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A Comparison Of The Hutchings "Low-Stress”, Fulkerson Tens Method, And Conventional Addition Algorithms For Speed, Accuracy And Preference With Regular Education Students, Gregory N. Vaughan

Masters Theses

The differential calculation power (rate and accuracy) of three separate procedures for addition was investigated. The Hutchings' "low-stress", Fulkerson tens method. and conventional algorithms were compared on 5x7 array addition problems. The subjects were six male first semester third grade students approximately eight and one half years of age. A multielement design was used in which the three algorithms composed the multiple elements. During the last three daily sessions the students were given free choice of algorithms to use. The results indicated that the Hutchings "Low-stress" algorithm was superior to the Fulkerson tens method, which in turn was superior to …

Relationships In Organizations Between Leaders' Personality Characteristics And Their Hierarchical Levels And Role Foci, Loretta Church

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine whether leaders' personality characteristics were related to the hierarchical level and the focus of their roles in organizations. Leaders from two industrial plants of two Fortune 500 corporations were selected for the investigation. They comprised a total population of persons responsible for making decisions concerning the use of data, people, or things within the organizations.

Data were collected employing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Functional Job Analysis Self-Report (FJASR). The MBTI instrument identified personality characteristics in terms of two paired and opposite preferences for (1) sensing or intuition, and (2) …

Western News, March 25, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Arthur Goldberg will speak here Monday, 500 voice opposition to proposed student-aid cuts, Zupko to; receive award on May 19; 500 voice opposition to proposed student-aid cuts, MASAL to meet Friday; Saturday at Student Center, Applied Science open house will begin Friday, Mildred Johnson resigns from Board, Training offers series on labor relations

Western News, March 18, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Milliken seeks support for recovery plans, 'Reaganomics' theme of Whitney Young conference, Applied Sciences open house to feature historic fashion show; other events, Griffeth named counseling; personnel chair, Panel discussion on Poland next Thursday, 10 from WMU to visit Ball State next week, January gifts; grants total is $328,000

Western News, March 11, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: WSA to sponsor rally on aid next Wednesday, Proposed federal cuts in student aid 'devastating', Harkenrider to be in USC to answer aid questions, Board approves three administrative appointments, International Travel Night is Tuesday, Report is published on University layoff policies, WMU has programs better than IRAs-Kelley, Employees named to Evaluation Committee

Developing A Computer Model And Its Application In Evaluating Forward Cleaner Sequences, Diane M. Krumwiede

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

The objection of this work was to establish a useable format for developing an idea into a working model and to verify that format by example.

The format is outlined as follows:

Establish a need

Set Objectives/Criteria

Synthesis

Analysis

Selection

Decision/Action

Communication

The example used to verify the format was a comparison of various forward cleaner sequences to determine if an improvement could be made over the current cascade system. After completion of the model format, it was determined that an alpha/alpha cleaning system would prove more cost effective than a cascade system if it was run at feed consistencies …

Western News, February 25, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Board notes WMU's 25th anniversary as university, U libraries hours for spring recess are set, Board names Fine Arts Building for Dorothy Dalton, OCR finds Western in Title IX compliance in non-athletics areas; Bernhard reports, Susan Hannah promoted to associate dean, Board grants emeriti status to four staff members, Kenneth F. Simon dies Monday at 58, Student Center schedule for break announced

Western News, February 18, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: University has major role in unique Milwood Project, Faculty Senate opposes cuts in student-aid programs, Improvements in fringe-benefits package are announced; to be effective Monday; March 1, WMUK has 'Black History Month' programs, Grant to help U stimulate music interest

Western News, February 11, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Remaining Black History Month schedule set, Three employees die in unrelated events, 19 appeal meetings scheduled in University Priorities Project, First showing of DIC 'future city' film is Feb. 18, Continue Black History Month film schedules, Premiere of Curtis-Smith music is Tuesday, WMUK schedules Black History Month shows, Valentines galore will be available this weekend

