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Attitudes And Behavior Of Educators Involved In Confluent Teaching, Martin M. Koller

Theses and Dissertations

The study attempted to clarify the relationships between expressed attitude and observed teacher behavior. The purpose was to find positive ways of causing educators to incorporate cognitive and affective processes into their educational activities. At the same time, ways of meeting student needs in a confluent setting were sought.

The review of the literature provided relevant information already available through the efforts of other researchers. A multidiscipline approach in this review resulted in several conclusions:

1. Certain bio-self needs result in feelings that cause behavior.

2. Feelings and learning can be correlated so that behavior change takes place.

3. Learning …

Symbolic Civic Awareness: A Study Of Political Socialization In The City Of Grand Forks, Richard J. Hardy

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Numerous studies in political socialization have suggested that the child's political world begins about the age of three and is basically- completed by age thirteen. Using this finding as a guideline, the author proposed in this study to determine at what age elementary school children develop a symbolic awareness of their government.

Based on a format similar to that used by Greenstein, Hess, and Easton, a study was made in the City of Grand Forks involving 951 children in grades one through six. To achieve representativeness and control, six elementary schools were selected based on socio-economic, philosophic, and religious variable. …

A Comparison Of Three Groups Of Teacher Trainees' Conceptual And Philosophical Orientations, John H. Kelleher

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Problem: The purpose of this study was twofold: first, to determine the differences among the subjects in the three elementary teacher training programs offered at the University of North Dakota (UND) during the spring semester of the 1970-71 school year; and second, to determine the relationships between the Conceptual Systems Test (CST) variables and the Ross Educational Philosophical Inventory (REPI) variables.

Procedure: The subjects for this study consisted of juniors and seniors enrolled in the three elementary teacher training programs offered at UND during the spring semester of the 1970-71 school year. The three elementary teacher training programs were: College …

An Analysis Of The Effects Of In-Service Science Assistance On Elementary Teacher And Student Attitudes And Practices, Douglas A. Degroote

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Problem: The purpose of this study was to determine whether in-service science assistance will affect positively the attitudes and practices of elementary teachers and students.

Procedure: The investigator designed and implemented a six month in- service science program for elementary teachers and students. The study population consisted of 12 first through sixth grade teachers and their 313 pupils in one elementary school in East Grand Forks, Minnesota.

Change in attitudes and practices of teachers was measured by comparing pre-test and post-test scores on the Actual Science Classroom Environment instrument, which was designed to determine what types of activities teachers perceived …

Self Concept And Achievement Among Elementary Students In An Experimental Program, J. Daniel Beebe

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Problem: The main purpose of this study was to investigate the direction and degree of relationship between self concept and academic achievement among elementary students in an experimental program. A second purpose was to determine the amount and direction of change in the teachers' perception of the students.

Procedure: The research population was selected from students and staff in the Carl Ben Eielson and Nathan Twining Elementary Schools, in Grand Forks, North Dakota during the 1971-72 school year. These schools were participating in an experimental project, entitled Human Awareness through Self Enhancing Education (HATSEE), which was designed to enhance self …

An Analysis Of Selected Variables To Determine Their Relationship To Performance Ins Econdary Schools, Second-Semester Application Typewriting, Wilbert R. Fischer

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Purpose: The problem of this study was to determine the relationship of selected predictor variables to typewriting performance in straight copy typewriting, as well as timed application typewriting on letters, manuscripts, and tabulation at the end of the second semester of a first-year typewriting course.

Procedure:

The population for this study consisted of 199 eleventh grade second semester typewriting students enrolled at Mandan High School, Mandan, North Dakota. Through the cooperation of the high school administration and the instructors, the students were tested on the General Aptitude Test Battery administered by the Mandan Office of the State Employment Service at …

A Survey Of Selected Business Firms In Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, To Determine The Types And Requirements Of Entry-Level Office Occupations And The Types Of Equipment Being Used., Sandra Adelman

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No abstract provided.

The Petticoat Prerogative: An Original 2-Act Play, Jean M. Mattson

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No abstract provided.

