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A Computer-Assisted Pre-Service Program In Reading, Camille L.Z. Blachowicz, Peter G. Fairweather

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

In 1975, the National Right-to-Read effort funded an experimental project at Northwestern University involving the application of computer facilities to the operation of a pre-service program for teacher preparation in reading. Utilizing a competency-based model (Houston and Howsam, 1972), the computer component of the program managed the student's entry into and progress through a series of on-line, interactive tutorials by assessing their initial behaviors, assigning lesson modules, guiding use of a bibliographical data base and monitoring progress.

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Reading Horizons Vol. 19, No. 1

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

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A Psycholinguistic Look At The Informal Reading Inventory Part I: Looking At The Quality Of Readers' Miscues: A Rationale And An Easy Method, Laura Smith, Constance Weaver

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Instead of relying on machine-scored tests, many teachers wisely assess children's reading themselves, in an individualized session with each child. Some version of what is popularly known as the informal reading inventory (IRI) is often used for such assessment. The IRI provides a handy but not necessarily reliable method for determining what level of reading material might be appropriate for a given child. Furthermore, it is even less likely to be valid in determining a child's reading strengths and weaknesses. Some recent versions of the informal reading inventory encourage teachers to underestimate children's reading strengths and even to prescribe "remedial" …

Content Area Textbooks--Waste Not…, Sandra L. Robinson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

In helping students to read content area textbooks, there are Four Basic Areas of Concern: Word Recognition, Vocabulary, Comprehension, and Study Skills.

Critical Reading And Today's Adolescent, Donald C. Cushenbery

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The purposes of this article are to explain the nature and kinds of prerequisites involved in learning critical reading skills and describe some classroom lessons and activities which can be employed to build these abilities with all kinds of students. Each lesson described will need some slight adaptation to fit the exact requirements of a given classroom and/or teacher.

Game Books For Reading Instruction, Carol J. Hopkins, Alden J. Moe

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Books which contain directions on how to construct and use games for reading skill development are popular with teachers because they contain practical suggestions for classroom activities. There are matters related to the selection and purchase of such books with which the teacher should be familiar; those matters are discussed here.

The General Manager, "The Man In The Middle", David Dombrowski

Honors Theses

This paper explores the contemporary purpose and function of the General Manger's position on a baseball team, as well as addressing some historical events that contributed to this present role. By examining these events, one can gain insight into the increased responsibility that has been thrust upon the General Manager, and the eventual delegation of these duties as the responsibilities multiplied.

Western News, September 28, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlight: Western Hosts Little Siblings, United Way Drive Begins, Career Day Next Thursday, Couples Workshop Deadline Today, Set Research Travel Deadlines, Eastern Faculty Ratify Contract, Ferris Enters Fact Finding, $15.1 Million Fine Arts Building Gains Legislative Approval, Personnel Department Memo, Assertiveness Workshop Set, Admissions Staff 'On the Road'

Western News, September 21, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Plan In-Service Courtesy Seminar, Faculty Negotiations Resume; Stress Public Responsibility, China Is Friday Discussion Topic, Garland Heads State Conference, Western To Develop National Depreciation; Salvage System, Seek Who's Who Nominees, The Acting Company Presents 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Antigone', Admissions Staff Changes Made, Student Aid Up 10 Percent, Campus Watch Bulletin #3, Approve Personnel Appointments, VanZee Granted Emeritus Status

Western News, September 7,1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Ratification Vote Today, Van Services Handicapped, Trustee Emeritus Stocker Dies, Seek Internal Dean Applicants, Dance Classes Available, Speech Pathology Workshop Begins, Transportation Tech Gets $2,500 Gift, Assertiveness Workshop Set, NEH Summer Stipends Available, Broncos Host Illinois State, Computer Program Assists Severely Physically Disabled

31-Archaeological Survey Of 1.7 Acres Of Land Owned By The Michigan Department Of Natural Resources, Barry County, Michigan, Robert G. Kingsley

Reports of Investigations

This project was performed at the request of Mr. Spencer Greenhill of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources- Waterways. The 1.7 acres in question are proposed to be an expansion of an adjacent DNR Public Access site on Gull Lake. Fieldwork for this project was carried out on September 2, 1978.

