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Undue Hardship In The Bankruptcy Courts: An Empirical Assessment Of The Discharge Of Educational Debt, Rafael I. Pardo, Michelle R. Lacey Jan 2005

Undue Hardship In The Bankruptcy Courts: An Empirical Assessment Of The Discharge Of Educational Debt, Rafael I. Pardo, Michelle R. Lacey

Scholarship@WashULaw

The discharge in bankruptcy embodies the policy that relief should be granted to an individual who has ceased to be economically productive by virtue of burdensome debt obligations (the fresh start policy). Once the debtor has been deemed eligible for discharge, forgiveness of debt is automatic, accomplished through legislative rule and its judicial enforcement. With regard to the discharge of educational debt, however, Congress has devolved the exercise of debt relief to courts. An obligation to repay such debt will be discharged if a debtor establishes that undue hardship would be suffered in the absence of its discharge. A court …

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Eros, Paideia And Arête: The Lesson Of Plato’S Symposium, Jason St. John Oliver Campbell Jan 2005

Eros, Paideia And Arête: The Lesson Of Plato’S Symposium, Jason St. John Oliver Campbell

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Commentators of Plato’s Symposium rarely recognize the importance of traditional Greek conceptions of Eros, paideia and arête in understanding Plato’s critique of the various educational models presented in the dialogue. I will show how Plato contests these models by proposing that education should consist of philosophy. On this interpretation, ancient Greek pedagogy culminates in a philosophical education. For this new form of education, the dialogical model supplants the traditional practices of kléos and poetic mimēsis, inextricably bound to archaia paideia and traditional forms of education. Plato’s Socrates is searching for knowledge and immortality through an application of the philosophical method, …

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Learning Games Programming With Dalek World., Bryan Duggan, Hugh Mcatamney, Fredrick Mtenzi Jan 2005

Learning Games Programming With Dalek World., Bryan Duggan, Hugh Mcatamney, Fredrick Mtenzi

Conference papers

From September 2005 the School of Computing in the DIT will offer an elective in computer games programming to final year computer science students. This paper demonstrates how students will learn games programming by developing a 3D FPS (First Person Shooter) called Dalek World. Dalek World is developed using Microsoft Visual Studio in C++ and was originally developed by the authors to learn games programming techniques themselves. In developing Dalek World, students will learn Euclidian geometry, 3D graphics programming, object orientated game design, level loading, physics, collision detection, the A* algorithm, perception and enemy AI using finite state machines.

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Education, Technological Progress And Economic Growth, Winston T. H. Koh, Hing-Man Leung Jan 2005

Education, Technological Progress And Economic Growth, Winston T. H. Koh, Hing-Man Leung

Research Collection School Of Economics

An important role of education – and the resultant accumulation of human capital – for a less-developed economy is to facilitate technology diffusion in order for it to catch up with developed economies. This paper presents a model linking education, the accumulation of physical capital and technological progress. In the model, investment in education and the accumulation of physical capital are complementary, and intertwine with the technology progress through related effects on technology diffusion and the expansion of the technology frontier. The allocation of effort to education, the optimal savings rate and the technology gap are endogenously determined in the …

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Buddhas & Bratwurst: Ethical Identity In Global Contexts, Patrick Mcdonnell Jan 2005

Buddhas & Bratwurst: Ethical Identity In Global Contexts, Patrick Mcdonnell

Master's Theses

Digitized thesis

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Student Involvement Effects On Civic Engagement In The Faith -Based College Setting: An Empirical Study, Timothy W. Herrmann Jan 2005

Student Involvement Effects On Civic Engagement In The Faith -Based College Setting: An Empirical Study, Timothy W. Herrmann

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a series of collegiate experience factors on the civic engagement of seniors in faith-based colleges and universities. The independent variables for this study included freshman level of civic engagement, academic major, participation in leadership, faculty interaction, service participation, diversity experiences, and spirituality and religious activity. The definition of civic engagement guiding this study implies morally motivated and informed, active, committed, and skillful participation in the processes necessary for the sustenance and promotion of social and civic welfare. The experiences examined in thisDissertation are understood in light of Astin's involvement …

