The Properties of Pyrogenic Substances

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Distributive Leadership’s Relationship To Teacher Self-Efficacy: An Ecological Model

This ecological study identifies and tests research based constructs of distributive leadership and teacher self-efficacy on the 2012 and 2014 TELL survey using ecological methodology. This includes a confirmatory factor analysis of survey items that best measure distributive leadership and teacher self-efficacy. The overall population mean for participants who agreed or strongly agreed with the survey items was calculated and analyzed. The research focuses on a microsystem analysis, but includes a reflection on the exosystem and an analysis of variance with the macrosystem. Analyses revealed three major findings. First by calculating the overall population mean of participants who agreed or strongly agreed with the survey items measuring distributive leadership and teacher self-efficacy it was found that in both years the percentages were in the high range according to the organization who publishes the survey. This concludes that the teachers at the research site agree that the school utilizes distributive leadership and that teachers have a strong sense of self-efficacy. When compared to distributive leadership and teacher self-efficacy percentages of the overall district a less than 4% variance was noted. It can be determined that these findings are consistent across the district: when the school environment includes distributive leadership and cultivates teacher self-efficacy the conditions are present for students to make learning gains. Findings from this study are of interest to education policy makers, education leadership preparation program leaders, and school district leaders, as they provide additional evidence regarding the importance of cultivating the environmental conditions needed for effective learning outcomes in schools. Findings from this study should also be considered in the design of future research studies in this area, as the use of individual student-level data that could be linked to individual teacher level data would allow for additional analysis

Later Tertiary Leporidae of North America

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Voice and Reception in Tennyson, Browning, and Other Victorian Poets

The thesis examines the relationship of Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold and Arthur Clough with their audiences. The intersection between readers conceived by addresses within poetic texts and historical readers who reviewed and commented on these works is, I argue, fundamental to an understanding of the literary climate of the nineteenth century. Using techniques associated with new formalism, the thesis seeks to expand our understanding of the relationship between aesthetic impulses and historical and social pressures. It examines the poetry’s self-consciousness towards its readers, and uses the responses of historical readers to situate patterns within Victorian poetry in a literary historical context. The introduction provides a background to the literary historical context within which my thesis operates, and sets out the content of each chapter. The first two chapters explore the early poetry of Tennyson and Robert Browning alongside their reviews and contemporary essays on poetic theory, arguing that their singular poetic voices develop through their conception and depiction of a readership. The next two chapters, on Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Browning’s Men and Women, continue to explore an often conflicted relationship between these two poets and their readership. A chapter on Arnold and Clough presents a counterpoint to Tennyson and Browning, focusing on the 1850s. I finish with two chapters on Tennyson’s Maud and Browning’s The Ring and the Book, exploring how Tennyson and Browning re-negotiate relationships with their readers through the dramatic medium. In my discussion of each poet, I examine the mixture of reciprocity and resistance towards their reviewers. The tension between the poets’ sense of responsibility towards their audience and their own aesthetic desires is a source of creativity: even through their resistance to the demands of their audience, their poetry is unavoidably shaped by those readers