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The Seventh-Day Adventist Adult Sabbath School: Its Purpose As Described And Perceived, Sherman Mccormick

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An Exploratory Study Of The Aims And Methods Of Family Worship In The Seventh-Day Adventist Church, L. Edgel Phillips

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Problem

The Adventist Church places a high value on family worship yet less than 50 percent of those surveyed indicated that the observance was practiced. It was posited that an investigation of the aims and methods of family worship might provide a partial answer to this phenomenon. This present study was to determine the underlying dimensions of the aims and methods of family worship and to discover which methods have a significant correlation with the aims of family worship.

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An instrument was developed for collecting data from individual members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church who reside in the geographic …

The Student, The Teacher, And The Text : An Ethnography Of The Literary Acculturation Process In Three Undergraduate Literature Classrooms, Matthew Justice Quartey

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In this study I describe the context and environment in which students in three undergraduate literature classrooms in a mid-western parochial university "acquired a sense of literature," as well as the role played by their teachers in the process. As qualitative research, the study seeks to provide additional insight and understanding of the process of acquiring literary competence. While participant observation and interview were the principal methods used in gathering data, the data also included the use of documents. I examined course syllabi, students' journals, students' written work, and school documents. I also observed each of the three classes at …

Stressors That Affect Psychotherapists' Therapeutic Functioning, Donald E. Wallace

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Problem. The purpose of this study was to look at the stressors psychotherapists experience in their work to determine those that are positive and those that are negative. In addition, this study looked at stressors viewed as positive and negative by several subgroups of psychotherapists based on personality characteristics, gender, age, educational training, level of experience, preferred therapeutic school, and marital status.

Method. The Stressors Check List. Mvers-Briaas Type Indicator. and a demographic sheet were given to a sample of 244 psychotherapists employed at 12 comprehensive mental health centers in the State of Indiana. Statistical analyses included t-tests, one-way …

Self Concept And Family Relations Of American-Lebanese Children: A Descriptive And Comparative Study, Tagrid T. Chartouni

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Problem. There is a great current need to assist and understand American children, especially minorities, through their familial and cultural backgrounds. The purpose of the study was to examine the Kinetic Family Drawings of American-Lebanese children to gain information about their relationship with other family members while comparing them with American-Caucasian children.

Method. The Kinetic Family Drawing was administered to 150 American-Lebanese, and 150 American-Caucasian, age 4-17, through Christian church-activities in Connecticut and Massachusetts. The data were analyzed by t-tests and analysis of variance.

Results. (1) There are few differences between the family drawings of American-Lebanese males and females either …

A Cross-Cultural Study Of The Collectivism-Individualism Paradigm: The Influence Of Confucian Values On The Conflict-Handling Behavior Of Male Graduate Business Students In Hong Kong And The United States, Randy Ki-Kwan Chiu

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Problem. The Collectivism-Individualism literature argues that there is a difference in the way that Americans and the Chinese handle conflict based on differences in culture. It is also speculated that these differences have been influenced by Confucian values. However, these positions have not been conclusively supported by empirical findings.

Method. Both the Chinese Value Survey and Thomas and Kilmann's Management-of-Differences Exercise were administered to 124 U.S. White American graduate business students and 142 Hong Kong Chinese graduate business students. Three null hypotheses were formulated. These hypotheses stated that there is no linear combination of Integration, Human-heartedness, Confucian work dynamism, and …

The Relationship Between Attitudes Toward Women, Rape Myth Acceptance, And Sexual Coercive Experiences Of Male And Female Students At Religious And Public Colleges, Lennard Allan Jorgensen

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Problem. The purpose of this study was to find the prevalence of sexual coercion and to explore relationships between sexual coercion, attitudes toward women, and rape myth acceptance of men and women on Seventh-day Adventist and public college campuses.

Method. Three scales furnished scores for sexual coercive experiences, attitudes toward women, and rape myth acceptance. Multiple- and step-wise regression analyses were used to discover relationships between attitudes toward women, rape myth acceptance, and religious affiliation, college affiliation and sexual coercion. One-way analysis of variance was used to analyze the influence of age, religious affiliation, college affiliation, religion, type of coercion, …

The Johannine Paroimia, Hyunsok Doh

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This investigation studied the use of the Greek term παροιμια in the Gospel of John. In chapter 1 modern and ancient writers who wrote about the παροιμια are reviewed as a background study. The discussions are mostly limited to the area of popular proverbs. The list of παροιμια in the period before the Fourth Gospel revealed that not only proverbial sayings but also idioms and maxims were included in the category of παροιμια. The use of the term in the Septuagint translation and in Philo's writings shifted from the earlier use of theterm because the former, in several places, …

