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Developing Educational Media Centers For Secondary Schools In Malaysia, Ismail Haji Adnan

Graduate Research Papers

The media center is a repository of knowledge and is indispensable in providing quality education that is greatly needed in developing countries. This paper discusses media centers at school level. The models focused on are those of a developed country. Based on the experiences of a developed country in this field, a proposal is presented in this paper for setting up a media center in secondary schools in Malaysia, but local environment and needs are taken into consideration. This proposal will have many implications in the educational field in Malaysia. It will promote quality education as well as generate innovation …

Considerations And Preplanning In The Initial Establishment Of Telemarketing Training, Diana Johnson

Graduate Research Papers

According to McGraw Hill Inc., the average cost of an industrial sales call has now reached $150. For direct mail, over the past five years, postage rates alone have increased 80% for first class postage and 70% for bulk mail. Add to this the substantial increase in type, print, paper and labor cost, and it is easy to see that direct mail is becoming less and less affordable.

Developing A Media Center In A Health Care Facility, Denise L. Buchan

Graduate Research Papers

The director of education approached the librarian and asked her how to make slides for a medical staff presentation. The librarian was at a loss as to how to assist the director. In another situation, the marketing department of a health care facility was approached by another department to develop and shoot a video promoting a new piece of equipment. Members of the marketing department had no idea where to begin---their experience was limited to print media.

Potential Differences In Self-Concept Among Adult Children Of Problem Drinkers, Thomine Sue Wilson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Prior research has Indicated that the alcoholic home environment is destructive to a child's emotional well-being* and that the conditions necessary to the development of high self-esteem are not consistently present, A large segment of previous research about children of alcoholics has not been tested with rigorous research techniques and often reflects the product of personal observations* results of extensive interviews* or case studies while working with these children. Moreover* there has been a tendency to focus on clinical populations of the young and adolescent offspring of alcoholics, with few studies being conducted in which adults were used as subjects. …

All The World's A Stage: High School Theatre As Preparation For Life, Judy D. Nebergall

Iowa Journal of Communication

If there is commitment and determination to succeed, an exemplary theatre arts program is possible in any high school regardless of size, financial resources, or socio-economic backgrounds of the students, because the components of a theatre arts program are already in existence in every school. The six components are student actors, crew members, student audience, faculty director, school faculty and administration, and parents and community members. The observation of Jacques in Shakespeare's As You Like It that "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players . . . '' clearly applies to the lives of …

Practical Experience In Arbitration, Paul E. Wenger

Iowa Journal of Communication

Finding real life experiences to aid the instructional process is an ongoing search for many communication teachers. One opportunity for my students appeared in a brief news clipping that described the problems of obtaining volunteer arbitrators for my state's Department of Consumer Protection enforcement program.

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Iowa Journal of Communication

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Telemarketing. Curriculum Guides & Content Outlines For Telemarketing: Telemarketing Specialist., Del Shepard

Faculty Publications

This curriculum guide and content outline for the telemarketing specialist contains seven sections: (1) specialized telemarketing tasks; (2) telemarketing selling skills; (3) marketing tasks; (4) business-related tasks; (5) business-specific tasks; (6) personnel/human resources related; and (7) communications and minimum skill tasks. Each section includes an introduction and topics covered; purpose; objective(s); activities; evaluation; resources; content outline; and additional topics. Section 1 covers the following: telephone manners; telemarketing in relation to the firm; personal minimum skills; telephone as a marketing tool; telemarketing trends; training personnel; dimensions; marketing techniques; and telemarketing and marketing mix. Topics in section 2 are as follows: attention …

Keys To The Spiders Of Northwestern Iowa, Barbara J. Abraham

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Spiders were collected from various habitats in 7 counties of northwestern Iowa during the summer of 1985. Nineteen families and 69 genera were identified; these comprised 154 species. An additional 19 species in Families Linyphiidae and Micryphantidae were not identified to genus. Morphological keys to local families and genera are presented. A field key to some common spiders, based on ecological and behavioral characteristics, is also included.

