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Economic Impact Of The Usu Uintah Basin Education Centers And The Lds Vernal Temple, Donald L. Snyder

Economic Research Institute Study Papers

Uintah County and the Uintah Basin COG have benefitted from the existence of the USU Centers as well as from the construction and operation of the LDS Vernal Temple. The one-time beneficial impacts for final demand (Centers' construction and renovation and Temple construction) range from $2.95 to $2.97 million. Ongoing beneficial impacts for fmal demand (Centers and Temple operations) contribute another $1.95 million in total industry sales per year. Employee income due to the operations of these two entities was over $650,000/year, with other $1.1 million in value added to the community. These two projects also increased local employment by …

Academic Bankruptcy Policies In Higher Education, Gail Marie Jones

Graduate Research Papers

A college degree is a virtual necessity in today's world. More and more employers are looking for individuals who have completed at least two years of postsecondary education at a community college or elsewhere, or who hold a bachelor's degree. What happens to those individuals who attended college in the past but had a poor academic record? A poor choice of major selection, previous academic probation or suspension, or the need for time to mature socially and/or intellectually are but a few of the reasons why some students will need extra semesters to achieve an acceptable grade point average in …

Developing Career Awareness For Upper Elementary Grade And Special Education Students, Shirley Huang

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Science Education At An Elementary School: Teaching The Scientific Processes To English Language Learners, Albert Steven Lozano

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Increasing Esl Student Language Production And Altering The Affective Climate In A Mountain Community High School, Linda Louise Hanneman

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Teachers Experiences Of Social Services On An Elementary School Site, Wendy Marie Nims

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Teacher Evaluation As Perceived By Teachers And Principals In Gary Community School Corporation, Ella M. Bush

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Purpose. This study had two purposes: (1) to examine whether teacher evaluation in Gary (Indiana) is perceived by elementary, middle, and high school teachers and principals as accomplishing its stated purpose of improving the practices of elementary, middle, and high school teachers, and (2) to examine if school classification (elementary, middle, or high school) and job title (teacher or principal) affect the perceptions of teachers and principals. Method. The sample was composed of 152 teachers and 55 principals from all Gary public elementary, middle and high schools. A questionnaire based on the Gary Teacher Evaluation Design was developed by the …

G97-1322 High Risk Youth, Herbert G. Lingren

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide defines the relationship between adolescence and high risk behaviors, helps parent and adolescent identify external and internal assets and suggests parent strategies for promoting and increasing those assets.

American youth today are often considered to be in a state of crisis. Approximately half of all adolescents are at moderate to high risk of engaging in one or more self-destructive behaviors, including unsafe sex, teenage pregnancy and childbearing; drug and alcohol abuse; under achievement, failure, or dropping out of school; and delinquent or criminal behaviors. Many of these problem behaviors are interrelated. Some of these behaviors are related to …

Does Parental Involvement Create Higher Reading Achievement?, Beverly Warren

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Parental Handbook For The Multiage Classroom: A Developmental Approach To Learning, Pamela Sue Zwick

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Improving Your Child's Reading Ability: A Handbook For Parents Of Primary Children, Marsha Genteline

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Performance Management Within Cooperative Extension: Perceptions Of Extension Educators In The Northeast Region, John Edward Pike

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine Cooperative Extension educator perceptions regarding performance management. Performance management is defined as a system comprised of an ongoing process of planning and appraising which includes the establishment of goals and expectations through performance planning; continuing year round performance feedback and coaching; and a formal performance appraisal at the end of the performance period.

This research was intended to provide a better understanding of how extension educators perceived the performance management process within their respective state Cooperative Extension organization. An assumption of this study was that extension educator attitudes toward performance management are …

Critical Thinking: A Voyage Of The Imagination, David Glenn Hodgdon

Doctoral Dissertations

In this dissertation I contend that there is a strong connection between critical thinking and the imagination, a connection which increases the dynamism and vitality of critical thinking. By acknowledging a role for the imagination, we are able to form a more coherent and complete critical thinking conception, which leads to the positing of a new theory of critical thinking. This new conception has pedagogical implications demanding that we alter or augment current approaches to critical thinking instruction.

Employing a conceptual analysis, I first focus on critical thinking conceptions found on a continuum from traditional conceptions, which focus on logic …

"There Is No School Like The Family School": Literacy, Motherteaching, And The Alcott Family, Lisa Margaret Stepanski

Doctoral Dissertations

By the mid nineteenth century, Americans were increasingly recognizing the need for public education and literacy for all citizens if the United States was to survive, if not thrive. In addition, new industries and technologies were developed that would slowly transform the agrarian New England landscape into a terrain of mill towns and manufacturing sites. The industrialization of New England altered family life, as well, and lead to the rise of the "motherteacher" ideology, a cultural paradigm that profoundly influenced discussions of childrearing and public education in the United States.

