Education articles from December 2003

Education archives from December 2003

The newly developed Confluence Score tests creditability of test taker-making older test without one a relic of the past.
December 22, 2003... The newly developed Confluence Score score uses a minimum of 42 items from the test selected as pairs that are opposites or nearly opposite to establish creditability of Test Taker (Cassel & Blackwell, 2001; DeMoulin & Walsh, 2002; and Divison...

Forensic Counseling: a new approach to school crime.
December 22, 2003... After being invited to present my workshop on Forensic Counseling at The New Jersey Education Association's annual conference in Atlantic City, the largest education meeting in the world, I was informed, I realized the remarkable largely...

The mathematics and science Achievement Gap between resegregated and desegregated schools.
December 22, 2003... Introduction The Achievement Gap between European Americans and African American students has been a concern for more than two centuries. As Lucas (2000) noted President Thomas Jefferson addressed this problem in 1785. As we progress...

Overrepresentation of minority students in special education.
December 22, 2003... Introduction and Statement of the Problem It is impossible to overstate the importance of the overrepresentation of minority students in special education programs. The issue is of critical importance and is very complex. If education for...

Toward an understanding of Cellular Sociology and its relationships to Cellular Biology.
December 22, 2003... Society has been viewed analogously as an organism that is seen to grow, display differentiation in structure and function as well as interdependence of parts. This is evidenced in the works of such diverse writers as Plato, Pascal, Hobbes,...

Neuro-linguistic programming: deciphering truth in the criminal mind.
December 22, 2003... "The question is not 'Have I taken more than I have given?" but 'Have I taken something you really didn't want to give?'" George Betts (1974, pp. 15-16) One murder every 33.9 minutes One violent crime every 22.1 seconds One...

Personality type as a predictor of teaching efficacy and classroom control in emergency certification teachers.
December 22, 2003... Research has found that specific personality traits of teachers are reflected in classroom instruction, especially through the teacher's use of various instructional strategies and material (Erdle, Murray, and Rushton, 1985). They also found...

Young adolescent girls' experience of non-clinical depression.
December 22, 2003... Against this background two research aims were formulated for this qualitative research project which had an exploratory, descriptive and contextual focus: * To explore and describe young adolescent girls experience non-clinical depression...

Ritalin update for counselors, teachers, and parents.
December 22, 2003... Ritalin is the most frequently prescribed medication for the treatment of individuals who have attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or attention deficit disorder (ADD) (NIDA, 2001). It is also prescribed for narcolepsy, a sleep...

Evaluation of the Gang Resistance and Training (GREAT) program: a school-based prevention program *.
December 22, 2003... Over the last decade, society has been greatly impacted by gangs. Through the 1970's and 1980's, street gangs became more developed and organized (Venkatesh, 1999). While society was beginning to face the impact of organized gangs, the level of...

The impact of hope, procrastination, and social activity on academic performance of MidWestern collage students.
December 22, 2003... Introduction Tests of academic ability such as the American College Test (ACT) and Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) have been found to be useful predictors of academic performance in college (e.g., Donlin, 1984; Halpin, Halpin, & Schaer,...

The psychology of improving teaching quality.
December 22, 2003... Improving the quality of teaching in the classroom is a major goal of inservice education. The classroom teacher is the most important item or person involved to improve the curriculum. Each pupil must have the best education possible. This...

Xilibris Corporation, www.Xlibris.com.
December 22, 2003... Xlibris is a place created by writers for writers and about writers. Writing is a pretty lonely profession, and authors have many unmet needs--for service and support, for interaction with peers, for information and for a share life of the mind...

Cardinal shifts in school management in South Africa.
December 22, 2003... Introduction Reform initiatives in education in South Africa follow similar trends to the rest of the world. These reform initiatives rest on the assumption that participation of educators, learners and parents can enhance the achievement...

Selecting the best teacher candidates: can a group interview help?
December 22, 2003... Introduction The teacher education program at Utah Valley State College (UVSC) is a relatively new program having started operation in the academic year 1996-1997. The Utah Board of Regents limited the program to thirty students per year...

Predictors of school and nursing service managers' coping ability.
December 22, 2003... Introduction: Research Problem and Aim This research project is concerned with investigating the coping ability of South African school and nursing service managers amidst increasingly high daily demands and contemporary challenges. Both...

Meta-cognitive analysis: an alternative to literature reviews and meta-analysis for the sciences and the arts.
December 22, 2003... Introduction: The authors will introduce a new method of analysis that combines qualitative and quantitative methods to help researchers analyze data when they do not have national random samples. Review: Glass notes in his...

Knowing economic theory: applying the reflective judgment model in intoductory economics.
December 22, 2003... The lamentable quality of student research papers and projects is a problem familiar to instructors of every discipline. Students, it seems, don't understand what research is about. They just go through the motions, we complain, and rarely...

Determining the influences of traditional Texas teachers vs. teachers in the emergency teaching certification program.
December 22, 2003... Introduction By 2006 America will educate almost three million more children than in 2000-2001, more than 54 million K-12 students throughout the U. S. (U. S. Department of Education, 1998). The elementary school-aged population is...

New literacies, standards, and teacher education.
December 22, 2003... Introduction Information literacy is not a new concept; however, the impact of the Information Age exacerbated its importance and expanded the types of literacies (Smith, 2002). A general focus on library skills and information literacy...

From crisis to growth ... race, culture, ethnicity, conflict and change.
December 22, 2003... A man who lived on the northern frontier of China was skilled in interpreting events. One day for no reason, his horse ran away to the nomads across the border. Everyone tried to console him, but his father said, "What makes you so sure this...

How mentor teachers perceive their roles and relationships in a field-based teacher-training program.
December 22, 2003... Texas A&M University-Commerce seeks to bridge the gap between theoretical coursework and classroom reality through a field-based program, whereby teachers-in-training receive classroom instruction from university faculty, supplemented by...

Using total quality to achieve continuous improvement in the classroom.
December 22, 2003... The total quality approach can help all stakeholders of education to develop a process that will help all students to succeed. Such an approach will reinforce the belief that every student wants to do a good job and, if given a chance, is...

The researcher as research instrument in educational research: a possible threat to trustworthiness? (A: research_instrument).
December 22, 2003... Background and problem statement: Central to conducting research and more specifically qualitative research is the researcher as research instrument (Denzin & Lincoln, 2000: 368; Marshall & Rossman, 1995: 59-65). The researcher is the key...

Strategies for developing appropriate timelines for thematic based assignments designed to enhance critical thinking skills.
December 22, 2003... Over the course of a school year teachers plan literally hundreds of lessons for their students. A continual challenge for educators is determining just how much time to allot to each of these assignments. This can be a real dilemma. On the one...