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Chapter 1: Piaget's Theory And College Teaching, C. A. Tomlinson-Keasey

ADAPT Program: Essays

The influence that Piaget's theory has had on the understanding of cognitive development is incalculable. One can look at the establishment of the Jean Piaget Society, the publication of literally hundreds of books that deal with Piagetian theory, and the dominance in professional journals of articles related to Piagetian theory as some indication of the immense impact that this theory has had on the study of the child's acquisition of knowledge.

It is, however. only very recently that college and university professors have looked toward Piagetian theory for relevant and practical suggestions about how to maximize college student learning.

Chapter 14: Evaluation Report Of The First Year Of The Adapt Program, C. A. Tomlinson-Keasey, V. Williams, D. Eisert

ADAPT Program: Essays

Evaluating the success of the ADAPT program seemed, at the outset, to be an extremely complex task. How does one assess a student’s growth in six different content areas over a year’s time? what are the hallmarks of progress which might signal the success or failure of the program? The first step of the evaluation was a clear enumeration of the goals of the program. In staff discussions it became clear that our primary goal was to encourage students to think critically and logically by devising a curriculum which required the students to actively participate in their learning and to …

Chapter 15: Second Year Evaluation Of The Adapt Program, C. A. Tomlinson-Keasey, D. Eisert

ADAPT Program: Essays

The purpose of the present paper is to evaluate the success of the ADAPT program in reaching its goals during the second year. As in the first year of the program, the primary goal was to encourage students to think critically and logically, Secondly, we were interested in providing successful learning experiences that would facilitate personal and social growth. Finally, we hoped that students who were being encouraged to explore a variety of content areas, would feel excitement in learning, and that this would be reflected in positive attitudes toward the whole university community. In short, our goals were to …

Chapter 16: A Sneak Preview Of Adapt's Third-Year Evaluation, David Moshman, Jacqueline Langley

ADAPT Program: Essays

The evaluation of the ADAPT program for the academic year 1977–78 will be based on pre- and post-test data for 19 ADAPT students and 24 control students on four measures—the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Questionnaire, the Self Description Inventory, the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal, and a test of Formal Operational Reasoning—as well as an attitude questionnaire given to both groups at the end of the year. Detailed analyses of the results from both the ADAPT program and the other Piagetian programs described in this volume are currently being performed by Carol Tomlinson- Keasey, who is now at the University of California-Riverside. …

Chapter 7: The Inexpensive Unification Of Clio And Piaget, L. C. Duly

ADAPT Program: Essays

The ADAPT History course at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is still very much in its infancy. To date it has consisted of a two-semester course dealing with the nature of “revolution and other forms of change" in Modern Europe from 1776 to the present. The thematic tone of its title has been kept deliberately vague; its content has tended to stress the origin, development, and change of ideas, institutions, and value-structures within the established chronology, all of which one would likely find in the traditional “Western Civilization” course. The course has not attempted to present the study of man in …

Three Experimental Approaches To Teaching Reading In Content Fields To Preservice Secondary Education Students, Joan Luverne Paul

Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs

The importance of reading a a process of learning subject matter emphasizes the responsibility teachers have in teaching that process to their students. The, raining of secondary teachers to meet that responsibility is a recent development for teacher preparatory institutions. Such training must be effective in training teachers who will implement sound teaching practices that include teaching reading as a process of learning.

To train such teachers, it is necessary that factors which affect their learning be identified, to ensure that the outcome of instruction will be teachers with the knowledge of and ability to teach reading in their respective …

1978-1979 Academic Catalog, Cedarville College

Undergraduate Academic Catalogs

No abstract provided.

1978-1979 Graduate Catalog, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Catalog Archives

1978-1979 graduate catalog of Morehead State University.

1978-1979 Undergraduate Catalog, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Catalog Archives

1978-1979 undergraduate catalog of Morehead State University.

Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 49, No. 6, Wku Alumni Association

WKU Archives Records

Alumni magazine published by WKU. This issue has the following articles:

• Dero Downing Steps Down
• Douglas, Michele. Top Banana – Gary Riggs
• Egan, Sherry. WKU State Climatic Center
• Gibson, Debbie. I Kind of Believe It’s a Gift – Burt Feintuch, Folk Music
• New on the Gridiron
• Adams, Bob. Digital Voltmeter – Engineering Technology
• Schock, Jack. The Projectile Point – Archaeology
• Armstrong, Bryan. Confessions of a Journalism Intern
• Highland, Jim. Terry Climer
• Beauchamp, Donnie. Commonplace Things – Photography
• Miller, Richard. The Exceptional Student – Psychology, Biology
• Harry Snyder Speaks at Commencement
• Douglas, Michele. Students Take Advantage of Study Trips Abroad
• Western …

Multidisciplinary Piagetian-Based Programs For College Freshmen: Table Of Contents For 1978, Robert Fuller

ADAPT Program: Essays

Cover and table of contents for third edition, 1978.

A Study Of Alcohol Knowledge And Information Sources Among Rural High School Students, Timothy Patrick Keenan

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Survey Of Job Activities Of Entry-Level Employees In Accounting/Bookkeeping/Recordkeeping Positions In Relation To The Michigan Vocational/Technical Program Performance Objectives For Bookkeepers With Implications For Secondary School Curriculum, Kathryn R. Tomaszewski

Masters Theses

Statement of the Problem

The purpose of this study is to provide sufficient data for determining whether the accounting curriculum in the Grand Rapids Public Schools is providing the training needed by entry-level accounting/bookkeeping/recordkeeping employees for the job tasks defined in the Michigan Department of Education Recommended Minimum Vocational/Technical Program Performance Objectives for Bookkeepers, and to provide data for possible revision of the curriculum.

