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Historians Of 19th Century Baseball: Exploring Their Experiences Regarding Their Avocation, Wade Berstler Jan 2016

Historians Of 19th Century Baseball: Exploring Their Experiences Regarding Their Avocation, Wade Berstler

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The following document offers a qualitative case study in the field of adult and community education from an educational leadership perspective using baseball as an adult learning tool. Relevant existing theories (adult education, lifelong learning, adult learners, and certain leadership practices) for successful facilitation of historical baseball research were examined. The study focused on a purposeful sample population upon which a pilot study was conducted, revealing the experiences of adult self-directed learners who produce the seminal work in their field as an avocation. The findings of this study included, but are not limited to, the passionate approach the study group …

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Informational Aspects Of Audiovisual Identity Matching, Lauren Wood Mavica Jan 2016

Informational Aspects Of Audiovisual Identity Matching, Lauren Wood Mavica

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In this study, we investigated what informational aspects of faces could account for the ability to match an individual’s face to their voice, using only static images. In each of the first six experiments, we simultaneously presented one voice recording along with two manipulated images of faces (e.g. top half of the face, bottom half of the face, etc.), a target face and distractor face. The participant’s task was to choose which of the images they thought belonged to the same individual as the voice recording. The voices remained un-manipulated. In Experiment 7 we used eye tracking in order to …

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Investigating Approaches To Media Literacy: An Analysis Of Media Literacy Organizations, Michael Francis Jan 2016

Investigating Approaches To Media Literacy: An Analysis Of Media Literacy Organizations, Michael Francis

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Media literacy is a competency needed for success in the 21st century yet a clear purpose does not exist that is useful in curriculum design. The purpose of this study was to investigate a combined (eclectic) approach to media literacy education according to selected international media literacy organizations. Determining an eclectic approach from subject area experts will be useful in designing and integrating media literacy curriculum. Methodologically, this study was a qualitative content analysis and is thematic in nature using a constant comparative method of analysis. Supporting frameworks were established through standards based curriculum development and Schwab’s (1969, 1971, 1973, …

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Low Cost Robotic Car As A Way To Teach Mathematics, Santiago Andres Aguerrevere Jan 2016

Low Cost Robotic Car As A Way To Teach Mathematics, Santiago Andres Aguerrevere

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This report describes the development of a low cost open source semiautonomous robotic car and a way to communicate with it. It is a continuation of prior research done by other students at FAU and published in recent ASEE conferences. The objective of this project was the development of a new robotic platform with improved precision over the original, while still keeping the cost down. It was developed with the aim to allow a hands-on approach to the teaching of mathematics topics that are taught in the K-12 syllabus. Improved robustness and reliability of the robotic platform for visually solving …

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Like, Follow, Share, Naghmeh Goodarzi Jan 2016

Like, Follow, Share, Naghmeh Goodarzi

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My intention for this show is to explore the effect of alienation that ironically is being produced by social media. The principal concept is developed around shame, sharing, and notoriety on three different social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram. This show explores the social media perception of myself in the realms of human interaction, identity, and memory in social media through the critical appropriation of the languages of design and photography. The installation with four Facebook profile pictures in large scale and framed looks at the way a personal image can convey the impression of widely different personalities. …

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Managed Discourse: Legitimizing Principal Identity And Agency, Matias Arellano Jan 2016

Managed Discourse: Legitimizing Principal Identity And Agency, Matias Arellano

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Given the demands of the era of accountability and standardization, the purpose of this study was to explore how educational leaders construct their identity and agency. The study utilized overlapping post-structural and critical theoretical frameworks on identity and agency to analyze how high school principals interpret and enact comprehensive school reform rhetoric and their state’s educational leadership standards. In addition to several cycles of coding, a critical discourse analysis was performed with the input of the participants’ high schools in order to further analyze the form and function of discourses, socially situated meanings, and ideologies that constitute being an educational …

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Mhysa Or Monster: Masculinization, Mimicry, And The White Savior In A Song Of Ice And Fire, Rachel Hartnett Jan 2016

Mhysa Or Monster: Masculinization, Mimicry, And The White Savior In A Song Of Ice And Fire, Rachel Hartnett

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Song of Ice and Fire is unarguably one of the most popular fantasy series of all time. Notwithstanding its success, the series has only recently begun to be analyzed critically. George R.R. Martin’s books are often celebrated for breaking many of the tropes common in fantasy literature. Despite this, the series is nonetheless a product of a genre that has been shaped by white, male authors. Using such prominent postcolonial scholars as Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi Bhabha, and Albert Memmi, I analyze the five published books of Martin’s series. I argue that although Martin seems to be aware …

