La réponse à l’intervention (RAI) est un processus de prise de décision informé par des données qui, à l’aide de l’enseignement et des interventions efficaces, prévient les difficultés de lecture et d’écriture, et améliore ces habiletés pour tous les élèves. Depuis quelques années, plusieurs écoles francophones de la province du Québec implantent la RAI. Le processus des connaissances à la pratique a été choisi pour guider certaines de ces écoles dans leur implantation. Après quelques années d’implantation, ces écoles ont maintenant atteint la phase de ce processus qui vise à surveiller l’utilisation des connaissances. En d’autres mots, cela consiste à évaluer la fidélité, c’est-à-dire évaluer le degré avec lequel le plan a été mis en place comme prévu. Cette thèse avait pour objectif principal de développer des instruments adaptés au contexte francophone québécois afin d’évaluer la fidélité de la RAI. Une méthode mixte a été utilisée selon quatre phases : (1) une étude de délimitation pour développer un cadre conceptuel intégratif de la fidélité, (2) une recension des écrits scientifiques pour déterminer le contenu potentiel des instruments, (3) des rencontres de groupes pour décider du contenu essentiel et pertinent au contexte et (4) des entrevues cognitives afin de prétester les instruments. L’étude de délimitation a inclus 76 documents sur lesquels repose un cadre conceptuel intégratif de la fidélité comprenant deux niveaux et dix dimensions. La recension des écrits a permis de synthétiser 167 articles fournissant les éléments potentiels pour le contenu des instruments de mesure de la fidélité de la RAI. Un total de 50 participants ont pris part à des rencontres de groupes permettant de réduire le nombre d’éléments de plus de la moitié afin de ne garder que le contenu pertinent et essentiel, ainsi que d’obtenir des preuves de la validité de contenu. Des entrevues cognitives avec 35 participants ont permis de prétester les instruments et d’obtenir des preuves de la validité du processus de réponse. Cette thèse a permis le développement d’instruments qui serviront à offrir de la rétroaction sur l’implantation de la RAI dans les écoles francophones québécoises, permettant par le fait même d’améliorer cette implantation. Ces instruments pourront aussi être utilisés pour évaluer la fidélité afin d’éventuellement mener des études d’efficacité.

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An attitude is a mental state that influences the way an individual responds to relevant objects and situations. Attitudes toward the elderly have a potential impact on all Americans, as the population is growing older. These attitudes constitute an important area of study because their nature is unclear and their impact extensive. The Kogan Attitudes Toward Old People Scale (OP) was examined to establish reliability and validity estimates. A questionnaire, consisting of this scale and four others, was administered to a sample of adults. Factor analysis of the OP revealed two factors, which were somewhat ambiguous. Internal consistency estimates for these factors and the total OP ranged from .72 to .92. Validity estimates were in the expected direction and ranged from -.13 to .36. Gender, age, education level, and degree of tolerance for others immerged as predictive variables for reported attitudes toward the elderly. It was concluded that the use of the OP is of questionable utility. If one must use it, the total OP score or only the items from Factors 1 and 2 should be utilized, as long as the discussed weaknesses, such as the sampling and validation procedures, are taken into account

This thesis is an exploration into the mechanism of Marxist materialism. It is an attempt, in the face of materialism, to regain a grasp on our intellectual lives. The promise, I will argue, is a nexus between the material and ideal realms; it largely determines the configurations of our thoughts along three poles: privacy/recognition, sovereignty/subjection, and individual/society. In this thesis, I will explore the history of the promise during the sixteenth-century development of the negotiable instrument- a form of the promise that could be bought and sold. This development, I will argue, led to a general transformation of language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries such that the concept of the referent largely replaced the concept of the signifier. In the realm of mathematics, this transformation led to the creation of the symbolic variable; elsewhere, it led to the creation of what Mary Poovey has called the modern fact.

