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Tournament-Style Debate As A Natural Resources Education Technique, Matthew S. Carroll, F. J. Alt, A. M. Brandenburg, W. Schlosser, Steven E. Daniels Jan 1993

Tournament-Style Debate As A Natural Resources Education Technique, Matthew S. Carroll, F. J. Alt, A. M. Brandenburg, W. Schlosser, Steven E. Daniels

Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Faculty Publications

Curricula in the natural resource professions are placing increased emphasis on course work dealing with the larger philosophical and value-related questions surrounding resource management. This development presents a challenge to instructors, particularly in terms of encouraging active student involvement in such courses. The use of tournament debate format provides one useful means for fostering such involvement while also aiding in the development of oral communication skills. The authors' experience with the use of debate suggests that certain modifications to traditional debate format aid in its successful classroom use.

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Learning Styles And Selected Demographic Characteristics Of Dislocated Workers., Samuel Lewis Harvill Sr Jan 1993

Learning Styles And Selected Demographic Characteristics Of Dislocated Workers., Samuel Lewis Harvill Sr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to: (1) describe dislocated workers in Louisiana by learning styles and demographics; (2) compare learning style by demographics; and, (3) determine if learning style is independent of occupational area. A simple random sample of 235 dislocated worker participants was drawn from participants served in the Louisiana Job Link Center at Louisiana State University during FY89 through FY91. Data were collected using two instruments. The researcher designed recording form was used to enter the demographic variables gender, ethnicity, age, educational level, and occupational areas (DOT) codes. The Gregorc Style Delineator identified the preferred learning style …

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Cooperative Learning In The Elementary Classroom: A Handbook, Mary S. Gray Jan 1993

Cooperative Learning In The Elementary Classroom: A Handbook, Mary S. Gray

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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A Handbook For Parents Discussing Developmentally Appropriate Practices For Preschoolers, Laura A. Butchko Jan 1993

A Handbook For Parents Discussing Developmentally Appropriate Practices For Preschoolers, Laura A. Butchko

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Integration Of Computer Resources With Kindergarten Through Fourth Grade Curricula, Camela Ann Scaggs Jan 1993

Integration Of Computer Resources With Kindergarten Through Fourth Grade Curricula, Camela Ann Scaggs

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Opinions Of Parents Toward Reading Aloud To Their Infants And Preschool Children, Dianne Marie Long Jan 1993

Opinions Of Parents Toward Reading Aloud To Their Infants And Preschool Children, Dianne Marie Long

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Culturally Responsive Talk Between A Second-Grade Teacher And Hawaiian Children During Writing Workshop, John Timothy Rynkofs Jan 1993

Culturally Responsive Talk Between A Second-Grade Teacher And Hawaiian Children During Writing Workshop, John Timothy Rynkofs

Doctoral Dissertations

This study addresses issues of linguistic and cultural differences in the context of writing workshop in a second grade classroom in Hawaii. The major purpose of the study was to look at the ways a native born teacher responds orally to her students who share her own bidialectical background. Most of the students are part-Hawaiian and speak a nonprestigious dialect called Hawaii Creole English (HCE) as their primary language and standard English (SE) as their secondary language. Not only do these students speak a dialect particular to the Hawaiian Islands, but their classroom interactions can be strikingly different from those …

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A Policy Approach To Educational Leadership In The State Legislature., Sue Wells Weaver Jan 1993

A Policy Approach To Educational Leadership In The State Legislature., Sue Wells Weaver

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study investigated legislative expert influence in the context of educational policy decisions. Institutional and behavioral approaches to legislative study were compared. In a chi square analysis of all legislative education enrollments in the 1993 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature, legislation introduction success was positively associated with author's level of credential and reputation expertise. Relative importance of type of expertise was indeterminable and some influence was unaccountable in the analysis. The policy approach, based on Theodore Lowi's theory that policy predicts politics, integrated the prior approaches. Lowi's distributive-regulatory-redistributive schema informed the independent policy variables, while influence, role, and subsystem …

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The Selective Impact Of Disassociation On Colleges Of Education Which Have Voluntarily Forfeited Ncate Accreditation, Joan Butler Mcgee Jan 1993

The Selective Impact Of Disassociation On Colleges Of Education Which Have Voluntarily Forfeited Ncate Accreditation, Joan Butler Mcgee

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The University of Northern Iowa and Arizona State University were chosen for a study of the impact of dropping membership in the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). A written survey was conducted of all full-time faculty members in the Colleges of Education, in an attempt to assess the impact of the forfeiture of NCATE accreditation in five selected areas: financial, the decision-making process, stress, roles and workload. The results showed that while the financial impact was unknown, other areas of impact on the faculty, most notably the process of making the forfeiture decision, were quite noticeable. Faculty …