Western News, February 4, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Workshop themes for Leadership Conference, Western; OCR complete plans for athletics review, Intellectual skills development: Concern for quality, Handicappers Awareness Week schedule set, December gifts; grants total was $256,000, Massey Tapes are to be shown next Thursday

The Westerner Vol. 2 No. 4, Western Michigan University

The Westerner (1980-1997)

• Governor proposes payments delay • Homemade seismograph records January earthquake • 78 activities may be modified • Kemp, Edwards elected Board chairman, vice chair • Annual fund tops 52 million in 1981 • Kalamazoo book's first printing sold out • Dwindling supply of students poses recruitment challenge • Mallinsons honored as science editors • Among Alumni • Alumninotes • Sports

Western News, January 28, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Milliken proposes payments delay for July; August and September, National Waterlift gives $50,000 to Western, Board names Stillwell assistant dean of fine arts, Barton of physical plant granted retirement, Workshops and presentations on intellectual skills development set for Feb. 11-12; 19

Western News, January 21, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Kemp; Edwards elected Board chairman; vice chair, '78 activities are recommended for termination here, Bernhard recommends no further action on issues relating to South Africa for now, Gives safety tips on walking in icy areas, Parfet thanks colleagues for their support, Martin Luther King Program dinner Friday

Western News, January 14, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Faculty; staff reception is Friday in USC, Gifts and grants total $1.4 million for November, Wood' named' full-time director of WESTOPS; many requests received, Houser gets grant to study acid rain, Expanded 'Thursday Night Live' is tonight, Ziring book examines three.key Middle East countries in detail

Western News, January 7, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: U employees United Way pledges up 9.6 percent, All Eligible C/T employees urged to vote in election, U to begin Employee Recognition Program, Brail and Vermeulen granted retirement as emeriti, Miller; Rossi re-elected to AAUP leadership posts

University Employee Service Recognition Program 1982, Western Michigan University

25 Year Club

• 25 Year Club
• Five-Nine Years of Service
• Ten-Fourteen Years of Service
• Fifteen-Nineteen Years of Service
• Twenty-Twenty-Four Years of Service

1982 Brown & Gold Western Michigan University, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Yearbooks (1906-1985)

• Pictures across campus
• Pictures of Seniors

Faculty Senate Yearbook, 1982-83, Wmu Faculty Senate

WMU Faculty Senate Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting December 18, 1981, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Minutes
• Correspondence
• Remarks by the President
• Academic Personnel Report
• Non-Academic Personnel Report
• Gift and Grant Report
• Western Student Association Constitution
• Executive Session on Litigation
• Board Committee Reports
• Research/Sponsored Programs Report
• Public Comments
• Adjournment

Western News, December 17, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Nearly 1,370 to be graduated in Saturday exercises, U to help explore means for area graduate nursing, First blind recipient of psychology M.A., Individual Retirement Accounts offer U employees tax-deferred income opportunities, Harbaugh says he has goal-oriented grid philosophy

Western News, December 10, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: All U must aid in student recruiting: Clarkson, 'Summerflex' to be implemented; beginning in May, 45 degree programs to be replaced; phased out or dropped at public institutions by '82-83, Shortage of teachers is seen by 1986 in U.S., Art; mathematics confab is today and Friday

Western News, December 3, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Massie; Schmitt book on Kalamazoo available here, Western; Ball State faculty exchange is Dec. 9-11, Management introduction seminar is Tuesday, School of Music Christmas concert is Sunday, Gilda Greenberg says symphonies prejudiced

Reading Horizons Vol. 22, No. 2

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 22, issue 2.

Graphing As A Reading Skill, Don Deresz, Grover C. Mattewson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The science curriculum contains built-in opportunities for the teaching of reading skills. Using graphs is a skill that is necessary for children to gain information from their reading (Silvarcli and Wheelock, 1980). Science instruction can guide children to comprehend information from their reading by teaching them to read and infer from graphs. Lucas and Burlando (1975) stated that scientific experiences "are designed so that the student will be asked to define problems, locate information, organize data into graphic form, evaluate findings and draw conclusions.

