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A Comparison Of Two Approaches To Training For Mothers Of Kindergarten Children Evaluated As Deficient In Readiness Skills., Edythe Klassen Eymann

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

PURPOSE: It was the purpose of this study to compare the academic gains of kindergarten children showing six to eighteen months' deficiency in readiness skills as measured by the ABC Inventory in September, 1973. This comparison was based on parent education experiences and a structured mother-child games technique durinq the early months of the subjects' kindergarten school year.

A Curriculum For Administrators Of Residential Care Homes For The Aging, Betty Ann Hickman

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The intent of my project is to recognize the importance of the residential care home administrator by providing him or her with a training curriculum in order to have additional knowledge upon which to base program planning. Perhaps, someday, a unique type of care outside as well as inside California.

Fitness Theory And Aspects Of Behavioral Ecology In Two Sympatric Pacurus Species At Dillon Beach, California : Decapoda, Anomura), John Erickson Warner

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In the present study, aspects of the behavior and ecology of two sympathetic intertidal hermit crabs, Pagurus hirsutiusculus and Pagurus samuelis were studied with the intention of expanding the use of fitness set analysis to other species, particularly extending studies over the entire breeding season.

The Distribution And Accumulation Of Mercury, Lead, And Cadmium In Selected Species Of The Northern California Intertidal Mussel Bed, Vijay Kumar Khanna

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The mussel bed and its multitude of inhabitants form a life community typical of our intertidal, rocky, open-coast areas. These animals are essentially immobile, are conveniently available at low tide, and have been well defined in their consumer order. Certain main members from this community were chosen with the intention that they would represent an index of heavy metal pollution for a given area under different seasonal and other variable conditions. Samples for monitoring were collected from two different sites. The first site was immediately outside the entrance to San Francisco Bay and located between Seal Rocks and Phelan Beach …

The Effects Of N-Length And Iti On Resistance To Extinction In A Free-Operant Situation, Raymond Kenworthy Mulhern Jr.

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The prediction of Capaldi's sequential learning theory (i966, 1967, 1970) that resistance to extinction (Rn) increases as a function of the number of successive nonrewarded trials (N-length) conditioned to the instrumental response has recently been supported in a discrete-trials leverpress situation but not in a free-operant leverpress situation (Wolach & Ferraro, 1971). To investigate this discrepancy, 32 male albino rats were trained to leverpress in the presence of a visual s^D under one of two N-length conditions (8 or 16) and one of four intertrial interval (ITI) conditions (5, 10, 15, or 30 sec.), the lowest of which corresponded …

Curso De Español Para Estudientes Del Primer Año De Bachillerato, Normal O Comercio De La Republica De Honduras, Jose Gilberto Arita

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Appropriateness Of Selected Inservice Education Practices As Perceived By Secondary School Educators., Dushan Angius

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine if differences existed between the perceptions of secondary school teachers and the perceptions of principals regarding the appropriateness of selected inservice education practices in the amelioration of specific instructional difficulties. Ancillary purposes of the investiga·tion were to determine if perceptual differences existed among teachers when they were grouped by experience, sex, and teaching assignment.

The Impact Of S.B. 90 On Fiscal Equity, Equalization Of Educational Opportunity, And The Purposes Of Expenditures Among California Schools., Louis Paul Martini

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The court case of Serrano vs. Priest has brought school finance to the forefront in California politics. Senate Bill 90 was enacted as the legislature's initial response to the problems raised in that decision. The purpose of this study was to determine whether S.B. 90 had an influence on fiscal equity, equalization of educational opportunity, and purposes of expenditures among selected California school districts.

A Biosystematic Study Of Allium Amplectens Torr, Vickie Lynn Cain

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This investigation attempts to verify the identification of the anthocyanin in A. amplectens by spectral means. An attempt was also made to identify the sugars, and possibly their locations on the heterocyclic ring system, of the anthocyanins.

The Wide World Of Jack London, Howard Lawrence Lachtman

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The high apostle of the adventure tale in the Strenuous Age, Jack London has never really relinquished the popularity which made him before his death one of the best known and, most widely read writers in the world. It is true that more than one pontiff of literary taste has consigned him to the same, "obsolete" file that contains the remains of Richard Harding Davis, David Graham Phillips, William Sidney Porter, but such reports of London's demise have undoubtedly been premature. Indeed, the contemporary momentum of Jack London studies affords excellent evidence of the critical rediscovery of an American legend. …

Effects Of Frontal Cortex And Caudate Nucleus Lesions On Stimulus Generalization Learning In Rats, Arlene Ruth Bader

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the present experiment was to compare the behavioral consequences in rats of lesions of the frontal pole area (FP), the anterior median cortex (AM) described by Leonard, and the caudate nucleus (CN) on a brightness stimulus generalization task. It was hypothesized that deficits in stimulus generalization learning would be demonstrated by rats who received the AM and CN lesions, and that no deficits would be shown by FP lesioned and control (c) animals.

