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A Study Of Flow Languages, Vector Machines, Petri Nets And Convex Languages, Shyam Kishore Bajpai

Masters Theses

In this work, relations have been established among vector machines and augmented vector machines, vector machines and Petri nets, and augmented vector machines and generalized Petri nets. At each stage, number of examples are given to illustrate the theory of Petri nets, vector machines and augmented vector machines.

A Study Of Effects Of A Systematically Designed Promotional Message On The Acceptance Of Michigan Regional Educational Media Centers By Nonusers, Jaswant Singh

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of using a systematically planned and presented promotional message on increasing the number of public and private K-12 teachers who use the media services of the REMCs.

The following hypotheses were tested: (1) There will be a difference in the proportion of teachers requesting REMC media services in the experimental and control groups as a result of the use of a systematically designed promotional message. (2) There will be a difference in the mean number of media items requested by users in the experimental and control groups as a result …

A Survey Of Graduates Of A One-Year Clerical Office Block Class —1976-1981— With Recommendations For Curriculum And Course Content Revision, Audrey Lee Watson

Masters Theses

Data were collected by means of a questionnaire sent to 92 Maple Valley Office Block students who graduated in the years 1976-1981 to determine if students are adequately prepared to acquire entry-level clerical/secretarial positions and to adjust to positions in business. Sixty-five questionnaires were returned for a 70% return.

Over 70% of the respondents were employed at the time the survey was conducted. Over 90% indicated the use of keyboarding equipment on the job. Almost 60% of the respondents used shorthand or machine transcription on the job. Frequent job responsibilities included filing, business machine usaqe, telephone usage, receiving visitors, and …

The Development Of A Curriculum Model For Undergraduate Education Of Manufacturing Engineers, Mark Allen Curtis

Masters Theses

The purpose of this research was to identify course work that could be used to develop a specific unified undergraduate curriculum in manufacturing engineering technology, that both satisfies existing academic constraints and thinking, as well as industry's desire for a practical, yet highly qualified engineer.

The population surveyed was a combination of educators and industrial people with a vested interest in manufacturing engineering, from across the United States. The survey results, rating the relative importance of ninety seven different courses, were used to develop a model undergraduate curriculum in manufacturing engineering.

The findings supported the original hypothesis by showing that …

The Use Of A Job Model With Self-Recording And Performance Information As An Alternative To On-Site Supervision, Mark Kevin Forbes

Masters Theses

The action goal of the study was to reduce performance deficits of relief employees who operated a Group Home, though use of a Job Model, self-recording, and performance information. The research goal was to ascertain if generalization occurred from performance accomplishments targeted by the intervention to accomplishments not targeted. Overall performance means increased over 34 percentage points for subjects following the Job model intervention and rose further after self-recording and feedback were introduced. The use of a partial Job Model resulted in performance improving or maintaining in five of six nontargeted accomplishments. When Subject A received the Job Model, self-recording, …

Parental Foraging In Chipping Sparrows (Spizella Passerina), Dora Elisa Perez

Masters Theses

During the breeding season of 1982, the population of Chipping Sparrows ( Spizella passerina) that inhabits the Western Michigan University's campus was chosen to study the use of foliage and other foraging sites. Three pairs were selected to be observed intensively.

During the time the female is foraging and when the male is either foraging or in territorial advertisement activities both sexes choose needleleaf trees out of proportion to their availability.

It is also likely that in the later stages of caring for young, when food demands were highest, the birds become less selective and forage on needleleaf trees as …

Women And Voluntary Blood Donation, Ernie S. Lightman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This study explores the patterns of and motivations for voluntary blood donation by men and women in Toronto, Canada. Examining social systems with differently structured opportunities for altruism illustrates both the influence of the sex-role differential on altruism, and also the impact of these social structures upon sex-role behaviour.

Data are drawn from a postal questionnaire completed by a random sample of about 1,000 males and 850 females who had voluntarily donated blood in Toronto, at least once between June 1974 and February 1978.

