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Analogies: Word Attack And Reading Comprehension Skills In A Thinking Context, Jerome Axelrod

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Few cues give a teacher a more valid or quicker insight into her students' thinking abilities than analogies. The pupils' mental manipulations—or lack thereof—reveal to the aware and perceptive teacher a usually-accurate idea of the extent to which her pupils will be able to perform. Picture analogies for non-readers and word analogies for literate pupils can be used informally by the classroom teachers to approximate just how much pupils, individually, are capable of learningin an academic situation.

Viable Strategies For Promoting Growth Among Reading Personnel, Nicholas P. Criscuolo

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Reading personnel dispense knowledge and facilitate learning willingly. Yet, it's not a one-way street. Reading personnel have their own unique needs. They need to replenish their reservoirs of knowledge and constantly be aware of the latest trends and developments in the field. By so doing, they will be in a better position to help others.

Study As Self Instruction: The P.O.W.E.R. Comprehension Model, Richard Burke

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Most reading expected of secondary and college students is ac complished out of class even though that reading is usually for the purpose of school achievement. Usually it is instructional behavior we are after when we have students read for class, but most management of the learning process ends when the students leave the classroom. If out-of-class reading is for instructional purposes and if the teacher's function is to manage the learning process, then consideration of learning behavior in out-of-class instruction is worth our attention as teachers. Rothkopf (1965) has coined the term mathemagenics to refer to behaviors which give …

Western News, September 2, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Campus Briefs, AAUP Ratifies Agreement, Gymnastics School Here on Campus, USC Announces Holiday Hours, Up Insurance Rates, Computer Center Offers Workshops, Name New College Dean, Cheer Clinic; Tryouts Here, Change Job Bulletin System, Announce Arena Theatre Plays, Set Campus Bus Service Schedule, Fall Library Hours Set, Drop/Add Period Now

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 4, No. 1 (September 1976)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Editorial - pp. 3
• What Kind of Sociology is Useful to Social Workers? - ALFRED McCLUNG LEE - pp. 4
• Toward a Working Model for Community Organizing in the 1970's - JOHN L. MUSICK, NANCY R. HOOYMAN - pp. 14
• The Incremental Trail in Developing False Doctrine and its Consequences in the American Drug Scene - AVRON HEILIGMAN - pp. 19
• A Locality-Oriented Public Welfare Agency: A Case Study of Boundary Maintenance in a Hostile Environment - RAY H. MACNAIR, GRETA HAWTHORNE - pp. 27
• An Economic Analysis of Economic Inequality - JOHN P. HUTTMAN - pp. …

The Incremental Trail In Developing False Doctrine And Its Consequences In The American Drug Scene, Avron Heiligman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The trail of what has turned out to be the criminalization of drug taking behavior illustrates a major criticism of incrementalism in developing policy-- the acceptance and maintenance of specific values and attitudes. The effects of false doctrine accepted more than fifty years ago are with us today and will continue in their effect umtil a radical change is seen in our society. The purpose of this paper is to map the old trail, identify those times where false doctrine was accepted, and to present a radical alternative for the future.

A Locality-Oriented Public Welfare Agency: A Case Study Of Boundary Maintenance In A Hostile Environment, Ray H. Macnair, Greta Hawthorne

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Boundary maintenance activities are studied in a public welfare agency as a means of establishing the relationship between the nature of these activities and the essential character of a formal organization. Assaults on the agency are observed through a period of social change, in this case an extreme of racial succession among the staff and administration of the agency. Conclusions point to congruence between the character of the organization and its boundary maintenance activity. Skewed or incongruent boundary maintenance produces disorganization and confusion among participants. In the context of racial succession, universalistic patterns are recommended as a solution to the …

Phenomenological Social Science And Holistic Social Policy, Thomas D. Watts

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The reliability of positivistic social science knowledge poses seminal problems for social policy. Needed is more sound phenomenological and qualitative research within the conspectus of the twin theoretical movements of ethnomethodology and the Frankfurt School, towards the goal of a more holistic social science knowledge base as well as a more holistic social policy.

