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A Comparison Of Views On Teacher Leadership From Nationally Board Certified Teachers And Teachers Who Are Not Nationally Board Certified, In Illinois, Catherine Eads

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Reform movements in K-12 schools in the United States have grown in urgency over the past 25 years. The urgency for reform was spurred by, A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform (National Commission on Teaching, 1996). Following the report educators in K-12 schools became more accountable due to the No Child Left Behind Act (2001). As a result, the National Commission on Excellence in Education recommended the establishment of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. This group developed the optional certification of National Board Certification of teachers. The purpose of this study was to investigate National …

Impacting Factors On Elementary Students Who Have High Levels Of Success In School While Living With Low Socioeconomic Status, Casey Patterson Smitherman

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to deliver a better understanding of an impoverished students perspective of school success and, in particular, what factors lead students to be successful. In an effort to better understand why some students beat the odds, I met with groups of fifth and sixth grade students who have experienced school success on a variety of measures to hear directly from these preadolescents about what they believed has fostered their success. Three overarching themes emerged from the focus groups held at two different intermediate level schools in metropolitan suburban districts in Indianapolis, Indiana (a) …

Effects Of Peer Mentoring On High-Achieving, Low-Income First Year College Students, Ronda D. Taylor

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

ThisDissertation examined the impact a peer mentoring program had on student success as it related to self-efficacy and level of engagement. Unfortunately, graduation rates have fallen dramatically or have remained stagnant for many years. Institutions of higher Education are feeling the pressure from the government, employers, and students to improve their retention and graduation numbers. By enacting a peer mentoring program, especially for first-time, low-income students, students may be better equipped to navigate the higher Education system, have a support mechanism on campus, and be connected to various campus resources. Through peer involvement, level of engagement, and a better connection …

The Indiana State Senate Internship: A Quality-Of-Life Perspective And Its Place As An Innovative Education Model, Jeff Papa

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The gap between the expectations and norms of higher Educational institutions and post-graduation employers can sometimes be wide. Internships and other experiential endeavors can help bridge this gap and provide a link between the two spheres, possibly with each component reinforcing the other. This paper examines in detail one such program: the Indiana State Senate Majority Internship Program, and relates how the experiences of this program compare to predictions and suggestions found in relevant literature.

Catalog 2016-2017, Kingsborough Community College

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

What Thinking About Antitrust Law Can Tell Us About Net Neutrality, A. Douglas Melamed, Andrew W. Chang

Colorado Technology Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Valuing Native American Tribal Elders And Stories For Sustainability Study, Kristine Gritter, Richard Scheuerman, Cynthia Strong, Carrie Schuster, Tracy Williams

SPU Works

"This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Middle School Journal on January, 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00940771.2016.1102601" This article outlines a framework the authors have used to infuse sustainability study into humanities teaching at the middle school level. Native American tribal elders can act as co-teachers in such classrooms, and the place-based stories that shaped their views of the environment can serve as important classroom texts to investigate sustainable philosophies. Middle school students can learn to read with a sustainable lens and learn to use the narrative wisdom of tribal elders to read …

Urinformed Spring 2016, Urinformed

URInformed: The URI Employees' Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Emotional Intelligence On Academic Achievement In The Alternative High School Classroom, Rhonda L. Marcum-Phillips

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This study examines the impact of emotional intelligence, academic self-efficacy in science and technology, and family background on academic achievement of alternative high school students. Gender, age, learning style, and ethnicity of the student are analyzed to determine any moderator effect on these relationships. Seventy-five students, ages 14 to19, who attend a public alternative high school were surveyed. Analysis of the data revealed a positive relationship for males between self-efficacy in STEM classes and family background (support) and their academic achievement in science class. A positive relationship was shown between self-efficacy in STEM classes and academic achievement, between self-efficacy in …

Navigating The Institutional Review Board For Librarianship Research, Carolyn Schubert

Selected Works

Librarians are encountering more opportunities to conduct original research and contribute to evidence based practices, but only 26% believe they have the educational training to conduct these tasks (Kennedy & Brancolini, 2012). One key step in this process is navigating an Institutional Review Board (IRB) to assure participants are treated in an ethical manner. What does it mean to protect research participants today? What does an IRB look for? What tips, tricks, and best practices can save you time with this process? Discussion of these questions and more are the focus of this webinar.

Csusb Magazine (Fall/Winter 2015-2016), Csusb

CSUSB Magazine

Features

Pride and Pedagogy......Page 6
From CSUSB's beginnings to today, one trait has stood in relief; Great professors devoted to seeing their students succeed.

50 Big Events in CSUSB History......Page 8
Remember with CSUSB many of the people, milestones and major achievements that have shaped the stout character of the university by the hills. What was big when you were here?

