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Mentoring and mentor efficacy: A training program's effectiveness.
(2001)
Both the quantitative data and the qualitative data generated noted that mentor training changed mentor efficacy in regard to the student teaching experience. The quantitative data derived from the pre and post questionnaires ...
Impact of electronic mail communication in a world-wide K--12 school system evaluated on the basis of employee attitudes and perceptions.
(2001)
This study explores the impact of electronic mail (e-mail) communication in the overseas Department of Defense Dependents School system. Employees' attitudes and perceptions on the use of electronic mail to communicate and ...
Fairness in American politics and culture.
(2001)
Fairness is a term often used in political debate but not often carefully examined. In this dissertation I propose a way of understanding fairness by combining the insights of political theory with an examination of the ...
The formation of learning group members' perceptions: An empirical study of the nature of the task.
(2001)
Type of task was categorized as 'independent' and 'interdependent' based on hours spent working alone vs. face-to-face. Results overwhelming supported the superiority of interdependent tasks as compared to independent tasks ...
Internet-based distributed collaborative environment for engineering education and design.
(2001)
The concept of collaborative design and analysis using the Internet was investigated and implemented. Geographically dispersed users can build the same geometric model simultaneously over the Internet and communicate with ...
The impact of accounting conservatism on the differential information content of cash flows and accruals.
(2001)
The objective of this study is to examine the relation between the differential information content of operating accruals and accounting conservatism. Feltham and Ohlson's (1995) framework suggests that as conservatism ...
Pseudo-inverse imaging for ground penetrating radar data.
(2001)
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a proven method of characterizing the shallow subsurface. Most interpretations using GPR have relied upon raw data records or records that have been processed with seismic data processing ...
Multidisciplinary design optimization of a fighter aircraft with damage tolerance constraints and a probabilistic model of the fatigue environment.
(2001)
Damage tolerance analysis (DTA) was considered in the global design optimization of an aircraft wing structure. Residual strength and fatigue life requirements, based on the damage tolerance philosophy, were investigated ...
An analysis of talk in four first-year composition cooperative learning groups.
(2001)
This dissertation considers the question, "in what ways do students in cooperative learning groups in First-Year Composition courses create social contexts that allow positive, constructive criticism to take place?" Social ...
A study of the interaction between alfalfa (Medicago sativa) and one of its fungal pathogens, Colletotrichum trifolii.
(2001)
The alfalfa/C. trifolii interaction follows a gene-for-gene interaction for race-cultivar specificity where in general, products of host resistance genes providing resistance to the fungus are interacting with direct or ...