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Effects of cultural/racial identity, cultural commitment and counseling approach on African-American males' perceptions of therapist credibility and utility
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The present study examined African-American male college student's cultural/racial identity and commitment relating to their perceptions of a therapist's credibility and utility. The research design consisted of three independent variables: (1) Level of cultural/racial identity; (2) Therapist Race (Black and White); and (3) Treatment Approach. The dependent measure was the Counselor Effective Rating Scale, a 10 item, likert type instrument measuring perceived therapist's credibility and utility. After view a videotape of a "mock" therapy session, it was predicted that... Regarding credibility, the Black non-traditional therapist was rated the most credible--rather than the White, as predicted. The White traditional therapist was rated as the second most credible, Black traditional therapist third, and... Regarding utility, the participants reported willingness to see the White traditional therapist, rather than Black, and the White non-traditional White therapist, rather than Black therapist--findings which were not in the predicted...
These are turbulent times of increasing government expenditures and opposition to higher taxes. A new kind of civil servant is needed, one who has the initiative and independence of the entrepreneur. This study undertook the development of a profile of the personal qualities of the public entrepreneur and the identification of elements in the organizational environment which either facilitate or hinder public entrepreneurship, ... Three research strategies were followed: a review of written and on-line literature, public documents, and interviews. Two methods were used in identifying individuals for the interviews. First, snow-ball or chain-sampling, and second, ... The basic conclusion is that public entrepreneurs see themselves as creative people with a strong value orientation; feel they are needed and can function effectively in the public sector despite certain constraints; are task-oriented...
A study of academic and social integration in predicting student persistence at a residential, two-year college
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While studies largely support Tinto's model of student retention, consistent estimates of effects are lacking. Furthermore, many two-year institutions are largely commuter institutions, bringing into question the usefulness of a... The purpose of this study was to provide insight into the problem of student departure at Abraham Baldwin College (ABAC), a two-year residential college in Tifton, Georgia, by studying the patterns of student persistence among four... Abraham Baldwin College's student database was the source of data for this study. An institutional survey was conducted during the spring quarter 1991 of 846 students (39.4 percent of the student population) which added to this database... Even though only two of the six hypotheses were statistically significant, the results provided by the standardized regression coefficients were consistent with much of the previous research on student retention. These results indicated... Academic integration served as a greater estimate of effect for the commuting students and the developmental studies students. Consequently, the commuting student group and the developmental studies students share patterns of persistence...
Journeys to the Edge of the Egg. (Original writing)
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Journeys to the Edge of the Egg is a collection of short fictions related by the theme of initiation into new life. While the ages of the protagonists vary from early childhood to middle-age, they are all on journeys which take them to... Many of the characters are addicts of some kind, either addicted to alcohol, or to a way of loving, or to a relationship with art, or to the perverse thrill crime; and many of the stories describe the process of breaking free of these...
Structural evolution and metamorphic petrogenesis of a metasediment and metaigneous complex, Coosa County, Alabama
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Investigation of metasedimentary and metaigneous units of the northern Alabama Piedmont has revealed the following evidence: (1) stratigraphic continuity exists between previously uncorrelated lithotectonic blocks, (2) petrogenesis of... Analysis of micro-, meso- and megascopic structural relationships has revealed 5 phases of deformation. Previous investigations have established the internal stratigraphy of structural blocks composing the northern Alabama Piedmont. This...
The conflict between confidentiality and open meetings law and its impact on the faculty promotion and tenure process in the Florida state university system
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This study explored how the conflicting issues of academic freedom, confidentiality, and public disclosure impact the tenure and promotion process at public universities in Florida. Through legal, historical, and document analysis and... The legal standard of academic freedom falls on a continuum of discretion in which courts may defer to the special expertise of academic professionals or may recognize an institutional academic freedom, except when university action... A standard of privacy or confidentiality covers an individual's right to control information about himself/herself, limited by the rights of others. In Florida, exemption of faculty personnel records from the Public Records law provides... The public disclosure standard, as manifested in opening meetings law, focuses on the status of a group as a governing body and on the decision-making process. In Florida, if a university group is considered a governing body, then... In the discrepancy evaluation, institutional practice was discovered to be fairly congruent with the academic freedom and confidentiality standards. The comparison to the open meetings standard was less conclusive. In the system, peer...
Solving proportion problems in schools is a very difficult task for most children. Too often children are taught to use techniques for solving fractions when working with ratio and proportion problems. Although these techniques may prove...
