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A Study Of The Differences Between Prison College Graduates And The Total Released Inmate Population On Recidivism By Risk Category, James Jay Haviland

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When a convicted felon is considered for parole from a correctional institution, several factors relating to his experience while incarcerated are presented before the Parole Board. One of the factors which is considered favorably by the Board and indicative of rehabilitation is an individual's participation in educational programs while serving his sentence. This implies a non-verbal quid-pro-quo exchange. Its effect is to fill classrooms even where no formal requirement compels enrollment (Bowker, 1982, 241).

The purpose of this research was to determine if the completion of a two-year post secondary program while incarcerated, resulted in a lower rate of recidivism …

The Effects Of Fading And Rule-Stating On The Instructed Reacquisition Of A Five-Link Behavioral Chain, Okechukwu S. Ozuzu

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Although instructions tend to generate rapid and near errorless responding during acquisition, this efficiency in performance is not necessarily maintained in reacquisition. The present study addressed this issue of performance maintenance by utilizing procedures designed to strengthen the control function of instruction stimuli.

Five 6 to 10 year-old children, two females and three males, were trained in the repeated acquisition of a behavioral chain using monetary reinforcement. The operanda for the five-component behavioral chain consisted of fifteen plastic discs displayed on an intelligence pad. For each session the subjects’ task was to leam or relearn a new sequential order by …

The Behavioral And Resource Needs Assessment Of The Hispanic Community In Kalamazoo County, Roberto Flachier

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This research was set out to assess in depth the behavioral and resource needs of the Hispanic Community in order to create a data base from which tactics of action could be developed and responsive and necessary services could be planned and initiated. Following are four of the basic assumptions that guided this research. One, Behavioral Health (BH) is directly related to the behavioral and resource base in areas necessary for living. Two, in order to plan responsive and necessary services, it is necessary to know the target community's behavioral and resource base and needs; e.g., in economics, employment, education, …

Relationships In Organizations Between Leaders' Personality Characteristics And Their Hierarchical Levels And Role Foci, Loretta Church

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The purpose of this study was to determine whether leaders' personality characteristics were related to the hierarchical level and the focus of their roles in organizations. Leaders from two industrial plants of two Fortune 500 corporations were selected for the investigation. They comprised a total population of persons responsible for making decisions concerning the use of data, people, or things within the organizations.

Data were collected employing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Functional Job Analysis Self-Report (FJASR). The MBTI instrument identified personality characteristics in terms of two paired and opposite preferences for (1) sensing or intuition, and (2) …

The Facilitative Teacher-Student Relationship And Selected Educational Outcomes, Richard Roy Benedict

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It has been proposed that there are three "facilitative" characteristics of the helpful relationship--genuineness, empathy, and positive regard--which, if offered to students by teachers, would result in desirable educational outcomes. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between teacher facilitative functioning and desirable outcomes of the educational process in secondary schools. Four desirable outcomes were identified: (a) enhanced student self-concepts, (b) student course achievements, (c) more "in-depth" involvement with course content, and (d) more frequent class attendance.

Sixty-eight classrooms (containing over 1,500 senior high school students from four school districts) qualified for study because required subjects were taught within …

The Problem Of Learning Disabilities Students Of Limited English Speaking Background: A Descriptive Study, Raymond Rodriguez

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Teacher Burn-Out: An Investigation Of The Relationship Among Locus Of Control, Job Satisfaction, Self-Esteem And Depression Of Teachers Of The Emotionally Disturbed, Donald Feinstein

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Students' Attitudes Toward Utilization Of Counseling Service In A Nigerian University, Christian Adeyemi Akiwowo

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The Effects Of Repeated Reading Practice On Reading Strategies Of First Grade Readers, John Rowan

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John Ford's Theatre Of Ceremony: A Formal Study Of His Five Major Plays, Chikako D. Kumamoto

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An Investigation Of The Administrator's Role In The Reading Programs Of The Secondary (9-12) Public Schools In Dupage County, Illinois, Robert Keith Wilhite

