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The Relationship Of Teacher Retention To Personality Style At Visionquest National Limited, Beth Ann Rosica Jan 1997

The Relationship Of Teacher Retention To Personality Style At Visionquest National Limited, Beth Ann Rosica

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Problem. VisionQuest National Limited is a treatment and education program for court-placed students. Recruiting and retaining quality teachers is a problem faced by VisionQuest administrators. Over the course of a school year, there are usually several teaching-position vacancies, and turnover is high, especially in the first few months of employment.

Method. The Keirsey Temperament Sorter, a derivative of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, was administered to all VisionQuest teachers to determine their personality type. The personality types of the VisionQuest teachers were compared to those of teachers in the general population. Length of employment of VisionQuest teachers was also analyzed in …


Selected Factors Influencing Academic Success Of First-Year Students In Seventh-Day Adventist Secondary Schools In Rwanda, Salomon Maniraguha Jan 1997

Selected Factors Influencing Academic Success Of First-Year Students In Seventh-Day Adventist Secondary Schools In Rwanda, Salomon Maniraguha

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Problem. Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools recruit students through a severe entrance examination. However, after 9 months of schooling, more than 20% fail without possibility of repeating the grade or pursuing studies in less academically challenging schools. They are pushed out without means of coping with real life. This situation has multiple negative impacts on families who sell all their belongings in order to send their children to school where they can be prepared for a better life. It is for the interest of the Rwandese to learn which factors may contribute to maintaining these students in school.

Method. Data were …


N-Methylation Of Beta-Carbolines As A Potential Bioactivation Route In Parkinson's Disease, Debra Ann Gearhart Jan 1997

N-Methylation Of Beta-Carbolines As A Potential Bioactivation Route In Parkinson's Disease, Debra Ann Gearhart

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Singlet-Oxygen-Mediated Inactivation Of Acetylcholinesterase: A Comparison Of Purified Enzyme In Solution And Enzyme Bound To K562 Leukemia Cells, Gail D. Deadwyler Jan 1997

Singlet-Oxygen-Mediated Inactivation Of Acetylcholinesterase: A Comparison Of Purified Enzyme In Solution And Enzyme Bound To K562 Leukemia Cells, Gail D. Deadwyler

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Novel Palladium (Ii) Catalysts For Asymmetric Synthesis, Arab El-Qisairi Jan 1997

Novel Palladium (Ii) Catalysts For Asymmetric Synthesis, Arab El-Qisairi

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The Social Construction Of Reality Among Black Disadvantaged Adolescents: A Case Study Exploring The Relationship Of Poverty, Race, And Schooling, Loretta J. Brunious Jan 1997

The Social Construction Of Reality Among Black Disadvantaged Adolescents: A Case Study Exploring The Relationship Of Poverty, Race, And Schooling, Loretta J. Brunious

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Predictions Of Urban, Ethnically Diverse, Early School-Age Children's Academic Achievement Using A Neuropsychological Screening Battery, Stephen R. Clingerman Jan 1997

Predictions Of Urban, Ethnically Diverse, Early School-Age Children's Academic Achievement Using A Neuropsychological Screening Battery, Stephen R. Clingerman

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Perception And Context: A Contextual Theory Of Perception Based Upon Husserl's Theory Of Horizons And James's Theory Of Fringes, Christopher John Broniak Jan 1997

Perception And Context: A Contextual Theory Of Perception Based Upon Husserl's Theory Of Horizons And James's Theory Of Fringes, Christopher John Broniak

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Concerns Of First-Year Teachers In Selected Public Schools, Delores A. Price Jan 1997

Concerns Of First-Year Teachers In Selected Public Schools, Delores A. Price

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Multinuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies Of Anion Binding To Copper, Zinc-Superoxide Dismutase, And Of Lithium Transport And Binding In Cultured Neuroblastoma Cells, Cherian Zachariah Jan 1997

Multinuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies Of Anion Binding To Copper, Zinc-Superoxide Dismutase, And Of Lithium Transport And Binding In Cultured Neuroblastoma Cells, Cherian Zachariah

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Development Of Crosslinking Reagents, And Intra- And Intermolecular Multi-Linking Hemoglobin Molecules As Potential Blood Substitutes, Yaguo Zheng Jan 1997

Development Of Crosslinking Reagents, And Intra- And Intermolecular Multi-Linking Hemoglobin Molecules As Potential Blood Substitutes, Yaguo Zheng

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A Multinuclear Magnetic Resonance Study Of Cesium And Chloride Distribution In Human Erythrocyte Suspensions, Wanrong Lin Jan 1997

A Multinuclear Magnetic Resonance Study Of Cesium And Chloride Distribution In Human Erythrocyte Suspensions, Wanrong Lin

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An Analysis Of The Effects Of Cooperative Learning Vs. Individual Learning In Dealing With High Risk Learners, Robby R. Singer Jan 1997

An Analysis Of The Effects Of Cooperative Learning Vs. Individual Learning In Dealing With High Risk Learners, Robby R. Singer

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The Role Of Transformative Knowledge In Multicultural Education, Sebastian A. Ugochukwu Jan 1997

The Role Of Transformative Knowledge In Multicultural Education, Sebastian A. Ugochukwu

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No abstract provided.


