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An Evaluation Of A Humanities-Oriented, Cognitive Stimulation Model To Improve Descriptive Writing Development Of Underprepared College Freshmen., Charlotte Smith Phillips Jan 1981

An Evaluation Of A Humanities-Oriented, Cognitive Stimulation Model To Improve Descriptive Writing Development Of Underprepared College Freshmen., Charlotte Smith Phillips

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The primary purpose of this investigation was to test the efficacy of a humanities-oriented, cognitive stimulation unit, incorporating visual and verbal stimuli, observation practice, inferencing skills, and prewriting, on underprepared college students' ability to write descriptive compositio.

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Evaluation Of Structured Interpersonal Communication In The Achievement Of Business-Writing Principles., William Lee Wohlgamuth Jan 1981

Evaluation Of Structured Interpersonal Communication In The Achievement Of Business-Writing Principles., William Lee Wohlgamuth

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to provide information that might lead to a more efficient way to teach business communication. By investigating the use of structured interpersonal communication, a decision might be made as to whether or not structured interpersonal communication should be stressed, and if so, how business-writing principles might be taught more efficiently. The problem was to determine what effect structured interpersonal communication has on student achievement of the principles of business writing in a business communication course. The study was conducted at the University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana and all students in the sample …

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Indigenism And Feminism In The Prose Fiction Of Rosario Castellanos., George Alexander St. John Robinson Jan 1981

Indigenism And Feminism In The Prose Fiction Of Rosario Castellanos., George Alexander St. John Robinson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The novel of Indian concern has had a long vogue in Latin America, where it is known alternately as novela indianista or novela indigenista. This tradition in the novel has produced such well known works as Lopez y Fuentes' El indio, Alcides Arguedas' Raza de bronce, Jorge Icaza's Huasipungo and Ciro Alegr(')ia's El mundo es ancho y ajeno, all published between 1919 and 1941. These novels seek to illustrate the deplorable conditions of life in Indian communities from Mexico to Bolivia. In so doing, however, the Indian characters of these novels are generally reduced to single dimensional characters devoid of …

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A Study On Teacher Morale At A Selected Secondary School., Mark Fickie Jan 1981

A Study On Teacher Morale At A Selected Secondary School., Mark Fickie

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The intent of the study was to investigate the morale of teachers in a selected south Louisiana secondary school. Four null hypotheses were proposed and tested to identify the effect of a change of facility upon the entire group of teachers; male and female teachers; teachers under the age of thirty-seven and those who were thirty-seven years of age or older; and teachers having bachelors degrees and teachers with higher degrees that moved to a new school plant. All forty-three teachers (N = 43) employed at a selected secondary school participated in the experiment. Of that total, nineteen teachers moved …

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A Comparison Of Two Approaches In Teaching Mathematics To Special Education Students., Herman Brooks Fullen Jr Jan 1981

A Comparison Of Two Approaches In Teaching Mathematics To Special Education Students., Herman Brooks Fullen Jr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study had the purpose of comparing the effects of two approaches in teaching mathematics to secondary special education students. The study attempted to answer the following questions: (1) Were there significant differences between group means of mathematics achievement test scores for students in a diagnostic-prescriptive mathematics program compared to students using programmed mathematics? and (2) Were there significant differences between group means of self-concept scores for students in a diagnostic-prescriptive program compared to students using programmed mathematics? Twenty-four secondary special education students enrolled at the East Baton Rouge Evaluation and Vocational Center were the subjects in this study. The …

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The Processing Of Experience And The Evaluation Of The Self In Depressed And Nondepressed Females., Patricia Anne Bowers Hunter Jan 1981

The Processing Of Experience And The Evaluation Of The Self In Depressed And Nondepressed Females., Patricia Anne Bowers Hunter

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The hypotheses derived from Beck's theory that depressed individuals "minimize the positive" and "maximize the negative" were investigated using a series of positive and negative imaginary interpersonal situations. Fifty-two depressed and nondepressed college females responded to the imagined situations by rating their self-esteem and mood at three time intervals. Results showed that depressed subjects maintained lower levels of self-esteem and mood across all three measurements yet were less adversely affected with exposure to the negative situations than were nondepressed subjects. Additionally, depressed subjects showed a greater enhancement effect from the positive imagined experience even while maintaining lower levels of self-esteem …

