A primarily taxonomical study was conducted to assess the distribution of
diatoms after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, April 20,
2010. The study is focused on the possible effects of the ...
The primary objective of this research was to characterize the structure of the
diatom community in Choctawhatchee Bay in response to the BP oil spill. Three types of
samples, net plankton, sediment, and whole water, ...
Georgia has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the United States with approximately 60% of students graduating within four years of entry into the ninth grade. A 28% failure rate on the Science Georgia High ...
J. M. Coetzee’s 1981 novel Waiting for the Barbarians chronicles the
problematized relationship between a deliberately ambiguous empire and its marginalized
subjects. This paper examines the novel’s narrative practice ...
Twelve teachers in a rural elementary school were appointed by administrators to pilot departmentalized instruction for one year to determine its impacts on teachers and students and guide their decision regarding school-wide ...
Technology Specialists employed by public school systems throughout the United States currently have no education credential that recognizes their skill set. Through a Delphi process, an expert panel of Technology ...
The mangrove killifish (Kryptolebias marmoratus) is unique among vertebrates
due to its self-fertilizing mode of reproduction involving an ovotestis, analogous to the
nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. It develops externally, ...
With ever increasing challenges being placed on the public education system, student academic achievement has become even more important. The new Race to the Top (RT3) program, being implemented by the U.S. Department of ...
Kryptolebias marmoratus, formerly known as the Mangrove Rivulus, has been
studied in the laboratory setting since the late 1950s. K. marmoratus is a selfing
hermaphrodite with a unique gonad, termed the ovotestis, ...
Because of a recent decline in educational funding, state and local departments of
education have been compelled to evaluate all of their expenditures in terms of cost
versus benefit to student achievement. The purpose ...
The purpose of this research was to evaluate the success of the implementation
process used by the Technical College System of Georgia, the Peace Officer Standards
and Training Council, and the Georgia Public Safety ...
Manipulation in nursing education has not been widely studied; however, the
concepts of incivility and entitlement have been extensively researched and reported
within the context of nursing education. All three concepts ...
This study estimates the impact that the Greater Augusta Healthcare Network (GAHN) has had on inappropriate emergency department visits by uninsured patients. The research question considered whether or not the community ...
The research holes of other historians reside in the fact that the Catholic story has been neglected in discussions of Georgia religion. There have been many neglected points made about Catholics in Georgia during the era ...
Definitions of teacher empowerment include autonomy, choice, responsibility,
participation, and decision making. In the educational arena, empowerment can promote
teacher leadership, improve professionalism and quality ...
This research project explored the perceptions and experiences of female high
school principals. To understand whether a shared essence existed within the phenomena of being a female high school principal in Georgia, a ...
This study describes the deficiencies in American Library Association (ALA) accredited masters in library and information science (MLIS) programs in 50 institutions throughout the United States that purport to prepare ...
This thesis explores the relationship between creative nonfiction and truth
through an analysis of James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces and David Sedaris’s Naked.
Creative nonfiction is currently situated as a subcategory ...
Beginning in 1983, traditional university based teacher certification was
challenged by an alternate route to being a classroom teacher. States around
the nation developed alternative teacher certification programs to ...