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The Involvement Of The Military In The Affairs Of Modern Mexico, Anthony G. Salerno

Theses and Dissertations

Unlike other Latin American nations, the Mexican armed forces have not resorted to a coup d'etat in the last fifty years, and at the same time have maintained a strong influence in the affairs of the nation.

In this thesis, the writer has tried to explain reasons why the Mexican military has not found it necessary to try to overthrow the government.

The procedure used was to collect and analyze data on the Mexican armed forces, military, and non-military functions and roles to determine reasons for this situation in Mexico. The writer experienced great difficulty in collecting data, nevertheless, in …

A Study Of The Effects Of A Free Reading Program In Social Studies On The Self Image Of A Selected Group Of Eleventh Grade Core Students, Jerome R. Jekel

Theses and Dissertations

Purpose of this Study: The purpose of this study was to ascertain if a change would occur in students self image as a result of being involved in the Free Reading Program (FRP).

The Free Reading Program (FRP) was a design focusing on a personalized curriculum which offered students a free choice of materials. Substitution of the reading program for all social studies requirements was the incentive. Recognized educational principles were used in this program with the object of creating an atmosphere of relevancy for the student. Paramount consideration was given to the changes that occurred in student behavior, particularly …

Direct Estimation Evaluation Of Rehabilitation Patients By Non-Expert Judges, Martin T. Ivers

Theses and Dissertations

The investigation completed by Lipp (Evaluation of rehabilitation patients by direct estimation procedures, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Dakota, 1969) demonstrated that exceedingly reliable ratio scale measurement of degree of physical disability could be achieved by expert judges (Js) using direct estimation procedures.

In the present investigation, 10 J^s without formal rehabilitation training or experience made magnitude estimations of degree of physical disability shown by 10 rehabilitation patients in the modalities of ambulation and transfer. The patients' behaviors were depicted by the videotape recording which were used in the Lipp investigation. The magnitude estimation portion of the Lipp investigation was …

So This Is How You Run A Media Center: Organizing, Administering, And Developing A School Instructional Media Center - An Annotated Bibliography, Shelby Elaine Strand

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to look into the administrative needs of the media specialist working in a school situation, and to provide for him resources and suggestions on administrative procedures. These would include general examples and descriptions of media center operations, sources and selection of media and equipment, standards for media centers, and specific methods used in technical processing and other administrative activities.

Books, periodicals, pamphlets, government documents, and materials available through ERIC with recent publications dates were searched. A number of sources were eliminated in an effort to prepare a practical and useful bibliography. A good portion …

A Survey Of Cross Country Programs And Training Methods In Canadian Colleges And Universities, David W. Guss

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine current practices and training methods in cross country programs in selected Canadian colleges and universities. Questionnaires were sent out to forty-six colleges and universities, and 38, or 82.6 percent, were returned. Twelve, or 31.5 percent, of the schools indicated that they had no cross country program.

The questionnaire was used to provide general information, reveal policies and practices, determine how athletes were trained and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the cross country programs in these selected Canadian colleges and universities.

An analysis of the results of the survey indicated that:

1. …

A Literature Survey (1960-1970) To Identify The Slow Learner's Capabilities In Business Education, Loretta Sedlmayer

Theses and Dissertations

This study was designed to identify the slow learner’s capabilities in business education. The study began with a perusal of the Business Education Index and the Education Index for literature relative to slow learners in general and particularly to slow learners in business education. Materials used were those written between i960 and 1970.

The findings ware classified into three main parts: (1) a general description of the slow learner—his I.Q. range and characteristics pertinent to his educational and occupational potential and needs; (2) the role that business education plays in preparing him for satisfactory office employment; and (3) the acceptance …

Cotton Famine Relief Legislation: A Study In Mid-Victorian Attitudes, John A. Steidl

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to explain the cotton famine and resulting relief legislation as an example of attitudes characteristic of the mid-Victorian period. It is at times easier to understand a period of history by investigating a specific, readily defined event through the primary and secondary source material available and to interpret that period in terms of the forces involved in shaping the event. This reasoning is only valid, however, if the event is truly representative of the thought and behavior of the period. In my estimation the cotton famine was indeed representative, and it will be my …

The Influence Of Manifest Anxiety On Speed And Accuracy In First Semester High School Typewriting, Marvin Ehley

Theses and Dissertations

The Problem: This study was conducted to determine the influence of manifest anxiety on speed and accuracy in first semester high school typewriting utilizing selected paired seating arrangements.