A Study In Self-Defeat: The Public Health Venereal Disease Clinic, Joseph F. Sheley

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper relates the results of three months of participant observation and interviews in a public venereal disease clinic. The research was directed toward assessment of the relationship of clinic efficiency (a smoothly operating bureaucratic clinic) and clinic effectiveness (a major reduction of illness within a community). The venereal disease clinic is described as an efficient and well planned health unit with three major objectives: a) checking the increase of V.D. through preventive medicine; b) detection and treatment of V.D. within the community; and c) provision of health services to lower S.E.S. segments of the population. Research results indicate that …

Towards The Development Of Theory: Cultural Pluralism Redefined, Antonia Pantoja, Wilhelmina Perry, Barbara Blourock

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The authors are attempting to move beyond the descriptive position, evidenced in the current writing, towards a theoretical approach to cultural pluralism. A series of definitions are presented concluding with the authors' definition of cultural pluralism - redefined. The new definition is discussed, as an operational concept, emanating from participants in the new cultural pluralism movement.

The current societal conditions that impede the realization of cultural pluralism are discussed in relation to a conceptual model, Criteria for Assigning Preferred or Unpreferred Status, that is used to explain our society's idealization of certain personal, social, and economic characteristics.

The authors conclude …

Let's Stop Helping The Poor, Donald Feldstein

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Excerpt from the full-text article:

The time has come in America to stop trying to help the poor. These efforts have resulted in poor services, inadequate levels of aid, stigma to the recipients, creation of a permanent welfare class, cheating, and the exacerbation of divisiveness in America between classes and ethnic groups. In large part, these negative effects are due to the attempt to target or pinpoint aid for the poor alone; but the poor can only be helped in the context of programs for all Americans.

Discourse Management: Key To Policy Development, Joseph R. Steiner

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Skills in discourse management are necessary in order for democratic policy development groups to be productive. These skills, like other skills, are developed by practicing their utilization. A general cognitive frnework, however, can assist one in this development. This paper develops and then describes the use of such a general framework.

Issues In Evaluative Research: Implications For Social Work, John S. Wodarski, Walter Hudson, David R. Buckholdt

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Various issues in evaluative research are reviewed according to their relevance for the evaluation of social work practice. Specific items discussed are: plausible studies, what should be changed and why, the change agent, criteria for positive assessment, traditional research designs, time-series designs, organizational aspects of research, researchers vs clinicians, researcher's distance from populations served, incentives for research, and the dissemination of information and application of relevant knowledge. Where relevant, aspects of certain evaluative studies are discussed to illustrate the items reviewed.

Mapping Interpersonal Communication Behaviors On The Leary Circumplex, Yvonne L. Spaulding

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Background Profiles, Career Expectations And Career Aspirations Of Men And Women Public School Administrators, Joyce W. Way

Dissertations

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Reduction Of Self-Injurious Behaviors In Retardates Using A Spray Mist, Michael F. Dorsey

Masters Theses

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Shaping Appropriate Social Skills Of Multiply Handicapped Children In A Group Learning Situation By Contingent Teacher Attention And Maintaining Them With Low Rates Of Reinforcement, Mark L. Sundberg

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Historical Review Of The Treatment Of Juvenile Delinquents, Lorenz Hansen

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Asymptotic Solutions Of Second Order Linear Differential Equations, Toshitake Okada

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

An Evaluation Of The Volunteer Training Program At Gryphon Place, Randall I. Katz

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Use Of Make-A-Picture Story Test Background Cards As Diagnostic Indicators In Comparison With Elevated Mmpi Scales, Melissa Eddy Tatum

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Survey Of Investigations In Social Role Theory, Social Functioning, Role Conflict, Role Strain, Role Ambiguity, And A Proposal For Continued Research, Dennis A. Hunyadi

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Stimulus Properties Of Population Density, Robert Alan Schauerhamer

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Cortical And Subcortical Interhemispheric Interrelation In The Visual System, George C. Wagner

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Black College And University Presidents Located Primarily In The South, Southeast, And Southwest Part Of The United States Of America, Earl Harper

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Simulator Training On The Acquisition And Generalization Of Pedestrian Skills In Retarded Persons, Terry J. Page

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Laboratory And Non-Laboratory Course Designs As A Setting For Increasing Agreement With Course Materials, J. Michael Gautney

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Perceptual Motor Ability Of Young Children As A Factor Affecting How Individual D.A.P. Characteristics Measure Self-Concept, Gregory F. Cvetkovic

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

An Evaluation Of The Kalamazoo County Jail Rehabilitation Program, Janice Eileen Grady

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Western News, July 22, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Student Leaders Aid Orientation, Bernhard Discusses WMU Finances, Trustees Approve Budget, Savings Made on Aviation Building, Comaromi Honored at Conference, If You Don't Want Your Name Listed, Emerita Dies in Grand Rapids