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Pilot Study Of Learning Instructional Styles As A Predictor Of Educational Outcomes In Principles Of Accounting I At Broward Community College, Colin Battle

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1980 - 1989

Broward Community College (Florida) has experienced high attrition in its Principles of Accounting I. The present study investigates the relationship of grades with divergent instructional/learning styles. Subject literature indicated individual approaches to perceiving, thinking, remembering and problem solving. These traits are possessed by both learners and teachers. However, the interaction of instructional/learning styles remained unexplored at the community college level. Further, accounting education has not provided discussion of the issue. Using the Learning Styles Inventory (LSI) and the Canfield Instructional Style Inventory (CIS), learning and instructional preferences were obtained. This style data was used to determine measures of divergence between …

Newsbulletin Vol. 9, No. 25, Salve Regina College

Newsbulletin

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Two Instructional Treatments On Increasing Computational Skill In Subtraction With Regrouping Of Grade Three Students, Ruth Kruger Duncan

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This study investigated two treatments in teaching subtraction of two-digit numbers with regrouping, and the effects of these treatments on ninety-four third-grade students. The first treatment named base-blocks (BB), consisted of the manipulation of ones and tens blocks to develop an understanding of the decomposition algorithm. The second treatment, named expanded notation (EN), consisted of the explanation of the decomposition algorithm using expanded numbers and the associative property of addition. Measures were obtained for computational skill and retention of that skill. Two teachers each taught both treatments to four comparable groups. There was a three-week preparation phase for the teachers …

An Investigation Of The Self-Reported Problems Of Mexican, Mexican-American And Anglo-American Adolescents, Marta Urteaga Pippin

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This study utilized a cross-cultural comparative approach to investigate: (1) whether differences existed in problems reported by three groups of students of both sexes, Mexican, Mexican-American, and Anglo-American; and (2) the extent to which these differences were influenced by ethnicity, sex, or socioeconomic status, or the interaction among those variables. The STS Youth Inventory--Form G and a Personal Data Sheet were administered in the Spring of 1979 to 710 students from five high schools in Northern California. The sample which was statistically analyzed for the purposes of this investigation was comprised of 530 students. Of these 74 were Mexicans, 179 …

The Adjustment Problems Of Latin American Students Attending Selected California Universities, Maria Victoria Ramirez Better

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to identify the academic and non-academic problems of adjustment to the American culture and educational system as perceived by Latin American students attending selected California universities. A second purpose was to identify and compare the differences in problems perceived in undergraduate male and female Latin American students from their respective viewpoints. A third purpose was to identify the expected readjustment problems when the students return to their countries. The fourth purpose was to determine the nature and the helpfulness of the orientation program needed before the students came to the U.S., and after …

Report To The Academic Council Of Nedlands College From The Ad Hoc Committee On Aboriginal Education, Aboriginal Education Committee

Research outputs pre 2011

The following expanded brief originating from the above recommendation was given to the committee:- "Many graduates returning to College on ex-students' day as well as students on practice reported that they had found difficulties in handling classes that contained Aboriginal and part Aboriginal students, and suggested that the College should do more to prepare students in this area. A conference on Aboriginal Education held at Mount Lawley College in 1977 made recommendations on the place of Aboriginal Education in initial teaching training.

The Academic Council of this College decided to form an ad hoc committee to advise the Courses Committee …

Reaction To Social Pressure From Adults Versus Peers Among Mexican, Mexican-American, And Anglo-American Rural Children, Ana Maria C. Donini

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this project was to investigate whether there was a significant difference in the adherence to conventional morality and the reaction to social pressure from adults versus peers among Mexican, Mexican-American, and Anglo-American children. The instrument used was the Moral Dilemmas Test (MDT) developed by Bronfenbrenner, Devereux, Suci, and Rodgers, which measures the reported readiness of children to engage in morally disapproved behavior and their reaction to social pressure exerted by adults and peers. The subjects were asked to respond to a series of conflict situations under three experimental conditions of confidentiality, scrutiny by parents, and scrutiny by …

A Comparative Study Of Academic Achievement Of Full-Blood And Mixed-Blood Indian Students, Paul J. Comeau

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Mat-Sea-Cal Oral Language Packets, Janet L. Esquivel

All Graduate Projects

This project is the development of a curriculum of language packets in Spanish dealing with the communication concepts which are tested in the MAT-SEA-CAL Oral Language Proficiency Test. The packets develop one specific skill in each of the communication concepts: numerality, temporality, spatial relations, identification, classification, case relationships, interrogation, and negation. The packets are designed for native Spanish speakers, grades K-3, who have certain structural problems in oral Spanish.

A Longitudinal Study Of The Effects Of Eighth Grade Career Counseling And Guidance On Eleventh Grade Occupational Interests As Measured By The Ohio Vocational Interest Survey., Norma Jean Gates

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Students have reacted positively to personal contact with school counselors in regard to learning about themselves in relationship to potential career goals. There appears to be a need, however, to ascertain the effect of career counseling at the upper elementary grades upon career awareness and development at a later secondary grade. In addition, there is a need to study the effects of individual versus group career guidance at the upper elementary grades with reference to the career choices selected at a later secondary grade.

