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Perceptions Of Selected Elementary School Principal' Leadership Behavior By Selected Experienced, Effective Elementary School Teachers In Minnesota, Elizabeth Reimer Myers

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The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of selected elementary school principals' leadership behavior held by selected experienced, effective elementary school teachers in Minnesota. Understanding the views and needs of these teachers should help principals increase their leadership effectiveness and thus positively affect the performance and morale of such teachers.

Thirty-three experienced, effective teachers were asked to respond to the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire-Form XII (LBDQ-12) by rating their principals' actual leadership behavior and their perceptions of ideal leadership behavior of principals. Resulting data were statistically treated by the jt-test for repeated measures for significant differences at …

The Relationship Of Personality Type To Excellence In College Teaching, Eloise Ann Iverson

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An Examination Of The Use Of The Dial Preschool Screening Instrument In A Rural Multi-District Special Education Services Unit, Anita I. Sapp

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The North Dakota Property And Casualty Insurance Underwriting Cycle, Karen G. Knutson

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Value Screens And Welfare Policy, Brad P. Gibbens

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The Effects Of Religious Affiliation And Attendance On Illicit Sexual Behavior And Substance Abuse, Thomas W. Zane

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A sample of 7724 college students in Washington and Utah was selected to study the relationships of religious activity and religious affiliation to illicit sexual behaviors, use of marijuana, and getting drunk. For all religious affiliations (except for the Jews), there were significant correlations between church activity and the measured illicit behaviors. LDS rates of behavior were significantly lower at <.001 for the five illicit behaviors. Two factor analyses were calculated to determine which sexual behaviors would load on a single factor and which substances would load on another factor. Extramarital coitus, heavy petting, and passionate kissing formed the first "sexual" factor. The use of beer, liquor, and marijuana combined with the behavior getting drunk to form the "substance-abuse" factor. A canonical analysis reported a moderate relationship with a canonical coefficient of .534 between the two factors. A discriminant analysis based on each subjects' religious affiliation and activity level yielded a 70-80 percent correct classification percentage.

Gentrification And Displacement: A Review, Lucy B. Hoover

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Early Mormon Millenarianism: Another Look, Grant Underwood

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Whether in its earliest or its most recent formulations, Mormon millennialism is essentially premillennial. At no time can it be considered postmillennial or a millennial. Along with a millenarian ideology, Latter-day Saints of the 1830s maintained a polarized perception of society and salvation. Apparently, it was not until the 1840s that Mormons began to explore the millennial implications of the "Vision" of the three degrees of glory. Other strands of thought unique to the earliest years of Mormonism are also considered. Furthermore, it is shown how millenarianism informed Mormon perceptions of Native Americans, missionary work, persecution, the Apostasy, and Zion. …

A Descriptive Study Of The Relationship Of Teaching Level And Subject Area Assignment To Teachers' Attitudes Toward Critical Thinking, Patricia Barnes Walker

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This study describes teachers' attitudes toward critical thinking: their definitions of critical thinking, the importance of critical thinking in their daily lives, how important it is to them that their students use critical thinking in class, whose responsibility it is to teach critical thinking, and who or what has influenced their attitudes about critical thinking. Each of these aspects of critical thinking was analyzed by teaching level (elementary, middle, or high school) and by subject area assignment (English, social studies, mathematics, science, and "other") to determine if relationships exist between these attributes and attitudes toward critical thinking.

The population sample …

The Incidence Of Postoperative Retching And Vomiting In The Adult Patient Undergoing Abdominal Surgery Following Intraoperative Administration Of Droperidol, Gary L. Miller

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The complication of postoperative nausea and vomiting is still one of the most common today. The potential for secondary complications associated with retching and vomiting such as aspiration pneumonitis strain of suture line with possible hemorrhage, and potential fluid and electrolyte imbalance makes prevention of retching and vomiting a primary concern in the management of the postoperative patient.

