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Nova University Graduate Education Module (Gem) Course Descriptions August 21, 1980, Nova University

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

No abstract provided.

Newsbulletin Vol. 8, No. 31, Salve Regina College

Newsbulletin

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Newsbulletin Vol. 8, No. 29, Salve Regina College

Newsbulletin

No abstract provided.

Newsbulletin Vol. 8, No. 27, Salve Regina College

Newsbulletin

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Involving Parents In A Nutrition Education Program For Preschool Children, Cheryl Wright

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The primary intent of this study was to ascertain the effectiveness of parents in the role of teaching nutrition to their children. This research endeavor was an extension of refinement of a three-year program in nutrition education in the Department of Family and Human Development at Utah State University. Fifty-seven children enrolled in the Child Development Laboratory at Utah State, and their parents were involved in the study. Eighteen children were taught nutrition by their mothers. Twenty-one children were taught nutrition by their mothers and fathers, and 18 children served as the control group and received no nutrition using an …

Newsbulletin Vol. 8, No. 26, Salve Regina College

Newsbulletin

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The Population-Food Squeeze: Education For Survival, N. Keith Roberts

Faculty Honor Lectures

One in every four people living on our planet goes to bed hungry each day, and many more survive on inadequate diets only to die prematurely. At the same time, many of the world's natural resources are producing food far below their potential. Almost 25 percent of the Earth's adult population are illiterate, and many more are severely deficient in basic educational skills.

Newsbulletin Vol. 8, No. 17, Salve Regina College

Newsbulletin

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Textbook Selection Process: An Historical Account Of The Steps Involved In Textbook Selection Guidelines For Washington State Public Schools, James D. Shannon

All Graduate Projects

Local schools and school districts in the State of Washington have the responsibility for selecting textbooks to meet the district's philosophies, goals, and objectives as well as state regulations. To eliminate some of the problems inherent in this situation and to ensure more satisfactory results, this writer developed a procedure based on a committee approach, using a participatory decision making mode. Also, evaluative criteria and a rating tool were designed for use in screening, evaluating, and selecting textbooks. This project presents the steps used in the process.

Ec17-11-80 Nebraska Outdoor Education Series: Plant A Tree, Joe Range, John D. Orr

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Not all trees or shrubs can find a home in your yard or apartment. Help your child to discover a home for the tree or shrub he or she grows or receives. The greatest benefit of this Plant-A-Tree project is being close to a living plant. This project will: introduce five tree planters - one from each area of Nebraska, discuss the parts of tree seeds, give examples of how tree seeds travel, discuss preparation of soil, demonstrate how to grow a seedling tree from seed, demonstrate how to transplant a tree, and offer suggestions for activities and exhibits.

Humaneness Supersedes Curiosity, F. Barbara Orlans

Education Collection

Ethical considerations need to be addressed with respect to educational use of animals. Society extends greater latitude in what is permissible to do to an animal in the name of science to a professional research worker than to a high school student. A balance needs to be made of the significance of the expected experimental results, on the one hand, which the ethical costs, (in terms of pain or death to the animal), on the other. A reasonable boundary can be drawn, based on ethical as well as on practical considerations, to exclude invasive procedures on vertebrate animals in high …

Educational Futures I: Imaging And Inventing: Views Toward Imagineering Global Perspectives Of What Ought To Be In Education, Don E. Glines

Books

"First of a volume series on change in education, with volume I focusing on societal conditions and how they affect educators and school programs" from Don E. Glines (2023).

