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The Development Of A Student-Parent Handbook For Lake Crest Elementary School, Oakland, Illinois, Ezra W. Smithson

Masters Theses

In 1947, a large number of very small school districts surrounded Oakland, Illinois each with its own school board. In 1948, Oakland and all or parts of these 16 districts were consolidated by the vote of the people into a single school district as permitted by State Law (1948) thus forming Oakland Community School District No. 5.

Three attendance centers, the Oakland Elementary School; the Hindsboro Elementary School; and Oakland High School were operated from 1959 until 1968.

A new Elementary attendance center was completed in 1968, and the old attendance centers in Oakland and Hindsboro were closed.

The new …

Roles And Duties Of Activity/Athletic Directors In The 115 Largest High Schools In Iowa, James Irvin Boyd

Graduate Research Papers

The student activity program in today's high school is complex. Some high schools have activities ranging from boys' and girls' interscholastic athletical events, to school clubs, to dramatics and musicals, and bake sales. Other high schools have a well-tuned student activity program reflecting their school district's philosophy of the educational value of the program to the student. Other school district's activity programs are financially in trouble and lack community, faculty, and student support; the school programs reflect this lack of support.

A Study Of The Development Of Secondary Alternative Schools, Luann Boss

Graduate Research Papers

If there is one idea that educators today might agree on, it's the idea that no one program will ever begin to fit the needs of all students. Students learn under different circumstances, in different atmospheres, and in different ways. Yet American education for many years has tried to teach every child in the same way and at the same time. Our present model of education has prevailed for many years. The format of a single school serving a local community dates back to earlier centuries in American history. It was sufficient for local community members in the early 1900's …

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder And The Vietnam Veteran, Doran Butschi

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of the paper was to review the literature regarding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Vietnam veterans for a clearer understanding of the continuing readjustment problems that are affecting thousands of men and women in the United States. Because the Vietnam War was unique in so many aspects, it created unique postwar problems for its veterans.

A Proposed Course Of Instruction In Resources For Communications For Saint Ambrose College, Stephen Thomas Fehring

Graduate Research Papers

To effectively convey a message can present a difficult task. Communicating means more than merely getting a message from a sender to a receiver. To be effective, the message must be understood by the receiver on the sender's terms. The instrument used to convey the message is the medium, and the medium is often as important as the content of the message. Today, someone with a message to convey can select from a wide variety of media to aid in the effective delivery of their particular message. Media have been employed as communications aids since the time of Moses. When …

A Study Of Kindergarten Attendance Patterns, Clark William Goltz

Graduate Research Papers

In 1956 the first kindergarten was established in the city of Watertown, Wisconsin by Margarethe Meyer Schurz, a disciple of Friedrich Froebel. (Cutright, 1981) The kindergarten and kindergarten curriculum were designed by Froebel in Germany in the 1830's and 1840's. The original kindergarten concept was established for preschoolers three to seven years old. Smith (1971) states that the kindergarten was a system of intellectual, moral and physical education, which reflected pedagogical principles considered foolish and extreme in the middle of the 19th century, namely the significance of play and the need to base the curriculum on the child's interest and …

Faculty's Relationship To The Identity Problem Of The Community College : A Study Of Faculty Support For Specific Institutional Directions For The Virginia Community College System, Barbara Kate Townsend

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this study was to determine Virginia Community College System (VCCS) faculty preferences for four possible institutional directions for the VCCS and to explore possible relationships between specific faculty characteristics and preferences for the individual directions. Information derived from the study was to be used to clarify whether or not community college faculty support the broad institutional directions by community college leaders in their efforts to instill a strong identity for this institution.;The population for this study was all full-time teaching faculty in the VCCS for the academic year 1982-83. 323 faculty were systematically selected after first being …

The Development Of An Exceptional Brethern Ministers Scale For The California Psychological Inventory, James Ralph Hutchison

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this study was to develop an Exceptional Brethren Ministers Scale for the California Psychological Inventory. This scale was designed to differentiate between effective and ineffective parish pastors in the Church of the Brethren.;The procedure involved the identification of two groups of parish clergy in the Church of the Brethren. These groups were formulated using a Pastoral Effectivenes Rating Form, (PERF). A list containing 160 items was circulated among a group of experts in ministry in the Church of the Brethren for their appraisal. The experts rated each item according to its efficacy in discriminating between effective and …

The Effect Of Critical Thinking Skills Instruction On Achievement And Attitudes Of Elementary Students Differing In Learning Style Preferences, Joan S. Byrne

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of teacher-paced versus self-paced instruction of critical thinking skills on the achievement of higher level thinking process and student attitudes in elementary students with a high, moderate, or low preference for teacher-structured learning.;Fifth grade students (n = 135) were randomly assigned to three groups in two elementary schools, two treatment and one control, using a random block design based on a high, moderate, or low preference of students for teacher-structured learning. Trained teachers, randomly assigned, instructed students in the treatment groups in the development of critical thinking skills. A seven-week …

The Short Term Effects Of A Developmentally Based Substance Abuse Program With Incarcerated Youth, Everett Gerard Mclaren Jr.

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this study was to provide a group experience to a high risk population which addressed the problems of chemical use. The study attempted to evaluate the impact of a developmentally focused prevention program on the range of developmental skills in a population of high risk youth.;The subjects for this study were drawn from a population of young adolescent boys who had been committed to the State Department of Corrections and placed at Barrett Learning Center. Subjects were randomly selected from those youth who entered the institutional population between November 1, 1981 and February 1, 1982.;Twenty-four subjects were …

Athletics, Lee Bohnet

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Centennial in 1983.

