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The Effects Of A Parental Life-Threatening Illness On Children's Adjustment., Christa M. Holland Jan 1997

The Effects Of A Parental Life-Threatening Illness On Children's Adjustment., Christa M. Holland

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Mental health professionals are increasingly examining psychosocial issues of individuals with medical illnesses. Research has demonstrated that when the medical patient is a parent, the entire family experiences the crisis and impact of the diagnosis and treatment. Despite these findings, few studies have examined the impact of a parental life-threatening illness on children. The psychological and behavioral adjustment of children with a parent receiving a bone marrow transplant (BMT) was compared to that of children in a matched community group. Forty child-parent dyads (20 BMT and 20 Community) completed three self-report measures at pre and post-BMT to assess children's behavior, …

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The Relationship Of Demographic And Psychological Variables To Career Maturity Of Junior College Student-Athletes., Alan S. Kornspan Jan 1997

The Relationship Of Demographic And Psychological Variables To Career Maturity Of Junior College Student-Athletes., Alan S. Kornspan

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the career maturity of junior college student-athletes. Specifically investigated was the relationship of demographic (e.g., gender, age, race, and year in school) and psychological variables (e.g., athletic identity, career self-efficacy, and career development locus of control) and their relationship to career maturity. Participants included 259 (74 females and 178 males) junior-college student-athletes. Overall, 145 freshmen and 114 sophomores completed the survey. The majority of the participants (n = 185) were Caucasian and 74 were African-American. Each student-athlete completed a survey packet consisting of the demographic information questionnaire, the Career Maturity Inventory, the …

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Prescriptive Authority And Psychology: A Delphi Study., Clarence Craig Farmer Jan 1997

Prescriptive Authority And Psychology: A Delphi Study., Clarence Craig Farmer

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Even though the American Psychological Association has formally endorsed that appropriately trained psychologists be afforded prescriptive authority (APA, 1996b, 1996c), this issue continues to be divisive within the profession. In an attempt to further assess disagreement between psychologists regarding this issue as well as explore areas of agreement, a two round Delphi study was used to predict the probability and desirability of specific occurrences if prescriptive authority is obtained within the next 10 years. A 37 statement Delphi questionnaire was developed from the literature addressing psychologists obtaining prescriptive authority. Twenty-two experts (11 in favor of psychologists obtaining prescriptive authority and …

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Allies, Adversaries Or Just Apathy? Social Work Licensure And Faculty Knowledge And Perceptions., Barbara Cox Matz Jan 1996

Allies, Adversaries Or Just Apathy? Social Work Licensure And Faculty Knowledge And Perceptions., Barbara Cox Matz

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The study explored the knowledge and perceptions of faculty of masters level schools of social work about social work licensure and the licensing examination and the interactions of social work faculty with boards of social work examiners. A questionnaire was mailed to 989 Council on Social Work Education members which queried their knowledge about licensure and the licensure examination and about their interaction with boards of social work examiners. 493 questionnaires were returned. Respondents thought licensure was important to the standing of social work as a profession, that licensure will have a long term impact on the profession and that …

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Identification And Analysis Of Communication Patterns In An Ihe With A Downsized Unit., William Earl Noone Jan 1996

Identification And Analysis Of Communication Patterns In An Ihe With A Downsized Unit., William Earl Noone

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This dissertation is a case study of the University of Maryland at College Park for the purpose of analyzing the communication patterns that may have been responsible for the success of UMCP's downsizing process. On campus interviews with key persons were conducted to identify the flow of communication through the UMCP authority hierarchy. The findings of this study indicated that the communication, that appears to have had a positive effect on the success of the process at the UMCP, is manifest at the decision making level and between and among the decision making bodies that are in operation on the …

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Behaviorological Analysis And Evaluation Of Functional Controls Over Verbal Behavior During Persuasive Argument., Barbara Ann Fallon Jan 1996