A Behavior And Cost Analysis Of Two Remediation Procedures, Theodore D. Apking

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

19780605: Academic Affairs, 1960-1983, Academic Affairs

Guides to University Archives

These items include materials from the office of Academic Affairs at Marshall University from 1960-1983. Items were received in 1978 and include notable materials from Academic Standards and Planning Meeting Minutes. This is not an exhaustive list. Please download the finding aid for a full list of contents.

A Preliminary Study Of Attitudes And Motivation Among Auc Students, Roger Wesley Ponder

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Semantics And An Operable Definition Of Art; With Implications For Inclusion Of Art Criticism Into The Curriculum, Bill Cooksey

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty in the Department of Art at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of Master of Arts in Art by Bill Cooksey on May 4, 1978.

Procedures For Setting Up A Remedial Reading Program In The Secondary Schools, Bradley Richardson

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The need for a more comprehensive education in the secondary school is a need which no one will deny; and as reading is the primary means through which most formal education takes place, the need for expert readers is ever-present. The tragedy of so many high school students graduating without having mastered the skill of reading reminds us that schools are not succeeding in its task of educating. One important area where secondary schools can improve their attempts at reaching the students who are passing through without learning is to set up a reading program designed to help those students …

Objective/Essay Literature Testing, Guirguis Younan Mansour

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of Textbooks In The General Secondary Schools In Egypt, Saleh Antoun Demetry

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The New England College Of Osteopathic Medicine Curriculum, New England College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Gene Yonuschot, Ph.D. Collection

The New England College of Osteopathic Medicine Curriculum outlines the anticipated curriculum for osteopathic medical students to open in the fall of 1978.

The Development Of A Curriculum Guide For The Teaching Of Photoreactions On Plant Growth Under Artificial Light, Martha Norris

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

An applied project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Education Specialist at Morehead State University by Martha Norris on March 28, 1978.

Chapter 8: A Place For Philosophy In The Adapt Program, Elizabeth T. Carpenter

ADAPT Program: Essays

Although there are many ways in which the ADAPT program is importantly different from other educational programs in the United States at this mid-seventies time, surely it stands as impressive in higher education by being the only college program spanning six disciplines which seeks primarily to employ the genetic epistemology of Jean Piaget in diagnostic and teaching strategies. It stands as a testing ground for a revolutionary hypothesis about college-level education: the degree of effectiveness of a teaching strategy depends directly upon the logical ability of the individual learner and his place on the developmental continuum relative to the logical …

Chapter 10: Adapt Anthropology, Martin Q. Peterson

ADAPT Program: Essays

ADAPT Anthropology focuses on the discovery of various social “rules” that govern social relationships. These rules are investigated through a combination of observation and participation, a traditional method in anthropology. Students use the learning cycle paradigm, first exploring relationships between people and events, then inventing new combinations of these events as a means of informing the relationships, and finally applying what they have learned to a new set of events. In this essay, I shall consider three elements of my approach to Piagetian learning in anthropology. The first element is the successful use of the learning cycle paradigm. The second …

Chapter 11: Reading And Writing And Piaget, Robert D. Narveson

ADAPT Program: Essays

Like most English teachers I have been skeptical of schemes to reform the teaching of literature and composition. Our experience suggests that for the most part our successes are likely to result from the intangibles of personal styles, developed empirically through classroom practice. As Ross Winterowd has written, "One can only conclude that writing is far too difficult a skill to be taught—and yet we do teach it.” (1975, p.2) Nevertheless, I seized the opportunity to join the ADAPT Program because it seemed to offer a more thoroughly articulated theoretical basis for teaching and learning than I had previously experienced. …

Appropriations Committee Testimony, Jack S. Ketchum

Gene Yonuschot, Ph.D. Collection

The Appropriations Committee Testimony includes St. Francis College President Jack S. Ketchum's testimony before the U.S. Senate Sub-Committee on Labor, Health, Education and Welfare regarding the school's request for $425,000 to help open the New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in the fall of 1978.

What Reading Is Good Reading?, Mike Vanden Bosch

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Parent Participation On Second Grade Reading Achievement, Iris Williams Perkins

Dissertations (Pre-2016)

None

A Comparative Analysis Of Mathematical Knowledge And Mathematical Attitude Between Urban And Suburban Elementary School Teachers., Jack Green Okech

Dissertations (Pre-2016)

The problem of this study was to investigate answers to these questions: (1) How do the performances of urban and suburban elementary teachers compare on the test of (a) mathematical competency, and (b) mathematical attitude? (2) Is there any relationship between mathematical attitude and competency scores? The research involved 186 urban and 166 suburban elementary school teachers employed by the Houston Independent School District (HISD). Data were collected through: (1) A personal data sheet completed by each participant to obtain background information. (2) A Revised Test for Elementary Mathematics Understandings (RTEMU) developed by Gibney, Ginther, and Pigge (1970) and then …

Instructional Role Of The Media Specialist, Patricia S. Adams

Graduate Research Papers

A study was made to investigate the number of elementary school media specialists part1e1pat1n.g 1n the instructional program. Additional problems of the study were to further investigate what instructional tasks were performed and what values were assigned to the instructional tasks in a total media program.

A survey instrument was distributed to one hundred fifteen Iowa elementary school media specialists in April, 1975. The instrument was used to assess the following, (1) if the recipient was an elementary media specialist employed full time in one attendance center; (2) if the recipient participated with the teaching staff in planning, designing, implementing, …