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Evaluation Of Patient Activity Programs In Selected San Antonio, Texas, Nursing Homes, Steven L. Ranck

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

THE PROBLEM

The problem was to evaluate by means of the Berryman Instrument (1971) the patient activity programs o[ licensed nursing homes in San Antonio, Texas.

PROCEDURES

The best evaluation of the total patient activities program in nursing homes was the instrument designed by Dr. Doris L. Berryman, Recommended Standards with Evalua­tive Criteria for Recreation Services in Residential Institutions. After permission was secured from the nursing homes to evaluate their patient activities pro­grams, a personal visit was made to each institution to complete the evaluation. The patient activity director and a qualified assistant assisted in the evaluation at each …

Changes In Student Teacher Dogmatism And Attitudes, George Geer Austin-Martin

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was to determine what changes in student teacher dogmatism and attitudes occurred during the student teaching experience as a function of the supervising teacher's dogmatism and attitudes as measured by the Rokeach Dogmatism Scale and the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory.

The population for this study consisted of all students enrolled in education courses during the spring semester of 1974 who had not had field work in the public schools and all Secondary Education students enrolled in student teaching and their supervising teachers. From this population the following sample was selected:

1. A group of 22 …

The Feasibility Of Test Translation -- English To Navajo, Annabelle R. Scoon

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

The school beginner is expected to be able to follow the language of directions and explanations. Navajo children who enter school essentially monolingual in Navajo and shortly have to accomplish school learning tasks in English may face a double handicap if they have not yet labelled in Navajo the concepts needed in beginning English school work.

Measurement of school related concepts in Navajo was attempted by means of a translation of the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts, a test developed from analysis of early school language requirements. It was assumed that the semantic content of such basic concepts is universal, …

Teacher Preparation For Social Studies On The Secondary Level As Recommended By Selected Colleges Of Education And As Preferred By Selected School Districts, Clare Ignatia Sharp

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The curriculum changes in the social studies from the expostulatory method with history and economics content, to the inductive method with an interdisciplinary approach which included all the social studies, made it difficult for those prepared in the traditional teacher education patterns to adapt to the "new social studies." It was the purpose of this study to survey the programs recommended by selected colleges of education, and to survey the programs preferred by the school districts. This study also attempted to survey any changes that had taken place in teacher preparation on the one hand, and any changes in teaching …

Factors Which Affect Job Satisfaction And Dissatisfaction Of Male And Female Interscholastic Head Coaches, John E. Ritter Jr.

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

Statement of Problem

This study was conducted in an effort to determine the sources of job attitudes of male and female interscholastic head coaches in the State of New Mexico. The Herzberg Dual-Factor Theory of job satisfaction formed the theoretical framework upon which this study was developed.

Procedures

A 22 item Job Satisfaction Questionnaires and a Personal Data Sheet, accompanied by an introductory letter, were sent to the entire population of 559 male and female interscholastic head coaches in the State of New Mexico. The introductory lefter, follow-up letter, and fina I post card yielded 469 returns (83.9%) of which …

Attitude Change Of Spinal Cord Injured Males And Their Marital Partner Involved In A Sexual Therapy Program, Joan B. Scott

Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs

The purpose of this investigation was to study the changes in attitude of a group of spinal cord injured males and their marital partners after a sexual therapy treatment program. The investigation utilized a two-group design. The experimental group consisted of five couples who had sought treatment of difficulties in the sexual aspect of their relationship and had indicated some degree of inadequacy in this area on the part of one or both partners. The control group consisted of five similar couples who agreed to wait or did not feel ready for the treatment program. In both groups the male …

The Use Of Audio Tape Materials For Teaching Geography To Emotionally Disturbed Children., Richard David Mann

Special Education ETDs

The purpose of this study was to determine the applicability and effectiveness of tape presentations in the teaching of geography studies. More specifically it was the purpose of this study to determine I) whether students in a special adaptation class score higher on comprehension tests and 2) express a higher level of Interest when taped materials are presented to them as opposed to traditional teaching methods.

The subjects for this study were seven students who have been evaluated through multi-discipline approaches by the Albuquerque Public Schools and placed in a classroom for the emotionally disturbed at McKinley Junior High School, …

A Comparative Study Of The Effectiveness Of The Small-Group Method And Command Method Of Teaching A Physical Education Activity Course, Edward Rhudy

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

This study compared the effectiveness of the small-group method and command method of teaching a physical education activity course, including a comparison of the behaviors of students in small-group classes and command classes.

The study was conducted utilizing 79 male and female subjects enrolled in four beginning swimming classes at The University of New Mexico during the Spring semester of 1974.

The study employed both empirical and descriptive research methodologies. The empirical study consisted of measuring changes in seven dependent variables: (1) attitude toward the physical activity, (2) attitude toward the instructor of the course, (3) self-esteem, (4) personal- self, …

The Effects Of Self-Esteem On The Social Matching And Persistence Behavior Of Nursery School Children, Arlene Ruth Price

Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs

The Problem

This study was an attempt to investigate the effects of self-esteem on the social matching and persist­ence behavior of nursery school children. Typical research in the area has focused on the self-concepts of preschool children from minority groups in poverty neigh­borhoods. Little work has been done on systematically manipulating self-esteem and determining its effect on some very specific aspect of behavior. This study was an attempt to help fulfill this need.

