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A Resource Guide For Interdisciplinary Teams In Middle Schools, Claudia Albrecht Tomanek

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation documents the development of a resource guide to offer members of interdisciplinary middle school teams assistance in performing teaching and group process functions. The guide addressed critical issues in implementing interdisciplinary teaming, team practices, and benefits of teaching teams for students and colleagues. Group process techniques included communication, decision making, and conflict resolution skills. Day-to-day function sections included job descriptions/teaming roles, parent involvement, student motivation, cooperative learning, curriculum integration, professional staff development, and evaluation.

Materials for this guide were drawn from current sources in the middle school field and assembled in a format that might be used for …

Entrepreneurship Education: Beliefs And Experiences Of North Dakota Vocational Secondary School Teachers, Dianne Potter Wood

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate North Dakota secondary school teachers’ beliefs about and experiences with teaching entrepreneurship education to secondary students. The study attempted to describe teachers’ perceptions of their experiences teaching entrepreneurship education to secondary school students.

This study included North Dakota secondary school teachers who had taught at least one stand-alone course in entrepreneurship education during the 1994-95 school year. Data were collected through a mail survey instrument and through personal interviews. The data from the 22 usable survey instruments were analyzed using descriptive statistics. A card-sort technique and open-ended questions were used during ten …

An Introduction To The Verbal System Of Central Dangaleat, Lawrence R. Burke

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is an analysis of the verbal system of Central Dangaleat, an Eastern Chadic language spoken in central Chad. Following the general introduction in chapter 1, the second chapter provides a basic introduction to the phonological system of the Central Dangaleat verbal system, focusing especially on syllable structure and epenthesis, vowel harmony and the tone system. Special attention is given to the relationship between consonant quality and tone in the language. Chapters 3 through 7 attempt to relate the Central Dangaleat tense, aspect and mood system to the proposals concerning the development of aspectual categories in Chadic as a …

Improving Aspen/Sp Computer Model Of Great Plains Coal Gasifiers, Md. Moazzem Hossain

Theses and Dissertations

The Great Plains Gasification Plant located in Beulah, North Dakota, operated by the Dakota Gasification Company (DGC) is the only commercial production plant in the United States making synthetic natural gas (SNG) from coal. DGC operates 14 Lurgi gasifiers to produce 158 million ft3/day of SNG from 17,000 tons of North Dakota lignite coal. As the first step in constructing a model of the entire plant to control its operation and optimize the economic performance, an ASPEN/SP computer model (called RGAS) of a Lurgi gasifier was developed with the combined effort of several researchers. RGAS will predict the impact of …

Behaviors, Attitudes, And Knowledge Related To Drug And Alcohol Prevention Curricula In North Dakota Seventh Through Twelfth Grade Students, Loretta Jean Heuer

Theses and Dissertations

Schools seem the natural place for the implementation of prevention programs because most children spend the majority of their youth in the educational system. The Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 made funds available to State Departments of Education to implement alcohol and drug programming in the public schools.

The primary purpose of this study was to compare prevention curricula on their levels of effectiveness in increasing knowledge about substance use and in preventing certain behaviors and attitudes. The sample population consisted of 36,693 participants (19,739 junior high and 16,954 senior high) in 1990 and 30,616 participants (16,581 junior …

Fact, Fiction, Film: Rex Beach And The Spoilers, James R. Belpedio

Theses and Dissertations

Alexander McKenzie and Rex Beach both traveled to Nome, Alaska, in the summer of 1900 to get rich. McKenzie attempted to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from the region's gold mines in one of the most outlandish schemes in the history of the American legal system. His plan failed and McKenzie xvas found guilty of contempt and sentenced to one year in jail. The incident began a twenty year slide in political power until his death in 1922. Rex Beach intended to discover gold, but like McKenzie, he also failed in his attempt. But he found a gold mine …

Dreams: A Translation Of Günter Eich's Träume, Ursula Meyknecht Hovet

Theses and Dissertations

This is the translation of Gunter Eich's Traume (Dreams), five radio plays, a series of fictive dreams. The individual dreams are framed and linked by narrative poems. I tried to keep Eich's style, including any proper names of the characters.