A study of social interaction processes in mathematical problem-solving partnerships
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The purpose of this study was to build a descriptive model of social-interaction processes of natural and artificially imposed student partnerships engaged in mathematical problem-solving activity. The theoretical perspective of this... To enable the development of the model, questions relating to partnerships roles, differences in problem-solving strategies between partners, and evidence of coordinated problem-solving activity were of particular interest. Through the... The study was conducted in two phases. First a fourth grade class was observed biweekly for a period of eight weeks to document and analyze interaction patterns. Based on the initial observation, two natural dyads and three natural... Major themes that emerged in the qualitative analysis of the data were: gender differences, levels of collaboration, partnership roles, methods of resolving conflict, and effects of setting changes. A synthesis of major themes revealed a...
A case study of selected community colleges' exemplary institutional effectiveness models
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Institutional effectiveness models are examined in two community colleges, judged to have exemplary institutional effectiveness systems in place. One community college is organized within the context of a state level governance system... The institutional effectiveness models are examined through an integrated framework of open systems theory and the concepts of effective planning and evaluation processes required by the criteria contained in Section III of the Southern... The research questions addressed in this study focus on: (a) the events and circumstances that impeded or encouraged the development of the institutional effectiveness model, (b) the elements and strategies of exemplary planning and... Qualitative research data were collected through interviews, institutional documents, and observations. Triangulation of the data ensured the trustworthiness of the study. A narrative report was reviewed by the designated liaisons at the... The results of the study suggested that presidential leadership was a major factor in the development of the institutional effectiveness systems. Other significant factors included regional accreditation criteria and state policies... Contextual factors such as the unique institutional culture, governance structure, administrative organizations, and institutional resource development played an integral role in the development of the institutional effectiveness systems...
A motif-index of the Angel of Death in early Rabbinic literature
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The writings of Rabbinic Judaism have too long been accessible to only those with vary specialized linguistic and theological training. By using the Angel of Death as its model, this work is a call to others in this field to open up this... The study opens with an introduction which carefully discusses the difficulties in both dating and accessing the rabbinic writings. The methodological discussion is critical because of the very nature of this material. Scholarly aids, ... The Angel of Death ('Malach ha-Mawet') is the specific model for investigation and is traced from its "supposed" beginnings in the Hebrew Bible. The first section of this study shows, after a detailed survey of the biblical record, that... After isolating this figure from within the rabbinic writings of the first millennium, the indexing tools used by those in the field of folk literature are applied. The motif-indexing created by Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson, later... This study closes with four (4) appendices which offer different ways in which to index and cross-index rabbinic texts, figures and the biblical texts and figures contained within them. The study presents the Angel of Death as a model...
This dissertation is a study of the cultural contributions made by the scholars who accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte to Egypt in 1798. The purpose of the expedition was strategic and colonial, so Bonaparte recruited some of France's... In order to facilitate their research, the scholars formed a learned body, the Institute of Egypt. The research conducted by members of the Institute lay the groundwork for the development of Egyptology as a professional field of... The work of the French in Egypt also reflected various trends in eighteenth century thought. The savants believed that they were bringing progress and enlightenment to contemporary Egypt in the form of scientific and technical...
Giant of the pine forest: A history of the Chemstrand/Monsanto Pensacola nylon plant; 1953-1992
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The development of nylon represented a triumph of ten years of experimentation conducted by the DuPont Company in the 1920s and 1930s. For the first dozen years of its existence, nylon was produced exclusively by DuPont, but that changed... The primary purpose of this dissertation is to record highlights of the Chemstrand/Monsanto Pensacola plant's four decades of operation focusing on the principles and philosophy which brought the plant to its current status. Included in the research are topics pertaining to the research and development of nylon, the formation of the Chemstrand Corporation, growth of the plant site, on site Research and Development, end products produced from Pensacola fibers... The research is intended to provide a concise, synthesized study that will serve as a case study for future projects analyzing the development of post World War II business in the South.
Florida Writing Project: Its impact on staff development activity in writing instruction, Bay County, Florida
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The purpose of this study was to describe the staff development model for writing instruction, developed by the National Writing Project and adapted by the schools in Bay County, Florida, during the summer of 1988 and the school year of...
