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An Investigation Of Participation And Cooperation Of School Principals In The Development Of Speech-Language Programs In The Public Schools, Debra Ann Nelson Johnson

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Pinch Pots Vs Coil Pots : The Effects Of Experience With Clay On Development Of Conservation, Margaret Bergan Nardi

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A Comparison Of Listening Skills At The Beginning And End Of A College Fundamentals Of Public Speaking Course, Anne M. Gravesen

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A Comparative Study Of The Competitive Levels Of Women At The University Of Minnesota, Crookston, Wayne Arthur Olson

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Written Communications' Criteria Identified By Accounting Supervisors For Evaluating Accounting Reports In Public Accounting Firms, Gail Bjelverud Brostrom

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The problem of this study was to determine the written communication criteria job-entry level accountants need to enable them to write accounting memorandums and reports that are acceptable to their supervisors and the accounting firm they work for.A list of writing criteria and definitions was developed with the assistance of accounting educators and a jury of accountants. Lists of criteria and definitions were sent to 43 senior accountants employed by the five CPA firms participating in this study. These senior accountants were direct supervisors of job-entry level accountants and critiqued the writing of job-entry level accountants. Of the 43 senior …

Hemispheric Specialization And The Processing Of Stroop Color-Word Stimuli, Joel Patrick Newman

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The present investigation examined neuropsychological hypothesis of Stroop color-word interference. It was hypothesized that the combination of verbal and color content in one stimulus provided an opportunity to examine relative left- and right-hemisphere contributions to cognition in neurologically-intact subjects. Several individual difference variables of lateral brain function, including characteriological or trait anxiety and situation-specific arousal, were chosen as independent variables. Additionally, visual field of presentation and hand of response were systematically varied.Subjects consisted of neurologically intact psychiatric inpatients, professional hospital staff, undergraduate students, and members of the community as a whole. They received discretely projected Stroop color-word stimuli in the …

The Use Of Audio-Visual Adlerian Based Program Materials With Parenting Groups, John Dennis Culbertson

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There is a dearth of Adlerian-based parenting education materials available for use with parents who have less than seventh grade-level reading skills.Statement of the Problem. Most parents have received no formal training in either of two areas: how to be a parent or how to improve parenting skills. Parents have traditionally learned their skills by observation of their own or others' parents or parent surrogates, or by trial and error.The research problem was: Can audio-visual Adlerian based parenting education program materials change parental attitudes.Methods and Procedures. Parents who volunteered for a parenting education program were nonrandomly assigned to: experimental, no-contact …

A Study Of Factors Influencing The Burnout Syndrome As Perceived By North Dakota Public School Classroom Teachers, Thosapol Arreenich

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Teacher burnout is a term used to describe teachers' feelings and attitudes about themselves in relationship to their work. It has been considered a problem and a contagion. This study was the initial basic research on teacher burnout conducted in North Dakota.

Purpose of the Study. The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which the burnout syndrome exists among North Dakota public school classroom teachers, the significant factors which affect it, and the determination of whether significant relationships exist between and/or among ten demographic variables.

Design of the Study.The Maslach Burnout Inventory and the demographic data …

Ability And Flexibility In Reading Comprehension, Dee Rene Doeling

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The process by which a novice reader becomes a fluent reader is an important area of investigation. Many theoretical models of reading comprehension have been suggested and much research concerning individual differences in reading has been published.

One strategy used by good readers is to spend additional time viewing or reading information which is relevant to their goals or purpose. Additional viewing time of goal-relevant information should lead to superior retention of this information, at the expense of information which is irrelevant to the reader's goals. One way to detect different strategies used by good and poor readers is to …

Hemisphericity And Flexibility In Problem Solving Strategies In Creative Test Performance, Mark D. Schuler

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The present study was designed to provide further data regarding the contribution of hemisphericity to the creative process. A flexibility variable was suggested as another contributing factor in the creative process. A set of four questionnaires yielding seven scores reflecting behavioral, personal preference, and personality indices was used to assess hemisphericity. A concept formation task that would theoretically reflect analytic and holistic processing was developed to assess flexibility in problem solving strategies. The hemisphericity and flexibility measures, along with the creativity measure, were administered to 37 females and 13 males. All subjects were right handed with no familial sinistrality.

