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Academic Optimism And Academic Success: An Explanatory Case Study
(Education, 2013-03-20)
Increasing student academic achievement continues to be a national call to action. Early student academic success can help prepare future citizens to be college and workforce ready. One construct, academic optimism (Hoy, ...
Educator Perceptions Of The Use Of Power And Student Responses To The Use Of Power At A Disciplinary Alternative Education Program (DAEP): One Texas Perspective
(Education, 2014-03-12)
This study was conducted to reveal educator perceptions of the uses of power and student responses to that power at the Disciplinary Alternative Education Program (DAEP) in one suburban Texas school district. The study ...
Persistence Of Memory: Scent Gardens For Therapeutic Life Review In Communities For The Elderly
(Landscape Architecture, 2007-09-17)
This paper links the study of olfaction and autobiographical memory with the practices of reminiscence therapy and landscape architecture, with the goal of bringing this life-enhancing therapy into the garden. Smells have ...
Prospect-refuge Theory Revisited: A Search For Safety In Dynamic Public Spaces With A Reference To Design
(Landscape Architecture, 2007-08-23)
Prospect-refuge theory (Appleton 1975) is based on habitat theory (Darwin 1958) which states that the ability to see (prospect) but not be seen (refuge) is basic to many biological needs. According to Appleton, the ability ...
A Search For Design Appropriateness Using Qualitative Techniques To Contrast The Mountain Resort Community Cores Of Vail Village And Beaver Creek Village
(Landscape Architecture, 2011-03-03)
This study uses in-depth interviews to compare the mountain resort village cores of Vail Village and Beaver Creek Village to determine levels of design appropriateness in each. Design appropriateness for a village core ...
A Search For Creative Class Trail User Experiences Along The Katy Trail
(Landscape Architecture, 2008-08-08)
This research focused on preferred urban trail attributes and related these to restorative places and user experiences. Focused interviews were employed in the study. Restoration was shown in aspects of naturalness and ...
Protocols For Use Of The CELA Academic Information System
(Landscape Architecture, 2011-07-14)
The Academic Information System (AIS) is a digital database used by academic administrators in landscape architecture programs to store and analyze information about the operations of their academic units. It is an information ...
Physical education in the elementary school: 4th grade
(Austin, Texas Education Agency, 1971., 2014-09-16)
The physical education program for fourth grade is carefully planned to
fit the age characteristics of nine- to ten-year-old pupils. The following
chart is designed to give teachers a summary view of these pupils as ...
Colorblind Fraternity: Unseating Racism, Males,
(English, 2007-08-23)
This thesis examines four works by Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, and Benito Cereno as examples of a minority of nineteenth-century American literature that deconstruct negative black male stereotypes and promote ...
Beyond Good And Evil: Sister Leopolda's Traumatic Will To Power
(English, 2007-08-23)
This is an in-depth analysis of one of Louise Erdrich's most extraordinary characters, Sister Leopolda. I examine Leopolda first as a trauma victim who has suffered the loss of family, witnessed the death and assault of ...