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A Status Study Of Educational Media Services In Selected Institutions Of Higher Education In The United States., Joseph Allan Hutchinson Jan 1981

A Status Study Of Educational Media Services In Selected Institutions Of Higher Education In The United States., Joseph Allan Hutchinson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purposes of this study were (1) to determine the present status of educational media services in institutions of higher education offering doctoral programs in instructional technology; (2) to compare levels of adequacy of educational media services as perceived by educational media directors; and (3) to identify innovative practices, concepts, and emerging trends of educational media services in higher education. A descriptive survey instrument was developed to solicit data concerning staff, budget, educational media services, physical facilities, non-print materials collections, and audiovisual equipment inventories. Survey instruments were sent to the educational media directors of the forty-two universities offering doctoral programs …

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An Extension Of The Behavioral Classification Project Upward To Adults., Sam Marullo Jr Jan 1981

An Extension Of The Behavioral Classification Project Upward To Adults., Sam Marullo Jr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study consists of the extension of the Behavioral Classification Project upward into the adult age range. The instrument developed for the Adult Behavioral Classification Project (AdBCP) is an extension of an existing series of instruments ranging, in coverage, from the pre-school to adolescent ages. This study initiated the construction of and initial standardization of an instrument which will be used to determine dimensions of problem behavior which are to eventually be used as the basis for a system of classification. The literature regarding issues of classification and difficulties with present classification schemes is reviewed. Alternate classification systems are considered. …

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Second-Language Acquisition And The Development Of Pragmatic Code Selection Skills., Rebecca Ann Marcon Jan 1981

Second-Language Acquisition And The Development Of Pragmatic Code Selection Skills., Rebecca Ann Marcon

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Language samples and nonverbal behavior of 50 children attending bilingual Kindergarten programs were recorded from children's conversations with a puppet on three separate occasions. In order to determine the influence of the listener's language on children's code selection, the puppet spoke a different language on each occasion. Of particular interest was the extent to which children would make pragmatic adjustments in their verbal and nonverbal language codes in response to different listener needs. Differences in code selection which could be attributed to variation in second language proficiency were explored by contrasting the behavior of children classified as monolingual, limited second …

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The Austrian Problem Of Language And Peter Handke: A Documentation., Donald Russell Bailey Jan 1981

The Austrian Problem Of Language And Peter Handke: A Documentation., Donald Russell Bailey

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Linguistic skepticism and the resultant awareness of the limits of language can be traced back to Hamann, Herder, and Humboldt, through Romanticism and French Symbolism, up to modern times. What has come to be called the crisis of language (Sprachkrise) can be viewed as one segment of a broader, multi-media phenomenon. The intensity of this crisis is concentrated in Austro-Hungary in the waning days of the Habsburg Monarchy. From this time forward supersensitivity to language remains a strongly Austrian phenomenon and can be followed through the European, German-language, and Austrian movements of this century, up to the founding of the …

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Remarque's 'Weltanschauung': A Study In Fictional Dualism., Ingrid Ehrmann Gross Jan 1981

Remarque's 'Weltanschauung': A Study In Fictional Dualism., Ingrid Ehrmann Gross

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The objective of this study was to examine Remarque's Weltanschauung as expressed through his novels. Remarque sees the world negatively when he regards it as a whole. This all-encompassing world, the macrocosm, is defined by two basic factors: the evil side of man's nature, and the existence of death. The world, as Remarque views it, is not ruled according to a divine plan but is a world of man's own making. Because man has been unable to keep in check his tendencies for committing evil, he has brought about the events which characterize the first half of the twentieth century: …

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Effects Of A Sex Education Workshop In An Adolescent In-Patient Psychiatric Population., Christine E. Angelloz Jan 1981

Effects Of A Sex Education Workshop In An Adolescent In-Patient Psychiatric Population., Christine E. Angelloz

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The present study was an experimental investigation of the effects of a sex education workshop in an adolescent in-patient psychiatric population. Eleven adolescent patients (seven males, four females) participated in the eight session sex education workshop (SEW). The attention control group was composed of eight patients (four males, four females) who participated in eight informal discussion (ID) sessions. The research utilized a pretest-posttest design. The dependent variables were sex knowledge as measured by the Sex Knowledge Inventory, self-concept as measured by the Total Positive, Self Criticism, and General Maladjustment scales of the Tennessee Self Concept Scale, and personal adjustment as …

