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The Use Of Electronic Portfolios For Preservice Teachers, Kimberly Gobble-Sengstock

Graduate Research Papers

This paper will discuss the results found in support of this CD-ROM project: The Use of Electronic Portfolios for Preservice Teachers, through the infusion of standards in the teaching and learning process and the competent use of technology as a tool for reflective practice, assessment and hiring purposes. This project provides best practices in portfolio development, tutorial guides, and student examples in developing their own electronic portfolios.

Comparison Of A Basal Reading Program To A Basal Reading Program With Supplemental Phonics Using Incremental Development And Continuous Distributed Review, Michelle C. Barry

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study was conducted to determine whether students taught using the McGraw-Hill Reading program (non-supplemental group) and students taught using McGraw-Hill Reading supplemented with Saxon Phonics (supplemental group) demonstrated performance differences as measured by classroom-administered reading and spelling tests from the McGraw-Hill Reading Series. Overall, the results of this study revealed a limited number of differences between the supplemental and non-supplemental group. The supplemental group performed significantly better than the non-supplemental group on Unit 6 decoding. Higher-level readers in the supplemental group performed significantly better than higher-level readers in the non-supplemental group on Unit 4 spelling. The supplemental group performed …

After Turning Points: Evidence Of The Adoption Of Middle School Reforms In The United States 1987-2000., Nancy Barnes Mansberger

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore the adoption by U.S. middle schools of key practices recommended by the 1989 Turning Points report. Three questions were examined: (1) To what extent have the organizational practices identified by research to impact the development of "small learning communities" been adopted by U.S. middle schools? (2) To what extent do the instructional practices of U.S. middle school teachers reflect developmentally responsive or traditional/bureaucratic methods?, and (3) Do the instructional practices of U.S. middle school teachers differ between those who teach in schools with developmentally responsive organizational practices and those who teach in …

Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Mae Worthey-Flennoy, Cate Weeks, Gian Galassi

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

Confederate Operations In The Jackson Purchase: A History Of Camp Beauregard, Kentucky, Dieter C. Ullrich

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

No abstract provided.

Koinonia, Siang-Yang Tan, William H. Willimon, Carolyn Arthur, Damon Seacott, Melanie Sunukjian

Koinonia

Spotlight on Speakers
Heeding the Call of the Ministry of the Towel, Siang-Yang Tan

Being Honest About Why We Can't All Just Get Along, William H. Willimon

Perspectives on Practices
A Christian Philosophy of Student Development: The Ongoing Discussion and Debate, Carolyn Arthur

A Life Worth Living, Damon Seacott

The "State of Our Seniors" Address, Melanie Sunukjian

ACSD Matters
Executive Committee Elections

New Professionals Retreat

ACSD 2002 at Lee University

Regular Features
President's Corner

Editor's Disk

Going-Down Pairs Of Commutative Rings, R. Douglas Chatham

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

No abstract provided.

Homeschooling: An Overview, Deborah Abell

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

Even though homeschooling is not a new concept, it was a relatively small movement until 30 years ago. By the late 1990's, there were over a million students being homeschooled in the United States and the numbers seem to be growing quickly. Homeschooling has become a viable alternative to traditional education. No longer a peripheral movement, it now reflects the diversity of American society. Even though homeschooling is receiving increased attention in the popular press, there is a paucity of research on the subject (Knowles, 1988). This study is the first of its kind and reports the results of a …

Journaling In The Secondary Mathematics Classroom: An Introduction, Defense, And Resource, Emily K. Falgier

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.

Koinonia, Kay Arthur, Todd Lake, Damon Seacott, Jesse Brown, Ron Coffey, Rhonda Good

Koinonia

Spotlight on Speakers
How Do We Measure Up, Kay Arthur

Considering Calling
Calling vs. Career, Todd Lake

Great Expectations, Damon Seacott

Exploring Events
Man Hunt, Jesse Brown and Ron Coffey

Spotlight on Seminars
From Loneliness to Solitude: The Human Equalizer, Rhonda Good

Regular Features
President's Corner

Editor's Disk

ACSD Accolades

It’S All About M.E. (Motivation Through (Self) Evaluation), Wendy Pillars

MA TESOL Collection

Middle school is a paradox. Students want nothing more than autonomy, while classrooms become more structured and demanding. With the increased structure, however, are increased expectations for the students to determine what to do and when to do it, on their own. This rapid increase in personal responsibility creates confusion in an already tumultuous time in their lives, and a common retaliation, out of fear, apathy, or simply not knowing, is to do nothing. It is a given that students differ in their motivation to learn, and tapping each one of those sources becomes, in effect, a quest for the …

Teachers Are Diverse, Too -- Respecting Each Other's Beliefs, Richard G. Tiberius

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Teachers hold beliefs about teaching and learning that influence their teaching strategies and their relationships with students. These beliefs may limit what teachers do but they need not limit their success.

College Teaching As An Educational Relationship, Douglas Reimondo Robertson

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

This essay offers a conceptualization of college teaching as an educational helping relationship that challenges faculty to integrate inherent conflicts in the teacher (helper) role.

Teachers And Scholars As Designers: The Art And Practice Of Instructional Design, Charles M. Spuches

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Instructional design theory and practice can help us meet increasing challenges, employ new knowledge and resources, and create optimal learning environments.

