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Parent Expectations Of Collegiate Teaching And Caring, W. Wayne Young Jr.
Parent Expectations Of Collegiate Teaching And Caring, W. Wayne Young Jr.
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This exploratory research determined parent expectations of their traditionallyaged student’s postsecondary institution with an investigator developed and validated survey entitled the PECTAC (Parent Expectations of Collegiate Teaching and Caring). The PECTAC instrument was predicated upon a culling from relevant literature to reflect topics and issues related to the teaching and caring functions of a private and religiouslyaffiliated Midwestern university. Parent participants were asked to provide basic demographic information in addition to ranking each item based on perceived importance.
A web-based survey software package was used to collect data from 475 participants. Dependent variables of parent gender and first-time college parent …
A Construction Of Twelve Lifelong Learners’ Perspectives: An In-Depth, Naturalistic Study Of Self-Integration Of Learning, Marvin L. Hunt
A Construction Of Twelve Lifelong Learners’ Perspectives: An In-Depth, Naturalistic Study Of Self-Integration Of Learning, Marvin L. Hunt
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This research focuses on understanding people who have chosen to learn throughout their lives. A broad question guided this investigation: What is the rich, lived, lifelong learning experience from the individual’s perspective? This question allowed each participant freedom to explore and define issues he/she considered important relative to lifelong learning. Twelve lifelong learners from a wide range of backgrounds, ages, and experience were serially selected using maximum variation sampling. Most qualitative research uses a priori questions aimed at a specific topic, limiting participants’ discussion. In this study, however, grand tour questions prompted each participant to offer information about lifelong learning …
A Historical Study Of Nurse Anesthesia Education In Nebraska, Sharon Loseke Hadenfeldt
A Historical Study Of Nurse Anesthesia Education In Nebraska, Sharon Loseke Hadenfeldt
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA) was the first advanced practice nursing specialty, dating to the late Nineteenth Century in the United States. Nurses were first recruited and trained by surgeons to administer anesthesia beginning in the 1870’s in the United States. Apprenticeship training by either a surgeon, or another nurse, was the initial method of anesthesia training for the early nurse anesthetist. Post-graduate training programs began to appear within some hospitals at approximately 1910. The hospital-based nurse anesthesia programs became more standardized with the implementation of an accreditation program in 1952. Beginning in 1971 nurse anesthesia programs began to …
Using Personality Variables To Predict Academic Success In Personalized System Of Instruction, Kelly S. Petska
Using Personality Variables To Predict Academic Success In Personalized System Of Instruction, Kelly S. Petska
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Personality is a collection of emotional, thought and behavioral patterns that are unique to each person and relatively stable over time. How and why people differ from each other is a question that has been asked for centuries with various answers, hypotheses and theories. The five factor model (FFM) is the most-agreed upon personality model to date. The FFM consists of five factors that are used to globally describe personality: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. While personality has been studied fairly extensively in the traditional classroom; which typically involves face-to-face lectures, discussions, and in-classroom assessment of ability/comprehension, almost no …
Defining, Identifying, And Addressing Antisocial Behavior In Children Ages 4-7: The Perspectives Of Selected Elementary Principals In A Midwestern City School District, Audre Lynn Zaroban
Defining, Identifying, And Addressing Antisocial Behavior In Children Ages 4-7: The Perspectives Of Selected Elementary Principals In A Midwestern City School District, Audre Lynn Zaroban
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Children and youth are becoming involved in violent behavior at ever-younger ages. Early appearing behavior problems in a child’s school career are the single best predictor of delinquency in adolescence, gang membership, and adult incarceration. The purpose of this research was to identify successful interventions used by selected elementary principals which positively changed antisocial behavior in a kindergarten child. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with six elementary principals. The participants were chosen based on their district’s view of their success and were also chosen due to the low social economic status of the children in their building. Seven themes emerged from …