Cultural expressions of nature's polarities: A thematic survey
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This dissertation is a survey of the tradition comprised of individuals known as new paradigm scholars. Convinced that Western culture is in the midst of a paradigm shift which involves the re-integration of a feminine, ecological... Part One surveys the new paradigm tradition by distinguishing between three periods of its development and by examining the messages of six representative scholars. Focusing on the tenets of the primal paradigm, Part Two investigates the...
Men and family planning in Kenya: Alternative policy intervention strategies for reducing population growth
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From its inception in 1967, the Kenyan national family planning program has suffered from a lack of popular support and confidence within the general population, absence of active local participation at all levels and, above all, the... The present study uses a conceptual and theoretical framework based on data from the 1989 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey and measures the effects of the male role in family planning activities in Kenya. The study also provides... The findings indicate that lack of communication between husbands and wives may be a greater obstacle to family planning than male opposition. Couples who discuss the subject of family planning are not only more likely to use... The study concludes that inclusion of male factors in the family planning program is not only crucial for more effective program performance, but is also an area of policy that should be among those consciously considered in the...
Use of fuzzy relational information retrieval technique for generating control strategies in resolution-based automated reasoning
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Current resolution based automated theorem provers, such as ITP and OTTER, adopt strategies to avoid many fruitless paths by their judicious and "informed" application. Without a suitable strategy guiding the inference, too many often... The dissertation suggests a method for control of inferential strategies of resolution based architectures, and then applies the method to some of domains in automated reasoning fields to inspect the effect of the new scheme. Also, the... The new weighting mechanism will help the user of the resolution based mechanical theorem prover decide the weighting pattern and the weights to reduce the deduction time and space automatically from the given input problem. The new...
Transport of histone mRNA from the nucleus to the cytoplasm
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DNA replication-dependent histone genes differ from other genes which are transcribed by RNA polymerase II in that histone genes do not contain introns and have no poly(A) tail at their 3$\sp\prime$ ends. The histone mRNAs end with a...
Stable isotopes as tracers of methane oxidation in the rhizosphere and at the sediment-water interface in Florida wetlands
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Consistent with the presence of CH$\sb4$ oxidizing bacteria at the sediment-water interface in a north Florida flooded forest and in Everglades Cladium marshes with peat soils, CH$\sb4$ emitted from the flood water was enriched in $\sp... Stable isotopes gave no indication that CH$\sb4$ oxidation was occurring in the rhizosphere of Everglades Cladium marshes. Rhizospheric oxidation did not cause $\sp{13}$C enriched CH$\sb4$ to enter the plant and be emitted to the... A carbon budget developed for the flooded forest indicated that the carbon remineralization rate of soil organic matter was dependent on the hydo condition (flooded/dry) of the forest. The rate under dry conditions was 33.72 mol C m$\sp{... Due to the presence of insoluble organic surface films on the flood water in the flooded forest, which retard the transfer of gases across the water-air interface, calculation of fluxes from Fick's First Law overestimates the diffusive...
An alternative conceptualization and operationalization of service value and the effects of service value on the purchase of services
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The present research investigates the (1) conceptualization and operationalization of Service Value, and (2) the causal ordering of the plethora of constructs identified in the literature believed to influence the formation of Purchase...
A multiple case study of curriculum integration by middle school interdisciplinary teams of teachers
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The purpose of this study was to provide a full description of five levels of curriculum integration at the middle school level, grounded in practice and described by practitioners through a multiple case study approach. This study... The conceptual framework for this study was based on a synthesized continuum of curriculum integration derived from Faunce and Bossing's (1958), Vars' (1987), Jacob's (1989) and Fogarty's (1991) continuums or models of curriculum... The methodological approach was naturalistic inquiry with qualitative data collection and analysis strategies. One middle school interdisciplinary team at each of the five levels of curriculum integration on the synthesized continuum was... In addition to telling each team's story of curriculum integration and refining a rough definition of each level, common themes from the five teams emerged. Common themes such as "torch bearers" are crucial to curriculum integration...
A comparison of situated cognition and traditional instruction in teaching map skills
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The purpose of this investigation was to investigate the comparative effectiveness of two instructional methods, one based on the tenets of situated cognition and the other a traditional classroom-based presentation. Two intact classes... Following the instruction, both groups completed three posttests on map skills, a written assessment and two performance assessments, one of which was designed to assess far transfer of knowledge. The results of the study indicated that...
