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A Content Analysis Of Realistic Fiction For Bibliotherapy With Gifted Children, Myra Kay Hopper Lafrentz

Graduate Research Papers

Children who are gifted experience the same problems as other children of lesser ability; but they also have unique problems that are a direct result of their giftedness. In a synthesis of her research of gifted children, Galbraith (1983> identified some of these problems, including among others, boredom in school , not being understood and accepted by peers , perfectionism

Library Service In Iowa Juvenile Correctional Institutions Compared With National Standards Prepared By The American Correctional Association, Ellen Youds

Graduate Research Papers

This study was done to determine the extent to which the two juvenile correctional institution libraries in Iowa met selected standards from Library Standards for Juvenile Correctional Institutions, prepared by the American Correctional Association. The hypothesis of the study was that neither of the institutions would meet 50% or more of the selected standards.

The two librarians completed a questionnaire and were also interviewed. The library at Eldora met over 50% of the selected standards. The librarian is a member of the educational and planning team. This facilitates the meeting of many of the standards. The library at Toledo met …

The Effect Of Relative Frequency Of Verbalized Knowledge Of Results On The Learning Of Spot Bowling, Patrice Diane Fisher

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of varied frequency of verbalized KR on the learning of spot bowling. This study was done to determine if verbalized KR received every third trial was more effective in learning spot bowling than KR received after every trial in a thirty and ten trial sequence.

The Attitudes Toward Computers Of The Selected Upper-Elementary/Middle School Students, Lih-Jiun Tsuei

Graduate Research Papers

The use of computer technology as a learning tool is becoming increasingly important in education (Russell, 1982). The Office of Technology Assessment (1982) predicts that by 1994 over four million microcomputers will be found in schools. The National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics has listed computer literacy as one of the ten basic skill areas in mathematics instruction (1978). The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, in its Agenda for Action, has recommended that ''a computer literacy course, familiarizing the student with the role and impact of the computer, should be a part of the education of every student (1980, …

Microteaching: Selected Research And Experience, Vickie Trent-Wilson

Graduate Research Papers

A group of educators at Stanford University, under the direction of Dwight w. Allen, developed microteaching and the technical skills approach to teacher education as they attempted to analyze teaching into well-defined components that could be practiced, taught, evaluated, and controlled (Gardner and Bartholomew, 1969, p. 45). Microteaching has since been experimentally incorporated into the teacher education program at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.

The Relationship Between Black Student Racial Identity Attitudes, Self-Expectancy, And Academic Performance At The College Level, Primrose Simphiwe Mngadi

Graduate Research Papers

The fact that black student academic performance has persistently fallen short of white student performance has been a matter of concern among educational practitioners and has been documented in countless educational and sociological literature. Not only has this trend been reflected in lower SAT scores and lower GPA's, but also in lower retention and higher attrition rates (Garibaldi, 1986; Wilson, 1981). The results of numerous studies have suggested various factors that might contribute to this unfortunate state of affairs. These range from factors that are internal to the student such as self-esteem, achievement motivation, and self-expectancy, to factors that are …

Humor In Advertising, Kimberly Recker

Graduate Research Papers

Advertising has an effect on all of us. Our homes are filled with proof of that fact. Advertisements have Influenced people to buy anything from toothpaste to automobiles. Behind each one of those Items people were persuaded to purchase Is a creative marketing and advertising strategy. Advertising has become a science and an art form which requires effort and time for maximum effectiveness.

A Comparison Of Reading Instruction Recommendations For Good And Poor Readers, Mary Ellen Cagwin

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this study was to compare the published recommendations for instruction made for two ability groups. This comparison was made within the context of actual classroom reading instruction.

Will Teachers Read The Newsletter: A Design Problem, David Booth

Graduate Research Papers

This paper is concerned with communications between Area Education Agencies (AEAs) and teachers. To be more specific, this paper will address the problem of the Area Education Agency newsletter used to provide information about media procedures, products, and services.

