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Generalization Of Behavior Modification Skills Acquired Through Observation Training Procedures, Thomas E. Mccarthy

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Learner Verification And Revision Of A Linear Programmed Text, Frank J. Schwartz

Masters Theses

A field testing procedure was implemented using a programmed text with two high school introductory business classes. The text attempted to teach concepts related to the stockmarket. Pretest and post test measures were taken for each class. After the first class was used the text, the program was revised based upon post test data. The criterion for whether or not to revise a frame sequence teaching an objective was 11% of the students failing the post test item testing that objective. The revised program was used by the second class. Comparisons were made between post tests. Twenty-eight of a possible …

Music As An Educational Tool To Reinforce Schoolwork, Barry Steven Rothstein

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Behavioral Contrast Using Multiple Discriminative Stimuli, Gary M. Stoynoff

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Use Of Contingency Contracting To Maintain And Improve Jogging (An Exercise Behavior) In A Group Of Community Women, Nancy Lai-Shi Chan

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Acquiring And Maintaining Conflict Management Skills: An Experimental Validation Of The Effects Of Homework, Laurie L. Assadi

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Forces In The Criminality Of Women, Doris J. Cubbernuss

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Teaching-Care: Developing Therapeutic Staff-Client Interactions During Daily Care Activities, Martin T. Ivancic

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Two Non-Vocal Language Systems For The Severely Physically Handicapped, Bonnie I. Hurlbut

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Suggested Sight Vocabulary Training Program, Martin Halvorsen

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Real Energy Shortage, Ken Vandermeulen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Letter from the editor.

Book Review, Eleanor Buelke

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Feelings: Our Vital Signs by Willard Gaylin

Black Students Get An Edge In Reading, Barbara C. Palmer, Lawrence E. Hafner

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The purpose of this article is not so much to report that minority children are having trouble in learning to read all kinds of children are for that matter·· but to point out that with the proper kind of instruction black children can do as well as other children. Consider briefly the findings of a few research studies documenting contentions about the reading acquisition problems that numbers of black children have.

Reading Horizons Vol. 19, No. 4

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 19, issue 4.

Inferential Aspects Of The Cloze Task, Michael C. Mckenna

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The central assumption underlying the cloze procedure is that context can be used inferentially to predict deleted words (or other graphic units). The importance of this assumption suggests that an adequate understanding of the cloze task is impossible without an analytical knowledge of the role inference must play. The present discussion embodies a stepwise analysis of this role, from the point at which the context is read to the point at which the reader is able to distinguish acceptable responses.

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Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

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Western News, June 28, 1979, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Police Find "Wright" Answer to Gas Problem, EVO Staff Members Win Awards, Into the Pool, Everyone!, Aviation Seminars begin Next Month, WMU is Represented in Australia, Student Chosen for a Year's Study Abroad, Oppliger Appointed Liaison Person, Doctoral Examination Date Set

Faculty Recognition Dinner 1979, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

Faculty Recognition Dinner

June 2, 1979

Honored Guests:

• Elaine A. Albert
• Margaret Jane Brennan
• Elmer Brune
• Mary Burns
• Elwyn F.Carter
• Eleanor N. Douglass
• Lindsay G. Farnan
• Mary Gillham
• Herb B. Jones
• Margaret Large-Cardoso
• Kenneth Macrorie
• Jerome G. Manis
• E. L. Marietta
• Richard H. Schmidt
• Arnold E. Schneider
• Beth Schultz
• Leo C. Stine
• William C. Vandeventer
• Gertrude Van Zee
• William P. Viall
• William A. Wichers

Bulletin: Western Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog 1979-1981, 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 • …

Lay Counseling: The Basis Of Prevention In Mental Health, James R. Seaberg

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The purpose of this paper is to increase the recognition of lay counseling as a basis of mental health prevention and to present a summary of the state of knowledge about it. Lay counseling is cast as one of several components of mental health prevention and treatment, a definition is offered which distinguishes it from paraprofessional and selp-help services, knowledge about it both direct and tangential is summarized, and future research and policy implications are discussed.

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 6, No. 4 (June 1979)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Table of Contents

• The Social Construction of Professional Knowledge: Social Work Ideology, 1956-1973 - DANNY L. JORGENSEN - pp 434
• A Study of Strategies Used In The Pursuit of Legal Regulation of Social Work - JOHN T. GANDY, FRANK B. RAYMOND - pp 464
• Exploring The Validity of Multi Causal Models In
• Problem Analysis: The Case of Child Abuse - NOLAN RINDFIEISCH - pp 477
• Racial Segregation: The Impact of Monthly Contract Rent and Family Income - GEORGE E. 0’C0NNELL - pp 494
• Do Agency Admínistrative Changes Affect The Effectíveness and Efficiency of DHR Employees? - RICHARD M. GRINNELL, JR., …

The Social Construction Of Professional Knowledge: Social Work Ideology, 1956-1973, Danny L. Jorgensen

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper reports on patterns and trends of ideological advocacy in social work. Findings from a content analysis of Social Work indicate that conceptions of this service profession have changed over a recent eighteen year period. Changes in professional meanings are analyzed in terms of authors' educational status, employment setting, and the problematic topics they discussed. This analysis supports a process model of reality construction in professional arenas and provides implications for the self-conscious management of professional imagery.

