Fly on the Wall: Using Teleconferencing to Supervise Student Teacher Performance

The use of teleconferencing between a rural state college supervisor and her professional development school partners has added a new component to the mission to educate teachers of the 21st century and to create a learning community in a remote school location. Supervising student teachers by teleconference has increased the college’s potential for preparing teachers who are in tune with the most advanced types of instruction in our Professional Development Partnership with Calhoun County Schools, USA

Journal of Teaching Effectiveness and Student Achievement Volume 1, Issue 1

JournalAngelo State University College EducationSupervised Field Experiences for Pre-­Service Teachers:Is it Worth the Effort? Dr. Tammy Abernathy, Dr. Ginny Beck, and Dr. Shanon Taylor………….…..5 Math Remediation?-­ Success is Possible! Dr. Deborah Banker and Dr. Stella Filizola …………………………...……………..17 Improving Pre-­Service Teacher Dispositions Dr. Marcia Bolton and Dr. Dana Reisboard ……….………………………………...24 An Investigation into the Expansive-­‐Restrictive Nature of Teachers’ Learning Situated in the Workplace Dr. Eric J. Feeney ……………………………………………………………………….………33 Using Metacognitive Awareness of Fluency to Enhance Vocabulary Dr. Teri Fowler and Dr. William Laird ………………………………………….……..44 Culturally Responsive Teaching: Increasing Involvement of Minority Students and Parents Ms. Angela Piña …………………………………………………………………………………52 Teacher Candidates’ Perceptions of Special Education Dr. S. Nina Saha-­‐Gupta, Dr. Margarita Lara, and Mr. Jeffrey House………………….60 The Teacher Preparation Initiative Dr. Yolanda Salgado, Dr. Janet A. Carter, Dr. Jeannine Hurst, and Dr. Ann Marie Smith……...…..7

SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I and II), SDSS-III is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of the Milky Way, and the population of giant planets around other stars. In keeping with SDSS tradition, SDSS-III will provide regular public releases of all its data, beginning with SDSS DR8 (which occurred in Jan 2011). This paper presents an overview of the four SDSS-III surveys. BOSS will measure redshifts of 1.5 million massive galaxies and Lya forest spectra of 150,000 quasars, using the BAO feature of large scale structure to obtain percent-level determinations of the distance scale and Hubble expansion rate at z<0.7 and at z~2.5. SEGUE-2, which is now completed, measured medium-resolution (R=1800) optical spectra of 118,000 stars in a variety of target categories, probing chemical evolution, stellar kinematics and substructure, and the mass profile of the dark matter halo from the solar neighborhood to distances of 100 kpc. APOGEE will obtain high-resolution (R~30,000), high signal-to-noise (S/N>100 per resolution element), H-band (1.51-1.70 micron) spectra of 10^5 evolved, late-type stars, measuring separate abundances for ~15 elements per star and creating the first high-precision spectroscopic survey of all Galactic stellar populations (bulge, bar, disks, halo) with a uniform set of stellar tracers and spectral diagnostics. MARVELS will monitor radial velocities of more than 8000 FGK stars with the sensitivity and cadence (10-40 m/s, ~24 visits per star) needed to detect giant planets with periods up to two years, providing an unprecedented data set for understanding the formation and dynamical evolution of giant planet systems. (Abridged)Comment: Revised to version published in The Astronomical Journa

Identification of 12 new susceptibility loci for different histotypes of epithelial ovarian cancer.

To identify common alleles associated with different histotypes of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), we pooled data from multiple genome-wide genotyping projects totaling 25,509 EOC cases and 40,941 controls. We identified nine new susceptibility loci for different EOC histotypes: six for serous EOC histotypes (3q28, 4q32.3, 8q21.11, 10q24.33, 18q11.2 and 22q12.1), two for mucinous EOC (3q22.3 and 9q31.1) and one for endometrioid EOC (5q12.3). We then performed meta-analysis on the results for high-grade serous ovarian cancer with the results from analysis of 31,448 BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers, including 3,887 mutation carriers with EOC. This identified three additional susceptibility loci at 2q13, 8q24.1 and 12q24.31. Integrated analyses of genes and regulatory biofeatures at each locus predicted candidate susceptibility genes, including OBFC1, a new candidate susceptibility gene for low-grade and borderline serous EOC