Western News, September 14, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: 'State of U' Report Given, Bargaining May Resume Tuesday, Kinsey Update Is Sexuality Series Topic, 'Who Should Play God' Author Visits, Western Is Regional Elderhostel .Center, Gerontology Has Speaker Series, Occu-Rap Seminar Series Resumes, Gerontology Has Speaker Series, 'State of University' Text, Enrollment, Continuing Education Studies, Administrative Evaluations Announced, Doc Severinsen Opens Patron's Choice Series, 'Libraryese' Can Be Disturbing, Reading; Writing; Tutoring Help Is Available

Administrative Thinking On Youth And Youth Programs, John F. Longres, Norman Wyers

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Administrators have a lot of influence over the nature of youth programs. Because of this, their thinking on the causes of delinquency, the nature of ideal youth programs, and the role of youth workers were tapped. In the past, people in the field of delinquency have been accused of assuming an individual, personal problem or deficiency point of view. This study of administrators in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area suggests that, while some evidence for a more social structural understanding exists, in general the individual problem perspective prevails. An explanation for the persistence of a personal problem perspective is advanced …

The Transition: An Historical-Materialist Perspective On Social Welfare And Social Work Practice, Thomas Keefe

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

From an historical-materialist perspective American society is in a transition to a new structural form--a new order. The future of social welfare and social work practice is intimately bound to the nature and outcome of this transition. Moreover, the transition has economic and ideological characteristics that hold important implications for changes in the ways social workers view their clients and conduct their practice. Employing an historicalmaterialist analysis, this article will discuss the nature of the societal transition and its implications for social welfare and social work practice.

The analysis will be prefaced with a synopsis of basic concepts and assumptions …

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 5, No. 5 (September 1978)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Women's Groups As Alternative Human Service Agencies - CLAUDETTE McSHANE, M.S.W - pp. 615
• The Transition: An Historical-Materialist Perspective on Social Welfare and Social Work Practice - THOMAS KEEFE, DSW - pp. 627
• Problems Inherent In Multi-Service Delivery Units - ARNOLD J. KATZ - pp. 644
• Administrative Thinking on Youth and Youth Programs - JOHN F. LONGRES, PH.D. & NORMAN WYERS, DSW - pp. 662
• New Left Organizers and the Poor - MILES H. WHITNEY & PAUL J. CHAMPAGNE - pp. 678
• A Comparison of Factors Associated with Past Use, Projected Use, and Perceived Community Need for …

The Homemaker-Home Health Aide, Gary A. Fashimpar, Richard M. Grinnell Jr.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

For the past several years, many social workers have utilized the services of various disciplines as members of interdisciplinary teams as one approach to practice. There is ample evidence that social workers are increasingly beginning to utilize the newly constructed service of the Homemaker-Home Health Aide (H/HHA) when working with various client populations.1 In the United States, there are approximately 74,000 H/HHAs who provide social welfare and health services to the aged, disabled, and chronically ill. 2 By 1985, there is a projected need for three times this number.3

Social Continuity And Social Discontinuity: Social Work And, In, Against And Separate From Society, Hans S. Falck

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The burden of this paper is to clarify social continuity and social discontinuity. Social continuity is related to individuality-groupness (the I-G effect) and its related logic is demonstrated further by a rejection of social discontinuity, i.e. individualism.

Problems Inherent In Multi-Service Delivery Units, Arnold J. Katz

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Like Alice, the field of social work in general, and the social service delivery system in particular, seems to be going through a confusing state, lacking direction. Just as the Cat suggests to Alice that any direction would get her somewhere over time, so the diverse social service delivery systems(1) have, in recent years, moved off in a particular direction (methodologically) only to return to step one and then set off again. Various fads have seemed to provide the needed answers. In time, however, they served only to create a series of new questions with corresponding dilemmas.

In the last …

Women's Groups As Altenative Human Service Agencies, Claudette Mcshane, John Oliver

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The radical movements of the 60's were punctuated by the revival of feminism. As the movements demanded that disenfranchised citizens be allowed to actively participate in societal decisionmaking, women became cognizant of the fact that even within the movements they continued to be relegated to second class status. This realization served as a catalyst for the reemergence of the women's movement within American society. Feminist ideas spread rapidly among the social movements. Women neld political meetings to discuss social inequities and their impact upon womannood. From these meetings consciousness-raising groups evolved as a forum to raise non-movement women's consciousness of …

