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Does Our Complex Writing Lower Test Scores On Mathematics Word Problems?, William (Bill) H. Williams, Sandra P. Clarkson

Publications and Research

ABSTRACT: In this paper, we describe one of a series of studies at Hunter College to determine whether students' reading proficiency affects their performance on mathematics "word" problems. Based on this study, we reached some specific conclusions:

1. Reading ability is a separate, quantifiable factor which impacts the performance of all students on mathematics word problems.

2. Less complex writing leads to better results on word problems for all students.

3. Less complex writing leads to even more improvement in test results for “weaker” readers [those needing reading remediation] than for “average” readers [those exempting reading remediation].

The Psychological Determinants Of Occupational And Non-Occupational Risk-Taking Among Law Enforcement Officers, William F. Mccarthy

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The goal of this study was to identify and statistically examine the psychological determinants of risk-taking among law enforcement officers. This study was conceptualized and designed on a rather simple premise that risk-taking in one's leisure would have a dramatic and predominant influence on the grouping of subjects into definable personality trait categories. The suspicion regarding these categories was that subjects who engaged in risk-taking in their leisure time would be distinctively different from all other emerging groups, with regard to the 16 PF Cattell factors. It was also suspected that this leisure time risk-taking group's personality profile would be …

Pygmalion Goes To School: The Effects Of Goal Setting, The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy And Self-Efficacy On Trainee Performance, James Michael Benton

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This study examined the effectiveness of motivation techniques for increasing performance in a skill training program. A PC based software program provided structured training to increase subjects' typing skills. Motivation was manipulated by the use of goal setting and the self-fulfilling prophecy (SFP), alone and in combination. The moderating effects of self-efficacy on motivation, defined as a generalized "can do" personality orientation, were also examined. Two levels of goal setting were employed: (1) "do your best"; and, (2) a difficult, specific goal. The SFP was tied to the situation, not the person. It was invoked by informing subjects that the …

Burnout In Teachers: Is It Burnout Or Is It Depression?, Irvin Sam Schonfeld

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

The Ticker, December 5, 1990

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

The Ticker, October 17, 1990

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

The Ticker, October 3, 1990

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

The Graduate Student Advocate, October 1990, Vol. Ii, No. 2, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Slanderous Inferences: Environmental Psychology Faculty Defends Decision to Terminate Student. S. Saegert, D. Chapin, K. Christensen, R. Hart, C. Katz, J. Kubran, S. Low, L. Rivlin, G. Winkel, M. Wolfe (p. 1)

Rallying Against U.S. Aggression in the Middle East. Mohamed Aly and Kim Ives (p. 1)

Where Have All The Books Gone? Faculty Abuse of Library Borrowing Privileges. Andrew Long (p. 1)

Inside (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

Part-Timers United: New Adjunct Group Forming. Thomas Smith (p. 2)

Proposed Destruction of Cree and Inuit Homelands. Julia Scalcione (p. 2)

Doctoral Students’ Council Report. Michael …

The Ticker, September 19, 1990

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Catalog 1990-1992, Kingsborough Community College

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

The Graduate Student Advocate, May-September 1990, Vol. 1, No. 7, Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Wither the PTU? Vincent Tirelli (p. 1)

Victim of Protest? (p. 1)

CUNY Students Strike; Police Brutality Alleged. Andrew Long & Christine Hutchins (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

An Open Letter to all Cultural Anthropology Students and Faculty (p. 2)

Correction (p. 2)

Intensive and Beyond: The Foreign Language Institute & The Latin/Greek Institute. Caroline Pari (p. 3)

Dear Mr. Update (p. 3)

Responding to the Mystery Homophobe (p. 3)

Masthead (p. 4)

Editorials & Letters

Whose Rhetoric? (p. 4)

Sexual Politics (p. 4)

A Professorial Sampler (p. 4)

Michael …

The Ticker, April 4, 1990

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

The Ticker, March 14, 1990

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

The Bridge: Laguardia Community College Student Newspaper (Spring 1990), Laguardia Community College

The Bridge: LaGuardia Community College Student Newspaper

No abstract provided.

The Reporter, March 1990

The Reporter

The Reporter was Baruch College's evening session newspaper. Founded in 1923, when Baruch College was still part of City College, the Reporter billed itself as "the Oldest Evening Session College Newspaper Published in the United States." It ceased publication in 2002.

