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Paul Green, Symphonic Drama, And Popular Culture., Carolyn Craft Leech
Paul Green, Symphonic Drama, And Popular Culture., Carolyn Craft Leech
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Paul Green's symphonic dramas represent a collective memory for and a challenge to American popular culture. Green's artistic insight and dramatic innovation allowed him to applaud that culture and to inform it as he lauded past values of individual vision, courage, and hard work and urged compassionate confirmation of individual dignity. Green recorded features of mass culture, beginning with the people of his own North Carolina origin and eventually embracing the expanse of his country's geography and history. Green celebrated and defended the common man, and he created his literary works (especially his symphonic dramas) to cater to the tastes …
A Multimodal Analysis Of Pain-Related Anxiety: Relations Between Anxiety Reports, Physiological Responses, And Avoidance During Painful And Non-Painful Movement., Lance Maxwell Mccracken
A Multimodal Analysis Of Pain-Related Anxiety: Relations Between Anxiety Reports, Physiological Responses, And Avoidance During Painful And Non-Painful Movement., Lance Maxwell Mccracken
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Persons with chronic pain often display extreme disability, distress, and other pain behaviors. It is clear that behavioral factors significantly contribute to the consequences of pain for many of these persons. The purpose of this study was to investigate relations of fearful cognitions about pain with other anxiety responses to pain including subjective reports of anxiety, physiological responses, and amount of activity during painful and nonpainful physical tasks. To show that these responses covary is to suggest that the same principles that apply to anxiety behaviors may apply equally well to the behavior of persons with chronic pain and that …
The Academic Adjustment Of International Students By Country Of Origin At A Land Grant University In The United States., Georgine Konyu-Fogel
The Academic Adjustment Of International Students By Country Of Origin At A Land Grant University In The United States., Georgine Konyu-Fogel
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The purpose of the study was to compare and contrast international students attending West Virginia University by country of origin to examine their academic success and academic adjustment at West Virginia University. Data were collected by a mail survey, contacting 622 international students from India, Japan, Korea, People's Republic of China, Republic of China (Taiwan), and Spain (countries with the largest number of enrollment at West Virginia University during academic year 1992-93). From 552 actual contacts, 290 responses were collected (52.5% response rate). Treatment of data included descriptive and inferential statistics. Cronbach coefficient alphas and Pearson correlation matrix were computed …
A Comparison Of The Stad And Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Methods In A College-Level Microcomputer Applications Course., Nina Zetty
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This study examined the effects of two cooperative learning methods on the achievement, computer anxiety, and classroom environmental preferences (whole class, small cooperative groups, or individualized) of college-level students in two microcomputer applications classes. One group received instruction using the Student Teams Achievement Division (STAD) method (n = 26), while the other group was taught using the Jigsaw method (n = 27); both groups were taught for one semester (15-weeks) by the same instructor. Although both cooperative groups reported statistically significant achievement gains for each application, the Jigsaw group scored significantly higher than the STAD group with the DOS {dollar}(F(1, …
The Effects Of Ericksonian Resource Retrieval On Musical Performance Anxiety., Joseph John Richard
The Effects Of Ericksonian Resource Retrieval On Musical Performance Anxiety., Joseph John Richard
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The therapeutic approach Ericksonian Resource Retrieval (ERR) is compared to a proven technique for the reduction of musical performance anxiety (MPA) with college student musicians (n = 21) during the jury process. ERR is a technique which utilizes previous life experiences in dealing with future performance. Measures included: the Cognitive Strategies Assessment (CSA), the Personal Report of Confidence as a Performer (PRCP), the A-State Scale (STAI) and Jury Scores (JS). The ERR treatment group demonstrated significant reduction of MPA on both the PRCP and STAI. Also, a screening instrument for MPA (the MPSI) is developed (n = 104) which evidenced …
The Effects Of Self-Graphing On Regular, At-Risk And Special Needs Students' Oral Reading Fluency And Comprehension., William D. Farrer
The Effects Of Self-Graphing On Regular, At-Risk And Special Needs Students' Oral Reading Fluency And Comprehension., William D. Farrer
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There are regular and at-risk students in regular education who are not progressing academically. The emphasis of keeping students in the regular reading classroom, while meeting their individual needs makes effective documentation vital. This study indicated that frequent measuring of student progress by collecting and graphing data can be useful. A multiple baseline design across behaviors and students was employed to determine if self-graphing would affect greater and more rapid change in student progress. All students showed improvement when they self-graphed words per minute (WPM) and rated their daily performance. Because improvement in WPM occurred only when self-graphing was introduced, …
