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The Effects Of Live Modeling And Specificity Of Verbal Reinforcement On The Modification Of Classroom Behavior, James Joseph Fox Iii

Master's Theses

This study attempted to increase the frequency of student on-task behavior in two. third grade classrooms. using live modeling and vicarious reinforcement. In a multiple baseline-counterbalanced treatments design two classrooms of students were exposed to live, peer modeling displays of on-task behavior. In one class­ room the teacher praised the model, using behaviorally specific praise while the second classroom teacher used non-specific praise. Praise conditions were later reversed. It was hypothesized that after exposure to the modeling display s a) the frequency of on-task behavior would be increased over baseline levels to a pre-determined treatment outcome , b) behaviorally specific …

Presidential Leadership In Education: 1961-1963, Cheryl Nuzbach

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Computerized Approach To The Relative Efficiency Of Several Methods Of Approximating Missing Observations In A Completely Randomized Factorial Analysis Of Variance, Edward T. Brooks

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Synthesis Of Some Potential Antimalarials : The 3-(4- Choloropheny1) -5, 7- Dichloronaphthylaminoalcohols, Dwight Allen Shamblee

Master's Theses

A new scheme is presented for the preparation of 3~(4-chlorophenyl)-5,7-dichloro-l-methylnaphthalene, from which, four derivatives, 3~(4-chlorophenyl)-~-di(n-butyl)aminomethyl~5,7-dichloro-l-naphthalene-methanol hydrochloride, 3-(4-chlorophenyl)-5,7-dichloro-~-(2-piperidyl)-1-naphthalenemethanol acetate, l-[3-(4-chlorophenyl)-5,77dichloro-lnaphthyl]-3-di(n-butyl)aminopropanol hydrochloride, and 1-[3-(4-chlorophenyl)-5, 7-dichloro-l-naph,thyl]-2-(2-piperidyl) ethanol hydrochloride, were prepared. These four derivatives were submitted to Walter Reed Army Institute of Research for. the determination of their potential as antimalarial agents.

School Morale And Self-Esteem Involving Adolescents With Learning Disabilities, Ted E. Barrett

Master's Theses

A student's cognitive achievement may be facilitated or repressed by various elements that constitute his affective character; his feelings, attitudes, and expectations form a substantial relationship with achievement. Rather than limiting themselves to evaluating those cognitive areas that relate with various measures of achievement, the administrators and staff members at the New Community School (NCS) have specified a desire to investigate and measure both the attitudes toward school and the self held by their attending students. Within the domain of educational evaluation, greater significance is being accorded to the students' values, interests, and attitudes(Lockwood 1973). In keeping with such considerations, …

A Study Of Some Tetraarylborate-Pvc Membrane Electrodes, Boonrod Hirunmitnakon

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Nature And Moral Excellence In The Aristotelian Ethics, Robert Geis

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Presentation Conditions And Psychological Context: An Investigation Of List And Position Tags, Kathleen Ann Carlson

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Development Of An Individualized Instructional Program Especially Designed To Achieve Job-Related Attitudinal Changes In Pace Trainees, Jesse Whitney

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Buildings And Values: An American Urban Aesthetic, Eleanor Regina Kaatz

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Changing Student Attitudes And Improving Academic Achievement Through Improved Self-Concept And Individualized Instruction, Mary F. Arnold

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Electrolytic Oxidation Of Antioxidants At A Stationary Platinum Microelectrode, Mark Anthony Forte

Master's Theses

Phenolic antioxidants have a Wide variety of uses. They are em- ployed to prevent oxidative and thermal degradation of everything from plastics to foodstuffs. They may even have potential as carcinostatic agents. In general, they act as chain terminators in free radical type reactions.