The use of antiemetic drugs to prevent or control postoperative nausea and vomiting is a long-standing practice. Droperidol, an antiemetic, routinely used since being introduced in 1963, has been found to be successful in treating postoperative nausea and vomiting. This study examines …

Dignity: A Psychological Construct, Walter Watson Tunstall

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A theory was presented which argued that dignity or a per­sonal sense of worth is a distinct dimension of the self­ concept, and it can be distinguished from self-esteem, a re­lated but different dimension of the self-structure. The theory presented an explanation for how a personal sense of worth originates, and why individuals may differ on the degree to which they feel worthy. An internally consistant, alpha= .85, temporally stable, r = .64, 25 item self-report measure of individual differences in dignity, defined as a social process of mutual and reciprocal validation between interactants, was constructed. The Personal Worth Inventory …

Language Attrition In French-Speaking Missionaries, Peggy S. Mauerman

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Patterns of language loss were analyzed in twenty-five returned French-speaking missionaries who had spent from one-and-a-half to two years in a French-speaking environment and who had returned to the United States from four months to five years ago. The subjects were given a written vocabulary test and an oral interview to determine their proficiency in the language. The results of this study showed that the patterns or change in particular language forms varied according to each language form. Some categories showed an obvious pattern of loss while some varied from year to year, with no pattern of any kind in …

Caregiver Speech Toward Institutionalized Retarded Children As Measured By The Informative Speech Index, Ruth Elizabeth Bock

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The Relationship Between Self-Concept And Perceptions About Placement Of Eighth-Grade Students At Wahpeton Indian School, Joyce Burr

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A Prototypic Model Of Impression Formation, Alan Jay Fehr

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A Preliminary Investigation Into The Sound-Based Word Choosing Behaviors Of Persons Who Stutter, Colleen V. Finnen

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A Comparative Study Of Cleopatra In Three Selected Plays : Shaw's Caesar And Cleopatra, Shakespeare's Antony And Cleopatra, And Dryden's All For Love, Alan A. Fuller

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Marital Satisfaction In An Exchange Paradigm, A Nelse Grundvig

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A Qualitative Study Of Beliefs, Values, And Practice In Literacy Education: Portraits Of Three High School Teaching & Learning Teachers, Karla Smart

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This study is a description of teachers and teaching. The lived-in experience, including memory, beliefs and values, and teaching practice, of three high school teachers of Teaching & Learning is its concern. Literacy is the study's entry point, the concept that drew me to seek conversation and classroom observation with Teaching & Learning teachers. Observation, in-depth interview, conversation, and my own journal writing as researcher are its processes of information gathering.The meanings individual Teaching & Learning teachers ascribe to literacy in their own lives and in their teaching practices are described in this study. Teachers' personal recollections clustered around the …

Individual Differences In Prose Memory Recall And Eeg Activation As A Function Of Personality (Arousal, Laterality, Attention), Rodney Allen Swenson

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The present study investigated a theoretical model of neuroattentional self-control systems postulated by Tucker and Williamson (1984) by examining how the systems they outline present themselves behaviorally. One system, the Activation system, was described as functionally important for preparing the organism for maintaining a tonic, motoric readiness for action. It is complemented by an Arousal system, whose main function was to perceptually orient the central nervous system to novelty in the stimulus array. The former was postulated to be left-lateralized while the latter was said to be right-lateralized, in terms of hemispheric specialization. To examine this model, 40 subjects (20 …

Professional Development Of Practicing Public School Teachers: Dakota Territory (1861-1889) And North Dakota (1889-1911), Sandra Johnson Phillips Potter

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Historical research methods are used to investigate three types of professional development opportunities available to practicing public school teachers in the Dakota Territory and the state of North Dakota until 1911. The purpose of the project is to describe the origins, purposes, organization, practices, and content of teachers' institutes, the Teachers' Reading Circle, and regional educational journals as they developed in Dakota.Two categories of primary source materials form the base for much of the research: (1) the reports submitted to the legislatures by the Superintendents of Public Instruction; and (2) issues of two journals, The Dakota Educator, published in Scotland, …

The Concept Of Wandern In Hermann Hesse's Early Works : A Journey Through Light And Dark Toward The Self, Karin I. Pagel

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Articulatory Performance Of English-Speaking Children Enrolled In The Manitoba French Immersion Program, Suzanne Smalley

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The Locus Of Control Orientation Of Stutterers And Nonstutterers, Alanna Nielsen

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The Secret Of Countess Valerena By Gregorios Xenopoulos : Translation And Critical Analysis, Maria Psallidopoulou

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Seeing Carlos Castaneda's A Separate Reality : The Fictions Of Reality, Steven Rand

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Health Habits And Self-Esteem In Postmastectomy Patients, Barbara Jenenne Peter Nelson

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Regional Economic Growth A Policy Framework For Crookston, Minnesota, Jerry L. Nagel

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The Relative Frequency Of Sounds And Various Sound Groups Used In The Initial Position Of Phrases By Standard Speakers During Reading And Monologue, Gail C. Tonsaker

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Cognitive Slowing : The Effect Of Alcohol On The Serial Position Curve, Gary Aaron Sacks

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