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Missed Opportunities And Connections In Teacher Learning, Deborah Melchers Ferris Jan 2016

Missed Opportunities And Connections In Teacher Learning, Deborah Melchers Ferris

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The current qualitative study focused on understanding the process of learning to teach. Using interviews of teacher educators, the study explored the importance of a set of teaching activities developed as part of the Teacher Self Efficacy Survey (Tschannen- Moran & Woolfolk Hoy, 2001) as well as the inclusion of instructional and assessment strategies for the teaching activities and the quality of beginning teacher performance of the activities. Data were collected from interviews of 15 teacher educators. A process of open, axial, and substantive coding was applied to the data to inductively identify and categorize data relevant to the purpose …

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Multiple Measures As A Placement Instrument In Mathematics At Florida State Colleges, Martínez Iii Miguel A Montañez Jan 2016

Multiple Measures As A Placement Instrument In Mathematics At Florida State Colleges, Martínez Iii Miguel A Montañez

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Every year, thousands of Florida public high school graduates seek to enter Florida state colleges based on a single standardized placement test. This quantitative study sought to identify an actuarial model, based on multiple measures, as an alternative to standardized placement tests. The study, grounded on degree completion theories, examined high school students from the Miami-Dade metropolitan area and their performance in one first-year mathematics course in Miami Dade College during the Fall 2014 academic term. The study, using a sample size of 10,186 subjects, examined multiple predictor variables and one outcome variable to measure predictability of success in Intermediate …

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Properties Of Child-Directed Speech In Mothers’ Native And Nonnative Languages: A Comparison Of English Monolingual And Spanish-English Bilingual Mothers’ Talk To 2-Year-Olds, Katherine Alexandra Filippi Shanks Jan 2016

Properties Of Child-Directed Speech In Mothers’ Native And Nonnative Languages: A Comparison Of English Monolingual And Spanish-English Bilingual Mothers’ Talk To 2-Year-Olds, Katherine Alexandra Filippi Shanks

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Previous studies have found that bilingual children’s vocabulary development benefits more from child-directed speech from native speakers than child-directed speech from nonnative speakers. The current study compared the native English child-directed speech of 20 English monolingual mothers, the nonnative English child-directed speech of 20 Spanish-English bilingual mothers, and the native Spanish child-directed speech of the same bilingual mothers in terms of three aspects of input previously associated with children’s language development: data-providing properties, topic contingency, and speech function. There were significant differences between native English and nonnative English child-directed speech, and between nonnative English and native Spanish. The results suggest …

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Reassessing Consensus: Alejandro O’Reilly’S 1765 Visita And Puerto Rican History, Sean Thomas Mallen Jan 2016

Reassessing Consensus: Alejandro O’Reilly’S 1765 Visita And Puerto Rican History, Sean Thomas Mallen

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King Charles III of Spain implemented a series of Enlightenment reforms throughout his domain following the 1763 defeat of the Seven Years War Among the royal officials sent to enact these reforms in the Caribbean, the Crown dispatched Field Marshal Alejandro O’Reilly to the colony of Puerto Rico Historians have attributed to his 1765 inspection, or visita, and subsequent report, or memoria, the foundations for a turning point in the island’s history Despite the historical consensus that has lauded O’Reilly’s recommendations, this inspector-general does not merit the credit that historians consistently have given him Agrarian and economic patterns such as …

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Seeds Of Brightness: Poetic Memory In James Joyce’S Ulysses, Laura Quinlan Dejong Jan 2016

Seeds Of Brightness: Poetic Memory In James Joyce’S Ulysses, Laura Quinlan Dejong

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This dissertation examines the process of “poetic memory” in James Joyce’s Ulysses, a term chosen by Italian philologist Gian Biagio Conte to describe allusive processes in the poetry of classical texts, specifically the epic. Conte examines and classifies the epic codes and norms residing within and constituting the classical epic genre. These change with each successive epic according to the author’s culture. The allusive process enables an author’s dialogue with his or her predecessors, which has implications for the establishment of textual authority. By applying Conte’s system of epic codes and norms toward a reading of Ulysses, it is possible …

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Silence, Expression, Manifestation: Developing Female Desire And Gender Balance In Early Modern Italian, English, And Spanish Drama, Mitchel Baccinelli Jan 2016

Silence, Expression, Manifestation: Developing Female Desire And Gender Balance In Early Modern Italian, English, And Spanish Drama, Mitchel Baccinelli