New Left Organizers And The Poor, Myles H. Whitney, Paul J. Champagne

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The decade of the sixties witnessed a resurgence of radical or leftist movements in the United States as manifested in the political activism of college students, civil rights organizations, community groups and others. Today, in the post-Vietnam era of the seventies, the fires of the New Left appear to have been dampened. But even though these groups may be less visible and vocal today, it would be a mistake to think that their ideas are no longer of interest to certain segments of our society. Some contemporary New Left groups, while outwardly rejecting dramatic Marxist revolutionary tactics have instead engaged …

A Comparison Of Factors Associated With Past Use, Projected Use, And Perceived Community Need For Health And Social Services, Pat M. Keith

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Life change, political, and demographic factors associated with past use, projected use, and perceived community needs for services by the aged were examined. Data were derived from interviews conducted with men and women 65 or over in a midwestern community. Life changes were more useful in explaining relationships with health and social services among men than were demographic and political variables. But among women, there was less difference in the amount of variance explained by the three groups of variables. Although men and women differed little in the extent to which they had experienced life changes, discontinuity was differentially associated …

Maximizing The Potential Of The Social Work Team: Some Organizational And Professional Considerations, Edward Allan Brawley

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The effective use of different kinds and levels of personnel is a major concern of the social work profession at the present time. A 1974 policy statement of the National Association of Social Workers recognizes several levels of practitioner engaged in the provision of social services: (1) the social service aide who has no formal training; (2) the social service technician who has an associate degree in a social service field or a bachelor's degree in a field other than social work; (3) the social worker with a BSW degree; (4) the graduate social worker with an MSW degree; (5) …

Organizing The Poor, Charles S. Stevens

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

One area of interest in poverty in Urban America has focused attention on the urban poor and their participation. A major consideration about the problem has been the view that poverty is a pervasive condition and that it can be a determinint of behavior. The notion of a "culture of poverty" and a "welfare syndrome" was an expression of this viewpoint indicating poverty is a way of life. A second viewpoint suggests the urban poor are victims of urban society and are therefore restricted from meaningful participation.2 This viewpoint is in contrast to a "culture of poverty", but it does …

Western News, August 31, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Western; Faculty Union Reach 3-Year Tentative Agreement, Ratification Vote Thursday, Bronco Buses on Duty, Oscar Winner Gives Film Talk, Racism; Sexism Lecture Thursday, Martin Mull Is Coming, Former Chairman Martinson Dies

Western News, August 17, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Fire Alarm Testing Schedules Announced, Commencement Marks End of Summer Session, New Health Care Courses Developed, Unique Course in Safety Developed Here, Begin Search for Graduate College Dean, Third Edition of Book Published Here, Buthala Invited to Present Paper, University Awarded Sub-Contract, Eunice S. Le Fevre; Friend of Wmu Libraries; Dies, Search for Pre-Historic Indian Sites, Campus Briefs, Couple Demonstrates Academic “Togetherness”

Western News, August 10, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Upward Bound Receives Financial Support, Orientation Planned for International Students, "State of the University" Address is Sept. 12, Board Makes Name Change, Name Acting Assistant to Dean, Everyone's Favorite Topic is Workshop Theme, Special Education Program Given Federal Grant, WMU Student Chosen for Scholarship, How to Avoid the Police, Social Workers Study Here, "Project Help" Applicants Being Accepted

30-Archaeologieal Survey Of 39 Acre Parcel In The Fort Custer Military Reservation, Battle Creek, Michigan, Robert G. Kingsley

Reports of Investigations

This survey was performed at the request of Mr. George Kopacha of the Government Services Administration. The purpose of the project was to identify any cultural resources within the project area that would warrant mitigation. The 39 acres will possibly undergo land exchange in the future. The field inspection of the parcel was done on July 28, 1978.

29-Archaeological Survey Of Proposed Land Exchange Area (114 Acres) In The Fort Custer Military Reservation, Battle Creek, Michigan, Robert G. Kingsley

Reports of Investigations

This survey was performed at the request of Mr. Larry E. Wile, Assistant Superintendent, Kalamazoo Valley Intermediate School District. The area to be surveyed was outlined by Mr. George Kopacha of the Government Serviees Administration. The survey was intended to locate and identify cultural resources in the project area prior to land exchange. The fieldwork was carried out on July 28, 1978.

Western News, August 3, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Announce 1978-79 P/A & C/T Compensation Plans, School of Librarianship Wins Grant, Grad Students Gain Field Experience, Safety Training Sessions Announced, Directory Listing Options Explained, Examinations for Doctorates Scheduled, Emeriti Invited to Commencement, Parallel Needs Interested People, Dedicate Administration Building