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Critical Inquiry And Use As Action. The Expanding Scope Of Evaluation Use, Gretchen Rossman, S. F. Rallis

Gretchen Rossman

A conception of evaluation as learning focuses attention on the critical inquiry cycle that incorporates use throughout the evaluation process.

Faculty Teaching Skills And Their Influence On The College Student Departure Process, John M. Braxton, Nathaniel J. Bray, Joseph B. Berger

Joseph B. Berger

Building on Tinto's interactionalist theory of student departure, this study examines student perceptions of faculty teaching skills as a precursor to student persistence. Using path analysis to consider this link, the findings demonstrate a significant influence of faculty teaching skills on student persistence. Theoretical and practical implications are then discussed.

Dialogue For Learning: Evaluator As A Critical Friend, Gretchen Rossman, S. F. Rallis

Gretchen Rossman

If the purpose of evaluation is learning, dialogue can be an effective means for achieving this purpose. This chapter focuses on the crucial role of language in establishing the heuristic stance that fosters dialogic inquiry and thereby enhances the effectiveness of evaluation. The role of the evaluator in facilitating dialogue is explicated through examples from practice.

Service-Learning As A Tool For Enhancing Student Outcomes In A College-Level Lecture Course, Amy Strage

Amy Strage

This article reports on the effects of infusing a 20-hour per semester service-learning requirement into a large Introductory Child Development course. Analyses of student outcomes on course assignments revealed that the 166 students in the service-learning cohorts (2 classes) out-performed the 309 students who took the course during the three semesters prior to the introduction of the service-learning requirement. The advantage for the service-learning students appeared to stem primarily from stronger performance on narrative assessments (midterm and take-home final essays), and appeared to manifest itself only later in the semester. Analyses of students’ journals confirmed that students reflected thoughtfully about …

Predictors Of College Adjustment And Success: Similarities And Differences Among Southeast-Asian Americans, Amy Strage

Amy Strage

The role of students' family backgrounds and rapport with instructors and peers as predictors of five indices of the adjustment and success were examined, for a cohort of 150 Southeast-Asian-American, Hispanic and White college students. Ethnic differences emerged for nearly all predictor and outcome measures. Discussion of these patterns includes consideration of the origins of a learned-helpless profile characteristic of many of the Asian-American students and of a mastery orientation characteristic of many of the Hispanic and White students.

Assessing The Impact Of Sustained Professional Development On Middle School Mathematics Teachers, Joanne E. Goodell, Lesley H. Parker, Jane Butler Kahle

Joanne E Goodell

The study reported in this paper examines the impact of the Ohio Statewide Systemic Initiative (SSI) on participating mathematics teachers. Quantitative data from 90 SSI-trained teachers and 400 teachers without training, along with qualitative data collected from seven SSI teachers who were visited in their classrooms are presented. Analysis of the quantitative data showed that SSI and Non-SSI teachers reported significantly different frequencies of reformed teaching practices and held significantly different views about the nature and pedagogy of mathematics. Qualitative data from the interviews highlighted that the SSI professional development experience, the ability to find creative ways to overcome lack …

Haitian Creole Ideophones: An Exploratory Analysis, Marc Prou

Marc E. Prou

This article is an exploratory attempt to analyze the status of Creole ideophones through distinctive repetition, reduplication and onomatopoeic features of Haitian Creole, commonly known as Kreyol. It examines barious types of ideophones in Kreyol with the aim of understanding the processes of change in lexical categories, which involve the principles these processes manifest-- thereby showing, on the one hand, why these diverse types of ideophones should be classed together and referred to with a single term, 'ideophonization'; and, on the other hand, how this category of lexical items is to be distinguished from others.

A "Walking" Report Card In Preschool, Genan Anderson

Genan Anderson

Explains the idea of letting children showcase their learning by performing tasks for parents at a number of stations.

Reflections On A Preschool Penny Arcade, Genan Anderson

Genan Anderson

Using a project on games to facilitate math and social skills, this article illustrates how a single topic can provide the context for the acquisition and practice of a variety of skills.

Cooperative Learning And Unity: The Perspectives Of Faculty, Students, And Ta's, Linda Serra Hagedorn, Hye Sun Moon, Donald Buchanan, Eric Shockman, Michael Jackson

Linda Serra Hagedorn

A program designed to encourage university faculty and teaching assistants (TAs) to use cooperative learning in undergraduate classrooms was evaluated through the perspectives of faculty, TAs and students. The program was part of an initiative called DiverSCity, and the evaluation focused on the initial climate and culture of the college and responses to a series of faculty seminars conducted to introduce faculty to collaborative instruction and to encourage its use for the creation of diversity. Three surveys were administered in the spring semester 1998 to a sample of faculty, the population of TAs, and the senior student cohort. The response …

Learning And Enjoying Literature In English, Bradley Baurain

Bradley Baurain

No abstract provided.

Academic Dependency In The Social Sciences: Reflections On India And Malaysia, Syed Farid Alatas

farid alatas

Always. Various types of meta-analyses exist, and concerns range from the epistemological to the empirical. Metatheory, or the reflexive study of the social sciences, involves the study of the social, cultural and historical contexts of theories and theorists, and their philosophical roots. The particular variety of meta theory that I focus on in this essay is the political economy of the social sciences, with reference to the cases of India and Malaysia.

Vademecum Per Operatori Scolastici, Mia Carlucci

Mia Carlucci

No abstract provided.

Students Living In Substance Free Housing: Attitudes Toward Their Residential Experience And Predictors Of Their Satisfaction., John D. Foubert, Karen Boss, Amy Ginther, Susan R. Komives

John D. Foubert

Students living in smoke-free and alcohol free residential housing were compared to students in on-campus environments that did not ban these substances. Significant differences between these communities are discussed.

The Longitudinal Effects Of A Rape-Prevention Program On Fraternity Men’S Attitudes, Behavioral Intent, And Behavior, John D. Foubert

John D. Foubert

A longitudinal study showed that fraternity men who saw The Men's Program reported lower rape myth acceptance and lower likelihood of raping 7 months after program participants relative to a control group using a Solomon 4 design.

Relationships And Universal Energy Laws, Carroy U. Ferguson

Carroy U "Cuf" Ferguson, Ph.D.

Relationships are our most intense forms of "mirrors" in the world. They show us in direct and indirect ways how we are using our personal energy systems in what I call our three life spaces. They show us how we consciously and unconsciously employ what some authors have called Universal Energy Laws (see attached descriptions of these laws) to co-create the quality of our relationships. Whether or not we "attract" and/or deal with relationships in conscious or subconscious ways, what I call the "mirror effect" is reflected in our three life spaces—personal life space, societal life space, and global life …

Item Panelling, Or Cognitive Walk-Through, Ross Turner

Ross Turner

Developing An Interactive Web Tutorial To Teach Information Competencies: The Planning Process At The University Of Akron, Jeffrey A. Franks, Robert S. Hackley, Joseph E. Straw, Susan Direnzo

Jeffrey A Franks

No abstract provided.

Mass Customization And Permission Marketing: An Exploratory Study Of Higher Education, R Bitar, Oscar T. Mcknight, Ronald Paugh

Oscar T McKnight Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

Pest Testing Consumer Behavior In Higher Education: A Perceptual Identity Audit With Bite, Oscar T. Mcknight, Ronald Paugh

Oscar T McKnight Ph.D.

No abstract provided.