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Earnings Growth Forecast for ETFs
Get PDFWe forecast earnings growth in the next 5 years for stock-market-indexed exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Our methods include the P/E and P/B cross-sectional regression-implied (RI) estimates and the earnings growth random-walk (RW) estimates. Our results show that compared with the actual earnings growth, both the RI and RW forecasts of earnings growth are unbiased for the U.S. ETFs but biased for the foreign ETFs. In addition, the RI method generates smaller forecast errors than the RW method for the U.S. ETFs but holds no advantage over the RW method for the foreign ETFs. Therefore, the RI forecast may be a useful method for the U.S. ETFs during our sample period of 2000-2023 but may not be so for the foreign ETFs
WORLD LANGUAGE TEACHERS' ASSESSMENT BELIEFS AND GRADING PRACTICES
No full textThesis (Ed.D.) - Indiana University, Department of Curriculum and Instruction/School of Education, 2025Gradebooks take center stage in educational settings and are used to determine a student’s eligibility to pass a class, graduate, or attend college. Grading practices are often private and vary greatly, even in the same department. This study examined one world language department in a U.S. public high school to compare the assessments that were entered into the teachers’ gradebooks, why and how those assessments were administered, and subsequently how they were weighted in the gradebook. I conducted interviews with seven world language teachers to explore the range of teachers’ beliefs about student achievement in world language, since this achievement could be assessed in many different ways, such as speaking, writing, reading, and listening. The qualitative research was conducted through individual interviews, to inquire about the teachers’ gradebook setups, their beliefs about student achievement, and each of the assessments found in their gradebook reports. The interviews were recorded on Zoom, transcribed, analyzed, and coded for themes through the lens of Bakhtin’s authoritative discourse. Assessment and gradebook practices in the interviews revealed diverse, patchwork views about world language achievement. The beliefs, ranging from macro to micro levels, related student world language achievement to understanding concepts, accumulating knowledge, communicating, negotiating meaning, participating in communities of practice, reciting and reading aloud, and connecting to cultures. The teachers also believed to varying degrees that non-academic factors like effort should be reflected in students’ grades. These results indicated that teachers’ beliefs may contribute to teachers’ avoidance of certain kinds of important assessments. Self-reflection along with individual and collaborative gradebook evaluations could aid teachers in finding gaps in their assessment practices. In departments that require the implementation of common assessments, holding diverse achievement beliefs can cause conflict, but collaboration and mutual training might improve the departments’ overall assessment and grading practices
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No full text8" x 10" framed photograph, Black and White. Yellowed with age. Held in physical IU East Archive collection.Eleanor on Horseback. Eleanor riding a black horse.
Another rider, female, is on a second horse. The setting is a hillside, sunny with trees and a view of a valley behind.
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Perceptions and Preferences in Primary Care: Public Understanding of Physician vs. Physician Associate Roles
No full text2025 winner of the "Chancellor's Award for Achievement for an Oral Presentation"This study examines public preference for physicians (MDs) versus physician associates (PAs) in primary care and assesses confidence in identifying their scope of practice. Participants indicate their preferred provider and evaluate statements about each profession’s responsibilities. The research explores whether individuals are more confident and accurate in identifying MDs’ scope of practice and how education level influences provider preference and confidence. Findings will offer insight into public perceptions of MDs and PAs, contributing to healthcare education and informed patient decision-making
FORENSIC FABULAE: STORY STRUCTURES IN ATTIC ORATIONS
No full textThesis (Ph.D.) - Indiana University, Department of Classical Studies, 2025Growing literary interest in the Attic Orators has led to an increasing number of literary analyses of their stories. These literary analyses have assumed that certain groupings of the speeches (e.g., by author, procedure, or position) can be meaningfully used for comparative analysis. In this dissertation, I set out to examine the corpus of Attic forensic oratory through a structural lens to see whether, when you apply different structural readings to the corpus, these or any other distinct categories or genres of narrative emerged. To pursue that goal, in each chapter I applied a different theoretical framework that has been previously productive in generating narrative groupings to the corpus as a whole to see whether any novel or useful categories emerged. I looked at narrative introductions, the chronotope, focalization, and character types. Although there are some commonalities, such as the narratives from inheritance disputes appearing to be meaningfully distinct from the rest of the corpus regardless of the analytic approach taken, each of these theoretical approaches generates different narrative groups. The implications of my findings are, thus, twofold. First, the groupings that my chapters identified should in and of themselves be productive avenues for further comparative studies of narrative in the orators. Secondly, and perhaps more significantly, the variety of potential narrative categories that emerge when applying a theoretical lens to the corpus in a category-agnostic way, demands that future comparative studies of narrative technique in Athenian forensic orations starts by questioning the validity and applicability of the axes along which the corpus is being divided for comparison
Discovering Yucky: Annotating its Genome and Finding Gene Function
No full text2025 winner of the "Outstanding Oral Presentation
Award"A bacteriophage named Yucky was discovered in the fall semester and selected for genome annotation for the Spring semester. Various computer programs were used to aid in the annotation and function assignment of Yucky’s genome: DNA Master, Phamerator, Starterator, NCBI BLAST, PhagesDB, HHPred, and DeepTMHMM. With these programs, as well as careful analysis and reasoning, key questions “Is it a gene?,” “Where does it start?,” and “What is its function?” were answered. Genome annotation helps identify unknown gene functions in bacteriophages and contributes to our understanding of bacteriophages