Behaviorological Analysis And Evaluation Of Functional Controls Over Verbal Behavior During Persuasive Argument., Barbara Ann Fallon

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Both academic and business communities are concerned about how the conduct of argument affects decisions made by small groups. While most parties with experience in argument have intuitive ideas about why argument occurs as it does, empirical evidence is seldom available. This multi-subject single-case investigation identifies relations among kinds of statements made during persuasive argument. Argument was conducted during five separate experimental sessions between different pairs of people. The participants in the study were five native English speaking West Virginia University graduate students. The data sets from each argument allowed comparison of intervention effects within and across experimental sessions. Data …

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The Process Of Home-Based Early Intervention: A Case Study Of A Family Educator In An Appalachian Community., Carole Ann Gnatuk Jan 1996

The Process Of Home-Based Early Intervention: A Case Study Of A Family Educator In An Appalachian Community., Carole Ann Gnatuk

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Many parents need support and intervention from the community to realize their essential role as their young children's primary teachers. Home visitation is one type of family support program that supplies that need. Although some measurable outcomes for children and parents in such programs have been noted, the dynamics of the action between the catalyst for development, the family educator, and family members cannot be measured quantitatively. Programming and funding decisions can be made with more accuracy if the rich human interactions are systematically narrated and thus appreciated as essential data. The research literature contains few qualitative studies focusing on …

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A Study Of Job Satisfaction Of Female Public School Administrators In West Virginia., Teresa R. Hardman Jan 1996

A Study Of Job Satisfaction Of Female Public School Administrators In West Virginia., Teresa R. Hardman

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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between both the demographic characteristics and the personality type of females in administrative positions in the West Virginia public school systems, and the extent to which those administrators expressed satisfaction in their positions. The total population of 324 female public school administrators in West Virginia were surveyed. Each participant was mailed a survey packet containing a cover letter, a demographics sheet and two questionnaires. The demographics sheet, a Survey of West Virginia Female Public School Administrators, was adapted from previous surveys (Hawthorne, 1985; Hutchens, 1990; Mauter, 1980). The questionnaires used …

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The Effects Of Human Relations Skills Training On Teacher Job Satisfaction And Self-Efficacy When Assisting Emotionally Distressed Students And Parents., Ann V. Shaver Jan 1996

The Effects Of Human Relations Skills Training On Teacher Job Satisfaction And Self-Efficacy When Assisting Emotionally Distressed Students And Parents., Ann V. Shaver

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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a 12 hour human relations training workshop upon the variables: (1) teacher rating of daily student and parent communications support self-efficacy; (2) teacher perceptions of the outcome of their daily supportive communication; (3) teacher feelings of competency when addressing specific student populations; and (4) daily ratings of job satisfaction. Participants included 28 of 35 Title I reading and mathematics teachers from Marion County, Fairmont, West Virginia. A time series, quasi-experiment design (similar to the multiple baseline design across behaviors) was utilized as a means of examining teacher reports of …

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Intensity Of Systemic Alarms In Content-Specific Fear Conditioning Comparing 20 Percent Vs. 13 Percent Carbon Dioxide-Enriched Air As Ucss., John Patrick Forsyth Jan 1996

Intensity Of Systemic Alarms In Content-Specific Fear Conditioning Comparing 20 Percent Vs. 13 Percent Carbon Dioxide-Enriched Air As Ucss., John Patrick Forsyth

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To examine the relation between the intensity of systemic bodily events and content-specific fear conditioning to stimuli that are fear-relevant or prepared for such associations, the present study involved a direct comparison between the conditioning effects produced by 20% and 13% CO{dollar}\\sb2{dollar}-enriched air (UCSs) to three CS types: external fear-relevant (snake moving toward viewer), internal fear-irrelevant (human heart beating arrhythmically), or neutral control (flowers swaying in the wind). Sex-balanced groups of undergraduate participants (N = 96) were assigned to one of the three CSs, and within each CS, to either 20% or 13% CO{dollar}\\sb2{dollar}-enriched air (UCSs). A variety of autonomic …

