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A Case Study Of The Efficacy Of A University Cohort Group In A Small Urban School District, Ann Rea Kopy

Dissertations

The purpose of this case study was to explore the processes followed in an educational partnership and to describe the changes in the participants' beliefs, practices, and sense of efficacy as a result of their participation. This study described and analyzed an educational partnership between a large university and the staff of a small, urban school district. The goals of the partnership were to provide the participants the knowledge to enhance student achievement as well as to develop educational leaders throughout the district. The participants consisted of educators of the district that enrolled in the educational partnership that existed for …

Accelerating The Development Of Adaptive Thinking In United States Army Captains, Scott B. Shadrick

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The contemporary operational environment, the war on terrorism, and the Army transformation effort are requiring officers in the U.S. Army to exhibit high levels of adaptive performance. The Army recognized the need to develop adaptive leaders and developed the Think Like a Commander (Shadrick & Lussier, 2001) training program. Prior to this research no attempt has been made to establish the construct validity of the training program or to measure the levels of adaptive performance exhibited throughout an officer's career. The current research investigated the construct validity of the training program by examining the differences in adaptive thinking behaviors between …

Tempo Magazine, Fall 2006, Office Of Student Life

Tempo Magazine

Tempo Magazine is Coastal Carolina University's student-produced feature magazine. TEMPO #16. Editor: Krystin Mementowski. Faculty advisor: Linda Hollandsworth and Paul Olsen.

Lsuhsc Facilities Daily Update: December 2006, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates: 2006

LSUHSC Dailly Facilities Updates from December 2006.

These updates describe damage and a timeline of repairs at the LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans campus due to Hurricane Katrina which made landfall August 29, 2005.

Job Tasks Performed By Career Preparation System Administrators: Implications For Leadership Development, Julia K. Vandermolen

Dissertations

This study represents the results of a quantitative survey measuring the importance and frequency of job tasks performed by Michigan's Career Preparation System (CPS) administrators. The census consisted of 120 (n = 120) CPS administrators. Eighty-six (n = 86) or 72% of CPS administrators participated in the study. A mailed survey was used to collect data to determine the importance and frequency of 51 job tasks performed by career and technical education (CTE)administrators identified by a previous DACUM study for a leadership development program. Quantitative methods were used to seek an improved understanding of the job tasks performed …

The Effects Of Parent Involvement On The Reading Achievement And Reading Engagement Of Students Participating In A Balanced Reading Curriculum, Ledonna M. York

Student Work

This study evaluated the reading achievement scores and reading engagement outcomes of second grade students, in an urban magnet center, whose parents were randomly selected to participate in active parent involvement training (APIT; n = 13) sessions compared to information based parent involvement training (IBPIT; n = 6) sessions. Results of the pretest posttest two group comparative study examined (a) reading achievement scores as measured by (i) Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills 6th edition (DIBELS); and (ii) Group Reading Assessment and Diagnostic Evaluation (GRADE); and (b) reported reading engagement frequencies as measured by student (i) school absences, (ii) …

Stop “Going Over” Exams!: The Multiple Benefits Of Team Exams, Gary Stark

Journal Articles

This article describes the use of team exams as a means of postexam feedback and explains the benefits of their use. Team exams are a simple procedure for those who use exams in their classrooms. Team exams can be a valuable experiential exercise in management classes but offer educational benefits in any class. Among the benefits of team exams are accurate feedback and active engagement of students in postexam review. Team exams can also serve to check the validity of exam questions and reduce the angst often associated with “going over” exams.

Variations In Dropout Rates Across Virginia, Joshua K. Bowser

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

Using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression analysis, this study attempts to capture variation in dropout rates across Virginia counties and cities. With the respective dropout rates as the dependent variable, seven independent variables are used accordingly in order to provide as much explanatory power as possible. At the 10 percent significance level, four of seven variables are statistically significant with an adjusted R2 of .374. Important policy implications can be derived from the model and its statistically significant variables. The model finds that the percentage of blacks in the population, university access, the unemployment rate and single female-headed households to …

Buy-A-Book Press Release, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Press release announcing winners of Buy-a-Book scholarships in 2006.

