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Koinonia, Ken Soper

Koinonia

Emerging Trends: Implications for the Future, Ernest Boyer

Executive Committee Meets in Chicago

The Different Drum (by Scott Makin) Book Review

Birth of a Network, Ken Soper

Intuition In Decision Making By Human Service Administrators, Judith Huber Halseth

Dissertations

The phenomenon of intuition includes insights and hunches, as well as the ability to pick up clues and to see patterns. The role of intuition in interpersonal relationships, in problem solving and decision making, and in creativity makes it an important cognitive faculty. As a complement to more systematic and deductive decision making, intuition provides creative insights, especially when people consciously acknowledge intuition.

This study focused on the experience of intuition as reported by 25 administrators in human service organizations. In face-to-face interviews, the 10 women and 15 men who were known to use intuition were asked open-ended questions about …

Effectiveness Of Employee Participation Groups In A Manufacturing Company, John F. Blamy

Dissertations

This case study investigated the short term effectiveness of Quality of Work Life participation groups in a Midwest manufacturing division of a major worldwide automotive corporation. Six traditional procedural measures were used to evaluate performance. These measures of performance were: employee attendance, written grievances, scrap produced, quality audits, customer complaints, and productivity.

Six hypotheses were formulated for this study: (1) Employees in departments with employee participation groups will improve their attendance more than employees in departments that do not have employee participation groups. (2) Employees in departments with employee participation groups will decrease the number of formal grievances more than …

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, November 30, 1988

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on November 30, 1988.

Academic Council Meeting Agenda And Minutes, November 28, 1988, Alphonso L. Smith

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Agenda and minutes from the Wright State University Academic Council Meeting held on November 28, 1988.

Fall Quarter University Faculty Meeting Agenda And Minutes, November 15, 1988

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Agenda and minutes from the Fall Quarter University Faculty Meeting held on November 15, 1988.

Academic Council Meeting Minutes, November 7, 1988

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Minutes from the Wright State University Academic Council Meeting held on November 7, 1988.

Academic Council Meeting Agenda And Minutes, October 3, 1988, Alphonso L. Smith

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Agenda and minutes from the Wright State University Academic Council Meeting held on October 3, 1988.

A Survey Of Factors Affecting Enrollment In Mathematics Teacher Education Programs, Rebecca Miller

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Concern for an adequate supply of competent mathematics teachers prompted this research. The study was implemented to identify the factors believed to be of importance in a student's decision concerning whether or not to become a public school teacher.

A comparison was made between two groups of mathematics students at Western Kentucky University. Mathematics students were separated according to whether or not they were pursuing teacher certification.

A two-part questionnaire was administered. The first part asked students to rate the importance of 10 selected career factors in their career decision. The second part asked students to rate these same 10 …

Koinonia, R. A. Rollins, R. Hestenes, Deb Lacey

Koinonia

Azusa 1988; Azusa Conference Report

Balancing Love and Discipline, Forgiveness and Consequence, R.A. Rollins

From the President

AIDS Update: Calvin College and Seminary

Lessons on Leadership from the Trenches, R. Hestenes

AIDS and Adolescents-Threat Greater than Statistics Indicate

A Time and a Place, Deb Lacey

Academic Council Meeting Agenda And Minutes, June 6, 1988, Alphonso L. Smith, Jeanne H. Ballantine

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Agenda and minutes from the Wright State University Academic Council Meeting held on June 6, 1988.

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, June 1-2, 1988

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on June 1-2, 1988.

Spring Quarter University Faculty Meeting Agenda And Minutes, May 10, 1988

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Agenda and minutes from the Spring Quarter University Faculty Meeting held on May 10, 1988.

Academic Council Meeting Minutes, May 2, 1988

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Minutes from the Wright State University Academic Council Meeting held on May 2, 1988.

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, April 5-6, 1988

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on April 5-6, 1988.

Academic Council Meeting Agenda, April 4, 1988, Jeanne Ballantine

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Agenda from the Wright State University Academic Council Meeting held on April 4, 1988.

Academic Council Meeting Agenda And Minutes, March 7, 1988, Jeanne Ballantine

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Agenda and minutes from the Wright State University Academic Council Meeting held on March 7, 1988.

