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The Iatrogenic Consequences of Standards-Based Education
(2006)
Standards-based assessments were prescribed as the cure for the poor accountability of public schools. Billions of dollars have been spent on curricula, tests, and scoring rubrics so that federal and state agencies can ...
Priming the Historian in All Planners
(Journal of Planning History, 2006-11-01)
This article advocates bringing historical analysis methods—thinking like a historian—and primary sources into the planning classroom. It reviews recent literature on teaching history and on how the general public uses the ...
Extending the Traditional Classroom Through Online Discussion: The Role of Student Motivation
(Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2006-01-01)
Two studies addressed students' motivation and participation in an online discussion board which was part of a traditional lecture-based course. The discussion board represented an external communication resource to extend ...
Reporting through the lens of the past: from Challenger to Columbia
(Journalism, 2006-05-01)
Collective memory, the publicly shared meaning of a common past, can structure both news stories and reporters' search for information within the broader context of journalistic practices. It can also provide reporters ...
The Impact of Nondisclosure of Geographic Segment Earnings on Earnings Predictability
(Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, 2006-07-01)
Characterization of Nanoclay Dispersion in Epoxy Matrix by Combined Image Analysis and Wavelength Dispersive Spectrometry
(2006-07-02)
Nanoclay has been gaining acceptance as a nano-meter scale reinforcement for polymers during the last two decades [1]. It has proven to be successful for reinforcing thermoplastics [2], however, its utilization in thermosetting ...
Relational Health, Attachment, and Psychological Distress in College Women and Men
(Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2006-09-01)
Lisa L. Frey and Denise Beesley are Assistant Professors in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Oklahoma; Merle R. Miller is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Psychology at the ...
From Ethnic to Interethnic: The Case for Identity Adaptation and Transformation
(Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2006-09-01)
The academic literature for the past several decades suggests an increased tendency to conceive “ethnic identity” as an a priori and morally inviolable human condition exclusively attributed to a social group identified ...
Interviewer as Instrument: Accounting for Human Factors in Evaluation Research
(Evaluation Review, 2006-04-01)
This methodological study examines an original data collection model designed to incorporate human factors and enhance data richness in qualitative and evaluation research. Evidence supporting this model is drawn from ...
A Computer-Aided Method to Expedite the Evaluation of Prognosis for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
(Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment, 2006-08-01)
This study presented a fully-automated computer-aided method (scheme) to detect metaphase chromosomes depicted on microscopic digital images, count the total number of chromosomes in each metaphase cell, compute the DNA ...