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Renaissance and Baroque drama offers a view into gender dynamics of the time. What is seen is a development in the allowed expression and manifestation of desire by females, beginning from a point of near silence, and arriving at points of verbal statement and even physical violence. Specifically, in La Mandragola by Niccolò Machiavelli, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, and Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega, there appears a chronological progression, whereby using desire and its expression as a metric in conjunction with modern concepts of gender and sexuality to measure a shift in relation to what is and is …

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Teacher Expertise In Motion: A Theory Of The Synergistic Gears That Shape And Sustain Teacher Expertise, Christine N. Rodriguez Jan 2016

Teacher Expertise In Motion: A Theory Of The Synergistic Gears That Shape And Sustain Teacher Expertise, Christine N. Rodriguez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This study explored the factors expert teachers reported as influences in the development and sustainment of their expertise as well as those that challenge it. Through one-on-one interviews with 15 expert teachers, the generated data were scrutinized using a grounded theory approach. The analysis protocol followed a multi-step process of three stages – exploration, amalgamation, and conceptualization. In each of those stages, the data were examined using a cyclical and recursive process of investigation-interpretationintegration- illustration. By the completion of the conceptualization stage, a theory was developed to describe the interdependence of the four influential factors that shape and sustain teacher …

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Testing Momentum Enhancement Of Ribbon Fin Based Propulsion Using A Robotic Model With An Adjustable Body, Ian L. English Jan 2016

Testing Momentum Enhancement Of Ribbon Fin Based Propulsion Using A Robotic Model With An Adjustable Body, Ian L. English

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A robotic ribbon fin with twelve independent fin rays, elastic fin membrane, and a body of adjustable height was developed for this thesis specifically to test the 1990 theory put forth by Lighthill and Blake that a multiplicative propulsive enhancement exists for Gymnotiform and Balisiform swimmers based on the ratio of body and fin heights. Until now, the theory has not been experimentally tested. Proof of such a momentum enhancement could have a profound effect on unmanned underwater vehicle design and shed light on the evolutionary advantage to body-fin ratios found in nature, shown as optimal for momentum enhancement in …

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The Effects Of The Student Success Skills Program On The Behavioral And Cognitive Engagement Of Grade 5 Exceptional Education Students, Sheresa L T Fairclough Jan 2016

The Effects Of The Student Success Skills Program On The Behavioral And Cognitive Engagement Of Grade 5 Exceptional Education Students, Sheresa L T Fairclough

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The purpose of this study was to examine non-identifying archival data from the 2012-2013 school year to assess the effect participation in the Student Success Skills (SSS) school counselor-led classroom guidance program (Brigman & Webb, 2010) had on the behavioral and cognitive engagement of grade 5 Exceptional Student Education (ESE) students serviced within the general education classroom setting. Data for this study was collected at three different intervals. School attendance data was collected on students during the 2012, 2013, and 2014 school years when students were enrolled in grades 4, 5, and 6 respectively. Pre-test selfreport data was collected within …

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The Legitimacy Of Cookbooks As Rhetoric Of Southern Culture, Cynthia Carrico-Rausch Jan 2016

The Legitimacy Of Cookbooks As Rhetoric Of Southern Culture, Cynthia Carrico-Rausch

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Community cookbooks operate through a rhetoric of place as ways of thinking about belonging and influencing communal identities. They reveal much about a community, including the sharing of memories and tradition, geographical identification, and representation of socio-cultural hierarchies and habits. For that reason, this paper advances the claim that the discourse and visuality in community cookbooks, specifically the cookbooks 200 Years of Charleston Cooking, Charleston Receipts, and Charleston Receipts Repeats published during the height of a renaissance in Southern literature, influenced the identity of “Southerness” which, taken in conjunction with place, space, and time has resulted in a unification of …

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The Impact Of Ready To Learn, A School Counselor-Led Intervention On Pro-Social Skills And Reading Skills Of First Grade Students, Laura J. Cohen Jan 2016

The Impact Of Ready To Learn, A School Counselor-Led Intervention On Pro-Social Skills And Reading Skills Of First Grade Students, Laura J. Cohen

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The purpose of this study was to examine differences in pro-social behaviors and reading skills between a treatment group of first grade students who received the Ready to Learn (Brigman, Lane, & Lane, 2008) intervention, delivered by a certified professional school counselor, and a comparison group of first grade students who did not receive this intervention. Counselors in the treatment group were trained in the proper implementation of the manualized Ready to Learn program during a professional development session. They were also trained in other study-related procedures, such as the online check-in tool and the regular site visits by the …

