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Civil Procedure: 1990 Survey Of Florida Law, William Vandercreek

Nova Law Review

During the survey period there were some significant developments

in the area of Florida Civil Procedure. The first development occurred

in the area of subject matter jurisdiction.

Mediation: Part Ii: Mediation In Florida, Geraldine Lee Waxman, Sharon Press

Nova Law Review

The mediation process starts when the parties have tentatively decided

to explore mediation as an option to resolve a dispute.

Florida V. Bostick: Voluntary Encounter Or The Power Of Police Intimidation?, Margaret Fanjul Montalvo

Nova Law Review

On August 27, 1985, two officers from the Broward County Sheriff's

Department boarded a Greyhound bus in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

One of the officers, Detective Nutt, carried in his hand a zippered

pouch containing a pistol.

Administrative Law, Johnny C. Burris

Nova Law Review

No abstract provided.

Constitutional Law, David C. Hawkins

Nova Law Review

No abstract provided.

Evidence, Dale Alan Bruschi

Nova Law Review

No abstract provided.

School Of Social And Systemic Studies 1991-1992, Nova University

College of Psychological Services / College of Psychology Postgraduate Student and Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Center For Psychological Studies 1991-1992 Bulletin, Nova University

College of Psychological Services / College of Psychology Postgraduate Student and Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Master's Programs In Metal Health Counseling And School Guidance Counseling Policies And Procedures Handbook 1991-1992, Nova Southeastern University

College of Psychological Services / College of Psychology Postgraduate Student and Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Expanding The School Psychologist’S Role To Serve Regular Education Students Through Child-Centered, School-Based Consultation, James W. Cole

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum presented a plan to expand school psychology services for regular education students at the elementary ana middle school levels. In order to have an effective delivery system of school psychology services for all students, school psychologists needed to be school-based and given time to provide consultation services to teachers, administrators, and parents. The goals were to broaden school psychology services and make others aware of the consultant role which may be provided by the school psychologist at their school.

The writer's objectives to resolve the problem were to increase the time spent by school psychologists in support of …

Improving The Monitoring And Maintenance Of Hearing Aids For Preschool And School Age Deaf And Hearing Impaired Children By Training School Personnel, Parents, And Students, Joseph A. Guillory

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum was designed to improve the monitoring and maintenance of hearing aids and auditory trainers for preschool and school age deaf and hearing impaired children through inservice training. The goal of this practicum was to identity and reduce the number of preschool and school age deaf and hearing impaired students who have been provided with hearing aids or auditory trainers and may not be maximizing their potential in their educational placement because their hearing aids or auditory trainers are malfunctioning or nonfunctioning.

The writer conducted inservice training programs designed to improve the skills of speech pathologists, teachers, parents and …

Educating Parents, Teachers And High School Severely Emotionally Disturbed Students Regarding Vocational Rehabilitation Supplemental Security Income And Vocational Training, Van E. Wallace Iii

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum was designed to educate Severely Emotionally Disturbed (SED) students, parents, and educational professionals in regards to supplemental security, income, vocational rehabilitation, and vocational training. Application and procedural information was conveyed to empower students and their parents with skills necessary to apply and receive, when eligible, financial assistance in enrollment in appropriate vocational training programs. The practicum also attempted to provide information to Exceptional Student Education (ESE) professionals involved with special needs students.

Instructional in-services were provided in one on one and family counseling sessions to S.E.D. students and to their families. And in service was provided to E.S.E. …

Improving An Extended Day Care Environment Through Staff Training And Activity Development, Mary Kathryn Lopez

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The aim for this practicum was to increase parent, child, and caregiver satisfaction with the site’s extended day care program through training of caregivers and development of appropriate activities. Two groups participated, one for preschoolers through first graders, the other for second through fifth graders.