Brain/Mind Research: Optimizing Your Potential (Secondary Level Gifted Education Seminar Design), Sharon E. Thomas

Graduate Research Papers

It is an exciting time to be involved with education. For both the learner and the teacher, empowering new vistas have and are emerging which present possibilities that were generally beyond comprehension even ten to fifteen years ago. As a result of medical research involving study of the human brain, an infinite number of fields are benefitting from emerging incites regarding the functioning of the brain and mind with the body.

Adult Children Of Alcoholics: Review Of The Literature, Helen Karamitros Deets

Graduate Research Papers

Many adults who experience the trauma of growing up in an alcoholic family system develop a condition of similar symptoms and behaviors, called the Adult Children of Alcoholics Syndrome (Kritzberg, 1985). It is estimated that over half of the twenty-eight to thirty-four million children of alcoholics are adults (Black, 1981). Cermak ( 1985), Bowden and Gravitz (1984) noted that although children of alcoholics compromise one of the largest identifiable groups in America, recognition of the issues these individuals face has been very recent.

Role Of The Registered Nurse As Perceived By Nurses, Physicians, And Health Care Administrators, Jane Ellen Hasek

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to investigate perceptions of registered nurses, physicians, and health care administrators regarding the present and desired future role of the registered nurse. Perceptions of Iowa registered nurses, physicians, and health care administrators regarding the present and desired future role of the registered nurse were compared as well as the relationship of those perceptions to type of training, level of education, employment setting, experience, and age.

A stratified sampling plan was used to select 2,765 registered nurses, physicians, and health care administrators in Iowa. Data were collected through the use of a two section questionnaire. …

Mentoring Relationships During Student Teaching, Richard G. Stahlhut

Faculty Publications

This study sought to find out if mentoring styles were used by cooperating teachers as perceived by student teachers during their clinical field experience. After a specific mentoring model was constructed; the objectives of the study were to identify leadership behaviors cooperating teachers used; to determine if any of the inferred mentoring styles that incorporated the leadership behaviors tested were dominant; and to determine if any of these leadership behaviors or mentoring styles influenced a student teacher's success as measured by a final evaluation checklist. The Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire Form XII was administered to 212 University of Northern Iowa …

The Relationship Between Suicide Variables And Insufficient Development Of College Students: Chickering's Seven Vectors, Michelle Ellen Thompson

Graduate Research Papers

Suicide is the second leading cause of death on American college and university campuses (Bernard & Bernard, 1985; Hoffer, 1972). This fact emphasizes the need to prevent suicide on campus. To accomplish this, it is essential to possess an understanding of suicide indicators and the needs which underlie them.

The Potential For Using Environmental Education Field Trips Based On The Current Attitudes And Practices Of K-5 Teachers In Marshalltown, Iowa, Dennis John Eige

Graduate Research Papers

In today's world it's easy to feel like a god. We live in an age of world-wide information gathering and speed-of-light computer processing that gives us the sense of omniscience. Our eye-in-the-sky satellite surveillance systems give us the feeling of omnipresence. The harnessing and development of nuclear power contributes to an all-powerful state of mind which seduces us into believing we are also wise enough to make the best decisions possible concerning our world. However, such does not appear to be the case, if environmental quality, use of world resources, and health of living populations are used as indicators.

Reasons For A Lack Of Understanding Of Geometric Measurement Concepts By The Sixth Grade Student, Marylin Witt

Graduate Research Papers

In the past, it has been assumed by middle grade teachers that their students come to them with an adequate knowledge of geometric measurement concepts, since linear measurement has been taught beginning in first grade. However, the researcher has noticed that sixth-grade students seem overwhelmed by, and display a lack of understanding of, many of the geometric measurement concepts. Other educators have also found this to be true of students in the middle grades. This paper will be an investigation into the causes for this problem.