Development Of A Needs-Based Curriculum Plan In Environmental Education., James Edward Barr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A curriculum plan in environmental education for Louisiana was developed, based on needs established by analyzing the results of testing 1,412 tenth grade students from 53 public secondary schools in Louisiana for their knowledge and opinions about the environment. The instrument used in the survey consisted of 43 cognitive and 20 affective questions. The instrument was developed from objectives selected from other state plans by a panel of 35 scientists and educators from 12 departments at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Fifty-four public secondary schools were randomly selected. Fifty-three schools, 98 percent of the sample, returned the answer forms. …

The Relationship Of Biorhythms To Academic Performance In Reading., Natalia Lavonne Brackin Peveto

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study was an investigation to determine if a relationship existed between the twenty-three day physical, twenty-eight day emotional and the thirty-three day intellectual biorhythm cycles and academic achievement in reading. If a relationship existed between the learning potential of a student and the low, critical and high levels of the biorhythm cycles, instructional techniques could be designed to capitalize on the internal fluctuations of each learner. It was hypothesized that there would be a significant relationship between the academic performance of a student in reading and the high, low and critical positions of the twenty-three day physical, twenty-eight day …

Adult-Child Motor Performance Differences: A Developmental Perspective Of Control Processing Deficits., Jere Dee Gallagher

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

What the adult does during the intertrial interval that the child does not to process information was under investigation in this series of studies. Representative ages chosen due to a difference in the utilization of control processes were 5-, 7-, 11-, and 19-year olds. The initial study tested the initial availability of information to the subject prior to processing. The major question was detecting developmental differences in kinesthetic sensory store. Results indicated that the superior performance of the adults is not due to the initial availability of the information. The second study investigated the detriment to performance by increasing the …

Implementation Of Piaget's Theory For Early Childhood Education Curriculum, Marilyn Frazier Smith

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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The History Of The National Basketball Tournaments For Black High Schools., Charles Herbert Thompson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The National Basketball Tournaments for Black High Schools represented one of the most significant eras in the history of athletics in the United States. The existence of these tournaments was predicated on the restrictive conditions dictated by legally enforced segregation which included amon.

Listening Ability And Manual Dexterity Of Stenography Students., Annette Vincent Nunez

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Listening ability and manual dexterity as possible factors for success in shorthand were the subjects of this study. Investigated also were the possible increases in listening ability and manual dexterity due to a course in shorthand. The experimental-control groups, pretest-posttest desig.

Nova University Center For The Advancement Of Education Course Descriptions For Courses In Gem Modules - August 21, 1980, Nova University

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

No abstract provided.

Home Interaction Program: Hip, Georgia Sackman

All Graduate Projects

A Home Interaction Program (HIP) was designed and implemented for Title I parents and students. The components of the program included monthly newsletters, libraries, and workshops. It was found that parents of Title I students participated in HIP activities as long as they could be done in the home. The conclusion was reached that if schools want Title I parents to become involved in their child's education learning experiences, programs must be developed to reach into the home.

Transformational Geometry Unit, Elizabeth Ann O'Neill

All Graduate Projects

The study included the development and writing of a unit on transformational geometry which involved a holistic approach including the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains. This unit was taught to the eighth grade class in the Oakville School District in Oakville, Washington. The results showed support that the teaching of this unit was effective.

A Study Of Vocational Education Completers And Leavers, At Dixie College, To Determine The Effect, On Job Seeking And Keeping Skills, Of Participation In Cooperative Vocational Education Courses, John Garth Hacking

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study established the extent to which there is a correlation between the job seeking and keeping skills of Cooperative Vocational Education students and students in similar programs who elect not to participate in CVOE. Data gathered by the use of a questionnaire was compared to determine the effects of CVOE on grade point average, length of time to initial employment, initial salaries received, job advancement, and student reaction to having taken a CVOE program; The study was limited to a group fo Dixie College vocational students enrolled at the institution between Fall Quarter, 1971, and Spring Quarter, 1977.

Rodriguez Revisited: Federalism, Meaningful Access, And The Right To Adequate Education, Penelope A. Prevolos

Santa Clara Law Review

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The Development Of A Comprehensive Preschool Screening Instrument, Jana Lee Johnson

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this paper was to research criteria for screening for young, handicapped children with the intent of developing a single, comprehensive screening instrument. Analyses of existing screening devices and data from educators in the field were also included in the study.

