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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Mcgraw"”.
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An evaluation of the effectiveness of the McGraw-Hill Mathematics Series for use with inclusion students
… study examined the effectiveness of using the McGraw-Hill Mathematics Series with second grade inclusion students. Two students were pretested in October of 2001, using the final test from the Silver Burdett Mathematics Series for first graders. In March of 2002, they were tested again using …
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The Cloze Procedure: A Measure of Reading Comprehension Ability
… by the Paragraph Comprehension subtest of the McGraw-Hill Basic Skills System Reading Test and the cloze test developed for this project. Two classes of undergraduate education majors enrolled in “Foundations of Performance-Based Education” were administered both the cloze test and the multiple …
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The effects of moist and dry heat cooking upon mercury levels in breast tissue and the distribution of mercury in organs of McGraw Mallard ducks administered methyl mercury chloride
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Food Science and Human Nutrition, 1972
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Reading Mastery Versus Word Study Instruction as it Pertains to Third Graders' Reading Achievement Scores
… approaches were Reading Mastery (SRA Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 1995) and Word Study (Bear et al. 1996). While Reading Mastery has been compared to other reading methods to examine the effectiveness of instruction with reading achievement measures, there are no studies that compare Word Study to …
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Analytical Evaluations of Buckling Behavior of Wood Composite I-Joist with Sinusoidal Web
… have been conducted in a companion study (McGraw, 2012). This study presents analytical evaluations of buckling behavior, including flexural-torsional buckling of simply-supported beam and cantilever beam, and local buckling of web panel under compression.;Critical buckling loads are …
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Analysis of Factors Involved in the Location of Manufacturing Firms in Rural Nebraska Since 1950
… such worries were groundless. A recent study by McGraw-Hill indicates that states west of the Mississippi River have experienced a more rapid growth in industrial development than the rest 2 of the country. This study shows that the real migration of industry has not been among regions but the …
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Crashsmith Dope: the Role of Media in the Development of Professional Baseball in New York From 1919-1929
John McGraw's New York Giants were the premier team of the Deadball Era, which stretched from 1900–1919. Led by McGraw and his ace pitcher, Christy Mathewson, the Giants epitomized the Deadball Era with their strong pitching and hard-nosed style of play. In 1919 however, The New York Times and The …
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It's All in a Meme: A Content Analysis of Memes Posted to 2012 Presidential Election Facebook Pages
… study also applies the benign-violation theory (McGraw & Warren, 2010) to the analysis of memes to understand the design choices made by meme creators. The benign-violation theory states that a physical or psychological violation is benign if 1) an alternative norm suggests the violation is …
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Histology of the Female Reproductive System: An Interactive Educational Module
… accompany the existing histology literature in McGraw-Hill’s Williams Gynecology textbook. The project features 18 video animations that present normal and pathological histology features set in an interactive interface. This interface offers primary and secondary menus, as well as an …
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A study of the effectiveness of a structured tutoring program on student reading skills
… by a pre and post assessment using the Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Informal Reading Inventory and Decoding and Phonics Inventory.</p> <p>The population for the study consisted of two groups of first and second grade students. Group one (treatment group) attended the tutoring program, which met two times …
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Determining the effectiveness of two new reading programs in the Lower Alloways Creek School
… that the new reading programs (MacMillan/McGraw/Hill and Glencoe) implemented in the Lower Alloways Creek School were not as effective as the reading programs used in the 2003-2004 school year.</p>
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From Afghanistan 1979 to Afghanistan 2001: How Three Current High School History Textbooks Frame the Origins of the “War on Terror” Historical Analysis and Interviews with William Blum, Noam Chomsky and James Loewen
… school market: Holt McDougal, Prentice Hall, and McGraw-Hill. The scope of the researcher’s inquiry covers the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to the U.S. invasion in 2001. The nomenclature of the “war on terror,” Reagan’s “war on terror,” U.S. support for the Afghan Mujahideen, the Persian …
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The Correlation Between Close Reading as an Instructional Strategy with Reading Comprehension in Elementary Schools
… in reading literature stories in the Wonders-McGraw Hill Reading program over a period of 5 weeks. Results of the study were obtained through a reading comprehension test, that was part of the reading program, at the end of each week. The data was transferred into tables and graphs for …
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Methodological analysis of process technology in Engineering projects implementation
… Leadership Competing in the New Economy, Irwin McGraw Hill, 2007) methodology and it will assess to what degree the company covered the six recommended steps of the methodology: Step 1 - Understand the Business Strategy and Competitive Environment Step 2 - Understand the Technology Trends in the …
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The Residual Effect of Novice Primary Teachers on Reading Achievement Scores
… the CTBS/5 Achievement Test published by CTB/McGraw Hill. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) using a series of nine Mests and three analysis of variance tests (ANOVAs). While the findings of this study indicated that there were no statistically …
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You Didn’t Have To Be There: Evidence of Humour in the Creation and Use of Material Objects From the Near East, Eastern Europe and Mediterranean, From the Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age
… using such theories as 'Benign Violation’ by McGraw & Warren (2010) and Apter’s ‘Reversal Theory’ from 1982. My aim is to explain why objects could have been funny and may have acted as powerful social tools, catering to our strong psychological drive to laugh. Drawing upon a number of …
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The generative powers of demolition
… a new use. The project uses as a case study the McGraw Glass plant, a 1936 Albert Kahn design. The plant was closed at the end of 2003 leaving a 40-acre site in Southwestern Detroit open to various futures. As a site and a building, it requires attention both to constructive details but also to …
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Character Strengths of Entrepreneurs
… basis for my book Enterprise Value, published by McGraw-Hill in 2014.
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Queering of animal behavior in US biology textbooks
… four major publishers—Savvas Learning, Pearson, McGraw-Hill, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt—with a critical focus on the differences observed between the California, Florida, and Texas state editions. The findings demonstrate that the discourse of the analyzed textbooks systematically works to …
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A comparison of student performance in partial immersion and FLES programs
… Test. Mental ability was measured using the CTB-McGraw Hill Test of Cognitive Skills. Separate analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) tests were performed for reading, language, math, total battery, science, social studies achievement test response variables. An ANCOVA was also done for French listening …
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