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NATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE PROCEEDINGS

Volume 38, #3

Spring Las Vegas Conference, 2008

Table of Contents

The Necessity of Culturally Responsive Assessment
Yukari Takimoto Amos, Cory Gann, Don Woodcock, Central Washington University

Hadassah’s Ideological Discourse in the Post World War II Era
Shirli Brautbar, Nevada State College

The Use of Discussion Board to Cultivate a Community of Learners
Becky J. Cox, Betty Cox, The University of Tennessee at Martin

Dealing with Difficult Parents in a School Setting: How Can Administrators
Keep the Peace?
Nancy Falsetto, National University

Deaf Education: Delivered the Friendly Way
Nancy Leffel Carlson, E. Jane Irons, Melissa M. Rusher, Mary Ann Gentry,
Lamar University

Forging Effective School Leaders: A Case Study in One State College
Phyllis Gimbel, Bridgewater State College
Deven Antani, New Bedford High School

Evaluation of Student Understanding of the First Amendment Through the use of
Large-Scale Databases
Jeffrey M. Hawkins, David Buckner, Oklahoma State University

Business Intelligence Application Packages: Trends and Determinants
Nathan Hoffman, William Barrera Fuentes, Vijay K. Agrawal,
University of Nebraska at Kearney

Are Closed-book Tests Necessarily the Best Type of Tests?
Bryan H. Hoyt, Ilie P. Vasilescu, University of Virginia’s College at Wise

The Iranian Nuclear Crisis
Harry M. Joiner, Athens State University

Balancing on the Backs of Children: A Contemporary Theoretical Examination
of Conflicting Claims to Educational Authority
Phillip P. Kelly, Boise State University

Maintaining and Reviewing Dream Records
Robert C. Koettel, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Rebuilding Asian Masculinity through Feminist Thought
Jimmy Liu, Central Washington University

A Closer Examination of the Impact of a Teaching American History Opportunities
for Educators Grant on Student Achievement
Riza D. Marjadi, Martin I. Milkman, Murray State University

Ethnocentrism in University Students in China and the United States: A Comparison
Margaret Miller Butcher, Carrol Haggard, Fort Hays State University

Two Experiments Examine Induced Anxiety, Depression, Anger and Assertiveness
that are Contrasted with the Conditions of Relaxed Music, Role Playing and Silence
and Indicate their Impacts on Cognitions and the Emotion of Anxiety
Edward J. Murray, Carol A. Puthoff Murray, Kent State University Ashtabula
Meghan P. Murray, Alliant International University

The Role of Colleges and Universities in Building Community Resilience to Disasters
Rose L. Pfefferbaum, Phoenix College

Restructuring Rural Infrastructure in India
C.S.N. Raju, Acharya Nagarjuna University

Understanding Why Four Incumbent Presidents Have Tried and Failed to Win
Their Party’s Presidential Nomination
Darrial Reynolds, South Texas College

Consumers’ Attitude toward Advertising by Dentists
Walter B. Rogers, H. Ronald Moser, Middle Tennessee State University

Pre-service Teachers’ Perceptions of the use of Scholastic Corporal Punishment
 in Indian Schools
Mark A. Seals, Alma College 

The Role of Social Identity in Intercollegiate Athletic Donors
James P. Strode, Ashland University

Urban Forestry in Longview, Washington: Street Tree Program
Juliana A. Weber, Central Washington University

The Virginia Tech Massacre from the British Press Perspective
Wayne S. Wooden, Jessica M. Burton, Hovsep K. Agop,
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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