An Atomic Absorption Method For Determining Micromolar Quantities Of Primary Aliphatic Amines In The Presence Of Secondary And Tertiary Aliphatic Amines, Nathalie Harwood Perkins

Master's Theses

A method for the determination of primary aliphatic amines in the presence of secondary and tertiary amines is described. The primary amine is reacted wit ha complexing reagent containing cupric chloride, salicylaldehyde and triethanolamine. The copper complex formed is extracted into 10% hexanol in toluene. The amount of copper in the toluene layer is determined by atomic absorption spectroscopy. This is a measure of the primary amine in the sample. The method can be successfulyl applied to both monoamines and diamines as well as an amino alcohol. Data for the analysis is + 0.05% at the 2% level and below. …

Photochemical Behavior Of Some Nitrogen Heterocyclics, James Wesley Harris

Master's Theses

The compounds, 3,6-dimethoxypyridazine, l,2-dimethyl- 3,6(1H,2H)-pyridazinedione, and 6-methoxy-2-methyl-3(2H)­ pyridazinone, were prepared by using reported preparations. Their photochemistry was investigated and compared to the thermal chemistry and photochemistry of maleic hydrazide.

Reconstruction Of A Belief Index: Modern Values And Pre-Vatican Belief, David F. Schwartz

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Diagnostic Labeling On Perception Of Behavioral Abnormalities, Clifton J. Saper

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Putative Equipment Bias And Previous Success And Failure On Competitive Performance, Level Of Aspiration And Causal Attribution, John E. Dalton

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Associative And Relational Responding And Personality And Parental Variables, Glenn Growe

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Special Class Placement And Remediation On The Self-Concept Of The Learning Disabled Child, Marianne Seibert

Master's Theses

Results of this study do seem to indicate that learning disabled children enrolled in a heterogeneously grouped classroom develop appraisals of self in academic areas separate from a more general, overall perception of self. If this is the case, estimates of a global self-concept may cloud important differences in the individual components of self-concept.

The Effects Of The Toxins Of Lophopodella Carteri (Ectoprocta) On The Blood Gas Properties Of The Bluegill Lepomis Macrochirus, Robert Allen May

Master's Theses

Lepomis macrochirus (bluegill) were exposed, in small containers, to homogenates of Lophopodella carteri, an ectoproct that contains substances toxic to gilled vertebrates. Blood pH, pco₂, and po₂ were determined with a blood gas analyzer. Blood carbonic anhydrase activity was measured manometrically.

The ectoproct toxins caused significant decreases in blood pH and po₂ and a significant increase in blood pco₂ and carbonic anhydrase activity. It is proposed that these changes in blood properties were initiated by a film of mucus covering the gill epithelium. The secretion of mucus is thought to be a response to irritation …

A Comparative Study Of Fish Populations In The Vicinity Of A Thermal Discharge In The James River, Virginia, Judson Wayne White

Master's Theses

The size, species composition and structure of fish populations in a six mi stretch of the James River in the Piedmont Province of Virginia were analyzed. Twenty collections were made by electrofishing from October 1972 through September 1973 from both the north side of the river, which received a thermal discharge from a power station, and the south side where temperatures were ambient. Parameters investigated were number of species, total number of individuals and the Shannon-Wiener and evenness indices of species diversity. Significant differences in seasonal patterns were found between the communities in the thermal discharge and those on the …

An Analysis Of The Implementation Of The Nongraded Program At The New Port Richey Seventh-Day Adventist Elementary School, Erik S. Vetne

Master's Theses

Problem

Seventh-day Adventist schools have long been dissatisfied with the graded school as an answer to educational organization which would be in harmony with the writing of one of the founders of the church, Ellen G. White. Nongraded teaching seems to incorporate many of the ideas presented in her writings as a guideline for Seventh-day Adventist schools. It was the purpose of the present study to determine the attitudes of parents, students, and board members before and after implementation of a nongraded program.