The study finds men and women donate about equally in a voluntary system, in contrast to …

Research In The Use Of State Diagramming As A Communication, Diagnostic, And Descriptive Tool In Applied Educational Programs, Roger S. Coates

Masters Theses

State diagramming is a schematic communication tool used to present experimental designs or educationally-significant conditions in applied settings. In applied situations, public school teachers and students, and college students used state diagramming as an effective communication and diagnostic tool for educational programming. Four of five teachers showed rapid comprehension of classroom programs when the use of diagramming was compared to written narratives. College students described antecedent events present in familiar educational systems at a higher percentage of accuracy and total information presented almost doubled when diagrams were utilized. Training public school students in drawing state diagrams was initially successful. This …

An Investigation Of The Instructional Communicator Style Expectations Of Nontraditional And Traditional Male And Female Undergraduate Students, Chryl Irvine Snyder

Masters Theses

Increasing numbers of nontraditional students, many of them women, are enrolling in college and university classes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the instructional communicator style expectations of nontraditional and traditional male and female undergraduate students. Students were asked to rate their own preferences on a variety of items designed to reflect instructional communicator styles. The researcher looked for differences in student expectations of their "ideal teachers" based on age and sex.

Nontraditional students rated the precise style of instructional communication higher than the traditional students who gave higher ratings to the friendly, open, dominant, and contentious styles. …

Western News, November 24, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Board OKs $74.2 million 1982-83 operating budget, Powell is excited about computer Project EXCITE, Bronco football record the best since 1941, Page-Robin reiterates Senate position, Western has close relationship with United Way, WIDR-FM announces sports broadcast slate, Wilde is named public safety director

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting November 19, 1982, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Minutes
• Correspondence
• President's Remarks
• Academic Personnel Report
• Non-Academic Personnel Report
• Gift and Grant Report
• Recommendation re General Fund for 1982-83
• Resolution re Pooled Income Fund
• Recommendation re Facility Management Contract
• Resolution re Faculty and Staff Employees with Twenty-Five Years or More of Service
• Authorization to Confer Degrees
• Board Committee Reports
• Expanding with Computers and Information Technology Report
• Public Comments
• Adjournment

Western News, November 18, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Faculty; staff; students and emeriti have long involvement with United Way, Sadler is Intellectual Skills Development Conference luncheon speaker here on Friday, CMU-WMU exchange underway this week, WESTOPS Report keeps clientele informed, Weaver to receive high education award, Longevity checks of $355,383 to be issued Nov. 30

Western News, November 11, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Brown & Gold Day to draw 1,500 high school students; parents, JTB seeks participation to find 'best alternatives', Feirer: U has role in Michigan's recovery, Thirteen positions 'likely to be involved' in layoff considerations; talks are begun, Second 'Education Forum' to be next week, Dance Alumni Week will begin on Monday, For Western; capital-outlay bill was very positive

Western News, November 4, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Grad programs get ASHA reaccreditation, State appropriates $1.2 million for McCracken Hall, Set Intellectual Skills Development conference, Recess scheduled for end of year, Appropriations compromises for 1982-83 described, Nichols named Swickard pre-school director, Woman Researcher Conference next Friday

Western News, October 28, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: First College of Education 'Forum' is underway, Announce McKee Graduate Fellowship recipients, WMUK to begin $50,000 fund drive Sunday, OlD has student assistant awards available, On the Lansing scene; few things are predictable, Blanchard; Headlee respond to MAGB questions, Ziring: U.S. cannot prevent SW Asia change

Western News, October 21, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Goal surpassed 'Partners in Progress' total reaches more than $7.3 million, Kemp says he will leave Board of Trustees, Ehrle cites reasons for collegiate reorganization, WMU Foundation elects new officers at meeting, Violinist Zukerman to receive degree Sunday

Western News, October 14, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: CASE president to be Foundation speaker Friday, Clinic to be named for Marion Spear; OT founder, 'Our contributions essential;' Bernhard letter says, Feirer and Ziring receive Faculty Scholar Awards at convocation, Five faculty members recognized with Alumni Teaching Awards, Education is more than 'search for self' Breisach, Five granted Alumni Teaching Excellence Awards here Tuesday

The Westerner Vol. 3 No. 2, Western Michigan University

The Westerner (1980-1997)

• 'Partners in Progress' surpasses goal with 57.3 million • 'We shalI prevail,' says Bernhard • Kemp to step down from Board • Administration asked to 'consider' program cuts • Air Force coop program proves success • Feirer and Ziring are Distinguished Faculty Scholars • Ziring _cautions that U.S. dare not resist Middle East change • Distinguished Alumni Awards presented to four • Three receive McKee Graduate Research Fellowships • WMU Foundation elects new officers and directors • Computers and writing skills are inextricably tied • Organization established for EXCITE • 'Fanfares and Celebration': Dalton Center dedication lives up to …

A Summary Of Studies Related To The Effect Of Question Placement On Reading Comprehension, Katherine D. Wiesendanger, Ellen D. Birlem, John Wollenberg

