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The Design And Evaluation Of A Course In Conversational Indonesian, Marit Ann Kana

Theses and Dissertations

Of the language learning materials which already exist on Indonesian, the language of nearly one hundred million people in Malaysia and the Republic of Indonesia, none is particularly suited for fieldworkers--that is, whose whose interest in the language is more practical than academic, whose intent is to live and work in Indonesia for an extended period of time. Fieldworkers need to develop the communicational skills of listening and speaking over those of reading and writing. They also need to learn the speech level which is most appropriate for foreigners. In Indonesia this is a formal language style, one which shows …

From Paper Ballots To Voting Machines: The Experience Of Stark County North Dakota, Darrell K. Sorenson

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Professional Schools Of Accountancy, Judith G. Mclean

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Affective Influences On Nonverbal Immediacy, Steven F. Dreyer

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation focused on compensatory relationships among the nonverbal "immediacy" behaviors—interpersonal distance, gaze, trunk lean, and body orientation--which are hypothesized to be important in the communication of interpersonal attitudes (Mehrabian, 1972; Patterson, 1973). Argyle and Dean (1965) have proposed that in social situations there are both approach and avoidance forces (e.g., affilia- tive needs, fear of intimacy) which eventually balance at some level of mutual comfort for the interactants. Once a comfortable intimacy-equilibrium has been established, any change in immediacy by one interactant requires a compensatory adjustment by the other. Since distance, gaze, trunk lean, and body orientation are assumed …

Judgment Analysis And Learning Disabilities: An Empirical Procedure For Construct Explication, Walter S. Mabee

Theses and Dissertations

Purpose: The purpose of this study is the exp1ic ion of the learning disability (LD; construct. Construct explication is a process whereby an abstract variable is made explicit in terms of concrete variables. The purpose of this construct explication is to provide a description as opposed to a cause of the phenomena of learning disabilities.

Research: This study was designed to answer the following research questions: 1. Does a relationship exist between the selected profile variables and each criterion? Which variables are most useful for prediction by this group of LD specialists? 2. Does a relationship exist between the three …

Effects Of Psychodrama On Self-Actualization And Perceived Locus Of Control, Stanley W. Rosenthal

Theses and Dissertations

Despite psychodrama’s popularity as a clinical procedure, few adequately controlled outcome studies have been reported. The purpose of this study was to determine whether participants in short-term psycho drama groups, relative to controls would show greater change in selfactualization, locus-of-control, and positive "back-home" behavior reported by significant others. Since protagonists emerged spontaneously from their groups, it was also possible to: (a) determine whether protagonists gained more from the psychodrama experience than less active group members, and (b) identify personality and demographic characteristics associated with participants’ willingness to assume the protagonist role.

Forty-four volunteers from a university community were randomly assigned …

An Investigation Of The Relationship Between Occupational Noise And Hearing Loss In Firefighters, Jane Callahan Rackl

Theses and Dissertations

The present study was designed to measure the noise levels to which professional firefighters are exposed during the process of responding to emergency calls and to investigate the effects of these noise levels upon the auditory sensitivity of the professional firefighters .

Subjects for this study consisted of two groups of firefighters at the Minneapolis Fire Department who were less than 35 years of age. Group A consisted of 17 firefighters with six months to two years of continuous paid firefighting experience. Group B consisted of 17 firefighters with eight to eleven years of continuous paid firefighting experience. An air …

Auditing Of Electronic Data Processing Systems, Gary Lipetzky

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Impeachment Of Oscar E. Erickson, North Dakota State Insurance Commissioner, 1945, Mary A. Dibbern

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

The Role Of The North Dakota Student Association In Student Government In North Dakota, David Allen Paulson

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

The Measurement And Reporting Of Human Resources - Its Feasibility And Utility, Wesley J. Simonson

Theses and Dissertations

Financial accounting is dynamic. It's generally accepted accounting principles are the result of an evolutionary process that can be expected to continue. Accounting is not an art which is an end in itself, rather it is an activity with a purpose. It is an information system whose principles change in response to changes in economic and social conditions, to new knowledge, and to demands of users for more serviceable financial information. Human Resource Accounting (H.R.A.) is a part of this evolutionary process. It is a response to a need for information in an area previously considered to be outside the …

The Onlooker: June 7-21, 1976, Mike Jacobs, Suezette Bieri

North Dakota Politics - Publications

June 7-21, 1976, issue of "The Onlooker," a news magazine focused on North Dakota and the issues that impacted the state

Volume 2, Number 11

9 pages

June 1976, University Of North Dakota Alumni Association

ALL: UND Alumni Review Master List

June 1976 issue of "The University of North Dakota Alumni Review." 12 pages

Volume 58, Number 9

The Onlooker: May 10-24, 1976, Mike Jacobs, Suezette Bieri

North Dakota Politics - Publications

May 10-24, 1976, issue of "The Onlooker," a news magazine focused on North Dakota and the issues that impacted the state

Volume 2, Number 9

13 pages

May 1976, University Of North Dakota Alumni Association

ALL: UND Alumni Review Master List

May 1976 issue of "The University of North Dakota Alumni Review." 8 pages

Volume 58, Number 8

Leaf Abscission In Larix Sp., Richard A. Schmidt

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Emotional Inoculation And Supportive Therapy On Stress Incurred From Nursing Home Placement, Mary B. Carman

Theses and Dissertations

Research indicates that relocation of an elderly person to a nursing home constitutes a major stress to the individual which can be life threatening. The present study was designed to assess the efficacy of two different treatment approaches in attenuating that stress.

