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Perceptions Of Performance Appraisal By Cooperative Extension Service Agents In Selected Southern States., William L. Davis
Perceptions Of Performance Appraisal By Cooperative Extension Service Agents In Selected Southern States., William L. Davis
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Appraising the performance of employees is a necessary and vital process in the management of organizations. In the Cooperative Extension System, performance appraisal concerns all employees and influences work, motivation, and ultimately educational program impacts. Perceptions of the present and ideal performance appraisal process were obtained from 558 county agents in six selected southern states. The study focused on agent perceptions of the process, as currently followed and as a desired ideal, to see if there were perceptual differences, and to see if perceptions were influenced by personal characteristics, work characteristics and features of the process itself. The performance appraisal …
A Comparison Of Models Of Parole Outcome., Larry Allen Gould
A Comparison Of Models Of Parole Outcome., Larry Allen Gould
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The focus of this dissertation is on the criteria which parole boards use as the basis for their decision to release an offender on to parole. The literature strongly suggests that there are some objective measures of dangerousness on parole, such as the Salient Factor Score; however, the literature also indicates that parole boards use a great deal of subjective evaluation in making their decisions. Many of the subjective concepts used by parole boards can be measured objectively through a grounding in criminological theory. A model of parole outcome prediction which measures objectively several of the previously subjective variables, including …
An Ethnographic Study Of Kindergarten Children's Literacy Skills And Stress-Related Behaviors Before And After Teacher Demonstration., Nancy Crossland Weems
An Ethnographic Study Of Kindergarten Children's Literacy Skills And Stress-Related Behaviors Before And After Teacher Demonstration., Nancy Crossland Weems
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The purpose of this ethnographic research was to study kindergarten students' literacy skills and stress-related behaviors and a teacher's instructional behavior before and after demonstrations in appropriate bookreading strategies. A lower socio-economic setting, which previously had been identified by Burts, Hart, Charlesworth, and Kirk (1990a) as a developmentally inappropriate instructional environment, was selected for observation as one which might be amenable to change. The demonstrations included bookreading strategies that the kindergarten teacher could implement to promote the acquisition of literacy in ways that do not contribute to stress. Ethnographic data collection consisted of three months of participant observation in one …
Toward A Phenomenology Of Curriculum: The Work Of Max Van Manen And T. Tetsuo Aoki., Robert Kent Brown
Toward A Phenomenology Of Curriculum: The Work Of Max Van Manen And T. Tetsuo Aoki., Robert Kent Brown
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
In this study an attempt was made at understanding contemporary thought and application of phenomenological research to the field of curriculum and instruction. More specifically, it sought to identify a place and need for a methodology in curriculum research that exposes and clarifies the dynamics of pedagogy as a result of investigating the existential/ontological nature of pedagogical activity. In accomplishing this, the works of two major North American phenomenological curriculum theorists, T. Tetsuo Aoki and Max van Manen were examined. The work of these two significant contemporary curriculum theorists was used due to the international recognition their seminal phenomenologically oriented …
Remedial English Ten Years After: Former Basic Writers In The Workplace., Eleanor Agnew
Remedial English Ten Years After: Former Basic Writers In The Workplace., Eleanor Agnew
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The purpose of this study was to find out whether writing skills were a handicap to job success for former basic writers who had graduated from college. A population of 197 former basic writers (FBW's) and 68 former strong writers (FSW's, used as a comparison) were surveyed and interviewed. Research questions included (1) What types of jobs do FBW's have, compared to FSW's, and how much do their feelings about writing affect their choices of major or job? (2) How much and how often do FBW's write at work compared to FSW's? (3) What forms of writing do FBW's do …
Social Networks And Linguistic Accommodation Of Mainland Chinese In An Urban American Chinese Community., Hong Chi
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The growing number of immigrants from both Taiwan and Mainland China have brought speakers of different Mandarin varieties into contact in an American context. In the Chinese community in Los Angeles, Mainland Putonghua speakers are found to accommodate their language to the local Taiwan Mandarin speakers. Social network analysis, a model oriented toward the individual, is adapted here for analyzing this linguistic situation. The conversation of 35 informants was recorded within a naturally occurring context and their social network scores were compared with their scores for nine linguistic variables selected for this study. It was found that the accommodation process …
