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Variables Related To The Effectiveness Of Instructions: A Theoretical Analysis Of Experimental Results, Stephen Paul Enge

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Western News, July 31, 1980, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Dickason wins Fulbright Award, Degree program begins in Battle Creek, 'The Westerner' makes its debut, Announce distribution of caps/gowns, Sports medicine clinic inaugurated, Petroleum Distribution courses give students a preview of jobs, Soccer schedule features top U.S. teams

Western News, July 24, 1980, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Computer Science enrollment up, California "Fanfairs" coming Aug. 1, AAUP elects two faculty to top offices, Yelsma will appear on WUHQ-TV programs, Biology department offers new service, Open press box window helps officers put end to campus thefts, Hockey broadcasts will resume this year

Western News, July 21, 1980, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Approve appointment of Luscombe as dean of College of Fine Arts, Kaarlela appointed department head, Gordon named acting assistant to VP, June grants total $2 million, Board okays comprehensive plan for student financial aid office, Nisbet to retire; given emeritus status, O.K. lease of Health Center kitchen

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting July 18, 1980, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Minutes
• Petitions and Communications
• Remarks by the President
• Academic Personnel Report
• Gift and Grant Report
• Authorization to Confer Degrees
• Comprehensive Plan for Student Financial Aid
• Health Center Lease
• Annuity Trust Investments
• Board Committee Reports

Western News, July 17, 1980, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Paper Science gets gift, Yugoslav violinist will give concert, Scholarship for English majors announced, Kellogg Foundation Trust picks Ludlow, Personnel Department reviews overtime pay policy for hourly employees, CEO helps students learn study skills, Jurors recruited for mock trial

Western News, July 10, 1980, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Summer session enrollment is 7.5 percent above 1979, Dale Ackerson memorial services Friday, Information on 1980-81 salary raises, Retirees potluck dinner set for July 18, Films on China here Wednesday, Edo Weits on WKZO-TV Wednesday, Employees urged to enter car pools, It's now Handicapper Student Services, Emeritus Ray Deur wins education award

Western News, July 3, 1980, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: University receives grant for underground water research, Independence Day toasts for all occasions uncovered by Reish, Homecoming Committee members named, Holiday hours posted for libraries/ USC, $2,200 awarded Petroleum Distribution, Upward Bound Program now going here

A Proper Attitude Toward Science, William W. Cobern

Scientific Literacy and Cultural Studies Project

The attitude of a man determine his speech and actions. That is why it is more important for children to leave school with positives attitudes about learning than with acquired and refined skills and knowledge. A child in school may learn to read but unless he also gains a positive attitude about reading he will not read on his own. So it is with science. Along with the acquisition of the skills and knowledge of science should come a positive attitude about science. Furthermore in the field of science as well as a positive one. This is the subject at …

Teachers As Readers: An Extension Of The 'Impact Of Reading' Survey, Eugene H. Cramer, Camille L.Z. Blachowicz

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Do teachers have a responsibility to help students to develop positive attitudes about reading? The idea that teachers can and should play a major role in the development of students' reading habits and interests has never been seriously questioned. In fact, most reading methods texts and many journal articles repeatedly stress this aspect of teachers' responsibilities. "Interests do not grow in a vacuum ... the teacher's task, then, is not only to feed the interests the child already possesses but to open up new avenues of interest and opportunity" (Strickland, 1957). "Developing permanent interests in reading must be the goal …

A Self-Appraisal Inventory For Reading Teachers, Linda Mixon Clary

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

After teaching my first year in a sixth grade class, where the reading levels ranged from 2 to 12, I realized that I needed to know more about teaching reading. I went back to school and learned a lot more. Then, I worked with a federal project that functioned in about a dozen school districts, so I saw lots of teachers - some very good and some awful- and lots of children. I then taught some more myself and decided that kids never get to be better readers without good teachers. But, that meant more training for me. When I …

Surveys: Valuable Tools For The Reading Consultant, Jo Anne L. Vacca

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Surveys range from involved to simple; some are well-done, while others are poorly-constructed. One thing is certain ... depending on your own immediate objectives, the complexity of the survey will vary. But what of the quality? If you foresee any possibility of employing a survey, you may wish to consider the following information about the construction of survey instruments.

Reading The Readability Rules: Erisa And The Spds, William N. Thompson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

EDITOR'S NOTE- While we are unable because of space limitations to print Dr. Thompson's study in its entirety, we know our readers will be interested in this excerpt regarding readability levels and the rules. Its irony may not be delightfully humorous, but it will elicit a wry smile, even from taxpayers.

