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A Study To Determine If A Low Speed Driver Training Methodology Is As Effective As High Speed Driver Training Methodology In Training Law Enforcement Officers To Perform High Speed Driving, James Crovatt Humphlett

Learning Sciences Dissertations

Note: This dissertation was written for a Ph.D. in Vocational and Career Development.

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to determine if a low speed driver training methodology was as effective as a high speed driver training methodology in preparing Federal law enforcement officers to properly perform high speed driving.

Method and Procedures

This study used the facilities, equipment, supplies, and instructors of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) located in Glynco, Georgia. A table of random numbers was used to divide an intact group of 48 students into two groups. One group was trained in driver training …

Higher Education For Southern Women: Four Church-Related Women's Colleges In Georgia, Agnes Scott, Shorter, Spelman, And Wesleyan, 1900-1920, Florence Fleming Corley

History Dissertations

The histories of Presbyterian-related Agnes Scott, Baptist-related Shorter, and Methodist-controlled Wesleyan illustrate how white liberal arts, non-public schools in Georgia developed into accredited colleges during the Progressive Period. Northern Baptist-related Spelman's story tells how a black woman's seminary with a college level annex (associated with all-male Morehouse) was able to educate Negro women in the same time period, in the same state. The study briefly surveys the historical development of each school up to 1900 and compares and contrasts the relationships of the colleges and their respective "home towns" of Macon, Rome, Atlanta, and Decatur in 1900.

For the period …