The study in this report mainly focuses on the Internet-based Monitoring and Controlling of a Real-Time Dynamic System interfaced via a dedicated local computer. The main philosophy behind this study is to allow the remote user to conduct an Internet-based Remote Operation (I-bRO) for the dynamic system. The dynamic system has been defined as the system which has its parts interrelated in such a way that a change in one part necessarily affects other parts of the system [I]. In order to achieve this goal, the study has been conducted in a form of an on-line and real-time Virtual Laboratory (VL). Through this form of laboratory, a user can carry out the experiment, perform real-time monitoring and controlling operations of the experiment and collect real and live data from the experiment through the network link as the user was physically in the laboratory. The dynamic system that has been selected for the test-rig of this study is a 3-phase Induction Motor (IM) which is mechanically coupled with a DC-Dynamometer that acts as a variable load to the IM. This system is a common laboratory experiment in the study of the Electrical Engineering for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. The study covers both sides of the I-bRO; the hardware and the software. The hardware side includes the design and the development of a load control box that has been used to interface the DC-Dynamometer and consequently control it from the local computer. The software side covers the design and the development of the Virtual Instrumentation System (VIS) that has replaced successfully the physical Measurement and Test (M&T) instruments of the test-rig. Beside that, the software side includes the development of the internet remote front panel for the remote operation. / Furthermore, the software side includes the development of the software that has been used to analyse the system during the I-bRO. In this study, the LabVTEW7 program has been used to design and develop the VIS and the Matlab program has bee used to aualyse the system performance for the remote operations. This study also addresses the issues and problems related to the intranet or the internet to be used as the network for data communication between the test-rig and remote users. This study has been carried out in different stages as follows: 1. Designing and development of the VIS. 2. Interfacing the test-rig apparatus with a local computer. 3. Upload the system from the local computer to the network. 4. Study the performance of the system on the network for the purpose of the remote operations controlled over the internet. The developed system of this study has been used for data acquisition, network communications, instruments monitoring and controlling applications. A user can execute on-line and in the real-time the developed VIS from any point in the university. Due to the fact that the university network is directly integrated to the main internet server. a remote user through the main internet server is able to perform I-bRO of the selected dynamic system. There are many factors associated with the network, the internet or the intranet, and have direct influences on the control system performance throughout the remote operations. The most dominant factors are the random time-delays and the data losses. / These factors among others have to be addressed for a proper application of the I-bRO. For this reason, different cases and scenarios of the I-bRO have been investigated and simulated to study the affection of the network on the control system performance. The system is analysed under two control cases, closed loop with random time-delays and open loop when the internet server is disconnected and no communication between the input and the output of the system. In the first case, the closed loop, the internet server is assumed to be closed and subjected to random time-delays. In the second case, the internet server is subjected to random cut-off and thus opens the control loop. The results of both cases have been analysed and discussed. It has been found that, if the control system without the time-delays is stable, it remains stable even with small time-delays up to twenty seconds. This result is different from what has been shown in the literature.

The main purpose of this dissertation was to explore the psychomotor and cognitive characteristics of the practice behaviours of a group of novice keyboard instrumentalists and to identify those factors which had most significant influence on performance achievement. The pivotal question guiding the study was 'How can one characterise the effects of practice strategies on the performance outcomes of this group of novice performers?' Six research questions were examined. The first three concerned student predisposition, practice procedures, and performance achievement. The second three questions examined the relationships between personal characteristics, practice behaviours and performance outcomes. The results of the study indicate that some beginners are capable of cognitive engagement in the execution of practice. Students who planned, analysed and evaluated practice strategies, both mentally and physically, were identified as self-regulated learners. These students were the more successful achievers. Students who made use of the technology, specifically for instructional purposes, made more gains that those that did not. Accumulated practice was not found to influence performance achievement. Implications for future research on this little explored subject were included / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

"August 2001." Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-311). Describes the use of optical telescopes in the investigation of astronomical objects which have been discovered by earth-orbiting high-energy astronomical satellites.

"August 2001." / Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-311). / iii, 311 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Describes the use of optical telescopes in the investigation of astronomical objects which have been discovered by earth-orbiting high-energy astronomical satellites. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Physics and Mathematical Physics, 2002?

Thesis (M.D.S.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-105) Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2007. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 232 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-195).