The …

Policy Trends For Federally Financed Child Care Over Two Decades (1960-1979), James P. Pedersen

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Material Requirements Planning As Applied To Small Business, William M. Christen

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A Study Of The Qualities Which Are Viewed By North Dakota Legislators And Mayors As Contributing To Success In Political Service And Election, Jeffery L. Obst

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Simultaneous Feedback Versus Oral-Written Feedback: A Comparison Of Two Supervisory Procedures, Kim Wigness Williams

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The need for quality supervision in th» field of speech- language pathology has ling been recognized. "There is a lack of information regaiding use of simultaneous feedback as a supervisory approach in clinical training in speech-language pathology. The purpose of this study was to compare the generalization by student clinicians of supervisory training provided under two methods of supervisory feedback, simultaneous feedback and oral-written feedback.

Two qualified, experienced clinical supervisors applied simultaneous supervisory feedback to two clinician-supervisor relationships and oral-written feedback to two other supervisor- clinician relationships. The clinicians were evaluated and trailed in the use of antecedent and subsequent …

Perceptual Focusing And The Sources Of Self-Knowledge, David L. Nash

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The present study, a replication and extension of Schoeneman (1981), investigated college students* reports of the sources of self-knowledge as a function of a perceptual focusing-salience hypothesis. Self-awareness manipulations (exposure to a video camera, a mirror, or a no stimulus control condition) were used in an attempt to change the perceptual salience of the sources, hence changing subjects’ self-reports, to test the hypothesis that subjects were responding because of the perceptual salience or availability of sources. Across all three conditions half the subjects completed personally worded questionnaires and half completed impersonally worded ones in order to see if questionnaire wording …

Dollar Unit Sampling: Is It A Statistical Sampling Breakthrough, Bradley D. Fosberg

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Self-Esteem, Locus Of Control, And Sex-Role Attitudes In Battered Women, Michelle E. Penland

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In recent years, there have been numerous approaches to the study of wife abuse, e.g., sociological, psychoanalytic, and environmental. An approach recently suggested by Walker (1977-78, 1978, 1979a, 1980) incorporates the notion of learned helplessness. Her conceptualization of the psychological characteristics of abused women suggests that such women have a traditional attitude toward the female sex-role, a predominantly external locus of control, and low self-esteem. The present investigation was an attempt to validate Walker's model.

Responses to the Attitudes toward Women Scale (AWS), the Rotter Internal-External locus of control scale (RIE), and the Texas Social Behavior Inventory (TSBI) were gathered …

The Father Role: Development Of An Attitude Assessment Instrument, Robert Daniel Olson

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This study attempted to create a psychometrically sound assessment instrument to measure fathers' attitudes toward their role as a father. Social learning theory and sex-role theory provided a conceptual framework for viewing the father role. Four aspects of fathering were discerned from the literature: Cl) relationship of fatherhood to child rearing; C2) relationship of fatherhood to the marital dyad and the family as a whole; C3) relationship of fatherhood to the man's self- identity; and (4) relationship of fatherhood to wider societal, cultural and familial influences. Items reflecting each aspect were generated for a questionnaire by interviewing fathers and scanning …

Pre-College Characteristics And Early College Experiences As Predictors Of Freshman Year Persistence, Robert B. Nelson

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics which differentiated freshmen who persisted beyond the fail semester of 1980 at the University of North Dakota from those who did not.

The research population consisted of all "undergraduate regular"— "new freshman" enrolled during the fall semesters of 1979 (M » 5560) and 1980 (N » 1551). A random sample of 400 students drawn from \he 1980 research population were sent a mail questionnaire, A total of 336 (84X) usable responses were received.

Variables Included in this study were of two types: (a) pre-college characteristics from students' ACT Assessments and …

A Comparison Of Learning And Costs Of Continuing Education Programming Via Traditional Versus Telephone Delivery In The State Of North Dakota, Richard M. Winant

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Introducing North Dakota Writers To North Dakota Readers, Kathie Anderson

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My study of the literature of North Dakota began ten years ago, when the topic for the annual writers conference at the University of North Dakota was the literature of the Northern Plains. At that conference I listened to Lois Phillips Hudson, Thomas McGrath, Richard Lyons, and other regional writers. Since that conference, I have been reading the literature of North Dakota and learning about the writers, and I have introduced the literature of North Dakota to my students in Grand Forks and Bismarck. My students, like the rest of us, have had the initial reaction, "Literature--Here?"

