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Teaching Strategies For Increasing Computational Fluency In Middle School Students, Alejandra Rios Blakeslee

All Graduate Projects

In light of the new Washington State K-12 Mathematics Learning Standards, it has become a priority to help struggling students close the gap in academic achievement. Therefore, in an effort to remediate the lack of computation and rigor currently being taught in middle school mathematics using an investigational approach curriculum a complimentary curriculum has been evaluated, compiled, and aligned to supplement the curriculum. The purpose of this project is to compile a set of Groundworks mini-lessons, a series of tiered lessons that targets specific mathematical skills, to be used with correlating parts of the CMP2 curriculum with the aim of …

The Relationship Between Reading Fluency, Writing Fluency, And Reading Comprehension In Suburban Third-Grade Students, Mary Leonard Palmer Edd

Dissertations

The topic of reading fluency is of great importance in education today. Research has shown a significant positive relationship between reading fluency and reading comprehension. However, little is known about writing fluency and its connection with reading comprehension. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between reading fluency, writing fluency, and reading comprehension. First, using the principles of assessing reading fluency, I designed a writing assessment and measured the writing fluency of 54 3rd graders. I examined the writing assessments as they related to the students' reading fluency and reading comprehension scores. Secondly, I performed a quasi-experimental …

Tennessee's Race To The Top Application, Budget Summary, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury.

Office of Research and Education Accountability

No abstract provided.

`You Know I Hate It When People Half Ass Things': A Case Study Of A High School Science Student And The Role Of Pre-Instructional Activities, Goal Orientation, And Self-Efficacy In Learning With Simulations, Samuel Arthur Helms

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Page, Associate Professor Of Education, Receives Ummaa Teaching Award, University Relations

Campus News Archive

Page, associate professor of education, receives UMMAA Teaching Award

A Proposed Learner-Centered Mechatronics Engineering Instructional Program, Patrick N. Currier, Richard Goff, Janis Terpenny

Mechanical Engineering - Daytona Beach

This paper examines the need and requirements for a mechatronics degree program. The results of a survey of the few existing programs in this field are provided. Then, using a case study example for Virginia Tech, a proposed mechatronics curriculum based on a learner-centered paradigm is described. The curriculum combines existing courses in mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering with new, hands-on courses to provide students with a chance to practice and explore the subject matter in ways consistent with the demands of both industry and accreditation. This program, if implemented, could provide a university with a unique offering to attract …

The Advantages Of Single-Sex Vs.Coeducational Environments For High School Girls, Kristen Hartman

Social Work Theses

100 female college students attending a small Catholic college in the Northeast were surveyed in order to find the relationship between attending single-sex high school and the females’ level of self esteem, motivation in the academic and career life, and gender role beliefs. Of the 100 female college students surveyed sixty attended coeducational high schools and forty attended single-sex schools. The survey questions were organized in a way which would ultimately help decide whether attending single-sex high school was more beneficial for high school girls than attending coeducational schools. The findings revealed that girls who attended single-sex high school have …

Building A Self-Supporting Web Of Knowledge - What Is Interdisciplinary Education?, Katherine Ciesla

ESSAI

No abstract provided.

Multiple Intelligences, Mary Beth Broda

ESSAI

No abstract provided.

S.C.H.O.L.A.R.S. - A Modest Proposal In Trying Times, Walker Richards, Allison Schraub, Juan Ordonez, Caitlin Baxa

ESSAI

No abstract provided.

Education And Girls' Development In Malawi: Promotion Of Girls' Education In Relation To Sustainable Development, Helen Momoko Wilson

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

Girls' education plays a key role in the development of a nation. There are various barriers to girls' education that prevent them from being given an equal opportunity as their male counterparts. As a result they are not enabled with the skills or knowledge that they require to further themselves, their families, their communities and their nation. Several approaches have been made to strive to improve the situation of girls' education in Malawi. This study takes an in depth look at the factors that make girls' education so critical to development and how the various approaches taken have or have …

Pages News, Volume 18, No. 1, April 2010, Stephen T. Jackson, Dan Charman, Louise Newman

PAGES

Contents: Inside PAGES -- New on the PAGES bookshelf -- PAGES calendar -- A taste of the YSM proceedings issue -- National PAGES -- Special Section: Peatlands: Paleoenvironments and Carbon Dynamics – Editorial -- Peatlands: Paleoenvironments and Carbon Dynamics -- Science Highlights -- Peatland archives of late-Holocene climate change in northern Europe -- Using peatland archives to test paleoclimate hypotheses -- Peatlands as a model system for exploring and reconciling chronologies -- Peatland records of solar activity -- A multi-proxy high-resolution approach to reconstructing environmental change -- Stable isotopes and organic geochemistry in peat -- Peat cellulose isotopes as indicators …

Zero Tolerance, An Update, 2010, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury.

Office of Research and Education Accountability

No abstract provided.

Developing Vincentian Leaders Through Service Learning, Marilynn P. Fleckenstein Ph.D.

Vincentian Studies

Niagara University has been aiding the surrounding impoverished community since 1965 with its service initiative, the Niagara University Community Action Program (NUCAP). The university also offers courses that incorporate service learning components in partnership with NUCAP. Service learning is defined and its benefits, especially to the students, are discussed. The ways in which students, faculty, and staff are made aware of and called to engage in the school’s Vincentian mission are described. The student-run NUCAP has made many students and alumni into effective leaders for service, social responsibility, and social change. Some are profiled. Staff service projects are also highlighted.

