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The Mental Health Provider Privilege In The Wake Of Jaffe V. Redmond, Robert H. Aronson

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.

Criminal Procedure: Tenth Circuit Erroneously Allows Officers' Intentions To Define Reasonable Searches: United States V. Carey, Jim Dowell

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.

Development Of A Diagnostic Assessment System To Improve The Motn Ation Of Admitted Students To Matriculate Into The Nursing Program At D’Youville College, Francis R. Dunphy

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

Forensic Science Associates (FSA) is a Virginia law enforcement training school. The problem is that FSA wishes to expand! the scope of its operation and! sees opportunities in training international police. Currently it does not have a program for such training. The purpose of this project was to develop a plan to offer courses designed to be attractive, useful, and contemporary, to train international police educators at FSA.

There were four research questions for this project First, "What are the training needs of international law enforcement agencies that FSA could provide for effectively?" Second, "What are the appropriate elements to …

How Can Increasing Parent Involvement Improve Student Performance In Reading And Math?, Mary O. Jones

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

In 2000, parents were less likely to be involved in school than in the previous decade. Increasing parent involvement may be related to improved student performance and prevention of poor performance in students. This practicum was conducted at 1 elementary school in a small, rural school district to investigate how to increase parent involvement and how that increased involvement would affect student performance in reading and mathematics.

Teachers were surveyed about school needs and identified parent involvement as the needed area of improvement. Parents were surveyed about participation in the school, and a set of strategies was designed to involve …

Implementation Of Performance Assessment Tasks To Improve Third-Grade Achievement, Christine Gary-Johnson

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

Performance assessment tasks are activities in which students demonstrate in a variety of ways their ability to think creatively and critically in producing a product. The research question that guided this. project was, Can the. implementation of performance assessment tasks improve 3rd-grade achievement as measured by the Baltimore Quarterly Assessment (Baltimore City Public School System, 1996a)? The participants in the program were 74 third-grade students, a cadre of 3 classroom teachers, 1 master teacher, 1 consultant teacher, 1 instructional support teacher, 1 Chapter I teacher, 1 parent liaison, and 2 administrators at Rosemont Elementary. School #63 in Baltimore, Maryland. Extensive …

Development Of An Associate Of Applied Science Degree In Interpreting For The Deaf At The Community College Of Southern Nevada, Sandra L. Workman

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The associate of applied science degree in deaf studies has been in place since 1 994 and 4 is transferrable as a prerequisite toward a four-year deaf studies degree. The Community College of Southern Nevada (CCSN) has the only deaf studies program in the state. If a student wants to pursue a degree in interpreting for the deaf, the student must go out of state. In July, 1 997, the governor of Nevada signed a law stating that American Sign Language is a fully developed, autonomous, natural language with distinct grammar, syntax, and art forms. However, the current administrations at …

A Comparison Of Student Performance In New Testament Exegesis With And Without Hermeneutics As A Pre-Requisite, Brendan Roach

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The problem under investigation was that the academic performance of several students in a new course offered at Harvest Bible College called New Testament Exegesis was unsatisfactory. The purpose of the study was to compare student performance in New Testament Exegesis between students who had completed Hermeneutics before commencing the course with those 2 who had not. The research question was, "Do students who take Hermeneutics as a pre-requisite course for New Testament Exegesis have an improved academic performance over students who do not have the pre-requisite?"

A quasi-experimental research design was used to determine the effect of a treatment. …

Reducing Disciplinary Referrals And Academic Failure Rate Of Seventh- And Eighth-Grade Students, Melad Smith Jr.

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum addressed the excessive disciplinary referrals and the academic failure rate of 7th- and 8th-grade students of Charlton County High School in Folkston, Georgia. The data collected during the 1998-1999 and 1999-2000 school years served as the basis of this practicum. During the 1998-1999 school year, the 7th and 8th grades accounted for 46. 9% of all high school referrals, and an alarming 23. 5% of total students in 7th and 8th grade failed academic courses in social studies, math, science, and English. During the 1999-2000 school year, a preliminary investigation was implemented to curtail the academic and discipline …

Parents In Partnership With Children To Improve Student Readiness Skills, Glenda G. Miller

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

In compliance with Goal 1 of Goals 2000: Educate America Act of 1994 (U.S. Department of Education, 2001), all children should enter school with all developmental skills in place, ready to learn. In the 2000-2001 school year, educators reported that a large majority of kindergartners continued to enter school with less than the expected chronological-age-level skills, and it is their anticipation that this goal will continue to be unmet. Partially due to the lack of agreement on what readiness constitutes and the lack of availability of programs that are designed to focus on appropriate developmental programs for preschoolers, children continue …

On Marczewski-Burstin Representations Of Certain Algebras Of Sets, Krzysztof Ciesielski

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

We show that the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis GCH (its appropriate part) implies that many natural algebras on R, including the algebra B of Borel sets and the interval algebra S, are outer Marczewski-Burstin representable by families of non-Borel sets. Also we construct, assuming again an appropriate part of GCH, that there are algebras on R which are not MB-representable. We prove that some algebras (including B and S) are not inner MB-representable. We give examples of algebras which are inner and outer MB-representable, or are inner but not outer MB-representable.