A Unidimensional Scaling Analysis Of Pornographic Stimuli, Gary R. Hackney

Theses and Dissertations

Pornography has had a varied and interesting history which dates back to antiquity. Its popularity appears not to have diminished in the past 3Q00 years, in fact the recent level of interest in the subject was exemplified when President Lyndon Johnson formed a special committee (Commission on Obscenity and Pornography) in 1967 to study pornography and obscenity. This Commission directly and indirectly initiated many scientific studies in the field of pornography.

Subjective judgments of pornography have been scaled before. The kinds of scaling approaches employed in these scale measurement developments are open to criticism and alternative scaling approaches have been …

Development And Prediction Of I-E Orientation And Its Relationship With Some Personality Correlates, Barry L. Johnson

Theses and Dissertations

Locus of control is a personality dimension involving an individual's perceived control over events occurring in his life. An internal Cl) person is one who feels that he controls his reinforcement contingencies. The external (E) person feels that his rewards or reinforcements occur on a chance basis, are due to fate or luck, or controlled by something or someone else.

Though the body of information surrounding the I-E construct is growing, there are still many questions to be answered and areas to be explored. One of the goals of this investigation was to examine some underlying factors in the development …

A Study Of The Future Roles Of The Four North Dakota State Colleges, Merton W. Andresen

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The purpose of this study was to examine the problem of the future roles of the four state colleges in North Dakota. Attention was focused upon the historical antecedents which were germane to changing roles in * the four state colleges in North Dakota. In addition, an overview of imperatives in planning for change reflected the national imperatives for change which are relevant for North Dakota.

The study included an analysis of legislative attitudes toward the . future roles of the four state colleges. These attitudes were delineated by use of a questionnaire. A chi square statistical analysis was applied …

An Examination Of The Lubell Thesis: A Statistical And History Study Of The Mcintosh County, North Dakota, 1936-1940, Thomas J. Cummings

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North Dakota is often referred to as the leading isolationist state in the Union. The vociferous opposition expressed by the state’s people to World Wars I and II is cited as proof for this label. One explanation for the state's behavior, advanced by Samuel Lubell, stresses ethnic origin. According to this view, the German-Russian population of the state is responsible for making North Dakota an isolationist stronghold. This study of one German-Russian county, McIntosh county, is an attempt to examine the validity of Lubell's ethnic explanation. In particular, this study focuses on the reasons for the rejection of Franklin Roosevelt …

The Effectiveness Of The Cooperating Teacher In The Student Teaching Experience As Determined By The Student Teacher, Donald Henry Charles Eshelby

Theses and Dissertations

The study was conducted to determine how effective cooperating teachers were in performing their assigned duties during the actual student teaching period. The population consisted of University of North Dakota student teachers who were actively involved in the field experience during the 1970-1971 academic year. The purpose of the study was threefold: (1) to design an instrument which could be used for a study of this nature, (2) to determine the effectiveness of cooperating teachers in all academic areas, and (3) to determine how effective cooperating teachers were in specific aspects of the student teaching experience and by academic area. …

A Comparison Of The Sportsmanship Values Of Athletes Versus Non-Athletes, Roy D. Schodtler

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This study was designed to determine whether there were any significant differences in the sportsmanship attitudes of high school athletes as compared to their non-atbletic peers.

Johnson's (1969) "Sportsmanship Attitude Scale" (SA Scale) was administered to 621 boys enrolled in grades nine through twelve at Palatine High School in Palatine, Illinois. The boys were divided into three major groups—Athle.tes, Non-Athletes, and No Sports—as determined by their experience in organized athletics. The Athletes group was further divided into ten sub-groups, according to the sports in which the subjects had participated.

It was found that the mean score of the Athletes group …

The Relationship Of Physical Fitness And Social Acceptance Of Ninth Grade Girls, Hermelle Wilson

Theses and Dissertations

Physical educators claim numerous attributes of their program, namely, teaching the whole person; his or her social, mental, and physical well-being. This study purports to measure the relationship of the social status in comparison with physical fitness of ninth grade girls.