This dissertation examines the motherteaching of three famous nineteenth-century figures, …

Changes In Self-Sufficiency: A Feminist Approach To Literacy Program Evaluation, Marcia Ann Makris

Doctoral Dissertations

This research was a follow-up investigation of a federally-funded literacy program which was established to assist its participants to achieve self-sufficiency through employment. The program was designed and implemented in response to the federal legislative law, the Family Support of Act of 1988 (FSA), which mandated that states provide Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) programs to "assure that needy families with children obtain the education, training, and employment that will help them avoid long term dependency" and "assist recipients to become self-sufficient." The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the characteristics of the program that …

Beyond The Postmodern Impasse Of Contemporary Composition: The Non-Foundational Alternative Of Deweyan Pragmatism, Donald Crosby Jones

Doctoral Dissertations

In their critique of the autonomous individual of foundationalism, postmodernists have rejected the epistemological assumption that a knower directly perceives reality in thought then expresses these perceptions through language. Yet as these theorists have asserted the influence of language upon an individual's thinking, they have been unable to explain an individual's agency--the ability to create, assert, examine, and maintain/or modify a belief. Once considered to be situated in prior discourses, the individual has been conceived as a postmodern subject dominated by language. Yet the subject's ability to influence as well as be influenced by discursive practices has not been explained …

Law Teachers And The Educational Continuum, Michael K. Jordan

Faculty Scholarship

There are many difficulties in teaching the law. These problems are often referred to generically as the difficulty in training students to "think like lawyers." The primary focus of the literature discussing these concerns has, therefore, been on how law schools should assist students in developing this ability. Underlying much of this literature is the assumption that what is needed is some tinkering with the law school curriculum. Students are believed to enter law with a set of abilities and potentialities that are honed by the law school curriculum to produce something called a lawyer or the skill denominated as …

The Effects Of Performance Feedback On Treatment Integrity In School-Based Consultation., Kevin Michael Jones

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examined the relative effectiveness of traditional consultation, with and without performance feedback, on treatment integrity. Six teachers employed in a residential treatment community were responsible for treatment implementation. Treatment integrity was defined as the percentage of 2 min intervals during which contingent teacher attention for student on-task behavior was directly observed. Teacher and child behavior were monitored across baseline, traditional consultation, and consultation with performance feedback conditions in a multiple baseline design. In only one of six cases did mean levels of contingent teacher attention, following a Problem Identification Interview and Problem Analysis Interview (Bergan, 1977), exceed 35%. …

Restructuring In Louisiana Schools., Sharon Lee Pol

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study employs both quantitative and qualitative techniques to study the restructuring processes at the district, school, and teacher levels. The quantitative procedures include surveys used to distinguish between teachers's perceptions of highly and moderately restructured schools. Qualitative research techniques included interviews, observations, and document analysis to describe the restructuring. A new instrument, the Attributes of School Restructuring Scale (ASRS), was developed to measure teachers' knowledge about restructuring efforts and their involvement in the restructuring projects. The final version of the ASRS, included 48-items spread across three subscales: Budget/Finance, Governance/Decision-Making, and Curriculum/Instruction. The quantitative results from the statewide study indicated …

Perceptions Of Site-Based Management By Administrators And Teachers In School City Of Hammond, School District, Louis Michael Lindinger

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Purpose. The major purpose of this study was to examine the differences in perceptions of elementary, middle, and high school teacher and principal plan team members relative to what extent the site-based management process has been implemented in the School City of Hammond. Areas of site-based management that were examined were the decision making process; financial support from central office; determining staff development needs; determining the goals and objectives of each school; and the delegation of responsibilities for general building management. Method. The population in this study consisted of teacher and principal plan team members from each of the twenty-three …

The Communicator - Vol.8 No. 1 - Winter, 1996, Nova Southeastern University

The Communicator

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Analytic Reading Skills On Sixth Graders' Ability To Solve Mathematical Story Problems., Linda Hale Eilers

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of the present study was to determine the effects of two levels of instructional treatment on sixth graders' ability to solve mathematical story problems. The two levels of instructional treatment were instruction in the use of graphic organizers in conjunction with specific analytic reading skills and instruction in specific analytic reading instruction alone. These were compared to the absence of either treatment. The steady decline in students' scores on measures of ability to read and solve story problems over the past decade prompted research in three sixth-grade public school classes in northeast Louisiana. The study employed an experimental/control, …

Reflection On Teaching: An Ethnographic Study Of Preservice Teachers' Beliefs And Practices., Thomasine Haskins Mencer