Methods and Procedure

The sample consisted of 60 subjects, ages four or five, enrolled in a private middle class school. A 3 x 2 factorial design was …

The Relationship Of Auditory Discrimination And Reading Achievement At First And Fourth Grade Levels, George Reid Lyon

Special Education ETDs

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between reading ability and the ability to discriminate verbal auditory stimuli among representative groups of first and fourth grade pupils. The sample was randomly selected from the first and fourth grade population of one Albuquerque, New Mexico elementary school located in a predominantly Caucasian low--middle to middle class neighborhood with some Mexican-American children. Subjects were administered the Quiet and Noise subtests of the Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock. Test of Auditory Discrimination (GFW), the Wepman Auditory Discrimination Test (Wepman), the Word Recognition subtest of the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT), and the Otis-Lennon Mental …

Variability In The Development Of A Science Concept As A Function Of Age, Sex, Academic Achievement, And Training Method., Elizabeth O. Cormack

Special Education ETDs

This study investigated the scientific principle, that the level of still water remains horizontal regardless of container tilt, with fourth and eighth grade normal and learning disabled children. Measurements were made of the number of children in each group who knew the concept and of the ability of the "nonknowers" to learn the concept by an adjustment task. A two by two by two factorial design was used. A two-fold criterion of predictive water settings within 5° of horizontal and verbalization of the correct scientific principle was required for S's demonstration of concept knowledge. An adjustment task procedure with feedback …

Self-Concept Rehabilitation, Catherine Ann Salveson

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

The purpose of this project was to present a program designed for self-awareness to incarcerated minor females at the New Mexico State Girls School, Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the hope of increasing their positive self-concepts as measured by the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale. Sixteen subjects were randomly chosen and placed in test and control groups. The program lasted for sixty days with sessions meeting three times per week for approximately one and one half hours each. Yoga exercise, personal meditation and discussions of personal body and self were presented. Based on personal observations and the results of a discriminate analysis and …

Knowledge Of Idioms As An Indicator Of Acculturation, Ciria Sanchez-Baca

Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs

Minority students in the United States are presently experiencing countless educational problems in school: dropout rate is high, reading achievement is low, and repetition of grades is more frequent. Although educators are aware of cultural differences and although the process of acculturation has been investigated, there is little research on the relationship of such educational problems to acculturation. An objective method of measuring the concept of acculturation has not been established; consequently, the influence and effects of this process on a student have not been analyzed.

A Comparison Of The Written And Oral English Syntax Of Mexican American Bilingual And Anglo American Monolingual Fourth And Ninth Grade Students (Las Vegas, New Mexico), Raymond J. Rodrigues

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The major problem investigated by this study was whether or not Mexican American bilingual fourth and ninth grade students represent the same language population in their English syntactic usage as do Anglo American fourth and ninth grade students in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The first hypothesis specified that the distributions of the following variables of the bilingual and monolingual groups were not significantly different in the oral and written modes: average number of words per clause; average number of clauses per T-unit; average number of words per T-unit; total "sentence-embedding" transformations and "sentence-embedding" transformations in headed nominal, non-headed nominal, adverbial, …

Identification Of Infants At Risk For Potential Developmental Problems Secondary To Stress In Their Mothers., Susanne Bradley Brown

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

One of the first tasks of mothering is the feeding of the child. It is recognized that certain mothers have difficulty carrying out this function. If the mother has extreme difficulty with this task, her child is at risk for neurologic and the subsequent educational problems.

This study looked at the amount of stress in the mother in the year preceding delivery to the rate of weight gain in her child. The hypothe­sis that mothers with increased stress would have the greatest difficulty feeding their infants could not be accepted. There was, however, an in­dication that once the total stress …

An Evaluation Of Special Education Majors' Attitudes Towards Exceptional Children And Knowledge Of Techniques And Services., Maria Elena Berghmans Pynn

Special Education ETDs

The main questions dealt with in this thesis revolve around the attitudes of undergraduates and graduates in Special Education towards exceptional children, as well as their knowledge of instructional techniques. Special emphasis was placed on the determination of the role of Special Education 450 (Adaptive Instructional Techniques) in the acquisition of attitudes towards these children. Five groups of students were tested in order to ascertain whether differences of attitude existed between them and to test for the types of attitudes acquired in Special Education 450. Two of the groups consisted of graduate level students, the third of beginning students, the …

The Comparison Of Two Methods Of Instruction In Teaching The Wechsler Intelligence Scale For Children, Kathleen Yost Ritter

Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs

The study was conducted in an effort to determine if there were any differences in terms of student learning between two methods of instruction in teaching the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC). The scores on two outcome measures--a cognitive examination and a performance examination--were compared between students in an ExperimentaI group who learned by means of independent study and those in a Control group who Iearned to understand, administer, and score the WISC by means of a traditional method.

Proposals To Support Aio’S Advocacy And Indian Resources Development, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains copies of proposals of American for Indian Opportunity to diverse funding organizations that include The White House. To better serve Native American Tribes AIO is an active advocate for American Indian development and resource control that needs financial support and partnership. These proposals detail AIO’s background and work during the early 1970s. Attached to these documents is correspondence between AIO and funding organizations.

Native North American Artists, Native North American Artists

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is an invitation to the Native American Artists Exhibition of paintings by Lloyd Collins’ Isadora series.

Now Is The Time – An Americans For Indian Opportunity Publication Of Activities, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains triptychs, fliers, and a poster of Americans for Indian Opportunities’ activities and information of their organization.