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The Quest For Charter School Enrollment: Reported Innovations And Student Achievement, Einav Cabrera Jan 2016

The Quest For Charter School Enrollment: Reported Innovations And Student Achievement, Einav Cabrera

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Charter schools have often boasted about differentiating themselves in the educational marketplace. With today’s growing emphasis on student achievement, whether this differentiation has had a positive effect on student learning is still debatable. The purpose of this exploratory mixed-methods study was to establish if innovation is a reported practice in charter schools in Miami-Dade and Sarasota Counties in Florida and to determine if a relationship exists between innovation reporting and student achievement as measured by Florida school grades. A qualitative analysis of School Improvement Plans and school websites for a 62 school sample was utilized. As well as a quantitative …

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The Relationship Between The Self-Efficacy Of Monolingual And Bilingual Undergraduate College Students And Their Academic Achievement In Science And Math., Rina Pomerantz Jan 2016

The Relationship Between The Self-Efficacy Of Monolingual And Bilingual Undergraduate College Students And Their Academic Achievement In Science And Math., Rina Pomerantz

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Almost twenty-one percent of the United States population spoke a language other than English in 2011. Furthermore, there has been a dramatic increase in the enrollment of students of Hispanic and other ethnic backgrounds in U.S. post-secondary institutions between 1976 and 2013 (from 4% to 16%) (National Center for Education Statistics NCES, 2016). Until now, no systematic research has focused on the differential effects of selfefficacy on academic achievement in monolingual and bilingual undergraduate college students. The present study aimed to investigate this relationship, as well as contribute additional insight on whether the academic self-efficacy of monolingual and bilingual undergraduate …

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The Terror Of Utopia: Examining Doubles As The Source For Cognition In Margaret Atwood’S Fiction, Rosemary Toulas Jan 2016

The Terror Of Utopia: Examining Doubles As The Source For Cognition In Margaret Atwood’S Fiction, Rosemary Toulas

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Much has been written about the effectiveness of speculative fiction, especially utopian works. In this thesis I will examine the source of fear in Margaret Artwood’s works The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake using Sigmund Freud’s “The Uncanny” to illustrate the terror of doubles as they appear in the novels. The terror in The Handmaid’s Tale comes from the descriptions of distorted physical environments, while the horror in Oryx and Crake emanates from the familiar yet twisted animals and characters found inside the corporate compounds. Through the recognition of these doubles as uncanny, Atwood’s work moves readers to cognition …

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The Temple In Jerusalem Idealized And The Historic- Synagogue-Institution: A Study In Synagogue Purposes In An American Context, Kenneth Brander Jan 2016

The Temple In Jerusalem Idealized And The Historic- Synagogue-Institution: A Study In Synagogue Purposes In An American Context, Kenneth Brander

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This dissertation sketched key structural-functional design characteristics of the Temple in Jerusalem as they emerge from archeological finds, academic scholarship, and rabbinic literary and legal traditions. It illustrated numerous embodied and functional parallels, with detailed descriptions of two successful American Synagogues drawing on the documents of social history, one built and led by the leadership of a lay community and the other dominated by a renowned Rabbi. Both synagogues seem to have inherited, continued, and celebrated venerable purposes that the rise of synagogues once took over from the ideals of the destroyed Temple in Jerusalem. Synagogues become successful institutions when …

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Was I Ready? The Perceptions Of Preparedness Of New Student Affairs Professionals Who Served As Graduate Assistants, Lisa A Samuda Byard Jan 2016

Was I Ready? The Perceptions Of Preparedness Of New Student Affairs Professionals Who Served As Graduate Assistants, Lisa A Samuda Byard

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According to higher education preparation standards, students who complete master’s preparation programs in student affairs should not only be acquiring skills and knowledge, they should be socialized into the field of student affairs Master’s level preparation programs in college student personnel or higher education leadership are often coupled with a graduate assistantship so that students are able to obtain valuable theory-to-practice experience This additional experience becomes complementary to the work the graduate student is doing in the classroom and thus becomes a practical learning opportunity After completing a preparation program, a former master’s student will most likely move into an …

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Verb Memory And Text Comprehension, Lamiya Khan Jan 2016

Verb Memory And Text Comprehension, Lamiya Khan

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Kersten, Earles, and Berger (2015) reported a distinction between two kinds of motion representations. Extrinsic motions involve the path of a person or object, with respect to an external frame of reference. Intrinsic motions involve the manner in which the various parts of a person or object move. They found that intrinsic motions are encoded and remembered with the corresponding actor performing the motions in a unitized memory representation. Extrinsic motions are encoded as separate memory representations, making them more difficult to accurately associate with the correct actor. In the proposed experiment, I will examine the generality of this distinction …

