Learning, Psychology of; Child development; Cognition in children
Young children perceive and respond to their environment in a variety of ways based upon their unique combination of approaches to learning. They use a range of intelligences in interacting with their classmates and the classroom setting:...
Today's special education teachers who work with students with difficulties in mathematics will need not only a deeper understanding of mathematics, but a thorough understanding in what the learning disabled student "sees" when approaching...
This work deals with the construction of zero mean curvature surfaces in the three dimensional anti de-Sitter space. The method that was used was to look for examples that can be described using polynomial equations. More precisely, we are looking...
Group counseling; Counselors -- Professional ethics; Counseling -- Vocational guidance
This thesis addressed the ethical issues involved with evaluating counseling students' personal characteristics during classes that involve self-disclosure. To accomplish this, an historical look was taken, first, at self-disclosure and its...
Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Russia; Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- United States
This study describes the difference between elementary mathematics education in Russia and the United States. What can we learn from Russian mathematics education? The thesis presents that the main source of Russian achievements in mathematics...
This collaborative dissertation identified ways in which effective high school principals use constructivist learning theory to enhance transformational leadership practices. Lambert et al., Senge, and Goleman et al. have proposed novel approaches...
There is one thing we all have in common. Regardless of our gender, age, race, religion or socioeconomic status, we, as human beings, all experience the pain and suffering associated with life. This is an unavoidable, inevitable fact. We suffer in...
The study of second language learning and acquisition is an on-going process. For decades teachers have searched for methodologies which maximize student learning and production in a foreign language. Traditionally teachers used rote memorization...
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation
The purpose of this thesis is to prove that Dickinson characterized her poetic discourse with unique figurative manipulations as well as autonomous stylistic and prosodic techniques to serve a process of poetic dismantlement of her contemporary...
Literacy -- Study and teaching (Early childhood) -- Korea (South); Literacy -- Study and teaching (Early childhood) -- United States; Comparative education
The purpose of this study is to compare kindergarten teachers' perspectives regarding literacy education in S. Korea and the U.S.A; the need for literacy education, who drives that need, the level of expected achievement, teaching time, teachers'...
Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Preschool); Gifted children -- Education (Preschool); Teachers of gifted children -- Training of
The purpose of this record is both to explore and enlighten our understanding of the relationship between the capabilities of highly gifted youth and the current recommendations for teaching such students, and to describe the process of one such...
College students -- Alcohol use -- United States -- Prevention
The present study examined the effects of brief prevention programs designed to address thoughts associated with alcohol abuse in college students. Interventions consistent with the social norm marketing and campus policy approaches were created...
United States. Army. Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 14th (1862-1865); Connecticut -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories
The last time anyone spent considerable time writing about the Connecticut 14th Volunteer Infantry Regiment was in 1906. In that year, Charles D. Page chronicled the experiences of the regiment, providing an invaluable case study into the...
Post-traumatic stress disorder in children -- Prevention -- Connecticut
The identification of the diagnostic category of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association (1994) has sharpened the focus on the psychological aspects...
The hypothesis that increased stress on rocks induced during deformation produced microstructures on minerals, which gradually intensifies as one gets closer to an isograd line. This assumption is based on increasing microfractures in the fold...
Geography -- Study and teaching; Geography -- Study and teaching -- Aids and devices;
Introduction
The main objective of this curriculum guide is to provide educators with materials
and resources designed to promote cultural awareness with middle school students
and meet specific geographic objectives and standards. Geography is a...
In the past twenty years the ability to determine the likelihood of an individual's risk to recidivate has become the driving force of assessments in the criminal justice field. These risk factors now play an increasingly important role in release...
Psychology -- Public opinion; Pseudoscience -- Psychological aspects; Medical misconceptions; Social psychiatry
In its beginnings, psychology was grounded in objective scientific reasoning. As psychological principles became applied in clinical settings, scientific approaches gave way to subjective interpretations of human behavior. Today, a significant...
Cerebral hemispheres; Mathematics -- Study and teaching; Cerebral dominance
For many years, doctors and scientists have known that the two hemispheres of our brains have different functions. Damage to the left hemisphere in adults has caused severe speech problems. For this reason, the left hemisphere had been considered...
Considering the pleiotropic manifestations of the rare, inherited, bone marrow failure disease, Fanconi Anemia, afflicted patients must be evaluated and monitored by specialty physicians (such as dermatologists, opthamologists, gastroenterologists,...
