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The Scientist-In-Residence Program: Final Evaluation, G. Williamson Mcdiarmid, Judith Kleinfield

ISER Reports

No abstract provided.

Newsbulletin, September 1982, Salve Regina College

Newsbulletin

No abstract provided.

Informational Teacher’S Manual For The Bellingham Vocational Technical Institute, Linda Rawlings Crawford

All Graduate Projects

This project served to develop a teacher manual for teachers of adults at the Bellingham Vocational Technical Institute in Bellingham, Washington. The project was designed to assist in staff development by (1) informing vocational instructors of state and school policies and procedures, (2) identifying new and updated teaching guidelines, and (3) by assisting in orienting new staff to school and vocational education procedures. Further, the unique aspects and legal requirements of vocational education for adults are discussed. It is the intent of the writer to develop a manual that will expediate orientation of new members of the faculty while at …

Strategies In Reading Comprehension To Enhance The Reading Of A Ninth Grade Standard First Aid And Personal Safety Text, James L. Bogert

All Graduate Projects

A series of 28 reading comprehension strategies was developed to assist students in using and understanding the first aid textbook in a ninth grade Standard First Aid and Personal Safety class. The strategies included lessons at the literal, interpretive, and applied levels of reading comprehension and were developed to further facilitate students' reading the text with more depth and proficiency.

Newsbulletin Vol. 11, No. 28, Salve Regina College

Newsbulletin

No abstract provided.

A Handbook For Parents Of Children With Specific Learning Disabilities In The Moses Lake Schools, Merla Mae Ferguson

All Graduate Projects

A handbook was designed to be used by parents of Specific Learning Disability (SLD) children in the Moses Lake School District. Using material from the literature and questions from parents of SLD children as a guide, advice and recommended activities were developed for the handbook. Parents were enthusiastic about the activities and indicated a desire for more information. It was concluded that parents using the handbook could be more effective in helping their SLD child.

The Identification Of Spanish-Speaking Children With Speech And Language Handicaps: An Analysis Of Current Assessment Practices In Speech And Language Therapy Programs With Proposed Assessment Guidelines, Lawrence Joel Mattes Edd

Dissertations

Problem The objectives of this study were (1) to examine the procedures used by speech-language pathologists in identifying Spanish-speaking students with speech and language handicaps, (2) to determine the extent to which practicing speech-language pathologists are qualified to conduct these evaluations, and (3) to develop a comprehensive set of assessment guidelines. Procedure A 27-item survey instrument constructed by the researcher was distributed to 408 individuals in Los Angeles County, selected from the 1980 membership directory of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the 1981 directory supplement. A total of 285 (69.85%) of the surveys were returned, but 44 of these surveys …

A Syllabus Of Enrichment Activities To Enhance Content Area Reading In Science, Lynn Carol Swanson

All Graduate Projects

A syllabus of 65 enrichment activities was developed to accompany the third grade Addison Wesley science text. The activities were designed to aid children in transferring study skills, context clues, comprehension and vocabulary from reading instruction to content material. Objectives and teaching strategies were developed to accompany each of 26 skills. Suggested vocabulary activities and materials were included. Each of the activities focused on helping students to transfer necessary study skills, context clues, and comprehension skills to the science text in order to improve their proficiency to read and use the text effectively.

Newsbulletin Vol. 11, No. 26, Salve Regina College

Newsbulletin

No abstract provided.

Native College Success In The Seventies: Trends At The University Of Alaska At Fairbanks, Judith Kleinfield, Robert Travis, Velma Hubbard

ISER Reports

No abstract provided.

A Skill Based Approach To Organizing And Cataloguing Supplemental Reading Materials At The Elementary Level, Patricia E. Selby

All Graduate Projects

This project organized and catalogued all of the supplemental reading materials of an elementary reading room according to a reading skills code list. The code list was developed by consulting reading skills lists and the school district's student learning objectives. Fifteen major skill areas were included in the code list. Each was broken down into subskills which were assigned code numbers. Each supplemental material was examined and catalogued under the appropriate code number. A handbook was compiled which explained the system and listed all of the materials by skill area.

Use Of Supplemental Audiovisual Materials With Remedial Science Students, Marjorie Ruth Yergen

All Graduate Projects

This project was undertaken to determine if the use of supplemental audiovisual materials would benefit identified remedial seventh grade science pupils. Two experimental groups of remedial pupils were presented various amounts of supplemental audiovisual materials. Both groups were then compared to a control group of remedial pupils receiving no experimental treatment. The results showed support for the hypothesis that there would be no significant difference in learning when supplemental audiovisual materials were used.