Procedures: Two experiments were employed in this study. Classes "X," "A," and "B" were in one experiment, while classes "Y," "C," and "D" were in the other. Classes "X" and "Y" were control classes and classes "A," "B," "C," and "D" were experimental classes.

The classrooms were arranged so that any two student typewriting learning stations adjoined each other. The students selected their typewriting station the first day they attended class. The …

A Comparison Of Two Types Of Turns Used In The Breaststroke And Butterfly, Larry W. Swanson

Theses and Dissertations

This study compared the speed of the touch-turn to the grab-turn using the competitive butterfly and breaststrokes. The subjects were twenty five male high school swimmers, all of whom had at least three years of competitive experience. All subjects received instruction on each turn during 16 weeks of a competitive season and practiced each turn dozens of times. Each subject was tested on the speed of each turn. The tests were given on two consecutive days to establish reliability. The Pearson Product Moment correlation was used to determine the relationship of the initial test to the retest. An analysis of …

Effects Of X-Irradiation On The Brain Of White Rats, Bernell K. Dalley

Theses and Dissertations

With the advent of the atomic age, a great deal of attention has been given to the effects of radiation of various types on the living organism. Some emphasis was placed also on the particular effects damaging radiation has on the central nervous system. Of particular importance was the dis -covery of the high resistance to irradiation exhibited by the central nervous system, and the observation of a latent period after exposure, during which the individual appears normal, followed by deterioration and death. Explan - ations of this unique reaction have caused some controversy and, currently, one of two theories …

The Effects Of Positive And Negative Job Assignments On The Academic And Job Performances Of Working Students, Charles Patrick Doherty

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The History Of The North Dakota College Athletic Conference From Its Formation To The Present Day, Curtiss Almlie

Theses and Dissertations

This study was designed to gather information pertaining to the history of the North Dakota. College Athletic Conference from its formation to the present day. This study was structured to gain information in reference to the early founders and schools in membership, various sports of the conference and constitution and bylaws of the conference.

The historical research technique was employed in this study. Information was obtained through correspondence with prominent, persons who were associated with the North Dakota College Athletic Conference. Information was also acquired through scanning past issues of the Fargo Forum, Grand Forks Herald and Mino~ Daily News. …

A Comparative Study Of Social Behavior Of Children: Kindergarten Through Grade Three As Identified By Teacher Rankings, The California Test Of Personality And The Hewett Teacher Rating Scale, Vernon F. Harmeson

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate the soundness of teacher rankings and ratings. This investigation was made by comparing teacher rankings, the Hewett Teacher Rating Scale and the California Test of Personality.

To this end the major purposes of this study were:

1. 1. to determine the relationship that exists between teacher ranking of children in three areas of social behavior: "socially adjusted" behavior, "antisocial" behavior, and "withdrawn" behavior and scores of the child on the related subsections of the California Test of Personality.
2. to determine the relationship that exists between the teacher ranking of children on the above …

A Comparative Study Of Secondary Student Teacher Attitudinal Change And Satisfaction With Student Teaching, Howard Glynn Freeberg

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate comparatively attitudinal change and satisfaction with student teaching of secondary student teachers in two different supervisory formats. A control group was supervised conventionally by periodic individual visitations of the college supervisor; the experimental project group participated in several half day seminars in lieu of regular classroom visitations. A subsidiary purpose was to assess the value of the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory and college grade point averages as predictors of attitudinal change and satisfaction with student teaching.

The cample consisted of 47 subjects randomly selected from a population of 144 Winter Quarter 1969-70 …

A Survey Of Adapted Physical Education Programs At The Secondary School Level Of Public Instruction In The Province Of Ontario, John B. Cameron

Theses and Dissertations

The main purpose of this study was to determine how many secondary schools of public instruction in the Province of Ontario were providing adapted physical education classes for their handicapped students. Questionnaires were sent out to 244 secondary schools and 174, or 70.0 percent, were returned. There were 20 questionnaires that were unusable because no information was provided by the respondent.

Areas surveyed were characteristics, facilities, qualifications of teachers, and the use of the medical profession in establishing adapted physical education programs.

The results indicated that:

1. Ontario Secondary Schools of public instruction are not meeting the psychological, sociological and …

An Analysis Of Parental Attitude In Regard To Physical Education And Athletics In The Harvey High School, Gordon R. Baumgartner

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate parental attitude in regard to several areas in physical education and athletics in the Harvey High School.