Foot-In-The-Door And Cancer Prevention, Danielle J. Dolin
Foot-In-The-Door And Cancer Prevention, Danielle J. Dolin
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Foot-in-the-door (FITD) technique was applied to a health care setting to determine if this compliance method could be used toward increasing cancer prevention rates. Self-perception was used as the theoretical explanation for the FITD technique. Subjects were mall merchants attending the setting during two days of a scheduled area health fair. Two groups were run. One cell received both a first and second request (the FITD cell), while the control cell received only the second request. As expected, statistically significant effects indicated higher compliance rates of the FITD group. Attitude measures concerning the general topic of prevention and the topic …
Transcendent Teacher-Learner Relationships: A Vision For Pursuit., Hunter O'Hara
Transcendent Teacher-Learner Relationships: A Vision For Pursuit., Hunter O'Hara
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Mounting outcry for improvement in education gives rise to consideration of learning phenomena that soar above the symptoms of an ailing system. Transcendent teacher-learner relationships, defined as spontaneously occurring ones that exceed traditional roles of interaction, result in turning point encounters for one or both relators. Having had such an encounter, the individual is never again quite the same, as perceptions are changed and life goals are altered. Teacher and learner move beyond the historical preoccupation with the learner's receptive need. Such relationships are never assigned, but instead they require two self-motivated relators who share a biographically oriented connection. This …
School-Based Community Service: A Descriptive Analysis Of Four High School Programs., David Richard Procter
School-Based Community Service: A Descriptive Analysis Of Four High School Programs., David Richard Procter
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The study evaluated the panegyrical claims for high school-based community service programs. Four high school programs from three different states were selected to represent public, private-parochial, single and mixed gender, urban, suburban, and rural orientations. A repeated measure quantitative research design was developed and implemented as well as a qualitative study involving student and teacher/coordinator interviews. A survey instrument consisting of three scales--Social Isolation, Powerlessness, and Political Efficacy--was administered to experimental groups of student volunteers in each of four schools before and after programs involving student participation in community activities. The time periods between pre and post-tests ranged from one …
Countertransference Reactions Toward Incest Victims: A Qualitative Investigation., Susan Carol Bates
Countertransference Reactions Toward Incest Victims: A Qualitative Investigation., Susan Carol Bates
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This was a qualitative study investigating countertransference reactions toward incest victims and how these reactions impacted the therapist. Two caucasian male and two caucasian female therapists were participants. Their level of education varied from masters' degrees (n = 3) to a doctoral degree (n = 1). Years of experience ranged from 5 to 25 years. Each participant agreed to an in-depth interview, to maintain a journal for three months recording reactions toward two current sexual abuse clients, and to an exit interview. Qualitative analyses employing recommendations by Hycner (1985) were utilized. Results described a diversity of reactions and management of …
The Relationships Among Teachers' Immediacy Behaviors, Credibility, And Social Style And Students' Motivation And Learning: Comparisons Among Cultures., Catherine Ann Thompson
The Relationships Among Teachers' Immediacy Behaviors, Credibility, And Social Style And Students' Motivation And Learning: Comparisons Among Cultures., Catherine Ann Thompson
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Recent research offers insight concerning the roles of teachers' verbal immediacy, nonverbal immediacy, and credibility in American classrooms, but little work has been done to test the universal effects of these constructs. The primary purpose of this research was to extend previous research by comparing in different cultural groups the relationships among students' perceptions of teachers' immediacy, credibility, and social style in relation to students' perceptions of their own motivation and learning. Relationships among students' perceptions of teachers' verbal immediacy, nonverbal immediacy, competence, character, assertiveness, and responsiveness and students' motivation, cognitive learning, affective learning, and behavioral learning as well as …
Transformative Teachers: Lives Of Passion And Purpose., Laura Van Vorhis
Transformative Teachers: Lives Of Passion And Purpose., Laura Van Vorhis
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This heuristic, cross-cultural study explored how transformative teachers embody, nurture, and convey their pedagogical purposes in the classroom. Transformative teachers challenge the status quo in an area of personal importance, whether it be teacher-student relationships, teaching for social change, teaching for personal growth and meaning, or teaching beyond traditional academic standards. Participants included eight secondary and post-secondary teachers from North America and Lithuania. Because participants were selected through a student nomination process as being educators who inspired learners to change personal circumstances, join a political or social movement, or develop a purpose in life, they represented not only different academic …
