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A Survey Of Burnout Among Dental Hygiene Educators, Sandra Boggs Ricks

Dental Hygiene Theses & Dissertations

A survey was conducted on 159 full-time dental hygiene educators in order to collect data on job satisfaction, morale, and perceived institutional/program effectiveness. Educators were chosen for the study by cluster sampling from two- and four-year accredited dental hygiene programs in the United States. The programs were selected at random from stratified groups according to type of institutional setting. Participants were asked to complete a questionnaire which contained four major sections: demographic data, job satisfaction, institutional/program effectiveness, and feelings related to their position. Findings were analyzed utilizing contingency tables and Chi-Square analysis. No attempt was made to establish a cause …

A Comparison Of Parenting Profiles Of Adolescent Mothers, Willar F. White-Parson

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

Statement of Problem. How do parenting profiles of adolescent mothers who attended an alternative school for pregnant students compare with adolescent mothers who did not attend this school?

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to compare the parenting perceptions of adolescent mothers who attended an alternative school for pregnant students and adolescent mothers who did not attend this school.

Procedure and Methods. The sample for this quasi-experimental study consisted of twenty volunteers who were enrolled in an alternative school and twenty volunteers who were admitted to a general hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. The school samples was the experimental group …

Factors Influencing College Choice Of Minority Students And Their Implications For Recruitment, Linda Blount Mccluney

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

This study was designed to determine factors of college choice and to evaluate their implications for the development of recruiting guidelines for minority students. The intent was to survey two hundred freshmen of two urban universities to determine which factors were influential in their college choice process and to design recruiting guidelines. The use of these guidelines may provide the impetus to direct more blacks to predominantly white urban universities and more whites to predominantly black universities.

The criterion group approach allowed for the two groups (black students attending a predominantly white university versus black students attending a predominantly black …

Admissions Criteria As Predictors Of Students' Successful Completion Of A Dental Hygiene Program, M. Linda Brown

Dental Hygiene Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate the criteria used to select dental hygiene students and to determine the ability of these criteria to predict students' successful completion of a dental hygiene program. One hundred sixteen graduates of the certificate level dental hygiene program at Old Dominion University between 1971- 1981, inclusive, comprised the sample. The majority of the subjects were Caucasian females, ages 20 to 24. The admissions criteria examined were (1) Dental Hygiene Aptitude Test scores, (2) Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, (3) preadmission quality point average, (4) college chemistry quality point average, and (S) percentile rank in …

The Educated Worker: A Case Study Of Educational Needs And Program Of Developmental Reading, Margaret Barnes Carter

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

In today's developed societies, there is a need for workers to possess educational skills commensurate with the positions which they hold. It appears that a significant group of workers do not have sufficient educational skills.

Today's business, industrial and governmental organizations need to become aware of the educational requirements for the various positions within their organization and to be aware of the educational level which their employees actually have attained. A problem arises if there is a gap between need and actual performance. Human resource development, HRD, is one method of remediating any discrepancies found between employee educational needs and …

Research To Develop A Consensus Self-Evaluation Model Of National Norms Of Excellence For Alternating Cooperative Education Programs At Four-Year Colleges And Universities, Constance F. Brothers

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

The research described in this dissertation was conducted in response to an expressed need for the development of national norms of excellence for cooperative education programs in the United States in 1980. In academic year 1981-1982 a Delphi technique was used with 12 cooperative education experts, who identified 155 cooperative education program norms of excellence specifically for four-year alternating cooperative education programs.

In academic year 1982-1983, the 155 norms identified were transposed into a 90-item self-evaluation questionnaire which was field tested and sampled at 14 colleges and universities with alternating cooperative education programs in the United States. Of 900 college …

The Impact Of Ceta Activities On Selected Hampton Roads Manpower Programs: Cost-Benefit Analysis And Utilization-Focused Evaluation, Raymond A. Gromelski

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

The study examined the effects of Classroom Training, On-the-Job Training, Work Experience, and JobShop programs of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) on the job opportunities, amount of government transfer payments, and criminal activities of the 1982 terminees. The purposes of the program were to determine (1) program cost-effectiveness; (2) which program components operate at higher levels of efficiency; and (3) which selected client characteristics influenced program results.