Buy-A-Book Scholarship Broadside, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Broadside advertising Buy-a-Book Scholarships.

No One Flunks Museum: An Overview Of Learning Theory And Its Implementation In Formal And Informal History Education, Nichole D. Smith

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

The transition of museums from institutions for the knowledgeable to places for those seeking knowledge has brought about a need for those educating in museums to better understand the ways in which people learn. This paper introduces and explains theories, psychological and educational, that are applicable to learning such as Constructivism, Multiple Intelligences, and the Contextual Model of Learning. Observations of informal and formal history and social studies lessons or programs presented to students ages 3-16 provide the framework for understanding how well these theories of learning are being implemented in the museum. Comparison of history museum programs (informal education) …

Bias And The Teachable Moment: Revisiting A Teacher Narrative, Darren Crovitz

Faculty Articles

Such responsibility may be vital for English teachers, especially, as we strive to establish communities of writers and spaces for critical thinking and conversation. When I sat down to write about this experience, I saw it as an opportunity to discuss a taboo situation and its positive aftermath, with the aim of demonstrating how it might be possible to use such events as points of departure in creating engaging writing assignments.

Lsuhsc Facilities Biweekly Update: December 2006, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates: 2006

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates from December 8 and 22, 2006.

These updates describe damage and a timeline of repairs at the LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans campus due to Hurricane Katrina which made landfall August 29, 2005.

A Comparative Study Of Hybrid And Internet-Based Educational Technology Course Modules, Nilly Adnan Al-Banna

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine students’ attitudes and performance toward the teaching methods in an educational technology course. Undergraduate students enrolled in the Educational Technology course ETEC 2002L at the University of Arkansas had been exposed to both on-line modules and in-class instruction. The sample size for this study was 155. The results included 110 valid surveys completed by the students on paper. The data collected from the survey were analyzed using percentages, means, and t test of paired samples to find if there was a significant difference in students’ attitudes toward on-line versus hybrid instruction. Four …

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 17, Número 4, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Cover 1
Contenido 2
Folklore 1
Un Dicho, Ocasiones de la Temporada para dar Regalos 3
Lugares 1
Bosque Redondo: un Monumento Estatal 4
La Educación 3
Estudiantes del Mes de Clovis 5
Arte por Kara Craig, "La Vida" por Ana Iveth Olivas 5
Adivinanzas por Israel Mezua, Diego Romero, Denisse Gonzales, Samuel Córdova, Osmayo Sierra, Brenda Rosas, Karen Carrera 6,7
La Importancia de Juegos en la Educación 2
Los Juegos y el Deporte en el Desarrollo Psicológico del Niño 8
El Semáforo 9
Literatura 2
Rumaldo Aguilar Durán from the WPA 10
Una Actividad: Llena el Blanco 11
Sing …

Culturally Adapted Mental Health Interventions: A Meta-Analytic Review, Timothy B. Smith, Derek Griner

Faculty Publications

There is a pressing need to enhance the availability and quality of mental health services provided to persons from historically disadvantaged racial and ethnic groups. Many previous authors have advocated that traditional mental health treatments be modified to better match clients? cultural contexts. Numerous studies evaluating culturally adapted interventions have appeared, and the present study used meta-analytic methodology to summarize these data. Across 76 studies the resulting random effects weighted average effect size was d = .45, indicating a moderately strong benefit of culturally adapted interventions. Interventions targeted to a specific cultural group were four times more effective than interventions …

Lanthorn, Vol. 41, No. 28, November 30, 2006, Grand Valley State University

Volume 41, July 13, 2006 - June 14, 2007

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

11-30-2006 Panelists Discuss Battle At Swosu Event, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2006

Cheyenne Chief Harvey Pratt, a forensic artist for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, discusses the 138th anniversary of the November 27, 1868 attack at the Washita Battlefield near Cheyenne during a special panel discussion recently on the Southwestern Oklahoma State University campus in Weatherford. Listening is Dr. Henrietta Mann, interim president of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribal College on the SWOSU campus. A full audience listened to various perspectives of the attack’s meanings, impacts and legacies that followed the attack. Other speakers were historian Jerome A. Greene and Cheyenne Peace Chief Lawrence Hart.

