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A Study Of The Reading Proficiency Of Fourth Grade Children In North Dakota With Special Emphasis On The Disabled Reader, Michael S. Worner

Theses and Dissertations

Purpose of the Investigation: The purposes of the study were two-fold: (1) to determine the reading proficiency of fourth grade children in North Dakota, with a primary focus on the identification of disabled readers and (2) to ascertain the assistance that was provided for disabled readers by the schools and classroom teachers.

Questions of Study: The Study was designed to ascertain answers to the following questions:

1. How Xv^ell do fourth grade children in North Dakota read? The analysis of this question has three parts: how x^ell they read overall, how boys and girls compare in their reading, and how …

Source And Setting Credibility As Determinants Of Self-Referring Attitude Change, Charles D. Sullivan

Theses and Dissertations

The present study was designed to demonstrate the possible applicability of the concepts and findings from attitude change research to a counseling or psychotherapy situation. Expanding and elaborating on a study by Bergin (1963), the effects of source credibility and setting credibility were investigated with respect to their independent and combined effects upon changes in the self- referring attitude of masculinity following a male subject's reception of communication indicating a discrepancy between his own and the communicator's judgment. Changes in anxiety as a result of receiving the discrepant communication were also measured.

Each of 60 male college student volunteers was …

Distribution Of Relative Abundance Of Potential Prey Of Spotted Sandpipers (Actitis Macularia L.) On Little Pelican Island, Leech Lake, Cass Co., Minnesota, Donald Louis Rubbelke

Theses and Dissertations

Rot&ntiaJ p*ey Ite-ns ol spotted sandpipers (Actms macularia L.) were sampled during the summer ol 1974 on Little Pelican Island , Leech Lake# Cass County* Minnesota. Most abundant terrestrial food items were Dipitera of the families Chironomidae and Sciaridae. Most abundant aquatic organism# were cladocera, copepods, and amphipods of the class Eucrustaeaa. Three large hatches of insects occurred. The first, during the last week of May, was predominantly midges (Chironomidae). The second and the largest occurred during the last week of June and the first week of July. Mayflies (Heptageniidae and Ephemeridae) were most abundant and comprised the majority of …

The Effect Of The Presence Of An Unfamiliar Peer On Stranger Preference And Separation From The Mother In 15-Month-Olds, Robert Arlyn Harms

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the responses of 15-month-old toddlers to unfamiliar peers in the context of toddler-mother attachment. The subjects were twenty-two 15-month-old toddlers, who were observed singly and in pairs under mother-present and mother-absent conditions. Each toddler was involved in a sequence of six 3-minute episodes in an experimental room with toys. Using a counter-balanced procedure, three of the episodes for one toddler overlapped with three of the episodes for the other toddler so that one experimental session consisted of nine episodes. In both the one- toddler and the two-toddler halves of the six-episode …

An Investigation Of The Effects Of Imagination Enhancement Materiials On The Creative Abilities Of Fifth Grade Students, Michael William Radis

Theses and Dissertations

Problem: The purpose of this study was to determine if enhancement of children's imaginations by activities in a school classroom could improve their creative abilities.

The study was divided into two parts. Part one dealt with the effect of the imagination enhancement materials on the figural and verbal creativity of children as measured by the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. Part two looked at the effect of the imaginative materials on children's choice of reading materials and on the fantasy content of their creative writing.

Procedure: The research population for this study was one fifth grade classroom consisting of 25 …

The Frontier Judicial System Of Dakota Territory, 1861-1873, Bernard F. Hyatt

Theses and Dissertations

It is Lae purpose of this thesis to systematically study in detail the Dakota judicial system as related to its historical background and its formative frontier years from 1861 to 1873. It is an attempt to reveal the true nature of the judicial system and the people involved during this period.

The method used is a thorough research of available materials of the period under consideration. This is done in order to study the judicial system's historical background and that system itself--which includes its court structure, personnel, sessions, and cases. The basic research materials used are: (1) federal and territorial …

Relationships Among Teacher And Pupil Self-Concept And Pupil Reading Achievement At The First Grade Level, Verna L. Brantley

Theses and Dissertations

Problem: The purpose of this study was to examine relationships among teacher and pupil self-concept and pupil reading achievement at the first grade level. To accomplish this purpose pupil self-concept and pupil reading achievement were measured on a pre and post basis. Teacher data comprised of scores of teacher self-concept, teacher's views of the teaching profession, and teacher's views of children as students were also obtained. Attention was given to determining whether changes in the pupils' levels of self-concept had taken place during the school year, whether any exhibited changes in pupil self- concept correlated to changes in pupil reading …

