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A Study To Assess The Need At Oral Roberts University For A Specialized Seminar To Deal With Skills For Answering The Essay Question, Vercella Evelyn Manning

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The purpose of this study was to assess the extent of need and willingness of students to participate in a special student seminar which should be focused on the essay question, and to determine the likelihood of their attendants. One hundred Oral Roberts University students from Cross Cultural classes were the subjects of this study. They completed a survey instrument designed to provide data for the above purpose.

Responses to the five questions of the survey indicated the following: (1) The subjects considered the objective question to be more difficult than the essay question by a small margin (50% to …

The Identification By Using Dacum Of Maternity Nursing Competencies For Public Health Nurses, Janet Garzone Kosidlak

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The Virginia State Department of Health is committed to improving pregnancy outcome. Of the many initiatives that deal with improving pregnancy outcomes, upgrading public health nursing practices in maternity nursing is essential. This Practicum used the DACUM process to identify the competencies public health nurses needed to provide maternity nursing services to pregnant women during the prenatal period.

A DACUM Committee was selected. committee members represented nursing faculty, nurse practitioners, staff nurses, nursing consultants and a nursing supervisor. The DACUM process steps were followed: (1) the job was defined, (2) the general areas of responsibilities identified, (3) the tasks for …

The Nova Knight Volume 4: Number 7, Nova Southeastern University

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The Design And Implementation Of A Speech, Drama, And Communications Course For Junior High Students, Virginia H. Miller

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

A semester elective fine arts course for junior high students in speech, drama, and communications was designed and implemented by the author for a private Christian day school in a metropolitan Florida city. The school serves 630 students in grades kindergarten-four through nine. The project's goals were to expand the school's fine arts program, to address the personal needs of the adolescent, and to increase the interactions between the school's junior high and primary and elementary students.

Following preliminary activities to assess and evaluate present skills, needs, and interests, students proceeded through sequence of activities to achieve objectives in four …

Improvement Of Cafeteria Behavior Through The Use Of Behavior Modification, Joseph S. Ronca

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The practicum was entitled “Improvement of Cafeteria Behavior Through the Use of Behavior Modification”. The setting was an elementary school consisting of kindergarten through sixth grade. Previous methods for controlling lunchroom behaviors were not effective. By setting up a behavior modification system in which appropriate behavior was reinforced, the noise level was controlled and at least 60% of the class earned the opportunity to receive a weekly reward for following cafeteria rules. Furthermore, the project was successful enough that he faulty and administration wished for it to be an ongoing program.

A Survey Of Student Religious Attitude At Tusculum College To Determine If An Increased Religious Life Program Could Impact Retention., Stephen R. Weisz

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This study sought to discover if there was a significant difference between freshmen and sophomores enrolled at Tusculum College during the Spring of 1985 in terms of religious beliefs and spiritual attitudes. This study was undertaken because a low interest in religious activities was observed among students during their first two years on the Tusculum campus. Tusculum is a four-year liberal arts college related to the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. The study was conducted shortly after a report was released that indicated that only twenty-three percent of the freshman Class entering in 1981 would be graduating from the college at the …

The Nova Knight Volume 4: Number 6, Nova Southeastern University

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The Nova Knight Volume 4: Number 5, Nova Southeastern University

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Improving The Cardiovascular Fitness Of Eighth Grade Girls With Aerobics, Harvey Cooper

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The writer developed and implemented a program that would improve the eighth grade girls' cardiovascular scores with aerobics. The practicum setting was a junior high school located in a southern urban metropolitan area. The program's aims helped the eighth grade girls to improve their cardiovascular fitness, to adapt to stress, have a good self-image, and. to improve their physical being. They were made aware of the fact that regular exercise had many mental benefits. The program began with the testing of the girls in the 12-minute run. After testing, the students received a point chart. The students had to obtain …

Creative Approaches To Vocabulary Enrichment In Fourth Grade Students Through Semantic Analysis, Jeannine G. Counts

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum report focuses on an enrichment strategy designed and implemented by the author to increase the vocabulary of accelerated fourth grade students. There were two criteria to be met by members of the target selection. First, they had to excel in language arts as indicated by superior test scores on the county reading test. Secondly, each participant had language arts grades of excellent status as evaluated by the previous instructor.

The aim of the strategy was to present similarities and dissimilarities of target words and affect positive changes in the students' performances and attitudes toward their creatively written expressions. …

The Nova Knight Volume 4: Number 4, Nova Southeastern University

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The Nova Knight Volume 4: Number 3, Nova Southeastern University

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Nova Law Journal-Volume 10-1985-1986, Robert Charles Levine, Mary Stetson Lingerfeldt, Robin S. Richards, Lynn A. Epstein, H. Collins Forman Jr., Lisa Gail Goldstein, Vickie Popkin Kligerman, David I. Weiss, Richard M. Nelson

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Genetic Mapping Of Endogenous Rd-114 Retroviral Sequences Of Domestic Cats, Roger H. Reeves, William G. Nash, Stephen J. O'Brien