An Investigation Of Relationships Between Oral Reading Rate And Reading Comprehension, Karen F. Rimkus

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

Quantitative research methods were used including observations and tallies of reading rates, data compilation, generation of scatterplots, and descriptive statistical analysis of the results. The research focused on observations of 69 fourth graders from two fourth grade classes in a private parochial elementary school in Las Vegas, Nevada. The students each read a 198-word passage to measure oral reading rate. A positive relationship between oral reading rate and reading comprehension was then determined. As a result, teachers may be able to use an oral reading rate test to design curriculum before the Terra Nova achievement test is administered in September. …

The Minutes Of The Marshall University Faculty Senate Meeting, November 30, 2006, Marshall University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Western News, Nov. 30, 2006, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: WMU establishes award for emerging scholars; Ten staff members received fall service awards; Obituaries for Harry Hefner and David Morris; On Campus with Jan Dekker.

Trail Blazer - Volume 80, Number 23a, Morehead State University. Trail Blazer.

Morehead State Trail Blazer Archive

Morehead State University Trail Blazer published on November 30, 2006.

The Pan American (2006-11-30), Claudette Gonzalez

UTPA Archives - The Pan American Newspaper

56th Year, No. 14

Education In The Environment: A Hands-On Student Research And Outdoor Learning Experience: Quarterly Progress Report: Period Ending November 30, 2006, Environmental Education Strategy For Nevada

Reports (PLI Education)

• Forever Earth was scheduled for 17 days and benefited 307 individuals.
• Technology was successfully tested aboard Forever Earth that may allow for distance education opportunities in Clark County School District classrooms.
• Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne and Congressman Jon Porter were hosted by the National Park Service aboard Forever Earth on October 31, 2006.
• Training for Forever Earth program facilitators was conducted on November 20, 2006.
• Four Discover Mojave Outdoor World events were conducted. A partnership with the Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization is under development to increase participation in the program.
• Meeting held with Las Vegas developer Focus Property Group …

The Grizzly, November 30, 2006, Kerri Landis, Marlena M. Mcmahon-Purk, Sarah Keck, Salia Zouande, Akasya Benge, Amber Adkins, Lane Taylor, Tracey Ferdinand, Erin Andrew, Corinne Liccketto, Kyle Fox, Alex Ernst, Matthew Pastor, Danielle Langdon

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Alcohol Awareness on the Front Burner of the Ursinus Campus • Diversity Forum Held for Staff and Students • 2nd Annual Relay for Life Officially Kicked Off at Ursinus • Town Hall Discusses Incidents on Campus • An Oral Examination • UCDC Performs Superbly in Latest Show • People Seeing People: The Artwork of Seward Johnson • Highlights of the "Exposure Week" Events and Festivities • Opinions: The Meaning of Liberal Arts; Racism in Our World and Home • Ursinus 2006 Division III Field Hockey National Champions! • Swimming to Success

The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

Spectrum, Volume 25, Issue 10, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

FLIK makes the news, again -- KCA raises awareness on campus -- When is thin too thin? -- Where is your meal card money? -- SHU bestows honorary Doctor of Theology degree on Italian Cardinal -- No room for SHU to grow without better facilities.

11-29-2006 Swosu College Of Pharmacy Honors 50-Year Graduates, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2006

The Southwestern Oklahoma State University College of Pharmacy recently honored 50-year pharmacy graduates with a recognition ceremony held on the Weatherford campus.

Chapman Student Wins $25,000 Ktla Broadcast Audition, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

The Express: November 29, 2006, Taylor University Fort Wayne

2006-2007 (Volume 11)

Looking back at WOW Week — DiFrancesca finds calling at TUFW — TTO play a hit — Life in Munchkinland — Author David Pierce to teach J-term mystery class — Changing perceptions of TUFW — The rockin’ restaurant review: Flanagan’s Restaurant & Pub — Men’s and Women’s Basketball preview — Fast facts on Ben Crown, Megan Spillman — Upcoming home games