The Role Of The Senate State And Federal Government Standing Committee During The 1975 North Dakota Legislative Assembly, Paulette C. Hansen

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Relationship Between Student Participation In A Secondary School Reading Program And Selected School Performance Variables, Marylin Jean (Walter) Guy

Theses and Dissertations

Problem: The purpose of this study is to investigate four questions: 1. Are Students' reading achievement gains that are attained through participation in a remedial reading program during the sophomore year retained thoughout high school? 2. Does participation in a secondary remedial reading program affect students' general school-related behavior? 3. What benefits do students perceive from participating in a remedial reading program? 4. What recommendations can be made to improve the existing remedial reading program at Red River High School in Grand Forks, North Dakota?

Identified from reading achievement and nonverbal IQ scores and selected from the 1973-74 sophomore class, …

Impact Of Metrication On Business In The United States, Barry F. Nass

Theses and Dissertations

This study is an examination of the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 and its resultant impact upon business and industry in the United States. The effects on business studied are international trade, ISO standards, data processing, personnel training and conversion costs. The study concludes that timely planning for the now inevitable conversion is absolutely essential to a smooth and least costly transition to the metric system, each man must be convinced of the desirability of the change and that he should contribute his share to making the change.

Determining Competence In Management Services, Kathleen Jacobs

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Geology Of The Western Portion Of The Dogtooth Pluton, Lake Of The Woods Region, Southwestern Ontario, Richard H. Pilatzke

Theses and Dissertations

A 10 km2 portion of a subsolvus, syntectonic or posttectonic grano dioritic intrusion located about 16 km east of Kenora, Ontario was extensively sampled for study by petrographic modal analysis and trend surface analysis. The Dogtooth pluton, the main intrusive body sampled, is part of a granitic batholith known as the Dryberry dome, which is interpreted to have been intruded into supracrustal volcanic and sedi mentary rocks about 2480 million years ago during the Kenoran Orogeny. The Longbow pluton, which was also sampled, occurs at the west margin of the Dryberry dome in contact with the supracrustal rocks to the …

The Glacial Geology Of Mckenzie County, North Dakota, Clark Clark Fulton

Theses and Dissertations

Fourteen lithostratigraphic units composed of windblown, glacial, lake, slopewash, and stream sediment were distinguished in McKenzie County, The units were mapped using aerial photographs, topographic maps, and soil maps combi11ed with field e:xaminations of sediment outcrops. Eight of the units have been formally named and described in earlier studies. Four of them, however, have not been a"~ previously named and formally described .a.nu assigned names in this study. Two other units are described, but because of their limited exposure, are not assigned a formal lithostratlgraphic name. The oldest sediment exposed in the county was deposited during the Paleocene and the …

Foraminiferids Of The Cannonball Formation (Paleocene, Danian) In Western North Dakota, William E. Fenner

Theses and Dissertations

In 1974 and 1975 about 2800 samples (of which 265 contained foram iniferids) of the Cannonball Formation were collected from 60 water test wells and two oil wells in Adams, Bowman, Burleigh, Divide, Dunn, Grant, Mercer, Morton, Oliver, Sioux, and Ward Counties in western North Dakota. Fifty species of benthonic foraminiferids and four species of planktonic foraminiferids were identified including eight textulariines, two milio lines and 44 rotaliines. Taxa reported for the first time from the Can nonball include: Reophax sp. (2 species), Am:mobaculites expansus Plummer, Spiroplectammina wilcoxensis Cushman and Ponton, Quinqueloculina plummerae Cushman and Todd, Dentalina eocenica Cushman, Lenticulina …

Pleistocene Geology Of The Comstock-Sebeka Area, West-Central Minnesota, Curtis A. Anderson

Theses and Dissertations

This study is a reconnaissance of the surficial geology and a reconstruction of the late Cenozoic history of an area in westcentral Minnesota. The study area extends eastward from the Comstock area (14 miles south of Moorhead, Minnesota) in the Red River Valley to the Sebeka area (13 miles north of Wadena, Minnesota). The area is about 27 kilometres wide and 140 kilometres long.

Surface materials include Pleistocene glacial sediment and Pleistocene and Holocene fluvial, lacustrine, eolian, and bog sediment.

Four geomorphic districts are recognized. The flat Lake-Plain District is underlain by sand, silt, and clay that was deposited as …