The evaluation described program success in terms of increased job opportunities and reductions in government transfer payments for CETA participants in the Hampton/Newport News area. Comparisons were made of the employment …

An Analysis Of Attitudes Toward Morals In Education, Richard W. Aadahl

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The basic purpose of this study was to determine whether or not morals education was important to the individuals surveyed and if it was found to be negligible or totally lacking at he various levels would the inclusion of morals education make a "noticeable" difference in the individuals.

A Study Of Future Business Leaders Of America And Future Homemakers Of America/Home Economics Related Occupations Organizations In Essex County, Gloucester County, King And Queen County, Middlesex County And The Town Of West Point, Phyllis B. Carver, Kathy N. Rodgers

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The basic questions of the study are: 1. Can vocational student organizations positively effect students' employability? 2. Does training provided by vocational student organizations aid in developing leadership skills? 3. In what ways can a vocational student organization positively effect community involvement by its members?

A Follow-Up Of Job-Entry Training Completors At Madison Secondary School 1978-84, Holly B. Evans

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The research objectives for this study were: 1. To determine Job-entry training completors' status, i.e., employment and/or continued education; 2. To evaluate the attainment of specific program goals; 3. To make recommendations for program/curriculum change.

Determining The Validity Of The Auto Mechanics I Curriculum And Student Competencies At Virginia Peninsula Vo-Tech (South Campus), Bruce M. Godwin

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The objectives of this study were as follows: 1. Craft committees, consisting of members of the business community, were used to review the curriculum and offer ideas that would help update the curriculum; 2. An employer follow-up was developed to survey the abilities of automotive graduates working in the community and determine the effectiveness of their educational experience at Vo-Tech; 3. By talking to area employees and industry representatives, we were able to determine those work traits most necessary for successful employment.

A Study Of The Attitudes And Beliefs Of Tidewater Area Businesses Regarding The Employment Of The Trainable Mentally Retarded, Fred Hadley

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The research goals of this study were: 1. Accumulate and analyze data on the attitudes currently held by both prospective and actual employers regarding the employment of mentally retarded persons; 2. Demonstrate a relationship between the attitudes of employers who had actually hired mentally retarded persons and those who had not.

A Survey Of The Teachers' Attitudes Towards Special Needs In Industrial Arts At The Intermediate Level, Elliott Riddick

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

Research questions for this study were: 1. What is the teacher's major concerns in working with special needs students in industrial arts programs? 2. What is the percentage of teachers modifying their schedule for special needs? 3. What is the percentage of teachers sharing the responsibilities of teaching the student of special need?

An Analysis Of The Reasons And Influences Causing Students To Enroll In Industrial Arts Education Programs At Virginia Universities, Robert Beauter

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The problem of this study was to conduct a survey of industrial arts education majors at Virginia universities to identify and analyze their reasons for enrolling in a university industrial arts education program and who had the most influence on their decision. This data would be used as an aid in recruiting students for the Industrial Arts Education Program at Old Dominion University.

Assessment Criteria For Special Education Students In Vocational Education, Joyce A. Francis

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The basic research questions of this study are as follows: 1. What are the exit competencies for a given learning disabled according to the student's career/vocational goals and/or needs? 2. Is it possible for a special education student to be placed in a vocational learning environment with their peers that are "normal" (mainstreaming)? 3. Can a special education student be productive during this period of mainstreaming?

A Study To Determine The Effectiveness Of The Vocational Resource Program In Newport News Public Schools, Newport News, Virginia, Maury Eugene Middleton

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The objectives of this research were: 1. To determine to what extent the services were being used and if they were not, why; 2. To determine the usefulness of the services provided by the Vocational Resource Program; 3. To determine the desired needs of the teachers that were covered by the Vocational Resource Program; 4. To determine the effectiveness of the vocational aides.

A Study Of The Robustness Of The Three-Parameter Item Response Model, James B. Flynn

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

Simulation techniques were employed to investigate the use of the three-parameter item response model on psychological test data which violated the model's assumptions of large sample sizes, long tests and test unidimensionality. The accuracy of the person ability and item characteristic curve parameter estimates derived by the three-parameter item response model was evaluated. Data sets and distributions of person ability and item characteristic curve parameters were generated using a computer-based algorithm, AVRAM (Ree, 1980), which employs the three-parameter logistic probability equation described by Birnbaum (1968). A computer software package, LOGIST5 (Wingersky, Burton & Lord, 1982), which utilizes the three-parameter logistic …