Late Holocene Paleoecology Of Southeastern Iowa: Development Of Riparian Vegetation At Nichols Marsh, R. G. Baker, D. G. Horton, H. K. Kim, A. E. Sullivan, D. M. Roosa, P. M. Witinok, W. P. Pusateri

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Pollen, vascular plant and bryophyte macrofossils from peat and silt deposits that filled an oxbow lake near Nichols, Iowa provide a 2500- year record of wetland succession and of upland habitats. Radiocarbon dates of 2320 ± 90 yr B. P. (BETA 12514) near the base and 1260 ±70 yr B.P. (BETA-12513) midway up one section, and 1050 ±70 (BETA 12515) in another provide chronologic control. The pollen diagram indicates substantial changes in local wetland habitats, but less change in upland vegetation in the last 2500 years. Plant macrofossils record changes from a deep to a shallow oxbow lake during the …

1987 Apart . . . And Yet A Part, Northern University High School

Malcolm Price Laboratory School Yearbooks

The student yearbook of the Northern University High School, part of the Malcolm Price Laboratory School of the University of Northern Iowa.

William Gillette And American Theatrical Realism Of The Late Nineteenth Century, Mark Burnett

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This thesis, entitled William Gillette and American Theatrical Realism of the Late Nineteenth Century studies the realistic staging techniques employed by William Gillette during the latter part of the nineteenth century in order to bring recognition and establish William Gillette as an innovator in the realistic staging of drama during the time in American theatre known as the movement toward realism.

The study examines four plays written and staged by William Gillette which range both in chronology of production and importance to the movement: those plays being Held By The Enemy, Secret Service, Sherlock Holmes, and Electricity. Using these plays, …

Metacognition As A Theoretical Construct: Its Nature, Origins, And Application In The Secondary Reading Program, Karen Collinge Carroll

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Metacognition is a theoretical construct used to describe a type of cognitive ability through which an individual assesses the range and quality of his/her own knowledge and is able to gain insight and control over particular aspects of his/her own cognitive and affective processes. Metacognition appears to be an important factor in development of higher level thinking skills, in acquisition of knowledge, and in reading comprehension. Because of its role in reading and learning, metacognition may prove to be an ideal construct on which to base secondary reading instruction, an area of secondary curriculum which is in particular need of …

“Open Endings”: A Proposed Theatre-In-Education Program Exploring Adolescent Suicide, Joan Elizabeth Disburg

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

"'Open Endings': A Proposed Theatre-in-Education Program Exploring Adolescent Suicide" is a descriptive study the purpose of which is to establish the theoretical basis for and the process of the development of a Theatre-in-Education program exploring the complex social issue of adolescent suicide. Chapter One introduces the study and presents a review of related literature in the two areas: adolescent suicide and Theatre-in-Education. Chapter Two establishes the theoretical base for the use of the specific dramatic form, Theatre-in-Education, for the exploration of the complex social, adolescent suicide. Four major theorists have been selected for this theoretical treatment: Richard Courtney, Robert J. …

Characteristics Of The American Middle School, Md. Idris Hamdan

Graduate Research Papers

If we look back on the history of education in the United States, we find many patterns of school organization. Prior to the establishment of middle schools, the middle level of schooling was commonly known as junior high school. According to Van Til, et al., (1967), the first junior high school was established at Columbus, Ohio in 1909. Since then, both the 8-4 plan and 8-5 plan, the standard organizational patterns used for public schooling in the United States after the Civil War, have been gradually changed to the newer form--the 6-3-3 plan. The first prompting to establish a junior …

The Effects Of Integrating Electronic Media Into Composition Processes Of The English Classroom In The Eighties, Pollyanna Bosker Shoemaker

Graduate Research Papers

In 1934, more than fifty years before the arrival of personal computers, Thomas Frederick Blanchard, a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, stated the following: "The teacher of composition as an art is particularly assisted by the employment of usable devices. It is true that every competent instructor will invent devices of his own, but no competent instructor should refuse aid wherever he finds it" (p. ix).

Homework Insights: Benefits, Problems, And Recommendations, Carol Plotz Bradfield

Graduate Research Papers

"Do your homework now. Then you can play outside." Parents have used this expression time and time again. Homework is as the word says. It is work performed at home. Homework has become a dirty word for most children. It has been a daily event since schools came into being and many systems have required that their teachers make use of homework. For the first 18 years of life, perhaps about half of the waking time, a student is potentially educative. if one hundred, eighty 6-hour school days for twelve years are assumed, then 16.4% of the potentially educative time …

Nonliteral Comprehension, Janice J. Bolger

Graduate Research Papers

There is a general concern about the reading and thinking abilities of today's youth. Of special concern are students' abilities to make inferences about what they read. Recent data show that students' basic reading skills have generally improved or have remained stable during the 1970s, but the inferential comprehension of 13- and 17-year-olds has dropped. This, study focuses on nonliteral comprehension. Specifically, this study describes how researchers have defined nonliteral comprehension and ways the nonliteral comprehension of children might be improved.