This study consists …

Lateralized Emotional And Cognitive Processes In Personality, Steven Lee Dawson

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Research on hemispheric specialization has generated theories of lateralized cognition, personality traits, and emotional experience and expression. Of these the research on lateralized cognition has provided the most reliable and interpretable results. Using the lateralized cognitive attributes as a guideline, a personality model of hemispheric activation is hypothesized which suggests that each hemisphere provides a distinctive overall approach to information gathering, cognitive processing, emotional experience and behavioral expression. This model predicts that detai1-oriented perception, rumination, and analytic processing are the domain of the left hemisphere, while a more spatial perceptual approach and holistic cognitive processing are the domain of the …

The Role Of Women In Education: Antecedents, Current Status, And Change Strategies, Lois J. Fisher

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Statement of the problem. This historical-philosophical study examines the role of women in education. Currently women hold few positions of leadership or prestige in this profession. While women have long had an important role in education, that role has seldom been a high status position.

Purpose of the study. Understanding the role of women in education requires understanding the influences that have helped to shape that role. Those influences and antecedents are to be found in the subject-matter fields of history, psychology, sociology, philosophy, and education. The explanation and description of this background material provides a philosophical and theoretical base …

Perceptions Of Selected Groups Toward The Current And Ideal Role Of Special Education Directors As Administrative Leaders In North Dakota Schools Which Have High Concentrations Of American Indian Students, Ramona Decoteau

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The Problem. The purpose of the study was to determine how selected groups view the role of the special education director/coordinator in North Dakota schools which have concentrations of American Indian students. This study also compared the perceptions of the selected groups toward the current and ideal role of the special education director/coordinator.

Procedure. A survey instrument was developed and administered to seventy-eight administrators, special education directors/coordinators, and special education teachers to assess perceptions toward the current and ideal role of the special education director/coordinator in North Dakota schools serving significant numbers of American Indian students. The data obtained from …

The Nonpartisan League Leadership And The Disloyalty Issue, Jack C. Carmichael

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The United States House Of Representatives: An Organizational Analysis, Edith Lowry

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Oral, Written, And Read Syntax Of Forty-Six Learning Disabled Children, Carole Thompson Aitchison

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Problem: This study was designed to meet the need for further investigation of the relationships among oral language, written language, and reading. The following questions were investigated: What syntactical structures characterize the oral and written language of forty-six learning disabled children? What is the relationship between the structures used in the oral and written language of the forty-six subjects? What is the relationship between structures used in oral and written language and errors in oral language? Is the analysis system described by Dever (1978) useful for the purpose of analyzing the syntax of oral language, written language, and reading errors …

Hedda Gabler: A Design Interpretation, Katherine J. Jacobs

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This thesis is an exploration of my design approach to the University of North Dakota production of Hedda Gabler, presented on October 5-9, 1977. The first chapter contains a brief theatrical history of the era in which the play was written, a short biography of the playwright, an analysis of the play and a brief study of late Victorian costume.

The second chapter explores how the concepts of the director and scenic designer, coupled with the necessity of recreating a historical era, influenced my final designs.

The third chapter discusses the execution of the designs. It explores the problems I …

Extraversion, Introversion And Anxiety In Relation To Affiliation In College Students, Thomas Matthew Krapu

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Similarities between personality defects resulting from disruptive, inadequate affective development and problems of extreme extraversion and introversion suggested that developmental ego psychology and object relations theories might be useful in understanding interpersonal functioning in general and how people affiliate in particular. Research on affiliation indicated that extraverts are more affiliative and introverts less affillative, under a condition of high anxiety. A greater predisposition to become anxious (trait anxiety) was also associated with reduced affiliative tendencies under a high anxiety condition. Other research suggested that women and first born subjects were more affiliative than men and later born subjects. The present …

An Introduction To And An Initial Examination Of The Visual Half Field Shut Down Theory Of Reflective Lateral Eye Movements, Barbara Arneson Yutrzenka

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