The Association Of Food Cravings And Preferences With Food Intake, Corby Kyle Martin

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

An ubiquitous assumption about food intake behavior is that people eat the types of foods that they crave and prefer. Food preferences reflect hedonic ratings of the degree to which people like certain foods. The present study investigated the association of food cravings and hedonic ratings with food intake behavior, assessed in the laboratory with a Universal Eating Monitor (Kissileff, Klingsberg, & Van Itallie, 1980). The study sample consisted of 162 adults who completed the Food Craving Inventory (FCI; White, Whisenhunt, Williamson, Greenway, & Netemeyer, 2001), a questionnaire that measures craving, including cravings for specific types of foods (i.e., High …

Outlook Magazine, Spring 2001

Outlook Magazine

No abstract provided.

History And Uses Of Music Education For Children Who Are Hearing Impaired, Theresa Kestner

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses hearing impaired children and their ability to learn and enjoy music.

A Survey Of The Distribution Of Information Regarding Hearing Loss To Parents By Hospitals And Pediatricians In The St. Louis Area, Karen Layton

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses a survey undertaken to review information on hearing loss distributed by St. Louis area hospitals and pediatricians.

The Outcomes Of A Survey Regarding The Socialization Of Cid's Alumni, Kelly Bernreuter

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper examines the results of a survey undertaken of CID alumni to determine how they are managing socially in a hearing world.

Development Of Mandarin Speech Discrimination Test For Children, Hsiu-Wen Chang

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper contains a speech discrimation test for hearing impaired children using Mandarin language.

Development Of A Historic Hearing Devices Exhibit, Monique Carraway

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses historic hearing devices and their benefits to users.

Noise Exposure In The Fire Department, Cynthia Diel

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses noise exposure to firefighters on the job and whether this contributes to noise induced hearing loss.

Respiration For Life Vs. Respiration For Speech, Michelle Del Mundo

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper examines the differences between respiration for life and respiration for speech and how it can help with teaching intelligible speech.

Implications Of Newborn Hearing Screening: Counseling Parents Of Newborns With Hearing Loss, Ericca Rebstock

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper reviews parental reactions to their newborn newly diagnosed with a hearing loss.

Analysis Of Return Patterns Of Digital Hearing Aids, Seemin Qureshi, Jamie Taylor

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper examines the return rate for digital hearing aids and reason for the returns.

Central Institute For The Deaf's Word Of Mouth Class: Developing Its Future, Rachel Condon

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper reviews the Word of Mouth program at CID.

Analysis Of Return Patterns Of Digital Hearing Aids, Jamie Taylor, Seemin Qureshi

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper examines the return rate for digital hearing aids and reason for the returns.

The Effects Of A Phonological Awareness Training Program For Hearing-Impaired Children, Sarah Stewart

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper examines the effectiveness of a phonological awareness program for hearing impaired children.

Reading Instruction For Hearing-Impaired Students In An Auditory-Oral Setting, Michelle Scotino

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses the instruction of reading for hearing impaired children.

A Comparison Of Three Language Assessments, Laura Wrobel

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper reviews three language assessment tests, (TAGS), (TASL), and (CASLLS) for hearing impaired children.

Validation Of An Automated Algorithm For Auditory Brainstem Response Testing, Kelle Williams

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses the auditory brainstem response (ABR) testing for infants.

Girls Playing Netball : Factors Influencing Participation In Community Sport During A Transition Phase, Suzanne Sharp

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This study describes the influences on continued sporting participation in netball for a group of adolescent girls as they make the transition from primary to secondary school and between sub-junior and junior sporting structures. A qualitative research design using one to one and semi structured focus group interviews was applied. The research describes how these meanings and identities both influence decisions about ongoing sporting participation and are influenced by situations, events and people as the participants move from primary to secondary school. Individual and focus group interview and survey data, indicate that for this group of young adolescent girls a …

Molecular Genetic Investigation Of Autosomal Dominant Muscular Dystrophy, Christopher Meredith

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis contributes to the Human Genome Project by adding detail to the physical and genetic maps of the human genome, and by identifying a strong candidate gene for a form of distal myopathy. Genomic clones for the human skeletal muscle genes slow troponin (TNN/1), alpha actin (ACTA1), and (3-tropomyosin (TPM2) were isolated for use in the fluorescent in situ hybridisation localisation of these genes on the cytogenetic map of the human genome. The localisation of these genes made them potential candidates for inherited skeletal muscle diseases, including the muscular dystrophies investigated here. Microsatellite, VNTR and RFLP markers were used …

Relationship Between Early Development Of Spelling And Reading, Lorraine S. Hammond

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The research reported in this thesis examined the relationship between beginning spelling and reading. More specifically, it focussed on the relationship between the development of early reading and spelling in a context where the approach to early reading instruction includes systematic phonological awareness and decoding instruction. A critical assumption made by proponents of developmental early literacy models is that transfer of skills and knowledge from reading to spelling will occur spontaneously and without formal instruction (Frith, 1980). By contrast instruction-centred approaches make the assumption that there are critical pre-requisite skills that can and should be taught explicitly (Carnine, Silbert & …