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Increasing Student Performance through the Use of Web Services in Introductory Programming Classrooms: Results from a Series of Quasi-Experiments
An introduction to programming course can be a challenge for both students and instructors. This paper describes a study that introduced Web services (WS) and Service-Oriented Architecture in Information Systems 1 (IS 1) and Computer Science 1 (CS 1) programming courses over a two-year period. WS were used as an instruction tool based on their increased use in industry as well as their ability to provide a real world feel to student programming activities. The paper includes an example WS teaching module and a proposed implementation model for future studies based on lessons learned from the current experiment. The study was successful in showing a significant increase in student test performance for WS-taught courses over standard-taught courses. (Contains 7 tables and 5 figures.)
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Disposition assessment in teacher education: A framework and instrument for assessing technology disposition
This study proposes and verifies the concept of a technology disposition in teacher education, which is comprised of predisposition and competence. It examines the reliability and validity of a measure of the technology disposition of teacher education students, the Technology Disposition Scale for Teacher Education Students (TDS-T). The TDS-T is comprised of two subscales: technology predisposition and technology competence. In this study, the TDS-T was completed by 656 teacher education students. Results showed the proposed disposition model of predisposition and competence had significant relationships with gender and class year. Male students had significantly higher overall technology disposition scores than did female students, but these differences were due to the male students' strong self-concept, especially self-confidence. Students technology competence level was significantly higher for seniors than for sophomores, and the overall technology disposition scores significantly increased from students' junior to senior years. The TDS-T demonstrated content validity through factor analysis and convergent and discriminate validity through item analysis. The value for Cronbach's alpha was .93, indicating highly satisfactory reliability.
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Occupational Outcomes for Students Earning Two-Year College Degrees: Income, Status, and Equity
Among 1972 high-school graduates, having a two-year college education culminating in a degree or certificate (as compared to entering the labor market with no postsecondary education) improved individuals' occupational outcomes (income and/or job status). But two-year college education left patterns of inequality between groups unchanged at best.
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Special Education Administrators' Perceptions of Music Therapy in Special Education Programs
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Music therapy has been shown to be beneficial in treating and remediating learning deficits in students with various disabilities currently served through special education services. As public schools face more financial constraints, it is evident that the development and/or maintenance of music therapy positions may be increasingly jeopardized. In this study, 81 surveys regarding Illinois special education program administrators' perceptions of music therapy efficacy and practice were completed. Responses pertaining to demographics, knowledge, and perceptions of music therapy were analyzed. Results indicated that graduate level studies and experience with music therapy programs were the two variables that had a significant effect on administrators' perceptions. Implications and recommendations for educational programming and professional preparation are discussed.
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Career Maturity and College Student Persistence
The study examined the role of career maturity on the college persistence of traditional-aged college freshmen enrolled at a public four-year institution. Results indicate that the My Vocational Situation instrument (Holland et al., 1980), while reliable, is also valid. Theoretical formulations need to be revisited, since results indicate that Goal Commitment and Career Maturity are distinct constructs. Career Maturity was found to be positively associated with a number of variables important to college persistence (e.g., GPA, Academic Integration, Faculty Contact, Encouragement). This variable also contributed to explain variance in Intent to Persist. However, Career Maturity exerted no direct effects on Persistence. The results of this study have implications for theory and research.
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Identifying Scholarly and Intellectual Communities: A Note on French Philosophy, 1900-1939
\"IT OUGHT TO BE READ.\" \"WITHSTOOD THE TEST OF TIME.\" \"INTERESTING.\" THESE DUBIOUS STANDARDS OF DEFINITION AND SELECTION IN DECIDING UPON MEMBERSHIP OF AN INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITY AND DISTINGUISHING WORKS WHICH MERIT CLOSE TEXTUAL STUDY ARE NOT GOOD MEASURES OF HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE OF A TOPIC, BUT IN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY BETTER ONES SEEM AWKWARD TO DEVISE. THE AUTHOR DEVISES ONE: JOURNAL ARTICLES SURVEY.
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The Uses of Studying Primitives: A Note on the Durkheimians, 1890-1940
About 1900, Durkheimian sociologists increasingly focused their studies on 'primitive', non-Western peoples. The dominant school of French sociology all but abandoned the study of modern France for several decades. Since little in Durkheim's early works indicates that he would found a school of social scientists whose nearly-exclusive focus was on nonmodern peoples, the Durkheimians' turn to the primitive was a fundamental change, not simply an extension of their earlier scholarly concerns. An attempt is made to explain this change & to demonstrate the need for a sort of multivariate analysis in the history of ideas; a uniting of several kinds of causal factors into a system of intersecting influence. Among the most important of those factors are: (1) the Durkheimians' stress on causal generalizations through comparative studies met an increasingly large body of ethnographic data to which the comparative method could be applied by the end of the 19th century, (2) it seemed easiest to generate reliable sociologies of religion & of knowledge by studying societies in which the facts were simpler, (3) Durkheimian studies of primitives gave them weapons with which they could combat their disciplinary rivals, in part intending to disabuse economists (& socialists) of their notion that economic phenomena were at the core of social life, & (4) the Durkheimians had political motives; they yearned for social unity & moral certainty for modern man that would be similar to that displayed in primitive socioreligious rites & festivals. All of these factors played a part. The fact that some of them are extrascientific motivations does not in itself vitiate the Durkheimians' efforts. Uniting these factors enables one to explain the Durkheimians' primitive turn; insisting on the explanatory primacy of any one of them does not. Modified AA.
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Emile Durkheim
International scholarship over the last twenty years has produced a new understanding of Emile Durkheim as a thinker. It has contributed to reassembling what, for Durkheim, was always a whole: a sociological selection on morals and moral activism. This volume presents an overview of Durkheim's thought and is representative of the best of contemporary Durkheim scholarship.
Paulo Ceri , Torino University; Hans-Peter Muller , Heidelberg University; W. S. F. Pickering , Cambridge; Howard Andrews , Toronto; W. Paul Vogt , New York; Philippe Besnard , GEMAS, Paris; Jean-Claude Filloux , Paris; Robert Alun Jones , University of Illinois; Hans Joas , Free University of Berlin; Francois-Andre Isambert , France
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