Reading Instruction For The Handicapped Child: Questions And Answers, David Nelson, Les Sternberg

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The concern of parents and teachers that some children have needs significantly different from the majority of other students has brought about educational opportunities which provide special learning environments and unique teaching procedures. From this educational endeavor, programs entitled "special education" have been established for the purpose of helping handicapped children develop their abilities to a maximum, It is important that the teacher of reading be aware of several essential principles regarding special education. First, teachers often become frustrated because the screening process for special education is often such a time-consuming procedure. Some children may remain in a regular classroom …

Below The Belt: Situational Ethics For Uniethical Situations, Gale Goldberg, Joy Elliott

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The word "politics" generally conjures up images of smokefilled, back rooms where unscrupulous men in shirt sleeves chew their cigars and make shady deals that serve partisan interests. But politics is neither inherently shady nor specific to back rooms. In fact, as long as society is differentiated along ethnic, sex and social class lines, politics pervades all of social life. You are involved in politics and so is your mother.

Non-Governmental Emergency Food Services: A Descriptive Study Of The Tertiary Welfare Sector, Stanley Wenocur

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper presents the findings of an exploratory study of voluntarily organized emergency food centers in Baltimore. These agencies comprise the heart of a tertiary welfare system that provides basic survival supplies without a means test to the needy who cannot obtain relief from traditional public or private sources. Forty-one emergency food services were identified in Baltimore and the heads of 37 of these agencies were interviewed in depth. The findings indicated that a large and heterogeneous population bad utilized emergency food agencies and that the agencies generally met the requisites for a true safety-net function - i.e., accessibility, non-bureaucratic …

Jungian Theory And Social Work Practice, Herman Borenzweig

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Carl Jung's contributions to psychology, psychotherapy, and social science have had little impact upon social wonk practice. Social Work Abstracts to lists only one article where Jungian theory is utilized by social workers. McBroom has recently written an article "The Collective Unconscious as a Unifying Concept in Teaching Human Behavior Cross Culturally:" If only two articles about Jungian psychology have appeared in the social work literature in the last twelve years it seems safe to assume either that the ,Jungian oriented social workers practice their Jung underground and fail to publish on that Jung remains anathema to the profession.

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Ecological Systems Theory In Social Work, Max Siporin

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Ecological systems theory is explicated as a current form of successive systems models used in social work. Behavior principles assumptive in this model are identified: of exchange balance, inner consistency, and dialectial change. Several misconceptions of ecological systems theory and a cultist aspect of its current popularity are addressed. Advantages, including the emergence of practice principles derived from this model, as well as its limitations are then discussed. The charge that systems theory helps maintain the status quo and the use of systems theory by radical proponents of system change are considered in terms of the dual function of social …

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 7, No. 4 (July 1980)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Table of Contents

• Below The Belt: Situational Ethics for Unethical Situations. - GALE GOLDBERG, JOY ELLIOT - 478
• Non-Governmental Emergency Food Services: A Descriptive Study of the Tertiany Welfare Sector. - STANLEY WENOCUR etal - 487
• Ecological Systems Theory In Social Work. - MAX SIPORIN - 507
• Family Health Policy Formulation: A Problematic Definitional Process. - H. HUGH. FLOYD, Jr. - 533
• Rural Sociology and Rural Social Work: An Historical Essay. - WILIA E. MARTINEZ-BRAWLEY - 546
• Demographic and Attitudinal Factors Associated With Perceptions of Social Work. - PAT M. KEITH - 561
• Jungian Theory and Social Work Practice. - …

Rural Sociology And Rural Social Work: An Historical Essay, Emilia E. Martinez-Brawley

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The relationship between rural sociology and rural social work can be traced back to the days of the Country Life Commission (1908), and has experienced many fluctuations throughout the years. This paper examines the interconnections between the developments in the two fields, drawing from historical data which lead to che hypothesis that those fluctuations were caused by forces within each discipline as well as by developments affecting the interactions of each field with the other. It appears that academic and theoretical issues were not alone in causing contention in the relationship between rural sociology and the practice of rural social …

Demographic And Attitudinal Factors Associated With Perceptions Of Social Work, Pat M. Keith

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Demographic and attitudinal correlates of perceptions of social work practice were examined among rural and urban residents. Data obtained from 301 persons indicated that attitudes toward public assistance and knowledge about social work had independent effects on perceptions of social work practice. Sex and education also explained a significant amount of the variance in attitudes toward social work with women and persons with more education having more positive attitudes. One-third of the respondents had personal experience with social work however, when other variables were considered, previous association a social worker had no impact on attitudes. Dimensions of religiosity previously found …

The Perceived Effectiveness Of Medical Social Work Faculty, Richard M. Grinnell Jr., Nancy S. Kyte, Richard L. Gorsuch