Persisting While Wanting To Change: Research Guided By Parse's Theory, Florence Beryl Pilkington Jan 1997

Persisting While Wanting To Change: Research Guided By Parse's Theory, Florence Beryl Pilkington

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Asymmetric Synthesis By Palladium (Ii) Catalysis: Chirality Transfer And New A Symmetric Catalytic System, Othman Hamed Jan 1997

Asymmetric Synthesis By Palladium (Ii) Catalysis: Chirality Transfer And New A Symmetric Catalytic System, Othman Hamed

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Oxidative Reactions In Normal And Sickle Hemoglobin-Lipid Mixtures Under Various Conditions, Merita Nirmali Dias Jan 1997

Oxidative Reactions In Normal And Sickle Hemoglobin-Lipid Mixtures Under Various Conditions, Merita Nirmali Dias

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Testing A Model Of Degree Progress Among African-American Graduate Students, Mary F. Toliver Jan 1997

Testing A Model Of Degree Progress Among African-American Graduate Students, Mary F. Toliver

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The Black Church: A Hegemonic And Counter-Hegemonic Community Influence, Rupe Simms Jan 1997

The Black Church: A Hegemonic And Counter-Hegemonic Community Influence, Rupe Simms

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No abstract provided.


Competition Between Li+ And Mg2+ For Human Rbcmembrane Phospholipids And Guanine Nucleotide Binding Proteins, Chandra Srinivasan Jan 1997

Competition Between Li+ And Mg2+ For Human Rbcmembrane Phospholipids And Guanine Nucleotide Binding Proteins, Chandra Srinivasan

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No abstract provided.


Pestalozzi's Teachings On Moral Education, Silvia Schmid Jan 1997

Pestalozzi's Teachings On Moral Education, Silvia Schmid

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Understanding The Career Aspirations Of African American Male Adolescents: An Investigation Of The Achievement Motivation, Parenting And Peer Support Components, Malcolm E. Anderson Jan 1997

Understanding The Career Aspirations Of African American Male Adolescents: An Investigation Of The Achievement Motivation, Parenting And Peer Support Components, Malcolm E. Anderson

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An Investigation Of Development Policies Related To The Establishment Of Endowed Chairs At Research I And Ii Universities, Mary K. Mclaughlin Jan 1997

An Investigation Of Development Policies Related To The Establishment Of Endowed Chairs At Research I And Ii Universities, Mary K. Mclaughlin

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The Effect Of Teaching Interventions To Grade School Teachers On The Writing Performance Of Students In The Area Of Persuasive Writing, Nancy J. Mccabe Jan 1997

The Effect Of Teaching Interventions To Grade School Teachers On The Writing Performance Of Students In The Area Of Persuasive Writing, Nancy J. Mccabe

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Ionic Interaction Studies Of Bovine Copper, Zinc-Superoxide Dismutase, Hanan A. Hasan Jan 1997

Ionic Interaction Studies Of Bovine Copper, Zinc-Superoxide Dismutase, Hanan A. Hasan

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No abstract provided.


A Comparative Analysis And Evaluation Of Knowledge Structures Between Expert Novice And Struggling Novice Accounting Students, Michael L. Carroll Jan 1997

A Comparative Analysis And Evaluation Of Knowledge Structures Between Expert Novice And Struggling Novice Accounting Students, Michael L. Carroll

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Ph And Osmolality Effects On Lipid-Enhanced Sickle And Normahemoglobin Oxidation, Sharron Kay Jenkins Jan 1997

Ph And Osmolality Effects On Lipid-Enhanced Sickle And Normahemoglobin Oxidation, Sharron Kay Jenkins

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Gender Discourse In Small Learning Groups Of College-Level Developmental Mathematics Students, Allen W. Emerson Dec 1996

Gender Discourse In Small Learning Groups Of College-Level Developmental Mathematics Students, Allen W. Emerson

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This study was motivated by the question as to whether women’s and men’s membership in different gender communicative cultures gives rise to gender differentiated ways of talking that are implicated in the failure of a mixed-sex group to achieve good mathematical discourse when women and men sit face to face engaged in various mathematical tasks. If so, in what ways and to what effect is gender discourse implicated in the failure of a mixed-sex group to achieve good mathematical discourse?

Models of feminine and masculine discourse styles based on the theory of communicative cultural difference, as well as a model …


Statistical Graphics: Applications To The R And Gr Methods In Linear Models, Mei Huang Wang Dec 1996

Statistical Graphics: Applications To The R And Gr Methods In Linear Models, Mei Huang Wang

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Statistical graphics combine statistics and graphics together to visually display analytical statistical results. They present information in a way that is very easy to understand and, furthermore, they frequently reveal information that is hidden from numerical summaries. Our purpose of this study is to explore the field of statistical graphics by investigating their application to statistical methods in the context of the R and GR methods in linear models. We consider the problems of score selection, R-diagnostics, and comparison of the R- and GR-fits.

We have developed a user friendly program which uses dynamic graphics and a user interface to …


Fluency Training On Quantitative Skills Tested By The Graduate Record Examination, Pamela L. Vunovich Dec 1996

Fluency Training On Quantitative Skills Tested By The Graduate Record Examination, Pamela L. Vunovich

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This research consisted of an evaluation of a Graduate Record Examination (GRE) preparation course and two ancillary studies. Eighteen students enrolled in one of three courses (spring, summer, or fall) during which they spent approximately 140 hours preparing for the GRE using self-instructional texts and supplementary materials. Two sets of fluency practice drills with both accuracy and speed criteria were developed to improve students' performance on the quantitative portion of the GRE. The first set of four drills used in the spring and summer courses covered basic skills (basic math, fractions, decimals, and percentages). The second set of 42 drills, …