Three training sessions designed to improve the caregivers’ understanding of the school’s philosophy and goals, basic developmental characteristics of children in the various age groups, and a strategy for effective disciplinary action were implemented. Arts and crafts, cooking, organized sports, and opportunities for unstructured play were designed for each group and supervised by caregivers on …

The Implementation Of An Alternative School Setting For High Risk Handicapped Adjudicated Juveniles Aged Nine To Sixteen Years, Linda D. Lacoste

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum was designed to provide an alternative setting for those 9 to 16-year-old handicapped, adjudicated youths who, because of anti-social acts, behavioral/emotional problems, learning disabilities, attendance problems, and other reasons, were excluded from the mainstreamed setting. Host school administrators and teachers ^/ere not prepared to effectively manage these concerns, therefore, the _ school system often had no recourse but to refer these high-risk students to City Court and the Juvenile Judge. The literature Indicated that there had been a sharp Increase In arrest rates beginning at the Junior high school age; It appeared that younger children were committing more …

Active Intervention For Academically At Risk Preschoolers Using Developmentally Appropriate Materials And Activities, Aurora Q. Cepeda

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum aimed to provide intervention to preschoolers found at-risk for academic difficulties using a developmentally appropriate curriculum to increase their developmental levels; training for their parents to enhance their parenting skills and knowledge to ensure stability of their children's developmental gains.

The writer coordinated three preschool units in two school districts involving three teachers, three aides, and a speech and hearing specialist providing high quality preschool education to 157 preschoolers; 67 of whom were identified as academically at-risk. Seven training workshops were conducted for the parents to enhance their parenting skills. Pre and posttest data were taken to determine …

Improving Aids Awareness Through A Staff Development Program For Teachers In An Elementary School Setting, Gladys M. Cormier

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum was aimed to improve AIDS awareness through a staff development program for teachers in an elementary school setting. Two broad aims were to increase teacher knowledge regarding the transmission of AIDS and to teach them how to protect themselves and others with regards to this disease.

Twelve (12) workshops designed to develop essential skills and to impart information on the transmission and personal risk factors involved with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome/Human Immunodeficiency virus were held during the implementation phase of this practicum. New information regarding the AIDS virus was incorporated into every workshop when information occurred. AIDS related …

Develop And Implement A Peace Education Curriculum For Elementary School Students Through A Planned Program Of Instruction, Dale L Hudson

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum was designed to provide K-6 grade children with peace making tools. The curriculum was piloted in a public school for one year. The goal was to teach children how to make peace with themselves and with others.

The writer used a combination of strategies in the curriculum to meet the needs of the children; provided self-esteem lessons; utilized conflict resolution techniques, including new approach to group consultation; utilized parent participation/moral education lessons designed to involve the family; and emphasized social skills training.

The results of the practicum were encouraging. Analysis of the data revealed that the children showed …

Improving In-School Staffing And Multidisciplinary Team Effectiveness In The High School Setting, Thomas G. Sarnecki

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum was designed to improve the operation of the in-school staffing team at the high school level. Three adjunct aims were to increase the awareness and role responsibilities of multidisciplinary team members, to improve the decision making process by greater participation of team members, and to improve the referral process for students in need of special education programs.

An in-service workshop was developed for the in-school staffing team members to make them more aware of their responsibilities with the team decision making process. A handbook describing their role expectations was distributed to them at the second in-service workshop. This …

Improving The Process Of Interviewing Prospective Elementary Teachers Of Gifted By Using A Target Selection Based Interview Packet, Mary Ann Ratliff

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum was designed to (I) identify beliefs, attributes and competencies of successful teachers of gifted (2) increase in administrators an awareness of beliefs, attributes and competencies of successful teachers of the gifted and (3) develop and field test an interview packet that combines the identified beliefs, attributes and competencies of successful teachers of the gifted with the target selection technique of questioning interviewees.

The quality of education for gifted students is directly related to specific skills of the teacher of gifted. The successful teacher of the gifted possess a unique set of beliefs, attributes and competencies. Specific behaviors of …

A Feasibility Study For The Development Of A Continuing Professional Education Program And Contract Training Services At Bauder College, Joanne Di Benedetto

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

National Education Corporation, boulder College Campus of Fort Lauderdale, Florida has recently been required to eliminate three degree grinding programs. National Education Corporation, on October 1989, began an extensive reorganization and adjustment program, which included cutbacks, school, closings, and the elimination of various programs at several schools. This reorganization and adjustment was considered essential by the corporation because of the financial difficulties encountered by many of the schools and the drastic decline in the corporate stock values from $30.00 per share to less than $6.00 per share.

