Rider University

About: Rider University is a education organization based out in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Dosimetry & Creativity. The organization has 881 authors who have published 1934 publications receiving 50752 citations.

Preparing Teachers for the Transition of Students with Disabilities through Community-Based Instruction.

Abstract: Increasing demand for effective transition programs for individuals with disabilities has created a need for more comprehensive teacher preparation. Community and service learning experiences may b...

Risk and Return in the World's Major Stock Markets

Abstract: The Sharpe and Treynor indexes measure portfolio return performance in terms of only one risk characteristic, although several risk characteristics of the investment may be important for the investor. Data envelopment analysis (DEA), a new operations research technique, makes it possible to measure investment return performance in terms of a group of various risk characteristics that may be equally important for the investor. The authors use six different risk measures to compare the return performances of the world9s 16 major stock markets during the 1988–1997 and 1995–1997 periods. The U.S. stock market had the best return performance in terms of systematic risk, return volatility, market capitalization, and book value/market equity individual risk characteristics in both periods. The U.S., Dutch, German, and Swiss stock markets had the best overall return performance in terms of all six risk characteristics in both periods. The U.K. stock market had one of the best overall return performances in terms of all six risk characteristics in the 1995-1997 period.

Examining the Preservice Practicum Experience of Undergraduate Music Education Majors— Exploring Connections and Dispositions Through Multiple Perspectives A Critical Grounded Theory

Abstract: This grounded theory study explores the relationship between the college methods class and the off-campus practicum experience. The study included nine undergraduate music education majors enrolled in a methods course designed to prepare them to teach music in secondary schools. Also included were three in-service teachers who served in the role of cooperating teachers for the practicum portion of the experience. Content for the on-campus methods class was altered to accommodate the programs where students would be working. Data included reflections from the students during a weekly on-campus seminar, informal interviews with the cooperating teachers, observations of the students at the practicum sites, and written evaluations of the students by the cooperating teachers. As a result of open, focused, and axial coding, several themes emerged that confirmed the literature stating that despite best efforts, the on-campus course and off-campus practicums do not connect.

A Misuse of IQ Scores: Using the Dual Discrepancy/Consistency Model for Identifying Specific Learning Disabilities

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to describe the origins of patterns of strengths and weaknesses (PSW) methods for identifying specific learning disabilities (SLD) and to provide a comprehensive review of the assumptions and evidence supporting the most commonly-used PSW method in the United States: Dual Discrepancy/Consistency (DD/C). Given their use in determining whether students have access to special education and related services, it is important that any method used to identify SLD have supporting evidence. A review of the DD/C evidence indicates it cannot currently be classified as an evidence-based method for identifying individuals with a SLD. We show that the DD/C method is unsound for three major reasons: (a) it requires test scores have properties that they fundamentally lack, (b) lack of experimental utility evidence supporting its use, and (c) evidence supporting the inability of the method to identify SLD accurately.