Climate scientists agree that (a) human activity is a significant driver of recent climate change, and (b) climate change is a danger to humanity. However, the general public accepts the former point, but rejects the latter. Thus, climate experts and the general public diverge in their understanding of the relationship between humans and climate…

Scope and Method of Study. The purpose of this research study was to determine the effectiveness of math teachers' judgments regarding a student's future achievement. Judgments were based on external observations or cues used as predictors of success. This study used Social Judgment Theory (SJT) to demonstrate a possible method for better…

This dissertation investigates the acquisition of oblique relative clauses in L2 Spanish by English and Moroccan Arabic speakers in order to understand the role of previous linguistic knowledge and its interaction with Universal Grammar on the one hand, and the relationship between grammatical knowledge and its use in real-time, on the other hand.…