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Retirement Dinner Dialogue 1979, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

Retirement Dinner Dialogue

1979

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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).

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.

We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

no abstract available.

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 …

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 …

Some Thoughts On Interdisciplinary Studies, Sidney F. Parham, Peter W. Graham

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The vogue for interdisciplinary courses has led our more crusty and conservative colleagues to complain that such programs represent a mere repackaging of traditional courses, a process that diminishes the value the student receives from traditional courses without broadening or integrating his knowledge. Too often this criticism is just. We should like to argue that a genuinely interdisciplinary approach does not repackage but restructures knowledge in such a way that students are led to consider the nature of knowledge itself and thus, we hope, to think about their own thinking. Such reflection seems to us a decidedly traditional goal of …

Lifelong Learning And The World Of Work, Ivan Charner

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This editorial answers three basic questions about the relief education program. Why the program is important?, how the program operates? and who participates in the program? A similar editorial could be written today about the growing number of learning opportunities available to workers and the growing number of participants in such programs. This essay represents such an effort. Although in more breadth and in more detail than the 1933 editorial, I will focus on the same basic questions. First, why should lifelong learning for workers be advanced? Second, how have opportunities for learning been made available to working adults? and …

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.

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 …

Minimal Competencies In Reading For Secondary Content Teachers, Michael Strange, Richard Allington

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

In discussions among secondary reading teachers you are almost sure to hear the statement that every teacher should be a teacher of reading. This is a recurrent theme of reading conferences and the vigor with which an author espouses this end is one of the criteria by which secondary reading texts are judged. On paper or as a conference theme this is a wonderful concept. In reality though it seems at best difficult to achieve and at worst represents tremendous naivete on the part of reading educators.

An Empirical Study Of The Symbolic And Objective World Of The Preschool Child: A New Methodology And Some Preliminary Findings, Don W. Malon, Roy Ruckdeschel

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper discusses the division within symbolic interactionism today into the Iowa and Chicago Schools. Taking the position that the differences are potentially reconcilable, the authors present a study which demonstrates some methodological extensions of the positivistic Iowa School in conjunction with some of the insights of Blumer's phenomenological Chicago School. The research employed a quasi-experimental design, the aim of which was to investigate the relationship between cognitive organization of behavior and conditions of age and educational program. Subjects were 117 three and four year old children observed naturalistically in three preschool programs: a Montessori Class, a Parent-Child Center, and …

Wmu Board Of Trustee Minutes 1979, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• MEMBERS AND OFFICERS OF THE BOARD
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• MINUTES
  • January 19
  • February 16
  • March 16
  • April 20
  • May 18
  • June 15
  • July 20
  • September 21
  • October 19
  • November 16
  • December 21
• APPENDIX A - HONORARY DEGREES
  • DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARDS
• APPENDIX B - WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY GRADUATES
  • April 21, 1979
  • June 23, 1979
  • August 18, 1979
  • December 22, 1979
• INDEX

Western News, December 12, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Plan Fire Alarm Tests, Commencement Here Saturday, Parking Bureau Has Holiday Spirit, Health Center Announces Hours, Skelton Adds Second Show, Ziring Edits; Co-Authors Book, Spring Trip to Britain Set, Three Business Students Cited, Organizational Communications Program Set

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

Predicting Success In Mathematics For Underprepared Community College Students, Nancy Hoffius Taylor

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Lithic Assemblage Of The Hacklander Site, Allegan County, Michigan, Jerrel H. Sorensen

Masters Theses

Introduction

Orientation

In A History of American Archaeology Willey and Sabloff (1974) outline the development of archaeological method and theory in the Western Hemisphere. The authors defined 5 periods through which they traced advances in archaeology from the time Europe first discovered the New World. Each other these periods is characterized by certain attitudes and orientations toward archaeological data. Old ideas changed as new information, new tools of discovery, and new ways of interpretation and explanation transformed archaeology into what it is today.

Archaeologists are now in the Explanatory Period (Willey and Sabloff 1974:178). This period's theoretical orientation can be …

A Report Of An Internship In Public Relations At Western Michigan University, John G. Dezek

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Relative Contribution Of Perceived Parental, Science Teacher, And Best Friend Evaluations Of Science Ability On The Self Concept Of Science Ability Held By Eighth Grade Females, Virginia Kemp Fish

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study Following-Up On Master's Degree Graduates In The Department Of Communication Arts And Sciences At Western Michigan University, David Louis Lau

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Structured Versus Unstructured Instruction On The Generalization Of Language Concepts In The Preschool Child, Cheryl A. Milford

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Rapture In The Spirituality Of St. Thomas Aquinas, Diane L. Harwood

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Western News, November 30, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Ford Execulive To Discuss ·Engineering, Math, Computer Science 'Team Effort', Poetry Duals; Readings Here, Noam Chomsky Visits Tuesday, Indian Aging Talk Today, Mortar Board To Seek Student Input on Liberal Ed. Report, Carlson Given Two-Awards, Carlson Given Two-Awards, Southern Africa Scholar Visits Here, Bernhard To Head AASCU, White House Asks Bernhard To Meeting, University's Third Distinguished Professor Is Charles T. Brown, Hoy Resigns; Name Brinn Interim Athletic Director; Conference Underway on 'Psychological Reactions to Disabilities' Here

Western News, November 16, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Junior High Students Visit, Dedicate Student Services Building, Electrostatics Program Monday, Who Killed Jack Kennedy?, Who's Who Selects 45 Students, Cite Lowrie Among State's Top Women, Police Promotions Announced, French Historian To Visit Here, Hunger Week Programs Today, Western Hosts Central on TV, Allen Memorial Services Today

Western News, November 9, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: University Nears United Way Goal, International Travel/Study Night Set, Great-Lakes Specialist Here, Medieval Publication Released, Storyteller Gives Talk, UT Costumes; Play Nominated, Accounting Control Expert To Visit, Concert To Honor Franz Schubert, 'Sound of Music' Is Coming, Ferris Skates Here Friday, Harriers in NCAA Qualifying Meet

Western News, November 2, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: New Freshmen; Transfers Visit, Flu Shots Available, Student Affairs Administrators Meet, Mechanics Teachers Meet on Campus, Aboriginal Australia Is Lecture Topic, ERA Workshop Here Saturday, Energy Lecture Time Changed, Name Paper Foundation Officers, Hite Report Author Visits Here Nov. 14, State Field Hockey Here, Hockey Broncos Open at Home