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The purpose of this research program was to explore the effectiveness of the Predict- Observe-Explain (POE) teachingllearning technique to diagnose students' understanding of science and identify students' level of achievement with reference to the Science Student Outcome Statements for Australian schools. This research employed an interpretive action research approach with a sample of students from three Australian metropolitan high schools in grades 9, 10, 11, and 12, whose ages ranged between 14 and 17 years. Three data collection methods were used to generate data for interpretation, namely, written POE responses of students, in-class journals and student interviews. Data collected were interpreted using three theoretical perspectives, namely, Chi et al.'s theory of ontological categories, Hewson and Hennessey's conceptual change theory to determine the epistemological status of students' understanding of science, and Chinn and Brewer's model to classify types of students' responses to contradictory observations. This purpose of using this methodology was to obtain an in-depth, plausible and credible account of students' understanding and their level of achievement. POE tasks were concerned with heat and the expansion of water, solubility of salt, and power and resistance of light globes. The data revealed common ideas amongst students that are contrary to scientists' science; furthermore, students showed that they were able to articulate their own ideas based on the POE tasks. The findings in this research reveal that these POEs were effective in capturing a range of possible student observations and prediction outcomes when worded in an open-ended format. / Quality information on students' understanding and on the way they responded to contradictory data was obtained when POEs were administered by teacher demonstrations and were designed to produce phenomena that were clear, immediate and had only one aspect to observe. Furthermore, the data suggest that POEs are effective in identifying students' achievement across levels within a substrand of the Australian Student Outcome Statements and enable the teacher to observe and document a spread of achievement over a range of levels rather that a single outcome. The results of this research suggest that POEs are effective in diagnosing students' understanding of science and their level of achievement. The POE tasks can be used by teachers to insightfully design learning activities and strategies that start from the students' viewpoint rather than that of the teacher or the scientist. Findings in this research have implications for curriculum development and learning strategies, teacher development, and the promotion and assessment of students' understanding and level of achievement.

In my thesis I will discuss Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” in relation to the expectations that scholars have of the gothic genre. I will break this project into four chapters, along with an introduction: (Ch.1) a critical review of scholarship on Poe’s “Usher” that will demonstrate the difficulty in coming to a critical consensus on the tale, (Ch.2) a discussion of Brown’s outline of Gothic conventions, (Ch.3) a look at Poe’s “The Philosophy of Composition” juxtaposed with Aristotle’s Poetics to illumine aspects of Poe’s approach to writing and how it has been informed, and (Ch.4) a close reading of Poe’s “Usher.”

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Iowa, 1925. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-332).

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Thesis(M.A.)--Auburn University, 2008. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographic references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [323]-332).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America. / Vita. Bibliography: p. vii-xi.

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras. Departamento de Letras, Instituto de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. / Submitted by Oliveira Flávia (flavia@sisbin.ufop.br) on 2014-09-01T20:42:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO_AcorveamentoPoeEstudo.pdf: 1588293 bytes, checksum: ed5175b296d4043e8f18e43c86898e6b (MD5) / Rejected by Gracilene Carvalho (gracilene@sisbin.ufop.br), reason: a pedido on 2014-09-02T17:38:35Z (GMT) / Submitted by Oliveira Flávia (flavia@sisbin.ufop.br) on 2014-09-02T17:59:01Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 22190 bytes, checksum: 19e8a2b57ef43c09f4d7071d2153c97d (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO_AcorveamentoPoeEstudo.pdf: 1588293 bytes, checksum: ed5175b296d4043e8f18e43c86898e6b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Gracilene Carvalho (gracilene@sisbin.ufop.br) on 2014-09-08T19:10:45Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 22190 bytes, checksum: 19e8a2b57ef43c09f4d7071d2153c97d (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO_AcorveamentoPoeEstudo.pdf: 1588293 bytes, checksum: ed5175b296d4043e8f18e43c86898e6b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-09-08T19:10:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 22190 bytes, checksum: 19e8a2b57ef43c09f4d7071d2153c97d (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO_AcorveamentoPoeEstudo.pdf: 1588293 bytes, checksum: ed5175b296d4043e8f18e43c86898e6b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / O gênio perturbado; a escrita desleixada; a grandiloquência vulgar: a despeito das tentativas de T. S. Eliot de se definir a posição de Edgar Allan Poe no cânone literário universal, ele é admitido como um dos maiores expoentes da literatura norte-americana, muito embora sua aceitação como grande poeta esteja longe de ser unânime. Do presente trabalho, consta, precisamente, a introdução e o desenvolvimento do conceito de acorveamento, utilizando como ponto de partida os pressupostos da teoria de polissistemas de Itamar Even-Zohar. Em seguida, considerando a tradução da obra poética de Poe para o português, apresentaremos a análise dos poemas The Raven, Annabel Lee e Alone, e suas respectivas traduções, feitas por Machado de Assis, Fernando Pessoa, Augusto de Campos e Milton Amado, à luz da concepção artística do próprio Poe. A obra poética do autor, ao longo dos tempos, tornou-se alvo de inúmeras traduções – cuja repercussão veio com um efeito retroalimentador. Organizando um estudo sistemático dessas traduções, este trabalho apresenta a extensão da influência de Edgar Poe nas literaturas para as quais sua obra foi traduzida, e de que forma sua obra entrou nas literaturas de chegada. ___________________________________________________________________________ / ABSTRACT: Troubled genius; slipshod writing; vulgar grandiose: in spite of T. S. Eliot’s attempts to define Edgar Allan Poe’s place in the world’s literary canon, Poe is held as one of the most prominent writers of the American literature, even though his reception is far from unanimous. This research consists, precisely, of introducing and developing the notion of acorveamento, using Itamar Even-Zohar’s polysystem theory as starting point. Next, regarding the translations of Poe’s works to Portuguese, we will present the analysis of The Raven, Annabel Lee and Alone, along with their translations, by Machado de Assis, Fernando Pessoa, Augusto de Campos e Milton Amado, in light of Poe’s artistic conception. Through time his works were translated many times – and its repercussions served to build his legacy. By organizing a systemic study of these translations, this research presents Edgar Poe’s influence on the literatures to which his works were translated, and how his works made their way into the target literatures.