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Culture And Motivation In Online Learning Environments, Frances A. Clem Edd

Dissertations

In the past, instructional design of online learning has largely ignored culture in the creation of online learning environments. Because research in the interaction of culture and online learning is very sparse, an exploratory, blended study was conducted to assess whether there is evidence that one measurable aspect of learners’ culture interacts with the online learning environment in ways that can be observed and identified, and whether this interaction impacts learners’ motivation and behavior in those environments. “Culture” is a complex concept consisting of many interrelated behaviors and values. For this reason, the study focused on one single aspect of …

The Perceived Competency Of Hispanic Teachers In Teaching Classes Of Diversity Is A Function Of Demographic And Personality Traits, Melissa C. Martinez

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

For the past three decades, multicultural education has remained a focal point in the culture wars that United States education has encountered. Multicultural education is an educational reform movement that continues to evolve as ethnic minorities make their educational concerns and needs known. The forces driving the reform effort extend beyond linguistic and cultural diversity to include issues of academic diversity, gender, social class and sexual orientation (Wilhelm, 1998). How do educators address these needs, and how does the interaction among these diverse groups impact students and society?

The purpose of this paper is to determine the perceived competency of …

For Whom Does The Bell Toll: The Bell Tolls For Brown?, Angela Onwuachi-Willig

Faculty Scholarship

This review essay analyzes Derrick Bell's provocative new book, Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform (2004). In Silent Covenants, Professor Bell reviews Brown v. Board of Education, and inquires "whether another approach than the one embraced by the Brown decision might have been more effective and less disruptive in the always-contentious racial arena." Specifically, Professor Bell joins black conservatives in critiquing what he describes as a misguided focus on achieving racial balance in schools and argues that the quality of education for minority children, in particular Blacks, would have been better today …

Stakeholder Perceptions Of Hearing Examiner Legislation In Texas Teacher Dismissal Cases, Sofia Annette Adams-Valdez

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

As of January 1996 a new process has been implemented in teacher dismissal cases in Texas public schools. In the new process a hearing examiner is assigned by the Texas Education Agency to oversee fact-finding duties in mid-contract teacher dismissals, thereby circumventing the previously exclusive adjudicative role of school board members in dismissal cases.

This study explores the implementation of the 1995 legislation that resulted in major changes to the teacher dismissal process in Texas, an important component of the larger and broader educational reform mandates that have been gradually introduced by the Texas legislature over the last decade.

Qualitative …

Modern Laboratory-Based Education For Power Electronics And Electric Machines, Robert S. Balog, Zakdy Sorchini, Jonathan W. Kimball, Patrick L. Chapman, Philip T. Krein

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The study of modern energy conversion draws upon a broad range of knowledge and often requires a fair amount of experience. This suggests that laboratory instruction should be an integral component of a power electronics and electric machines curriculum. However, before a single watt can be processed in a realistic way, the student must understand not only the operation of conversion systems but also more advanced concepts such as control theory, speed and position sensing, switching signal generation, gate drive isolation, circuit layout, and other critical issues. Our approach is to use a blue-box module where these details are pre-built …

Education Policy Analysis Archives 13/26 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Accountability and the pressures to exclude : a cautionary tale from England / E. Rustique-Forrester.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 13/24 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

The No Child Left Behind Act and the legacy of federal aid to education / Lee W. Anderson.

The High School Attainment Credit: A Tax Credit Encouraging Students To Graduate From High School, David Richard Hansen

ExpressO

High school dropouts are a serious problem facing America today. High school dropouts are more likely to be unemployed, earn less money when employed, place a larger burden on the government by requiring public assistance (welfare), and are more likely to be prone to a life of crime and violence than high school completers. While government at all levels continues to focus on schools and teachers in solving the dropout problem, this paper shows how parents are where the focus should lie. This paper proposes a revolutionary tax credit, the High School Attainment Credit (“HSAC”), which would cost-effectively eradicate the …

Fort Wayne Alumnus, Taylor University Fort Wayne

TUFW Alumni Publications (All)

The Spring 2005 edition of The Fort Wayne Alumnus, published by Taylor University Fort Wayne in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Student Perspectives On Rubric-Referenced Assessment, Heidi L. Andrade, Ying Du

Educational & Counseling Psychology Faculty Scholarship

This study suggests that students use rubrics to support their own learning and academic performance. In focus groups, fourteen undergraduate students discussed the ways in which they used rubrics to plan an approach to an assignment, check their work, and guide or reflect on feedback from others. The students said that using rubrics helped them focus their efforts, produce work of higher quality, earn a better grade, and feel less anxious about an assignment. Their comments also revealed that most of the students tend not to read a rubric in its entirety, and that some may perceive of a rubric …

Pages News, Volume 13, No. 1, April 2005, Christoph Kull, Leah Christen, Thorsten Kiefer

