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Predicting Success In Professional Training And Promotion For Air Force Noncommissioned Officiers, Geroge Mcclain Pittman
Predicting Success In Professional Training And Promotion For Air Force Noncommissioned Officiers, Geroge Mcclain Pittman
Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs
This study was performed to determine the relationship between the Administrative Airman Qualifying Examination, class standing in professional school and quickness of promotion of Air Force Noncommissioned Officers.
The Administrative AQE was chosen for study because studies have shown it to be unreliable a predictor of success in technical training and its validity has not been tested as a predictor of success in either professional training or promotion.
The sample of subjects consisted of three hundred and forty-four Air Force Noncommissioned Officers. This sample is representative of the population of Noncommissioned Officers who have taken the Airman Qualifying Examination (AQE) …
The Eisenhower Middle School Individualized Mathematics Program, Its Structure, Organization And Strategies, And The Effects Of Individualization On Student Achievement In Mathematics, Ellen Menasco Brown
The Eisenhower Middle School Individualized Mathematics Program, Its Structure, Organization And Strategies, And The Effects Of Individualization On Student Achievement In Mathematics, Ellen Menasco Brown
Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs
The purpose of the study was to describe the structure, organization, and strategies of the Eisenhower Middle School mathematics program and to evaluate the effects of an individualized mathematics program on the students achievement in mathematics at Eisenhower Middle School. The study was limited to the students at Eisenhower Middle School, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the school year, 1974-75. There was an average of 199 seventh graders and 241 eighth graders that participated in the program. The hypothesis of the study was that there were no significant differences in the performance of the students in the mathematics program at …
Preliminary Studies In The Acquisition Of Portuguese Morphology By Brazilian Children, ZéLia D. Mediano
Preliminary Studies In The Acquisition Of Portuguese Morphology By Brazilian Children, ZéLia D. Mediano
Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs
The first major purpose of this study was to find out how Brazilian children internalize some Portuguese morphological rules. The second major objective was to compare the findings with findings from other languages and with universals in the acquisition of morphology.
A research instrument was constructed to measure the productive aspects of substantive plurals, regular and irregular verb inflections, diminutives and augmentatives, and compound words. Real and nonsense words were used.
The population consisted of middle-class children attending private schools in the city of Rio de Janeiro. A sample of 210 children was randomly selected: 30 in each age group …
Assertive Training For Short-Term Psychiatric In-Patients, John P. Shethar
Assertive Training For Short-Term Psychiatric In-Patients, John P. Shethar
Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs
The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of assertive training with short-term psychiatric patients. The sample consisted of 36 subjects--18 males and 18 females--who were hospitalized patients at the Bernalillo County Mental Health Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Patients were asked to participate in the study upon admission, and were randomly assigned to groups of six to either of two control conditions or to an assertive training condition. The Assessment-Only control group was only administered pre- and post-tests. The Placebo Control group received ten hours of painting and drawing between the pre- and post-tests. TLe experimental groups …
Thoughtful Language, R. Joy Seymour
Thoughtful Language, R. Joy Seymour
Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs
Thoughtful Language discusses the frustration Seymour saw as students used workbooks. Her described teaching experiences and feelings lead to an evaluation of and objectives concerning the most significant language skills and student attitudes. The author read over three hundred books and/or articles concerning student-teacher attitudes, motives and the most effective English learning experiences; ninety-six references appear in the bibliography. That library research, the evaluation, and objectives form he bases of a language arts program that was established in the author's school. That program begins with all teacher-selected materials and assignments and leads to all studentselected materials and one weekly writing …