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The Effects Of Microcomputer Use On The Critical Thinking Skills Of Middle School Students, Harvey William Perkins
The Effects Of Microcomputer Use On The Critical Thinking Skills Of Middle School Students, Harvey William Perkins
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether teaching critical thinking skills with the microcomputer produces a greater increase in the thinking skills of middle school students than teaching critical thinking skills with conventional methods.;The sample consisted of ten intact classes (N = 204) of seventh grade students who had registered for a class called, "Problem Solving with the Microcomputer." Five of the classes were assigned at random to two treatment groups and five classes served as the control group. Trained teachers instructed the treatment groups in a nine week course in critical thinking and problem solving consisting of …
A Policy Analysis Of The Federally Mandated Undergraduate Desegregation Criteria Measured By Retention Strategies For Minority Students At A Senior Public Traditionally White Institution In Virginia, Robert M. Simmonds
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The purpose of this research was an analysis of the implementation of the federally mandated undergraduate desegregation criteria. This research looked at the development of policy at the federal level, and the subsequent response by the State of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University.;Virginia Commonwealth University was selected for this study for two reasons: (1) Virginia Commonwealth University is located in an urban setting which has the largest black population in the state, and (2) this institution has the largest target (identified by the state) of black enrollment than any other public senior institution in Virginia.;Retention strategies were used to measure …
A Study Of Sexual Attitudes, Sexual Behaviors, And Religiosity Of Community College Students, Robert John Abdo
A Study Of Sexual Attitudes, Sexual Behaviors, And Religiosity Of Community College Students, Robert John Abdo
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The purpose of this study was to examine the specific relationship which exists between selected sociodemographic characteristics and the religiosity of a group of incoming community college students and their sexual attitudes and sexual behaviors.;A sample of 204 community college students completed a survey aimed at assessing their sexual attitudes, sexual behaviors, and religiosity. The instrument was based on a number of previously printed surveys and its reliability was tested with a sample of 23 community college students.;The reliability study demonstrated conclusive evidence that this instrument is highly reliable. All items except two were reliable at the .01 level of …
An Investigation Into Current Evangelical College Secularization, William Arthur Wilson
An Investigation Into Current Evangelical College Secularization, William Arthur Wilson
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This study investigated the claim that some of the academically best evangelical colleges are in the process of secularizing. An instrument was developed which differentiated between evangelical and more liberal positions on religious, social, and political issues. Faculty attitudes were measured as representative of a particular college's position.;In Phase I, the DISCRIMINANT Program of the SPSS produced a predictor equation based on those questionnaire items which best discriminated between a stratified, random sample of faculty at known evangelical colleges and a similar sample at known secularized, church-related institutions. Validity of the instrument was shown as 94.59% of the evangelical professors …
An Analysis Of Fact-Finding And Its Acceptance As A Method Of Conflict Resolution In Virginia Public School Grievance And Dismissal Procedures, Diane Gerian Martin
An Analysis Of Fact-Finding And Its Acceptance As A Method Of Conflict Resolution In Virginia Public School Grievance And Dismissal Procedures, Diane Gerian Martin
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The Problem. The purpose of this study was to examine fact-finding as a method of conflict resolution in Virginia Public School grievance cases to determine the extent that school boards and courts accept the fact-finders' recommendation. It was hypothesized that the recommendations of fact-finding committees are accepted more often than they are rejected; that the number of cases brought to fact-finding varies with the size and location of the school division, that the number of cases decided directly by school boards is less than the number of cases decided by school boards after a fact-finding hearing; and that school central …
A Matter Of Degree : Mid-Career Professional Training For Museum Workers In The United States & Great Britain, William Joseph. Tramposch
A Matter Of Degree : Mid-Career Professional Training For Museum Workers In The United States & Great Britain, William Joseph. Tramposch
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What are the differences between the continuing education programs for museum workers in the United States and Great Britain, and what do these distinctions reveal about the ways in which the role of the museum worker is perceived in these respective countries?;This study will: (1) analyze the literature surrounding these questions, literature ranging in topics from the sociology of professions to descriptions of mid-career training options, (2) compare and contrast the museums, museum studies programs, and continued learning schemes for museologists, and, finally, (3) examine the differences and similarities between two representative programs, one for each country: the Seminar for …
In Search Of A Home : An Historical Analysis Of The Major Factors Concerning The Location Of Virginia Commonwealth University, Ann Laurens Williams
In Search Of A Home : An Historical Analysis Of The Major Factors Concerning The Location Of Virginia Commonwealth University, Ann Laurens Williams
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This dissertation was written to examine the hypothesis that, although there were numerous factors affecting the selection of a site, it was primarily a financial decision to maintain the urban environment of the former Richmond Professional Institute campus as the basis of the new Academic Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. Other factors involved in the decision include political, historical, social and academic ones.;The political factor involved a division between the City of Richmond and the County of Henrico as to the location of the Academic Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. Senator William F. Parkerson, Jr., of Henrico County fought hard …
The Effects Of Word Processing On The Writing Of Selected Fifth- Grade Students, Walter C. Woolley
The Effects Of Word Processing On The Writing Of Selected Fifth- Grade Students, Walter C. Woolley