Home Language Acquisition Skills Notebook, Rosanna May Detering

All Graduate Projects

The home language acquisition skills notebook was developed to aid parents in giving appropriate language stimulation and activities for their child's level of development, four to six years of age. In addition, positive home teaching techniques, positive home language hints, and a mini-language library bibliography are also available to guide the parent in appropriate home language intervention. Although the notebook will be used with language delayed children first, it is designed to be used with all children in the Lake Chelan Elementary Kindergarten in an attempt to stimulate better language skills, both receptive and expressive.

Nonprint Media Production In Secondary Schools., Rebecca N. Lawrence

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of the study was to determine the current status of nonprint media production in the public secondary schools. A questionnaire was administered to the media specialists/librarians at all Louisiana schools containing grades seven through twelve including schools listed as junior highs containing the sixth grade. A 90.909 percent response rate was achieved. Findings included the following: (1) In the order of occurrence, nonprint media produced in the public secondary schools of Louisiana were: overhead transparencies; cassette and/or reel to reel audio tapes; video tapes, photographic slides and photographic film development; slide/tape programs; computer programs; and 8mm films; (2) …

A Curriculum For Training Extension Professionals In Energy Conservation Education., Daniel Fontenot Jr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Energy conservation is a relatively new educational program for the Cooperative Extension Service (CES). The shortage of training programs available to CES in energy education makes it difficult to properly prepare agents for energy conservation work. The purpose of this study was to develop a curriculum for in-service training of agents engaged in energy education. The procedure for achieving this purpose was used to identify the following: (1) Fundamental concepts necessary for energy conservation education. (2) Agents' knowledge level of these concepts. (3) Agents' perceived need for these concepts. (4) Agents' training requirements. Through a mail questionnaire selected agents from …

A Study Of Cognitive And Attitude Change In Teacher Education Students Toward The Minority Child., Gisele Iren Pesti Friedrichs

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between knowledge change and attitude change in prospective teachers when presented information about minorities, in the form of a Multicultural Instructional Unit. The treatment text, Kleg and Rice: Race, Caste and Prejudice (1970), was accompanied by its achievement test, the Kleg-Puglisi: Cognitive Measuring Instrument which was used to measure cognitive change. A modified Bogardus Social Distance Scale, and a modified Kelly, Ferson, and Holtzman Desegregation Scale were the attitude change measuring instruments. Statistically significant differences were sought between experimental and control groups in cognition and attitudes, and attitude and cognition …

Measuring The Impacts Of Fasb Statement No. 8 And The Fluctuations In Foreign Currency Values On Multinational Corporation Security Prices., Abdelsalam Ali Kablan

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study is twofold. The first is to measure the impact of FASB 8 on multinational corporation (MNC) security prices. The second is to investigate the association between currency fluctuations and MNC security prices. Two types of empirical studies have been conducted to measure FASB 8's impact. The first were questionnaire studies measuring corporate managements' reactions toward the Statement. Their findings showed that corporate managers took certain costly decisions to alter the Statement's effects on reported earnings. The second type of study was conducted to measure the Statement's effect on security prices. Due to methodological problems, these …

An Evaluation Of Two Methods Of Teaching Business Letter-Writing Skills., Beverly Ann House

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study was conducted to determine what effect rewriting had on student achievement of positive message and negative message business letter-writing skills in a business communication course. It involved one hundred fourteen students at the University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, during the fall semester of the 1981-82 academic year. The experimental-control group, pretest-posttest design was used and each of the two experimental groups completed two positive (A-Plan) and two negative (B-Plan) letter rewriting exercises. There were no rewriting assignments in the control group. All pretest and posttest letters were graded by five business communication instructors. Experimental Group I …

Math Attitude In Terms Of Various Factors., Jerry Elizabeth Pinsel

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examined the degree to which math attitude relates to the mathematical training, major field of study and career choices of undergraduate males and females. The study took place in the Mathematics Department of Southeastern Louisiana University. Statement of the Problem. The following null hypothesis was tested using the .05 level of significance: no significant degree of relationship exists between math attitude and either the mathematical training, major field of study, or career choices of undergraduate male and female students. Procedure. Students who participated in the study were undergraduate students enrolled in mathematics during the Fall Semester of 1981. …

The Effect Of Dalcroze Eurhythmics On The Melodic Musical Growth Of First Grade Students., Sue E. Crumpler

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The primary purpose of the study was to determine the effect of Dalcroze Eurhythmics on the melodic musical growth of first grade students. The secondary purposes of the study were to determine the differences between boys and girls in the ability to discriminate pitch register and melodic contour and to determine the differences created by the interaction of method, sex, and time. Seventy-six first grade students in four intact classes participated in the study. Two classes, control group, used the melodic units of the 1978 Silver Burdett Music (SBM). Two classes, experimental group, used Silver Burdett Music and Dalcroze Eurhythmic …

A Study Of The Three-Level Hierarchy Of Information Processing In Reading Comprehension With Respect To Cognitive Demand., Lane Roy Gauthier