The Introduction provides a brief biography of Gunter Eich and an overview of the dreams. A short interpretation of Eich's theme(s) in the individual dreams follows the translation.

Visual And Auditory Information-Processing In Migraineurs: Beyond The Neuropsychological Quagmire, Jeffrey M. Kearney

Theses and Dissertations

It is estimated that 20 to 25 percent of the population suffers with migraine headaches. Despite the high prevalence rate, the exact mechanism(s) for producing migraine headache pain is(are) poorly understood at best. Some researchers have proposed that these headaches are entirely vascular in origin, while others have asserted that they are the result of an intricate transaction between genetic, biochemical, physiological, psychological, personality, and environmental factors.

In the past, migraine has been considered a benign syndrome. However, researchers using a variety of neurological measures and an even wider assortment of neuropsychological instruments have reported abnormalities in individuals with migraine …

Design And Implementation Of A Fuzzy Logic Speed Controller For An Internal Combustion Engine, Craig Jensen

Theses and Dissertations

Internal combustion engines are challenging to model and control. Uncertainties and nonlinearities pose operating problems for classical controllers. Delays inherent to the engine combustion cycle tend to introduce overshoot and oscillations in most control schemes. Most work that has been done in dealing with delays requires the designer to have extensive knowledge of the system to be controlled. Engines are very difficult to model accurately, thereby ruling out most of these techniques. Fuzzy logic is well suited to this problem, since an accurate model is not needed for design, and it is known to be robust to nonlinearities and parameter …

The Effects Of Laboratory Stress On Appraisal Of Control In Bulimia, Maria L. Kearney

Theses and Dissertations

Recent work pertaining to bulimia has shown that bulimics tend to perceive themselves as having a decreased ability to control their environments, particularly when faced with a stressful situation. Results from studies examining the type or amount of stress experienced by bulimics have been inconsistent. The transactional model of stress, which calls for the examination of an individual's appraisal of a situation, provides a more advanced method of measuring stress than has generally been used in past studies.

The present study sought to examine bulimics' perceptions of control in stressful and nonstressful situations using an in vivo behavioral task, Thirty …

Teacher Attitude And Curricular Change: The Journey Of Three Elementary Teachers, Marla Mastin

Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative* study focuses on the influence of three elementary teachers' attitudes on a mathematics curricular change. The study takes place in a small school district in southeastern New York. A collection of data was facilitated by observations, interviews, and journal entries for a period of nine months.

The analysis of the data resulted in six themes: (a) The three participants saw the rationale for the curricular change as suspect; (b) they also saw selected components of the new program as problematic; (c) two of the pai'ticipants felt that as they became more involved in the new mathematics curriculum their …

Minority Social Work Educators' Perspective On Minority Issues In Higher Education, Ranae Dummermuth Bickett

Theses and Dissertations

The data set utilized for this exploratory research was the result of a survey sent by the Commission on Minority Group Concerns to minority members of the Council on Social Work Education. Members who identified minority status on their Council on Social work membership form were mailed a survey in January of 1994.

The intent of this qualitative inquiry was to offer the respondents the opportunity to express their concerns regarding minority issues in social work education and provide suggestions to improve services to the Council on Social Work Education. In response to the surveys, the commission will be able …

Noun Classification Or Spatial Categorization: Damana Orientation Verbs, Larry P. Williams

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis argues against a nominal classification analysis of orientation verbs in Damana, A Chibchan language of northern Colombia. As shown through a careful analysis of eleven verbs, the verbal system of Damana primarily encodes spatial relations and does not classify objects by shape.

The evidence for this conclusion proceeds from several areas. First, I show that Damana does not meet the requirement for a noun class system. Secondly, I show that the same object can be freely associated with various verb stems depending on the object's orientation. Thirdly, in metaphorical extensions involving these 'noun class' verbs, it is a …

Matters Of Consequence, Mary Laycock

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.

In This Issue, Mary Laycock

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

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Shiver Me Timber, They'll All Sail Away: A Discussion Of The Predisposing And Precipitating Factors Influencing The Onset Of Eating Disorders And The Educator's Role In Their Prevention, Shirley Vaughn Greves

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.