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Validity Of School-Based And Analog Observation In Assessment Of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Jessica R. Luitjohan Jan 2005

Validity Of School-Based And Analog Observation In Assessment Of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Jessica R. Luitjohan

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Researchers and practitioners alike are debating which procedures are most effective in assessing for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Classroom observations are frequently used in ADHD assessments, and significant differences in observed behavior between children with and without ADHD have been repeated in numerous studies. Other recent research has focused on lab-based observations as an alternative to classroom observations. Analog methods have also been found to differentiate between ADHD and non-ADHD children. Few studies have examined the usefulness of observational techniques in a clinic-referred sample. In addition, to our knowledge, there are no published studies comparing results of analog and …

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From The Farm To The Faculty: The Educational Odyssey Of Paulus Falck, Johan Windmuller Jan 2005

From The Farm To The Faculty: The Educational Odyssey Of Paulus Falck, Johan Windmuller

The Bridge

During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, thousands of immigrants from Denmark settled in the American Midwest. Some of them brought with them educational concepts and religious convictions they hoped to pass on to future generations; to do so they created a variety of educational and religious institutions scattered across several Midwestern states. What follows is a study of Paulus Falck, who passed through several of these institutions.

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Spiritual Dimension In Educational Leadership, Rosalina Ruiz Jan 2005

Spiritual Dimension In Educational Leadership, Rosalina Ruiz

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

Spirit-filled experiences have been customarily silent in the discourse of education. This area has been misunderstood and solely left to the religious arena to discover its development creating compartmentalized concepts and depriving other organizational systems from implementing its rich resourcefulness. This study seeks to provide ontological and epistemological knowledge to uncover and understand the power of the spiritual dimension in the life of successful educational leaders. By conceptualizing spirituality in educational leadership, this qualitative study seeks to explore successful educational leaders' use of spirituality to strengthen their effectiveness as it relates to school and their performance. Based on the major …

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A Qualitative Exploration Of The Transition Experience Of Students From A High School To A Senior High School In Rural Western Australia, Amiee-Jade Pereira Jan 2005

A Qualitative Exploration Of The Transition Experience Of Students From A High School To A Senior High School In Rural Western Australia, Amiee-Jade Pereira

Theses : Honours

This review outlines literature on the normative high school transitions that occur during adolescence. Research examines factors affecting the school transition experience (e.g., school size, structure, feeder patterns, and the additive affect of multiple school transitions), student outcomes (e.g., academic performance, self-esteem and psychological symptomatology), and student perceptions of their transition experience. Research limitations include the focus on American, metropolitan schools undergoing the elementary to middle school transition, and the utilisation of quantitative methodologies. Future research needs to examine the experience of students from different countries, both metropolitan and rural, undergoing school transitions. Qualitative methodologies should also be utilised to …

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Issues Of English Language Proficiency For International Students, Patricia Dooey Jan 2005

Issues Of English Language Proficiency For International Students, Patricia Dooey

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

In the last 20 years or so, there has been a phenomenal increase in the number of international full-fee paying students applying to study in Australian universities, The revenue provided in this way has helped to address the problems faced by cash-starved universities facing recurring funding cuts over the same period. Furthermore, the presence of such students on any university campus provides immeasurable enrichment to the student body in terms of cultural diversity and research potential, and indeed it is very tempting in an ever,-increasing global market, to be as flexible as possible with prospective international students. However, the process …

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Using Technology To Teach Technology: Design And Evaluation Of Bilingual Online Physician Education About Electronic Medical Records, Sarah R. Edmonson, Adol Esquivel, Pallavi Mokkarala, Craig W. Johnson, Cynthia L. Phelps Jan 2005

Using Technology To Teach Technology: Design And Evaluation Of Bilingual Online Physician Education About Electronic Medical Records, Sarah R. Edmonson, Adol Esquivel, Pallavi Mokkarala, Craig W. Johnson, Cynthia L. Phelps

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The "EMR Tutorial" is designed to be a bilingual online physician education environment about electronic medical records. After iterative assessment and redesign, the tutorial was tested in two groups: U.S. physicians and Mexican medical students. Split-plot ANOVA revealed significantly different pre-test scores in the two groups, significant cognitive gains for the two groups overall, and no significant difference in the gains made by the two groups. Users rated the module positively on a satisfaction questionnaire.