Koinonia, Acsd

Koinonia

Christians in Student Development at the State University

Policies for Students Diagnosed as Being Infected with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

Constitutional Revision

Winter Quarter University Faculty Meeting Agenda And Minutes, February 16, 1988

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Agenda and minutes from the Winter Quarter University Faculty Meeting held on February 16, 1988.

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, February 3-4, 1988

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on February 3-4, 1988.

Academic Council Meeting Agenda And Minutes, February 1, 1988, Jeanne Ballantine

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Agenda and minutes from the Wright State University Academic Council Meeting held on February 1, 1988.

Winter Quarter Faculty Meeting Agenda, January 26, 1988

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Agenda from the Winter Quarter Faculty Meeting held on the February 16, 1988.

Special Faculty Meeting Minutes, January 12, 1988

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Minutes from the Special Faculty Meeting held on January 12, 1988.

Academic Council Meeting Agenda And Minutes, January 11, 1988, Jeanne Ballantine

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Agenda and minutes from the Wright State University Academic Council Meeting held on January 11, 1988.

The Origins Of Number Concepts In Five-, Six- And Seven- Year Old Anglo, Hispanic And Native American Children, Manon Pettit Charbonneau

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

This study investigated the origins of ordinal and cardinal number concepts in five-, six-, and seven-year old Anglo, Hispanic and Native American children, and the effects of that acquisition on the ability to manipulate the first four natural numbers. The research subjects were Kindergarten and first grade students at rural public schools (Anglo and Hispanic) in New Mexico, and at a contract community school or an independent day school on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. All the children were tested during the first two weeks of the school year to control for a minimum of school training, and were tested …

Proposal Writing: Issues And Procedures, With A Sample Proposal For A Women's Income Generation Project In The Gambia., Fatoumata Ayo Bayo Sidibe

Master's Capstone Projects

No abstract provided.

1987-88 Annual Report, Illinois' Investment, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

Annual Reports

Our second academic year enabled the Academy to embark in new directions. At the conclusion of the 1988 spring legislative session, the Academy's budget review process was transferred from the Illinois State Board of Education to the Illinois Board of Higher Education. We are grateful to all who have helped shape the Academy into the unique institution that it is today. We extend special thanks to Superintendent of Education Dr. Ted Sanders and the staff at the State Board of Education for their leadership. With their assistance and support, the Academy was able to achieve significant growth within a limited …

The Relationship Between A Principal's Self-Perceived Leader Style And Self-Perceived Job Stress, Paul Harrison Bisher Ii

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between a principal’s self-perceived leader style, self-perceived job stress and self-reported demographics.

The three null hypotheses were answered by analyzing data collected from a stratified random sampling of elementary and secondary principals in the West Virginia public school system. A three part questionnaire was used to collect the data. The first section of the questionnaire consisted of twelve statements regarding demographic information. The second section consisted of Hersey & Blanchard’s LEAD-Self instrument. The third section consisted of Tung & Koch's revised Administrative Stress Index which contained twenty-five job related stressor …

A Comparison Of Three Transfer Of Training Strategies In Inservice Adult Teacher Training, John A. Henschke Edd

IACE Hall of Fame Repository

The need for effective inservice education for teachers in great. Often, inservice programs teach new knowledge and skills, but there is little carry over into teaching practice. The purpose of this study was to develop an effective inservice program in methods of teaching specific subject matter and to compare the effectiveness of four difference follow-up strategies: consultant coaching, team coaching, group meeting, and no follow-up. The major hypotheses tested were: teachers receiving training will demonstrate a significant increase in mean scores on a knowledge test and on a skill performance instrument when compared with a group of teachers not receiving …

Long Term Impact Evaluation Of Continuing Education Programs, John A. Henschke Edd

IACE Hall of Fame Repository

The information explosion in our technologically oriented society has brought with it a shortened time span of cultural and factual knowledge change in each succeeding decade. Thus, professionals constantly need continuing education programs which provide up-dated information and skill development in their respective fields to keep from becoming obsolete. However, a question remains for those who seek to serve those needs: How will the long term impact of these continuing education programs be measured, determined and evaluated? One continuing education program has sought to answer that major question. In 1975 some rural health care professionals originated a request to an …