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Making The Most Of Volunteer Help: A Handbook For Parents And Teachers, Janet Lynn Bond Dec 1986

Making The Most Of Volunteer Help: A Handbook For Parents And Teachers, Janet Lynn Bond

Graduate Theses

This project is concerned with the importance of parental involvement in children learning to read. Research shows children who view reading as an important and valuable process develop a more positive attitude toward learning to read. Children involved in reading activities at home learn to read earlier and have improved comprehension over children who have no experiences reading in the home. Parent involvement can take place in the home or at school as classroom volunteers. This project contains a volunteer handbook for parents and teachers. Included are characteristics of a volunteer, tips for teachers, suggested activities for the classroom and …


Ua3/7/3 Professors, Wku President's Office - Alexander Aug 1986

Ua3/7/3 Professors, Wku President's Office - Alexander

WKU Archives Records

Speech given by Kern Alexander to the WKU Faculty Senate regarding the role of professors in the university.


The Development And Construct Validation Of The Children’S Academic Motivation Inventory, Kevin Hughes Aug 1986

The Development And Construct Validation Of The Children’S Academic Motivation Inventory, Kevin Hughes

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study was to develop and provide construct validation evidence for the Children’s Academic Motivation Inventory (CAMI). The CAMI, the junior Index of Motivation Scale (JIM Scale), and the Children’s Social Desirability Scale (CSDS) were administered to 534 sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students. Additionally, teacher assigned math grades; total math and total reading scores from the Kentucky Essential skills test (KEST); and the Cognitive Skills Index (CSI) from the Test of Cognitive Skills were obtained for each participant. Principal-components factor analysis with varimax rotation performed on the CAMI items produced essentially one factor, entitled academic achievement motivation. …


The Next Threshold: Higher Skills And The New England Economy, John C. Hoy Jun 1986

The Next Threshold: Higher Skills And The New England Economy, John C. Hoy

New England Journal of Public Policy

The history of the New England regional economy — its attenuated post-World War II decline and subsequent aggressive renewal — reveals an intensifying relationship between economic resurgence, the supply and continuing demand for professional manpower, and the results of academic research and development. The New England region has "outproduced" the rest of the nation in supplying professionally trained men and women, a leading factor not fully appreciated by those describing the region's robust economic health in the decade since Neal Peirce wrote The New England States. New England's "oversupply" in professional fields has given the high-tech and sophisticated services …


Belize Teacher's College Library Evaluation, Mary Margaret (Peggy) Wright Jan 1986

Belize Teacher's College Library Evaluation, Mary Margaret (Peggy) Wright

DLPS Faculty Publications

This is a report on the state of the Library at Belize Teacher's College in 1986. Includes a reprint of Ms. Wright's article, "Belize Teacher's College: Order Out of Chaos."


Resistance Tactics For Tokens, Regina Austin Jan 1986

Resistance Tactics For Tokens, Regina Austin

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.