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Most reading specialists would agree that the sole justification for the various decoding instruction in reading is to prepare the student for extracting meaning from the written symbol (Tinker and McCullough, 1962). The pronunciation of words without understanding their meaning is of little use to anyone. Therefore, the development of the processes by which meanings become associated with symbols must be provided for in any reading program (Bond & Tinker, 1973). According to Strang (1969), the mature reader must not only understand the literal meaning of a passage, but also interpret the author's statements, make critical judgments, inferences and evaluations, …

What To Do Until The Readiness Workbooks Arrive!, Patricia Cunningham, James W. Cunningham

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

On a brisk October morning, Ms. Kind arrived at school early. "Are those readiness workbooks here, yet?" she asked Ms. Leeder, the principal. "Not yet," Ms. Leeder replied, "but they should be here any day now." "I hope so," responded Ms. Kind. "This morning I noticed how much the leaves have turned. The school year is moving right along. Since the school system's goal this year is to have all children ready to begin reading instruction by the time they complete kindergarten, and my children have such a long way to go, I had better get started soon." "Well, they're …

Pattern Books: An Activity For Beginning Reading Instruction, Elaine G. Wangberg

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The Pattern Book activity to be described can provide a means of introducing and reinforcing high frequency vocabulary within a Language Experience Approach. With this activity the teacher selects a high frequency word (or a few words) which a small group of students or an individual student does not know. These words may come from the students' self-selection, from student' dictation, from a word list or from a basal pre-primer. The teacher then thinks of a common pattern in which the word(s) might appear.

Reading Horizons Vol. 23, No. 1

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 23, issue 1.

Direct Instruction Of Comprehension: What Does It Really Mean?, Gerald G. Duffy, Laura R. Roehler

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

There is little to debate regarding the validity of findings which suggest that instruction focusing directly on the task of learning to comprehend will result in greater and more consistent achievement than incidental, spontaneous and/or oblique instruction. Within this framework, however, the term "direct instruction" can mask a multitude of qualitatively divergent classroom styles. To illustrate, we will briefly describe a study in which two second grade teachers. each reflecting the characteristics associated with direct instruction. provided noticeably different kinds or reading and language arts instruction for their students. With this study as a basis, we will then offer some …

The Language Experience Approach: A Transition From Oral To Written Language, Don Richgels

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A language experience approach to the teaching of beginning reading makes use of the valuable resource of children's speaking ability. But more importantly, it also cultivates metalinguistic ability and eases the child's transition between two very different forms of language, utterance and text.

Western News, September 23, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

'No clear picture' on CIT; PIA compensation-JTB, Grotzinger named acting director of librarianship, Weaver among those granted emeritus status, Curriculum: Hinge pin of academic economy, Greco- Roman sport talk, Violinist Zukerman to get honorary degree, MPSERS pre-retirement meetings set

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting September 17, 1982, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Minutes
• Correspondence
• President's Remarks
• Board Committee Appointment
• Academic Personnel Report
• Non-Academic Personnel Report
• Gift and Grant Reports
• Recommendation re Gas Main Easement
• Recommendation re Purchase of Land
• Recommendation re Michigan Association of Governing Boards Assessment - Establishment of a Lansing Central Office
• Recommendation re Honorary Doctorate
• Resolution re Trustee Emerita Mildred L. Johnson
• Board Committee Reports
• Public Comments
• Adjournment

Western News, September 16, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Cooperative program with Air Force is a success, Faculty; staff members are invited to Bronco events, Campus has new sense of importance of priorities, Status of Women Commission reception, Hess named as new head women's basketball coach, Future of Lebanon to be discussed today, Conference on nuclear war will be Monday

Western News, September 2, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Dalton Center dedication events set for Oct. 1 and 2, Werme appointment; Kresge grant among top stories, Programs reflect student; social needs assessment, Campus urged to conserve on electricity; especially during early part of September, Tours available of Dorothy U. Dalton Center, Werme appointment; Kresge grant top stories

Western News, August 19, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Kresge Foundation awards $100,000 challenge grant for Fetzer, Summer 'Flextime' hours will end Friday, Employment Office offers help in placing ads, Libraries to have limited hours for 'break', Student Center hours limited until Sept. 1

Western News, August 12, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: 1,655 will receive degrees on Aug. 20; Lake to be honored, Work to begin on Tate Center this fall, Department of Geology presents groundwater atlas to Gov. Milliken, Emeriti invited to attend commencement, Final summer edition of News is next Thursday