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Schmid, Andrea N.; Thompson, Jan R.; Bengston, David N. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2007
Effective educational and management programs to improve water quality will require an improved understanding of public perceptions of the relationship between land use and water quality. We analyzed a large database of newspaper articles in the Upper Mississippi River Basin to assess the public discourse about water quality and land use, and…
Descriptors: Water Quality, Environmental Education, Land Use, Earth Science
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Clopper, Cynthia G.; Pisoni, David B. – Language and Speech, 2004
Two groups of listeners learned to categorize a set of unfamiliar talkers by dialect region using sentences selected from the TIMIT speech corpus. One group learned to categorize a single talker from each of six American English dialect regions. A second group learned to categorize three talkers from each dialect region. Following training, both…
Descriptors: Sentences, Dialects, North American English, Perception
Link, Greg – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2004
The BC Council on Admissions and Transfer (BCCAT) has had a long-standing interest in measures of student mobility and the potential of the Provincial Education Number (PEN) being applied in post-secondary institutions at the applicant stage. The Admissions Committee of BCCAT included a project in its 2004/05 Work Plan to conduct a thorough…
Descriptors: Research Committees, Foreign Countries, Student Mobility, Feasibility Studies