The effectiveness of computer-assisted instruction in teaching sport rules, scoring procedures, and terminology
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The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of the CAI program in teaching rules, scoring procedures, and terminology associated with the game of tennis in the school environment, as compared with the traditional approach ... Data were collected from ten tennis lesson periods during five-weeks in Spring 1992. Twenty eight fifth grade students (fourteen boys; fourteen girls) from university school served as subjects for this study. They were stratified by... The study followed a descriptive design with two evaluation instruments, pre-and-post tests and the attitude questionnaire. Analysis was a 2 x 2 (groups x tests) one way analysis of variance to test differences in scores between groups... The results showed that fifth grade students can learn effectively by both methods. Although groups were similar with the CAI group being more varied and had somewhat higher on initial scores, there was found no significant difference... Since this computer program was found effective in this study, it suggests that (a) teachers can be provided with more time to concentrate on motor skill development of students, (b) showed that CAI is a way to individualize instruction, ... Therefore, it is of utmost importance to provide teachers with opportunities to build new teaching strategies which incorporate the use of computers and advanced technologies.
Analysis of air and sea physical properties and surface fluxes using a combination of in situ and SEASAT data
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An objective technique which produces regularly spaced fields of winds, temperatures, humidity, wind stress and sensible and latent heat fluxes is developed. It combines in-situ Volunteer Observing Ship (VOS) data and remotely sensed... Seasonal (3 month) means of temperature, and flux determined by the monthly and 5-day results are comparable. However, 5-day wind results had much smaller errors than the monthly mean winds averaged over the 3-month period. Variability of the 5-day results indicates high variability of temperatures, and heat fluxes in the vicinity of the Gulf Stream. Sea surface temperature (SST) variability is high in the eastern Atlantic and is coupled to wind... Heat fluxes are coupled to and determined by various parameters. The variations for both sensible and latent heat fluxes in the extra-tropics are determined by the position and strength of the circulation of the semi-permanent high... Estimates of errors due to insufficient sampling and random data are presented for the monthly results. The sampling and random errors in wind stress are in the range of 10%-20% of the mean values. For the sensible and latent heat fluxes...
The role of beliefs, attitudes, and subjective norms in college-aged males' intentions to choose between two different fathering styles
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In the past decade, both public and private interest in the father's role in child rearing has increased dramatically. There is now a large body of literature regarding fathers with a recent emphasis being given to the "new" father, ... The theory of reasoned action was utilized to examine the choice between traditional versus more involved fathering styles. This choice was predicted from beliefs and attitudes related to outcomes of adopting a given fathering style ... The sample was comprised of 190 male undergraduate students who intended to be fathers. Two path models were used for analyses, a restricted path model and a saturated path model, with the saturated model found to be more useful for... Two predominate findings were noted. First, there appeared to be significant inter-relationships between components of attitude and subjective norm. Secondly, the attitude components were generally found to be more useful in the... Significant differences related to age, satisfaction with their own fathers' roles, and parenting choice intention were found between groups of subjects who described their fathers as being either traditional or more involved parents....
Understanding the meaning of pregnancy and prenatal care: How meaning affects prenatal care seeking behavior
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The meanings women attribute to pregnancy and prenatal care and the manner in which those meanings affect decisions to utilize prenatal care services are examined. Using an Integrated Model of Prenatal Care Utilization based on concepts...
Behavior analysis in government: The use of feedback to improve performance in the courts
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Three experiments examined the use of feedback to improve performance in a circuit court. Three areas of performance, adopted from the Trial Court Performance Standards, were selected as targets for intervention: Expedition and... The feedback systems significantly increased the number of cases disposed of monthly by two judges serving in the criminal division, reduced the number of days required to calendar an appointment with one circuit judge, and greatly... A behavioral analysis of the judiciary system is provided and specific difficulties encountered while working in a political environment are discussed.
The adoption and diffusion of in-home, online shopping has not fulfilled forecasts by videotex service providers and industry proponents. Based on the innovation-decision process in diffusion theory, and pertinent in-home shopping... On the 11-point scale (0-10) used to measure PC users' intentions to shop online, exactly 50% of the respondents reported "no chance" (0). An additional 39% indicated a low intention (1-5) and only 11% reported a high intention (6-10).... Variables that best discriminated between the intentions of PC users were: number of other in-home shopping methods used; age, income, number of children at home (fewer); location of residence (urban); modem use; and household shopping...