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A Study Of Reading Skills Of Third Grade Students In Terms Of Observable Classroom Behavior And Other Variables., Mary Louise Spand Jones Jan 1981

A Study Of Reading Skills Of Third Grade Students In Terms Of Observable Classroom Behavior And Other Variables., Mary Louise Spand Jones

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a relationship between selected reading skills of students in regular third grade classes and selected variables including observable classroom behavior, sex, race and socioeconomic background. The study took place in ten elementary schools in Baton Rouge, Louisiana during the 1980-81 school session. Statement of the Problem. The following null hypothesis was tested using the .05 level of significance: There was no significant relationship between selected reading skills of students in regular third grade classes and selected variables including observable classroom behavior, sex, race and socioeconomic background. Procedure. This study …

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Shifts In Narrative Voices In Four Novels Of Emilia Pardo Bazan., Kizzie Anita Gowin Jan 1981

Shifts In Narrative Voices In Four Novels Of Emilia Pardo Bazan., Kizzie Anita Gowin

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The narrative voices in Los pazos de Ulloa (1886), La madre Naturaleza (1887), La Quimera (1905), and La sirena negra (1908) by Emilia Pardo Bazan were studied. The analysis revealed that the author primarily employed omniscient narration in Los pazos de Ulloa and La madre Naturaleza. She used the relatively new narrative techniques of free indirect style and interior monologue when she wished to present the innermost thoughts of the characters in these two naturalistic novels. Pardo Bazan continued using the narrative techniques of the two earlier novels in La Quimera. However, she employed first-person narration more frequently and extensively …

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An Empirical Study Of The Characteristics Of The Governmental Budgetary Process In Rich And Uncertain Environments: The Case Of Saudi Arabia., Abdulrhman I. Alhumaid Jan 1981

An Empirical Study Of The Characteristics Of The Governmental Budgetary Process In Rich And Uncertain Environments: The Case Of Saudi Arabia., Abdulrhman I. Alhumaid

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

As reflected by the literature, the environment of each country influences the characteristics of the budgetary process in that country. Often-cited factors which shape this environment are: economic wealth, financial predictability, political institutions, elite values, and size. Economic wea.

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Oral And Written Linguistic Indices Of Deception During Employment Interviews., Kittie Wells Watson Jan 1981

Oral And Written Linguistic Indices Of Deception During Employment Interviews., Kittie Wells Watson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study was designed to find preliminary information concerning differences between oral and written linguistic indices of deception during employment interviews. It was predicted that: (1) oral messages would be characterized by significantly different linguistic indices than written messages, (2) truthful messages would be characterized by significantly different linguistic indices than deceptive messages, (3) male responses would be characterized by significantly different linguistic indices than female responses, and (4) individual question responses would be characterized by significantly different linguistic indices than other individual question responses. 31 male and 42 female students enrolled in undergraduate business and professional communication courses participated …

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Improved Mortality Among U.S. Blacks, 1968-1978: The Role Of Antiracist Struggle, R. Cooper, M. Steinhauer, A. Schatzkin, W. Miller Jan 1981

Improved Mortality Among U.S. Blacks, 1968-1978: The Role Of Antiracist Struggle, R. Cooper, M. Steinhauer, A. Schatzkin, W. Miller

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A marked improvement in health status for black adults took place over the last decade in the United States. Life expectancy for black men increased 4.6 years between 1968 and 1978, while for black women the increase was 5.7 years. Death rates for the age group 35-74 decreased approximately 25 percent for blacks over the same period. The largest contribution to this improvement was made by cardiovascular diseases (coronary heart disease and stroke). Although similar improvement was observed in the white population, on both a percentage and absolute basis the change was greater for blacks. For the first time in …

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Lsu General Catalog 1981-1982, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College Jan 1981

Lsu General Catalog 1981-1982, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

LSU General Catalog

The LSU General Catalog describes all undergraduate and graduate departments and programs with degree requirements and courses offered for each one. The General Catalog includes information on registration and financial aid as well as academic services offered to all students.