The test used to measure the fitness level was the AAHPER Fitness Test. It was administered to all ninth grade girls at Jim Hill Junior High School in Minot, North Dakota. The seven items in the test battery were transformed to norms in the form of percentile scores and then averaged to obtain one fitness score for each subject. …

Career Education And Its Implication For Vocational-Technical Education, Jack H. Adams

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The major purpose of this independent study was to see if there were any implication forthcoming for Vocational Education as we know it today, "because of the new concept of Career Education. In trying to accomplish this purpose, the area of Vocational Education, as well as the new concepts of Career Education, were examined. Both the past and future needs of the students were considered. The immediate and future needs of creating this new concept of Career Education was considered. A group of charts were presented for the purpose of giving anyone considering this new approach, a choice of the …

Multiple Unit Correlates Of Discrimination Learning In Rats, Lynn C. Conrad

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Multiple unit recording is a relatively new electrophysiological recording technique which records spike potentials from many neurons. In several laboratories, systematic changes have been observed during classical and instrumental conditioning but none under other conditioning procedures. The present study attempts to extend the method of multiple unit recording to discrimination learning using rats as experimental animals.

Five permanent electrodes were implanted in each of six rats. The sites implanted were the dorsal medial hypothalamus, the amygdaloid complex, the reticular formation, the medial geniculate, and the inferior colliculus. The animals were subjected to discrimination training which utilized tone as the auditory …

A Comparison Of The Self-Concepts Of Institutionalized Delinquents, Non-Institutionalized Delinquents, And Non-Delinquents, Franklin D. Deforest

Theses and Dissertations

On the basis of previous theorizing and empirical research, it seems that the self-concept may be a highly relevant factor in the understanding and containment of delinquent behavior. However, as Rubin (1970) has noted, there remains some doubt as to the effectiveness of existing treatment programs in promoting a change in the delinquent's self-concept structure which will be lasting and lead to a more adaptive response to the normal social environment. Therefore the present investigation proposes to show that there exist fundamental differences between the self-concepts of delinquents, both institutionalized and non-institutionalized, and non-delinquents. These differences can then be assumed …

Effects Of Repression-Sensitization, Arousal, And Sex On Physical Aggression, Richard J. Moser

Theses and Dissertations

In the past two decades, numerous experiments have focused on a wide variety of situational factors influencing the arousal, intensity, and direction of aggressive behavior. In contrast, few studies have considered the role of individual difference variables in producing aggression. The present study was concerned with a personality variable which theoretically should have some relevance to the expression of physical aggression. This variable was repression-sensitization (R-S) as measured'by the revised Repress ion-Sensitization Scale (Byrne, Barry, and Nelson, 1963). In an attempt to improve upon the predictive validity of R-S, defensive and nondefensive repressors were differentiated through the use of Marlowe-Crowne …

Caricaturization And Its Ability To Depict Ideology, Maurice D. Olson

Theses and Dissertations

One of the purposes of this thesis is to investigate the importance of the cartoon caricature styles that have been developed throughout history. Another purpose is to explain the development of my cartoon caricatures and their importance in depicting ideology. This thesis will also be concerned with the development of a caricature attitude, and caricature forms as depicted in an exhibition. The exhibit, submitted as a part of this written work, is an assorted collection of various cartoon images which can help in furthering an understanding of my personal attitude and interpretation.

Personality Traits Of Nonswimmers And Swimmers, Bohden Jan Gulczewski

Theses and Dissertations

The investigation was made to determine whether there were personality differences between male and female nonswimmers and male and female swimmers using the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule as the test instrument. The 15 variables, of the test instrument, were administered to 144 University of North Dakota students enrolled in the swimming service program in the second semester 1971-1972. Only students categorized as beginner, intermediate and advanced were used in this study. Subjects were compared on the basis of swimming proficiencies, personality tests, and biographical data forms using the Unadjusted Main Effects Method to statistically analyze the data obtained. Comparisons revealed …

Adolescent 4-8 Mmpi Profiles: Prediction From A Taxonomic Class, Douglas L. Hippe

Theses and Dissertations

Throughout the past two decades of MMPI research minimal effort has been directed toward adolescent populations. Notable exceptions to this have been the pioneering works of Hathaway and Monachesi (1951, 1953, 1957, 1960, 1963), and the later prediction studies concerning subtypes of delinquents, emotionally disturbed adolescents and most recently, drug abusers. Characteristic of all this research was a focus on the study or demonstration of the MMPI itself and its ability to differentiate personality types that the test does in fact identify. The most frequently occurring profile type uncovered by these studies appears to have been the 4-8 configuration. Some …

A Study Of Carryover Practices Among School Clinicians In North Dakota, Mary Pat Johnson

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine what school clinicians do to accomplish articulation carryover, the length of time it takes, am. the success of the carryover techniques. Caseloads and dismissal raxes were also investigated.