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Effects Of The Process Of Accreditation On Undergraduate Athletic Training Education Programs, John Rodney Poindexter Jan 1993

Effects Of The Process Of Accreditation On Undergraduate Athletic Training Education Programs, John Rodney Poindexter

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs first accredited the profession of athletic training in 1994. Athletic Training was the allied health field devoted to the prevention and care of athletic injuries. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs' accreditation process on the curriculum, finances, enrollment, and faculty of National Athletic Trainers' Association approved undergraduate athletic training education programs; The effects of the process of accreditation were examined by a survey questionnaire completed by the program directors of the accredited institutions. The survey questionnaire requested …

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Effects Of Subtitled Video During Transactional Task Practice On Oral Communicative Performance Of Fifth Semester College Students Of French Learning With Multimedia Courseware., Isabel Borras Jan 1993

Effects Of Subtitled Video During Transactional Task Practice On Oral Communicative Performance Of Fifth Semester College Students Of French Learning With Multimedia Courseware., Isabel Borras

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of subtitled video during transactional task practice on oral communicative performance of fifth semester college students of French learning with multimedia courseware. Task practice was provided by the multimedia package, "Practicing Spoken French" (PSF) specifically designed by the researcher for this study. The package, which integrates HyperCard and videodisc technologies, allows for individually customized practice of two video-based oral tasks, description and narration. Drawing on Salomon's theories about the effects of media coding elements and perception of task on cognition and learning, the study used a 2 x 2 factorial …

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An Exploration Of The Organizational Structure Of Instructional Supervision. (Volumes I And Ii)., Joseph Gerard Claudet Jan 1993

An Exploration Of The Organizational Structure Of Instructional Supervision. (Volumes I And Ii)., Joseph Gerard Claudet

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study explores the organizational nature of instructional supervision in schools. A conceptual model of the organizational/supervisory (O/S) structure and effects of school supervisory behaviors is presented. The model is based on an organizational conception of instructional supervision that views the variety of supervisory behaviors, interactions and decision making engaged in by school personnel as forming a unique supervisory subculture within the school organization. The model suggests that a school's overall O/S structure is determined through the complex interrelationship of an array of macro- and micro-level communicative elements or supervisory events. These macro- and micro-level elements are, in turn, influenced …

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Toward Understanding Post-Structuralism And Curriculum., Wen-Song Hwu Jan 1993

Toward Understanding Post-Structuralism And Curriculum., Wen-Song Hwu

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation describes extensions of post-structuralism in contemporary curriculum discourses. Post-structuralist thought is mainly associated with the seminal work of Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Michel Serres. Post-structural criticism and analysis challenge prevailing structuralist approaches and question the fundamental assumptions upon which these approaches rest. A key assumption of structural approaches is that all phenomena are constituted by an underlying structure. In curriculum, these structural assumptions (often scientific) remain unacknowledged and thus are immunized against criticism; rather, they are incorporated into the preferred structural analyses, interpretations, and organizations promoted by the promise of order and rationality. …

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A Sixth-Grade Literature Discourse Community: Making Social Meaning With Illustrated Literature During Interactive Reading Events., Elizabeth Lee Willis Jan 1993

A Sixth-Grade Literature Discourse Community: Making Social Meaning With Illustrated Literature During Interactive Reading Events., Elizabeth Lee Willis

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The study focused on six at-risk students enrolled in the sixth grade at a large urban Southern middle school. These students, along with their classroom teacher, participated in two interactive reading events using illustrated trade books. The purpose of the study was to examine how these students used the pictures and text to create meaning for the stories. The two illustrated selections differed in story complexity, amount of world knowledge required for interpretation, and relationship of pictures to text (i.e., a close relationship indicated both picture and text communicated similar information, while a distanced relationship indicated one source provided story …

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Methodological Content And Teaching Delivery Used By Vocational Teacher Education Faculty In University Council And Other Selected Higher Education Institutions., Robert Barry Blair Jan 1993

Methodological Content And Teaching Delivery Used By Vocational Teacher Education Faculty In University Council And Other Selected Higher Education Institutions., Robert Barry Blair

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to identify the methodological content and teaching delivery used by vocational teacher education faculty in University Council for Vocational Education (UCVE) institutions and other selected higher education institutions (NON-UCVE). The population for this study was defined as: full-time vocational teacher education faculty in programs at Research I, Research II, and Doctorate Granting Colleges and Universities I where comprehensive vocational education programs were offered. Administrative leaders for each institution identified the vocational teacher education faculty which established the frame for the study. A stratified-random cluster sample of vocational teacher educators from UCVE institutions and NON-UCVE …