Method

The parents and school board members completed the attitude questionnaires constructed by Gumper (1971, p. 253-257) …

A Multi-Sensory Approach To Teaching Spelling To Learning Disabled Children, Judith M. Meuleman

Master's Theses

Problem

Learning disabled children are receiving increasing attention, for despite an intelligence quotient within the normal range, they are not achieving in school as well as their peers. The reasons offered for this phenomenon seem to relate to perceptual problems. Specific learning disabilities occur in reading, arithmetic, spelling, handwriting and other motor coordination areas. This study investigates the effect of a multi-sensory method of teaching spelling to learning disabled children using sandpaper letters to utilize the tactile and kinesthetic sensory modalities.

Method

Unfamiliar spelling words were taught to 40 learning disabled children, 38 boys and 2 girls. The children were …

A Study Of The Factors Which Have Determined Access To Secondary School Education In Trinidad & Tobago, Lionel Lawrence

Master's Theses

Statement of the Problem

In Trinidad and Tobago, about twenty-five to thirty thousand children of the ten to eleven-plus age group, in their attempt to obtain a free place in one of the government or assisted secondary schools, present themselves annually to write the Common Entrance Examination, a selective examination administered by the Ministry of Education and Culture. School places have been available, within the decade, for about 3,000 to 6,000 new entrants from the primary schools, but recently the number has increased to over 10,000 with the introduction of a two-shift system in new. Junior Secondary Schools. ' These …

Roraschach O Responses And The Concept Of Originality, Joseph Federico

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Active Avoidance Conditioning In Certain Anura, Frank James Cann

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Fading To Train B-D And P-Q Discrimination In Children With Specific Learning Disabilities, Janet L. Culbertson

Master's Theses

The present study was designed to assess the effective­ ness of a stimulus programming technique, fading, in teaching visual discrimination and name association to the letters b-d and p-q. The Ss were first and second grade children with diagnosed learning disabilities, who displayed a high frequency of reversal errors, particularly to the letters b-d and p-q. The study also provided a means of assessing the benefit of the fading technique in £s ability to read words and phrases, and discriminate b-d and p-q when they appear in the context of a nonsense syllable. The results indicated that the fading technique …

Synthesis And Selected Reactions Of [Pi]-(Arene) Chromium Tricarbonyls, Anthony L. Scaggs

Master's Theses

This project was concerned wit hthe preparation of two pi-(arene)-chromium tricarbonyl compounds that could serve as a synthetic intermediates to more complex systems. These intermediates would be particularly well-suited for the preparation of mono-complexed diaryl compounds. The two intermediates selected were pi-(acetophenone) chromium tricarbonyl and pi-(benzyl bromide) chromium tricarbonyl. After the intermediates had been synthesized, their utility in several selected reactions was to be examined.

Aromatic Solvent Induced Shifts Of Trifluoromethyl Pyrazoles, Manuel Constantine Bourlas

Master's Theses

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) has been used to study the keto-enol equilibrium in a number of trifluoro­methyl S-diketones as well as the dihydropyrazoles obtained when these S- diketones are reacted with thiosemicarbazide. The technique of Aromatic Solvent-Induced Shifts (ASIS) has been used to study the geometry of the collision complex and the strength of the association between solute and solvent. From the data presented, the stereochemistry of these pyrazoles has been determined and a reaction mechanism for their formation has been proposed.

Predicting Primary Productivity In Westhampton Lake, Richmond, Virginia., Gary Newton Moore

Master's Theses

Several predictive photosynthetic models were tested using light, temperature, nutrient, chlorophyll, and primary productivity data collected from Westhampton Lake, Richmond, Virginia from February-September, 1972. A simple linear model, the Kendall rank correlation coefficient, was used to relate photosynthesis to individual meteorological, physical, chemical, and biological factors. iii Of the parameters measured, only the daily maximum photosynthetic efficiency ((P/chl) max ) was significantly correlated with photosynthesis. Five multiple factor (non-linear) models were tested. In the best fitting model, primary productivity was a function of the maximum observed ratio of photosynthesis/chlorophyll concentration, light intensity, temperature, nutrient concentrations, and chlorophyll concentration. The Pearson …