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The Effects Of A Differential Reinforcement And Stimulus History For Following Rules On Insensitivity To New Contingencies., Keith Edward Ruckstuhl Jan 1996

The Effects Of A Differential Reinforcement And Stimulus History For Following Rules On Insensitivity To New Contingencies., Keith Edward Ruckstuhl

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This series of experiments investigated whether a history of reinforcement for following or not following rules under different stimulus conditions leads to differential sensitivity to changes in contingencies under those stimulus conditions. Subjects were provided with instructions in the presence of a yellow stimulus that positively corresponded with both fixed ratio (FR) and differential reinforcement of low rates (DRL) schedules of reinforcement. Subjects were also provided with instructions in the presence of a blue stimulus that either negatively corresponded with the FR and DRL schedules, or did not correspond at all with these schedules. Subjects whose behavior followed the instructions …

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An Investigation Of Gender Equity In The Medical Coverage And Injury Prevention Of Basketball Programs As Identified By Head Athletic Trainers At Ncaa Division I Colleges And Universities., Joseph Alan Beckett Jan 1996

An Investigation Of Gender Equity In The Medical Coverage And Injury Prevention Of Basketball Programs As Identified By Head Athletic Trainers At Ncaa Division I Colleges And Universities., Joseph Alan Beckett

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The purpose of this study was to investigate gender equity in medical coverage and injury prevention of basketball programs at NCAA Division I colleges and universities. The population for this study were 100 randomly sampled head athletic trainers at NCAA Division I colleges and universities that compete in both men's and women's basketball. Each participant was mailed a survey packet containing a cover letter and a questionnaire. The total return rate was 69%. The data were analyzed using the Statistical Analysis Systems. Analyses of Variance, Chi-Square, frequency distributions, and Duncan's Multiple Range Tests were used to answer the two research …

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A Historical Study Of Educational Reform Policy In Morocco., Abdellah Benahnia Jan 1996

A Historical Study Of Educational Reform Policy In Morocco., Abdellah Benahnia

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Though information about literacy development in Morocco can be often found in professional publications, little has been done in regard to the impact of the socio-cultural, economic, and political variables on the development of educational policy in that country. This study has historically examined the educational reform policy in the independent Kingdom of Morocco in order to see how the above variables have affected the implementation of most major policies that had taken place. It also examined the role of the indigenous Islamic traditional type of education; the role of Salafiyya movement in creating a unique type of nationalism; and …

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Childhood Immunizations In Rural West Virginia: Identification Of Immunization Barriers And Development Of Persuasion Strategies., Prasanna Rameshchandra Gore Jan 1996

Childhood Immunizations In Rural West Virginia: Identification Of Immunization Barriers And Development Of Persuasion Strategies., Prasanna Rameshchandra Gore

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Despite the availability of effective vaccines, immunization rates among two-year old children continue to be low in many areas of the United States including West Virginia. The overall goal of this study was to identify barriers to childhood immunization in rural West Virginia, determine factors that are important in the timely completion of the childhood immunization schedule, develop and validate immunization persuasion messages, and determine which message strategy, fear, motherhood-arousal or rational is most effective in attracting mothers' attention to their child's past-due immunization status. The study was conducted in two phases. In phase I, a telephone survey was used …

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An Assessment Of Chinese Culture Courses In The Colleges And Universities Of The United States And Canada., Zi-Qiao Zhang Jan 1996

An Assessment Of Chinese Culture Courses In The Colleges And Universities Of The United States And Canada., Zi-Qiao Zhang

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The purpose of this study was to examine the content presented in the Chinese culture courses offered in the colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The scope of study was the 83 colleges and universities that have Chinese programs. A questionnaire was created as the tool to solicit information. Before the questionnaire was finally revised, a jury of experts was chosen and their opinions and suggestions were taken to improve the questionnaire. Then, a pilot study was conducted with the refined questionnaire sent to 14 ESOL teachers of Anne Arundel County Public Schools. The feedback of these …