Historical/Analytical Study Of The Contributions Of Alma E. Mckibbin To The Seventh-Day Adventist Church School System, Marie Louise Myers

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"If we don’t understand our roots, we lose sight of our mission" (G. Ralph Thompson). Alma E. McKibbin, the first Seventh-day Adventist church school teacher in California, is little known among Seventh-day Adventists outside that state, where she began teaching in 1896. She developed a Bible curriculum that was used for over half a century in the Seventh-day Adventist church school educational system—a private, religious, parochial organization of over four thousand schools all around the world.

The purpose of this study is to document the contributions she made to that system, with a special emphasis given to the analysis and …

Guidelines For Campus Beautification With Special Reference To Seventh-Day Adventist Academies And Colleges In North America, Larry W. Boughman

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Problem. Few recognize the potential between campus beautification and the enrichment of the institutional programs or the responsibility role of stewardship for school lands. Often, campus beautification has not been considered an important item in capital outlay.

Method. The study utilized the descriptive method. Literature was reviewed to gather concepts related to campus beautification that could be applied to SDA academies and colleges. Ideas were gathered from personal contacts with chairs of other institutions in the area of landscape architecture and from the fifty states that had published guidelines for campus beautification. On the basis of the ideas and information …

A Comparative Study Of The Effects Of Learning Style Prescriptions And/Or Modality-Based Instruction On The Spelling Achievement Of Fifth-Grade Students, Nancy D'Isa Turner

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Problem

Learning style has been studied extensively across the United States since the early 1970s. Much research has involved Rita and Kenneth Dunns' model and associated Learning Style Inventory. In 1991, Robert Zenhausern developed the Homework Disc software program which correlates with the Dunns' work and yields learning style prescriptions for students. The use of these study strategies at the elementary level has not been broadly examined. Therefore, this study investigated the effects of prescriptions on spelling achievement of fifth-grade students.

Method

A total of 65 students (33 males, 32 females) in three intact groups participated in this study. The …

The Development Of Aids Education (K-12) In The United States Through 1989, Judith A. Jennrich

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The News Media Coverage Of The Tet Offensive (1968): Historical Evaluation As And Educational Tool, Edmund J. Rooney

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Perceived Change Of Immigrants In The United States: A Study Of Kerala (Asian Indian) Immigrant Couples In Greater Chicago, Ramola B. Joseph

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The Reconstruction Of The Public Schools After The Great Fire, 1871-1881, Richard F. Murphy

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A Comparison Of Teacher-Principal Perceptions And Their Relationship To Teacher Self-Esteem, Christopher Benedict Dransoff

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Using Iva As A Predictor Of Instructional Performance In A Graduate Management Program, Donald R. Carter

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A Study Of The Women Of Daniel Defoe And Samuel Richardson: A Teiresian Vision, Nancy F. Krippel

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Terms Of Literary Comment In The Epigrams Of Martial, Arthur L. Spisak

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A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study Of Two Groups Of Primiparous African-American Adolescent Mothers, Dianne F. Stone

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An Analysis Of Staff Development Practices In Selected Illinois Elementary School Districts, Barbara J. Mackey

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The Educational Efforts Of The American Jewish Congress To Combat Anti-Semitism In The United States, 1946-1980, Gerald Rosenbaum

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The Relationship Of Self Esteem And Personal Problems To The Academic Success Of Adult Juniors And Seniors At And Upper Division, Commuter University, Peggy G. Woodard

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A Qualitative Study In Medical Sociology And Geriatric Medicine: Challenging Perspectives, Practices, Programs, And Services For Successful Aging In The Twenty-First Century, Marian L. Watson

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Soviet Immigrant Jewry In The Chicago Area (1960-1980): Enculturation And Education, Sharon Rae Bender

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A Comparative Investigation Of The Differential Effects Of American Sign Language And Total Communication On Story Comprehension And Memory In Deaf Children, James F. Altenbach

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The Relationship Of The Frisian Mennonites To The Public Schools Of Elkhart County, Indiana, 1853-1885, Judith K. Bailey

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Catholic Elementary Schools In Chicago's Black Inner City: Mission And Organizational Effectiveness Volume 1, Sheila Nelson

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Catholic Elementary Schools In Chicago's Black Inner City: Mission And Organizational Effectiveness Volume 2, Sheila Nelson

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John Locke On The Naturalness Of Rights, Peter C. Myers

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