The Cluster School teachers: A study in adult development
During the 1960's and 1970's, because of wide-spread dissatisfaction with traditional public schooling, there was a dramatic increase in the number of alternative schools in the United States. One...
View ArticleFacilitating teacher participation in intelligent computer tutor design:...
This work addresses the widening gap between research in intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) and practical use of this technology by the educational community. In order to ensure that ITSs are...
View ArticleStrategies for overcoming math avoidance in an urban high school
Typical high school algebra classes contain females, minority males, and white males in somewhat proportionate numbers. In contrast, the usual high school calculus class, three years hence, is but a...
View ArticleRelationships between seasonal flooding and emergent plant production in...
The mechanisms linking spring flooding to changes in plant primary production were examined in seasonally flooded shallow prairie marshes dominated by whitetop (Scolochloa festucacea) at Delta,...
View ArticleExperiments in social ranking in prehistoric central Arkansas
Anthropologists studying sociocultural evolution are interested in the processes that contributed to social ranking in egalitarian societies. Individual agents must overcome the inertia of communalism...
View ArticleRoad map or maze? One school's experience of restructuring within the...
Although by reputation and performance an effective school, the staff and principal of Adams School in Northtown, Massachusetts sought and won a state-funded grant for school restructuring. Seeking...
View ArticleTraining parents in the evaluation of the individualized education plan (IEP)...
Active parental involvement in the special education process has historically been emphasized. In addition, legal impetus (94-142, 766) has been provided for this active involvement. However, research...
View ArticleLinking Chapter I and regular classroom programs in an urban elementary...
This case study documented the process of designing, implementing, and accessing a low-cost, school-based staff development project. The principal objective of the study was to help a group of...
View ArticleWriting, sociality, and identity in kindergarten: An ethnographic study
This dissertation reports a study of the social interactions of kindergarten children as they engaged in peer writing activities during free choice periods. The theoretical proposition framing the...
View ArticleEarning income in the home: An historical perspective prefacing a profile of...
The purpose of this research was to study home based businesses from 1880-1980 with special emphasis on society's attitudes towards people who earned an income in the home. Government's role in the...
View ArticleCreativity and liberation: A study of women writers and artists
The dissertation proposes a new model of the artist in society--the artist-educator. This model is explored by investigating the lives and work of ten women artists and writers, who are accomplished...
View ArticleInner players: A Jungian reading of Shakespeare's problem plays
The question of what makes great art has intrigued us for nearly as long as the art itself has cast its peculiar spell over our minds and souls. Only recently have we begun to understand something of...
View ArticleConceptions of success and contextual influences in training for rural...
This study reviews the literature on training and community development, and examines conceptions of success and contextual factors affecting it in the case of the Training Center for Social Promoters...
View ArticleA case study in partnership development: The Greater Holyoke Partnership
In August 1988, a group of business, community, and educational leaders established the Greater Holyoke Partnership to assist the City of Holyoke, Massachusetts in meeting a variety of educational,...
View ArticleExecutive experience: A multiparadigmatic analysis of the work experience of...
This study examined the work experience of a selected group of business executives by extending to the executive role the debate over paradigm commensurability that is taking place in the organization...
View ArticleSpatial and temporal grouping in the interpretation of image motion
Interpretation of the three-dimensional (3D) world from two-dimensional (2D) images is a primary goal of vision. Image motion is an important source of 3D information. The 3D motion (relative to a...
View ArticleInfluence of interfacial constraints on the microdomain morphology of block...
Both an external surface constraint and a thin film constraint were found to strongly influence the microdomain morphology and macromolecular conformations in linear and star poly(styrene-b-butadiene)...
View ArticleThe effects of flow induced domain orientation on the rheological response of...
Block copolymers comprised of incompatible blocks form ordered microphase separated domains. The domains orient within a microscopic granular structure. But, the director of the grains varies randomly...
View ArticleThe existence conditions for bacterial plasmids
The purpose of this dissertation is to evaluate the proposition that plasmids can be maintained in bacteria populations as parasites, i.e., by infectious transfer while conferring a selective...
View Article"The show is not the show": Rhetorics of seduction in the poetry of Emily...
The premise of this study is that Dickinson's poetry is significant not in what it communicates to a reader, but in what it does to a reader. Dickinson famously defined her own response to poetry as...
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