Biology Faculty Articles

The RD-114 family of endogenous retroviral sequences in domestic cats has been shown to consist of approximately 20 copies of genetically divergent virogenes per haploid genome. The chromosomal localization for four endogenous sequences (RDV1-4) was accomplished by correlating the occurrence of specific feline chromosomes with diagnostic viral DNA fragments in a panel of cat x rodent somatic cell hybrids. Analysis of the hybrid panel revealed that endogenous RD-114 sequences are dispersed on multiple cat chromosomes, that certain proviral segments are polymorphic with respect to the presence or absence of virus, and that a restriction fragment characteristic of inducible RD-114 resides …

The Nova Knight Volume 4: Number 2, Nova Southeastern University

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The Nova Knight Volume 4: Number 1, Nova Southeastern University

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Nova University Center For The Advancement Of Education Student Handbook Ed.D. Program In Early And Middle Childhood September 1985 Revised 10/1986, Nova University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

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Twenty-Seven Protein Polymorphisms By Two-Dimensional Electrophoresis Of Serum, Erythrocytes, And Fibroblasts In Two Pedigrees, David Goldman, Lynn R. Goldin, P. Rathnagiri, Stephen J. O'Brien, Janice A. Egeland, Carl R. Merril

Biology Faculty Articles

Twenty-seven independent polymorphic loci were detected by two-dimensional electrophoresis (2DE) of serum, erythrocytes, and fibroblasts in two large families and analyzed for linkage to classical genetic markers. We detected seven serum, four erythrocyte, and 17 fibroblast protein loci that exhibited charge variation in these two families and in a sample of unrelated individuals. The genetic basis of protein variants was confirmed by quantitative gene-dosage dependence and by conformance to Mendelian transmission in the two families, except for four rare variants for which transmission analysis was not possible. Linkage analysis demonstrated that each of the variants represent products of independent loci, …

Using Instruction In Sentence Combining To Improve Syntactic Maturity In Student Writing, Judith B. Willig

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

Tenth grade students in two English Honors classes were given direct instruction on sentence combining. The goal of the program was to increase the syntactic complexity of student writing, to have them express more in each sentence.

Instruction was approached from different aspects. The students worked with two textbooks on sentence combining. They worked with sentences from the newspaper and a magazine. There were lessons in sentence combining as a means to understanding the style of two authors. Sentences combining was used as a means to encourage substantial revision of essays. Writing an abstract of the research paper was approached …

The Training And Supervision Of Practicum Students To Utilize Precision Teaching With Exceptional Children, Shelley Cindy Obrand

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

Graduate students were given the opportunity to become involved in a teacher training program as a practicum experience toward advanced degrees in elementary education, learning disabilities, emotional handicaps or reading. The major focus of the practicum dealt with the training and supervision of practicum students in utilizing precision teaching to instruct children (grades K-6) within the framework of a specialized program. The aims were to increase teachers' repertoires of instructional methods, behavioral management techniques, and to develop a training manual to have teachers utilize precision teaching.

The program contained three pre-service workshops and seven in-service workshops. The format for each …

A Plan To Reduce Library Book Losses, Darlene S. Craig

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The author researched and adapted ways to promote responsibility for library books. The program's aims were to reduce and retrieve lost library books that were reported on the inventory check and to make students, parents, and teachers aware of the problems and the importance of being responsible library users.

Introduction to the project was done in three stages. Presentations were made to staff (team) leaders who presented the plan to team members. Intercom announcements were made to the student body. Project intentions were explained to parents via the school newsletters. By the end of the project fewer books were missing …

The Identification Of Right Brain Children And The Application Of Teaching Strategies To Improve Their Academic Achievement, Barbara B. Stutes

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The author identified students with a right brain dominance through surveys and questionnaires. These students' past academic records were scrutinized and on the basis of repetitive low test scores, poor social and scholastic achievement and a pattern of apathetic behavior, a target group of five students was compiled for this study. Based on their mode dominance, a series of teaching strategies were created to strengthen the dominant mode and stretch the subdominant mode. The strategies were formulated for daily implementation and were specific activities that called on reaction from either the left or right hemisphere of the brain, and the …

Increasing The Mathematics Performance Of Learning Disabled Children Through Self-Monitoring Of Attention Span, Geraldine B. Newton

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

A program to self-monitor attention spans for learning disabled students in grades three through six was implemented to aid them in remaining on task while in math class. A recorded “beeper” was set up to remind students to stay on task. Students marked a checksheet to indicate whether or not they were on task when the “beep” went off. The program’s aims were to help the students increase his mathematics performance as demonstrated by an increase of achievement on the math section of the Wide Range Achievement Test.

The Program consisted of a pretest, implementation of self-monitoring for 10 weeks …

The Nova Knight Volume 3: Number 26, Nova Southeastern University

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The Nova Knight Volume 3: Number 25, Nova Southeastern University

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The Nova Knight Volume 3: Number 24, Nova Southeastern University

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The Nova Knight Volume 3: Number 23, Nova Southeastern University

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The Nova Knight Volume 3: Number 22, Nova Southeastern University

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The Nova Knight Volume 3: Number 21, Nova Southeastern University

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The Nova Knight Volume 3: Number 20, Nova Southeastern University

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