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Far Away From Sactick Street, John Mcnamara

Calliope (1954-2001)

No abstract provided.

Social Readiness: The Neglected Area In Reading, L.D. Briggs, Sherri Skelton

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

First and foremost the classroom must be viewed as a social setting where the child interacts with teacher and peers. Thus, while preparing the child for reading and other academic activities, the teacher should not only consider the intellectual, emotional, and physical readiness of the child, but the social readiness as well. Too often this area is overlooked when the readiness of the child is being determined.

Progress Report, Mary Kaczperski

Calliope (1954-2001)

No abstract provided.

Retirement Dinner Dialogue 1979, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

Retirement Dinner Dialogue

1979

Performance Script

A Psycholinguistic Look At The Informal Reading Inventory Part Ii: Inappropriate Inferences From An Informal Reading Inventory, Constance Weaver, Laura Smith

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

In this article we propose to discuss in more detail the kinds of inferences that may be inappropriately drawn from an informal reading inventory. This discussion should strengthen the rationale for our approach to analyzing a reader's miscues (errors) and determining what kinds of instructional approaches might be appropriate for that reader (see the preceding issue of Reading Horizons).

Organizing Observable Reading Behaviors, Karl Koenke

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

All teachers observe their students while they read. That is part of the job. The question is: How well organized is the observation? For example, when asked for information about the child who is being referred because of a reading problem, what can be said and how logically is it organized? Or, when facing the parent of a child with a reading problem, what information might be reasonable to have at hand?

Teachers' Abilities To Judge The Difficulty Of Reading Materials, John W. Miller

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

One issue confronting any teacher of reading is the critical problem of the "match." Placing students into an appropriate difficulty level of reading material seems to be an important antecedent of effective reading instruction. Chall and Feldman (1966) explain that teachers' abilities to select appropriate reading materials for children vary and that the accuracy of these selections has a definite effect on achievement.

Professional Concerns: Better Reading Through Parent Teaching Pools, R. Baird Shuman, Delwyn G. Schubert

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

In this contribution, Professor Schubert outlines a highly practical means for involving parents in reading instruction with youngsters. The popular press of late has drawn attention to the need for parents to become involved in helping with their children's education. Such articles as "Parents Are the Key," which appeared in U.S. News and World Report) September 12, 1977, and "How to Help Your Kids in School," which appeared in Better Homes and Gardens) November, 1977, have received considerable attention. Professional journals have also scrutinized the desirability of involving parents as much as possible as adjuncts in the learning process.

Building An Effective Remedial Reading Program For Secondary Students, Donald C. Cushenbery

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

At the present time there is much attention being given to the requirement that high school seniors must demonstrate a certain level of proficiency in basic skills before they are allowed to be graduated. Some articles which have appeared in various popular journals indicate that there may be over 25,000,000 functionally illiterate adults in this country. To the embarrassment of school officials, many of these persons possess high school diplomas and have made satisfactory grades in English, History, and other content subjects where reading skills are a necessary part of course activity.

Perceptions Of College And The Pursuit Of Liberal Education, Victor L. Worsfold

Perspectives (1969-1979)

In their recent book, Revolving College Doors,² Robert G. Cope and William Hannah have argued that "it is the fit between student and college that accounts for most of the transferring, stopping out and dropping out"³ amongst our present student body. This idea when taken to be correct, gives the lie to what is usually averred to explain the rapidly increasing phenomenon of attrition amongst those wishing to attend college, namely, financial stringency. Cope and Hannah would have us believe that "lack of money is a socially acceptable reason to discontinue attending school regardless of actual financial …

The Three R'S: Reading, Riting, And Radio!, Howard G. Ball, Sarah B. Ball

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The radio presentation is a communication vehicle that provides input to our reading programs through the use of pupil-teacher initiated audio taped presentation, commercially prepared transcriptions and through local and network originated radio broadcasts.

Reading Horizons Vol. 19, No. 2

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 19, issue 2.

Moving A Liberal Education Program From Adoption To Implementation: New Forces And New Issues, L. Jackson Newell

Perspectives (1969-1979)

At the Boston meeting of the Association of General and Liberal Studies in 1976, I had the privilege of reporting on the two-year process by which the University of Utah assessed its general education program, planned major revisions in it, and saw them adopted by the University Senate. It is now my task to report on the less glamorous, but probably more crucial, process by which a formally adopted program is implemented. The research of John Pratt and Tyrrell Burgess,¹ which has assessed major educational policy changes in Great Britain , suggests that scholars and educational policy makers generally …

Interdisciplinary Perspectives Vol. 10 No. 2 & 3

Perspectives (1969-1979)

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Yearbook, 1979-80, Wmu Faculty Senate

WMU Faculty Senate Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Aid For The School Principle: Evaluate Classroom Reading Programs, Sandra Mccormick

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Most school systems require the principal of a building to make judgments about the quality of each teacher's instructional program as part of a process of rating teachers. Since reading instruction is generally conceded to be the most important part of the elementary school curriculum, there is frequently concern for evaluation of that component of the school program.