PAGES

Contents: Editorial: Future PAGES -- Inside PAGES -- New on the PAGES Bookshelf: PEP III -- Tales from the Field -- In Memory of Geoffrey O. Seltzer -- Program News -- IGBP Phase II and PAGES -- PAGES/CLIVAR Intersection -- Recoring Lynch's Crater (Australia) -- National Page -- Japan -- Science Highlights -- Radiocarbon in Tree Rings -- A Late Pleistocene and Holocene Fluvial Record from Northern Tunisia -- Paleoclimate and Fossil Woods in Tropical India -- An Upwelling Seesaw in the Atlantic -- Why Study Past Regional Variability? -- Workshop Reports -- Chapman Conference - USA -- Swiss HITE …

Flarr Pages: Volume 1, Pages 1-43, Foreign Language Association Of The Red River

FLARR Pages

During Spring and Fall conferences of FLARR, since the Fall of 1994 (the organization holds joint meetings with MCTLC in the Spring), 159 presentations were were delivered. Of those talks, about one quarter were submitted to FLARR Pages and appear now in Volume #1. The journal articles are a sampling of the issues and concerns of the past decade. They represent, as do all the presentations (see Appendix A), the innovative ways in which faculty have responded to current demands and challenges of teaching, research, service, programming, and many other areas of professional life, both in the public schools and …

Accountability For The Implementation Of Secondary Visual Arts Standards In Utah And Queensland, John K. Derby

Theses and Dissertations

Utah and the majority of states have adopted mandatory standards for visual arts, yet no accountability measures have been established. Consequently, it is impossible to determine if standards are being addressed in the art classroom and aggregate grades are subjective. Queensland, Australia instituted a system of moderated school-based assessment (moderation) in 1971, whereby assessment is accomplished locally, then verified by peer experts. Queensland ensures that standards are addressed in curricula and assessment and that exit grades are reliable and comparable. Research has shown that Utah and Queensland share comparable visual arts standards and similar demographics. Queensland moderation has been extensively …

Medieval Education, Ronald B. Begley, Joseph W. Koterski, S.J.

History

This volume offers original studies on the subject of medieval education, not only in the formal academic sense typical of schools and universities but also in a broader cultural sense that includes law, liturgy, and the new religious orders of the high Middle Ages. Its essays explore the transmission of knowledge during the middle ages in various kinds of educational communities, including schools, scriptoria, universities, and workshops.

Pages News, Volume 13, No. 3, March 2005, Valerie Masson-Delmotte, Jurg Beer

PAGES

Contents: CLIVAR/PAGES Intersection Panel: Understanding natural climate variability through integrating the climate dynamics and paleoclimate communities -- Editorial -- Paleoreconstruction of volcanic history inferred from glacio-chemical ice core analyses-- Secular variability and 2-- year diploar oscillations in an atmospheric circulation over East Antarctica during the Holocene -- Climate response to major volcanic eruptions -- Radiative forcing and the ice core greenhouse gas record -- Solar forcing of climate change: Current status -- Aerosol effects on clouds and climate -- Mineral dust records from Greenland ice cores -- A new insight into the climatic impact of volcanic explosion: A less from …

School-Based Mental Health Services Delivered By School Psychologists, Emily Luis

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study involved analyses of an existing database conducted for the purposes of identifying and understanding factors that are associated with the delivery of school-based mental health services by school psychologists. The study examined the average number of hours per week in which school psychologists engage in mental health services and the types of mental health services in which they engage. Factors such as training, desire to deliver mental health services, time available and support for mental health services were investigated. The database that served as the basis for these analyses had been created by mailing a survey to 1000 …

Coleman, Dennis And Mcfeaters, Harriet Interview 2, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Dennis Coleman is a longtime Bronx activists, political leader, and educator. This interview examines his experiences with the Board of Education in the Bronx. Coleman served in the New York State Senate from 1955-1956 and was on a committee that examined different education programs throughout the state, especially in inner city schools. When he returned to the Bronx, he was appointed to serve on a local Board of Education in 1966.

Coleman discusses the 1968 Bronx Teachers strike, specifically the actions of teachers on both sides of the picket line, the issues, parental involvement, and the participation of advocacy groups, …

Education Policy Analysis Archives 13/12 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Globalization, statist political economy, and unsuccessful education reform in South Korea, 1993-2003 / Ki Su Kim.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 13/11 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Policymaking in education : understanding influences on the Reading Excellence Act / Jacqueline Edmondson.

Developing An Anthropology Curriculum For High School: A Case Study From Durant High School, Hillsborough County, Florida, Kory Mcneil Bennett

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

It has become increasingly apparent that anthropology has much to offer when it comes to educating our youth. This is true for all grade levels, kindergarten through senior level studies in high school. Here, this idea will be explored further by focusing on the students of Durant High School (DHS) of Plant City, Florida.

