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Nova University Master's Program In Child Care, Youth Care And Family Support 1991–1992, Nova University

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

No abstract provided.

Nova University National Ed.D. Program For Educational Leaders 1991-1992, Nova University

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

No abstract provided.

Nova University Graduate Education Module (Gem) Program: Master's And Educational Specialist Degrees And Graduate Courses In Education 1991-1992, Nova University

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

No abstract provided.

Essay: Too Live A Crew, Bruce Rogow

Nova Law Review

I am sure that scores of serious articles will be written about the 2

Live Crew litigation which began in February, 1990.

Obscenity, Music And The First Amendment: Was The Crew 2 Lively?, Emily Campbell

Nova Law Review

For many years, courts all over the United States have told us

what kind of movies we can watch,4 what kind of books we can read

and what kind of photographs we can view.6 Now, one court in Florida

has told its citizenry that there are certain kinds of music that should

not be heard.

Admiralty, Robert M. Jarvis

Nova Law Review

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.

Doctoral Programs In Clinical Psychology Policies And Procedures 1991-1992, 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.

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.

A Retrospective Account Of Some Qualitative Research, Marguerite Mccorkle

The Qualitative Report

No abstract provided.

A Countywide Program For Expanding Speech-Language Services In The Elementary Schools, Brenda Teas

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum addressed the need to expand and to change the speech-language pathology service delivery system within the county due to the severe shortages of speech-language pathologists and numbers of students going unserved. A review of the literature reveals that shortages are common nationwide and that schools must look for strategies other than short-term recruitment efforts to deal with the problem.

The writer planned training sessions on six alternative service delivery strategies. Training was provided for the lead speech pathologist and special education directors from the 24 school districts in the county. The six strategies were: job-sharing, multilevel service, use …

A Meta-Analysis Of Learner Control In Computer-Based Learning Environments, June A. Parsons

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

The objective of this meta-analysis was to integrate the results of a collection of primary research studies on learner control of computer-based environments. The scope for the meta-analysis was limited to inquiry on different learner-control models and their effect on student achievement as represented by posttest scores. Three specific research questions were defined:

1. What are the characteristics of the body of learner-control research which has examined the effect on achievement of learner control?
2. Is there a difference in the achievement of students who are provided with learner control and students who are provided with other control models?
3. Do specific moderator …

A Study To Develop A Multicultural Orientation Program For Staff And Faculty, Carlos S. Moran

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The purpose of this project was to identify the practical components of a successful multicultural orientation program for faculty and staff at West Coast Christian College. The case study method was utilized as a problem-solving process to determine the multicultural needs of the college community, to identify current practices in multicultural programs and other institutions and to develop the program with a plan for implementation and evaluation.

The methods of investigation utilize in this project included a review of significant and relevant literature about multicultural orientation issues in general, race, relations, campus, climate, multicultural, orientation, program, guidelines, staffing, and program …

Improving Teacher Articulation To Increase Program Continuity Preschool Through First Grade, Barbara A. Malaspina

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum was designed to improve preschool, kindergarten, and first grade teachers group decision making skills to enable articulation to occur more frequently and comfortably to encourage program continuity from grade to grade for children. A second aim was to reduce teacher isolation through shared skill building and focus on problem solving related to barriers to articulation.

The writer used a pre and post training survey, follow up interviews of principals, and two and one half hour training targeted to preschool. kindergarten and first grade teachers at two schools to determine previous skills and attitudes toward group decision making skills …

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 Active Parent Involvement For Preschool Teachers And Parents Through In-Service Training, Robin M. Irving

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum was designed to provide information and support for preschool teachers to help parents in teaching an active role to parenting. The primary goal was that there would be more active parent involvement between parents and children ages three to five years. The literature indicated that training sessions to provide information and support to teachers and parents could be successful in teaching an active role to parenting. Because the center parents were responsible parents, seeking advice to help in teaching their children, the community preschool teachers were supportive of the center's program and staff, and had requested parent education …

Knowledged Base Expansion As A Mean Of Improving Staff Management With Preschoolers In A Child Crisis Center, Ruth M. Wong

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum was designed to strengthen and expand staff members' knowledge in working with children who were from crisis families. The first goal was to provide the staff members with information about children who are in stressful situations. The second goal was for the staff members to recognize child behaviors which need special attention. The third goal was for staff members to implement appropriate play programs for their clients. And, the fourth goal was for other staff members to provide an understanding and warm atmosphere for the children.