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Techniques Of Atomic Absorption: Direct Determination Of Cadmium In Biological Materials And Metal Speciation By Differential Atomization., Susan Deborah Weiss Jan 1980

Techniques Of Atomic Absorption: Direct Determination Of Cadmium In Biological Materials And Metal Speciation By Differential Atomization., Susan Deborah Weiss

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A method was developed for the direct determination of cadmium in biological materials. Determination of metals in biological samples was made difficult by the low concentration, the complex matrix, and the small amount of sample generally available. Current methods for this type of analysis involve either a wet-ashing or a dry-ashing step to break down the organic matrix and concentrate the metals present. These procedures often cause positive and/or negative errors due to contamination of the sample or loss of the metal of interest. The described method avoided these sources of error by eliminating sample pretreatment steps. The method made …

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Perceiving The Causes Of Cigarette Smoking: A Study Of Children And Adolescents., Rebecca Marie Watson Jan 1980

Perceiving The Causes Of Cigarette Smoking: A Study Of Children And Adolescents., Rebecca Marie Watson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Attribution theory (Heider, 1958; Jones and Davis, 1965; Jones and Nisbett, 1972; Bem, 1967) has been modified from its usual experimental setting to serve as a theoretical model for a survey of cigarette smoking behavior. The smoking behavior of "significant others" is analyzed as an important information source in the process of belief formation. The instrument for the study was a "Health Information Questionnaire" which was given to 3014 school children (grades 3-12) in Bogalusa, Louisiana, during the 1976-1977 school year. Frequencies and percentages of students' own smoking behavior and of students by the smoking behavior of "significant others" were …

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On The Classification Of Families: Dimensions Of Family Functioning Descriptions., Maria Vidos Jan 1980

On The Classification Of Families: Dimensions Of Family Functioning Descriptions., Maria Vidos

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of the present study was to determine the degree of commonality among current models of family assessment. The goal was to ascertain the most significant dimensions of family functioning. These ends were achieved by means of a principal components factor analysis. Three hundred Introductory Psychology students at Louisiana State University were asked to describe their family of origin using 240 behavioral statements provided by the examiner. The statements, printed on 3 x 5 cards, were drawn from a pool of assessment models described by Fisher (1976). The students were asked to sort each of the statements by asking …

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A Curriculum For Training Extension Agents In The Field Of Animal Science., Ronald Alvin Harrell Jan 1980

A Curriculum For Training Extension Agents In The Field Of Animal Science., Ronald Alvin Harrell

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of the study was to develop a curriculum for inservice training of Extension agents involved in animal science work. Selected aspects of curriculum and learning theory furnished the basis for a curriculum model applicable to the work area of animal science. The curriculum was derived from inputs obtained from Extension specialists in animal science, Extension agents doing livestock work and selected animal science disciplines. Curriculum disciplines included: (1) livestock management, (2) nutrition, (3) marketing, (4) breeding and physiology, and (5) meat technology. An analysis of agent cognitive ability established the agent's educational requirements. Thirty-two concepts in the animal …

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The Role Of Self-Monitoring In Sales Performance., Robert B. Anderson Jan 1980

The Role Of Self-Monitoring In Sales Performance., Robert B. Anderson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Three groups of salesman were administered Snyder's Self-Monitoring scale in an effort to determine the importance of SM to a salesman's performance. Previous literature has indicated that it is important to a salesman's success for him to possess, (1) effective communication skills, (2) the ability to create a climate of perceived similarity or trust, (3) the ability to accurately sense and interpret the prospect's affective or attitudinal responses, and (4) the ability to adapt oneself appropriately to a variety of situations and prospect responses. Moreover, the research on SM has indicated that self-monitoring individuals possess or should possess these attributes. …

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Degree Of Handicap And Adjustment In Children With Cerebral Palsy., Robert Nolan Cuyler Jan 1980

Degree Of Handicap And Adjustment In Children With Cerebral Palsy., Robert Nolan Cuyler

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A review of the literature on physical disability reveals competing viewpoints on the relationship between degree of severity of handicap and adjustment. Several studies report that severely disabled individuals exhibit more serious adjustment problems than the mildly handicapped, due to the social reactions to the visibility of deficits and to reductions in functioning and coping due to brain dysfunction. Other research efforts report the opposite relationship and hypothesize that the "marginal" position of mildly handicapped individuals leads to inconsistent and confusing expectations and resultant psychopathology. Sampling and assessment difficulties with these studies, especially in regard to the heterogeneity of experimental …

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The Effect Of Attribution Training And Visual Response Cues On Persistence Following Failure., Renee Favret Jan 1980

The Effect Of Attribution Training And Visual Response Cues On Persistence Following Failure., Renee Favret

