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Using Capacity to Model School Effectiveness
(2014)
This study examines concepts and conditions that show promise for creating more accurate indicators of school performance than those currently in use and dominated by student outcome measures. Data were collected from ...
INVESTIGATING THE IMPACTS OF ANTHROPOGENIC AND CLIMATIC CHANGES ON THE STEPPE ECOSYSTEM IN CHINA’S LOESS PLATEAU AND THE MIXED-GRASS PRAIRIE REGION IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA, USA
(2014-08-15)
Grassland ecosystems occupy approximately 40% of the earth’s terrestrial area and represent one of most important ecosystems on Earth in terms of its impacts on global food supply, carbon sequestration and maintaining ...
OneOklahoma Friction Free Network (OFFN) (PPT)
(2014-07-13)
This session presents a stage model that describes the ongoing deployment of a Science DMZ known as the OneOklahoma Friction Free Network (OFFN) in order to guide multi-campus collaborations on their journey to a robust ...
Undergraduate Conductors’ and Conducting Teachers’ Perceptions of Basic Conducting Efficacy
(Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2014-10-23)
The purpose of this study was to examine undergraduate conductors’ and conducting teachers’ perceptions about basic conducting efficacy. At the beginning and end of the semester, undergraduate students (N = 19) enrolled ...
Journal of the Faculty Senate, September 8, 2014
(The University of Oklahoma Faculty Senate, 2014-09-08)
Checked Your Bias Lately? Reasons and Strategies for Rural Teachers to Self-Assess for Grading Bias
(2014)
Multiple factors influence teachers' grading and scoring of students' class work, homework, projects and tests. Put simply, bias in grading is giving different grades on student work of essentially equal quality, based on ...
Diversity Issues: Exploring “Critical” Through Multiple Lenses
(Advances in Developing Human Resources, 2014-11-01)
The Problem Social identity diversity is a concept that links an individual to the social world and to other contexts where interactions occur. However, issues that emerge from social identity diversity may not necessarily ...
Coupling the Advanced Regional Prediction System and the Discrete Event Specification Fire Spread Model to Predict Wildfire Behavior
(2014-05-09)
The cost of wildfire suppression in the United States has risen dramatically over the last 20 years. As the interface between wildland and urban areas expands, increased emphasis is being placed on rapid, efficient deployment ...
AN OUTCOME-BASED EVALUATION OF AN INNER-CITY COLLEGE PREPARATORY PUBLIC CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL
(2014-05-09)
Racial and ethnic minorities are expected to increase in both number and percentage of the college-going population (Department of Commerce, 2009). Meanwhile the historic underrepresentation of low-income, African-American, ...
Rural school postsecondary education Discourse: Individual anxiety-corporate confidence
(2014-12-12)
This study addressed a gap in the literature about the importance of the school context in predicting and mediating postsecondary education participation for rural students. Using grounded theory with a modified constant ...