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Predicting Student Performance In A Beginning Computer Science Class (Piaget, Personality, Cognitive Style), Laurie Honour Werth
Predicting Student Performance In A Beginning Computer Science Class (Piaget, Personality, Cognitive Style), Laurie Honour Werth
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Pupose of the Study. The purpose of this study was to determine factors which effectively predict success in a first course for computer science majors. A secondary goal was to provide a model of the successful computer science student in order to improve teaching and learning in the classroom; Procedures. The sample consisted of 58 students enrolled in all three sections of Computer Science I, during Spring semester, 1985. Student characteristics selected included age, sex, previous high school and college grades, number of high school and college mathematics classes, number of hours worked, and whether the job was computer-related or …
An Analysis Of The Role Of The Division Director Or The Associate Dean In The Community College, Patricia Jeannette Butler
An Analysis Of The Role Of The Division Director Or The Associate Dean In The Community College, Patricia Jeannette Butler
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Many community colleges have three levels of administration. The first level is the chief administrator, the second level is the group of deans or vice presidents, and the third level is the group of division directors or the associate deans. This descriptive dissertation examines the third level administrator who manages in the instructional areas in relation to the perception of the role utilizing Guba and Getzel's Administrative Theory of Social Systems. Employing a selective sampling throughout the United States over five hundred third level administrators responded to a survey which asked them to describe their general responsibilities, their current issues …
A History Of The Associate Degree Nursing Program In Nevada, 1963-1983, Deloris J Middlebrooks
A History Of The Associate Degree Nursing Program In Nevada, 1963-1983, Deloris J Middlebrooks
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This study discusses the development of the present four associate degree nursing programs in the state of Nevada. It begins with a brief overview of the development of the associate degree program in the nation. Next it examines the survey of Nevada's nursing needs and the plans and actions taken by citizens of Nevada in response to the survey; The first school began in what later became the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In 1967 federal money was obtained to operate associate degree and baccalaureate nursing classes as a joint venture between the Reno and Las Vegas campuses of the …
Use Of The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator To Differentiate Between Conduct Disordered, Emotionally Disturbed, And Clinically Normal Adolescents, Aldyne Pearl Miley
Use Of The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator To Differentiate Between Conduct Disordered, Emotionally Disturbed, And Clinically Normal Adolescents, Aldyne Pearl Miley
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This study investigated whether conduct disordered and emotionally disturbed students demonstrate different temperament dimensions, personality characteristics and temperaments from each other and students who are categorized as clinically normal. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was administered to 172 regular junior/senior high school students, 21 conduct disordered and 32 emotionally disturbed students. Results of comparisons between conduct disordered and emotionally disturbed and clinically normal students were inconclusive for several reasons: insufficient numbers of emotionally handicapped subjects; possible contamination within the categories of the conduct disordered and emotionally disturbed; and lack of correspondence between the two normative groups. At the same time, significant …
A History Of The Office Of Nevada's State Superintendent Of Public Instruction, 1861 - 1985 (Job Description, Evolution Of Office, Significance, Role, Perception), Carolyn Sullivan Reedom
A History Of The Office Of Nevada's State Superintendent Of Public Instruction, 1861 - 1985 (Job Description, Evolution Of Office, Significance, Role, Perception), Carolyn Sullivan Reedom
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to trace the evolution of the Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Nevada from the time of territorial organization in 1861 to the present date with emphasis on the role of the superintendency, definition of the role, the public's perceptions and actual execution of the position; The study showed the various stages of progress and change which the Office has undergone in its four distinct periods of growth. It identified five distinct factors which have influenced the State Superintendent's role during each of the four periods. The five factors were: (1) …
Resource Allocation In Public Education: A Thirty Five Year Historical Study Of Public School Budgets In Clark County, Nevada, William Allan Fisher
Resource Allocation In Public Education: A Thirty Five Year Historical Study Of Public School Budgets In Clark County, Nevada, William Allan Fisher
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This historical study analyzed thirty five years of public school expenditures for evidence of change in spending patterns to discover whether or not the organizational structure of the schools has been allowed to drift from public expectations; Budget expenditures from year to year were reclassified by the USED codes in Handbook II. This rigorous classification and the LOTUS 123 spread sheet enabled the researcher to hold all data constant; The study demonstrated that school boards' objectives had not changed between 1950 and 1985. Nevertheless, seven fundamental changes occurred in the operation of the schools and that all noninstructional school programs …
A Programmatic And Scheduling Needs Assessment For The University Of Nevada, Las Vegas, Francis Xavier Brown
A Programmatic And Scheduling Needs Assessment For The University Of Nevada, Las Vegas, Francis Xavier Brown
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of external communities toward the programs and scheduling of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Clark County, Nevada was the metropolitan area studied. The county included only one full service university. The area was isolated from other full service institutions and was a nontraditional area that maintained a 24-hour work schedule. A county-wide school district operated many elementary schools on a 12-month schedule. A major Air Force base was present whose work hours conflicted with traditional university teaching hours; Surveys were taken from three groups. They were the Clark County …
Factors Which Affect Satisfaction And Dissatisfaction Of Teachers In Rural Schools (Nevada; Arizona; Utah), Tommy R Leavitt
Factors Which Affect Satisfaction And Dissatisfaction Of Teachers In Rural Schools (Nevada; Arizona; Utah), Tommy R Leavitt
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Sergiovanni, replicating a design developed and used by Herzberg, found that teaching had its own unique set of job satisfiers and dissatisfiers. This study investigated teachers in rural schools for congruency with the job satisfiers and dissatisfiers identified by Sergiovanni; It was hypothesized that when rural school teachers responded to the Sergiovanni factors, there was no significant difference between the proportion of times a given factor was reported as a satisfier and the proportion of times the same factor was reported as a dissatisfier; It was also hypothesized that based on the frequency of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction incidents, teachers …
Relationship Between Personality Types And Effective Leadership Styles, Maurice Flores
Relationship Between Personality Types And Effective Leadership Styles, Maurice Flores
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to determine what were the relationships, if any, that existed between the most common personality types of selected elementary school principals, as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and the most effective leadership styles as measured by the Leader Effectiveness and Adaptability Description (LEAD), a measure of leadership effectiveness. The focus was to determine whether these two instruments possessed sufficient discriminative powers to effect a distinction between effective and ineffective administrators prior to their appointment as administrators; The findings are summarized as follows: (1) The difference between the scores that was used to …