The College Participation Of The 1982 Undergraduate Cohort In Louisiana Public Higher Education: A Longitudinal Analysis., Margaret Blanchard Hargroder
The College Participation Of The 1982 Undergraduate Cohort In Louisiana Public Higher Education: A Longitudinal Analysis., Margaret Blanchard Hargroder
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This study examined the six-year college participation of students entering Louisiana public undergraduate higher education in Fall 1982. Motivation for the study stemmed from several educational conditions in Louisiana: a lower graduation rate than that of the nation, disparities in the graduation rates of Black students and White students, and administrative considerations for the restructuring of public higher education. The purposes of the study were: (1) to describe the population by selected characteristics and (2) to identify participation differences in enrollment, persistence, and achievement among sub-groups classified by: (a) race and gender, (b) developmental program participation, and (c) institutional types …
Patterning The Past: History As Ideology In Modern Southern Fiction., Deborah Wilson
Patterning The Past: History As Ideology In Modern Southern Fiction., Deborah Wilson
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
In this study, I analyze the modes of historical representation in works by Robert Penn Warren, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty and Ellen Douglas. In the chapter on All the King's Men, a novel that exemplifies the masculine historical perspective of traditional Southern literature, I show how Warren defines history as a process moving toward a predetermined end and then structures the narrative so that the women characters are constantly positioned outside that definition. In the second chapter, I begin with Eudora Welty's The Robber Bridegroom, examining the ways she alters the traditional story line of American history by drawing attention …
Individual And Work-Related Variables Contributing To Hospital Nurses' Participation Or Non-Participation In Available Clinical Career Ladder Programs., Sarah Kay Alford Thornhill
Individual And Work-Related Variables Contributing To Hospital Nurses' Participation Or Non-Participation In Available Clinical Career Ladder Programs., Sarah Kay Alford Thornhill
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
One solution to overcome the shortage of hospital nurses is to establish and implement clinical career ladder programs. The purpose of this study was to examine hospital clinical nurses' perceptions of ladder programs as a job enrichment strategy and to determine individual and work-related variables contributing most to nurses' participation or nonparticipation in available clinical ladder programs. A random sample of 600 clinical nurses employed full time in five regional medical center hospitals located in Louisiana and Mississippi were the study subjects. Respondents were 106 (88.3%) of the 120 ladder program participants and 385 (80.2%) of the 480 nonparticipant nurses. …
The Making Of Meaning: Three Children's Responses To Three Researcher-Composed Narratives., Mary S. Everett
The Making Of Meaning: Three Children's Responses To Three Researcher-Composed Narratives., Mary S. Everett
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Three children's responses to three research-composed narratives were investigated. Participants were eight-year-old girls from the lower S.E.S., African-American culture. Study focuses on the composing processes used to write three children's stories and the responses of children to the stories. The author's intended meaning was compared with the children's construction of meaning. After each story was read aloud, response was elicited by each participant retelling the story and answering open-ended interview questions. One week later the participant was asked to retell the story a second time to determine changes in concept of story. Data were analyzed according to grounded theory methodology. …
"Spades Players" And "Senators": An Ethnography Of Black Subcultures In A Community College., Anthony Louis Molina Sr
"Spades Players" And "Senators": An Ethnography Of Black Subcultures In A Community College., Anthony Louis Molina Sr
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This ethnographic study of Black community college students, in a predominantly white community college, took place over a three-year period and focused on two groups. One group, the spades players, neglected their studies in favor of the card game spades, which they made the central activity of their family-like collective in the student commons. The other group, Black senators in the Student Government Association, were academic achievers who performed service to the college. By immersion into both cultures, the researcher gained the confidence of individual students in both groups, interviewed them in various settings, and looked for reasons behind the …
Factors Responsible For The Differential Growth Of Brucella Abortus In Bovine Trophoblasts., Luis Ernesto Samartino
Factors Responsible For The Differential Growth Of Brucella Abortus In Bovine Trophoblasts., Luis Ernesto Samartino
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The interactions of bovine chorionic membrane explants (CAMs) as well as three different bovine trophoblastic cell lines with Brucella abortus were evaluated. The ability of B. abortus to infect and grow within the cells of these CAMs and within these cell lines was measured. In addition, prostanoid and hormone production by the trophoblastic cells after infection with B. abortus was measured. Internalization of B. abortus within the cells of CAMs derived from placentas from both 3-month-gravid cows and 7-month-gravid cows was similar. By 24 hours post-inoculation B. abortus replication in 7-months-derived CAMs was significantly greater than the replication occurring in …