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study was designed to study the three-level hierarchy of information processing with respect to cognitive demand. The study addressed the problem of differences between the most commonly used levels of comprehension, literal, inferential, and critical. The main types of information processing models, bottom-up, top-down, and interactive-compensatory, all accept the premise that literal processing is less cognitively demanding than inferential processing, and that inferential processing is less cognitively demanding than critical processing. In order to test whether statistically significant differences actually existed in these three levels of comprehension, fifty students were chosen and individually tested. Twenty-five fifth graders, and twenty-five …

The Impact Of Teaching Test-Taking Skills Upon The Scores Of Selected Secondary Students Taking The Louisiana State Assessment Test., Joann Crabtree Bower

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of teaching test-taking skills upon the scores of selected secondary students. The interactions between the treatment and sex, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and achievement level were also investigated. The treatment consisted of four or five 50-minute periods of instruction and practice in selected test-taking skills which included marking answer sheets correctly and quickly, coordinating answer sheets and test booklets, developing a test cadence, fostering a positive test attitude, using deductive reasoning and guessing strategies, and using a relaxation technique during a test situation. The treatment was administered to four experimental groups …

Discrimination Law—Title Ix And Sex Discrimination In Educational Employment—North Haven Board Of Education V. Hufstedler, 629 F.2d 773 (2d Cir. 1980), Carl T. Holt

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.

Voluntary Affirmative Action Compliance In Texas Public Junior Colleges During The Period 1975-1977, J. Harvey Booker

Dissertations (Pre-2016)

None

Blood Lactate Removal During Varying Intensities Of Active Recovery Following Supramaximal Work., Stephen Lollar Dodd

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of varying intensities of recovery exercise on the level of blood lactate after a short, supramaximal exercise bout. Seven males were advised of the testing protocol and consented to serve as subjects. All subjects performed an oxygen cost of cycling test and maximal oxygen uptake (VO(,2)(' )max) test prior to the commencement of the recovery tests. The subjects then performed one of four treatments on separate days with 1-4 days of rest between tests. Preceding each treatment the subjects cycled at a workload corresponding to 150% of VO(,2)(' )max for …

Language Experience And Learning Center Ideas And Activities A Supplement To The Basal Reader, Marcia Marie Rhone

All Graduate Projects

A handbook has been developed to be used as a supplement to the basal reader with learning centers teaching language experience, and the fundamental skills of reading and writing, The centers were prepared to involve the children in their own learning, to teach the student to read and write the vocabulary he uses in everyday speech, and to allow the low achiever to feel successful.

A Handbook Developed To Create A Better Understanding Of The Gifted, Nan M. Hake

All Graduate Projects

The problems encountered by gifted students when integrating into the regular self-contained classroom were studied. Parents and peers display their misunderstanding of gifted students by their innocent remarks that adversely affect them. Teachers unwittingly cause discomfort by the unchallenging tasks gifted children are expected to perform. Sixty children from the Wenatchee School District's Gifted Pull-out Program were asked to share some of their concerns pertaining to these problems. Based upon their responses and a survey of the literature, a handbook was compiled to help prevent parents, teachers and peers from misunderstanding the gifted student.

An Item Analysis Of Selected Subtests On The Project Palatisha Development Checklist, Kitty A. Hollow

All Graduate Projects

The Project Palatisha Developmental Checklist (PPDC) is a preschool screening instrument that is used by many different tribal Head Start programs throughout the western United States. An item analysis was made on the Cognitive, Fine Motor, and Language subtests of the PPDC. The sample population consisted of 202 children ages 3 through 5 who were enrolled in Head Start programs. The Head Start programs who participated were located on the Hualapai, Hopi, Salt River Pima-Maricopa, Makah, Quileute, Chehalis, and Yakima Indian Reservations. One Mexican American Head Start program, Campesinos Unidos Inc., also participated in the study. The item analysis consisted …

Report On A Seminar Workshop On The General Education Certificate And Advanced Education Entry Certificate Courses, Pat Grimoldby, Doug Hubble

Research outputs pre 2011

The Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (ATEP) of Mount Lawley College has been responsible for the development of two correspondence courses for'adult Aborigines since 1978. Over the past four years the initial concept of a one year external study course bridging through to tertiary study courses for Aboriginal "aides" has broadened considerably, and encompasses two programs each of 4 units of study available to all post school Aboriginals.

In the first year of the course operation ATEP commissioned an initial feasibility research study and since that time no further studies of the program has been undertaken. The courses have changed dramatically …

Functional Language In Vietnam And Australia : Some Differences In The Use Of Functional Language Between Vietnamese And Australian Speakers, Eleanor A. Ensor

Research outputs pre 2011

The linguistic problems encountered in such areas as phonology and syntax by Vietnamese learning English are already dealt with in several publications. This paper however, explores a further avenue of common problems which are socio-linguistic in nature, relating to the settlement process of Vietnamese into Australian society...