Children's Recognition Of Words In Isolation And In Context, Patrick Groff

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The extent to which young children use, or should use sentence contexts as cues to word recognition is an unsettled issue. It is clear, on the one hand, that there are inherent limitations in this cue system to its successful use for this purpose (Groff, 1975). Also, the notion that beginning readers "have little else on which to rely" for word recognition except context cues, as offered by Karlin (1971, p. 145) has also been demonstrated as false. To the contrary, the research on word recognition suggests that these young children use letters as the main cues for word recognition …

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 6, No. 1 (January 1979)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Special Issue: Symbolic Interaction and Social Welfare

• On the Promise of Symbolic Interaction for Social Welfare - RALPH SEGALMAN - pp. 1
• Symbolic interaction and Social Practice - HARRIS CHAIKLIN - pp. 3
• Symbolic interaction and Social Work Supervision. - CARLTON E. MUNSON - pp. 8
• Symbolic Interaction and Social Assessment. - BILL HORNER - pp.19
• "Woman as symbol and social Welfare: An Interactionist Perspective. - RAYMOND L. SCHMITT & STANLEY E. GRUPP - pp.34
• Elements of the Perpetuation of Dependency in a Psychiatric Halfway House. - DAVID R. MAINES & MARILYN A. MARKOWITZ - pp.52
• The Interpretation of Child …

The Interpretation Of Child Abuse: Bureaucratic Relevance In Urban Newfoundland, Don Handelman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The disposition of suspected instances of child abuse is accomplished by bureaucratic personnel through their interpretation of the relevancies of their organizational life-world. Three such instances are discussed: these resulted respectively in an unmodified interpretation, in a modified interpretation, and in an ambiguous interpretation. Among the bureaucratic relevancies which are discussed are, the elasticity itself of the rubric of "suspicion", the affluence of the suspected, and the nature of their support network. The reification of instances of suspected abuse is found to be related, in part, to bureaucratic contingencies which themselves are connected only tangentially to the behavioral phenomenon under …

The Social Construction Of Disability, Arnold Birenbaum

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This symbolic interactionist theory examines the structure of relationships between the disabled and the nondisabled through face-to-face interaction and the formation and participation in organizations which provide specialized services. Some propositions from Randall Collin's Conflict Sociology (1975) create a framework for understanding the behavior of the disabled. Goffman's concept of career is used to examine the conditions under which various adaptive strategies are employed by the disabled to negotiate favorable definitions of self from their social communication. Finally, a symbolic interactionist explanation is outlined to account for the active and interested involvement of the nonhandicapped with the handicapped in getting …

The "Significant Other" In Marital And Family Therapy, Nathan Hurvitz

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The significant other (SO) is derived from the social behaviorism of G. H. Mead which is comparable to contemporary cognitive behaviorism. The SO is defined as an analytical concept by examining interaction in social acts; it includes attributes associated with the family member's role-reciprocity, meanings, affect, self-concept and modeling; and it is associated with concepts such as transformation, attribution and social interchange. The process by which the therapist becomes an SO to the family members individually and jointly, and how he or she utilizes transformation, attribution and social interchange are outlined.

Overskill, John F. Prendergast

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A very wise person once conjectured about the relative merits of teaching children individual sounds in isolation before allowing them to speak. Only after a child had demonstrated mastery of phonemes (sound units) could s/he be allowed to advance to morphemes (meaning units). Thought units (T units or sentences) would follow. Under such a highly structured, individualized learning program, students could easily learn to say, "I hate school," by the end of second or third grade (depending on intelligence, socio-economic status, and motivation of course).

Symbolic Interactionism And Social Assessment, Bill Horner

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Social work needs a theoretical perspective that will provide impetus to the development of its unique function: social assessment and social intervention. The images and concepts characterizing symbolic interactionism seem to have the potential of meeting this need. This paper explores the perspective with the intent of suggesting its utility for assessing and intervening in interpersonal and environmental circumstances.

"Woman" As Symbol And Social Welfare: An Interactionist Perspective, Raymond L. Schmitt, Stanley E. Grupp

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Symbolic interactionism is used to examine the variable and complex definitions now linked to the symbol "woman" in contemporary society. The implications of symbolic interactionism and the view of "woman" as symbol for social welfare are discussed in terms of knowledge, morality, and implementation.

Elements Of The Perpetuation Of Dependency In A Psychiatric Halfway House, David R. Maines, Marilyn A. Markowitz

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Halfway houses are intended as helping institutions for those who are attempting to make the transition from institutionalized mental health facilities to autonomous living in the community. In spite of the manifest goal to produce independence for its residents, however, the halfway house contributes to patterns of dependency. In addition to the network nature of mental health care, we identify three dependency-perpetuating elements: role commitments, language, and mixed messages. These elements are analyzed as both social organizational and social psychological processes, and their implications are discussed.

Western News, December 7, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Parking Bureau Has Holiday Spirit, Western Receives $70,000 National Evaluation Grant, 'News' Early Next Week, Who's Who Banquet Thursday, Joint Committees To Study Faculty Development; Salary; Work Load, Four Gerontology Awards Announced, Christmas Concert Features 'Messiah', TV Services Has Hunger Films, Ombudsman Issues Report, Plan Spring Seminar Trip To U.S.S.R.; Czechoslovakia, 'Reading Horizons' Issued

Variables Affecting The Drainage Test, Jeffrey S. Honour

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

Certain variables affecting the Canadian Standard Freeness Test were investigated. Variables investigated included the zeta potential, pH, chemical type, and concentration. Chemicals used were NaCl, CaCl, AlCl , and SnCl, 5H₂O on the acid side. Chemicals used on the alkaline side included KCl, K₂S₄ and K₂HPO_4.. pH values were 4.5, 5.5, 6.5, 7.5, 8.5, and 9.5. Concentrations used were 1 x 10^-3M, 3 x 10^-3M, 5 x 10^-3M, 7 x 10^-3M, 9 x 10^-3M, 1.1 X 10^-2M, 1.3 x …

A Computer Simulation Study Of Seven Pairwise Comparison Procedures: Imbalanced Case, Wayne S. Petroelje

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Evaluation Of The Precision Teaching Project, Jerilynn Dorow

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Acquisition Of Problem-Solving Behavior Via Precurrent Training, Diane E. Nelles

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.