"Losers At The Game?" Male Protagonists In Four Novels Of Henry James., Sandra Rosalynne Woods
"Losers At The Game?" Male Protagonists In Four Novels Of Henry James., Sandra Rosalynne Woods
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This study examines the male American protagonists from four of Henry James's major novels, Roderick Hudson, The American, The Bostonians, and The Ambassadors. Considerations of the generic Jamesian hero usually include James's heroines, and numerous works have concentrated on James's female protagonists, but few comparable attempts have been made to focus exclusively on James's male protagonists. Both the dynamic character of James's literary career and the extraordinary range of James's female characters suggest that such a study may be warranted. The scale of modes delineated by Northrop Frye in Anatomy of Criticism provides an archetypal base for this study. Because …
Development Of A Measure Of Therapist Trustworthiness, Gregory M. Alberts
Development Of A Measure Of Therapist Trustworthiness, Gregory M. Alberts
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Graduate and professional therapist training programs emphasize the acquisition of technical skills (Stevenson & Norcross, 1987) and deemphasize the promotion of interpersonal and relationship competencies (Lambert, 1989; Schiffman, 1987 ) . The content of such training programs and the procedures by which the competencies of prospective mental health practitioners are developed and evaluated have been critic ized because neither are based on an adequate fund of clinically relevant empirical knowledge (Ford, 1979; Garfield, 1977; Matarazzo, 1978; Ponterotto & Furlong, 1985; Scofield & Yoxtheimer, 1983).
Rural Female College Graduates: Barriers And Catalysts To A College Education., Sue Diane Day-Perroots
Rural Female College Graduates: Barriers And Catalysts To A College Education., Sue Diane Day-Perroots
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Many of the known cultural, familial, historical and geographical deterrents to education exist within the rural female population from six counties in southern West Virginia. Through feminist survey research, this qualitative study is an analysis of the common themes that arise in the lives of rural women who have earned a college degree, using women's narratives to provide insights into existing research. Based on a 42 percent return on a 14 page survey, 110 rural college educated women responded to 41 open-ended and forced-choice questions about parental demographics, childhood and public school experiences, hometown descriptors and college attendance. The women …
A Comparison Of Seat Belt Use Attitudes And Behaviors Of Regular And Exceptional Students And Their Parents., Sandra Kay Vanin
A Comparison Of Seat Belt Use Attitudes And Behaviors Of Regular And Exceptional Students And Their Parents., Sandra Kay Vanin
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Each year nearly one million individuals suffer a head trauma. Many will sustain permanent injuries resulting in behavior and learning problems. In addition, both the individual and the family will accrue thousands of dollars in hospital and rehabilitation costs. It has been estimated that 4,500 lives are saved and 119,000 serious injuries are prevented each year by using a seat belt. Thirty-three states and the District of Columbia have mandatory seat belt laws. West Virginia, with the third highest non-seat belt use, has failed in three legislative sessions to pass such legislation. Over 200 Monongalia County fourth, fifth and sixth …
Self-Understanding And Empathy Development In Seasoned Psychotherapists: A Qualitative Study., Linda M. Sandel
Self-Understanding And Empathy Development In Seasoned Psychotherapists: A Qualitative Study., Linda M. Sandel
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How do persons come to want to be helpers? What types of circumstances and life events help psychotherapists nurture and develop personal and professional self-awareness and self-understanding, as well as empathic ability? How does the practice of psychotherapy influence the lives of practitioners? Few research efforts have addressed these questions. An extensive literature review on the development of self-understanding in therapists suggested that the paradigm of the "wounded-healer", and the concept of narcissism, have often been used as a basis for exploring answers to these questions. Conceptually, it has been suggested that the healing of personal issues is a critical …
An Exploratory Study Of Moral Judgment Of Higher Education Administrators., Betsy Barger Cook
An Exploratory Study Of Moral Judgment Of Higher Education Administrators., Betsy Barger Cook
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The relationships between the moral judgment score as measured by Rest's Defining Issues Test and certain demographic variables of higher education administrators were investigated. In addition, five personal interviews with higher education administrators were conducted to obtain personal anecdotes on decision making in ethical dilemmas. The population for the quantitative portion was a sample of all presidents, vice presidents for academics or provosts and academic deans at all four-year public higher education institutions in the United States. The research method used the DIT, an objective psychological test of moral judgment, and a demographic questionnaire developed by the researcher. To determine …