A Novice Researcher's Journey Through Time: Making A Way In The Fieldwork Setting, Thomas S. Poetter

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.

Making The Familiar Strange: Learning Within And Beyond One's Cultural Borders, Paula Salvio, Tom Schram

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

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Pair Figure Skating: Team Teaching As We Experienced It, Xu Di, Margaret Zidon

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

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164th Infantry News: June 1995, 164th Infantry Association

164th Infantry Regiment Publications

June 1995 edition of the 164th Infantry News. A total of twelve pages, containing news articles, event notices, photographs, and personal memories from the veterans of the 164th Infantry Regiment.

Spring Commencement: May 14, 1995, University Of North Dakota

UND Commencement Programs

UND Spring Commencement program from May 14, 1995.

School Of Law Commencement: May 13, 1995, University Of North Dakota

UND Commencement Programs

School of Law Commencement program from May 13, 1995.

Doctor Of Medicine Commencement: May 6, 1995, University Of North Dakota

UND Commencement Programs

UND Doctor of Medicine Commencement program from May 6, 1995.

May 4, 1995, University Of North Dakota

University Senate Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the May 4, 1995, meeting of the University Senate. 54 pages

The Educational Systems Of Sparta And Athens, Robin N. Phillips

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Nikolai Spafarii Calamity : The Dismal Failure Of Russia's First Ambassadorial Mission To China (1675), Heidi M. Stark

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Campus Climate As Perceived By American Indian Students Attending The University Of North Dakota, Nancy D. Harles

Theses and Dissertations

The climate of a college or university had been identified as a critical factor in the success and/or failure of minority students. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify the campus racial climate as perceived by American Indian students attending the University of North Dakota (UND) at Grand Forks, North Dakota. American Indian students have been present on the UND campus since 1934. Over the years, their numbers have steadily increased, but their attrition rate has remained high.

In the spring semester of 1994, data were gathered using two survey instruments which were personally administered by the researcher …

Spontaneous Luteolysis In The Cyclic Golden Hamster: Evidence For Mediation Through Inflammation And Apoptosis, Mark W. Rodacker

Theses and Dissertations

Mammalian corpora lutea (CL) are transient ovarian glands which function to support pregnancy by secretion of progesterone (P). Sustained P secretion during pregnancy in the hamster requires gonadotrophic support, i.e., follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and prolactin (Prl). Infertile cycles require CL regression. In luteolysis, CL first regress functionally (FL) and then structurally (SL). FL permits the next estrous. Estrous occurs every fourth day in the hamster such that CL form, function briefly, and then regress rapidly and completely. With only one generation of CL present in each ovary at any one time, the hamster is an ideal model for studying …

Mothers' And Fathers' Responses On The Child Behavior Checklist: Are There Systematic Differences?, Ralph E. Casazza

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined parental responses on the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), and considered variables that may affect rating reliability. Subjects for the study were 82 matched parent-pairs who completed CBCL protocols on their clinic-referred children. Research variables included parent gender, child gender, and level of item objectivity. The data was analyzed at the CBCL scale (narrowband) and broadband (Externalizing and Internalizing) levels, utilizing analysis of mean differences, repeated-measures analysis of variance, and clinical classification agreement.

Results showed little or no mean difference between mothers' and fathers' scores, but a large degree of discrepancy for parent-pairs was evident. None of the …

Women Who Choose: The Theme Of Mothering In Selected Dramas, Becky K. Becker

Theses and Dissertations

Too often, the drama treats mothering as the expected outcome of marriage or as a biological necessity for women. Yet, dramatic texts which address the issue of mothering do exist. This paper examines the unique mothering choices made by the central characters in three dramatic texts: Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal. Ruth Wolff’s The Abdication, and Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles.

Chapter One introduces the selected theories of Ann Dally, Nancy Chodorow, and Barbara Katz Rothman, theorists whose diverse perceptions concerning mothering converge to provide an analysis of the complexity of mothering choices. Chapters Two through Four include analyses of the three …