Aluminati......Page 12
Fifty of CSUSB's stellar graduates and what they do.

The CSUSB Difference......Page 16
Over 50 years, the profound impact of a new college in inland Southern California is seen in the stories students …

The Minimal Length Of The Lagrangian Cobordism Between Legendrians, Joshua M. Sabloff, Lisa Traynor

Mathematics Faculty Research and Scholarship

To investigate the rigidity and flexibility of Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian submanifolds, we study the minimal length of such a cobordism, which is a 1-dimensional measurement of the non-cylindrical portion of the cobordism. Our primary tool is a set of real-valued capacities for a Legendrian submanifold, which are derived from a filtered version of Legendrian contact homology. Relationships between capacities of Legendrians at the ends of a Lagrangian cobordism yield lower bounds on the length of the cobordism. We apply the capacities to Lagrangian cobordisms realizing vertical dilations (which may be arbitrarily short) and contractions (whose lengths are bounded below). …

Arithmetic Properties Of Fredholm Series For P-Adic Modular Forms, John Bergdall, Robert Pollack

Mathematics Faculty Research and Scholarship

We study the relationship between recent conjectures on slopes of overconvergent p ‐adic modular forms ‘near the boundary’ of p ‐adic weight space. We also prove in tame level 1 that the coefficients of the Fredholm series of the Up operator never vanish modulo p , a phenomenon that fails at higher level. In higher level, we do check that infinitely many coefficients are non‐zero modulo p using a modular interpretation of the mod p reduction of the Fredholm series recently discovered by Andreatta, Iovita and Pilloni.

2016 Student Satisfaction Inventory, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Assessment Center Reports

Student Satisfaction Inventories produced by the SWOSU Assessment Center.

Data Management Roles For Librarians, Margaret E. Henderson

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

In this Chapter:
● Looking at data through different lenses
● Exploring the range of data use and data support
● Using data as the basis for informed decision making
● Treating data as a legitimate scholarly research product

Perceptions Of The Advanced Manufacturing Competency Model (Amcm) For Curriculum Development, Mark Doggett, Muhammad Jahan

SEAS Faculty Publications

The Advanced Manufacturing Competency Model (AMCM) model emphasizes building of competencies at all levels ranging from the shop floor production worker to manufacturing engineers. It consists of different levels of competencies organized hierarchically. The levels are personal effectiveness, academic, workplace, industry-wide technical, industry-sector technical, management and organization-specific competencies.

This paper discusses survey research on the perceptions of manufacturing students, faculty, and industry advisory board members regarding the AMCM. The research evaluated the manufacturing program based on perceptions of the AMCM competencies and the curricular coverage required for entry-level manufacturing professionals. Specifically, the survey sought to answer the following research questions: …

2016-2017 Fall/Spring - Tuition/Fee Tables And Refund Calendars, Bursar's Office, East Tennessee State University

Tuition/Fee Tables and Refund Calendars

No abstract provided.

2016 Summer - Tuition/Fee Tables And Refund Calendars, Bursar's Office, East Tennessee State University

Tuition/Fee Tables and Refund Calendars

No abstract provided.

2016 - Etsu Fact Book, Institutional Research, East Tennessee State University

ETSU Fact Books

No abstract provided.

Assessment Of Specific T-Cell Receptor Engagement Without Necessity For Identification Of The Relevant Antigen, Harib Hassan Ezaldein

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Individual cancers, even of the same cell type, express unique arrays of distinctive tumor antigens, requiring accurate laboratory measurement of induced immunity against them problematic. Fluorescently tagged reagents (dextramers) that selectively engage clonal T-cell receptors (TCR) can cytofluorographically quantify both frequency and avidity antigen-specific T-cells, but cannot be synthesized without prior identification of the relevant antigen. Since clinically evident tumors may contain as many as 300 unique point mutations capable of generating a large number of uniquely antigenic proteins, and since procurement of such information for each cancer is currently unrealistic, it is presently only possible to assess responses to …

2016-2017 - Etsu General Academic Operating Budget (October), Budget And Financial Planning, East Tennessee State University

ETSU General Academic Operating Budgets and Analysis

No abstract provided.

2016-2017 - Etsu General Academic Operating Budget (July), Budget And Financial Planning, East Tennessee State University

ETSU General Academic Operating Budgets and Analysis

No abstract provided.