Aviation, Donald I. Smith

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Centennial in 1983.

Business And Vocational Education, James L. Navara

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Centennial in 1983.

Industrial Technology, Myron Bender

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Centennial in 1983.

Health, Physical Education And Recreation, Lavernia M. Jorgensen

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Centennial in 1983.

Military Science, Michael F. O'Dwyer

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Centennial in 1983.

Last Sabbatical : A Midlife Journey, Sophie Freud Loewenstein

UND Publications

The views of a professor of social work about her sabbatical leave overseas as a point of transition in her academic career, and as an occasion for challenge and reflection in her life and work, are presented. She left to escape the pressures of duties, obligations, strictures, and expectations that surround a relatively successful academic career, as well as to learn new clinical social work skills and to gain in personal development. Issues concerning midlife, professional relationships, relationships between male and female clinicians, and separation from a familiar culture and personal ties are addressed. Philosophical, personal, and professional concerns are …

School Of Medicine And Department Of Anatomy History, D. L. Matthies

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Centennial in 1983. Supplemental information on the Anatomy Department was added at a later date.

University College, 1955-1983, Summer Sessions, 1979-1983, D. J. Robertson, Helen M. Jacoby, Cheryl L. Schubert

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Centennial in 1983.

A Century On The Northern Plains: The University Of North Dakota At 100, D. Jerome Tweton, Robert P. Wilkins, Thomas W. Howard, Lee Bohnet, James F. Vivian, Dan F. Rylance

UND Publications

This is the Centennial History of the University of North Dakota, published in 1983.

Personal Construct Theory And The Reconstruction Of Teacher Education, Colin Symes

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

The preparation of teachers, earnest enterprise though it is, is fraught with inadequacies. Many of these stem from the ill-defined nature of the enterprise itself. The goal of getting fledgling teachers into the classroom has taken many guises over the years, as befits an enterprise somewhat uncertain of its direction and goals. Courses of teacher education have got longer and the experiences contained within them more varied and academic. The spoils of educational science, if 'science' is the right word, are ever more marshalled into the service of teacher training, with the natural expectation that teachers will be better for …

Death Anxiety And Fear Of Death Attitudes: A Death Education Program For Student Nurses, M. Terrance Lally

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Compensation Management Related To Non-Certificated Employees In Selected Illinois Public School Districts, Susan L. S. Bisinger

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Desegregated School And Status Relationships Among Anglo And Hispanic Students, Peter Iadicola, Helen A. Moore

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Desgregated elementary school students display verbal and non-verbal indicators of status relationships in a structured, videotaped interaction game. Both Hispanic and Anglo third grade student responses are analyzed across ten schools for a case study of factors that influence racial/ethnic integration outcomes. Variance in student outcomes are primarily explained by socioeconomic dimensions of the schools. These findings suggest that school desegregation poses a contradiction for Hispanic students.

A Meta-Analysis Of The Effectiveness Of Educational Treatment Programs For Emotionally Disturbed Students, Claire Millhiser Rosenbaum

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this study was to identify and compare the effects of educational treatment programs for emotionally disturbed students. In addition, the study explored whether programmatic or demographic variables interacted with the treatment programs to affect the outcome measures.;Two hundred twenty studies were integrated using the meta-analysis technique. The analysis involved more than 2,300 research subjects and yielded 235 measures of effect size, which were calculated on outcome areas of general achievement, mathematics achievement, reading achievement, and social skills. Variables investigated were age, diagnosis, SES, IQ, length of program, program setting, and program facilitator.;It was hypothesized that (1) there …

A Study Of An Intervention Designed To Increase Awareness Of The Effects Of Sex Role Socialization On The Attitudes, Cognitions, And Behaviors Of Black High School Girls, Mary Elizabeth Hubbard Lewis

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of sixteen structured group sessions on black high school girls' attitudes toward the rights and sex roles of women, cognitions about the "ideal" woman, and expressed interests in careers in science and engineering.;The literature indicates that individuals select and enter career fields based partly upon their perceptions that certain career areas are more appropriate for one sex than for another. The resulting phenomenon is known as "occupational sex-typing" or segregation of the sexes by occupation.;The research design for this study was a pretest-posttest control group design. The samples consisted of …

A Comparative Study Of Selected Behaviors Of Children From Divorced/Separated And Intact Families In The Parochial School System, Elaine Delaney

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This study was designed to determine if there is a significant difference in selected behaviors of children from divorced/separated families in the parochial school system as compared with children of intact families within the same school system. The relationship was examined by taking into consideration the child's self evaluation of his/her home, school, and peer relationships and teacher's evaluation of school related behavior. Four parochial elementary schools with relatively equal economic status were selected from the metropolitan area of a large mid-western city. Subjects included four hundred eighty-three fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students and their respective homeroom teachers. Sixty-three …

The Bison: 1983, Howard University

Howard University Yearbooks

This digital object was funded in part through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The digitalization of this object was part of a collaborative effort with the Washington Research Library Consortium and George Washington University.

College Sports Bulletin 1983, No. 1., Dublin Institute Of Technology

DIT Publications

'The emphasis on sport in this college is to cater for participants at all standards in as wide a variety of activities as possible. The sports range from karate to chess and from hang-gliding to mixed hockey.

Seamus Byrne, P.E.Dept.

1983-1984 Nova College The Center For Undergraduate Studies Bulletin, Nova Southeastern University

Undergraduate Programs Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.