The writer provided a four session in-service training program for staff members …

Helping Dysfunctional Recovering Drug-Addicted Mothers To Build Healthy Families By Enhancing Parenting Skills And Providing Opportunities For Bonding, Nan Kelly Wilson

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum was designed to enhance the parenting skills of drug-addicted recovering women and to give opportunities for successful family experiences in a half-way house setting.

The writer developed a curriculum, led weekly group meetings, arranged for guest speakers, assisted mothers with individual problems, and administered an evaluation. The Walker Problem Behavior Identification Checklist (1983) and the Systematic Training for Effective Parenting Workshop (Dinkmeyer & McKay, 1989) were used.

Results were positive. Recovering mothers completed parenting course activities, participated in weekly family experiences to develop bonding, and reported feelings of higher value as parents. Children’s scores on the Walker Problem …

Project Kind (Keeping Interfering Noncompliance Down) A Social Skills Training Program For Noncompliant Primary Students, Janice A. Masters

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The practicum addressed the need of improving noncompliant, oppositional, defiant, under-socialized, primary aged, at risk students’ social skills. They exhibited poor study habits, academic failure, and were subsequent prime candidates of early school departures.

Project kind, a weekly social skills training program, was designed and developed by the writer to help students acquire socially acceptable behaviors. Its focus aimed at helping them acquire conflict resolution tools by developing problem-solving and decision-making skills that included anticipatory outcomes and/or consequences. Improved social adjustment embodied the concept of solving problems without physically or verbally abusing others.

The 18 students were selected by their …

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 The Morale Level Of Direct-Care Staff In A Residential Group Setting Through Support, Communication, And Recognition, Jimmy Mcadams

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum sought to elevate the morale level of direct-care staff in a residential group care setting. Corollary aims were to reduce staff turnover and to improve staff performance both qualitatively and quantitatively.

Four solutions strategies were attempted, which addressed the areas of staff support, communication, and recognition. The writer, representative of a top administrative position, conducted personal visits with staff at service sites. Three round table, dialoguing meetings were held within each of three regions. Agency communication was enhanced through retargeting and increasing the frequency of an intro agency publication so that its focus was on direct care staff. …

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 …

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 …

Developing Self-Motivated, Empowered Middle School Students: A Practical Solution Strategy, Madeline S. Friedman

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum was designed to address the problem that teachers at the writer’s school had in finding specific teaching strategies that would help students become empowered and self-motivated in terms of their academic efforts and achievement. The teachers wanted the techniques to be directly integrated with the presentation of academic content, rather than separate from that content.

The writer developed a booklet of 13 strategies; presented a workshop to introduce the strategies: met regularly with the six participating teachers during implementation; recorded meeting results; developed a pre/post checklist of intrinsically motivated behaviors in students; and administered pre- and post-measurements to …

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 …

Development And Implementation Of An At-Risk Program To Aid Targeted Middle School Students With Self Esteem And Academic Performance, Diane A. Kallmann

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum addressed the problems of at-risk students with poor social and academic skills. Students lacked learning strategies and displayed poor social skills resulting in student drop out. The literature reviewed stressed a multi-level approach to the problem concentrating on the improvement of academic performance, attitude and self-confidence.

This writer's goals were: (a) to significantly increase self-confidence; (b) to sensitize faculty and administration to the problems of the at-risk student; (c) to increase the academic performance of the targeted students; and (d) to improve the attitude of the students toward school. In addressing these four goals, the writer Implemented a …

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, …

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 …

Novafacts - December 28, 1990, Nova University

NovaFacts

No abstract provided.