This project was designed to explore the idea of combining widely accepted pedagogical theories (Gardner 1983, 1993, 1999; Geraci 2000; Silver, Strong and Perini 1997) with anthropological theory and methods in order to devise effective curricula for high school archaeology and other anthropology courses. More essentially, …

The Changing Role Of The Library In The Academic Enterprise, W. Lee Hisle

Information Services Staff Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 13/01 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Change and continuity in student achievement from grades 3 to 5 :a policy dilemma / Mary McCaslin, Heidi Legg Burross [and] Thomas L. Good.

20th Century Black Women's Struggle For Empowerment In A White Supremacist Educational System: Tribute To Early Women Educators, Safoura Boukari

Women's and Gender Studies Program: Information and Materials

The goal in this work is to provide a brief overview of the development of Black women‟s education throughout American history and based on some pertinent literatures that highlight not only the tradition of struggle pervasive in people of African Descent lives. In the framework of the historical background, three examples will be used to illustrate women's creative enterprise and contributions to the education of African American children, and overall racial uplift. In doing so, I will refer to how those women struggled to set up schools in a totally hostile society where, race, patriarchy, class and gender, interlocking issues …

Contemporary Issues In Early Childhood Education And Care: Proceedings Of The Conference Held In St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin On Saturday, 23rd. April, 2005., Noirin Hayes

Conference Papers

No abstract provided.

Second Language Acquisition Programs: An Assessment Of The Bilingual Education Debate, Jessica Cruz

McNair Scholars Journal

Second language acquisition programs are frequently misunderstood, as various programs are often mistakenly labeled as bilingual education. Inaccurate labeling creates confusion and fuels the already heated bilingual education debate. The purpose of this research is to clearly define different second language acquisition programs, assess major arguments on opposing sides of this nationwide debate, and discuss program evaluations from the 1991 Ramirez investigation and the Rossell and Baker study (1996). In so doing, important issues regarding the world of second language acquisition programs will surface. Expectantly, this research will generate, or continue, further discussion addressing these concerns in an effort to …

School Demographic Characteristics That Predict No Child Left Behind Sanctions In Indiana Title I Schools, Ronnie Lee Hiller

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is causing fear, confusion, and havoc in some schools and school districts that have failed to achieve adequate yearly progress on state-sponsored standardized tests. Educators fear sanctions that label them as schools in need of improvement; give parents a choice of moving their children to high-performing schools; provide supplementalEducational services; replace the principal and staff; reopen their school as a charter school, and provide for a state takeover of schools and school districts. The purpose of this study was to discover if school demographic characteristics could predict No Child Left Behind sanctions …

Childcare Practices In Three Asian Countries, Shamah Md-Yunus

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

Childcare practices such as feeding, toilet training, sleeping arrangement and discipline in three Asian countries (Chinese, Japan, and India) are compared. These countries differ from each other in culture, religion, language and ethnic makeup from Euro-American culture. The differences in childcare practices are broadly related to the differences in family values, traditions, and religions among these countries. Educational implications of sensitivity to cultural differences are also discussed.

Cognitively Guided Instruction (Cgi) For Mathematics At The Elementary School Level, Henry, Cho

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This Senior Capstone project investigates the approach to teaching elementary school mathematics known as Cognitively Guided Instruction, or CGI. It addresses questions surrounding CGIś origin, development, effectiveness, and additional benefits stemming from its implementation. Furthermore, topics such as the differences between CGI and traditional math instruction and the multiple ways that CGI alters the way that teachers instruct their students in mathematics are explored.

Neuropsychological Impairment In Racial/Ethnic Minorities With Hiv Infection And Low Literacy Levels: Effects Of Education And Reading Level In Participant Characterization, Elizabeth L. Ryan, Reon Baird, Monica Rivera-Mindt, Desiree Byrd, Jennifer Monzones, Susan Morgello, The Manhattan Hiv Brain Bank

Psychology Faculty Publications

Educational attainment is an important factor in the interpretation of cognitive test scores but years of education are not necessarily synonymous with educational quality among racial/ethnic minority populations. This study investigated the comparability of educational attainment with reading level and examined whether discrepancies in education and reading level accounted for differences in neuropsychological test performance between HIV+ racial/ethnic minority and nonminority participants. Study participants (N = 200) were derived from the Manhattan HIV Brain Bank (MHBB) where 50% of the cohort had ≤8th grade reading level but only 5% had ≤8 years of education. Significantly lower reading ability and education …

Nurses' Confidence And Competence Levels, Ellen M. Wathen

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Frequently, nurses with lower levels of self-confidence do not perform at the level of competency they normally would in non-testing or clinical situations. This obstacle to the evaluative process causes an inaccurate assessment of nurses' competency levels. This study examined the effects of confidence-building techniques on nurses during specific competency assessments of an 8-day orientation course in a Midwestern healthcare institution. Data was collected using researcher-developed tests for both medication administration and blood administration, and theEducational Testing Service's factor-referenced temperament scale on self-confidence. Forty-six nurses received confidence building statements within their tests and other written materials, as well as verbally. …