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Reading Assessment--The Third Dimension, Jerry L. Johns

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Assessing a student's progress in reading should be an integral part of every reading program. Most teachers use standardized or informal tests for the diagnosis and evaluation of reading achievement; however, a third means of assessment is available to teachers. This article is intended to help educators legitimatize this often ignored method of assessing reading behavior and evaluating reading performance.

Word Analogies: An Overlooked Reading Aid, Jerry Axelrod

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Few cues give a teacher a more valid or quicker insight into her students' thinking abilities than word analogies. The pupils' mental manipulations· or lack thereof reveal to the aware and perceptive teacher a usually accurate idea of the extent to which her pupils will be able to perform. Picture analogies for nonreaders and word analogies for literate pupils can be used informally by the classroom teachers to approximate just how much pupils, individually, are capable of learning in an academic situation.

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Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

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Comparison Between Inpatients, Outpatients, And Normals On Three Self-Report Depression Inventories, Floyd C. Byerly

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The Use Of Advance Organizers In The Teaching Of English Grammar To Emotionally Impaired Adolescents, Garrett Boersma Jr.

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A Comparative Analysis Of Two Methods Of Teaching: The Cecchetti Method Of Classical Ballet And The Royal Academy Of Dance, Barbara Ann Ruemenapp

Masters Theses

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Autocorrelation In Behavior Modification Data, Suzanne M. Girman

Masters Theses

Many methodologists claim that autocorrelation in intra-subject designs is a pervasive and critical problem necessitating complex statistical analyses to determine the existence of an intervention effect. In this study, autocorrelation, coefficients were found for a large sample of graphed data in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. Results indicate that there is minimal, negative autocorrelation for most of the data analyzed (-.04). This result suggests the presence of autocorrelation in the intra-subject designs analyzed is of no practical significance, and thus is not the problem some methodologists have assumed it to be.

What Administrators Actually Know About Reading Programs, Martha Rapp Haggard, Jane Warren Meeks

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The purpose of this survey was to determine the extent and depth of public school administrators' attitudes, knowledge and concepts about reading programs. Surveys were sent to 100 public school administrators in a mid-western metropolitan area. The results were tabulated from fifty-nine respondents; six superintendents, twenty-one secondary principals, and thirty-two elementary principals. No special supervisors (language arts curriculum, personnel. etc.) were included in the study.

Effectiveness Procedures For Teaching Reference Study Skills, Donald C. Cushenbery

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

In many elementary developmental reading programs, the areas of word attack and comprehension traditionally receive major attention with respect to reading skills instruction. In some other cases there is much emphasis with respect to phonics and other forms of decoding with less priority given to comprehension. Typically, the skill area receiving the least amount of importance is that of reference study skills since it is assumed by some teachers that if a student is efficient in word attack and comprehension, he/she will naturally transmit these skills to assignments dealing with library resources.

A Behavioral System For Supervising Undergraduate Research, Gary D. Gant

Masters Theses

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A Parametric Study Of Geometric Progressive Ratio Performance, Ali Uzunoz

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A Descriptive Analysis Of Bilingual Education Teacher-Training Programs In The State Of Michigan, Gilbert L. Montez

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Degree Of Client Manifest Anxiety As A Function Of Interaction Distance: An Investigation Of The Female-Female Counseling Dyad, Philip H. Knight

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Geology Of The Central Peloncillo Mountains, The North Third Of The Pratt Quadrangle, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, Dennis J. Gebben

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Improving Customer Service In A Large Department Store Through The Use Of Training And Feedback, Mark G. Brown

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to increase the frequency of four specific customer-service behaviors in three full-time department store salespeople. Each related to the steps involved in a sales transaction, the behaviors recorded were: approaching and greeting customers, being courteous, and appropriately closing the sale. These four responses were defined as exceptional customer service behaviors. A training program had only a slight impact on improving service, but feedback produced a substantial improvement in the frequency of all four targeted customer-service behaviors Removal of feedback produced a small decline in performance; but the percentage of exceptional customer-service behaviors increased to …

Communication Patterns Of Domestic Cats In A Home Environment, Mary Ellen J. Ratuszny

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A Behavioral Analysis Of Ethical Systems, Glen R. Peterson

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The Effects Of The Opportunity To Engage In Self-Stimulatory Behavior On Task Responding In Retarded Children, Paula Shilton

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An Evaluation Of The Igt-Heliotest Printability Tester, B. W. Shreiner

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the IGT-Heliotest Printability Tester. The recommendation to evaluate this test was based on the results of a correlation study of six different printability tests. The IGT-Heliotest was the only test of the six that conformed to the theoretical model developed during this study.¹

As a result of this study, the IGT-Heliotest will be purchased by Kellogg's; with the expectation of significantly improving Quality Assurance's acceptance program for gravure carton board.

