"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
Ye know on Earth, and all Ye need to know."
John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Nothing could be so well put to introduce the History of Graphic Design as this quote by John Keats. Truth is the basis of...
Motor learning; Art -- Study and teaching (Preschool)
As the art teacher of kindergarten through grade three students, I am very much aware that children enter kindergarten at various stages of physical, emotional, mental and artistic development. Because art education requires fine motor skills in...
Mnemonics; Multiplication -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
As the art teacher of kindergarten through grade three students, I am very much aware that children enter kindergarten at various stages of physical, emotional, mental and artistic development. Because art education requires fine motor skills in...
Data mining; SAS (Computer program language); Fuzzy algorithms
Clustering is the process of placing data records into homogenous groups. Members of each group are similar to one another and highly different from members outside the group. The clusters are used for predictive analysis (what will happen), for...
Transportation -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States; Transportation -- United States -- Outlines, syllabi, etc.
Description of Course:
This Transportation Systems course introduces the high school student to the history, design, operation, manufacture and maintenance of transportation systems. Course content is designed to develop an understanding of...
Sex role -- Spain; Women -- Spain -- Identity; Women in motion pictures
In an effort to further develop the use of film as an educational tool, the topic of women's roles in society through film was chosen. This study focuses on the changing roles of women in Spanish culture as portrayed in Spanish film in recent...
Puritans -- New England -- History; Diseases -- Religious aspects -- Puritans.
In historiography, the Puritan/Pilgrims have been viewed as popular extremes capable of murderous destruction or fulfilling the destiny for modern America. In the wake of Puritan settlement, epidemics struck the New England Native Americans. To...
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...
Art -- Study and teaching (Elementary); Art and technology -- Study and teaching (Elementary); Discovery Education (Firm)
Our world is immersed in and enthralled by technology. The appealing quality of images, communication and music on-demand can possibly be put to good use by teachers of the visual arts. The curriculum could include multimedia as a core...
Product non-conformances which is one aspect of manufacturing that for the most part is ignored by researchers, analyst and media at large, has a significant effect on the cost of production. This research focuses on the processes and practices...
Secondary educators covering the topic of American slavery have the arduous challenge of breaking down one of the darkest periods of United States History. A daunting prospect for the classroom teacher is the idea of helping their students...
Social movements -- Colombia; Minorities -- Political activity -- Colombia; Blacks -- Colombia
The Evolution of the Afrocolombian Social Movement was driven by the pressures that black communities face daily. Colombia is a multicultural country, but it was not until the 1991 Constitutional reform that this was officially recognized. The...
Historic preservation -- Brazil -- João Pessoa (Paraíba); Historic preservation -- Connecticut -- Guilford
The process of historic preservation is complicated by a variety of factors. Given the economic and political exigencies that often exist it is necessary to develop means of effectively managing historic districts. The arguments for historic...
The purpose of the project is to create the best marketing model that can be used to predict future sales. This project will be based upon a data set that includes market research data. We will be using multiple tools and data mining techniques to...
Child development; Child care workers -- Rating of
The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of a newly-developed questionnaire, The Child Development Index (CDI), designed to assess child care teachers’ knowledge of child development. The CDI was developed in...
Sex instruction for people with mental disabilities
The purpose of this study was to improve safe-sex knowledge among seriously mentally
ill clients living in a residential program. Many have recognized that education and
prevention are the most important tools, and that increasing health knowledge...
Sexual abuse victims -- Psychology; Sexual abuse victims -- Mental health;
The purpose of this study was to utilize, four
current Informal Reading Inventories to assess three
students. Through using the IRIs, an understanding of
the similarities and differences of the tests was
developed. The results of the students'...
Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Academic achievement -- Evaluation; Educational tests and measurements
The use of formative assessment has come to the forefront as a means of enhancing student achievement in mathematics. The hallmarks of formative assessment are questioning, immediate feedback to teachers and students, peer-review, task-focused...
This project explores the relationship between criminal thinking patterns and motivation. The project involves the following research question: What criminal thinking patterns are related to motivation? In order to determine the relationship...
This qualitative inquiry explored student experiences and responses while producing and evaluating computer-generated art. In our highly technological world, art can be digitally rendered. And while students are excited and eager to explore the...