The questionnaire-opinionnaire technique was used for obtaining the data. Copies of the opinionnaire were mailed to l£0 parents, and a return of 111 questionnaires, or 74 percent, was received.

A brief summary of the findings show:

1. Parents believed an adequate job of teaching physical education is being done today.

2. Parents believed their children are receiving a better training in physical education now than when the respondents attended school.

3. Physical education was rated …

Opinions And Attitudes Of Girls Toward Interschool Basketball In Selected High School Of Metropolitan Winnipeg, Joel H. Davidson

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the opinions and attitudes of high school girls from selected Canadian schools toward interscholastic basketball. A questionnaire was devised to sample their opinions on basketball practices, the quality of coaching, attitudes regarding cleanliness and menstruation, and personal views and feelings about the game of basketball.

Eleven high schools were selected from the five major athletic conferences in Greater Winnipeg. Fifty girls were chosen from five schools in which girls' basketball teams were coached by men, and fifty girls were selected from six different schools where women coached the girls' basketball teams.

The …

The Effects Of Various Treatments On Thiamin Diphosphate And Total Thiamin Levels Of Rat Tissues, Dong Hwa Park

Theses and Dissertations

Tissue thiamin diphosphate was assayed enzymatically utilizing purified brewer's yeast apotransketolase. With this assay ten uumoles of thiamin diphosphate could be detected. Total thiamin was fluorometrically measured. For one to three days rats were placed under conditions of stress, consisting of loud noise treatment, emotional stress, deprivation of paradoxical sleep, and swimming to exhaustion, respectively. The body weight was markedly decreased at the end of the respective experimental periods except with the loud noise treated group, compared with the corresponding controls. Following two to three such consecutive treatments, the adrenal weight also showed a significant increase. Thiamin diphosphate and total …

The Chemistry Of Dehydronaphthalene, Richard Harold Hales

Theses and Dissertations

The reaction of monohalonaphthalenes with potassium t-butoxide in a t-butyl alcohol-dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) mixture has been studied. The 1-bromonaphthalene reaction was extensively studied. Fifteen identifiable products were observed and conditions were found where the desired products, 1- and 2-t-butyl naphthyl ethers (V and VI) were formed in maximum yield, and their decomposition products, 1- and 2-naphthol (XIV and XV), were formed in minimum yield. The mole percent ratio of 1-substituted products (V and XIV) to 2-substituted products (VI and XV) was found under standardized conditions to be 0.35 ± 0.03 in every case when the halogen was I, Br and …

A Comparative Study: Existing Vocational Trade And Industrial Teacher Certification Requirements And Practices Recommended By Authorities In The Field, Erwin Geigle

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis was a comparative study of vocational trade and industrial teacher certification requirements as they exist in the various states and practices recommended by authorities in the field.

The author composed a questionnaire including relevant aspects of vocational trade and industrial teacher certification requirements. The questionnaires sent to state directors of vocational trade and industrial education asked factual information of teacher certification in their respective states and also asked their opinions concerning vocational trade and industrial teacher certification requirements. The questionnaires sent to industrial teacher education department chairmen asked only their opinions concerning vocational T & I teacher certification …

The Conception Of Nationalism In Elementary School Children Of North Dakota, Robert A. Wheeler

Theses and Dissertations

The major purpose of this study was to determine when children can internalize concepts concerning home, state, and nation.

Educators and psychologists have not in the past worked in harmony as new curricula and methodologies have been developed. It was the intent of this research to provide statistical data and verbal comparisons on selected research questions to determine the effect of children's chronological age on the ability to generalize social studies concepts.

The following research questions were investigated:

1. Do North Dakota elementary students differ from Swiss Children investigated by Piaget in their concept of nation?

2. Do North Dakota …

The Personality Traits Of High School, College And Professional Football Coaches As Measured By The Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey, Wesley E. Andrud

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the study was to describe the personality characteristics of coaches as measured by the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey. Of a population of approximately eighty coaches in attendance at the 1970 University of North Dakota Football Clinic, nineteen coaches volunteered to participate in the study.

Each individual's ten raw scores were grouped and added in order that the mean for each variable could be computed and recorded on the standard profile chart designed by Guilford and Zimmerman. The raw scores could then be interpolated into a. percentile score when recorded on the personality profile chart.

