PREPARING TEACHER CANDIDATES TO BE EFFECTIVE URBAN EDUCATORS WHOARE REFLECTIVE, INNOVATIVE, AND COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY byCHAVON L. JACKSON December, 2011Advisor: Dr. Kathleen Crawford-McKinneyMajor: Curriculum and InstructionDegree: Doctor of Philosophy The purpose of this study was to examine to what extent a teacher educationprogram prepares teacher candidates to b...

Introduction: Consultation and guidance is a process of learning which is donethrough the relationship between two individuals. In this mutual relationship,the counselor, through his scientific and occupational skills and qualification,tries to help the students using the methods corresponding to their needs. Themain objective of this study was to provide a framework for the managementof the ad...

Expecting Success: Factors Influencing Ninth Graders’ Science Self-Efficacy by Elizabeth Donahue Advisor: Juan Battle What factors influence ninth grade students’ expectations for success in science? Using social cognitive theory and bioecological systems theory as theoretical frameworks, this dissertation employs data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09) to examine the rel...

These are two of the thoughts that ran through my mind when my graduate studies advisor suggested I try “writingto-learn” activities in my classes. Like many high school science teachers, I often thought that devoting class time to writing would take away from valuable time that could be spent doing “science learning” activities. I also felt that my training as a science teacher had not fully p...

The shortest path in both the two dimensional (2D) plane and three (3D) terrain is extensively used industry academia. Although there are some map visualization tools for viewing 2D 3D views, we find limitations: (1) they not applicable applications with obstacles (such as wall a building), (2) look unrealistic strange when road network approach blindly adopted. Motivated by this, developed web...

The Locus model of search is a non-back t rack ing , determinist ic search technique in which a beam of near-miss a l ternat ives around the best path are extended in paral le l for g raph searching problems. In this paper we formulate image i n te rp re ta t i on as a g iaph searching problem and show bow the Locus model provides a near-opt imal minimal e f fo r t so lut ion. The s t ruc ture ...

i ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It is with great appreciation that I thank a number of individuals for the kindness and encouragement that they bestowed upon me as I wrote the following research paper. First, I would like to thank Dr. C. Andrew Hofling, who introduced me to the field of anthropological linguistics and was instrumental in helping me write this paper. He is an excellent teacher and advisor. I ...

Theodor Meyer’s 1908 doctoral dissertation, with Ludwig Prandtl (1875–1953) as his advisor, introduced much of what has now become basic gas dynamics: not only the Prandtl–Meyer expansion but also the oblique-shock-wave theory as well. It is arguably the most influential dissertation in all of fluid dynamics. Yet no biography or even a photograph of Meyer has been available in the intervening c...