Examining The Implementation Of Patient Education In Phases I And Ii Of Cardiac Rehabilitation, Ann Marie Bjorndahl

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to examine the implementation of patient education in phases I and II of cardiac rehabilitation so that an overview of its current status in cardiac rehabilitation programs could be determined. One hundred four phase I and II cardiac rehabilitation program directors from the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin were selected for participation in the study. A questionnaire containing items addressing both general program information and the specifics of the patient education programs was sent to the program directors. Seventy-five of the questionnaires were returned, seventy-one of which were viable for data …

United States Participation In The North Russian Intervention, 1918-1919, Michael Andrew Hudson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The interventions by the Western powers and Japan in revolutionary Russia during the years immediately following the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917 constitute a sorry chapter in the history of relations between the Soviet Union and its capitalist adversaries. The United States took an active, if reluctant, role in two of these misadventures. In July 1918, President Woodrow Wilson authorized the diversion of United States military forces to Vladivostok for participation in the Siberian Intervention, and to Murmansk and Archangel for participation in the Northern Intervention. The events of the intervention in the l atter zone, Murmansk and especially Archangel, …

Physical Self-Concept Of Female Body Builders, Female Athletes, And Female Non-Athletes, Kathryn Mary Geiger

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to determine whether a difference In physical self-concept exists among female body builders, female athletes, and female non-athletes. It was hypothesized that the female body builders would possess a significantly higher physical self-concept than the female athletes and female non-athletes. The Physical Self-Concept Subscale of the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale was administered to female body builders, female athletes, and female non-athletes (N = 73). A one-way analysis of variance was used to determine differences among the three groups. The body builders (n = 15) were found to possess a significantly ( p < .01) higher physical self-concept than the athletes and the non-athletes. The female athletes possessed a slightly but non-significantly higher (p > .05) physical self-concept …

Locus Of Control And Self-Perceptions Of Stuttering Severity In Adult Stutterers Versus Nonstuttering Peers, Rebecca Lynn Hansen

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

One purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between locus of control and stuttering severity among adult stutterers. A second purpose was to determine if locus of controI orientation was different for stutterers compared to their nonstuttering peers. Six teen stutterers and sixteen nonstutterers from across the United States participated. They were matched according to age, sex, and educational level. The two groups of subjects completed two locus of control scales: The Rotter Internal-External Locus of Control Scale (Rotter, 1966) and the Locus of Control of Behaviour Scale (LCB : Craig, Franklin, & Andrews, 1984) . The stuttering …

Power Plays: Feminist Theory Of Power In A Select Group Of Lillian Hellman's Plays, Cindy J. Pope

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This study focuses on the way in which female characters within a selected group of Lillian Hellman's works use power. The overall purpose of this study is to scrutinize the modern theory of feminist power based on Hanna Pitkin, Dorothy Emmet, Berenice Carroll, and Marilyn French. All four base the modern theory of feminist power on the assertion that men and women have different experiences of power. This study is a literary review of three plays by Hellman.

The plays that are examined for this study include: The Children's Hour (1939), The Little Foxes (1939), and Toys In The Attic …

A Comparison Of The Iowa Language Arts Curriculum Guide And Project S.T.A.G.E., Randall Mark Wright

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Current research on teaching strategies for language arts advocates the use of an integrated approach. This approach calls for the treatment of reading, writing, speaking, and listening in relation to each other. Thus, learning in one area may benefit the others. While current literature states that this is not commonly happening in our schools today, there is an increasing awareness of the need to implement such strategies.

To help facilitate this change, curricular guidelines have been developed by the State of Iowa to help schools develop new language arts curricula that will reflect current research. These guidelines stress the integration …

Fall Commencement [Program], December 20, 1986, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Commencement Programs

The program of the commencement ceremonies, including a list of institutional leadership, a list of the departments by college, awards given at the ceremonies, and a list of undergraduate and graduate degree candidates.

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, December 8, 1986, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

Survey Of The Quality Control Program At A Large Nanufacturing Corporation And Application Of An Identified Decision Making Tool To Solve The Most Costly Quality Problem, Giles Wright Jr.

Graduate Research Papers

The problem of this study has two major components.

1. Identify the major quality control concerns at a large manufacturing corporation.

2. Apply a selected decision-making tool to develop a solution for the most costly quality problem.

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, November 24, 1986, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, November 10, 1986, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, November 3, 1986, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.