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether 120 fifth-grade students composed significantly better writing using word processors than using pencil and paper. The subjects included 65 males and 55 females. Following an introductory lesson in keyboarding and instruction on the Bank Street Writer word processing program, randomly selected control and treatment groups participated in sixteen 45-minute sessions of prewriting, writing, and revising expository paragraphs and essays. Both groups used a process approach to writing. Trained scorers evaluated the compositions. Results were tabulated using MANOVA to test for significant differences between groups. Level of significance was set at .05. …
Food For Thought: The Collegiate Way Of Living, David Holland Charlton
Food For Thought: The Collegiate Way Of Living, David Holland Charlton
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The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the collegiate way of living; how it began, how it developed and changed, and why institutions have adhered to it. Communal dining was emphasized in an attempt to determine why colleges have believed it to be important enough to require it of differing student populations, under widely varying circumstances, over a period of at least four hundred years.;The College of William and Mary in Virginia was selected as a case study for this project. One of America's earliest colleges, William and Mary was founded on the British (Oxbridge) model, and has required …
Implications For Research On Line-Staff Structure In College And University Management : A Content Analysis Of The Literature, Carlton Sherry Potts
Implications For Research On Line-Staff Structure In College And University Management : A Content Analysis Of The Literature, Carlton Sherry Potts
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The purpose of this study was to analyze the existing literature to determine how the line-staff structure may influence academic managers and their institutions. The study focused on identifying behavior-linked line-staff distinguishing variables on which academic line and staff managers may differ. Emphasis was placed on using information in the literature to generate new research propositions.;Forty-four documents which compared line and staff managers on one or more position, personal, and psychological variables were reviewed using a structured content analysis procedure. Twenty-one behavior-linked line-staff distinguishing variables were identified. The strength of each variable as a candidate for future research in higher …
Career-Bound And Place-Bound Orientation Of Educational Executives : Implications For Organizational Role Change In The Education Of The Deaf, Karen M. Notebloom Bellefleur
Career-Bound And Place-Bound Orientation Of Educational Executives : Implications For Organizational Role Change In The Education Of The Deaf, Karen M. Notebloom Bellefleur
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Superintendents of residential schools for the deaf were the subjects of a study to determine what effects career orientation had on the implementation of role changes since the passage of Public Law 94-142 in 1975. Career orientation is a construct concerned with whether an individual succeeds to an executive position from a lower rank within the hiring institution from inside (place-bound) or from outside (career-bound).;Prior to this study career orientation had only been examined in terms of superintendents of public school districts where the variable was found to identify a 2 to 1 ratio of career-bound to place-bound. The current …
Image, Institution And Leadership : Philip Lindsley And The Modern University Presidency 1825-1850, David Mathis
Image, Institution And Leadership : Philip Lindsley And The Modern University Presidency 1825-1850, David Mathis
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Colleges and universities have historically found that their projected image, character, prestige, and reputation is highly significant to success, even though these illusive indicators of quality may be little more than emotional responses to what people believe, rather than reality. These over-simplifications are based on filtered messages and perceptions, and when they occur, a Gestalt view results that relates to the institution as a whole. One avenue often utilized by institutions of higher education to achieve this institutional image or character is through the president or major spokesman.;One important historic case of the spokesman's role in higher education is that …
The Relationship Of Job Preview To Absenteeism, Turnover, And Job Satisfaction Of Public School Teachers, Harold Hastings Hedley
The Relationship Of Job Preview To Absenteeism, Turnover, And Job Satisfaction Of Public School Teachers, Harold Hastings Hedley
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The relationship between the job preview and the job related behaviors of absenteeism, turnover, and job satisfaction was investigated. The objective of the study was to attempt to determine if a job preview booklet that contained information about teaching would have a statistically significant effect on the three job-related behaviors of absenteeism, turnover, and job satisfaction. Data were gathered by examining absenteeism and turnover information from 103 newly hired teachers in the seven school divisions participating in the study. Job satisfaction of control and experimental groups was measured by administering the Job Descriptive Index and the Job in General measure. …
An Experiment Comparing The Effects Of Two Techniques That Elicit The Relaxation Response On Stress Reduction And Cognitive Functioning In First Year Law Students At Southern Illinois University At Carbondale, Yvonne Robena Siddall
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between eliciting the relaxation response in first year law students and academic performance.;First year law students at Southern Illinois University ware chosen for this study. Law students were chosen because their course of study was rigorous and stress producing and every student had the same courses during the first year.;There were two treatment groups and a non-treatment control group. One treatment group was taught Benson's Relaxation Procedure and the other was taught a classical eye fixation, self-hypnosis technique. Stress assessments were conducted every other week for an entire semester.;It was …
Liberal Education And Moral Development: An Integrated Model Of Moral Education, Roderic Lewis Owen
Liberal Education And Moral Development: An Integrated Model Of Moral Education, Roderic Lewis Owen
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Two central questions are raised: at a college level, what should be our educational goals and methods in the realm of moral development? and, what curricular or instructional model is most logically consistent and ethically acceptable with the mission and philosophy of liberal education? The major purpose of this study is to answer these questions and develop one reasonable, clearly defined model of college-level moral education.;As a normative inquiry into the goals of moral education, this philosophical study rests on the assumption that statements of moral value can be rationally understood and taught and is guided by an awareness of …