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The Chemical Buildup In A Closed Water System Using Recycled Fiber Furnish, Stephen R. Tremont

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

In recirculating whitewater in a closed water system, the solids will increase leading to operational problems such as corrosion, scale, reduced drainage rates, reduced wire life, increased temperatures, felt plugging, foam, and dirt. In dealing with these problems, whitewater samples from a conventional seven vat cylinder board machine were tested for chemical composition. The machine operates on a closed water loop and produces approximately 250 tons per day recycled boxboard. Tested anions included chloride, silica, phosphates, nitrates, sulfate, sulfide and tannin-lignin. Cations analyzed included calcium, barium, iron, aluminum and copper. Tests were conducted over an eighteen day machine running period …

Read A Book In An Hour, John A. Childrey Jr.

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Why not use a wholistic technique to introduce a novel? Why not tear the chapters out and discover, not only a novel, its plot, themes, characters, but also deal with those elements as a group discovery? The technique should resemble a treasure hunt where the process of "getting there" is as exciting as arriving.

Reading Comprehension Is Crucial But Not Critical, James W. Cunningham

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Reading and English teachers are often aware that many adults who dislike reading in general and literature in specific learned their dislike through being required to memorize and parrot the teacher's interpretation and evaluation of pieces of writing. Countless articles and books have reported this phenomenon and called on teachers to foster democratic principles by encouraging individual responses and divergent thinking in their classes. These same teachers, however, see many of their students unwilling or unable to offer any response to what they have read. The resulting dilemma requires that teachers either make negative value judgments about the thinking of …

Nurturing Intelligence In The Classroom, Eleanor Buelke

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

There is a fine balance, a significant subtlety, for a teacher to sustain in order to be a functional force in the classroom nurture of intelligence. Keenly sensitive perceptions are required if teachers are to Follow along, so to speak, ahead of the children, helping them to clarify, organize, and extend meanings as they reach out for understanding. "I Teachers' roles in this process demand a high degree of knowledge about our language and an active, creative part in its use. Pervasive habits of observing and listening should be enmeshed in the whole approach to teaching. More than that; as …

Adaptations Of Manzo's Guided Reading Procedure, Dixie Lee Spiegel

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

In 1975 Manzo described the Guided Reading Procedure, which was designed to "improve reading comprehension by stressing attitudinal factors- accuracy in comprehension, self-correction, and awareness of implicit questions, as well as cognitive factors, unaided recall and organizational skills" (pp. 291). As developed by Manzo, the Guided Reading Procedure (GRP) is to be used after the reading of a common selection. However, the GRP can easily be adapted as a pre-reading activity and as a post-reading activity when students have read different materials.

Can We Update Experienced Teachers' Beliefs And Practices In Reading?, Thomas W. Bean

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A recent review charting the impact of educational research on classroom teaching found that teaching practices, particularly in reading, were rarely modified to reflect current research findings (Clifford, 1973). Clifford chronicled the fragmentary, "one short" nature of much of the educational research produced and reported over the last fifty years. He suggested that a more unified body of cumulative research findings in a cohesive area of investigation might stand a better chance of influencing change in the classroom.

Teaching Methods Utilizing A Field Theory Viewpoint In The Elementary Reading Program, Shirley Lechuga, Heath Lowry

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The trend in reading instruction during the past few years, has strongly focused on the whole child, his individuality, his feelings, beliefs, and goals as well as his cognitive abilities. All of these constitute the child's life space and are the "parts of the whole" that teachers must deal with. Consistent with this learning theory, the teacher's role has changed. Teaching now consists of the promotion and enrichment of the interactive learning process between the child and his environment. The teaching environment of the reading program is most important to the young reader's success. The acceleration of the reading process …

Management Systems In Secondary Reading Classrooms, Christine C. Smith, Carolyn Burch, Grace Warren

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

One outcome of federal, state or district funding of reading programs has been the development of a competency based curriculum with the inclusion of a classroom management system. This management system is the structure for the implementation of the goals, guidelines and behavioral objectives of the program. Each program with its management system is developed and written by teachers In consultation with school and/or district level cooperation.

Professional Concerns: Reading And The Vocational/Industrial Arts Teacher, Michael T. Conroy

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Professional Concerns is a regular column devoted to the interchange of ideas among those interested in reading instruction. Send your comments and contributions to the editor. If you have questions about reading that you wish to have answered) the editor will find respondents to answer them. Address correspondence to R. Baird Shuman) Department of English) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Urbana) Illinois) 61801.

Reviews--Children's Books, Nancy Weddle

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

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Characteristics Of Reading Programs In Michigan Community And Junior Colleges, Michael R. Hiatt, Ted K. Kilty

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A study of the characteristics of reading programs offered to students in the thirty-three publicly supported community and junior colleges in the State of Michigan indicates that there are areas in which great strides have been made and other areas in which much work needs yet to be done.