Thirty North Dakota school speech clinicians at the 1970 North Dakota Speech and Hearing Association Convention were presented a questionnaire survey developed for this study. Information was requested regarding their 1970-71 caseload. Results were tabulated and mean values were computed.

Results of this study indicated that articulation cases accounted for 75.8 percent or three-fourths of the clinician's caseload. It was also noted that articulation …

Art As An Encounter: A Personal View, Jeffrey V. Freeman

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is an attempt to establish some insight into my personal aesthetic and creative philosophy as it relates to the metaphysical world I perceive. It will bring out points which I consider relevant and will give reference to the role that various past influences have had.

This thesis also will attempt to show examples of the chain of events in which my present work evolves from my past work. Since my viewpoints are constantly bombarded by new and various stimuli my endeavors continuously try to deal with those factors.

A Comparison Of Secretaries' And Feminists' Attitudes Toward Traditional And Non-Traditional Female Roles, Susan Higgins

Theses and Dissertations

This investigation was designed to study current attitudes of women to female roles. An adapted form of the Maferr Inventory of Feminine Values was given to 23 full-time secretaries and 19 feminist women. The inventory consisted of traditional and non-traditional items, and general statements and specific examples, which were rated in appropriateness separately for women and men. Two predictions were made about the subjects' responses: (1) The secretaries would make a greater differentiation between male and female roles, by judging traditional female statements more appropriate for women than men, and non-traditional female role descriptions more appropriate for men than women. …

Large School, Small School: The Relationship Between A College Student's High School Size And His Non Class College Activities, John A. Call

Theses and Dissertations

Past research indicates that the number of students in a high school is related to the students' behaviors and subjective experiences. Students of small schools, vis-a-vis students of large schools (1) enter more different kinds of activities, (2) hold more responsible positions, and (3) experience more satisfactions in connection with their nonclass activities. Thus, the question was raised whether or not this higher rate of high school nonacademic achievement among students from small high schools had any more or less permanent effects on the student's college nonclass activities.

The Non Class College Setting (NCCS) Questionnaire was devised and administered to …

Histological Changes In The Rat's Spleen Induced By Selected Anesthetic Agents, Donald R. Fowler

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The purpose of this study was to determine what histological parameters of the rat's spleen were altered as a result of the anesthetic agent used. It also was desired to determine which anesthetic agent might be the most suitable to use in a transillumination study of the microcirculation of the living rat's spleen.

It was found that sodium Amytal administered intraperitoneally results in splenic dilatation. Chloral hydrate and sodium thiopental, given intraperitoneally, resulted in splenic contraction. Penthrane, ether, and chloroform administered by inhalation technique also resulted in splenic contraction. Penthrane and chloral hydrate while producing splenic contraction appear to do …

Self-Concept Change: The Effects Of A Self-Concept Enchancement Program On Preschool Children, E. Michelle Pardew

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a self-concept enhancement program on the self-concepts of four-year-old children, and to discover significant aspects of their environment which are related to their self-concepts.

The population sample consisted of all four-year-olds (pretest=57» posttest*.52) attending Kiddie Kampus Preschool, Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota. Both the experimental group (N=3^) receiving the self-concept enhancement program, and the control group (N=l8) not receiving the treatment program, were assessed during the pretesting and posttesting periods. The twenty-five variables assessed by The Thomas. Self-Concept Values Test (19 scales) and the Developmental Profile (6 …

A Study Of The Personality Characteristics Of Patients In Methadone Maintenance Programs, Robert J. Zielinski

Theses and Dissertations

Estimates of the number of heroin addicts in the United States vary between 200,000 and 500,000. Although differences of opinion exist as to the numbers of heroin addicts, there is little argument about the cost of supporting their addiction. Hundreds of millions of dollars are lost each year through criminal activities perpetrated to support addictions. No price can be assessed for the addict's misery, suffering, poor health, and even sometimes his untimely death.

A Study Of Selected Religious Precepts Pertaining To Education For Business In The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day-Saints: A Philosophical Analysis., Glen L. Boyer

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No abstract provided.