Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / The purpose of this study was to explore the connection between teacher ideologies/beliefs and the teacher's use of cooperative/collaborative learning in the high school English classroom. An overview of the elements of educational philosophy and their interaction with innovative teaching methodology was presented to afford a better understanding of the connection between the individual teacher's epistemological ideologies/beliefs and implementation of cooperative/collaborative learning. This study utilized quantitative research methodology. Data were collected through use of survey responses and informal discussions with department chairpersons and teachers. The data analysis revealed that teacher's individual educational philosophy influences use of innovative methodology such as collaborative learning. In addition, data revealed that the collaborative learning is a type of methodology that can easily be incorporated into any teacher's pedagogical repertoire, despite the educational philosophy stance of the teacher. / 2031-01-01

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Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University

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Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University / Problem. The problem is to organize a pattern of instruction for the study of the novel. A heightened subjective response to the novel is a personal experience, but it can spring only from an objective understanding of the novel's form and content [TRUNCATED]

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University

<p> T2K is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment located in Japan. It was built mainly to detect muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillation and to measure the mixing angle &thetas;₁₃ of the PMNS matrix, along with the precision measurement of &thetas;₂₃ and mass differences. A &nu;_&mu; beam is produced at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) in Tokai and travels to the far detector in Kamioka, Japan. There is an ensemble of detectors at 280 m downstream of the target that form the near detector. Super-Kamiokande, a water Cherenkov detector, located 295 km away from the target serves as the far detector. </p><p> The two main backgrounds for electron neutrino appearance at the Super-Kamiokande are the inherent electron neutrino component of the beam and the \pizero{} particle produced via neutral current channel (NC1&pi;⁰) that mimics the electron neutrino interaction signature. To effectively constrain the NC1&pi;⁰ interaction rate on water, the Pi0 Detector (P0D) was built as one of the near detectors. This detector can be filled and drained with water periodically to enable extraction of neutrino interactions on water. </p><p> This analysis measures the NC1&pi;⁰ interaction rate on water in the P0D. It uses neutrino beam data of 3.53 &times; 10²⁰ protons-on-target (POT) for the water-in configuration of the P0D and 6.70 &times; 10²⁰ POT for the water-out configuration. A set of selections are implemented to obtain a sample enriched in signal events. </p><p> The &pi;⁰ invariant mass distribution is compared between data and Monte Carlo. Parameter estimation using Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling method is performed to measure the signal events in data. </p><p> The data fit results in 130 &plusmn; 20 events on water including both statistical and systematic uncertainties for an expected value of 167 events predicted by the NEUT Monte Carlo. The ratio between nominal Monte Carlo and the best fit value is 0.78 &plusmn; 0.12.</p><p>

<p> The search for phenomena Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) is the primary motivation for the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This dissertation assesses the experimental status of supersymmetric theories based on analyses of data collected by the ATLAS experiment during the first and second run of the LHC. Both R-parity preserving theories defined within the framework of the Minimally Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) as well as R-parity violating models are studied. Further, a framework for systematic reinterpretation, RECAST, is presented which enables a streamlined, community-wide, approach to the search for BSM physics through the preservation of data analyses as parametrized computational workflows. A language and execution engine for such workflows of heterogeneous workloads on distributed computing systems is presented. Additionally, a new implementation of the HistFactory class of binned likelihoods based on auto-differentiable computational graphs is developed for accelerated and distributed inference computation. Finally, to enable efficient reinterpretation, a method of estimating excursion sets of one or more resource-intensive, multivariate, black-box functions, such as p-value functions, through an information-based Bayesian Optimization procedure is introduced.</p><p>

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