The hopelessness theory of depression: An empirical evaluation of the causal mediation and diathesis-stress hypotheses in the interpersonal domain
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The causal mediation and diathesis-stress hypotheses of the Hopelessness Theory of Depression were examined in the context of social relations, using a short-term prospective longitudinal design and a sample of 299 university... Partial empirical support was obtained for the causal mediation hypothesis. Inferential style dimensions were generally predictive of corresponding inferences made by participants for their single most upsetting future negative... In turn, equivocal support was obtained for the diathesis-stress hypothesis. Although some inferential style dimensions interacted with interpersonal stress in the hypothesized direction to predict increments in depression over time, ...
Prediction of patient outcome as a function of in-hospital and pre-hospital variables: A proposed causal model
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The present study was designed to develop a causal model of variables important in predicting various outcomes with chronic, psychiatric patients who were hospitalized. Four pre-hospital and nine in-hospital variables were included in... Although each model was statistically related to each outcome, the proportions of variance explained were smaller than expected. Several variables related consistently to outcomes. Pre-hospital variables were found to be more related to... The present study suggested that the proposed model was either not complete enough or not specified correctly. Suggestions were made regarding possible revisions to consider in future studies.
The use of choice strategies in decision support system design: An empirical investigation of decision maker performance and perceptions
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Decision support systems are interactive information systems which incorporate both data and modeling capabilities in an effort to support and improve human decision making. The goal of a decision support system is to support the entire... The experiment resulted in the following findings. First, performance effectiveness was highest with the noncompensatory decision aid, however, the evaluation method had a tendency to bias those results. This finding indicates that...
An investigation of the role of tuning in the organization of voluntary movements
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This study was undertaken to determine the role of feedforward tuning in the organization of a voluntary movement. Right-handed male college students (N = 12) volunteered to participate in the study. A finger flexion/extension choice... It was predicted that the one limb/two choice condition would prohibit pre response biasing of the agonist/antagonist relationship of the response finger because the agonist/antagonist relationship of the muscles involved could not be... A 3 x 3 x 2 x 3 x 4 ANOVA was conducted on the data collected in a complete within-subjects design. The factors were: (a) blocks, (b) movement combinations, (c) movement directions, (d) phases, and (e) fingers. The analysis revealed a... This analysis revealed one significant main effect for phases which was indicative of an increased state of readiness during the anticipation phase. In addition, a significant direction x phases interaction indicated a biasing of the... A separate 3 x 3 ANOVA was conducted on the reaction time data. The factors in this analysis were: (a) movement combinations, and (b) trial blocks. The analysis revealed a movement combinations main effect.
The 1992 FSU Football media guide includes information on the coaching staff, the players, the opponents of the season, records, and the university itself.
An examination of Florida statewide financial aid programs: Policy goals and outcomes
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This dissertation reports an investigation of Florida's three largest student financial aid programs. The programs include the Florida Student Assistance Grant (FSAG), the Florida Undergraduate Scholarship Fund (FUSF), and the Florida... The study relies on social investment theory which asserts that there are calculable social and economic benefits for postsecondary education (Bowen, 1977; Leslie and Brinkman, 1988). This study analyzes the 31, 327 public community... The findings demonstrated that FSAG is serving the most needy students which was its intent. There is little linkage to the merit based programs, however, which could provide a better prepared student for college attendance. The FUSF program is meeting its twofold goals of encouraging more students to complete a rigorous college preparatory curriculum and also retaining high achieving students within Florida. The program is not adequately reaching minority... The Gold Seal program is rewarding a more diverse ethnic and racial spectrum of students but it is in its first year of operation and its profile needs examination. The program looks promising both in terms of student composition as well... The cumulative analysis demonstrated that research universities are attracting 40% of the awards and 52% of the dollars. Community colleges gather 39% of the awards and a smaller 25% of the dollars. The community colleges show the... Florida's financial aid programs are successful in terms of their individual policy objectives, they leave a large gap in meeting the needs of older, non-traditional citizens.
An empirical assessment of punishment and social structure: 1983 and 1987
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State level data from fifty states for 1983, a period of severe economic recession and 1987, a period of relative economic recovery, are incorporated into separate multivariate analyses to determine if variations in the economy and other...
