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An Historical Analysis Of George S. Counts's Concept Of The American Public Secondary School With Special Reference To Equality And Selectivity, Eunice D. Madon

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An Analysis Of Elementary School Districts With Merit Pay Programs For Their Principals, Winston Johnson

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Job Satisfaction, Occupational Stress, And Perceptions Of Principals Among Social Workers In Chicago Public Schools, Linda Orr Van Doren

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The Principal's Role In Staff Development For Global Education At Selected Elite Chicago Area Secondary Schools, Terryl Stirling

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Socratic Elenchos And Maieusis In Euripides' Medea, Laurie K. Haight

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An Investigation Of The Effects Of Selected Auditory Variables In Third And Eighth Grade Classrooms, Loren David May

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History Of The Chicago Parental School, 1902-1975, Cynthia Kay Barron

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Correlates Of Chronic Volatile Substance Abuse In Juvenile Delinquents, Mark Pedrotty

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Channing H. Tobias: An Educational Change Agent In Race Relations, O Joyce Smith

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A Study Of The Impact Of "Interconnections 90": Scientific And Applied Technology And The Corporate Workplace On Curriculum Change, Marsha K. Bollendorf

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The Psychological And Behavioral Effects Of Political Violence On Palestinian Children Living In The Israeli Occupied West Bank, Kathleen Kostelny

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Theodore Parker's Man-Making Strategy: A Study Of His Professional Ministry In Selected Sermons, John Patrick Fitzgibbons

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An Analysis Of Student Affairs Budget Allocation Practices From 1984-1988 At Urban Public Research Universities, Michael H. Ginsburg

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Re-Entry Experiences Of American Fulbright Scholars To Australia, Jari Hazard

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The Evolving Role Of Research In Mexican Graduate Programs In The Field Of Education: A Case Study Of Six Selected Programs (1980-1992), MariìA Munìƒoz De La Luz Romay

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Solution Options To The Problem Of Growth/Overcrowding As It Manifests Itself In Illinois' Public Schools, Teddy Stephen Struck

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An Analysis Of Coping Behaviors Preferred By Regular High School Students In Their Relationship To Gang-Affiliated Students, James Joseph Skomer

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A Case Study Of The Problem-Solving Dialogue Between A Mentor And A First-Year Teacher, Sally J. Zepeda

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Perceptions Of The Evolution Of The Role Of The Board Of Education Attorney In Northern Illinois: Selective Biographies, 1945-1990, Thomas M. Zafiratos

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An Analysis Of The Effect Of Matching Student Learning Style To The Method Of Instruction, Addamae Akin

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The purpose of this study was to determine if matching student learning style and teacher teaching style w ill result in any difference in achievement of students in the classroom as measured by the number of students receiving credit in ninth-grade world history classes.

The study was conducted in a mid-size Macomb County, Michigan, school district. Two hundred fifteen ninth-grade students and four teachers participated in this study. World history classes were used because of their heterogeneous grouping and because i t was a required ninth-grade class.

Students were administered the Learning Style Profile (Keefe & Monk, 1986) from the …

An Analysis Of The Utilization Of Power By Florence Nightingale 1856-1872, Louise C. Selanders

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This historical analysis sought to determine the types of power utilized by Florence Nightingale while providing leadership to major reforms and how these power acts were implemented- The scope of the study was her productive post- Crimean years from 1856 through 1872. Events which were examined included the reform of the health of the British Army including the Royal Commission, the establishment of modem, secular nursing education and the establishment of public health standards in India during British colonization.

The power acts were examined relative to the constituents of power defined by Dahl (1957). The source of power contained subsets …

Computational Neural Networks In Chemistry: Model Free Mapping Devices For Predicting Chemical Reactivity From Molecular Structure, David Wayne Elrod

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Computational neural networks (CNNs) are a computational paradigm inspired by the brain’s massively parallel network of highly interconnected neurons. The power of computational neural networks derives not so much from their ability to model the brain as from their ability to learn by example and to map highly complex, nonlinear functions, without the need to explicitly specify the functional relationship. Two central questions about CNNs were investigated in the context of predicting chemical reactions: (1) the mapping properties of neural networks and (2) the representation of chemical information for use in CNNs.