Towards An Interactional Theory Of Educational Therapy, Johanna R. Goldsmith Bauer

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

PROBLEM: The development and presentation of theoretical assumptions about the interactional aspects of educational therapy for the severely dysfunctional pupil.

PURPOSES: To provide a conceptual framework for the study of educational therapy as practiced and to develop a baseline for further research into psycho-educational strategies and their outcome.

METHOD: An examination of systems and communications theory literature for models applicable to the educational-therapist-pupil dyad and of the use of field observations of educational therapists' behaviors.

FINDlNGS: An application of communications theory models and observations of educational therapist teaching behaviors seem to suggest the following theoretical assumptions: Initial, or first order …

Jews In The Mirror: From Hatred To Reconciliation In American-Jewish Fiction., Joseph D. Gallo

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Isaac Rosenfeld's short novel The Colony¹ is an orwellian allegory which on a significant level explores the range of attitudes expressed by contemporary Jews toward themselves and other Jews. Set in an exotic fictional country on the Indian subcontinent, the narrative pits the intellectual Satya, successor to a prophet-like leader, against the machinations of a controlling technology given to efficiency and the waging of modern war. During a rally at which he urges his audience to passively "despise and disobey," Satya is seized and imprisoned, whereupon his true ordeal begins. He is accosted by foes even more formidable than …

A Study Of The Effects Of A Creative Thinking Skills Program On Intermediate Grade Educationally Handicapped Children., Lawrence Wesley Sharpe

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Statement of the Problem: The problem of this study was to determine if the verbal and figural creative abilities of educationally handicapped children can be appreciably enhanced through an educational environment using brainstorming and programmed instruction techniques

Sex-Role Stereotyping As A Function Of Counselors' Judgments, Susanna Nieman Grossman

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine counselors' expectations as they pertain to sex-role stereotyping of both males and females. This study represents an attempt to partially replicate the research of Braverman et al. (1970).

The subjects were 120 high school and community college counselors randomly selected from California public schools and 60 counselors-in-training randomly selected from five California public and private universities.

Data were gathered with the Stereotype Questionnaire. It is composed of 38 bipolar items each describing a characteristic attribute of an individual. Each counselor and counselor-in-training completed one of three forms--adult, male, or female. Data were …

The Effects Of Teacher In-Service Training In Values Clarification On Attitudes Of Elementary School Students Toward Themselves, School, And The Teacher, Michael Nathan Coy

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

PROBLEM: The primary objective of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of implementing a teacher in-service training program in values clarification on the attitudes students develop toward themselves, school, and the teacher.

PROCEDURE: Two kindergarten through sixth grade elementary schools served as the experimental and control groups for the study. Ten classes of third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students participated in the experimental group and eight third through sixth grade classes of students served in the control group. The teachers in the experimental school received sixteen days of in-service training in values clarification between August 31, 1973 and …

Transformational Technique In Gabriel Fielding's "In The Time Of Greenbloom", May Grant Robbie

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Gabriel Fielding's In the Time of Greenbloom is a major twentieth century novel that has received literary critical attention. With its dramatic plot and colorful characters, it has an immediate surface appeal for most readers. The novel requires deeper, symbolical reading in order to reach its central theme, man's potential for transformation.

John Blaydon, the protagonist, is a very different young man at the end of the novel from the child he is at the beginning. His activities, the narrative base of the novel, reveal more than the external events of his life. Fielding uses them as objectification of confrontations …

Conrad's "Nostromo" And The Imagery Of Despair, Terry Lane Kimble

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Conrad ' s significance as a major novelist having been well established by the present time , one may justly turn attention to a consideration of whether Nostromo, his masterpiece, deserves the paradoxical ranking critics generally accord it as a flawed and essentially inexplicable work of genius . Nostromo is the focus of the present study, which establishes by extensive analysis that Conrad employs a complex imagistic technique, manifesting thereby not only thematic content but also compositional method. Basic to this technique is the tend ency to view a subject in terms of polarities , around which to cluster images …

Communication Within The Academic Community At The University Of The Pacific: A Descriptive Study 1973-1974, Richard Frank Sebok

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to identify communication concerns and develop recommendations for improving communication within the academic com- munity at the University of the Pacific.

The subjects were 165 randomly selected members of the academic commun- ity of the University of the Pacific. The sample represented the following academic categories: university president, academic vice-president, deans/ provosts, crpartment chairmen, and faculty.

