The purpose of this study was to determine the initial and actual professional goals, the changes in initial and actual professional goals and the reasons for this change of the different Texas A&M University veterinary medicine graduates from 1990-2002, how satisfied the selected veterinary medicine graduates were with their veterinary medicine college educational preparation from the graduating classes representing 1990-2002, and to determine if the top ranked courses have changed among the veterinary medicine graduates from 1990 until 2002. The descriptive research design included a questionnaire that was provided to Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine graduates one year following graduation. Data was collected from the group of veterinarians who graduated during 1990-2002. Findings indicate that since 1990, veterinary students have entered the College of Veterinary Medicine with a predominant interest in small animal or mixed practices. This study shows the stability of the career choices with mixed and small being consistently the first and second choices over the span of years studied. No apparent trend appeared from the data that identifies one compelling reason for changing jobs. The overall satisfaction for the educational preparation on their education is 90% or more. The top-ranked basic science courses have not changed among the veterinary medicine graduates during the selected period and these are: “Pharmacology,” “Gross Anatomy,” “Endocrine,” “Parasitology,” “Physiology” and “Clinical Pathology.” The top-ranked clinical disciplines are not as clearly ranked as the basic sciences. They are: “Anesthesiology,” “Gastroenterology,” “General Surgery,” “Internal Medicine,” “Oncology,” and “Radiology.” No apparent trend appeared from the data that identifies one or the other of these categories becoming more popular over time.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1997. / Title from title page screen, viewed June 29, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Valeri Farmer-Dougan (chair), Jayne A. Bucy, Matthew Hesson-McInnes, Lanny Morreau, Mark Swerdlik. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-128) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.(Educational Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

This three-part study explores an application of the dynamic assessment of narratives in a bilingual Spanish and English-speaking early elementary population as a preliminary study of bilingual children’s response to a short-term intervention. Dynamic assessment has been used successfully to differentiate culturally diverse monolingual children with language impairment from their typically developing peers. In order to extend this assessment measure to bilinguals, specifically Spanish and English-speaking children, the effects of the language of intervention and the language of production was explored. Profiles of bilingual children’s narratives with and without impairment and their differential responses has not been well documented in both languages. Thus, narrative profiles and from pre to post intervention changes were compared for typically developing and language-impaired children. The first study examined whether parallel stories were elicited within languages using two books. The second study explored the effects of the language of intervention and the language of story production on narrative performance, and the transfer of narratives skills across languages using the dynamic assessment paradigm. The third study examined children’s performance with and without language impairment pre and post mediated learning experience in comparison to a non-intervention control group. Results from study one indicated that children told parallel stories for the two books within each language. Findings from study two indicated that children’s stories in Spanish were stronger overall, and children’s performance did not differ as a function of intervention in Spanish vs. English. Children demonstrated transfer of narrative macrostructure across both languages. Finally, study three indicated that the children who were typically developing demonstrated a greater amount of pretest to posttest gain as compared to children in the language impaired and control groups. The typically developing children were rated as more modifiable in comparison to those with language impairment. / text

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-222).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D. (Education))--Rhodes University, 2005.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study which is inserted in the line of research in the course of Special Education Master's in Education, Federal University of Santa Maria, had the objective to seek understanding how the theories of the education evaluation assessment were historically constructed, starting from the bibliographic references from the area in a study of character bibliographic covering the period of 1930 until 2008. It is assumed that to treat the issue of educational evaluation must enter first of all, in a historical study that makes possible to understand how education assessment theories were constructed, because this is still a theme that there is a lot to be discussed and it had few changes in their characteristics related to structure. Therefore, the study about the education assessment is considered relevant concerning the paradigm of the inclusion points out the acceptance of the differences, emphasizing the students' permanence with special education needs, preferentially, in the regular teaching. Once such an issue influences directly in the inclusion process, would become, besides, the largest barriers of the inclusion. The research done in this research enabled noted that the evaluation is itself a reflection of society, economics and politics and, therefore, needs to be examined historically. It was observed that this practice has undergone many changes since its introduction in schools, even with so many speeches that emphasized the enhancement of reflection, of criticism, dialogue, assuming continues to be a procedure traditional, authoritarian and selective. / Este estudo que está inserido na linha de pesquisa em Educação Especial do curso de Mestrado em Educação, da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, teve o objetivo de buscar entender como se construíram historicamente as teorias da avaliação educacional, a partir dos referenciais bibliográficos da área num estudo de caráter bibliográfico que abarca o período de 1930 até 2008. Pressupõe-se que, para tratamos da questão da avaliação educacional devemos adentrar, primeiramente, em um estudo histórico que possibilite compreender como se construíram as teorias da avaliação educacional, visto que este ainda é um tema muito debatido e que pouco tem mudado nas suas características estruturantes. Assim, tendo em vista que o paradigma da inclusão salienta a aceitação das diferenças, enfatizando a permanência dos alunos com necessidades educacionais especiais, preferencialmente, no ensino regular, considera-se relevante o estudo sobre a avaliação educacional, uma vez que esta influencia diretamente no processo de inclusão, podendo vir a se constituir, inclusive, numa das maiores barreiras da inclusão. A investigação realizada nesta pesquisa possibilitou constatar que a avaliação constitui-se num reflexo da sociedade, da economia e da política e, por isso mesmo, precisa ser analisada historicamente. Observou-se que esta prática não sofreu muitas alterações desde sua introdução nas escolas, mesmo com tantos discursos que enfatizaram a valorização da reflexão, da crítica, do diálogo, continua assumindo-se como um procedimento tradicional, autoritário e seletivo.

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