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Achievement motivation and locus of control in black children attending a public school in an economically-depressed area of New Orleans, Louisiana were studied. Past research had found contradictory results regarding locus of control in students who are lacking in achievement motivation. Dweck (1975) suggested that these students were "learned helpless," i.e. they perceived their achievement outcomes to be due to external causes; that these same students could be trained to attribute outcomes to internal causes; and that this attribution training would lead to persistence following failure on achievement tasks. The present study investigated the locus of control of 130 fifth- …

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The Unfleshed Eye: A Study Of Intellectual Theism In The Poetry And Criticism Of Yvor Winters., John Martin Finlay Jan 1980

The Unfleshed Eye: A Study Of Intellectual Theism In The Poetry And Criticism Of Yvor Winters., John Martin Finlay

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Yvor Winters' early poetry, from 1920 to 1928, was written in free-verse; the aesthetic principles governing it centered on the image "purified" of conceptual content, and consisting of a "fusion" between the natural object being described and the poet's own mind. The result is a kind of naturalistic mysticism, destructive of judgements and evaluations of the conscious intellect. The early poetry also registers the effect of certain scientific theories on Winters' mind; these theories were mechanistic and deterministic in nature, and they turned Winters' world into one in which moral and intellectual values had no reality. Other themes that appear …

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A Validity Study Of The Construct "Most Highly Valued Representational System" In Human Auditory And Visual Perceptions., David E. Lange Jan 1980

A Validity Study Of The Construct "Most Highly Valued Representational System" In Human Auditory And Visual Perceptions., David E. Lange

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Bandler and Grinder (1975) proposed the construct "most highly valued representational systems" to describe auditory, visual, and kinesthetic perceptual orientations among individuals. They set forth a predicate method for determining an individual's primary representational system. Contrary to Bandler and Grinder's construct, experimental evidence consistently supports the principle of visual dominance among humans. In order to test the effectiveness of Bandler and Grinder's constructs, 221 volunteers were screened by an alternate predicate method. 22 subjects were selected as "highly auditory" and 19 subjects were selected as "highly visual." These 41 subjects were asked to give their first impressions to 75 simultaneous, …

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The Relationship Of Biorhythms To Academic Performance In Reading., Natalia Lavonne Brackin Peveto Jan 1980

The Relationship Of Biorhythms To Academic Performance In Reading., Natalia Lavonne Brackin Peveto

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study was an investigation to determine if a relationship existed between the twenty-three day physical, twenty-eight day emotional and the thirty-three day intellectual biorhythm cycles and academic achievement in reading. If a relationship existed between the learning potential of a student and the low, critical and high levels of the biorhythm cycles, instructional techniques could be designed to capitalize on the internal fluctuations of each learner. It was hypothesized that there would be a significant relationship between the academic performance of a student in reading and the high, low and critical positions of the twenty-three day physical, twenty-eight day …

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Effects Of The Interaction Of Patient Characteristics And Therapeutic Method On Outcome Of Therapy., Judy Black Avery Jan 1980

Effects Of The Interaction Of Patient Characteristics And Therapeutic Method On Outcome Of Therapy., Judy Black Avery

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examined the relationship between outcome in therapy and the variables of method of group therapy employed in interaction with a patient's personality. Four therapy assignments were theoretically and empirically matched with particular groups of patients: Social-Emotional groups for mixed reaction patients, Expressive-Interpretive groups for non-psychotic patients, Emotional-Relationship groups for withdrawn patients, and Social-Management groups for aggressive patients. Subjects in the study were also classified according to time involved in therapy. These categories are: Rejectors, Retreaters, Withdrawers, Walkouts, Self-Terminators, and Finishers. Test data were pre-therapy scores on the Interpersonal Check List (ICL) and Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) for all …

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Competencies For A Minister Of Music In A Southern Baptist Church: Implications For Curriculum Development., Donald Roland Bearden Jan 1980

Competencies For A Minister Of Music In A Southern Baptist Church: Implications For Curriculum Development., Donald Roland Bearden

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate musical and music related competency statements which would describe the needed skills, behaviors, and knowledge for a minister of music in a Southern Baptist church. In the development of the areas and items to be covered by the competency statements, several types of field research were employed. Three Goal Analysis Conferences were conducted with panels of church musicians giving scrutiny to the basic goals of the church music ministry. A Job Analysis was accomplished adapting the procedures developed by the U. S. Department of Labor--interview and observation. A field study …

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