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Response Time, Process Accuracy And Sequence Accuracy Of Individuals With Specific Learning Disabilities Responding To Auditory And Visual Stimuli., Elizabeth Ann Zicha Jan 1996

Response Time, Process Accuracy And Sequence Accuracy Of Individuals With Specific Learning Disabilities Responding To Auditory And Visual Stimuli., Elizabeth Ann Zicha

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The purpose of this research was to determine whether specific learning disabled students would respond more quickly, accurately, and in the correct sequence to visual and auditory stimuli according to their predetermined modality preference within the context of the gymnasium and using motor skills. Male and female SLD college students (N = 58) were the participants for the study. Students attending Muskingum College were divided into four groups according to their modality preference toward auditory instruction or visual instruction. Modality preference was determined by the Incomplete Word and Visual Closure subtests of the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability. One of …

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Performance Of College Students In An Introduction To Special Education Course With Collaborative Versus Traditional Method Of Instruction., Kevin Joseph Miller Jan 1996

Performance Of College Students In An Introduction To Special Education Course With Collaborative Versus Traditional Method Of Instruction., Kevin Joseph Miller

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The use of collaborative small group method of instruction has received considerable attention at the elementary school level. However, little empirical data exists regarding the use of structured collaborative small groups at the college level. This study was designed to compare student performance in a structured collaborative small group method of instruction versus traditional whole class method of instruction. Specifically examined were data on student achievement, student behavior, and student perception collected immediately and one week after experiences within each method of instruction. There were 19 dependent variables in all. Twelve upper level undergraduate and four graduate students participated in …

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The Effects Of Cooperative Learning And Traditional Mathematics Instruction In Grades K-12: A Meta-Analysis Of Findings., Norhayati Othman Jan 1996

The Effects Of Cooperative Learning And Traditional Mathematics Instruction In Grades K-12: A Meta-Analysis Of Findings., Norhayati Othman

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The purpose of this study was to analyze the findings of research on teaching mathematics through the use of cooperative learning versus traditional teaching methods on achievement and attitude from grade K through grade 12. Meta-analysis was selected as the method which to synthesize findings and indicate the size and significance of the effects. Studies were collected from 1970 to 1992 using educational sources such as ERIC, DAI and Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. In the final analysis there were 40 studies for achievement and 25 studies in attitude. Effects size was calculated for each study using Glass's (1981) …

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Re-Siting Memory: Reading Resistance Through Memorization In Three Margaret Atwood Novels., Uma Devi Palecanda K Jan 1996

Re-Siting Memory: Reading Resistance Through Memorization In Three Margaret Atwood Novels., Uma Devi Palecanda K

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In the novels Lady Oracle, The Handmaid's Tale, and Cat's Eye, I locate and name the sites of memory to show how Atwood's protagonists appropriate them as their loci of resistance. The localized sites though marginalized are within the realm of representation; however, the "space-offs," a term I borrow from film theory, are beyond "the ideological." In these sites women create and/or validate counter-discourses that enable them to set up "politics of oppositionality" and provide them with a distance necessary to question the hegemonic. The localization of the sites eventually leads to the body as site. I acknowledge the changing …

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Narrating The Pathological, 1837-1848: Revolution And Social Discourse In Carlyle, Dickens, And Gaskell., Scott Aaron Dransfield Jan 1996

Narrating The Pathological, 1837-1848: Revolution And Social Discourse In Carlyle, Dickens, And Gaskell., Scott Aaron Dransfield

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Published during the years that mark the English working-class movement known as Chartism, Thomas Carlyle's French Revolution (1837), Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge (1841), and Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton (1848) all present a picture of social revolt. The scenes depicted in these narratives (all of which are based upon historical events--respectively, the French Revolution, the 1780 Gordon Riots in London, and the Chartist rebellion after the failure of the first petition in 1839) strongly suggest that the act of social revolt stems not so much from radical strategies of political action as from the proliferation of a set of dangerous "passions" …