Chemical reactivity is here considered an example of …

Women And Leadership: The Effect Of Gender, Gender-Role Orientation, Socioeconomic Status, And Parental Influence On Women’S Aspirations To Leader Roles, Barbara Katherine Kreuzer

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The objective of this study was to determine which factor or combination of factors are related to the degree to which university women aspire to leadership positions. A random sample of university seniors (N=311) from the business, teacher education, and political science curricula were surveyed by mail. The study attempted to answer the following seven research questions: (1) Are there gender differences among university seniors' aspirations to leader positions, (2) are there differences among university seniors' aspirations to leadership based upon curriculum, (3) are there gender differences among university seniors in their projections of classmates into career roles, (4) are …

Sociolinguistic Dimensions Of Nurse Practitioner Practice: A Question Of Power, Merrily J. Allen Dnsc, Mn, Rn

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Ethnographic methods were used to examine the sociolinguistic dimensions of female nurse practitioner interactions with female patients. The purpose was to provide a contextual account of the discursive practices used by the nurse practitioners during routine office visits with female patients. Direction for this research was provided by my concern about power inherent in professional-client dyadic relationships. Data collection methods included formal and informal interviews, participant observation and audio taping nurse-patient encounters. Nine nurse practitioners and 26 patients participated in the study in both private and public ambulatory care settings. Data analysis yielded two concurrent story lines which I labeled …

The Construction Of The Right To Development: The United Nations, Human Rights, And Economic Development, Nader Izzat Said

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The origins of human rights are of interest to social scientists. This study focuses on the construction process of the right to development as related to the UN. The emphasis is on the claims-making processes surrounding the creation of the right to development. To understand these processes, a theoretical framework has been developed. This framework combines interactionism, collective-behavior approaches, a dialectical theory of law-creation, and a capitalist world-economy theory. It is expected that this theoretical framework will explain the specific, organizational, and structural processes that led to the creation of the right to development.

Data for this study came from …

Training And Maintenance Of Breast Self-Examination Skills, Bernardine M. Pinto

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Maintenance of breast self-examination (BSE) skills is crucial to the effectiveness of self-exams in early detection of breast tumors. While researchers have developed an effective technology for training these skills, the maintenance of BSE proficiency is questionable (Pennypacker et al., 1982). The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of reassessment (and retraining) on the maintenance of BSE skills. Twenty-nine women (ages 25-64) were trained to criterion using the MammaCare training package. Experimental subjects were required to demonstrate their skills at a 2 month reassessment and received retraining if their skills had declined below criterion. Control subjects were …

Detection Of Sexual Cues: An Assessment Of Nonaggressive And Sexually Coercive College Males, Rita Kenyon-Jump

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Seventy-four nonaggressive and 78 sexually coercive college males, as determined by the Sexual Experiences Survey (Koss & Oros, 1982) and ranging in age from 18-25 years, participated in a study designed to assess their ability to detect specific behavioral cues of female partners’ unwillingness to engage in kissing, genital fondling, and sexual intercourse. Contrary to prediction, a 2 (nonaggression and sexual coercion) X 3 (kissing, fondling, and intercourse) analysis of variance revealed no statistically significant difference between the nonaggressive and sexually coercive males in their ability to detect cues of female unwillingness to engage in kissing, genital fondling, and sexual …

Perceptions Of Racial Climate In Residence Halls Between African-American And Euroamerican College Students, Vanessa D. Johnson-Durgans

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This study was undertaken to determine if African-American residents perceive the racial climate of residence halls differently than do Euroamerican residents at a predominantly Euroamerican university in southwest Michigan. The questions explored in this study were:

1. Do African-American residents perceive the hall environment differently than Euroamerican residents?

2. Do African-American residents perceive the residence hall government differently than Euroamerican residents?

3. Do African-American residents perceive the halls' student staff differently than Euroamerican residents?

4. Do African-American residents perceive their relation to other residents differently than Euroamerican residents?

This study consisted of analyzing the results of this writer's questionnaire e …

Experimental And Theoretical Analyses Of Instructional Tasks: Reading, Discrimination, And Construction, Satoru Shimamune

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The effectiveness and efficiency of three kinds of workbooks were compared in teaching behavioral systems analysis to college students. Each workbook contained the same content but utilized different types of instructional tasks. The reading workbook had the definitions, and examples and nonexamples of the concepts to be taught, and the subjects were asked to read them. The discrimination workbook had the same definitions, examples and nonexamples, but the subjects were asked to work on discriminating the examples from the nonexamples. Feedback was given with regard to the correctness of the subjects' responses. The construction workbook had the same definitions of …

Identifying A 9-12 Curriculum For High Schools In The Upper Peninsula Of Michigan, Patrick Manning

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The purpose of this study was to identify high school graduation standards for high schools in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The standards should meet the state of Michigan recommendations or standards for high school graduation. In addition, recommendations of local, state , and national studies and commission reports were included. A comparison was made between a ll Upper Peninsula high schools' graduation requirements for both non-college-bound and college-bound students and the Michigan State Board of Education recommended graduation requirements and those of the Michigan College Presidents Council.

Inquiry was made into course cred it requirements for graduation, recommended curriculum …