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A Study Of The Possible Relationship Between And Among Reading Failure And Selected Personality Variables With Severity Of Criminality, Jodene Smith Glad
A Study Of The Possible Relationship Between And Among Reading Failure And Selected Personality Variables With Severity Of Criminality, Jodene Smith Glad
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Discrete personality dimensions and reading level were compared to the length of sentence for 99 adjudicated adult male felons who were among the first to enter Indian Springs Correctional Center near Las Vegas, Nevada. Personality dimensions were measured by the California Test of Personality, 1953 Revision, Adult. To measure reading, the Adult Ability Learning Examination was used. A paired stepwise multiple R was used to consider any relationship between reading and each personality dimension, in turn, with length of sentence as a measure of criminality. The results of the statistical analysis of reading and selected personality variables failed to show …
Thinking Styles (Right-Left Brain Dominance) Of School Administrators And Their Relationship To Leader Effectiveness (Hemisphericity, Supervision), Bradley Scott Reitz
Thinking Styles (Right-Left Brain Dominance) Of School Administrators And Their Relationship To Leader Effectiveness (Hemisphericity, Supervision), Bradley Scott Reitz
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This study was designed to analyze the thinking styles of selected school administrators and to assess whether specific thinking styles were related to effectiveness. Subjects selected for the study were the 226 applicants to the Tennessee Administrator Career Ladder Program, of which 107 chose to participate; The Human Information Processing Survey (HIPS) was used to measure the degree of left, integrated, and right preferred thinking styles of the participants. Raw scores were converted to standard scores and analyzed according to the independent variables of gender, position, age, experience, education, type of school, and level of effectiveness. The measure of effectiveness …
An Integrated Program For Effective Organizational Change Within A School District Involving Staff, Student, And Citizen Participation (Group Culture, Management Skills, Team Building, Integrated Planning, Incentive), Patricia Schofield Schank
An Integrated Program For Effective Organizational Change Within A School District Involving Staff, Student, And Citizen Participation (Group Culture, Management Skills, Team Building, Integrated Planning, Incentive), Patricia Schofield Schank
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to develop an integrated program for effective organizational change within a school system involving staff, student, and citizen participation. Concepts and practices pertinent to strategic planning and in harmony with systems theory were examined and applied to educational planning. The complex human elements of an organization that can act as barriers against or channels for facilitating planned change were reviewed as interdependent with strategic planning and participative decision-making; Five steps to organizational success were presented as forming an integrated approach to planned change within a school system. Built upon each other in sequential order …
The Relationship Between Stressor Rankings And Management Styles Of Nevada Elementary And Secondary Public School Principals (Leadership Style, Stress), Michael Sutton Robison
The Relationship Between Stressor Rankings And Management Styles Of Nevada Elementary And Secondary Public School Principals (Leadership Style, Stress), Michael Sutton Robison
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to determine what relationships existed between various stressor rankings selected from the Administrative Events Stress Inventory, and selected leadership styles as determined by the Leader Adaptability Style Inventory and exhibited by the elementary and secondary school administrators in the State of Nevada; The findings of the study were: (1) A majority of Nevada school principals were of the leadership style consisting of a High Task/High Relationship orientation. (2) There were no significant correlations between the four leadership styles as determined by the Leader Adaptability Style Inventory and selected job stressor events selected from the …
The Status Of Computer-Based Preparatory Programs For School Administrators, Phyllis Kay Carl
The Status Of Computer-Based Preparatory Programs For School Administrators, Phyllis Kay Carl
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Departments of Educational Administration (DsEA) within Colleges of Education have been the traditional training institutions for men and women seeking to become school administrators. Since the early years when one teacher in a school also assumed the cursory role of head teacher to handle the few administrative tasks that needed to be done, the tasks of educational administration have changed and developed over the decades. DsEA have responded to the changes and new developments with appropriate courses to enable administrators to execute their many varied and complex tasks; Computers, especially microcomputers, have rapidly impacted school instruction and management. As a …
The Identification Of Computer Competencies: Training Guidelines For A Teacher Preparation Program, Janice Eleen Wentz
The Identification Of Computer Competencies: Training Guidelines For A Teacher Preparation Program, Janice Eleen Wentz
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to identify the competencies that all teachers need in order to use computers effectively in education. It was the intent of the investigation to develop a list of essential competencies to serve as guidelines in the formulation of objectives for computer coursework in teacher training programs and in the formulation of recommendations for state requirements for teacher endorsement in computer literacy; In accordance with the first question in Tyler's rationale, three sources were used to collect information about computer competencies for teachers: (a) contemporary life, (b) subject specialists or experts, and (c) learners. Specific …