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Reading Horizons Vol. 21, No. 4

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 21, issue 4.

Flexibility: A Key Element For Reading And Study Skills Specialists, Mark E. Thompson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The term flexibility is difficult to define. A person's definition of flexibility, like many other concepts, depends on a particular orientation or perspective of the world. If flexibility means adapting to change, then most people are flexible in some way. Through science we have developed technology, and our technology forces us to be flexible. About 97% of all the scientists who have ever lived are alive now, and they produce many changes (Toynbee, 1971). Our knowledge of the world is expanding at an incredible speed. Fourteen years ago George Arnstein said our scientific knowledge doubles approximately every eight years (Arnstein, …

Western News, June 22, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Board approves increases in tuition and fees; effective this fall, Brown appointed Public Safety captain, Inflation causes student health fee hike, Grants of $222,550, gifts of $198,542 are received in May

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting June 19, 1981, 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
• Western Michigan University Board of Trustees Meeting Dates for 1981/82
• Student Vehicle Registration Rates
• Amendment to the Parking, Traffic and Pedestrian Ordinance
• Resolution re Continuation of Budget for 1981/82
• Revision of 1980/81 Budget
• Resolution re Building Maintenance and Repair Projects
• Student Health Maintenance Fee
• Increase in User Fees for Health Center
• Tuition Rates
• Bronco Transit Rates
• Revision to Fine Arts Building Lease
• Mission Statement
• Archives Report
• Public Comments
• Adjournment

Bulletin: Western Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog 1981-1983, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Course Catalogs (1904-present)

• University Calendar • Accreditation • Councils • Admission, Registration, Advising • Degrees • Degree Requirements • General Education Requirement • Student Planned Curriculum • Undergraduate Curricula and • Approved Majors • Major and Minor Requirements • Teacher Certification • Student Fees • Academic Regulations • Student Academic Rights: Policies and Procedures • Student Services • Student Financial Aid and Scholarships • Miscellaneous Information • The Honors College • Librarianship • College of Applied Sciences • College of Arts and Sciences • College of Business • College of Education • College of Fine Arts • College of General Studies • …

The Westerner Vol. 1 No. 7, Western Michigan University

The Westerner (1980-1997)

• $271,650 grant from Kellogg Foundation received for 'Partners in Progress’ • Graduate business programs accredited • Feldpausch: a retrospective of an Alaskan canoe trip. • Two win Guggenheim fellowships • Music Therapy Clinic provides valuable experience for students • Reading resource center for the blind equipped • Sports • Among Alumni • Profile • Alumnotes

Western News, May 21, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Office of Faculty Development will assist faculty reassess careers, Bronco win first Reese Cup since 1962, Hargreave head Environmental Studies, Three options available for telephone directory listings, Trumpet Guild will present free concert, Allene Dietrich honored at NOW meeting

Western News, May 18, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: College of Business graduate programs get full AACSB accreditation, Tarakiewicz to be head of Upward Bound, Trustees accept $363,342 in gifts and grants for month of April, Willis named director of center in CHHS

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting May 15, 1981, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Minutes
• Correspondence
• President's Remarks
• Academic Personnel Report
• Gift and Grant Report
• Sale of Land
• Resolution re Lobbying Regulations
• Special Citation - Ambassador Yong Shik Kim, Republic of Korea
• Closed Session on Litigation
• Board Committee Reports
• Public Comments
• Adjournment

Western News, May 7, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Western gets $271,650 grant from Kellogg Foundation for 'Partners', Medieval scholars on campus today, Board grants Brown emeritus status, Beaudoin appointed Career English head, Softball team goes to MAIAW tournament, Bronco go for MAC baseball crown

Western News, April 9, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Mallinson to receive Distinguished Service Award, NCA team recommends continuing accreditation, Wonderling named to head athletics division, Expert on deafness to speak here Monday, Observance Tuesday for Atlanta children, Ehrle; Bennett urge faculty cooperation on implementation of final-exam policy, Gwen Frostic will speak in classes here today

Western News, April 2, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Teaching program in Greece by U and KVCC, Friday-Saturday symposium on Poland; E. Europe, B. F. Skinner to speak here today, Triton College president to speak here, February grants; gifts to U total $345,992, Scott sends poetic satire to Ann Landers

The Westerner Vol. 1 No. 6, Western Michigan University

The Westerner (1980-1997)

• University faces 'financial siege,' Bernhard says • Wonderling hired as new athletic director • Women cadets trade blue jeans for fatigues • Mallinson to receive service award • EDAM project focuses on drama's roots • Resolution approved on South Africa • Bernhard warns about anti-intellectual coalition • Kalamazoo County vegetation map produced at WMU • In a few words ... • 'You've got to have a dream after middle age,' observes SCOPE grad • Patent awarded for stall-margin device • Fetzer helps University apply for television station • Sports • Among Alumni • Alumnotes • Alumna's play is produced …

The Role Of Cationic Polymers In Water Removal On A Paper Machine, Paul T. Miller