A Study Of Strategies Used In The Pursuit Of Legal Regulation Of Social Work, John T. Gandy, Frank B. Raymond

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The debate regarding legal regulation in social work has continued for a number of years. The issues are varied, including the desirability of licensing, the lack of progress in the achievement of regulation, and the discrepancy as to the form of such regulation.

The authors examined a topic area which they believe might be basic to the profession's problems with legal regulation, that being the procedure and process utilized by states in achieving such regulation. The primary purpose of the empirical research concerned the identification and description of strategies used by state chapters of the National Association of Social Workers …

Exploring The Validity Of Multi Causal Models In Problem Analysis: The Case Of Child Abuse, Nolan Rindfleisch

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The purpose of the study reported here was to assess the validity of a multi-causal view of child abuse as it is manifested in children's institutions. The analytical model utilized underlines the powerful role that norms play in creating differential predispositions to violence, that pressures and structural position play in creating differential chances of violence among people with different predispositions and that a sense of injustice plays as a dynamic through which violence is generated.

This ex post facto study utilized role playing techniques to examine voluntary harm doing in a purposive sample of 100 direct caregivers in 42 living …

Consciousness Raising, Values, And Practice Behavior, Joseph R. Steiner

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper advocates for more conscious awareness of values, and their logical link, along with knowledge, to practice. A logical network is developed which reveals the association between values, knowledge, and practice behaviors. Excnples from social work literature are used to illustrate the breakdown in the logical development of practice which occurs when values are suppressed or are only dealt with subjectively. Examples are also given based upon a planning group in which values were defined and used with community data to logically deduce 'what ought to be done." A plan for self study is also developed.

Western News, May 31, 1979, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: N.Y. City Opera Company Baritone Concert Tonight, Allen is Seminar Speaker, Dr. Margaret Burnham Macmillan Dies, Resident Tutors Needed for Upward Bound, Argonne Lab Librarian Will Speak Here, Bookstore is Closed for Inventory, Important Information on Advance Registration, Bryna Graff Succumbs, "Images in Clay" Presentation Announced, Grant Awarded for Arctic Study, Faculty Member Invited to Oberlin Festival, Handicappers Workshop Scheduled for June 2

Western News, May 17, 1979, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Carnegie Librarian to Lecture Here, University Office Hours Will Change, Names of Committee Members Announced, Trustees will Meet Here Friday, Workshop Planned for Minority Students, Battle Creek Students to Receive Aid, WMU Co-Sponsors Neighborhood Workshop, The Differences in Male/Female Communication, Incentive Fund Awarded for Research, Of Interest to all at Western, Graduate Assistantship Available, Workshop on "Dressing Up" Saturday

Requisites For The Establishment, Implementation, And Evaluation Of Social Work Treatment Programs For Anti-Social Children, John S. Wodarski

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Requisites for the establishment, implementation and evaluation of social work treatment programs for anti-social children are reviewed. Specific items discussed are: how does one ascertain the level at which change efforts should be directed, i.e., individual, group, organizational, or societal; what is the appropriate context for behavioral change; who should act as the change agent; what characteristics should the worker possess; what are the rationale for service provided; how long should the treatment continue; how does one prepare for the termination of treatment and maintenance of behavior; what organizational factors of treatment contexts are pertinent to the constructive delivery of …

Professionalism And The Control Of Knowledge, John M. Booker, Allen W. Imershein

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Madness becomes mental illness through the joint project of psychiatry and the community of consensus lent to it. The psychiatrist, like the shaman (to paraphrase Leve'-Strauss), acts through the cultural plasma of his times. And the psychiatrist provides a definition for events, making mental illness of madness, while occupying a unique position within the scheme of society.

Psychiatry has been attacked from many directions in recent years. Despite these varied challenges, however, its power appears to have abated little if at all. How can we account for this fact? On the surface one might assume that the scientific basis or …

Integrating Child Care Services: Overcoming Structural Obstacles To Collaboration Of Institutional And Community Agency Staffs, Arthur K. Berliner

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Social Work practice settings are so diversified that different perspectives inevitably develop among practitioners. These may undermine collaborative efforts between agencies. Child care services afford an example of a field requiring diversified agency settings and therefore vulnerable to development of contrasting perspectives. Some of the sources of an "institutional perspective" and of a "community perspective" are identified, as well as problems originating in lack of a shared perspective. Proposals for overcoming these problems and promoting integration of services comprises the final section of the paper.