An Examination Of The Impact Of Student Characteristics And Teacher Experience And Preparation Program Attended On Student Achievement In A Small School District

Demonstrating a direct link between teacher education programs and student growth is, to say the least, complex. Yet, using value-added systems as a means of holding teacher preparation programs accountable for the effectiveness of their graduates is a growing trend. However, few quantitative studies linking TPPs with the effectiveness of their graduates exist. The availability of student test scores linked to specific teachers in administrative databases makes it possible to use value-added modeling to obtain estimates of teacher effects. Only recently have researchers tapped into this expanding volume of data in an attempt to examine Teacher Preparation Programs as variables of student achievement. This study uses methodologies developed in the early stages of the Value-Added Teacher Preparation Program Assessment Model developed in Louisiana in 2006 as a guide. Using the HLM 7.0 software package, a statistical model was developed to determine if it were feasible to conduct an analysis using data from a single small school district and whether the results of such an analysis showed an impact of student characteristics and teacher experience and preparation program on student outcomes in mathematics

Searching For A Soul

The abstract pieces I create now are part of an ongoing evolution in my work to arrive at a visual balance between rigid structure and organic movement. Initially, they were intended as a departure from representational imagery to allow for more focus on color harmonies and structural balance. After more than twenty-five years of rendering objects and things, it became too predictable and “safe” for me to take my work seriously. As it has been suggested that most abstraction derives from reality in some form, I was intrigued by those rings of light we see when closing our eyes. I liked the idea of appropriating an archetypal image that was neither real nor unreal. Through the painting process, I have come to appreciate how a dialogue can be generated between the formal, visual elements, and the intuitive, more instinctive realm of aesthetics. Spontaneity and deliberate avoidance of pre-conceived imagery are important to me. I like the idea that ambiguity can create an environment for open interpretation. Most importantly, I am moving closer to work that is true to me

History Revisited: Learning from Charles H. Spurgeon’s Commitment to Conversion Growth

Donald McGavran and Peter Wagner, the early leaders of the Church Growth Movement (CGM), longed to see conversion growth as the primary source of church growth. Yet one of the common criticisms of church growth today is its lack of emphasis on conversion growth. This article discusses this criticism and argues that the church can learn from Charles H. Spurgeon’s commitment to conversion growth, calling church growth back to its theological and missiological roots

20 Years of Parent University: Going from the Grassroots to Long Term

Parent University of Savannah is a 20-year-old community collaborative that supports families. This initiative encourages parent involvement and participation in the education of our community’s children and youth. In this session, we will describe how we have stitched together various community elements to create a capacity-building model in which the parents have an opportunity to play a major role in directing what our program does and how it does it. We will discuss how we have maintained a vitality that has attracted stakeholders and service providers to collaborate and make us more capable than ever to serve our families

History Revisited: Learning from Charles H. Spurgeon’s Commitment to Conversion Growth

Donald McGavran and Peter Wagner, the early leaders of the Church Growth Movement (CGM), longed to see conversion growth as the primary source of church growth. Yet one of the common criticisms of church growth today is its lack of emphasis on conversion growth. This article discusses this criticism and argues that the church can learn from Charles H. Spurgeon’s commitment to conversion growth, calling church growth back to its theological and missiological roots

Stability Control of Triple Trailer Vehicles

While vehicle stability control is a well-established technology in the passenger car realm, it is still an area of active research for commercial vehicles as indicated by the recent notice of proposed rulemaking on commercial vehicle stability by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA, 2012). The reasons that commercial vehicle electronic stability control (ESC) development has lagged passenger vehicle ESC include the fact that the industry is generally slow to adopt new technologies and that commercial vehicles are far more complex requiring adaptation of existing technology. From the controller theory perspective, current commercial vehicle stability systems are generally passenger car based ESC systems that have been modified to manage additional brakes (axles). They do not monitor the entire vehicle nor do they manage the entire vehicle as a system

Marshall University Music Department Presents a Trombone Ensembles, directed by, Michael Stroeher, Andrew O\u27Neal, trombone soloist

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On Monochromatic Pairs with Nondecreasing Diameters

Let n m r t be positive integers and Δ : [n] → [r]. We say Δ is (m, r, t) - permissible if there exist t disjoint m-sets B1,…,Bt contained in [n] for which |Δ(Bi)| = 1 for each i = 1,2,…, t. max(Bi) \u3c min(Bi+1) for each i = 1,2,…, t − 1, and max(Bi) − min(Bi) ≤ max(Bi+1) − max(Bi+1) for each i = 1, 2,…, t − 1. Let f(m ,r, t) be the smallest such n so that all colorings Δ are (m, r, t)-permissible. In this paper, we show that f(2, 2, t) = 5t − 4

Soybean Aphid (Aphididae: Hemiptera) Population Growth as Affected by Host Plant Resistance and an Insecticidal Seed Treatment

The soybean aphid, Aphis glycines Matsumura (Hemiptera: Aphididae) is a significant soybean pest in the north central United States. Insecticidal seed treatments and host plant resistance are two commercially available management tools. Here we investigate the efficacy of both management tools throughout the season. Soybean lines containing the soybean aphid resistance genes Rag1, Rag2, or both Rag1 + Rag2 were compared with a near-isogenic aphid-susceptible line. Each line was grown in field plots both with and without thiamethoxam applied to the seed. Individual plants from each plot were caged and infested with soybean aphids to measure the efficacy and potential interaction of aphid resistance and thiamethoxam. Aphid population growth rate was measured for each caged plant for 9‐12 d after infestation. New cages were established each week from 34 d after planting (dap) to 92 dap to track seasonal variations in efficacy. Thiamethoxam reduced population growth only at the 42 dap time point and only for the susceptible, Rag1, and Rag2 lines. The lack of an effect of thiamethoxam on theRag1+ Rag2 line was likely because of already high mortality from two resistance genes. Aphid resistance alone reduced population growth compared with the susceptible line at least till 55 dap for single-gene resistance and 63 dap for the two genes combined. Aphid resistance provided suppression of soybean aphid population growth throughout the season unlike the insecticidal seed treatment