of schools to be unconstitutional in Rose v Council for Better Education, 790 S. W. 2d 186 (1989). The Rose case, argued by former Kentucky Governor Bert Combs, launched a third wave of school reform litigation based on both equity and adequacy as expressed in state constitutions (Day 2011, 2-4). On February 11, 2010, in an unprecedented joint meeting, the chairs of the Kentucky Board of Educat ion, the Council on Postsecondary Education, and the Education Professional Standards Board signed a resolution directing their respective agencies to …

“Without Contraries”: Casting A Critical Eye On The Common Core--Commentary, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning

A year ago we, as members of the Executive Committee at a Kentucky state institution charged with aligning college academics to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), created a report for KJECTL (Summer 2012) about our progress in complying with Senate Bill 1 (SB1), even detailing a website we jointly created with the state. Interestingly, our institution has a current Quality Enhancement Plan that it “will graduate informed critical and creative thinkers who communicate effectively.” This year we want to demonstrate some of that critical thinking by evaluating the CCSS argument both through our experience and with what various commentators …

Changing Landscapes And Paradigm Shifts: Integrating The Common Core With Educator Preparation--Commentary, Verna Lowe

Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning

Educator preparation and P-12 education are on a trajectory of changing landscapes and shifting paradigms to meet the needs of providing a world-class education to our children and youth who will be prepared to thrive in their personal and professional lives in this century. This shift moves from the “yesterday of schooling and educator preparation” involving a system of good intentions that worked for a percentage of learners to a holistic structure designed for all students and stakeholders.

Editorial Note From The Guest Editor, Terry Holiday

Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning

Not that long ago, K-12 education and postsecondary education were mutually exclusive clubs. Each set their own agenda, strategies and goals – without input from the other and at times in direct conflict. Occasionally, they blamed one another for failures, yet most of the time they kept to themselves.

First Freshman Ever Admitted To Gsu!, Office Of Marketing And Communications

Press Releases

Thursday, November 21 was a big day for Marian Catholic High School senior Emily Metzger and a big day for Governors State University!

Emily, accompanied by her parents, Stephanie and Brian, arrived on campus ostensibly to shop at a GSU student art market. Everything changed, however, when Courtney Sanders, Vice President of Enrollment Management, stepped to the podium and announced, “We are here to welcome the very first student to be admitted to the first freshman class of Governors State University. Welcome to GSU, Emily Metzger!”

As GSU’s first admitted freshman, Emily received a huge round of applause, a large …

Innovations In Evaluating Health Campaigns In Developing Countries, W. Douglas Evans, Marc Boulay, Rebecca Firestone, Rajiv N. Rimal

GW Health Communication and Marketing Symposium Series

When conducting research in resource-poor settings, what research-method textbooks prescribe often varies substantially from what actually gets implemented on the ground. Randomization often breaks down, extraneous noise often pollutes the purity of experimental designs, and other challenges emerge in the field. The panel will highlight some of those challenges and engage the audience in discussions about possible solutions. Dr. Boulay will illustrate an analytic approach that combines propensity score matching and mediation analysis to provide a more comprehensive evaluation of SBCC activities. Dr. Firestone will discuss PSI's experience using coarsened exact matching to strengthen evaluation of its behavior change communications …

The Tiger Vol. 107 Issue 23 2013-11-22, Clemson University

Tiger Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Ethics & Engineering, Adam Liska

Adam Liska Papers

1) How ethics works (4 slides)
2) 7 general ethical principles (13 slides)
3) Environmental ethics (2 slides)
4) Meta-ethics, theories about ethics (3 slides)
5) Laws & ethics (3 slides)
6) Professional codes of ethics (2 slides)
7) Conflict of Interest, etc. (4 slides)
8) Opportunity costs in research & design (1 slide)

Lindenwood Chips In --Mo' Cowbell Race Helps Library District, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Faculty Senate Meeting, November 22, 2013, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate

USF St. Petersburg Faculty Senate Meetings: Minutes

The minutes from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Faculty Senate meeting on November 22, 2013.

Gardner-Webb University Announces Pending Sale Of Radio Frequency 88.3 Fm, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Officials with Gardner-Webb University are announcing the pending sale of their long-standing FM radio frequency 88.3 upon approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). New Life 91.9 WRCM, part of Columbia International University (Columbia, S.C.), has agreed to purchase the frequency and expects the transition to be complete in the first quarter of 2014. “While the purchase of the frequency has been in negotiation for several months, all of the paperwork has now been filed with the FCC,” said WGWG General Manager Noel Manning.

November 22, 2013 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.