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The Association Between Music Intelligence And Learning Process Style, Mary Jane Wishart-Morey

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The purpose of this study was to begin to understand brain function and musicality. The problem of this study was to determine if there is a relationship between learning process style and musical intelligence.

Subjects who were in grade three were administered the Intermediate Measures of Musical Audiation test (IMMA). This test was used to identify musically talented children. Subjects took the test by listening to a tonal cassette and rhythm cassette. The subjects decided whether pairs of tonal or rhythm pattern they heard sounded the same or different. These tests required no reading skills. Students put circles around the …

The Effects Of Feedback On The Validity Of Facilitated Communication., Jan Karen Witte-Bakken

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Facilitated Communication (FC) is a controversial technique which is purported to allow autistic and other developmentally disabled individuals the ability to communicate through typing in a manner which allowed unexpected literacy skills to emerge. This procedure involves physical guidance by an assistant called a facilitator. Subsequent research has shown, however, that the facilitator appears to be influencing the resulting messages and valid communications are not obtained when the facilitator does not have access to the same information as the subject. Previous studies utilized picture or object naming tasks and allowed the subject one opportunity per trial to convey the designated …

A Comparison Of The Effects Of Full Day Versus Half Day Kindergarten Programs, Deborah C. Gaw

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The purpose of this study was to determine if the children in full day kindergarten programs made greater gains when compared to half day kindergarten programs as measured by an informal teacher made kindergarten screening test.

The subjects of this study were 81 kindergarten students (40 girls, 41 boys) from two elementary schools in southern New Jersey. Thirty-nine (39) students were enrolled in the full day program, and 42 were enrolled in the half day program. Both groups were pretested with a teacher made kindergarten screening test in the beginning of the school year (September/October) and then post tested in …

A Suggested Preschool Program For The Woodstown-Pilesgrove Regional School District, Dawn Schollenberger

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The purpose of this study was to suggest a type of preschool curriculum that would be effective for the Woodstown-Pilesgrove School District. This was accomplished in various stages. First, library research was conducted at EIRC and the Rowan University Library to find recent literature on the various types of preschool curriculums. Then, because the needs of the community should be considered when designing a public preschool curriculum, an informal survey was designed to solicit the opinions of present and past kindergarten teachers in the Woodstown-Pilesgrove School District. The results of this narrative survey were used to design the major components …

An Intern's Experience In Educational Leadership At Salem County Special Services School District, Kathleen A. Mccarthy

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The purpose of this study was to determine if there was in fact a growing number of minority students in special education, if minority staff in special education were being hired in proportion to the number of minority students coming to this particular school district, and finally, whether or not the district was addressing cultural diversity among the staff and student populations due to the increase in minority students.

Initially, a questionnaire was developed for the students. One site in the district was targeted because it had thirty-five emotionally disturbed students. Nineteen emotionally disturbed high school minority students were interviewed. …

A Systemic Plan To Improve The Writing Skills Of Students In A Secondary Computer Writing Laboratory, Cherie L. Hill

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This report describes the process used, for an urban high school with a student population of approximately 1,250 students, to investigate the existing writing programs offered to students. The preliminary research indicated a 10% decline in the number of students who pass the writing component of the New Jersey High School Proficiency Test.

Proposed preliminary investigation strategies include (a) interviews with writing teachers, regular English teachers, and teachers in other academic disciplines; (b) a review of documents such as district writing test results, courses of study, individual student writing reports, and grade point averages and English course grades; (c) observations …

The Effects Of Tactile/Kinesthetic Instructional Strategies In The Biology Classroom, Janice Batten Sees

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The purpose of this study was to determine whether the addition of tactile/kinesthetic instruction to the biology classroom could significantly increase learning. Various kinds of tactile/kinesthetic lessons were taught to three experimental groups who also received visual and auditory instruction. These tactile/kinesthetic lessons included task cards, task puzzles, manipulatives, total body movement, and large floor games. The control group only received visual and auditory instruction. The subjects were 84 College Biology students from Buena Regional High School, a school in rural South Jersey. The classes varied in gender and race. The same instructor taught all classes and the length of …

Mormon Culture Meets Popular Fiction: Susa Young Gates And The Cultural Work Of Home Literature, Lisa Olsen Tait

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The few studies of Mormon home literature that have been published to date dismiss it as inferior artistry, an embarrassing if necessary step in the progression towards true Mormon literature. These studies are inadequate, however, because they divorce the texts from their context, holding them up to standards that did not exist for their original audience. Jane Tompkins' theory of texts as cultural work provides a more satisfactory way of looking at these narratives.

Home literature is thoroughly enmeshed in the cultural discourse of its day. Beneath the surface, these didactic stories about young Mormons finding love with their foreordained …

Learning To Learn: The Training Of Missionaries In Language Learning Strategies At The Missionary Training Center, D. Brian Kohler

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Language learning strategies (LLS) are specific actions, behaviors, steps, or techniques that learners use to improve their rate and level of L2 development. This thesis details the development and validation of a LLS training program designed to measure if training in LLS increases LDS missionaries' awareness of LLS as potential language learning tools. Specifically, it explores the question as to whether missionaries trained in LLS use and intend to use LLS more frequently, more appropriately, and with a greater range than those not trained in LLS.