It was found that …

An Analysis Of The Individual Reading Conference In The Fourth, Fifth, And Sixth Grades, Harold E. Stolt

Theses and Dissertations

Problem: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of in-service training in individual reading conferences and interaction analysis on the individual reading conferences conducted by elementary school teachers in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades.

Procedure: The research population consisted of fourteen public school teachers. The subjects were divided into a control group and an experimental group and matched according to grade level taught, sex, and years of teaching experience. The experimental group was treated to an in-service program which included training in interaction analysis and the individual reading conference.

Pre and post audio tape recordings were …

Selected Major Issues In The Philosophy, Design, And Operation Of A Simulated Model Office, L. Wayne Beers

Theses and Dissertations

In many cases, past business graduates from secondary schools were unable to secure job-entry office positions due to their lack of business experience. Concern over this problem caused many business educators to seek improved methods of training for practical office work experience.

Today, much attention is being focused on the Simulated Model Office Method for work experience. However, simulated model office programs have been hampered by a lack of organizational principles concerning the philosophy, design, and operation of simulated model offices.

The problem in this study was threefold: (1) to determine the philosophy, design, and operation of model office simulation, …

Program Budgeting And Its Application To Higher Education, Jay D. Myster

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Exploratory Study Of Holland's Theory Of Vocational Choice And Rotter's Social Learning Theory, James A. Foster

Theses and Dissertations

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between Holland's theory of vocational choice and Rotter's social learning theory. More specifically, it was aimed at examining the interplay between internal-external locus of control and consistent and inconsistent vocational patterns to determine whether the apparent differences between personality theory and vocational choice theory could be reduced.

Subjects: The subjects were 493 freshmen males who entered the University of North Dakota during the Summer or Fall of 1967, participated in the Orientation Program, and completed one semester of course work. In accordance with the experimental design 474 subjects of …

A Method For Evaluating Cardiovascular Conditioning In Swimmers, Paul M. Cerio

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine if cardiovascular conditioning did take place during the swimmer's training season.This study was also concerned with developing an index for each swimmer. This index would give a coach a convenient and practical method of establishing the cardiovascular condition of his swimmers for a particular segment of the training season.

The subjects used in this study were two male Caucasians with previous competitive swimming experience. The subjects were tested twice a week during three predetermined segments of the training season. They were tested during the first ten minutes of the regular practice session. …

Calorigenic Effects Of Thyroxine And Triiodothyronine On Rat Diaphragm., Robert Lee Chambers

Theses and Dissertations

Since the isolation of triiodothyronine (T3) by Pitt-Rivers and Gross (1953) several questions as to its role as a thyroid hormone arose. Does T3 have the same or different actions than that of thyroxine (T4 )? Is T3 an emergency hormone, since its synthesis relative to T4 is greatly increased during periods of low iodine intake and its response time is I/5th that of T4 (Ackerman and Arons, 1958)? Are there any interactions modifying their respective actions?

The Synthesis And Properties Of New Potentially Chemotheraputic [Sic] Pteridine Derivatives, Walter Wesley Parish

Theses and Dissertations

A new general synthetic method for the preparation of 6-thiopteridines has been developed. The method involves the addition of thiols to intermediate pyrimidine nitrones formed in situ by the reaction of 4-amino-5-nitrosopyrimidines with pyridinium-activated acetonitriles, acetates, acetophenones, and other methylketones. Ca. forty new pteridines were prepared by this method. The preparation of six new 6-pteridinyl ketones, two new 6- pteridinyl ketone thiosemicarbazones, and two new 6-sulfonylpteridines and their 4-acetamido derivatives is also reported. 4-Acetamido-2- amino-7-phenylpteridine 5-oxide was prepared by the reaction of 2- amino-4,6-diacetamido-5-nitrosopyrimidine with either phenylsulfonyl-acetophenone or phenacylpyridinium bromide. Evidence relating to the structure of the acylated 4-amino-5- nitrosopyrimidines …

A Study Of Reliability Of The Aahper Youth Fitness Test As Applied To Male Visually Handicapped Students At The North Dakota State School For The Blind, David P. Shyiak

Theses and Dissertations

The lack of physical fitness exhibited by American youth as compared to European youth has prompted the development of the AAHPER Youth Fitness Test to assay the physical fitness of children in the public schools. This test is being administered to thousands of public school children every year. Today, over sixty percent of the visually handicapped students are receiving their education in the schools of the communities where they live. The AAHPER Youth Fitness Test has been found to be reliable when administered to normal children. This study was formulated to determine the reliability of the AAHPER Youth Fitness Test …