Learning Sustainability Leadership: An Action Research Study Of A Graduate Leadership Course, Heather L. Burns

Educational Leadership and Policy Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study used action research methodology to examine the development of sustainability leadership in a graduate leadership course. The research investigated the impact of this leadership course, which was designed using transformative learning theory with attention to integrating thematic content, multiple and non-dominant perspectives, a participatory process, and a contextual place-based approach. Grounded theory was used to explore if and how students’ understanding of sustainability leadership changed, and the pedagogical strategies that were most influential to their learning. Results revealed that students came to understand sustainability leadership as: the facilitation of a shared process, a process of emergence, and a …

Annual Report 2015-16: Building On Success, Institute Of Business Administration

Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Executive Functions In Classroom Instruction Of Students With Learning Disabilities, Silvana M. R. Watson, Robert A. Gable, Lisa L. Morin

Communication Disorders & Special Education Faculty Publications

In this article, we describe executive functions and their role in determining student academic success. We focus on the executive function difficulties of students with learning disabilities and explain how executive dysfunctions can negatively affect different academic areas (e.g., reading comprehension, mathematics). Finally, we offer ways teachers can modify their instruction to better address the diverse needs of students with learning disabilities who are struggling to perform various academic tasks.

Acquisition Of The Cardinal Principle Coincides With Improvement In Approximate Number System Acuity In Preschoolers, Anna Shusterman, Emily Slusser, Justin Halberda, Darko Odic

Faculty Publications

Human mathematical abilities comprise both learned, symbolic representations of number and unlearned, non-symbolic evolutionarily primitive cognitive systems for representing quantities. However, the mechanisms by which our symbolic (verbal) number system becomes integrated with the non-symbolic (non-verbal) representations of approximate magnitude (supported by the Approximate Number System, or ANS) are not well understood. To explore this connection, forty-six children participated in a 6-month longitudinal study assessing verbal number knowledge and non-verbal numerical acuity. Cross-sectional analyses revealed a strong relationship between verbal number knowledge and ANS acuity. Longitudinal analyses suggested that increases in ANS acuity were most strongly related to the acquisition …

Long-Term, High Frequency In Situ Measurements Of Intertidal Mussel Bed Temperatures Using Biomimetic Sensors, Brian Helmuth, Francis Choi, Allison Matzelle, Jessica Torossian, Scott Morello, K.A.S. Mislan, Lauren Yamane, Denise Strickland, P. Szathmary, Sarah Gilman, Alyson Tockstein, Thomas Hilbish, Michael Burrows, Anne Marie Power, Elizabeth Gosling, Nova Mieszkowska, Christopher Harley, Michael Nishizaki, Emily Carrington, Bruce Menge, Laura Petes, Melissa Foley, Angela Johnson, Megan Poole, Mae Noble, Erin Richmond, Matt Robart, Jonathan Robinson, Jerod Sapp, Jackie Sones, Bernardo Broitman, Mark Denny, Katharine Mach, Luke P. Miller, Michael O'Donnell, Philip Ross, Gretchen Hofmann, Mackenzie Zippay, Carol Blanchette, J. Macfarlan, Eugenio Carpizo-Ituarte, Benjamin Ruttenberg, Carlos Peña Mejía, Christopher Mcquaid, Justin Lathlean, Cristián Monaco, Katy Nicastro, Gerardo Zardi

Faculty Publications, Biological Sciences

At a proximal level, the physiological impacts of global climate change on ectothermic organisms are manifest as changes in body temperatures. Especially for plants and animals exposed to direct solar radiation, body temperatures can be substantially different from air temperatures. We deployed biomimetic sensors that approximate the thermal characteristics of intertidal mussels at 71 sites worldwide, from 1998-present. Loggers recorded temperatures at 10–30 min intervals nearly continuously at multiple intertidal elevations. Comparisons against direct measurements of mussel tissue temperature indicated errors of ~2.0–2.5 °C, during daily fluctuations that often exceeded 15°–20 °C. Geographic patterns in thermal stress based on biomimetic …

Workshop On Best Approaches And Needs For Projecting Marine Mammal Distributions In A Changing Climate

United States Marine Mammal Commission

Workshop on Best Approaches and Needs for Projecting Marine Mammal Distributions in a Changing Climate

Ua12/13 Western Kentucky University Office Of Sustainability 2016 Year In Review, Christian Ryan, Sustainability Coordinator

Sustainability Publications and Resources

No abstract provided.

Syntheses And Characterization Of [4]Ferrocenophane, Ahmed Sabah Al-Doori

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Metallocenophanes are metallocenes in which the cyclopentadienyl ligands are connected by a molecular bridge. Recently, metallocenophanes have received increasing attention because of their structure, chemical reactivity, and potential use as building blocks for new materials. Even though metallocenophanes have been synthesized by different methods, the majority of these methods involved the use of iron with rare examples of other metals. Therefore, a new method was employed that in addition to making ferrocenophane, will allow us to synthesize metallocenophanes with V, Cr, Mn, Co, and Ni as central metals. This thesis reports the synthesis of [4]ferrocenophane via a “flytrap” route. The …