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December 8, 1992, Council On Teacher Education

Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Alumni Network, August 1992 (Vol. Viii No. 3), Nova University

Alumni Network Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Teacher Morale As Related To School Leadership Behavior, Diane F. Carroll

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The problem of this study was to identify the leadership behaviors of principals that affect teacher morale positively and negatively. Elementary schools containing a combination of kindergarten through eighth grade were included in this study. The study was conducted during the spring semester of the 1991-92 school year. The Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire--Form XII was the instrument used to assess principals' perception of their own leader behavior. The Purdue Teacher Opinionaire was the instrument used to measure teacher morale. After the population was clustered by system, a random sample of 24 schools was used. A total of 433 teachers (83%) …

An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Power Style, And Locus-Of-Control For Selected Academic Deans, Carla E. Warner

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The concept of locus of control, as an aspect of the human personality, has remained of interest to researchers since its identification by Julian Rotter in the 1960s. Beginning with the work of French and Raven in the 1950s, the concept of power and its interrelationship with leadership ability has also continued to be of interest to social scientists and educators. This study was completed in response to the lack of previous research on the relationship of locus of control to power style usage and preference. Four hundred and eighty academic deans from one hundred and nine Comprehensive II institutions …

The Preferences Of Tennessee School Superintendents And School Board Chairpersons Regarding School-Based Management, Ronald D. Nelson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the preferences of Tennessee public school superintendents and school board chairpersons regarding school-based management and to determine the differences between both groups' preferences regarding the following aspects of school-based management: each identified approach or model, school-based budgeting decisions, personnel decisions, curriculum decisions, function(s) of school-based management councils, and district level planning prior to implementing school-based management. Demographics were reported regarding superintendents' and school board chairpersons' preferences regarding school-based management. When a significant difference was determined between the two groups' preferences regarding any of the identified facets, the demographics were analyzed. The method …

Practitioners' News - Summer 1992, Volume 19, Number 4, Nova Southeastern University

Practitioners' News

No abstract provided.

A Survey Of Physicians' Attitudes On Aging, Joan Swanson Hellbusch

Student Work

The purpose of this investigation was to answer the following research questions: 1. How do the attitudes of physicians toward the older adult compare to the attitudes of previously studied medical students? 2. What is the relationship between the attitudes of physicians toward older adults and the following: medical specialty, years in practice, sex, age, estimate of percent of patients 65 and older and whether or not a physician has ever taken a course on aging? Two hundred physicians completed the questionnaire. The number of respondents represented 27 different medical specialties, later regrouped to 14 specialties. Results of this study …

The European Learning Alliance Model And The Company Based Mba, P N Thirunarayana

IIMB Management Review

The concern that the traditional MBA is too academic and to create a “new cadre of students and faculty characterised by: interest in and knowledge of real problems... and (with) hands on orientation, experimental skills and insight” (Dertouzos et al. 1989), resulted in the collaboration between the business schools and business in the United Kingdom in designing the company-based MBA. These flexible, modular MBA programmes are integrated with work environment and give the participating companies a greater say in the development and implementation of the programme. This paper describes the underpinnings, the perspectives of the stakeholders and the architecture of …

The Alumni Network, May 1992 (Vol. Viii No. 2), Nova University

Alumni Network Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Use Of Computers To Enhance The Administrative Function In Tennessee Schools, Jerry W. Cole

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to compare the levels of computer use by school principals in administering their schools. Comparisons were made of the different techniques being employed by school principals as they manage the vast amounts of data that are present in today's educational process. A comprehensive collection of computer applications was identified and school principals were surveyed regarding their use of these applications. A random sample was selected from a population of 1,800 school principals in the state of Tennessee. School principals from 430 public schools and 70 private/parochial schools in Tennessee were surveyed for responses relative …

Continuing Professional Education: Priority Resources For Leadership Development, Joan Trentham