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Response Acquisition With Delayed Reinforcement In The Presence Of An Irrelevant Operandum., April Michele Williams Jan 1996

Response Acquisition With Delayed Reinforcement In The Presence Of An Irrelevant Operandum., April Michele Williams

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Rats and pigeons responded under schedules of delayed reinforcement in three experiments. Two operanda were available but only one was correlated with reinforcement. In Experiment 1, either operandum could be correlated with reinforcement depending on which was pressed first. Due to this procedure the source of reinforcement varied irregularly between sessions. In Experiment 2, the operandum correlated with reinforcement was pre-determined and remained consistent within conditions. In Experiment 3, the source of reinforcement was pre-determined and varied semi-randomly. Responses were acquired without prior response shaping in the first two experiments and maintained in all three using unsignalled, resetting delays to …

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Eliciting Information About Knowledge Structures In Persons With Mild Or Moderate Mental Retardation Through The Use Of Dynamic Assessment And Prototype Theory., Mary Ellen Zeppuhar Jan 1996

Eliciting Information About Knowledge Structures In Persons With Mild Or Moderate Mental Retardation Through The Use Of Dynamic Assessment And Prototype Theory., Mary Ellen Zeppuhar

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Tests that are given to help determine the level of functioning of persons with mental retardation often rely on verbal report strategies. Because individuals with mental retardation have difficulty expressing themselves verbally, our knowledge of what they know is limited. In this study adults with mild and moderate mental retardation were administered the similarities section of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised, a test of verbal responding, and then given the task of responding verbally or visually to stimulus categories, which were presented verbally or visually. All possible combinations of verbal and visual input and output were used in an assessment …

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The Search For Relevance In The Kenyan Secondary School History: A Case Study Of How The Struggle For Kenyan Independence Is Examined., Ochieng' Olewe K'Olewe Jan 1996

The Search For Relevance In The Kenyan Secondary School History: A Case Study Of How The Struggle For Kenyan Independence Is Examined., Ochieng' Olewe K'Olewe

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The Kenyan government has continuously recognized the potential socialization role of Kenya's history, in particular the topic on Kenya's struggle for independence, as a means of engendering a sense of national consciousness among students. This case study focuses on how this struggle is examined in the current secondary history syllabus, as part of the effort to formulate and implement a relevant syllabus. A qualitative case study design was used to facilitate the study. Consequently, the findings and results are based on the analysis of a triangulation of data, which was collected in Kenya, through interviews, observations, and documents. There were …

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Energy Conservation Behavior: Description And Analysis Of The Energy Conservation Corps., Carolann Cook Jan 1996

Energy Conservation Behavior: Description And Analysis Of The Energy Conservation Corps., Carolann Cook

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The study examined behavioral, attitudinal, and demographic data from households which had participated in an on-site home energy audit service, the Energy Conservation Corps (ECC). Focusing on households which had received home energy audits from 1990 to 1992, the study was designed to develop a demographic profile of ECC audit program participants, ascertain ECC households' perceptions of the benefits of the program and of the influence of the audit on their energy-use behavior, identify factors associated with conservation behavior among ECC households, and obtain information useful in the design of energy education outreach programs. The sample consisted of 421 households …

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A Study Of The Relationship Between School And District Office Linkage Patterns And The Implementation Status Of Key Middle Level Practices., Michael Lee Cunningham Jan 1996

A Study Of The Relationship Between School And District Office Linkage Patterns And The Implementation Status Of Key Middle Level Practices., Michael Lee Cunningham