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Somato-Autonomic Reflexes In Conscious And Anesthetized Dogs, James W. Kozelka

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The Impact Of Federal Programs On The Assigned Responsibilities Of Selected Elementary School Principals, Mcnair Grant

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Ego Identification Of The Preschool Child In The Divorced Single-Parent Family (1960-1980), Frances Ryan

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Assessing A Management Change In Mental Health Screening Using A Switching Replications Time-Series Design, Susan Ann Borkowski Lueger

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A History Of The Due Process Procedure In Special Education, Nancy Hablutzel

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Need-Press Congruence And Attitudes Toward Job Satisfaction And The Alcoholic In Staff Of Residential Treatment Programs, Ernest MaìRquez

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The Leadership Role Of The Principal In The Selection Of Staff For Implementation Of Educational Programs, Raymond T. Kelly

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An Investigation Of A Slosson Intelligence Test Classification Schema As An Aid In Diagnostic-Educational Hypothesis Formulation, Andrea Rolsky

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Information Processing Of The Cerebral Hemispheres In Schizophrenia And Mania, Aurelio Prifitera

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Relationships Among Dream Content, Tat Stories And Self-Reports And Effects Of Pre-Sleep Instructions On Home Dreams, Ross E. Keiser

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An Application Of Information Theory In The Development Of A Reliability Coefficient For Criterion-Referenced Mastery Tests, Richard E. Sherman

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Liberation Theology's Use Of The Exodus As A Soteriological Model, Atilio Rene Dupertuis

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This investigation studies the soteriology of Latin American liberation theology particularly in the light of its use of the Exodus as a liberation model.

Chapter I briefly traces the historical and theological developments in the continent, from its discovery to the present, in an effort to provide a better understanding of the circumstances and currents of thought which led to the emergence of liberation theology.

Chapter II shows that liberation theology takes its starting point from a decided commitment to create a new and more human society, through the radical change of the present unjust social order seen as oppressive …

The Empirical Development Of A Preparation For Marriage Curriculum For Twelfth-Grade Students, Kevin John Howse

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Problem. The purpose of this project was to develop an instructional product that would enrich the student's knowledge about dating and marriage, and teach specific relational skills.

Method. A systematic procedure was undertaken in the development and validation of the product. First, the content of a pre-marriage course was identified through an examination of a large sample of family-life texts, a survey of teacher criticisms and recommendations pertaining to the text Marriage (Christensen, 1980), and an analysis of a group of 317 youth using the Search Institute instrument, Youth Research Survey (Strommen, 1977; see appendix E). Second, the proposed content …

Perceived Family Emotional Relationships, Person Orientations, And Expected-Job-Satisfaction Among Teachers In Training In Mexico : A Test Of Anne Roe's Theory Of Vocational Interest And Choice With The General Culture Group, Saul Torres

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Problem. Anne Roe claims that occupational interests and person orientation develop to a significant extent from the complex interaction of family emotional relationships in the formative years. She describes three basic family patters (Accepting, Concentrating, and Avoiding) of needs satisfaction as antecedents to the two types of person oriention within eight occupational group classifications. Research has mostly failed to support her global occupational predictions. This study explored the specific predictions for a General Culture Group.

Method. A sample of 298 subjects was used from the population of 311 teachers in training at the University of Montemorelos, N. L., Mexico. …

A Role Analysis Of The State-Approved Director Of Special Education In The State Of Illinois, Corinne G. Warsawsky

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A Buberian Critique Of Four Curriculum Theorists, Paul R. Feinberg

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Consultant Training In Counselor Education: North Central Region, John Jurowicz

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Marx' [Sic] Theory Of Social Classes In View Of The Polish Workers' Movement After World War Ii, Wladyslaw Majkowski

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The Importance Of The Item Difficulty Model In Adjusting The Observed Scores In Relationship To The Cut-Score For Mastery Tests, William Ernest Nordbrock

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