An Examination Of The Relationship Of Violations Of Students' Expectancies Of Teachers' Nonverbal Immediacy And Perceived Teachers' Nonverbal Immediacy Behaviors On Learning., Mark Alan Seiffert
An Examination Of The Relationship Of Violations Of Students' Expectancies Of Teachers' Nonverbal Immediacy And Perceived Teachers' Nonverbal Immediacy Behaviors On Learning., Mark Alan Seiffert
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This investigation examined a model of Burgoon's Violation of Expectancy theory (Burgoon, 1978; Burgoon & Hale, 1987) as applied to the instructional context. Students' perceptions of teacher nonverbal immediacy were used in conjunction with the Expectancy Violation Model to predict amount of student learning. At the beginning of a term, students were asked to complete questionnaires assessing the expected level of nonverbal immediacy for one of their instructors. One week later, and at midterm, students were asked to complete questionnaires assessing the level of nonverbal immediacy evidenced by their instructors and the students' perceptions of the amount of learning that …
Student Demographic And Performance Variables Related To Performance On The Pre-Professional Skills Mathematics Test., Sally Hardwick Digman
Student Demographic And Performance Variables Related To Performance On The Pre-Professional Skills Mathematics Test., Sally Hardwick Digman
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The consequences of failure on the PPST Mathematics Test can be devastating for individuals in states requiring a passing score for teacher certification. This concern prompted the researcher to investigate the variables related to performance on the PPST Mathematics Test. The dependent measures were PPST Mathematics Test Raw Scores and Pass/Fail Scores. The demographic variables included Age, Sex, State, High School Mathematics Coursework, College Rank, and Teaching Area. The performance variables included High School GPA, ACT Mathematics Test, Nelson-Denny Reading scores, WVU Mathematics Department Computation and Word Problem scores, and Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal scores. Subjects were 164 teacher education …
Maternal Perceptions Of Preterm And Term Infants Using The Neonatal Perception Inventory Ii: A Comparative Study., Karen E. Miles
Maternal Perceptions Of Preterm And Term Infants Using The Neonatal Perception Inventory Ii: A Comparative Study., Karen E. Miles
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The purpose of this study was to compare the perceptions of mothers of preterm infants with the perceptions of the mothers of term infants, and to identify the variables related to these perceptions that may place these infants at increased risk for later psychosocial problems. The Neonatal Perception Inventory (NPI II), a simple, often-used assessment of maternal perceptions, was used for this study. Subjects were 36 mothers of healthy, term infants and 14 mothers of healthy, preterm infants who delivered at a regional perinatal center. The NPI II was mailed to the mothers after their infants had been home from …
An Adult Education Program Planning Model For The National Universities Of Egypt., Waguida A. El Bakary
An Adult Education Program Planning Model For The National Universities Of Egypt., Waguida A. El Bakary
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In view of the success of American program planning models and their potential contribution to adult education centers at the national universities of Egypt, the researcher wanted to investigate the usefulness of such models to the Egyptian national universities. Six U.S. program planning models by Boyle (1981), Houle (1972), Knowles (1970), Knox and Associates (1980), Sork and Buskey (1986), and Tyler (1949) were selected and synthesized. The researcher developed a model, based on 15 steps and 73 key tasks. She introduced it for testing to determine its usefulness for the national universities of Egypt. Testing was done through the use …
Development Of A Formative Evaluation Process For University Chief Student Affairs Administrators., Michael Redzich
Development Of A Formative Evaluation Process For University Chief Student Affairs Administrators., Michael Redzich
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The purpose of this study was to develop a process, including an instrument, to evaluate the chief student personnel administrator at a university, not only for the purpose of performance assessment, but also to serve as a means of self-assessment and personal and professional development. Six research questions focus on the most relevant and important factors to be included in the evaluation process for this position. The answers to these six questions were obtained from two panels of experts. The first panel consisted of those who have published their research regarding academic administrator evaluation. These experts are cited because evaluation …
On The Threshold Of The Ever-Returning Past: Djuna Barnes' "Nightwood" As A Labyrinth Of The Liminal Grotesque., Virginia Ellen Leonard
On The Threshold Of The Ever-Returning Past: Djuna Barnes' "Nightwood" As A Labyrinth Of The Liminal Grotesque., Virginia Ellen Leonard
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Nightwood is a novel of life lived in the interstices of time and space by marginal characters, epitomized by the night people of Vienna, Paris, and Berlin. These epicenters of the cultural revolutions of the early twentieth century drew expatriates from all over the world. This novel captures the essence of marginality in images of the grotesque, the most appropriate symbol of the liminal life and the most useful art form to consider when investigating the complex style of a simple tale. In consequence, I use an interdisciplinary approach, combining art history of the grotesque, analysis of major motif patterns …
