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Institutional Quilombos? Black Studies In Brazil And The United States, Dalila Negreiros
Institutional Quilombos? Black Studies In Brazil And The United States, Dalila Negreiros
Theses and Dissertations
The literature on Black Studies, Afro-Brazilian Studies and Comparative Race Relations between Brazil and the United State has been dedicated to the study of Black activism and education. However, there is a gap in comparative studies focused on Black Studies units in the United States and Afro-Brazilian studies in Brazil. The dissertation “Institutional Quilombos? Black Studies in Brazil and the United States” investigates how Black Studies centers and departments in Brazil and the United States exist, survive and act politically as educational and anti-racist spaces in six different institutions: the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee; Harvard University; Temple University; the …
Rapid Knowledge Assessment (Rka): Assessing Students Content Knowledge Through Rapid, In Class Assessment Of Expertise, Erin Margaret O'Connell
Rapid Knowledge Assessment (Rka): Assessing Students Content Knowledge Through Rapid, In Class Assessment Of Expertise, Erin Margaret O'Connell
Theses and Dissertations
Understanding how students go about problem solving in chemistry lends many possible advantages for interventions in teaching strategies for the college classroom. The work presented here is the development of an in-classroom, real-time, formative instrument to assess student expertise in chemistry with the purpose of developing classroom interventions. The development of appropriate interventions requires the understanding of how students go about starting to solve tasks presented to them, what their mental effort (load on working memory) is, and whether or not their performance was accurate. To measure this, the Rapid Knowledge Assessment (RKA) instrument uses clickers (handheld electronic instruments for …
Maps Of The 2010-11 School Census, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Maps Of The 2010-11 School Census, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
This series of maps was prepared for Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent Gregory Thornton along with the 2010-2011 school census conducted by the Employment and Training Institute. Maps detailed distributions of births by race/ethnicity, children receiving free and reduced price meals, students with exceptional education needs, children by age (in MPS, non-MPS public, and private schools), Spanish-speaking households, Hmong and Laotian speaking households, and locations of state-licensed childcare group and family centers. Student data were mapped for the home residence of enrollees in the eight MPS Montessori schools.