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Education Policy Analysis Archives 12/72 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Dec 2004

Education Policy Analysis Archives 12/72 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

More than Teacher Directed or Child Initiated: Preschool Curriculum Type, Parent Involvement, and Children, Äôs Outcomes in the Child-Parent Centers / Elizabeth Graue, Melissa A. Clements, Arthur J. Reynolds [and] Michael D. Niles.

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Education Policy Analysis Archives 12/67 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Dec 2004

Education Policy Analysis Archives 12/67 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

From centralization to decentralization in Chinese higher education / Xiaohong Qian [and] Jef C. Verhoeven.

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The Eagleville Times,Volume 2, Issue 12, Debbie Ryan Dec 2004

The Eagleville Times,Volume 2, Issue 12, Debbie Ryan

Eagleville Times

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The Effect Of Scaffolding On Children's Oral Language Development, Ana Villaurrutia Dec 2004

The Effect Of Scaffolding On Children's Oral Language Development, Ana Villaurrutia

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This was a quasi experimental nonequivalent control group design used with 71 subjects in two Head Start center settings. LAP-D assessment results were also taken in account for the purpose of comparison regarding the dependent variable. The subjects were children 4 and 5 years old who were attending classes in two different Head Start centers. These subjects were students from 2 classrooms from Center One and 2 classrooms from Center Two. In Center One, teachers were trained in the use of scaffolding techniques, whereas in Center Two teachers had no training on scaffolding techniques. An analysis of variance procedure was …

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The Effect Of A Family Literacy Parental Involvement Intervention On Oral Language Development, Azucena C. Escobar Dec 2004

The Effect Of A Family Literacy Parental Involvement Intervention On Oral Language Development, Azucena C. Escobar

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

The subjects that participated in this study were 36 Hispanic children who attended Head Start Programs. The participants were 4 and 5 year olds from four classrooms. An intervention, training of parents regarding literacy activities was implemented in the study to determine the outcome of parental involvement on oral language development. This researcher implemented parental training prior to the treatment. Parents were to provide their children with oral language intervention for fifteen to twenty minutes, three times a week. These activities took place at the children's home from March through June of 2004. Children's oral language development was determined using …

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Education Policy Analysis Archives 12/66 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Nov 2004

Education Policy Analysis Archives 12/66 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Effect of charter school legislation on market share / Simona Kúscová [and] Jack Buckley.

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Education Policy Analysis Archives 12/65 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Nov 2004

Education Policy Analysis Archives 12/65 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Tangible and intangible costs of, Äúprotecting human subjects, Äù : the impact of the National Research Act of 1974 on university research activities / Frederic Jacobs [and] Arina Zonnenberg.

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Education Policy Analysis Archives 12/62 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Nov 2004

Education Policy Analysis Archives 12/62 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

There is another way : the faculty-developed Idaho Comprehensive Literacy Assessment for K-8 Pre-Service Teachers / David Squires, George F. Canney [and] Michael S. Trevisan.

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The Eagleville Times,Volume 2, Issue 11, Debbie Ryan Nov 2004

The Eagleville Times,Volume 2, Issue 11, Debbie Ryan

Eagleville Times

No abstract provided.

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Education Policy Analysis Archives 12/60 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Oct 2004

Education Policy Analysis Archives 12/60 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Systemic reform in a federated system : Los Angeles at the turn of the millennium / David Menefee-Libey.

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Education Policy Analysis Archives 12/56 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Oct 2004

Education Policy Analysis Archives 12/56 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Making research matter more / Ben Levin.