Vincentian Education: A Survey Of Its History, John E. Rybolt C.M., Ph.D.

Vincentian Studies

From its beginning, the Congregation has worked in education, although until recently this was seen to conflict with its primary focus on missions. However, its involvement began with Vincent de Paul’s interest in instructing poor persons in religion. Vincent was also concerned with the reform of the clergy, so the Congregation became heavily committed to seminaries. Seminaries became especially important to the rebuilding of the French church after the Revolution. After the Jesuits’ suppression, the Vincentians took over many of their secondary schools and replaced the Jesuits at universities. In many international missions, the Vincentians intended to start seminaries but …

Toward A Vincentian Culture In Higher Education, Margaret J. Kelly D.C.

Vincentian Studies

According to Margaret Kelly, culture is “the way a group of individuals, a corporate body, or an institution values and behaves.” Universities must ask whether their actions follow Vincent de Paul’s example and must pass on their Vincentian culture to their faculty, staff, and students. Kelly summarizes the elements of this culture as the leaders of different Vincentian schools see them. She writes, “At the core of Vincentian culture are beliefs about God, the dignity of the human person, the humanizing effect of education, the advancement of the common good, the value of direct experience with poor people, the creation …

Scandal On The Plains: William F. Slocum, Edward S. Parsons, And The Colorado College Controversies, Joe P. Dunn

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This is a story about a scandal that took place on the western frontier, a sexual harassment crisis involving one of giants of late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century education and the disgraceful treatment of the man who pursued the case. The treatment of the two related incidents in the several official histories of the institution constitutes a travesty that one is tempted to call "scandalous." The physical place of this saga is important because the original events transpired within a burgeoning frontier community and at a young western institution that was successfully carving out its place in the national academic scene. …

Play: A Process-Driven Study Of Design Discovery, Kuebler Wilson Perry

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Frequently, in architecture and in other professions, a results-oriented approach to design truncates the creative process. Architecture is a man-made intervention, ultimately involving a fair bit of destruction in order to eventually arrive in a state of hopefully coherent grace in the lives of its users and the built or natural context (Clark 2000, 10). It is unacceptable to proceed hastily into such complex territory-without a degree of rigor and process-driven creativity commensurate with the gravity of creating large scale, reality-altering, life-affecting structures.

A process-driven inquiry requires many hours of experiment, revision, and meandering about that may initially have no …

Campus Assembly Agenda: Curriculum Committee 03/22/10, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

Crime On Campus 2009, Tennessee. Bureau Of Investigation.

Crime on Campus

No abstract provided.

The Loss Of Artful Teaching: Institutionalized Teaching, Or Chasing The Finns, Douglas Anderson

Sacred Heart University Review

Douglas Anderson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. This talk, sponsored by the Hersher Institute, was delivered on April 21, 2004, at Sacred Heart University.

The Heart Of Catholic Higher Education: The Liberal Arts, Monika K. Hellwig

Sacred Heart University Review

Monika K. Hellwig is the Executive Director of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities. This talk was presented at the Convocation for entering students at Sacred Heart University on September 16, 1998.

Improving Delivery Of Instruction Through Peer Coaching, James John Buckwalter

All Graduate Projects

Peer coaching models were studied to see if they improved teachers' delivery of instruction, and if they had a significant impact on student achievement. The research showed that peer coaching programs were successful when they were tied to a school's overall vision and mission, led by a strong principal, and kept separate from evaluation. Peer coaching was found to increase the accurate use of skills that teachers learned through professional development; however there was no evidence to show that peer coaching alone significantly effects student achievement.

Charter School Task Force Report 2010, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury.

Office of Research and Education Accountability

No abstract provided.

Adolescent Literacy, Tennessee's Efforts To Address Literacy For Adolescent Learners, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury.

Office of Research and Education Accountability

No abstract provided.

Ethics, Education, And Civic Life, Jean Bethke Elshtain

Sacred Heart University Review

Jean Bethke Elshtain is Centennial Professor of Political Science and Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. This talk was delivered at Sacred Heart University at the first Hersher Institute for Applied Ethics colloquium on February 24, 1994.

The University And The ``Broken Heart'' Experience, Dean S.J. Brackley

Sacred Heart University Review

This informal talk to the faculty and student delegation from Sacred Heart University was held on the University of Central America campus in San Salvador on July 5, l993.

The Nucleus 2009-2010, Rosalie A. Richards

Science Education Center

No abstract provided.

Wallace, Kojo, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Born September 16, 1985, Wallace grew up with his family in Tarkwa, Ghana. In 1988, his father immigrated to the United States and has worked as a taxi driver. His father is also a leader within the Ghanaian community in the Bronx. In 2006, Wallace immigrated to the Bronx with his siblings and has been living with his father on Sedgwick Avenue. He will be attending medical school in the September 2010. He has an older brother who is talking college classes and is also in the United States Navy, a sister who is working to become a nurse, and …

Evolution And The Second Law Of Thermodynamics: Effectively Communicating To Non-Technicians, Alexander Schreiber, Steven Gimbel

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Given the degree of disbelief in the theory of evolution by the wider public, scientists need to develop a collection of clear explanations and metaphors that demonstrate the working of the theory and the flaws in antievolutionist arguments. This paper presents tools of this sort for countering the anti-evolutionist claim that evolutionary mechanisms are inconsistent with the second law of thermodynamics. Images are provided to replace the traditional misunderstanding of the law, i.e., “everything always gets more disordered over time,” with a more clear sense of the way in which entropy tends to increase allowing a thermally isolated system access …