Thirty-six elderly persons being placed in nursing homes for the first time were randomly assigned to one of three groups. Subjects in the Emotional Inoculation (El) Group x;ere seen for three consecutive days in the hospital, prior to entering a nursing home, for purposes of giving them information about the facility and preparing them for some of the …

Source And Setting Credibility As Determinants Of Self-Referring Attitude Change, Charles D. Sullivan

Theses and Dissertations

The present study was designed to demonstrate the possible applicability of the concepts and findings from attitude change research to a counseling or psychotherapy situation. Expanding and elaborating on a study by Bergin (1963), the effects of source credibility and setting credibility were investigated with respect to their independent and combined effects upon changes in the self- referring attitude of masculinity following a male subject's reception of communication indicating a discrepancy between his own and the communicator's judgment. Changes in anxiety as a result of receiving the discrepant communication were also measured.

Each of 60 male college student volunteers was …

An Investigation Of The Effects Of Imagination Enhancement Materiials On The Creative Abilities Of Fifth Grade Students, Michael William Radis

Theses and Dissertations

Problem: The purpose of this study was to determine if enhancement of children's imaginations by activities in a school classroom could improve their creative abilities.

The study was divided into two parts. Part one dealt with the effect of the imagination enhancement materials on the figural and verbal creativity of children as measured by the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. Part two looked at the effect of the imaginative materials on children's choice of reading materials and on the fantasy content of their creative writing.

Procedure: The research population for this study was one fifth grade classroom consisting of 25 …

Special Problems Of The Small Business, Teresa Kjelshus

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Futures Research: A New Approach To Long-Range Corporate Planning, Conley A. Byrnes

Theses and Dissertations

This study is an attempt to illustrate the potential use of futures research in long-range corporate planning. The basic purpose of futures research is to involve the corporate concern with an active role in creating future conditions. Outcomes and even the seemingly inevitable can be changed.

The paper will study the development of futures research, discuss various techniques and approaches, apply these to the corporation and discuss problems of forecasting. The paper will show that futures research concentrates on the development and application of systematic processes and procedures which are intended to unveil alternatives available to companies over the long-run. …

Financial Reporting Of Environmental Information, Richard Peters

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of The Presence Of An Unfamiliar Peer On Stranger Preference And Separation From The Mother In 15-Month-Olds, Robert Arlyn Harms

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the responses of 15-month-old toddlers to unfamiliar peers in the context of toddler-mother attachment. The subjects were twenty-two 15-month-old toddlers, who were observed singly and in pairs under mother-present and mother-absent conditions. Each toddler was involved in a sequence of six 3-minute episodes in an experimental room with toys. Using a counter-balanced procedure, three of the episodes for one toddler overlapped with three of the episodes for the other toddler so that one experimental session consisted of nine episodes. In both the one- toddler and the two-toddler halves of the six-episode …

An Analysis Of Perceptions Of Job Specifications For Secondary Principals As Viewed By Principals And Teachers In Selected Minnesota Secondary Schools, Ervin F. Garbe Jr.

Theses and Dissertations

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine what differences in perception existed between teachers and principals when they viewed the job specifications of a secondary school principal. Further purposes were to determine if any differences existed between teachers and principals in their perceptions of a secondary school principal's general job categories and to attempt to identify those educational and demographic variables whose presence significantly affected the respondents' perceptions.

Procedure: The population of the study was limited to 253 public secondary schools in the state of Minnesota. The study sample included 169 principals and 273 teachers. The teachers and …

Decision-Making In The Public Service And The Necessity For Ethical Guidelines, Linda S. Mason

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Concept Of Materiality As Exemplified By Court Decisions Relating To Three Dependent Factors Of Morality, Annie Ortega

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Investigation Of The Vocabulary Recognition And Syntactic Performance Of Normally-Developing And Educable Mentally Handicapped Children, Myrna Fladeland Moore

Theses and Dissertations

This study was designed to investigate the relationship between the performance of normally-developing subjects and educable mentally handicapped (EMH) subjects on standardized measures of vocabulary recognition and syntax.

Nine male and nine female normally-developing subjects, with a mean age of five years seven months, and ten male and seven female educable mentally handicapped subjects, with a mean age of nine years six months, participated in this study. All of the subjects were administered the Full Range Picture Vocabulary Test (FRPVT) (Ammons and Ammons, 1948) and Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) (Lee, 1974) in the present study and were administered the Peabody …

Osteo-Archaeology Of The Beeber Site, 32lm235 And Miscellaneous Human Skeletal Remains, Patrick J. Key

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

The Onlooker: April 12-28, 1976, Mike Jacobs, Suezette Bieri

North Dakota Politics - Publications

April 12-28, 1976, issue of "The Onlooker," a news magazine focused on North Dakota and the issues that impacted the state

Volume 2, Number 7

12 pages

Position Paper On Grading, Thomas M. Driscoll

Journal of Teaching and Learning

No abstract provided.