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between preservice teachers' expressed beliefs, their practices, and how they described the two. Particular emphasis was given to factors that influenced the preservice teachers' expectations of students. The preservice teachers were in the graduate year of a five year teacher education program that embraced reflective practice. In many ways, the two preservice teachers conformed to the mold of the typical American teacher in that they were middle class, Anglo Saxon, females who were high achievers from small towns. However, the pair differed in their experiences with diversity. The preservice teachers' …

Cognitive Differences And Their Predictive Ability On Reading Performance In Skilled And Unskilled Readers., Mary Elizabeth Carter

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The present study examined the relationships among short-term memory, working memory, phonological awareness, and reading performance as measured by an informal reading inventory. Relationships between and among the tasks, their predictive importance with regard to word recognition, accuracy, fluency, and comprehension, and their ability to discriminate among groups of readers were investigated. A battery of tests comprising 14 cognitive variables and 24 reading variables was individually administered to 105 fourth and fifth grade normally achieving readers, unidentified unskilled readers, and school identified unskilled readers. Results revealed that working memory, phonological awareness, and syntactic awareness tasks were significantly intercorrelated among themselves, …

The Quality School In Postsecondary Education, Raymond E Harris

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

In the past, Reality Therapy seminars and workshops were presented by professionals who were skilled in their field, but had only limited training in adult education, including curriculum and instruction. By utilizing materials and information received in the U.N.L.V. graduate Post Secondary Education program in conjunction with Dr. William Glasser's Quality School concepts, the Reality Therapy training can be redesigned to deliver more effective education. There will be an extensive review of information from the graduate program, Dr. Glasser's books and articles, plus the resources of the U.N.L.V. library. New materials developed will be class activities and lesson plans that …

The "Sacred Harp" In The Urban North: 1970-1995., Mark David Johnson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

In 1994 the Sacred Harp, a southern, shape-note tunebook, entered its 150th year of continuous use. First compiled in 1844 by B. F. White and E. J. King, and updated numerous times, The Sacred Harp books in the "Denson" tradition, including The Sacred Harp: 1991 Edition, are today the most popular and widely used twentieth-century revisions of any nineteenth-century tunebook. Sacred Harp singing has been a largely rural, Southern tradition and in the years between 1844 and the early 1970s several hundred separate singings were founded, many of which continue to be active. In the early 1990s the Sacred Harp …

Work Motivation And Perceived Organizational Effectiveness In Middle Schools., Cynthia Young Wren

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The primary purpose of this study was to determine the linkage between work motivation derived from the expectancy theory and perceived organizational effectiveness derived from the Parsonian framework. School characteristics of community type, school size, and school socioeconomic status were used as predictor variables in the study. A secondary purpose was to examine these linkages in middle schools and to examine changes over time. Mixed methodologies, including quantitative and qualitative research techniques, were employed. The data were analyzed using the school and the individual teacher as units of analyses. To test the hypotheses, a multiple regression procedure was employed. The …

Women Who Lead High Schools: A Missing Element In Leadership Theory., Kristy Brock Hebert

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

I addressed the problem that leadership theory is lacking in regard to how women lead high schools. My primary purpose was to contribute to the limited literature that exists regarding the leadership practices of women who are high school principals. I explored the notion of a female culture of school leadership and situated that culture among quintessential theory dictated by organizational research. I conducted this study in two phases. In Phase One I reported the demographics of 44 female high school principals in Louisiana along with their self-reported values on 32 leadership characteristics. Most important to their leadership were: communication, …

A Procedural Handbook For The Washougal Learning Center, Michael J. Strever

All Graduate Projects

It is the intent of this project to create a handbook for the parents, students, and staff of Washougal Leaming Center in Washougal, Washington. This handbook was designed to both be consistent with current district, state, and federal guidelines, and communicate the policies and procedures of the Washougal Leaming Center to parents, students, and staff. The handbook was developed with input from staff of Washougal Leaming Center. Handbooks from various school in Washington were also review in the development of this project. Recommendations included an annual review of the handbook to ensure its validity and appropriateness.

A Comparison Of Instruction Delivered By Two-Way Interactive Compressed Video And Traditional Conference: Attitudes And Achievement Of Residents In Family Medicine, Yvonne Larocca Lewis

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine if the attitudes and/or achievement of family practice residents differed as they received instruction by two-way interactive compressed video or by the traditional conference method. The attitude survey, completed before and after the presentations were delivered, provided feedback from the residents in the experimental group on how they felt about the sessions. Pre- and post-test scores provided information about the achievement of residents and the possible difference between scores of those who received the presentations by two-way interactive compressed video as opposed to those taught by the traditional conference method. Results from …