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This study examined the relationship between middle school principals' perceptions of the linkage patterns of their schools with the district office and the perceived degree of key middle level practices implementation by the school. To examine this relationship, the Survey of Middle Level Education was designed using measures related to the work of Fullan (1991) and Louis and Niles (1990) regarding change implementation in schools. The basis for the survey items related to communication and control linkage patterns were Likert's (1967) studies of organizational systems. This survey, which was sent to 600 middle school principals, was also designed to indicate …

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Families Of Premature Infants: An Analysis Of Physical Abuse Risk Factors., Kimberly J. Ujcich Jan 1996

Families Of Premature Infants: An Analysis Of Physical Abuse Risk Factors., Kimberly J. Ujcich

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Physical abuse of children is a major social issue affecting families. Children under the age of three, children with disabilities, and those born prematurely have each been shown to be high risk populations for experiencing physical abuse. This study investigated several child, family, and environmental factors associated with physical abuse within a population of children born prematurely. Forty-five mother-child dyads from each of three chronological age groups (6 months, 12 months, and 18 months) participated. Home sessions were conducted in which mothers completed questionnaires, children were assessed for developmental abilities, and mother-child dyads were observed during feeding interactions. Demographic and …

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Visual And Iconographic Design Principles: Implications For Computer-Assisted Instruction., Lindia Lee Gordon Jan 1996

Visual And Iconographic Design Principles: Implications For Computer-Assisted Instruction., Lindia Lee Gordon

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The purpose of this study was to provide educators and developers of computer-assisted instruction with a validated, concise list of visual and iconographic design principles that should be considered when designing graphical icons to stimulate learning as a part of the user interface of their courseware packages in order to create more effective learning. A panel of 12 experts in a modified Delphi study identified and validated visual and iconographic design principles necessary in the development of icons for CAI. As a result of this study, 37 visual and iconographic design principles were identified and validated. The final conclusions of …

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The Construction And Validation Of A Scale To Measure A Spiritual Perspective., Nicholas Charles Neupauer Jan 1996

The Construction And Validation Of A Scale To Measure A Spiritual Perspective., Nicholas Charles Neupauer

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The mental state, physical being and social/emotional portion of the learner has been part of the education process since 427 B.C. Although the spiritual dimension has not received much attention in the education literature, it seems as if more and more educators are becoming interested in the phenomenon as we head into the 21st century. Educators seemingly enjoy talking about the dimension and wish to include such a perspective in the curricula, but this researcher did not discovered a spirituality measurement in the field of education existing in the literature. Related scales that existed correlated spirituality with religiosity. The purpose …

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The Americans With Disabilities Act: Considerations For Dental Admissions And Accommodations., Shelia S. Price Jan 1996

The Americans With Disabilities Act: Considerations For Dental Admissions And Accommodations., Shelia S. Price

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To assist U.S. dental schools/colleges in meeting the mandates of the ADA, this study examined the key findings in relevant court cases, explored accommodations that are being made by dental programs, investigated barriers encountered when providing accommodations, and gathered data on admission policies, criteria and procedures. In 1995 a mail survey of all U.S. dental schools/colleges was conducted (N = 54). Forty-five completed questionnaires were returned, yielding 83 percent response. Six dental programs have adopted technical standards. The major skill areas addressed in each of these documents are communication; observation; intellectual-conceptual, integrative and quantitative; behavioral and emotional; and motor abilities. …

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Repeated Reading Intervention Using Taped Books To Increase Emergent Literacy Skills With Children At-Risk., Laura Anne Reissner Jan 1996

Repeated Reading Intervention Using Taped Books To Increase Emergent Literacy Skills With Children At-Risk., Laura Anne Reissner

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Providing children at-risk for reading difficulties with books and video tapes gives children the exposure to print which may be lacking in home and early school experiences. The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of using books on tape to provide print experiences to children at-risk for reading difficulty. Two treatments were provided using books on video and audio tape. Sixty-three children who participated in a kindergarten or first grade Title 1 program in Taylor County, West Virginia were randomly assigned to one of three conditions, books on audio tape, books on video tape, or control group. …

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