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Curriculum Based Measurement And Portfolio Assessment: An Effective Evaluation System, Johanna Roberts Jan 1993

Curriculum Based Measurement And Portfolio Assessment: An Effective Evaluation System, Johanna Roberts

All Graduate Projects

The researcher reviewed current literature regarding curriculum based assessment, curriculum based measurement (CBM) and portfolio assessment. The researcher developed a curriculum based measurement for kindergarten prereading and premath skills as a part of a portfolio system. A first grade math curriculum based measurement was designed collaboratively with two first grade teachers. A beginning reading assessment was also designed for the first grade. Results showed that a portfolio assessment with CBM's is an effective evaluation tool.

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Visibility And Invisibility In Art And Craft, Fiona Blaikie Jan 1993

Visibility And Invisibility In Art And Craft, Fiona Blaikie

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

The visibility and invisibility or censorship of art and craft is determined by individual and group ontologies. Their production has often been constricted and/or defined by gender, class, culture, race, religion, and politics. In this paper, I am concerned with the visibility of varieties of art, design, and craft. I will examine censorship based on three criteria; gender, culture, and class, with the censorship of artwork because of gender being the dominant theme.

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The Short-Term Effects Of A Collaborative Assessment Process In Family Therapy, John Gregory Thompson Jan 1993

The Short-Term Effects Of A Collaborative Assessment Process In Family Therapy, John Gregory Thompson

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This quasi-experimental study investigated the short-term effects of collaborative assessment in family therapy. The sample consisted of 39 subjects from 20 families who sought counseling at the family therapy clinic of a midwestern university. Families were sequentially assigned to one of two conditions: collaborative assessment (involving intake and feedback sessions with discussion of the results of the Family Assessment Measure III, followed by eight weeks of family therapy) or eight weeks of family therapy only. Dependent variables measured family dynamics, quality of feedback, and subjects' responses to feedback and therapy. These were measured by the Family Environment Scale, the Family …

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The Effect Of Reading And Discussing Literature With Strong Women Characters On Sixth Grade Students’ Sex Stereotype And Occupational Attitudes, Leslie Caspi Edd Jan 1993

The Effect Of Reading And Discussing Literature With Strong Women Characters On Sixth Grade Students’ Sex Stereotype And Occupational Attitudes, Leslie Caspi Edd

Dissertations

There is considerable evidence that children develop stereotyped attitudes early in life and that these attitudes affect their futures. Many researchers agree that children's attitudes can be influenced by what they read and some studies have shown that attitudes can be changed by exposure to selected literature. This study focused on a group of sixth grade children reading selected short stories and novels with female main characters. Literature discussion groups and written journals were used to facilitate response. The clays was racially and socioeconomically mixed as a result of busing through the Voluntary Ethnic Enrollment and Magnet Programs. The class …

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A Study Of Collaborative Consultation Versus Traditional Methods Of Special Education Service Delivery., Jane Nell Guyer Luster Jan 1993

A Study Of Collaborative Consultation Versus Traditional Methods Of Special Education Service Delivery., Jane Nell Guyer Luster

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examined the attitudes and perceptions of general and special educators engaged in collaborative consultation and those utilizing traditional self-contained or resource methods of special education service delivery. A difference in collaborative consultation and traditional educators was predicted on autonomy, as measured by Charters' (1974) Sense of Autonomy Scale (SAS), zone of acceptance, as measured by the Professional Zone of Acceptance Inventory (PZAI) (Kunz and Hoy, 1974), and pluralistic ignorance, as measured by the Pupil Control Ideology (PCI) form developed by Willower, Eidell, and Hoy (1967). School climate was measured using the Organizational Climate Description Question-Revised Elementary (OCDQ-RE) (Hoy …

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Curriculum Needs Of Entry-Level Agribusiness Managers In Jamaica., James Durwin Mckenzie Jan 1993

Curriculum Needs Of Entry-Level Agribusiness Managers In Jamaica., James Durwin Mckenzie

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

For developing countries, establishing linkages between education and key productive sectors of their economies is a top priority in their agendas for higher education. This interaction is essential to ensure that job requirements are matched by the qualification of job recruits. This study used the framework of job analysis to identify the importance of job skills and personal qualities required by entry-level agribusiness managers and to determine if the curriculum of the College of Agriculture, Jamaica, was providing those skills and qualities. The Agribusiness Management Aptitude and Skill Survey (AGRI-MASS) was used to survey top and middle management personnel in …