Questioning Authorship In Twentieth Century Literary Autobiography., Donna Marie Perreault
Questioning Authorship In Twentieth Century Literary Autobiography., Donna Marie Perreault
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation, "Questioning Authorship in Twentieth-Century Literary Autobiography," provides readings of narrative autobiographies by some of this century's most prominent and rebellious professional writers. Individual chapters interpret the autobiographies of Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Wright, Gertrude Stein, Simone de Beauvoir, and Zora Neale Hurston. The autobiographies that I read variously represent the transformation of a writer into an author and collectively problematize the personal and literary authorizations effecting this transformation. I examine how these narratives put into question both processes of authorization and the cultural contexts in which they occur, contexts which, diverse though they are, all valorize and regulate …
Louisiana Principals' Perceptions Of Nontraditional Vocational Teachers And The Importance Of Vocational Education., Moo Yul Huh
Louisiana Principals' Perceptions Of Nontraditional Vocational Teachers And The Importance Of Vocational Education., Moo Yul Huh
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Even though the elimination of sex bias and stereotyping has been a national priority in vocational education for a number of years, many educators or administrators still hold sex biased and stereotyped attitudes about labor force participation and have a belief that there are "men's" and "women's" jobs. A study of sources affecting sex bias and sex stereotyping of vocational teachers is critical to provide more productive programs. The local school principal typically has the greatest impact on school level employment decisions because the principal is the chief executive officer or administrator of the basic unit in the school system. …
A Reading Of "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" And "A Curtain Of Green": The Influence Of Parable On Flannery O'Connor And Eudora Welty., Allison Carol Chestnut
A Reading Of "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" And "A Curtain Of Green": The Influence Of Parable On Flannery O'Connor And Eudora Welty., Allison Carol Chestnut
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor and A Curtain of Green by Eudora Welty are short story cycles harmonized by their marked imitation of the style and structure of parable. O'Connor added stories after initially sending the collection to the publisher and then rearranged them accordingly; her work represents a completed cycle. Welty's collection, published in an order different from their individual publications and their original placement in an early typescript, is an arranged cycle. Moreover, parabolic style and structure unify each cycle. A parable typically is a brief story told in the past tense, usually …
Implicit Vs Explicit Mood Congruent Memory Bias In Depression., Philip Charles Watkins
Implicit Vs Explicit Mood Congruent Memory Bias In Depression., Philip Charles Watkins
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Mood congruent memory (MCM) in depressed individuals, tends to be biased toward memories consistent with their mood, i.e. negative or unpleasant memories. Although MCM is a robust finding, the large majority of studies have used free-recall paradigms, and that methodology does little to delineate the cognitive mechanisms determining MCM. This study was designed to investigate whether MCM bias is a function of implicit or explicit memory. Implicit memory is taken as a measure of the organization or strength of association of the aspects of a memory representation, whereas explicit memory also taps elaboration that may involve control procedures such as …
Louisiana Agriculture Magazine, Winter 1991-1992, Lsu Agricultural Experiment Station
Louisiana Agriculture Magazine, Winter 1991-1992, Lsu Agricultural Experiment Station
Louisiana Agriculture
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Changing Eyes: American Culture And The Photographic Image, 1918-1941., Melissa A. Mceuen
Changing Eyes: American Culture And The Photographic Image, 1918-1941., Melissa A. Mceuen
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
From 1918 to 1941, fast-paced changes and far-reaching crises occurred in all realms of American life--social, economic, political, cultural, and intellectual. Evidence of the culture's preoccupations showed up not only in written, but also in visual sources. Photographs helped to reveal the values of American culture, and did so with increasing frequency as the photographic process was further improved. Each visual image bore the marks of its culture, yet none provided a completely objective look at reality. For every picture was the product of the personality standing behind the camera. This study examines both the lives and the photographs of …
The Effects Of Situational Access To Firearms On Sensitivity To Risk Of Criminal Victimization: A Contextual Analysis., Roberta Loupe St. Pierre
The Effects Of Situational Access To Firearms On Sensitivity To Risk Of Criminal Victimization: A Contextual Analysis., Roberta Loupe St. Pierre
