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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Shaughnessy"”.
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A Convenient Myopia: SEEK, Shaughnessy, and the Rise of High-Stakes Testing at CUNY
… of this pedagogical struggle for justice. Mina Shaughnessy joined City College SEEK in its third year and worked for several years as a caring and supportive teacher, but also a deeply conservative administrator. By 1975, she was a CUNY Dean in charge of both writing instruction and assessment, …
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Determining High School Geometry Students' Geometric Understanding Using van Hiele Levels: Is There a Difference Between Standards-based Curriculum Students and NonStandards-based Curriculum Students?
… a high school geometry course (e.g. Burger and Shaughnessy (1986), Usiskin (1982), van Hiele (1986)). Curricula based on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Standards (1989, 2000) have been developed and introduced into the middle grades to improve learning and concept …
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Cataloging Built Heritage: Methods of Recording Unit Masonry for the Future of Historic Preservation
There is a discrepancy between standardized and infield practices for documenting historic structures—from the surveyor’s intention of interpretation to how the project team chooses to adapt alongside a constantly evolving technology-dependent environment. A successful restoration project relies on …
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College students' achievement and understanding of experimental and theoretical probability : the role of tasks
… respect to probabilistic misconceptions (e.g. Shaughnessy, 1977, 1981). For the purposes of qualitative analysis, the framework by Jones, Thornton, Langrall and Tarr (1999) was used. Based on the results of the qualitative analysis of students' levels of reasoning relative to the constructs …
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The in Vitro Effects of the Sulfate Conjugate of Dehydroepiandrosterone on the Incorporation of Radio Phosphate into the Various Fractions of Mouse Kidney Tissue
Phosphorus is prominently associated with mechanisms and structures vital to the maintenance of life in organisms from protozoans to mammals. As phosphate it combines in organic complexes involved in energy transformations within cells. As inorganic phosphate, it associates with calcium in the …
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Job-related factors affecting retention of managers and nonmanagers in private and public small service organizations
Turnover is costly to individuals, to organizations, and to society. The costs to individuals include the disruption of one's life, and associated stress. Turnover is costly to organizations in terms of recruitment, training and orientation, the disruption of work, and the impact on relationships. …
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Historical ecology of alien woody plants in the vicinity of Cape Town, South Africa
The reasons for the success of certain alien plant species in the vicinity of Cape Town (i.e. the northern Cape Peninsula and the adjoining Cape Flats) are examined by a consideration of their history at the hands of man. Attention is focussed on 13 woody species that are considered to threaten the …
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Remagnetization of the Eocene Oceanic Formation on Barbados, West Indies
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, 1980.
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Masking the Second Amendment: Issue agenda building during the 2020 American presidential election
This study content analyzed interest group and candidate tweets from the 2020 American presidential election to determine what issues and substantive attributes were most salient on interest group and candidate agendas during the "hot phase" of the campaign. Cross-lagged correlations were conducted …
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Ilng'wesi Maasai: Livelihoods and Moral Identity in Northern Laikipia, Kenya
Recent literature on pastoralism tends to either portray it as a largely maladaptive practice on the brink of collapse, or as a highly adaptive set of practices that enable resilience in the face of change and uncertainty. This dissertation seeks to find a solution to this impasse and contribute to …
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Studying glomerular disease epidemiology: tackling challenges and paving a path forward
Background: Glomerular diseases are a group of rare immune-mediated kidney diseases that affect the glomeruli, or filtering units, of the kidney. Major knowledge gaps remain in our understanding of glomerular disease epidemiology. Efforts to describe glomerular disease distributions based on …
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Value of salt spray test, an investigation of heterogeneity within the chamber and other factors affecting the reliability of the salt-spray test for weathering resistance of coated steel sheet
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Metallurgy, 1933.