Taking A Stand: A Naturalistic Study Of Stance Negotiation In Student Teaching., Jody Messinger Wolfe
Taking A Stand: A Naturalistic Study Of Stance Negotiation In Student Teaching., Jody Messinger Wolfe
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This research was an exploratory investigation of stance in teacher learning. The concept of stance is suggested by the work of Bruner and Schon and is rooted in a constructivist perspective on knowledge. When applied to teaching, stance can be defined as a teacher's position toward the world of teaching, discernible in the verbal and behavioral language of practice. A teacher's stance is negotiated through experiencing various elements of teaching, constructing cognitive representations of these experiences, and taking a stand toward them. The researcher employed a naturalistic design to study stance in the context of one secondary Social Studies student …
Instructional Design And Interactive Videodisc In Cai., Robert Franklin Perkins
Instructional Design And Interactive Videodisc In Cai., Robert Franklin Perkins
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This study uses the Product Development Cycle developed by W. James Popham and Eva L. Baker as a systems approach to Computer-Aided-Instruction development. This process establishes seven stages (Formulation, Item Specification, Item Tryout, Product Development, Product Tryout, Product Revision, and Operations Analysis) and rules that are to be followed at each stage. Formative and summative evaluation are incorporated to improve the product's development. Instructional design is integrated into this process by using Component Display Theory developed by M. David Merrill. Merrill uses a Performance-Content matrix to develop learner objectives and items to test performance. Presentation Forms (Primary and Secondary) are …
A Study Of Human Performance In The Event Of An Unexpected Robot Motion., Yves Beauchamp
A Study Of Human Performance In The Event Of An Unexpected Robot Motion., Yves Beauchamp
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This study evaluates factors that could affect human performance in the event of an unexpected robot motion. The study evaluated the following factors associated with a robot work station: illumination level, noise level, the luminance contrast between the robot and its background, the amount of attention required by a task being performed while monitoring the movement of the robot, the motion speed of the robot, and finally the field where unexpected motions were initiated. The dependent variable measured was the distance the robot moved before the subject detected and responded to the unexpected motion. In a main experiment, nine subjects …
Life Stress, Locus-Of-Control, And Sport Competition Anxiety Patterns Of College Student-Athletes., Edward Fredrick Etzel
Life Stress, Locus-Of-Control, And Sport Competition Anxiety Patterns Of College Student-Athletes., Edward Fredrick Etzel
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In an effort to better understand the patterns of life stress sources, stress reactions, and perceptions of control over life situations of college student-athletes, a battery of three self-report instruments were administered to 400 male and female student-athletes at a medium size, land grant university. Responses from 263 individuals on the Campus Stress Questionnaire, Levenson's locus of control questionnaire, and the Sport Competition Anxiety Test, indicated that the student-athletes perceived they experienced significantly greater amounts of overall life stress, cognitive stress symptoms, and less sport competition anxiety than the norm. Respondents reported they own a significantly more external locus of …
A Comparison Of Three Prompt-Fading Methods In Computer Software Training., Thorlakur Karlsson
A Comparison Of Three Prompt-Fading Methods In Computer Software Training., Thorlakur Karlsson
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Computers have become a significant part of many people's daily life. Accompanying this trend, more resources have been devoted to software training. American businesses alone spend over {dollar}1 billion dollars on training people to use computer software each year. Part of this cost might be reduced by devising more effective training. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to evaluate whether training effectiveness could be improved by manipulating one critical feature of training, the kind of prompting strategy used. Nine college students were trained to use a spreadsheet program with a complete-prompting method, which involves telling subjects what keys to …
Development Of Celeration-Based Instructional Software That Teaches Sequelic Intraverbal Behavior., John Winston Eshleman
Development Of Celeration-Based Instructional Software That Teaches Sequelic Intraverbal Behavior., John Winston Eshleman
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The present paper describes a program of research to develop, test and refine a prototype of computer-based instructional (CBI) software that teaches a sequelic intraverbal repertoire efficiently and effectively. Significant educational implications arise from any verbal behavior research that both sheds light on how an intraverbal repertoire can be changed, and which simultaneously leads to a teaching technology that rapidly brings about high fluency. The present research centers around an engineering effort to do just that, beginning with a computer-based analogue of precision teaching SAFMEDS, a method of teaching using flashcards in precisely timed and recorded sessions. Programmed in BASIC, …