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Pacific Review Nov/Dec 1986, Pacific Alumni Association

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.

Developing Music History Knowledge Through Computer-Assisted Instruction, Elaine A. Meils

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

A team effort led by the author developed and implemented a model program designed to improve fifth grade students’ knowledge of music history through computer- assisted instruction. The goals of the program were to have the student be able to identify the different periods of music history, music styles of those periods, composers and various writing styles of the composers. The program contained four basic components: pre-test, implementation, post-test and results. After the fifth grade students were randomly chosen, a pre-test was conducted and the implementation began. Following the implementation period the author conducted a post-test, the findings of the …

Pacific Review Sept/Oct 1986, Pacific Alumni Association

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.

Taylor University Magazine (Fall 1986), Taylor University

The Taylor Magazine (1963-Present)

The Fall 1986 edition of Taylor Magazine, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Dormitory Ground-Breaking, Leon Lederman

Documents

I think I have participated in a lot of ground-breaking ceremonies. In 1968, I watched them dig the first shovel for the creation of Fermilab -- eighteen years ago. You wield a ceremonial shovel and go about your business and before you know it -- a building exists and you say -- "my God, where did the time go?" But it isn't the building that we are breaking ground for today -- it's the institution; the I.M.S.A. and it is here -- within this volume of space, in middle America -- that we will make history -- that legends will …

Pacific Review July/Aug 1986, Pacific Alumni Association

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.

Pacific Review May/June 1986, Pacific Alumni Association

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.

American Studies: Civil War, The Correlation Of Literature And History Studies In High School, Arlene Kellogg

Theses

Courses in history can be nothing but memorizing facts, and courses in literature can be writing without roots . The author proposes a correlated curriculum for high school American literature and history, specifically in the Civil War time frame to change this situation.

The purpose of this curriculum, "American Studies: Civil War," is to make the history of our country live for the student, giving him/her a feeling for the mood of the times and motivating him/her to become politically active as a young citizen.

To validate the proposal, the author has interviewed experts in the fields of literature, history …

Pacific Review March/April 1986, Pacific Alumni Association

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.

The Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy: A Philosophy, Leon Lederman

Documents

In establishing a' new kind of educational institution which is heavily dependent on public funding, it is incumbent to describe the goals and the means as clearly as possible. We do this here in several steps: We define the general objectives, the specifications and finally, the general philosophy.

Pacific Review Jan/Feb 1986, Pacific Alumni Association

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.

Prologue 1986, Sacred Heart University

Prologue (Yearbook)

No abstract provided.

1986 Ruby Yearbook, Alison Kay Brown, Laurie Winchester, Ursinus College Senior Class

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 1986 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

Chinese American Images In Selected Children's Fiction For Kindergarten Through Sixth Grade, Laureen Chew

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to investigate Chinese American images in selected children's fiction to determine whether or not data support the position of the Council on Interracial Books for Children, that the works of fiction studied tend to stereotype Chinese Americans.

After reading the selected fifteen works of fiction, a criterion checklist was devised by the investigator to examine the behavior and lifestyle of Chinese Americans depicted in a variety of circumstances. validity of the criterion checklist was established by a panel of experts in the area of Chinese American studies. Inter-rater reliability was determined by two readers …