Reflections On The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning, Pat Hutchings

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Drawing on work by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, this essay explores emergent understandings of the scholarship of teaching and learning, faculty responses, and likely impact.

Imperatives For Reforming Pedagogy And Curriculum, Hitendra Pillay, Bob Elliott

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Traditional models of pedagogy and curriculum assume the world is stable and internally consistent and rational. A new pedagogy and curriculum model are proposed, which challenge these assumptions.

Diversity Begins At Home: Multiculturalism In State And Regional Studies, Barbara Lounsberry

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Diversity studies can begin in our backyards. State and regional studies can connect faculty in new ways and reveal racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity – even in locales considered homogenous.

Catalogue 2002-2003, Bank Street College Of Education

Graduate School of Education

This course catalog from a past academic year is a resource for referring to previous course offerings, degree requirements, institutional policies, and more.

From Cognitive Dissonance To Self-Motivated Learning, Edmund J. Hansen

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Motivation is a multi-level change process we need to help students embrace. It often starts with experiences of cognitive dissonance and culminates in the definition of one’s learning purpose.

The National Honors Report, Volume Xxiii, Number 3, Fall 2002

The National Honors Report

Peaks & Valleys

Those Pesky Parents

1. "Parent to Parent" by P.K.Weston ... 1 Let those parents know what they need to know: inevitable changes in their sons and daughters; practical issues; the program's responsibilities in their children's education. Includes letter to parents & copy of the program outline with notes. Weston says to borrow freely.

2. "From Fred's Mother" ... 5 This letter has been reprinted several times to remind us what honors is all about. Fred's mother says "teach my son." Introduction by Freddye Davy, Hampton University. As always, thanks for sharing this letter, Freddye.

Those Irksome Issues …

The National Honors Report, Volume Xxiii, Number 1, Spring 2002

The National Honors Report

THE THREE R’S & MORE

RECRUITING

1. "Selling People on Honors Education" by Lydia Daniel & Joan Digby … l A challenge to honors folks to promote the value of honors education on the local level. With a generic press release that can be adapted to fit particular honors programs' or honors colleges' needs. How to promote honors as well as a specific program or college. How to buy the new third edition of Peterson's Honors Programs and Colleges. From the co-chairs of the NCHC's External Relations Committee.

1. A. PRE-COLLEGE PROGRAMS

2. "A Summer of Excellence" by Gerald T. Szymanski …

The National Honors Report, Volume Xxiii, Number 2, Summer 2002

The National Honors Report

What do they mean?

1. "Numbers, Mountains, and the Supersonic Fly" by Len Zane ... 1 Zane in his Presidential Address (San Francisco, 1996) told us about Mount Whitney, height 14496.811 feet-as Zane says, that's 14496 and 811 thousands of a foot. How do they know, he asks. How? He reminds us to be skeptical of the beguiling effect of numbers. Originally appeared in Winter 1997 issue.

2. "Number Theory" by Margaret Brown ... 6 What can we do with all the reports from NCHC committees, with all of the reports from the NCHC office?

What kind of numbers are …

Seeking Community: Creating Effective Lifestyle Agreements, Steven P. Bird

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

Christian colleges wrestle with the creation and maintenance of regulations for correct behavior of campus members (lifestyle agreements). Using theoretical considerations as well as specific application examples, a way is presented to create a lifestyle agreement that is internally consistent and fits the needs of the campus. Specifically, the effect of external constituencies, organizational efficiency, and, most importantly, efforts to develop community, are used to guide the construction of lifestyle agreements. While very specific examples are given, no effort is made to create a one-size-fits-all set of codes. Instead, a framework is constructed to allow a campus to develop a …

Growth No. 2 (2002) - Full Issue

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

The full issue of the second edition of Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development.

Hypocrisy: Moral Fraud And Other Vices, Jake Smith

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

No abstract provided.

Searching For The Perfect Fit: An Examination Of The Job Satisfaction Of Middle Management Student Affairs Professionals In Christian Institutions Of Higher Education, Brent Ellis

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

No abstract provided.

Commonality & Diversity, Donna Thoennes

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

As students are increasingly influenced by postmodern thought, which promotes ideas of community without a common center and emphasizes difference, so students may have fresh conceptualizations of what community is and how it functions. This study explored students' conceptions, experiences, and ideals of community.

The tension between commonality and diversity within community has caused much debate in the social sciences. Interviewees, who were students at member institutions of the CCCU, recognize the same tension and often struggle to navigate their relationships within a collegiate environment that promotes both.

Thirty undergraduate senior students at two Christian colleges were interviewed in February …

Mutual Expectations: The Relationship Of The President To The Student Personnel Officer, David Mckenna, Steve Moore

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

This article is a transcription of an address presented by Dr. David McKenna at a recent pre-conference workshop at an ACPA conference. The workshop was sponsored by ACSD in conjunction with the annual prayer breakfast. Dr. McKenna shared insights gleaned from his more than thirty years of service in Christian higher education including three presidential posts. The article focuses on two areas. They are one, what a president expects from a senior student affairs officer and two, what the SSA can expect from a president.

Community And Technology, Skip Trudeau, Andre Broquard

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

No abstract provided.

Linking Theory To Practice: Case Studies For Working With College Students, 2nd Edition, Roger Wessel

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

No abstract provided.