The development of the LLS training program involved selecting a set of 48 specific …

A Decade Of Indecision: The Effects Of Federal Student Financial Aid Policy From 1987 To 1996 On Within-Year Persistence Of Four-Year Undergraduate Students, James Erwin Cofer, Sr.

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Almost from the inception of the student loan program in the 1960's, there has been speculation about the impact of debtload on student decisions about attending college, persisting in college, and life decisions after graduation. However, little research has been done on this area. As Congress debates funding higher education, the question arises once more of the impact of loans on college student attendance. This study examines the influence of student debtload on college persistence, for the time periods 1986-87 and 1995-96, almost an entire decade. Using the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) of 1986-87 and the National Postsecondary …

The Relationship Between Central Auditory Processing, Visual Processing And Learning Modalities In College Students, Sarah A. Seitz Robinson

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A Literature Review Of Stratagies And Laws That Shape The Education Of Students With Learning Disabilities, Chere Cross

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The Relationship Between Attention And Central Auditory Processing Abilities, Sandra F. Rodkin

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North Dakota Speech-Language Pathologists And Their Role In Augmentative And Alternative Communication Services, Jennifer L. Swanson

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Stroop Interference And Color/Word Semantic Association : A Within-Category Comparison For Color-Related Words, Kane Nashimoto

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A Feminist Analysis Of Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, Jo Ann L Miller

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A Fuzzy Logic Based Direct Load Control Model Recognizing Customer Preferences, Patrick J. Noll

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Diadochokinetic Rate And Articulation Skill Among 3,4, And 5 Year Old Children, Terryann Mccurry

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Determinants Of Participation In The Ad Hoc Computer-Supported Workgroup, Nancy A. Floyd

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The increase of end-user computing, including the use of computer-mediated communication systems (CMCS), is one of the most significant changes to occur in business information systems in recent years. Researchers suggest that changes in technology lead to changes in the way individuals think about work and how they perform it. An important question is how the use of CMCS is changing work and work relationships. This study considers a portion of this question; it asks "What makes individuals willing to participate in a computer-supported workgroup (CSWG)."

This study considered the relationship between three variables (sex, anonymity, and token status) and …

The Assessment Of Normal Vocal Fold Physiology Through The Use Of The Laryngograph, Julie A. Defazio

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The Effect Of Auditory Feedback On The Perceived Communicative Competence Of An Adult Augmentative And Alternative Communication User, M Paula Barbosa

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The Effects Of Spectral Alteration On Perception And Recall Of Pilots, Verna J. Folsom

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A Case Study Of An Adult Female With Rett Syndrome, Brenda K. Hanson Barta

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Bill Clinton's First Inaugural Speech : An Evaluation Using The Burkeian Pentad, Keri Indvik

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Towards A Pragmatics Of Poetic Metaphor, Catherine C. Kidwell

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Tensions Among Titans : The Construction Of Cultural Identity Through Conflict, Tamara Dyrud Schierkolk

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A Burkeian Analysis Of The Magic Of David Copperfield, Loren E. Schwarzwalter

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The Integration Of Educational Technology Into The Elementary School Curriculum, Pamela J. Carlson

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The purpose of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of a one school year educational technology staff development program for kindergarten through grade six classroom teachers in the Grand Forks Public School District. The research population included teachers from all 13 elementary schools in the district.

The pre-post survey instrument was cooperatively designed by Grand Forks Public School District technology personnel and the researcher. The pre-post survey results measured (a) statistical changes in teacher comfort level, perceptions, and teacher and student technology experiences; (b) problems encountered and technology implementation; (c) preferred technology staff development; (d) influences on teaching; (e) …

Developing A Corpus Specific Stoplist Using Quantitative Comparison, Craig N. Berg

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We have become overwhelmed with electronic information and it seems our situation is not going to improve. It is becoming increasingly common for people to work with information on a daily basis. We seem to spend more and more time looking for information, and it is taking longer because more information is available. This thesis will look at how we can provide faster access to the information we want to find. Today's requirements are closely related to searching for information using queries. At the heart of the query process is the removal of search terms having little or no significance …

The Relation Between The Writing System And The Use Of Metaphor In English And Chinese, Kang Yuen Ma

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This thesis presents evidence that there is a positive correlation between the rich visual elements in the Chinese writing system and its users' frequent use of visual imagery (specifically 'image-mappings') in composing metaphors and naming objects. In early 1997, Chinese and English questionnaires were distributed to Chine-speakers and English-speakers in the USA and Hong Kong, in which they were requested to compose twenty novel metaphors with given words and to name three rocks given the rocks' descriptions and drawings. Statistical findings from the 335 questionnaires returned show that among all participants, those who answered their questionnaires in Chinese, those who …