The resulting screening instrument was designed to assess the developmental acquisition of skills. Major developmental areas included in the screening instrument are language skills, motor development, perceptual skills, cognitive development, social skills, and self-help skills.

An Educational Philosophy For American Medical School Curricula, Richard Bruce Donker

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

American medicine has undergone dramatic changes in the past two decades. The launching of Sputnik I by the Russians in 1957 led the United States government to place an extraordinary emphasis upon science and technology that has been responsible for a staggering array of technological and knowledge breakthrough in medicine. Social changes have created stresses that have resulted in a high percentage of emotional and psychological illnesses. As a result of the impersonal nature of modern technological medicine and the need for emotional and psychological guidance, the American public has turned recently toward alternate methods of healing. Many of these …

The Effects Of An Enriched Educational Program On The Academic, Intellectual, And Behavioral Functioning Of Underachieving, Culturally Disadvantaged, Mentally Gifted Minors, Douglas Charles Widdup

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Purpose. This study was designed to investigate the effects of a special remedial program on the intellectual, academic, and behavioral functioning of underachieving, culturally disadvantaged, mentally gifted minors. The study also concerned itself with student school attendance and parent attendance at parent-teacher conferences. Variables. The selected variables for this study were IQ, academic achievement, student behavior, student attendance, and parent attendance at teacher conferences. IQ was measured with the Stanford-Binet LM intelligence test. Academic achievement was measured with two instruments, the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills in Reading, Language, and Arithmetic, and the Peabody Individual Achievement Test in Reading Recognition, …

Teaching Practice, Supervision, Advice And Assessment : A Report Of An Investigation Undertaken Under The Auspices Of The Research Committee Of Nedlands College, M. Kaplan

Research outputs pre 2011

An opinion questionnaire (see Appendix One for details) was distributed to staff of the Departments of Education Studies and English Studies to identify expectations of staff in relation to teaching practice and to measure the extent to which staff views on the subject coincide. Use was made of the Delphi technique to enable respondents to modify and expand on the original questionnaire and to revise their initial responses in the light of additional information. It was felt that the Delphi technique would permit more detailed and reflective views to be obtained from staff and that this additional information would justify …

The Language Of 5 1/2-Year-Old Children From Homes Where Macedonian, Vietnamese And An Aboriginal Tribal Language Are Used As The Language Of The Home, A. L. Mcgregor

Research outputs pre 2011

Throughout the world migration patterns and changing attitudes towards education and other cultures have led over the past three or four decades to a remarkable growth in the learning of second or foreign languages. Within this area the learning of English by speakers of other languages takes up the largest numbers and is to be found in every part of the globe.

Nevertheless to date comparatively little is known of processes and patterns in second language development. Evidence on phonological and semantic development is exceedingly skimpy. Hernandez (in Ervin-Tripp 1970), Malmberg (1945), Wode (1976) and Ervin-Tripp (1974) have examined the …

Parent Effectiveness Training: Its Impact Upon The Self-Perception And Behavior Of The Children Of Participants, Mark Allen Fulmer

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Problem: There is a need to evaluate the training programs available to parents to determine the effect of these programs upon the children of participants. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of Parent Effectiveness Training upon the elementary school age children of participants in the areas of self-perceived Locus of Control and behavior. Procedure. Experimental and control groups were established with students from four central California elementary schools to obtain data on the problem under investigation. The groups were formed from children of parents who agreed to participate in the study. A Nonrandomized Control-Group Pretest-Posttest Design …

A Content Analysis Of Iranian Children's Story Books For The Presence Of Social And Moral Values, Zarintaj Taji Tajeran

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Problem. This study was conducted to identify the incidence of specific Iranian middle-class social and moral values in the content of children's story books. Four questions were used as research guides: (1) To what extent are Iranian middle-class social and moral values present in the content of the selected story books? (2) To what degree of frequency and level of intensity are the values presented? (3) What additional values, if any, are not presented in the list of the specific values? (4) How do the findings of this study compare with those of a previous study of social and moral …