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The focus of this research is on the association of the availability of firearms for protection and fear of crime. More specifically, the study explores the relationship of firearms to persons' sensitivity to perceived risk of criminal victimization. The data used were drawn from a state-wide survey of Louisiana residents conducted in 1984. The research was directed by the long-standing inability of researchers to identify any relationship between guns and fear of crime, although it has long been assumed that such a relationship does exist. This study used the innovative strategy of examining fear of crime levels in their relationship …
A Study Of The Effects Of Prediction Activities On Instructional Outcomes In High School Genetics., Anne Spratlan Sinclair
A Study Of The Effects Of Prediction Activities On Instructional Outcomes In High School Genetics., Anne Spratlan Sinclair
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The purpose of this study was to examine the instructional effects of incorporating prediction activities in a high school biology genetics curriculum. Criteria for instructional effectiveness included enhanced levels of classroom discussion and interaction, improved subject-related attitude, higher achievement motivation, and greater mastery of genetics concepts. Genetics was chosen as the domain of research because of the multiple variables operating which make it amenable to the making of predictions. Four experienced high school biology teachers taught an experimental and a control class. Students in the experimental classes made written predictions using researcher-developed prediction activities as an introduction to 19 genetics …
Preservice Teachers' Evolving Perspectives Of Elementary Social Studies., Elizabeth K. Wilson
Preservice Teachers' Evolving Perspectives Of Elementary Social Studies., Elizabeth K. Wilson
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Recent studies which have focused on preservice teachers' perspectives of elementary social studies have attempted to discover the product of the relationships between their conceptions of social studies and their classroom practices. This research, conducted only during the clinical experience, indicated that the beliefs and ideas which teachers express about social studies have little effect on classroom practice. In order to better understand this phenomenon, this study investigated the evolution of preservice teachers' perspectives of social studies through methods instruction as well as the clinical experience. The participants for this study were four preservice teachers who were enrolled in the …
Dominance, Marginality, And Subversion In French (Post)Colonial Discourse., Suzanne Mary Chester
Dominance, Marginality, And Subversion In French (Post)Colonial Discourse., Suzanne Mary Chester
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation examines a selection of fictional texts by Marguerite Duras, Andre Gide, Assia Djebar and Tahar ben Jelloun. In my readings of these colonial and post-colonial narratives, I explore the textual strategies which transform marginalized positions based on colonialism, gender, sexual orientation and class into positions of dominance. In Gide and Duras, for example, this is evident in their complicity with dominant ideologies of colonialism. By contrast, the second section of the dissertation focuses on the oppositional strategies in the work of Djebar and ben Jelloun, two post-colonial writers from North Africa. Here, I analyze the ways in which …
A Multivariate Analysis Of Voter Turnout In Louisiana Contested Nonpartisan Judicial Elections, 1981-1988., Olethia Davis
A Multivariate Analysis Of Voter Turnout In Louisiana Contested Nonpartisan Judicial Elections, 1981-1988., Olethia Davis
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The purpose of this dissertation is to determine what factors account for variations in voter turnout in Louisiana contested nonpartisan trial and intermediate appellate court elections. The central questions to be addressed are: (1) what is the precise relationship between incumbency or prior judicial experience, campaign spending, and the race of judicial candidates, ceteris paribus (with all else remaining the same), on electoral participation in judicial elections in the State of Louisiana from 1981 to 1988 and (2) is the electorate that participates in judicial elections typical or atypical of the electorate that participates in presidential general races in terms …
Supervisor Characteristics Affecting Subordinates' Perceptions And Reactions To The Performance Appraisal Interview., Jeffrey Staron Rain
Supervisor Characteristics Affecting Subordinates' Perceptions And Reactions To The Performance Appraisal Interview., Jeffrey Staron Rain
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Supervisor inputs (preparation, appraisal-related knowledge, and attitudes toward the appraisal system) into the performance appraisal interview were examined, using a questionnaire, for relationships to subordinate perceptions of the supervisor's appraisal interview actions (developmental and administrative). Subordinate reaction to the appraisal interview was also assessed. Eighty-nine subordinate/supervisor pairs were randomly assigned to one of three experimental preparation conditions (Example, Improve, Control). All subjects then completed the questionnaires. The results of the experimental component indicated that supervisors who generated specific performance weakness and strength examples (Improve condition) were perceived by subordinates as engaging in significantly greater developmental behaviors than in the Control …
An Analysis Of Sequential Patterns Of Instruction In Piano Lessons., Donald Ray Speer