An Assessment Of The Undergraduate Elementary Education Program At Louisiana State University., Irene Smith Gatchell

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

08. First Edition Of Lisa (1976) By Matthew Lipman, Matthew Lipman

Middle School Curriculum

Lisa is the story of a school year in the life of an adolescent girl and her classmates, a year studded with physical, aesthetic and ethical awakenings. Various events in these young people's lives prompt them to puzzle over such issues as animal rights, sexism, racism, justice, divorce and death. All of them struggle with issues of identity and thinking for oneself - philosophical issues of perennial concern to adolescents. As they begin to recognize the ethical dimensions of their experience, Lisa and her friends puzzle over such philosophical concepts as the right, the fair, the good, perfection, and naturalism. …

A Study Of Students In The Educational Opportunity Program At California State College, Stanislaus, 1969-1974., Norbert Michael Gonzales

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Access to higher education for low income, disadvantaged, and minority students has been, on a large scale basis, a recent phenomenon. According to Besis three main thrusts have supported the concept of public education for the masses, the Land Grant Act of 1862, the community college movement, and the G.I. Bill. This mass movement has not been equally distributed among all segments of the society. It was noticed as early as 1944 that there were substantial inequities in the degree of support for schools attended primarily by minority and poverty level students.

The Determinants Of Curricular Offerings In Selected Public Adult High Schools In California., Vernon Stanley Jaquith

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

One of the tasks of the adult school administrator is that of planning the program to be offered to the public. Is it well balanced academic and vocational areas; does it satisfy the needs of the home-maker, the student, the apprentice; does it offer something for each to fulfill his educational needs? These and a number of other questions must be answered before an adult school program will satisfy the educational needs of the adult community it is to serve. Damon stated it well when he wrote that: Although adult education is assuming a more important place in the public …

Characteristics Of Successful Boarding Home Parents Of Eskimo And Athabascan Indian Students, Judith Kleinfield

ISER Reports

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Instructional Style And The Intellectual Performance Of Indian And Eskimo Students, Judith Kleinfield

ISER Reports

Three 1970-71 studies concerning the styles of instruction that lead to higher intellectual performance among village American Indian and Eskimo high school students are presented in this final report of observations of teachers and students in several Native boarding schools and/or integrated urban high schools in Alaska. The first study, an ethnography, describes the problems of these students and their teachers, and suggests a typology differentiating effective and ineffective teachers. This ethnography suggests that the teachers degree of personal warmth versus professional distance, and degree of active demandingness versus passive understanding, are fundamental dimensions separating successful from unsuccessful teachers. The …

Some Instructional Strategies For The Cross-Cultural Classroom, Judith Kleinfield

ISER Reports

Based on questionnaire data, 64% (114 respondents) return from all teachers in small village schools operated by the State of Alaska and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, This paper describes instructional strategies for new teachers entering the Alaskan cross-cultural community classroom. The paper also suggests how the instructional methods harmonize with village students' learning styles in regard to (1) personalism (experiment with ways to harmonize personal teaching style with students* learning styles) (2) competitiveness (devise teaching methods to cope with passive students), (3) joking (use this native method of correction in a two-sided manner), (4) project-reward work rhythm (assign concentrated …

A Comparative Study Concerning Adolescent Attitudes In Istanbul, Turkey And California, The United States Of America, Maida Kamber Divanian

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It was the purpose of this study to compare the attitudes of the adolescents of ages 17 to 19 who attended school in Turkey and the United States. Specifically, the research attempted to investigate the extent of similarity and dissimilarity between the attitudes of the present American and Turkish adolescents of ages 17 to 19 who attended school in Istanbul, Turkey and California, U.S.A., towards: (1) their teacher, (2) their peers, (3) their parents, (4) institutional constraint, (5) their self concept, and (6) their academic aspirations. The investigator was a cross-cultural study which had data from prospective cultures.

Birth Order And Its Relationship To Dogmatism, John Richard Downs

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to take one definable personality pattern, open and closed mindedness, and to see if this dimension is reflected in ordinal birth position, specifically first- and later-born. The literature reviewed in this study appears to describe the first-born very much like Rokeach (1960) describes his closed-minded person. Further, the description of the later-born is very much in line with Rokeach's description of the open-minded person.

The Educational Uses Of The World: Experiential Learning And The Peace Corps, Phillips Ruopp

Other Documents

This is a paper written by Phillips Ruopp, who from "1963 to 1967 he served as the first dean of the College of the Virgin Islands, where he worked with the Virgin Islands Peace Corps Training Center in developing methods of cross-cultural community involvement training" and afterwards was the Director of the Peace Corps' Division of Institutional Relations. -- [p.2]

In this paper Ruopp discusses education through experiences and so in the frame of global community and service. He puts forth the argument "that there are uses of the 'world' for purposes which are educational, but in neither an amorphous …

The Performance Of Grade Xi Students Of Saskatchewan (Canada) And Iowa (U.S.A.) On Two Of The Iowa Tests Of Educational Development, Kamal Dev Verma

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this investigation was to study the performance of grade XI students of Saskatchewan (Canada) and Iowa (U. S. A.) on two of the Iowa Tests of Educational Development: Test 3, Correctness and Appropriateness of Expression; and Test 4, Ability to Do Quantitative Thinking. The interpretation of the performances involved examination of several related educational factors.

The sample comprising 543 grade XI students was drawn from twelve selected Saskatchewan high schools.

In each of the twelve participating high schools, the principal arranged for the administration of the two ITED tests and the Student Questionnaire: Form A. In addition, …

A Survey Of The Status Of Geography In The Fully Accredited High Schools Of North Dakota, Richard Willard

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Socialization Of The High School, Hampton Marsden Kishpaugh

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.