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

Cationic polymers have often been termed as both retention and/or drainage aids. A distinction was made between these two terms. Essentially drainage aids should be viewed as dewatering aids and retention aids should be viewed as those polymers that give superior retention. These effects may be interrelated, therefore the dominant characteristic should be used to classify these polymers. There have been many claimed benefits associated with the use of these cationic polymers in stock furnishes. The author felt that claimed dewatering benefits were mostly a matter of conjecture and contradictions existed. Therefore a pilot. paper machine study was designed to …

The Effects Of Cationic Valence On Wash Deinking Of Newsprint, Lawrence E. Mcenroe

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

The effects of cationic valence were tested against final pulp brightness in the wash deinking process on newsprint. The electrolytes used were AlCl₃,CaCl₂ and NaCl. The concentrations were varied from 8.32 x 10^-4 M to 100 times that amount on all three electrolytes. The effects were studied on the wash water and the cooking liquor seperately, using deionized water as a control run. It was found that there was a noticeable loss of brightness even at the lowest level of electrolyte addition in both the wash water trials and the cooking liquor trials. The effect was …

Teaching Reading Flexibility In The Content Areas, Judythe P. Patberg, Janell B. Lange

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Two problems existing in secondary classrooms warrant the teaching of reading flexibility. The first is the problem of students being required to read extensively in many of their classes. In order to meet this requirement, they must accomplish their reading assignments efficiently in these subject areas. This, in turn, demands that they be flexible readers who can read rapidly when such speed is appropriate and slowly and carefully when a slow and careful rate is demanded.

Component Analysis Of Hutchings' Low-Stress Addition Algorithm, Daniel V. Mccallum

Masters Theses

An A-B-A-C counterbalanced reversal design was used with two groups to analyze the two components of Hutching's Low-Stress addition algorithm. Fourth grade students achieving 96% accuracy on a pretest of basic math facts were subjects of this study. Subjects were taught two new methods of computation; Hutchings' Low-Stress and the Conventional algorithm with a written record, along with reviewing the Conventional algorithm. Students were given worksheets containing fixed size addition problems and asked to complete as many as possible with a five-minute times session. Accuracy and speed were monitored across the three methods of computation. The results showed superior performance …

Goals And Objectives For Teaching Science In The Junior High Schools Of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Gary W. Wester

Dissertations

The purpose of this research study was to determine the similarities and disparities among the expected learning outcomes of three sets of performance objectives for science education: (1) the teacher-written science objectives of the Goals-Objectives-Test (GOT) Program for the seventh, eight, and ninth grades in the Kalamazoo Public School System; (2) the objectives prepared by the Department of Research and Development of the Kalamazoo Public School System from test items on Test 8: Science of the Metropolitan Achievement Tests (MAT) - Advanced Forms; and (3) the science objectives of the Michigan Department of Education (MDOE) for grades 7-9.

The methodology …

Developmental Counseling And Psychotherapy: Applying The Theories Of Piaget, Perry, Kohlberg And Erikson, Toni Perior Gross

Dissertations

While developmental theories have been used as a diagnostic tool in counseling adults, they do not seem to have been used as a basis for treatment. The author reviews the theories of Piaget, Kohlberg, Perry and Erikson and abstracts from them a series of basic statements and corollaries that form the core of a theory of developmental counseling and psychotherapy.

With these statements as a background, the author discusses the persons involved in therapy, the purposes of therapy, and the stages of therapy. In the considerations on the initial stage of therapy, emphasis is placed on the responsibility of the …

Storm-Sewer Input Of Heavy Metals Into An Urban Lake Environment, George A. Duba

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to measure the concentration of lead, cadmium, zinc and copper in runoff entering an urban lake ecosystem and to measure the distribution of these metals in selected tropic levels of the lake.

Fisk Lake was chosen as the study site and is located in East Grand Rapids, Michigan. Samples were collected of stormwater, rainwater and lakewater together with substrate, aquatic macrophytes Peltandra virginica, chironomid larvae, Chironomidae, snails Physa, and eight species of fish, Ictalurus nebulosus, Esox lucius, Lepomis gibbosus, L. macrochirus, Pomoxis nigromaculatus, Micropterus salmoides, Catostomus commersoni, and Perca flavescens. All samples were collected …

Liberalism And The Austrian School Of Economics, Gilbert Mason Scott

Masters Theses

This thesis examines the political philosophy and impact of an important group of European economists known as the Austrian School. This group includes such notables as Eugen Von Boehra-Bawerk, Ludwig Von Mises, and Friederich Havek.

The thesis first seeks to identify the role of the Austrian School within the liberal tradition, chiefly as a "conservative force" seeking -to defend the liberal tradition of Locke and Smith.

Secondly, the thesis seeks to examine the Impact of the Austrian School on American politics, specifically upon the growth of the American right. The thesis focuses on the impact of the Austrian School upon …

A Comparison Of Concurrent And Removed Component Procedures For Teaching Toothbrushing Skills To Preschoolers, Timothy Ian Mckinley

Masters Theses

The study compared the use of a removed component program to a concurrent training program in teaching toothbrushing skills to preschool children. The removed component program separated three response components from the terminal toothbrushing response and taught them separately out-of-the mouth before requiring them in the mouth. The concurrent training program required the three response components but did not train them separately in or out of the mouth. The removed component program taught the skills faster than or equal to the concurrent program, with a significantly higher percentage of correct responses.