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The History Of Federal And Cooperative Animal Damage Control, Donald W. Hawthorne Oct 2004

The History Of Federal And Cooperative Animal Damage Control, Donald W. Hawthorne

Sheep and Goat Research Journal

The predecessor of the Wildlife Services program within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, was founded by C. Hart Merriam in 1885 with a Congressional appropriation of $5,000. These funds were used to organize a Section of Economic Ornithology as part of the Entomology Division of USDA. Merriam immediately hired longtime friend A. K. Fisher to be his assistant and the two shared a clerk. The new Section proved to be so popular with farmers and politicians that the Congress created a separate Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy in 1886. The Commissioner of Agriculture …

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Benefits Of A Postgraduate Education: The Physician Assistants' Perspective, Jamie Cotter Oct 2004

Benefits Of A Postgraduate Education: The Physician Assistants' Perspective, Jamie Cotter

Theses and Graduate Projects

Background: This study was completed to better understand the use of postgraduate education in the physician assistant profession. This research project gathered information to better understand how physician assistants have utilized postgraduate education in their careers. The potential benefits of a postgraduate education were also examined from the perspective of the physician assistant. The overall goal was to determine the benefits of a PA postgraduate education. Methods: For this research project, a survey was completed by practicing physician assistants who attended the Minnesota Academy of Physician Assistants (MAPA) Conference/North Central Regional Meeting that was held on March 27-29, 2003. This …

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Catalog, 2004-2005, Anderson University - South Carolina Oct 2004

Catalog, 2004-2005, Anderson University - South Carolina

Catalogs

The 2004-2005 academic catalog and introduction to the college.

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Learning Approaches, Learning Difficulties And Academic Performance Of Undergraduate Students Of Physiotherapy, Shreemathi S. Mayya, A. Krishna Rao, Ramnaryana K. Oct 2004

Learning Approaches, Learning Difficulties And Academic Performance Of Undergraduate Students Of Physiotherapy, Shreemathi S. Mayya, A. Krishna Rao, Ramnaryana K.

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

A locally developed ‘Approaches to Learning Inventory (ALI)’ was administered to explore the learning difficulties and learning approaches of undergraduate students of Bachelor of Physiotherapy, College of Allied Health Sciences, Manipal. University examination marks of these students were also collected. Learning approach and learning difficulties were summarized by computing mean, standard deviation and percentage of students experiencing some of the academic and non-academic problems. Spearman’s correlation was computed between standardized scores of examination marks, learning approach and learning difficulty scale scores. Academic performance has shown significant negative correlation with surface approach and various problems of learners like fear of failure …

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Excellence In Nursing Knowledge [Complete Issue - Digital Origin: October 2004, Vol 1, 2], Scott Beckett, Cathy Day, Pam Falasco, Karen Gorby, Patricia Martin, Deb Mckee, Linda Miller, Jean Scholz, Cherie Spragg, Darla Vale, Sigma Theta Tau International Oct 2004

Excellence In Nursing Knowledge [Complete Issue - Digital Origin: October 2004, Vol 1, 2], Scott Beckett, Cathy Day, Pam Falasco, Karen Gorby, Patricia Martin, Deb Mckee, Linda Miller, Jean Scholz, Cherie Spragg, Darla Vale, Sigma Theta Tau International

Sigma Past Publishing - Excellence Newsletters

Publishing History: In 2004, the Excellence publication was once again transformed, this time becoming Excellence in Nursing Knowledge (ENK): Voices of Evidence in Nursing, an online-only, topic-centric monthly edited by subject-matter experts. Nine issues of ENK were published from August 2004 through May 2005. The format represented the views from administration, bedside nursing, and student nursing in a single issue. Topics explored were Synergy (Martha A. Q. Curley)*, The Future of Nursing (Jean Scholz), Beyond Ratios (Karole Mourek and Ken Colbert), Preventing Surgical Infections (Marianne Fredrick and Lisa Pilla), Elevating Nurses (Susan Torres, Terri Wurmser, and Jane Bliss-Holtz), Clinical Scholars …

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The Eagleville Times,Volume 2, Issue 10, Debbie Ryan Oct 2004

The Eagleville Times,Volume 2, Issue 10, Debbie Ryan

Eagleville Times

No abstract provided.

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Omaha Business Support For Work -Based Learning, Keith E. Bigsby Oct 2004

Omaha Business Support For Work -Based Learning, Keith E. Bigsby

Student Work

The purpose of this study was to examine the demographics of Omaha area employers that participate in and do not participate in work-based learning, to determine the reasons why Omaha area businesses participate in work-based learning and to identify the reasons why or why not companies participate in work-based learning.

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