Reading Horizons Vol. 20, No. 3

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 20, issue 3.

Appreciation Of Reading Through The Five Senses, Mary Jane Gray

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

While the definition of reading remains an elusive one for reasons pointed out by Edmund Huey (1908) more than seventy years ago, there is one component of the reading process which surely deserves attention. That component is the appreciation gained in reading through the five senses. How is this accomplished? An examination of reading and its relation to the five senses should help to make this clear.

Value Clarification Via Basal Readers, Leo M. Schell

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Value clarification activities are designed to promote many of the same qualities usually associated with critical reading. They typically center on situations where people have an opportunity to decide between or among different possible choices.

A Field Study Of Goal-Based And Goal-Free Evaluation Techniques, John W. Evers

Dissertations

Educational evaluation theorists propose two methodologies that could be used to assess a project or program's achievements. One method is well established and is called goal-based evaluation. The other has been proposed recently and is called goal-free evaluation. Little information exists about goal-free evaluation in field settings. The problem to be addressed was: What would be the results of a field study that compared the relative utility of operationalized versions of goal-free and goal-based evaluation techniques? The perspective selected to investigate this problem was evaluator/evaluee interactions. This study had two objectives: (1) to develop materials and procedures for using the …

Focus On Administration: An Internship Experience, Cheryl Lynn Holmes

Masters Theses

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The Translation Of Elementary Principles Of Behavior From English To Persian, Kambiz Alavi

Masters Theses

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A Study Of The Effects Of Changes In Response Requirement On Lever Preference In A Discrete-Trial Choice Procedure, Charles L. Lowe

Masters Theses

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A Column For The High Pressure Liquid Chromatography Of Some Potentially Hazardous Metal Ions, Stephen R. Friebe

Masters Theses

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Biological Studies On Some Ghanats Of Iran, Fardin Oliaei

Masters Theses

The present study was undertaken to monitor the quality of drinking water in the ghanats of Tehran during 1978-1979. Four sites were chosen, and various limnological parameters were investigated.

Physical-chemical analyses were evaluated to determine the composition of the water. There was no significant pollution related to chemical-physical parameters.

Planktonic samples were analyzed with the aid of a Sedgewich-Rafter counting cell. A total of 47 genera were found in all four ghanats.

The planktonic population declined dramatically in winter. Mean diversity and equitability of the algae showed no significant level of pollution and degradation in the study areas.

Bacterial content …

A Behavioral Parent Training Follow-Up Using Direct Observation And Audio-Taping In The Home Setting, Michelle Fedko Nelson

Masters Theses

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Acculturation And Ethnic Identity Of The Chinese Population In Kalamazoo, Michigan, Tsi-Yin Lee

Masters Theses

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Editorial Comment: 1984 Is Not Just A Number, Kenneth Vandermeulen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A letter from the editor.

Children's Literature And Back To The Basics, W. John Harker

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The comprehension of literature places different demands upon children than the comprehension of non-imaginative prose. This is because, in order to comprehend literature, children must enter and understand the highly imaginative worlds of literary creation. Although these worlds are charged with delight for the child, they are at the same time essentially unreal- they are the imaginative productions of their creators.

Applying Cloze Procedure To Children's Book Selections, Anne M. Ferguson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

This study was designed to determine at what level, as measured by the doze procedure, sixth grade children selected trade books when a wide selection of books was available.

The Effects Of Staff Training, Incentive, And Information And Feedback On Incidence Of Vandalism In A Dormitory Setting, Donald G. Landeck

Masters Theses

The effects of staff training, incentive, and information and feedback on incidence of vandalism were compared in a four dormitory complex. The staff training condition was implemented on resident advisors and taught alcohol education, confrontation skills, and programming skills. For the incentive dormitory, residents received money in a floor fund which was then exchanged for back-up reinforcers. Residents in the information and feedback dormitory were prompted to reduce vandalism via flyers, activities, and a feedback chart posted on each floor. All dormitories experienced an increase in the drinking age from 18 to 21 years of age during the second semester …

The Relationship Between Selected Demographic Characteristics And Mental Health Board Members' Endorsement Of Community Mental Health Ideology, Kathryn S. Thiel

Dissertations

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Self Reported Job Functions Of Psychologists And Other Mental Health Workers In Michigan's Community Mental Health Settings, David J. Sluyter

Dissertations

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Preference Reversal: Effects Of Ratio And Reinforcement Parameters, Kenneth Ray Stephens

Dissertations

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Underutilization Of Temporary Employees As A Determinant Of Turnover, Elizabeth De La Ossa

Dissertations

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