An Analysis Of Sequential Patterns Of Instruction In Piano Lessons., Donald Ray Speer
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The purpose of this study was to investigate verbal behaviors of independent piano teachers in the setting of the private piano lesson. Twenty-five piano teachers from southeast Louisiana participated in the study. Teachers recorded the individual lessons of two students on audiotape. Verbatim transcripts were developed from a total of 47 recorded lessons. Transcripts were coded, identifying verbal behaviors with regard to components of sequential patterns established by Yarbrough and Price (1981, 1989). Verbal behaviors were analyzed for time spent in the categories of teacher presentation, student participation, and teacher reinforcement. Frequencies were obtained for the number of complete/correct, complete/incorrect, …
Writing And Modernity: Colette's Feminist Fiction., Lezlie Hart Stivale
Writing And Modernity: Colette's Feminist Fiction., Lezlie Hart Stivale
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
My choice of Colette's fiction as the subject of critical analysis is one occasioned not only by the richness of her literary corpus, but also by the marginalization of Colette's work as "natural" or "feminine" within the French literary canon. While much has been written on Colette, consideration of her personal life has overly influenced the critical evaluation of her works. I break with the prevalent biographical trend in Colette criticism by approaching seven of her novels from feminist perspectives informed by deconstruction, narratology and psychoanalysis. These productive readings reveal multiple destabilizing effects. A close reading of Cheri locates sites …
Family Support For Persisters And Non-Persisters In Louisiana's Adult Basic Education Programs., Geraldine Hargrove Holmes
Family Support For Persisters And Non-Persisters In Louisiana's Adult Basic Education Programs., Geraldine Hargrove Holmes
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The role that family involvement and the effects of home efforts have on improved student achievement for children is well documented in the literature. The purpose of this study was to determine whether family support should be considered when planning adult basic education (ABE) programs. The objectives addressed were: demographic characteristics, level of family support, and relationship of family support among selected variables. A statewide random sample of 197 adult basic education students was surveyed (82.7% response rate). Persisters (students who either completed the ABE program or were continuing their instruction when the study was conducted) and non-persisters (students who …
An Analysis Of Educational Films: An African-American Perspective. (Volumes I And Ii)., Brenda Garibaldi Hatfield
An Analysis Of Educational Films: An African-American Perspective. (Volumes I And Ii)., Brenda Garibaldi Hatfield
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Historically African-Americans have been marginalized and subordinated in critical discourse and research in curriculum studies and educational media. There is a vital need for research directed toward African-Americans as subjects and viewers of media used in school curricula. Cultural theorists in curriculum and educational media studies are interested in knowing how social, political and ideological messages are produced and circulated in society, and how student audiences use them to make sense of their experiences. The purpose of this research is to contribute to a better understanding of how racial representations and social identities are coded and produced in educational films, …
Chromium, Tryptophan, And Picolinate In Diets For Pigs And Poultry., Timothy Guinn Page
Chromium, Tryptophan, And Picolinate In Diets For Pigs And Poultry., Timothy Guinn Page
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Six experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of supplemental dietary tryptophan (TRP), picolinate (Pic), CrCl$\sb3\cdot$6H$\sb2$O, chromium picolinate (CrPic), or a combination of Pic and CrCl$\sb3\cdot$6H$\sb2$O on growth performance, liver mineral concentrations, insulin, growth hormone, organ weights, and serum and carcass traits of pigs. One experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of chromium picolinate (CrPic) on serum cholesterol (CH), egg CH, egg quality, and egg production of laying hens. Dietary TRP, Pic, CrCl$\sb3\cdot$6H$\sb2$O, and a combination of Pic and CrCl$\sb3\cdot$6H$\sb2$O did not affect growth performance, liver mineral concentrations, insulin, growth hormone, and serum and carcass traits of pigs. The …
Problem Behaviors Associated With Sociometric Status In An Adolescent Population., Glenda C. Thorne
Problem Behaviors Associated With Sociometric Status In An Adolescent Population., Glenda C. Thorne
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the usefulness of the classification system developed by Coie and his colleagues (1982) with an adolescent population by examining the relationship between sociometric status and psychopathology. Five hundred thirty-one seventh- through ninth-grade students participated in the study. Following the Coie et al. (1982) procedure, children were identified as either popular, rejected, neglected, controversial, or average. The basis for status group membership was scores adolescents received on positive and negative peer nominations. Four social status variables were derived from these measures: (a) liked most peer nomination scores, (b) liked least peer nomination …