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine those resources that selected leadership development experts rated as most effective in discovering and fostering the continuing professional development of leaders. In this descriptive study, three research questions were formulated. A modified version of Hunter's reputational technique was used to collect data through a snowball sampling of the selected population. In phase 1 of the study, a survey was developed, validated, and mailed to 56 LEADership directors in all 50 states, yielding 34 (64%) returns, which were used in creation of the final questionnaire. In phase 2 of the study, the final …

A Regression Model Of The Interactions Between Higher Education And High-Tech Industries In East Tennessee And Southwest Virginia, William H. Blanton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the interactions--(1) research grants and contracts, (2) faculty consultation, (3) employee training, (4) student internships and co-ops, (5) universities sharing firm facilities, and (6) firms sharing university facilities--between higher education and high-tech industries in East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia using multiple regression modeling. The purpose of the study was the development of a vision of what the future could be and the strategies to successfully overcome the threats and enrich the opportunities that exist between higher education and high-tech industries. Data were collected from the engineering and engineering technology faculty at Tennessee Technological University, East Tennessee State …

Guidelines For Planning Future Public School Facilities: A Trends-Oriented Approach, Harold E. Coffey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this descriptive qualitative study was to establish guidelines for planning future public school facilities based upon identified global, societal, and educational trends that would most likely highly impact upon the types of public school facilities that will be built in the future. Based upon an extensive literature review, interviews with educational practitioners and facility specialists, and on-site visits to 15 schools in four states, 66 guideline elements were developed. These elements were submitted in a questionnaire/rating sheet format to a researcher-selected jury of 13 national educational facility planning specialists (100% Response Rate) for their evaluations. The five …

Leadership Perspectives Of Tennessee School Leaders, Jessie S. Strickland

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The problem was to determine factors Tennessee school leaders consider important to effective leadership. Organizational frames by Bolman and Deal were used. The four organizational frames used in the study were structural, human resource, political, and symbolic approaches to leadership. The frames were examined with regard to their relationship to Tennessee superintendent's leadership and management styles with the perception of his/her style by their superordinates and subordinates. Leadership Orientations, a validated instrument designed by Bolman and Deal, was used to gain insight about school leader perceptions from superintendents and from individuals who work in school administration with the superintendents. Individual …

Revitalization Of School Facilities, Andrea B. Coffey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to analyze current practices in the revitalization of school buildings and assimilate data that can be used by school administrators to make informed decisions about the revitalization of school facilities. Through a review of literature, elements for planning the revitalization of school facilities were identified and analyzed. These elements were included in an interview guide used during on-site visits to selected revitalized schools. Nine schools renovated since 1985 in Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina were chosen to participate in the study. The treatment of data was reported around the use of identified elements of …

Occupational Stress Among Nurse Administrators In General Hospitals In Tennessee, Ruby T. Davis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the level of occupational stress among nurse administrators and to identify the types of strategies used by nurse administrators to deal with or manage occupational stress. The study examined the relationship between selected demographic variables, occupational stress, and strategies. The research design included five research questions along with seven null hypotheses testing the relationship between occupational stress and demographic variables--age, gender, marital status, years of professional nursing experience, years as a nurse administrator, educational attainment, and hospital bed capacity. There were seven additional hypotheses testing the relationship between the same demographic variables …

Advisement Effectiveness And Self-Directed Learning: A Comparison Between Traditional And Non-Traditional Students In Selected Regional Universities In Tennessee, James L. Daniel

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Because most academic advisement programs were established to accomodate traditional student populations, it was the purpose of this study to compare the effectiveness of these systems as perceived by traditional and non-traditional undergraduate students at three of Tennessee's regional universities. Traditional and non-traditional students were also compared on the extent to which they exhibit self-directed learning. A comparison of mean scores was made for responses made to items contained in the American College Testing (ACT) Survey of Academic Advising, including the total mean score for the Oddi Continuing Learning Inventory (OCLI) between traditional/non-traditional students, full-time/part-time students, students at the three …

Technical Report 148 - Final Technical Report Hope Basin Socioeconomic Baseline Study, Ernest Jr. Burch, Edward Busch, Robert Gal, Lee Gorsuch, Teresa Hull, Steven Mcnabb, Paul Ongtooguk, Linda Rinaldi, Judith Brogan

ISER Reports

No abstract provided.

