Challenging Pre-Service Students\u27 Teaching Perspectives in an Inquiry-Focused Program

Inquiry teaching based on constructivist learning theory has been an emphasis in pre-service education for over a decade. In general, a developmental teaching perspective supports inquiry-based instruction where teachers view learners as constructors of knowledge and teaching as providing questions, problems, and challenges that form a bridge from the learners\u27 prior knowledge to a new, more sophisticated form of reasoning. Since teaching perspectives influence student learning, teacher effectiveness, and teacher attrition, challenging pre-service teachers to overcome experience-based convictions of a transmission perspective is necessary in teacher education. In this study, we examined the teaching perspectives of secondary, pre-service methods students at the midpoint of an inquiry-focused program. Our findings suggest that, despite being introduced to a variety of teaching perspectives, overcoming preconceptions of good teaching and considering a perspective counter to one\u27s disciplinary major presents a dilemma for pre-service teachers

Online Master Program in System Technology

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette proposed the creation of a Master of Science in Systems Technology (STEC) in 2013 to the State of Louisiana Board of Regents which was approved in 2014. The delivery of the new MS degree was 100% online to facilitate access to a wide student base within the state of Louisiana and beyond. The objective of Systems Technology education intends to equip students with the knowledge base, skill set and cutting-edge tools to develop solutions to complex systems problems in a diversity of industries. It is designed for industrial and engineering technologists, and other professionals engaged in developing systems to meet required specifications.Cockrell School of Engineerin

Results of the 1997 Illinois Deer Hunter Survey

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Frequency doubling conversion efficiencies for deep space optical communications

The theory of optical frequency doubling conversion efficiency is analyzed for the small signal input case along with the strong signal depleted input case. Angle phase matching and beam focus spot size are discussed and design trades are described which maximize conversion efficiency. Experimental conversion efficiencies from the literature, which are less than theoretical results at higher input intensities due to saturation, reconversion, and higher order processes, are applied to a case study of an optical communications link from Saturn. Double pass conversion efficiencies as high as 45 percent are expected. It is believed that even higher conversion efficiencies can be obtained using multipass conversion