The Corporation, in an attempt to increase enrollments, eliminated unprofitable programs and schools, …

Using Critical Thinking Skills To Improve Achievement: An Inservice And Instruction Program., Dolores L. Higgins

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This Major Applied Research Project proposed three specific ways to improve the Critical Thinking Skills of students at the Carrie Downie Elementary School as measured by standardized achievement test results, increased placement of students in the Colonial School District's program for the gifted, and the inclusion of critical thinking skills in teacher's daily lessons. During the course of this project, 50 underachieving students were given a learning styles inventory to assess their specific learning needs. Inservice for teachers was conducted to review the results of this inventory and provided instruction in other areas related to thinking skills, such as questioning, …

Improving Attendance For At-Risk Elementary Students Though An Attendance Committee And Adopt-A-Student Program, Diana E. Pope

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum was designed to increase the attendance rate of at-risk students in an elementary school. The primary goal was to increase attendance for elementary students in grades three through five. The scope of the practicum was expanded to include community resource persons as volunteers. with the involvement of mentors, the second objective was to increase students' reading levels. The third objective was to develop staffs' awareness about intervention strategies.

In setting up a mentoring program, the writer secured permission from the State Department of Education, local school district and school, oriented administrators and community personnel; established advisory attendance/mentoring committee; …

Bradford Keeney's Cybernetic Project And The Creation Of Recursive Frame Analysis, Ronald J. Chenail

The Qualitative Report

No abstract provided.

The Development Of In-Service Training For Teachers And Counselors Working With Adult Homeless Students, Dagmar F. Pelzer

Theses and Dissertations

The number of homeless persons in the United States has been increasing rapidly over the past few years. Nationwide estimates range between three hundred thousand and three million homeless, with a ten to thirty percent annual increase. Efforts to reduce homelessness consist primarily of the provision of housing and employment.

Dade County Public Schools initiated educational programs for homeless adults in February of 1988. Between 1988 and 1991, over three thousand homeless adults were enrolled in part-time and full-time academic and vocational programs. In-service training for teachers and counselors working with the homeless needed to be developed and implemented because …

Establishing Locus Of Control Among Ninth Graders: Using Peer Mentors To Reduce Student Disengagement, Absenteeism, And Failures, Josephine T. Thompson

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

Practicum aimed to reduce absences, stimulate responsibility for assignments, and increase participation in extracurricular activities among disengaged ninth-grade students. Older students served as role models and peer mentors as they sought to establish that freshmen could control their own success or failure in the high school arena.

Five Intensive after-school workshops trained 20 volunteer 11th-grade students to serve as peer counselors. Emphasis was placed on a positive attitude toward helping others and confidently skills presented with basic counseling skills, active listening, effective message sending, values clarification, decision-making, and goal setting. Mentors were instructed in record-keeping tasks to aid in collecting …

Datascan - December 9, 1990, Nova University

DataScan

No abstract provided.

The Calendar - December 1990, Nova University

The Calendar

No abstract provided.

The Update - December 1990, Nova University

The Update

No abstract provided.

A Study Of A Baccalaureate Degree Curriculum In Hospitality Management, Joseph B. Gregg

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The Florida International University School of Hospitality Management program has been in existence since 1973. It is the only university program rated by Florida's Board of Regents as a "Distinguished Program" and is consistently ranked by educational and industry leaders as one or the top four programs of its kind in the United States.

The undergraduate program consists of fifty-five courses on a 3000-4000 level, and they are taught by a distinguished faculty or thirty-five professors, plus adjuncts and visiting lecturers from the industry. In 1990 the school moved into its own $10 million state-of-the-art facility on the university's North …

The Development Of A Plan For Recruitment And Retention Of Black Students In Associate Degree Nursing Programs., Brenda Mccane Harrell

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The number of Black students enrolled in associate degree nursing programs across the country, including California Community Colleges, is not in proportion to the general population. It is critical that educators pay attention to the need to recruit the minority student and providing measures to retain these students. The purposes of the study were: (1) to identify the major factors that influence the retention of Black nursing students in associate degree nursing programs in American community colleges, (2) to compare and contrast major problems in retaining Black associate degree nursing students in predominately white community colleges with those of Black …