Occupational stress, role conflict, and role ambiguity in elementary school teachers and administrators in Leon County, Florida
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The purpose of the study was to determine the extent of occupational stress and burn-out extant among teachers and administrators in elementary schools of Leon County, Florida, to examine perceptions of role conflict (RC) and role... The sample for the study was composed of school-based elementary school administrators (N = 33) from the 16 schools participating in the study and a stratified by school) random sample (N = 160) of the teaching staff (N = 644) of these... An instrument, the Fogelson Educators Survey (FES) was constructed for the purposes of the study. It contained three sections: the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), (1981), deriving scores in three dimensions: emotional exhaustion (EE), ... Results indicated that emotional exhaustion is present in moderate levels but that depersonalization and feelings of lack of personal accomplishment were low among teachers and administrators. Levels of role conflict and role ambiguity... Recommendations included on-going stress management workshops coupled with teacher and administrator support groups, training in procedures necessary for successful implementation of site-based, shared decision-making models of school...
Investigation of epitaxial growth via high-resolution helium atom scattering: Alkali halides on alkali halides
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High resolution helium atom scattering experiments have been employed to study epitaxial growth of alkali halides crystals: NaCl/NaCl(001), KBr/NaCl(001), NaCl/KBr(001) and KBr/RbCl(001). The growth behavior was characterized by...
Initialization of a modeled convective storm using Doppler radar-derived fields
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A method is developed to initialize convective storm simulations with Doppler radar-derived fields. Input fields for initialization include velocity, rain water derived from radar reflectivity, and pressure and temperature fields... A series of experiments using data from a simulated storm establishes the feasibility of the initialization method. Multiple Doppler radar observations from the 20 May 1977 Del City tornadic storm are used for the initialization...
The acquisition of occupational knowledge in deaf populations: A schema theory approach
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The effects of a schematic cognitive intervention were examined along several lines of thought including occupational certainty, vocational identity, occupational representation systems of deaf clients. Theoretically, the development of...
The primary focus of this collection of poems is on the natural world, and especially on its inherent processes of creative transformation. These transformations are seen as essential to the creation of the physical world, and are also... The collection is divided into three sections. In each section, poems are linked through repeated images to a particular phase of progress toward higher and more subtle order. The first section, headed by the poem "Stones, centers on...
Coming to know: Prospective elementary teachers' thinking and the case study approach
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The purpose of this study was to investigate and analyze how college level Elementary Education majors made meaning, or came to know about elementary teaching and learning, while engaged in the use of the case study method. This research... The methods employed in this interpretive study involved the collection of qualitative data through participant observation, interviewing, document analysis, and personal journals. A constructivist epistemology was embodied into... The immersion approach to teaching critical thinking was employed in that specific critical thinking processes were not made explicit but an in-depth understanding and analysis of the content of the cases was promoted. Kurfiss' model was... Assertions constituting grounded theory (Strauss, 1989) were generated from this study and subsumed in three emergent themes. (1) Constructing multiple perspectives: the prospective teachers constructed complex ways of viewing their own... The results of this study suggest that the case study approach used in an environment with small cooperative learning groups, large group discussions, contextually rich cases, and a skilled instructor facilitates prospective teachers'...
An exploratory study of the perceived benefits of electronic bulletin board use and their impact on other communication activities
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Electronic bulletin boards have become more popular with the advent of low cost computers, easily available communication channels, and large network systems. With its public posting of messages, relatively large audiences can read and... A random sample of bulletin board users was selected from the two major national bulletin board services, CompuServe$\sp\circler$ and Prodigy$\sp\circler, $ and interviewed asynchronously, on-line, using electronic mail. This study characterized this bulletin board audience focusing on the issues of (1) adoption--what characteristics bulletin board users possess, and (2) social impacts--how bulletin board adoption affects the use of other communication... Results of the on-line survey supported adoption hypotheses suggesting bulletin board users are higher educated, more wealthy, and work in more prestigious occupations the average American. Rejected was a similar lower age hypothesis.... The findings also showed significant differences in the CompuServe and Prodigy systems along several of the above variables, in addition to quantity of use, message rate, and family usage patterns.
Toward more competent and qualified teachers: Improving teaching quality while expanding educational opportunity in Indonesia
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This study examined whether expanding educational opportunity in Indonesia had an eroding effect on the quality of education and explored policy alternatives to maintain educational quality in general and teaching quality in particular.... The study was conducted in Jakarta, Cirebon, Bandung, Palangkaraya, and Banjarmasin; it involved 39 respondents consisting of decision makers at the ministry, educational officials at the provincial level, deans of teacher training... Finally, the study recommended systematic improvement through short-term and long-term policy measures involving retraining of teachers, establishment of educational facility banks, reforms in the incentive system, improvement in the...
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