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Visual Transformations In Symbolic Elementary Algebra., Thomas Harold Awtry Jan 1993

Visual Transformations In Symbolic Elementary Algebra., Thomas Harold Awtry

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Competence in algebra requires knowledge of parsing and transformations. The parsing component specifies the structure of algebraic expressions based on conventional operation hierarchies. The transformational component specifies the real number properties used to transform algebraic expressions into equivalent forms. In standard models of mathematical cognition, both components are conceived as strictly propositional domains (e.g., Anderson, 1983a). Kirshner (1989b) demonstrated that parsing knowledge initially is apprehended in a visual (non-propositional) modality. This dissertation extends that visual analysis beyond parsing to the transformational component. It is proposed that transformations range on a continuum from highly propositional (e.g., x(y$\sp{-1}) = ({\rm x \over …

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Deterrents To Participation In Parenting Education., Debora Coats Johnson Jan 1993

Deterrents To Participation In Parenting Education., Debora Coats Johnson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to determine the deterrents to participation by adults in parenting education programs. The objectives were to: (1) describe parents with children in selected day care facilities by sociodemographic variables; (2) determine factors which deterred those parents from participating in parenting education; and (3) determine if a correlation existed between the sociodemographic variables and factors which deterred their participation. The target population was parents with children enrolled in License Type A day care facilities. The accessible population was parents with children enrolled in selected License Type A day care facilities in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. A …

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Let's Decode: Inservice Manual, P. J. Formentin Jan 1993

Let's Decode: Inservice Manual, P. J. Formentin

Research outputs pre 2011

This manual contains inservice material that was prepared for a research project that came to be known as Let's Decode. My motive for publishing the material in this form is to make it available to other teachers who may wish to apply the same principles and procedures in their own classrooms. Typically, they will be teachers who are concerned about children experiencing difficulty learning to read, and teachers responsible for students with special education needs. I am confident that regular classroom teachers will also find the material valuable for all children in the early stages of learning to read. My …

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International Marketing Educators Conference, Edith Cowan University Jan 1993

International Marketing Educators Conference, Edith Cowan University

Research outputs pre 2011

No abstract provided.

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School Systems In Transition: The Future Of Government School Education In Australia, Max Angus Jan 1993

School Systems In Transition: The Future Of Government School Education In Australia, Max Angus

Research outputs pre 2011

Since the mid-eighties state governments have initiated the restructuring of the public school systems in order to improve their effectiveness and efficiency. However, after controversial beginnings, the commitment to the principles underpinning the reforms has weakened. The reality lags far behind the loosely-applied rhetoric of devolution, accountability and productivity. While in this disabling transitional state, schools are now subjected to a new wave of change propelled by the economic restructuring agenda of the Commonwealth Government. Extraordinary expectations are being set for schools as a consequence of policies designed to connect the outcomes of education more closely to the requirements of …

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Pastoral Care : The First Ten Years Of Chaplaincy In Western Australian Government Secondary Schools, Richard G. Berlach, Brian E.R. Thornber Jan 1993

Pastoral Care : The First Ten Years Of Chaplaincy In Western Australian Government Secondary Schools, Richard G. Berlach, Brian E.R. Thornber

Research outputs pre 2011

No abstract provided.

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Lesley Lantern: Strengthening The Alumni Connection, Spring 1993, Lesley College Jan 1993

Lesley Lantern: Strengthening The Alumni Connection, Spring 1993, Lesley College

Lesley Lantern

The Lesley Lantern, a publication for and by alumni of Lesley College, was published twice a year.

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Nova University Abraham S. Fischler Center For The Advancement Of Education Ed.D. Program In Child And Youth Studies 1993-1994 Student Handbook, Nova University Jan 1993

Nova University Abraham S. Fischler Center For The Advancement Of Education Ed.D. Program In Child And Youth Studies 1993-1994 Student Handbook, Nova University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

No abstract provided.

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How To Get Students More Actively Involved In Science Learning To Avoid Scientific Illiteracy, Amy A. Vacula Jan 1993

How To Get Students More Actively Involved In Science Learning To Avoid Scientific Illiteracy, Amy A. Vacula

Honors Capstones

Students should be more involved in science learning in order to avoid scientific illiteracy. The purpose of this project is to show that hands-on science is one possible solution. After looking at research about the possible consequences of scientific illiteracy and doing an extensive review of current major literary works dealing with the issue, hands-on science appears to be a possible solution. Many people are afraid of the negative effects in the United States if scientific illiteracy continues to be a problem in our society. Hands-on science has helped many teachers capture student's curiosity and interest. Students are encouraged to …

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