The Menu Formation In A Computerized Nutrition System, Kathleen Ann Kostrzewa

Masters Theses

The creation of a diet is a complex process which involves analysis of a number of critical variables. Due to present technology, computers can be used effectively in menu planning and recipe analysis.

The objective of this study is the utilization of the computer to test the major criteria which must be met in order to produce a diet which meets nutritional, cost, and acceptability requirements. In this thesis, the design and implementation of a computerized menu planning system known as the Nutritional Data Base System is presented.

The Effects Of Hutchings’ Low Stress Addition And Subtraction Algorithms On The Accuracy And Rate Of Problem Solving With Low Performing Math Students, Stephen Edgar Hadden

Masters Theses

The accuracy and rate of problem solving using Hutchings' low stress addition and subtraction algorithms was investigated using four, fourth-grade low performers. Two multiple baseline designs were used, (one for addition and one for subtraction) where subjects were required to work addition and subtraction problems using the conventional method during Baseline. As Baseline for each subject stabilized, a brief training program was implemented using Hutchings' low stress addition or subtraction algorithm. Following training, subjects were required to work the addition and subtraction problems using the new algorithm. Probes were administered before and after training to measure knowledge of place value …

A Comparison Of Speed And Accuracy In Addition Calculation For High And Low Achieving Math Students Using The Calculator, Conventional Algorithm And The Hutchings' “Low Stress Algorithm”, Edward S. Drew

Masters Theses

This study was an attempt to compare the differential calculation power (speed plus accuracy) with addition for the conventional algorithm as compared with the Hutchings' low stress algorithm as compared to hand held calculators for high and low achievers with two levels of difficulty. Also, it is a systematic replication of Zoref's (1976) previous research. The subjects were eight third grade students, four male and four female, approximately nine years old. A multielement baseline design was used varying type calculation method within sessions and level of difficulty across sessions. The Hutchings' "low stress" algorithm produced markedly better results in correct …

U-Pb Systematics And Ages Of Rocks From The Zone Of Cataclasis, Bitterroot Dome, Southwestern Montana, Edward Charles Arruda

Masters Theses

The eastern flank of the Bitterroot range, western Montana, consists of a 100 km-long zone of cataclasis which dips to the east. Zircons in sheared granitic plutons from three localities within this zone were dated using U-Pb methods. These zircons, which consist of anhedral cores and euhedral overgrowths, yield concordia lower-intercept ages of 48-52 million years before the present, dates which likely represent crystallization ages of the plutons. Shearing which affected these plutons, therefore, is significantly younger than the 72-76 million year age assigned for eastward movement of the Sapphire tectonic block whose detachment zone has been interpreted as the …

A Comparison Of The Hutchings' “Low-Stress", Fulkerson "Full-Record" And Conventional Addition Algorithms For Speed, Accuracy And Preference With Regular Education Students, John Robert Vanhevel

Masters Theses

The differential calculation power (speed and accuracy) of three different addition procedures were investigated using the Hutchings " Low-stress", Fulkerson "Full-record" and conventional algorithms. The subjects were nine fourth grade students, five female and four male, approximately ten years of age. Elements of both multiple baseline and reversal designs were employed, varying the type of calculation method across phases. After exposure to each algorithm, students were given a choice of methods to use in solving a problem. Results indicated that both the Hutchings "Low-stress" and Fulkerson "Full-record" algorithms were generally superior in producing stable, accurate and efficient calculations. When given …

A Comparison Of Calculation Speed And Accuracy On Two Levels Of Problem Difficulty Using The Conventional And Hutchings’ "Low Stress" Subtraction Algorithms And The Pocket Calculator, Margaret T. Mcglinchey

Masters Theses

This study involved a comparison of three different calculation procedures for solving two different sizes of subtraction problems. A multi-element baseline design was used with three subjects: 2 females and 1 male, whose ages were 9.6, 24, and 8.1, respectively. The calculation procedures were varied randomly within, sessions, and the problem sizes varied randomly across sessions. Dependent measures included rate correct, rate incorrect, and percent accuracy. For all subjects, the conventional algorithm was the fastest calculation procedure. Accuracy data were not as consistent, since they varied across subjects and problem array sizes. Future research in this area might involve larger …

Western News, March 19, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Bernhard warns about anti-intellectual coalition, NCA evaluation team to be here next week, Nobel laureate Simon to speak here next Thursday, Deadline Friday for service award names, Deadline Wednesday in search for heads of skills development; public service, Nearly 60 high schools to be represented next week, SW Michigan Vocal Festival is next Thursday

Western News, April 16, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Bernhard decries violence in observance Tuesday for Atlanta children, Dybek; Zupko get prestigious Guggenheim awards, Campus Planning Council seeks reaction to report of U Transportation Committee, Faculty and students had MASAL roles, Student art competition winners named, Elderhostels offered here in June, Stevens designated to investigate cases of alleged sexual harassment of students, Kilty will speak at July international conference