Pandora's Box Vol.33 No.6, York College

Pandora's Box

No abstract provided.

The Ticker, February 7, 1990

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Pandora's Box Vol.33 No.5, York College

Pandora's Box

No abstract provided.

The Graduate Student Advocate, Feburary 1990, Vol. I, No. 4, Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

DSC Restructures Student Newspaper. Jeanne A. Marre (p. 1)

CUNY Audits 1987-1988 Doctoral Students’ Council: “Serious Shortcomings” or Gross Mismanagement? Al Cofribas (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

The Doctoral Students’ Council: A Report (p. 2)

Photograph: Hallway to Heaven (p. 2)

Illustration: Wishful Thinking (p. 2)

What’s in a Name, anyway? Carina Yervasi (p. 2)

Dining With Inka: The Croissant Craze (p. 3)

MLA Memories: Student Talk Out of School. Cheryl Fish, ed. (p. 3)

Dear Mr. Update (p. 3)

International Woman’s Day (p. 3)

Presidential Search Committee Announced (p. …

College Catalog 1990, Laguardia Community College

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Lov(H)Ers: Lesbians As Intimate Partners, Ruthann Robson, Sarah E. Valentine

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Perspective: Laguardia Community College Newsletter (January 1990), Laguardia Community College

LaGuardia Community College Publications

Perspective is a newsletter published periodically to keep the faculty, students, staff, and community informed about the activities taking place on the campus of LaGuardia Community College.

Bronx Community College Of The City University Of New York Catalog 1990-92 Gateway To Success, Cuny Bronx Community College

Course Catalogs

Course catalog for Bronx Community College for 1990-92.

Pegasus 1990, Bronx Community College

Yearbooks

1990 yearbook from Bronx Community College of the City University of New York.

To Be Of Service: The Lawyer's Aware Use Of The Human Skills Associated With The Perceptive Self, Beryl Blaustone

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Lesbianism In Anglo-American Legal History, Ruthann Robson

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Distress In A Sample Of Teachers, Irvin Sam Schonfeld

Publications and Research

Examined the links between job-related stressors and depressive and psychophysiologic symptoms and morale in 67 New York City teachers. The teachers' mean score on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) was higher than might be expected from average community residents. The CES-D and a psychophysiologic symptom scale were correlated as highly as their reliabilities would permit, indicating that they measure the same construct, nonspecific psychological distress. The level of job strain (frequency of ongoing stressors) was more closely related to psychological distress and low morale than episodic stressors, including crimes in which the teacher was …

The Child's Understanding Of Correspondence Relations, Irvin Sam Schonfeld

Publications and Research

A number of quantitative comparison tasks were designed to tap knowledge of injective and suijective correspondences, one-directiona] compositions (greater + greater yields greater), countervailing compositions (greater + lesser yields ?), and length-density relations in 4- to 7-year-olds. The results indicated that performance on the comparison tasks was related to performance on a number conservation test as well as to age. Nonconservers performed at better than chance levels on tasks that tapped an elementary knowledge of injective and surjective correspondences; concrete-operational children, however, tended perform better on all tasks. Uncorrected and disattenuated correlation coefficients revealed considerable consistency across measures. Factor analyses, …

A Developmental Perspective And Antisocial Behavior: Cognitive Functioning, Irvin Sam Schonfeld

Publications and Research

G. R. Patterson et al (see record 1989-26278-001) failed to sufficiently address the idea that cognitive functioning is a factor which is related to both school failure and antisocial conduct. Findings consistent with the acculturation learning view are noted.

Coping With Job-Related Stress: The Case Of Teachers, Irvin Sam Schonfeld

Publications and Research

Investigated the relationship between coping measures, psychological distress, and job-related morale among 67 teachers. Five occupational coping scales were constructed: advice seeking (ASK), positive comparisons (PCs), selective ignoring (SEL), discipline, and direct action (DIR). Multiple regression analyses with controls for social-demographic factors and adversity in the job environment indicated that ASK and DIR were most consistently related to lower (depressive and psychophysiologic) symptom levels and that PCs and DIR were most consistently related to higher morale (job satisfaction and motivation to continue in the profession). SEL appeared to buffer the impact of adverse work environments on symptoms. Findings suggest that …