Each year the National Science Foundation (NFS) grants funding for universities in the United States to provide a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) summer program. The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Brigham Young University (BYU) has been a recipient of NSF REU grants for several years. This year the administrators of the REU program at BYU requested an evaluation be conducted to determine if their program was effective at helping participants have a significant research experience, as well as determine the impact the program is having on student's attitudes towards the field of physics, graduate school, and research. This report contains the findings of the evaluation and recommendations for program improvement.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-02-09T22:01:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DiogoHenriqueDuarteBezerra_TESE.pdf: 2787429 bytes, checksum: c838dce700860a38c586a38aa5545fdd (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-02-10T18:13:49Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DiogoHenriqueDuarteBezerra_TESE.pdf: 2787429 bytes, checksum: c838dce700860a38c586a38aa5545fdd (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-10T18:13:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DiogoHenriqueDuarteBezerra_TESE.pdf: 2787429 bytes, checksum: c838dce700860a38c586a38aa5545fdd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-30 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior (CAPES) / O sistema de processamento de modelos Luar, utilizado na autoria de documentos NCL, possui conceitos de desenvolvimento baseados no re?so de descri??es por meio de modelos de documentos. Esses conceitos de desenvolvimento podem ser utilizados na autoria de outros documentos baseados em XML por meio da an?lise, adequa??o, projeto e cria??o de uma nova infraestrutura de re?so baseada no sistema Luar. Esta tese apresenta o sistema de processamento de modelos Luar-X, uma generaliza??o e extens?o do sistema de modelos Luar. O Luar-X mant?m os conceitos de desenvolvimento do sistema Luar e modifica, adequa e estende a arquitetura do sistema Luar para permitir o desenvolvimento com linguagens baseadas em XML. Os estudos de caso com as linguagens HTML, SVG e NCL mostram a viabilidade dessa nova infraestrutura de re?so que torna o desenvolvimento de aplica??es e a descri??o de documentos XML ?gil. / The Luar template processing system used in authoring NCL documents, has development concepts based on reuse of descriptions through document templates. These development concepts can be used in the authorship of other XML-based documents through the analysis, adequacy, design and creation of a new reuse infrastructure based on Luar system. This view shows the processing system of models Luar-X, a generalization and extension Luar model system. The Luar-X keeps the concepts of development of Luar system and he changes, adapts and extends the Luar system architecture to enable development with XML-based languages. The case studies with HTML, SVG and NCL show the feasibility of this new reuse infrastructure, which makes application development and description of agile XML documents.