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Creating A Religious Divide: Journeys Through Hell In British And American Science Fiction, Advitiya Sachdev Jan 2016

Creating A Religious Divide: Journeys Through Hell In British And American Science Fiction, Advitiya Sachdev

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Science fiction, like any other genre, is sub-divided into categories. Yet scholars in the field have long debated the existence of multiple, regional sf genres. The most critiqued of these classifications is between sf produced in Britain, and America. Though Britain remains the birthplace of sf, American author have undoubtedly left a mark on the genre. Scholars mark this difference in the writing styles and themes of authors in these regions. To examine this difference, I analyze two authors that have worked on a common theme: religion and in particular, the concept of hell. Evaluating the arguments put forth by …

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Complexity And Blocked Trial Presentation In A Novel Verb Generalization Task, Rita Pruzansky Jan 2016

Complexity And Blocked Trial Presentation In A Novel Verb Generalization Task, Rita Pruzansky

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The current study examined the role of complexity and initial variability of exemplars during learning in verb generalization. Children and adults learned two novel verbs in the context of two novel creatures across two sessions. After a second training session, participants completed a generalization task during which they were required to identify the verbs when presented with seven novel creatures of varying levels of complexity. Performance was compared across age group and condition. Participants who initially learned the verbs in the context of a single, simple exemplar demonstrated a higher proportion of correct responses than participants who initially learned the …

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Development Of A Flapping Actuator Based On Oscillating Electromagnetic Fields, Donald Oakley Spragg Jan 2016

Development Of A Flapping Actuator Based On Oscillating Electromagnetic Fields, Donald Oakley Spragg

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In this work a bio-inspired flapping actuator based on varied magnetic fields is developed, controlled and characterized. The actuator is sought to contribute to the toolbox of options for bio-mimetics research. The design is that of a neodymium bar magnet on one end of an armature which is moved by two air core electromagnetic coils in the same manner as agonist and antagonist muscle pairs function in biological systems. The other end of the armature is fitted to a rigid fin extending beyond the streamline enclosure body to produce propulsion. A series of tests in still water were performed to …

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Determinants Of Aid Effectiveness In Agriculture: Non-Governmental Organizations (Ngos) In Haiti, Jean M. Pierre Jan 2016

Determinants Of Aid Effectiveness In Agriculture: Non-Governmental Organizations (Ngos) In Haiti, Jean M. Pierre

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For years, scholars have investigated the effectiveness of aid dollars. Some scholars measure aid effectiveness at the country level in terms of achieving good governance, promoting democratic accountability, accomplishing growth goals, or attaining macroeconomic goals. This study looks at the aid flowing through nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). It posits that effective aid consists of resources and processes that promote sustainability. It attempts to uncover the meaning of sustainability for the NGOs and recipients that are involved in agriculture while surveying how the aid process works. It looks at NGOs and recipients, resource flow, and activities, and sought to understand the elements …

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Do “Superstar” Ceos Impair Auditors’ Independence And Professional Skepticism?, Oscar Harvin Jan 2016

Do “Superstar” Ceos Impair Auditors’ Independence And Professional Skepticism?, Oscar Harvin

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The study examines the potential threat to an auditor’s independence in fact which may result from the extraordinarily favorable personal reputation (superstar status) of an audit client’s CEO This potential threat to an auditors’ independence is the result of a halo effect bias which can distort an individual’s judgment and behavior Accounting firms use a business risk audit approach which involves conducting a strategic risk assessment which assesses the overall threats to the business model of an audit client Prior research has demonstrated that the strategic risk assessment can bias the judgment of auditors pertaining to financial account level risk …

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Early Childhood Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge Of Children’Scognitive Development And Developmentally Appropriatepedagogical Practices: Understanding The Role Of Clinicalexperiences, Courtney Beers Jan 2016

Early Childhood Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge Of Children’Scognitive Development And Developmentally Appropriatepedagogical Practices: Understanding The Role Of Clinicalexperiences, Courtney Beers

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The quality of early caregiving and educational environments has a significant effect on children’s later cognitive outcomes. Early childhood teachers are an important determining factor in the quality of these environments. Due to inconsistencies in practice across the early childhood field, there is a call for better prepared teachers. Teacher preparation itself is criticized for its lack of innovative and effective practices. While research finds that more effective teacher preparation programs are those that are steeped in clinical practice, these types of experiences are inconsistent and fragmented in the early childhood field. Part of the issue is the lack of …

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