Practitioners' News - Spring 1992, Volume 19, Number 3, Nova Southeastern University

Practitioners' News

No abstract provided.

The Communicator - Vol.4 No. 2 - Spring, 1992, Nova University

The Communicator

No abstract provided.

The Maine Progressive - Vol. 6, No. 6 : March 1992, Maine Progressive

The Maine Progressive

"If Maine is to be a more progressive society, people must make a commitment to work toward it. We hope that The Maine Progressive will broaden the base of support for progressive causes and bring together active people involved with many issues from all parts of Maine."
(from Vol.1, Issue 1)

The Alumni Network, February 1992 (Vol. Viii No. 1), Nova University

Alumni Network Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Effective Elementary Principal: Perceptions Of The Essential Skills Of Educational Leadership, William J. Riggs

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the level of congruence among the perceptions of elementary classroom teachers, elementary school principals, public school superintendents, and school board presidents in Indiana regarding what competencies are essential to enable an elementary principal to be an effective educational leader. Further, this study sought to determine the level of agreement among the groups as to the competencies that were considered the most important. In addition to the review of the literature concerning contemporary leadership theory and effective schools research, the author reviewed the administrator assessment programs from seventeen states. This information was combined …

Thinking Things, Not Words: Irvin Rutter's Pragmatic Jurisprudence Of Teaching, Gordon A. Christenson

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

Those of us in legal education and in the profession of law are in debt to the Law Review for publishing in this issue the last work of the late Professor Irvin Rutter, Law, Language, and Thinking Like a Lawyer.

On the occasion of Irvin Rutter's retirement in 1980, I briefly summarized these earlier contributions, locating them within the legal realist tradition, and we awaited the publication of his last work, then still in draft not quite satisfactory to Professor Rutter. In this essay, I situate his final work on teaching law in the pragmatist tradition with special emphasis on …

Whole Language - Reading And Parents: A Parent In-Service, Jennifer Warren

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Teaching Adolescents About War, Richard E. Kaplan

Theses Digitization Project

8th grade.

Parent Handbook For Emerging Literacy, Darlene Lucia Johnson

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Supporting Emergent Writing In The Kindergarten Classroom, Marianne M. Hussey

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Counselor-Trainee Attitudes Toward Aids Victims, Dale Marie Lutes

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this study (a) counselor-trainee attitudes toward AIDS victims in comparison with their attitudes toward rapists, (b) the variance of counselor-trainee attitudes according to source of transmission of the AIDS virus, and (c) the variance of counselor-trainee attitudes according to gender were investigated. Attitudes and reactions were assessed using a 30-adjective Semantic Differential Scale. Demographic data on ethnicity, age, gender, and counseling experience were also collected. One hundred and thirty-seven female and 58 male master's level students enrolled in counseling programs in five different universities read one of five written vignettes involving real life situations of either an AIDS client …

A Qualitative Evaluation Of The Louisiana Cooperative Extension Issues Programming Process Using Focus Group Interviews., Fred Eugene Baker

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Evaluating programs is a necessary and vital function in the management of all organizations. In 1988, the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service (LCES) began an intensive statewide process entitled "Issues Programming". This is a qualitative evaluation of that process. The study focused on the perceptions of extension agents and community leaders who participated in the process. Four focus group interviews were conducted, two each for agents and leaders. Geographic site selection provided for participant inclusion from all LCES administrative areas. The groups were asked a series of open ended questions designed to draw from them in-depth perceptions about the process in …