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Within the health care field, medical social work has expanded rapidly over the past few years (Bracht, 1974). Medical social workers comprise approximately 1.5 percent of the total medical schools' faculty in the United States (Grinnell, Kyte & Hunter, 1976). There is additional evidence that medical social work faculty will increase over the years to come (Grinnell, Kyte, Hunter & Larson, 1976; Crinnell, Kyte & Hunter, 1976; Grinnell & Kyte, 1978b; & Grinnell & Kyte, 1979). Additionally, empirical studies have been conducted that analyzed the functions of social work faculty in medical schools (Grinnell & Kyte, 1978c; Grinnell & Kyte, …

Family Health Policy Formulation: A Problematic Definitional Process, H. Hugh Floyd Jr.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The family has become a focus of much concern over the past two decades as a variety of family related problems have become major social issues. These social-psychological problems are considered to have negative consequences at three analytical levels: individual, family and society. Therefore, considerable discussion has been raised about the establishment of family policy. Family policy is discussed in this paper as a definitional problematic process. Several problems of a conceptual and logistical nature are cited and some guidelines for family policy construction are made.

Protecting Battered Wives: The Availability Of Legal Remedies, Paul J. Munson

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Abused wives have often times been victims of neglect by legal authorities due to the long-held belief that the criminal law system should not intrude into family problems. Unfortunately, this attitude ignores the seriousness and extent of spousal violence. This paper first examines traditional legal thought with regards to violence in the family. It is then argued that drafting new laws may help to protect the battered wife, but other considerations such as enforcement and community support must be addressed if law is to provide effective remedies. Remedies other than criminal ones, should be pursued exhaustively in the attempt to …

Nonviolent Agencies In The Northern Ireland Struggle: 1968-1979, Alfred Mcclung Lee

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The Northern Ireland struggle has enlisted or given birth to a great many social welfare organizations allegedly dedicated to the nonviolent solution of the area’s problems. These consist principally of three types: (1) agencies of religious denominations or groups of denominations, (2) voluntary social work, demonstration, and protest societies, and (3) political actionist bodies. Those of the first two types face the pitfalls of the ready middleclass recourse to conscience-soothing rituals and to compromise at the expense of lowerclass and ethnic outgroup interests. Those of the third type include ones that are effective, but some tend to fall into lowerclass …

Western News, June 26, 1980, Western Michigan University

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Story highlights: Hay study is progressing; Kelley says, Set salary increases for three groups, Ehrle to begin VP duties Tuesday, Bernhard returns from trip to Bulgaria, Outstanding attractions coming to Miller Auditorium this fall, Aetna explains emergency room coverage, Fine Arts building lease authorized, Caine is elected vice chairman, Schedule Institute on American economy, Western students begin Alaskan journey

Western News, June 16, 1980, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Trustees approve tuition and fee changes for fall semester, Blasch steps down as department chair, Name art chairman; female physician, Board of Trustees approves statement of university mission, Wayne Falan granted emeritus status, Board approves energy use control pact, Wednesday reception for Gilbert Montez in USC

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting June 13, 1980, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Minutes
• Petitions and Communications
• President's Remarks
• Academic Personnel Report
• Non-Academic Personnel Report
• Gift and Grant Report
• Western Michigan University Board of Trustees Meeting Dates for 1980-81
• Mission Statement
• Revision of 1979/80 Budget
• Resolution re Building Maintenance and Repair Projects
• Resolution re Continuation of 1979/80 Budget in 1980/81
• Fine Arts Building Lease
• Tuition and Fees
• Special Fees
• Bronco Transit Fares
• Mileage Reimbursement Rate
• Bank Resolutions
• Sale of Land
• Consumers Power Easement
• Energy Conservation Project
• Board Committee Reports

Western News, June 12, 1980, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: 'Introduction to Gravure Printing' course is first in Midwest, Ruth Boot dies after long illness, Bernhard goes to UNESCO conference, New broadcast news coordinator named, Library topics recommended by Senate, Rape suspect arraigned in Kalamazoo, Clinical education meeting is tomorrow, Panel will discuss 'Breast Surgery', Memorial will honor Robert D. Hughes

Partners In Progress: Faculty Recognition Dinner 1980, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

Partners in Progress

Faculty Recognition Dinner

June 7, 1980

Honored Guests:

• Elsa Alvarez
• Irene S. Bibza
• Lawrence J. Brink
• Mercedes Cardenas
• James H. Griggs
• Joseph T. Hoy
• Wilda Large
• Dominic Leonardelli
• Carl A. Lindstrom
• John H. McBeth
• Josephine Nicolette
• Leon D. Nobes
• Leonard Orr
• Frank Robinson
• Vera Jean Russell
• Charles A. Smith