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An Evaluation of a Professional Development Program for Elementary Mathematics
(2017-12-14)
This program evaluation sought to determine the effectiveness of a mathematics professional development program. The population for this study included 61 teachers, all who taught elementary math to regular, special education ...
Do Non-GAAP Exclusions Impact the Extent to Which Current Returns Reflect Future Earnings Information?
(2017-05-12)
Motivated by regulators’ concerns about non-GAAP financial measures and building on research that finds more informative disclosures allow current stock returns to better reflect future earnings, I examine whether non-GAAP ...
Radiation of tribosphenic mammals during the early Late Cretaceous (Turonian) of North America
(2017-12)
Tribosphenic mammals from the medial Cretaceous (encompassing the Cenomanian to the Campanian (~98–80 Ma)) are rare elements of the fauna, typically recovered via bulk sampling and underwater screen washing. Southern Utah ...
THE USE OF REMOTE SENSING AND EDDY COVARIANCE TECHNOLOGIES TO CHARACTERIZE CROPLAND, DROUGHT AND LAND MANAGEMENTS AND THEIR IMPACTS ON ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS
(2017-05-12)
With the increasing population, human needs more food, fresh water, and other ecosystem services, which burdens the agricultural and natural ecosystems. Under the background of climate change, meeting these human needs ...
Biomaterial and Computational Based Strategies for the in vitro Development of Bone Tissue and Tumor Engineered Constructs
(2017-12)
Every year in the United States, more than 500,000 bone graft surgeries are required. In most cases, bone will regenerate after fracture with minimal complications; however, when there is a critical-sized defect or fracture ...
White Women Doing Racism: A Critical Narrative Inquiry of White Women's Experiences of College
(2017-08)
College campuses continue to be inequitable spaces for students as access and experiences are stratified by race, gender, and class, among other social categories. As access to higher education has broadened, white women ...
The Boston Women's Health Book Collective's Encounter with the Medical Mis-education of Women: A Conceptual and Historical Inquiry
(2017-05-12)
This study of the educational thought of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (BWHBC) uses Jane Roland Martin’s concept of cultural miseducation (2002) to theorize the “medical mis-education of women,” which is revealed ...
DIALOGICAL APPROACHES TO ENHANCING DISCUSSION, WRITING, AND THINKING IN A RURAL UNIVERSITY
(2017-05)
This action research self study explored how dialogic instruction influenced 21 freshman composition students’ quality of discussion, writing practices, and ability to critical think and reflect on their learning. The study ...
On the Potential of Adaptive Beamforming for Phased-Array Weather Radar
(2017-05-12)
As the Weather Surveillance Radar 1988 Doppler network reaches the end of its expected life, a network of multifunction phased-array radars (MPAR) supporting both aircraft and weather surveillance missions has been proposed. ...
The Smaller Communities of Musical Practice: A Study of Multiple Music Teachers' Perspectives from El Sistema Oklahoma
(2017-05-12)
Abstract
THE SMALLER COMMUNITIES OF MUSICAL PRACTICE: A STUDY OF MULTIPLE MUSIC TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVES FROM EL SISTEMA OKLAHOMA
LANI ALOHA GARNER
University of Oklahoma School of Music, 2017
Major Professor: Dr. ...