Geology Newsletter- 1981, Department Of Geology

Geological and Environmental Sciences News

Vol. 1 No. 6

• Dear Alumni and Friends
• Faculty News
• Alumni News
• Geology Club News

Petrology Of Fluvial And Shoreline Sands In A Modern Arc-Trench Gap, Guatemala, James Robert Bartel

Masters Theses

Petrographic studies of modern sands, derived from areas with known source rocks, climate, relief, environments of deposition, and tectonic setting, are essential for compiling compositional models for ancient sandstones. The Pacific coastal plain of Guatemala is terminated 25-60 km inland by the steep slopes of a row of active Quaternary volcanic and granitic rocks.

Sands being deposited on the coastal plain by the Rio Nahulate, which drains the older volcanic and granitic terrane, show significant compositional differences with those supplied by the Rio Samala, which drains an area dominated by active volcanism: Q₉F₃₅L₅₆ vs. Q …

Structural Analysis Of Precambrian Metasedimentary Rocks Of The Swede Gulch Formation, Nahant, South Dakota, Richard G. Cookman

Masters Theses

Precambrian X tectonites deformed between thermal domes in the northern Black Hills 1.7 B.Y.B.P. display variably trending isoclinal folds cross-cut by southeast trending slip-folds developed in discrete shear zones. Eugeosynclinal sedimentary rocks consisting of shale, quartzarenite , sublitharenite, and graywacke were metamorphosed to phyllite, quartzite, and metagraywacke during two syntectonic phases and one post-tectonic phase. The earliest syntectonic metamorphism was associated with development of isoclinal folds and may have produced amphibolite or greenschist facies. It was succeeded by retrograde metamorphism of greenschist facies syntectonic with and post-tectonic to development of southeast trending folds.

Mica, chlorite, iron oxides, and graphite are …

The Applicability Of The "Best Books For Young Adults" List As A Book Selection Tool In Public High Schools In A Three County Area, Ricki Hemenway Chowning

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study is to gather statistical evidence to determine attitudes toward the "Best Books for Young Adults" booklist as a positive selection tool for book selectors in public high schools in a three county area. The survey method was used to investigate attitudes towards the list and specific collection holdings of titles recommended by the "Best Books for Young Adults." Data were collected through questionnaires to book selectors in twenty-five high schools in Kent, Muskegon and Ottawa counties. Results of the survey indicate that book selectors are ambivalent toward the list, and that selection patterns correlated slightly …

A Diagnostic-Teaching Investigation Of The Feasibility Of Using The Hutchings' “Low-Stress" Algorithm For Addition Skill Development In Trainable Mentally Impaired Pupils, Joann Bankston Mckay

Masters Theses

The feasibility of using the Hutchings' "Low-Stress" algorithm for the development of addition skills in trainable mentally impaired pupils was investigated in this exploratory diagnostic study. The four subjects were identified as trainable mentally impaired pupils (IQ 44-63), three females and one male, between eighteen and twenty years of age. Results indicate increased power with counting and numeral recognition. Results from "Low-Stress" training phases indicate an increasing trend in binary accuracy and rate. Diagnosis of error patterns resulted in adjustments in teaching strategies. Results support the feasibility of "Low-Stress" algorithm for addition skill development in trainable mentally impaired pupils with …

An Analysis Of Nitrate Concentrations In The Ground-Water Of Antwerp Township, Van Buren County, Michigan, John Emil Klanke

Masters Theses

Private wells were tested for nitrate during the spring of 1979 throughout sections of Antwerp Township, Van Buren County, southwestern Michigan (sections 1-5, 7-22, 24-26, 28-31, 33-36). Water samples were collected from 159 private wells and analyzed for nitrate. Nitrate concentrations ranged from less than 1 mg/1 NO₃-N to 14.6 mg/1 NO₃-N. Seven wells were found to have nitrate concentrations equaling or exceeding the National Interim Primary Drinking Water Standard of 10 mg/1 NO₃-N. Nitrate concentrations were related to age of septic system, well depth below static water level, land use, and soil type. …