Data were gathered with a survey instrument designed by the author to specifically elicit communication information for the study. The instrument contained 60 items with a response continum of strongly agree (SA), agree (A), disagree (DA), and strongly …

An Examination Of The Effectiveness Of Poirier's Team Learning In Reducing The Number Of Socially Isolated Elementary School Children And The Intensity Of Social Isolation Of Fringe Isolate Children In The Elementary School Classroom, Richard Joseph Scadamaglia

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

PROBLEM: Because of the detrimental effects of social isolation on children's achievement, peer relations and self-image, there is a need for an effective classroom organizational program which will reduce the number of isolates and fringe isolates among elemertary school children. PURPOSE: Since Poirier's team learning exposes the isolate to a high incidence of social interaction, it was the objective of this study to investigate the effectiveness of Poirier's team learning in improving the sociometric standing of children identified as social isolates and fringe social isolates in the elementary school. PROCEDURES: Twenty -two randomly selected classes were selected from six San …

Facilitation Of Retrieval Of Words From Long Term Memory, Edward John Federman

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This paper investigated whether retrieval may be facilitated by a process in which one learns to retrieve in a manner analogous to learning to learn as demonstrated by both Harlow's (1965) work with monkeys and Postman's and Keppel's (1966; Keppel, Postman, & Zavortnik, 1968) work in verbal recall. While the major focus of this study was to demonstrate this phenomenon, and the analogies cited suggest that the process will remain unspecified, an attempt was made to indicate and analyze the processes involved in the facilitation.

Flowering Plants Of Omega Mine, Table Mountain, Tuolumne County, California, Mary Wilcox

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The flora of California has been studied as a whole, but with the exception of Yosemite Valley few specific areas in Tuolumne County have been investigated.

The area chosen for this investigation was approximately forty acres of the lava flow known as Table Mountain. This forty acres is located in the southeast portion of the Omega Mine near Rawhide Flat, Tuolumne County, California. The decision to use this area for study was based on its relative freedom from man's influence and its accessibility. The Omega Vine belongs to the author and its use was restricted during the period of investigation

Three Related Pieces, Edwin Scott Erickson

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Organizational Climate Of Schools Administered By Female And Male Elementary School Principals., K. Jessie Kobayashi

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to compare the organizational climate of schools administered by female elementary school principals with those administered by male elementary school principals as perceived by teachers. A comparison was made to determine differences in the perception of teachers of (1) organizational climate, (2) specific behaviors of each group of principals; and (3) specific behaviors of the staffs working with each group of principals. The population for this study was comprised of teachers in public schools which serve pupils in kindergarten through grade eight or any portion thereof. A random selection of fifteen staffs working with …

Differential Effects Of Organizational Aids Upon Concept Acquisition And Retention Of Meaningful Verbal Materials, Laura Shirley Rosso

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Purpose: The study was conducted to determine the effects ot organizational aids upon concept acquisition and retention of meaningful verbal materials. Two organizational aids, 250 words in length, were developed as specified by Ausubel: one in prose form one in question form, each containing a generalized synopsis of an accompanying 2,500-word learning passage. It was hypothesized that an organizer, placed either before or after the learning passage, would differentially benefit the four treatment groups when compared with control groups on the criterion test. In order to determine the relative function of other classroom variables contributing simultaneously to the learning process, …

In This Wild Water: The Biography Of Some Unpublished Manuscripts By Robinson Jeffers, 1887-1962, James Michael Shebl

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

For Robinson Jeffers, poet-philosopher and naturalist of Carmel, California, the universe is one entity, a "being out of grasp of the mind enormous." Its parts are only differing manifestations of a single energy; all bear upon one another, influence one another. According to Jeffers we humans attain true freedom and peace by turning avmy from self, from mere humanity and human contrivances, imaginings, and dreams. This is Jeffers' Doctrine of Inhumanism: a dark philosophy which proved increasingly unpopular as Jeffers more and more adamantly insisted upon dramatizing mankind's smallness in the immense context of the universe.

The biography of The …

Synthesis And Reactions Of P-Nitrobenzyl 4,6-0-Benzylidene-2,3-Di-0-Methoxymethyl-Β-D-Glucopyranoside, Ray Douglas Carpenter

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this work was the preparation of specifically blocked D-glucose derivatives with a free hydroxyl group on the anomeric carbon (C-1).

Population Ecology Of The Littoral Fringe Gastropod Littorina Planaxis In Northern California, Russell James Schmitt

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Life history patterns of individual organisms are the result of natural selection and should be correlated with particular physical and biological characteristics of habitats in which they live. The littoral fringe is known to be the most severe physical habitat in the intertidal zone, and it is expected that organisms in it should have population characteristics associated with selective response to physical adversity rather than biological interaction. Ecological studies of populations of Littorina planaxis were made in the Dillon Beach and Bodega Head areas. The study localities differed principally in extent of wave exposure rather than geographical location.

A Comparison Of Authoritarian And Ressentient Attitudes Among High School Coaches, College Physical Education Majors, And Other College Students, Roger L. Brautigan

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The questions posed by this study were: (1) To determine the relationship between authoritarianism and ressentience among high school coaches employed within San Joaquin County, California.; and (2) To compare authoritarianism and ressentience among high school coaches within San Joaquin County, California, a sample of college students majoring in physical education, and a sample of college students majoring in a subject area other than physical education attending the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California.

Nitrous Acid Deamination Reactions Of Benzyl Amino-4,6-0-Benzylidene-D-Hexopyranosides, Wai-Pan Chan

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This study concerns an investigation of nitrous acid deamination of various amino sugar derivatives. Deamination reagents have also been used for the diazotization of aromatic compounds. Nitrous acid deamination was used in the deamination of amino acids pinacolic amino alcohols and amino sugars.