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Exploring the use of prediction and summarization to increase students' listening and reading comprehension /

This study examined the effect of expHcitly instructing students to use a repertoire of reading comprehension strategies. Specifically, this study examined whether providing students with a "predictive story-frame" which combined the use of prediction and summarization strategies improved their reading comprehension relative to providing students with generic instruction on prediction and summarization. Results were examined in terms of instructional condition and reading ability. Students from 2 grade 4 classes participated in this study. The reading component of the Canadian Achievement Tests, Second Edition (CAT/2) was used to identify students as either "average or above average" or "below average" readers. Students received either strategic predication and summarization instruction (story-frame) or generic prediction and summarization instruction (notepad). Students were provided with new but comparable stories for each session. For both groups, the researcher modelled the strategic tools and provided guided practice, independent practice, and independent reading sessions. Comprehension was measured with an immediate and 1-week delayed comprehension test for each of the 4 stories, hi addition, students participated in a 1- week delayed interview, where they were asked to retell the story and to answer questions about the central elements (character, setting, problem, solution, beginning, middle, and ending events) of each story. There were significant differences, with medium to large effect sizes, in comprehension and recall scores as a fimction of both instructional condition and reading ability. Students in the story-frame condition outperformed students in the notepad condition, and average to above average readers performed better than below average readers. Students in the story-frame condition outperformed students in the notepad condition on the comprehension tests and on the oral retellings when teacher modelling and guidance were present. In the cued recall sessions, students in the story-frame instructional condition recalled more correct information and generated fewer errors than students in the notepad condition. Average to above average readers performed better than below average readers across comprehension and retelling measures. The majority of students in both instructional conditions reported that they would use their strategic tool again.

Memorial Hall, Chapman College, Orange, California

Entrance of Memorial Hall, Chapman College, Orange, California.

Construction work on Davis Community Center and Apartments, Chapman College, Orange, California

Construction work on Davis Community Center and Apartments. The complex opened September,1974 at 625 North Grand Street, Orange, California, named in honor of Chapman College's fourth president, Dr. John L. Davis. The five three-story apartment buildings were designed by Harold Gimeno & Associates of Santa Ana and built by the J. Ray Construction Company, Inc. of Costa Mesa.

Seasonal reproductive endothermy in tegu lizards

With some notable exceptions, small ectothermic vertebrates are incapable of endogenously sustaining a body temperature substantially above ambient temperature. This view was challenged by our observations of nighttime body temperatures sustained well above ambient (up to 10°C) during the reproductive season in tegu lizards (~2 kg). This led us to hypothesize that tegus have an enhanced capacity to augment heat production and heat conservation. Increased metabolic rates and decreased thermal conductance are the same mechanisms involved in body temperature regulation in those vertebrates traditionally acknowledged as “true endotherms” : the birds and mammals. The appreciation that a modern ectotherm the size of the earliest mammals can sustain an elevated body temperature through metabolic rates approaching that of endotherms enlightens the debate over endothermy origins, providing support for the parental care model of endothermy, but not for the assimilation capacity model of endothermy. It also indicates that, contrary to prevailing notions, ectotherms can engage in facultative endothermy, providing a physiological analog in the evolutionary transition to true endothermy.

Environmental Risks : Should Banks Be Liable?

This paper studies the impact of banks' liability for environmental damages caused by their borrowers. Laws or court decisions that declare banks liable for environmental damages have two objectives : (1) finding someone to pay for the damages and (2) exerting a pressure on a firm's stakeholders to incite them to invest in environmental risk prevention. We study the effect that such legal decisions can have on financing relationships and especially on the incentives to reduce environmental risk in an environment where banks cannot commit to refinance the firm in all circumstances. Following an environmental accident, liable banks more readily agree to refinance the firm. We then show that bank liability effectively makes refinancing more attractive to banks, therefore improving the firm's risk-sharing possibilities. Consequently, the firm's incentives to invest in environmental risk reduction are weakened compared to the (bank) no-liability case. We also show that, when banks are liable, the firm invests at the full-commitment optimal level of risk reduction investment. If there are some externalities such that some damages cannot be accounted for, the socially efficient level of investment is greater than the privately optimal one. in that case, making banks non-liable can be socially desirable.

Théâtralité, médialité et sociomédialité : fondements et enjeux de l'intermédialité théâtrale

Née de l’avènement des technologies numériques, l’intermédialité recouvre des phénomènes aussi vieux que les plus vieux médias. Qu’on considère le théâtre comme un média ou qu’on lui reconnaisse des propriétés médiatiques, l’approche intermédiale renouvelle considérablement la compréhension que nous avons de sa nature et de sa conjoncture : ses rapports avec d’autres médias et d’autres pratiques, en particulier ceux et celles nés des technologies électriques puis numériques. La dynamique intermédiale repose autant sur le principe de remédiation tel que l’ont défini Bolter et Grusin que sur celui de reste et résidu—les médias rési-duels d’Acland. Mais un média peut aussi bloquer la logique remédiante quand des agents considèrent que cette remédiation va à l’encontre des intérêts ou de l’identité du média. C’est ce que nous appelons la résistance médiatique dont l’histoire récente du théâtre offre de nombreux exemples. Parmi eux, celui de la très lente pénétration des technologies de reproduction sonore sur les scènes et dans les processus de création. L’article suggère différentes hypothèses qui expliqueraient à la fois les causes, les modalités et les effets de cette résistance au théâtre au cours du Long Siècle (1880 à aujourd’hui), c’est-à-dire depuis la révolution électrique qui a vu, en même temps, naître la lampe à incandescence et le micro. Si la première a envahi toutes les scènes du théâtre occidental en moins de vingt ans, le second a été tenu à l’écart de la représentation pendant trois quarts de siècle.