The Principles Of General Systems Theory Applied To The Medical Model: Who Benefits?, James T. Decker, John R. Redhorse

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The term "Medical Model", though frequently used by professionals, theoreticians and laymen in referring to certain aspects of the medical profession, or of the entire medical system, is rarely used with any degree of precision. The term, indeed, has been used as a shorthand expression, leaving it unnecessary to explicate descriptively the interrelated components of the medical arena. The theories, conceptual constructs, practice, and operating ideologies of the Medical Model, and their association with bi-cultural, economic, political and other concepts are left unspoken. These elements are simply assumed to be implicit in the use of the term. It is our …

Blacks And Capital Punishment: An Assessment Of Latent Discriminatory Justice In The United States, Laurence French

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

A major consideration in interethnic relations is the control factor and how this is maintained in minority/ majority situations especially those occurring within heterogeneous societies. Granted numerous subtle control processes operate at both the primary and secondary levels of interethnic interaction but a critical measure of the effectiveness of minority subjugation is reflected in judicial discrimination. This formal legal control apparatus has a legal mandate to deny social members their freedom, to punish and even to execute them. In the United States the criminal justice system's avowed mandate is to provide 'equal justice' for all citizens without discrimination due to …

Professional Social Work Associations And Legislative Action 1974 To 1977, Timothy Lause

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

NASW state chapters have increasingly become involved in the pursuit of state legislative priorities. However, direct focus upon social problem concerns accounted for a minor and declining share of the chapters' foremost legislative priorities. Preoccupation with the institutionalization of professional status does not appear to be a transitional chapter concern associated only with the attainment of licensed status.

Social Work And Criminal Justice Student Support Of Civil Liberties, David A. Fabianic

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Varying levels of support for civil liberties have been imputed to social work and criminal justice personnel. Assuming students planning to pursue these professional roles reflect attitudes in accordance with anticipated demands of the positions and the effects of preparatory educational experiences, this paper examines the levels of support for selected provisions of the Bill of Rights among social work and criminal justice undergraduate students.

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 6, No. 2 (March 1979)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Table of Contents

• THE PRINCIPLES OF GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY APPLIED TO THE MEDICAL MODEL. WHO BENEFITS? - James T. Decker, John R. Redhorse
• HOMOSEXUALITY: A SOCIAL WORKER'S IMBROGLIO - Carol Tully, Joyce C. Aibro
• SOCIAL POLICX AND SOCIAL WELFARE ADMINISTRATION - Bernard Neugeboren
• PROBLEMS AND ISSUES IN COMMUNITY-BASED RESIDENTIAL SERVICES AS ALTERNATIVES TO INSTITUTIONALIZATION - Anthony N. Maluccio
• ORGANIZATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE APPLICATION OF BUDGETING AND COST EFFECTIVENESS SYSTEMS TO SOCIAL WELFARE ORGANIZATIONS - Charles Cowger
• SOCIAL WORK AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDENT SUPPORT OF CIVIL LIBERTIES - David A. Fabianic
• BLACKS AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: AN ASSESSMENT OF LATENT DISCRIMINATORY JUSTICE …

Social Polics And Social Welfare Administration, Bernard Neugeboren

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Effective administration of social welfare programs requires the integration of knowledge of social policy with the understanding of the theory and practice of management and administrative decision making. This integration of substantive knowledge of social policy with administrative practice is needed to avoid overemphasis on means to the detriment of the goals of social programs. This paper discusses a policy analysis framework in relationship to a model of decisionmaking which includes rational and non-rational elements. Principles of policy formulation (major system change) is applied to specific issues in social welfare, i.e. should social services be directed at changing the individual …

Problems And Issues In Community-Based Residential Services As Alternatives To Institutionalization, Anthony N. Maluccio

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In recent years there has been increasing interest in community based residential services (e.g. foster homes and group homes) as alternatives to institutionalization of people in problem areas such as mental health, mental retardation, child welfare, and aging.

A selective review of the literature was undertaken to identify key issues, problems and concepts in the use and development of community-based services. This article presents selected findings and conclusions regarding conceptualization of services, issues in service delivery, and evaluation of effectiveness. In addition, it proposes a conceptual framework useful in examining the continuum of emerging services.

Organizational Considerations In The Application Of Budgeting And Cost Effectiveness Systems To Social Welfare Organizations, Charles Cowger

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Social welfare organizations have distinctive organizational characteristics which hinder their adaptability to budget and cost effectiveness systems. This paper identifies those characteristics and discusses their significance.

Socioeconomic Achievement: The Case Of The Working Poor, Manuel Vaz Pato, John B. Williamson

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In recent years a great deal of effort has gone into the specification of causal models describing the social mobility process, but virtually no effort has been made to specify a model for the poor, a segment of the population for which the issue of social mobility is particularly crucial. In the present study we ask whether the process of socioeconomic achievement for the poor can be described using the same model as for the non-poor, or whether a separate model is required for the poor; we conclude that a separate model for the poor is needed. The data used …

Western News, February 27, 1979, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Trustees Adams; Ludlow Reappointed, Bennett; Stiefel To Lead Western's Faculty Senate, Aetna Has Open Enrollment Set, F. Lee Bailey To Speak Here, Bernhard Cites Library; Physical Plant Needs, Berkeley Library Dean Gives Talk, Management Has Visiting Scholar, Western Hosts Women's Midwest Cage Tourney, Science; Political Conflict Is Topic

Western News, February 22, 1979, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Spring Class Schedules Out, Winter Carnival Planned, Pegasus Tutors Need Volunteers, Sex Attitudes Is Tuesday Topic, Stine; VanDeventer; Viall Granted Emeritus Status, Personnel Actions Approved, Human Subjects Research Policy Approved by Trustees, Bernhard Comments on Salary Study; State Appropriations, Cistercian Interest Reaffirmed, Western Hosts Dance Marathon, Alumni Association Directors Elected, Spring Recess Hours Set, Five Workshops On Demystifying Math Set