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 …

In Support Of Multiethnic Education, Janet L. Jensen

Graduate Research Papers

Many groups of people have come to the United States of America with high hopes - - hopes of religious freedom, educational opportunities, and the hopes of freedom from government oppression. All had dreams of better lives for themselves and their families. They were seeking a country whose government held political and religious freedom in high regard. (Banks, 1982) These attitudes were the very foundation upon which the Constitution of the United States was built.

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.

Italo Calvino: A Writer Fascinated With Form, Ann Ellsworth

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Italo Calvino is a twentieth-century writer whose work reflects a transition from realism or neorealism to postmodernism. This thesis will explore how that shift occurred. I will show how Calvino's early fascination with form, especially the techniques of oral storytelling, led to a later focus on form in his boldly experimental works. In the first chapter I will point out the early signs of fantasy in Calvino's neorealistic novel, The Path to the Nest of Spiders. This novel's affinity to folktales and use of fantasy foretell Calvino's subsequent contributions to these literary genres. I will discuss how Calvino's work with …

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.

The Life And Unusual Ideas Of Adelbert Ames, Jr., Roy R. Behrens

Faculty Work

This paper is a summary of the life and major achievements of Adelbert Ames, Jr., an American ophthalmologist and perceptual psychologist, who had initially wanted to be a visual artist. He is most widely remembered today as the inventor of the Ames Demonstrations in Perception, the most famous of which consists of a distorted room in which people seem to shrink as they walk from one corner to another. This essay discusses the relationship of the Ames Demonstrations to anamorphic visual art, and it documents various comments by perceptual psychologists and artists who were directly acquainted with Ames.

The Iowa Academy Of Science Parish Farm: Its Past, Present And Future - A 25 Year Overview, Harry T. Horner

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

This article focuses on the Iowa Academy of Science Parish Farm celebration of its 25th anniversary in 1985 at the Farm. The celebration provided an opportunity to view the progress made in establishing the Farm as a model for both farming and non-farming conservation practices. The celebration also included opportunities to review the history of the Farm, the life of Jessie A. Parish, and the interactions of the Iowa Academy of Science with the Parish Farm management, tenants, and Grundy County Conservation Board. These activities are followed by an in-depth account of the struggles which have occurred within the Board …

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Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

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Annual Report Of The Iowa Academy Of Science, 1986-87, James G. Macmillan

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Since 1975 when a history of the Iowa Academy of Science was written for the centennial of the founding of the Academy, an Annual Report has acted as a continuing record of the Academy's activities. This report encompasses the year beginning July 1, 1986 to June 30, 1987 and is based on committee meetings, Board minutes and the recollections of the author. Each part represents a major activity of the Academy.

The Comparison Of Body Fat Percentages Of Young Adult Females As Determined By Anthropometry, Bioelectric Impedance, And Hydrostatic Weighing, Jill Kathryn Fjelstul

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to determine the validity of the bioelectrlcal Impedance method of predicting the percentage of body fat of young adult females. The percentage of body fat predicted from the bioelectrlcal Impedance method was compared with the percentage of body fat predicted from the hydrostatic weighing technique, the criterion variable. A secondary purpose of this study was to compare the percentage of body fat predicted from the bioelectrlcal Impedance method with the percentage of body fat predicted from anthropometry. It was hypothesized that the mean values of the bioelectrlcal Impedance percentage of body fat would be …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Relationships Among Tasks Designed To Elicit Causal Understanding In Reading, Mary Monica Cassidy

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This study examined the relationship between students' performance with worksheet tasks and story questions when used to elicit understanding of causal relationships. Additionally, performance of good and poor readers on these tasks was compared. The subjects for this study were 73 fourth-grade students from two midwest public schools. Students were designated as either highor low-achieving readers by their scores on the Reading subtest of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. Descriptive statistics and instrument reliabilities using Cronbach's alpha were obtained. A Pearson product moment correlation matrix for the tasks also was computed. Subjects' performance on worksheet tasks was also compared …