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Audience Awareness In The Persuasive Writing Of Gifted And Non-Gifted Fifth Grade Students., Shirley Jean Guillory Mancuso

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This investigation attempted to profile the audience awareness of gifted and non-gifted fifth graders. At three writing sessions, students wrote to a friend, a teacher, and an editor, persuading each to go to the park. Compositions were examined for syntactic complexity, according to t-units, and for the kinds and numbers of persuasive appeals used. A repeated measures design with a 2 x 3 factorial arrangement of between subject treatments (group and sex) and a single repeated factor (audience at three levels) was used. The dependent variables were examined using ANOVA. Results were tested for significance at the .05 level. The …

Perceptions Of Nine Change Agent Roles And Related Work Variables By County Extension Agents In The Minnesota Agricultural Extension Service--1985., Jared Melville Smalley

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The major focus of this dissertation study was on the self-expectations of Minnesota County Extension Agents as they carry out nine change agent roles in their educational work. Impetus for the study came from a 1984 report that indicated 70.5 percent of these agents felt emotional strain due to "expect too much of self.". Data was collected regarding the nine roles and six work-related variables by mail questionnaire. A total of 230 usable responses were received from the 248 agents on active duty during May, 1985. The major findings of the study were generalized as follows: (1) The most positive …

Pupil Control Ideology And Pluralistic Ignorance In A Residential Facility For The Hearing Impaired: Hearing And Non-Hearing Teacher Perspectives., James Alan Vitagliano

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The study's purpose was to examine variation in pupil control ideology (PCI) and existence of pluralistic ignorance in a school for the deaf. Participant observation, survey administration, and ethnographic interview techniques were related to nine hypotheses focused upon informal group structures of hearing and non-hearing teachers within the school culture. The hypotheses were: (1) Hearing teachers will perceive PCI of non-hearing teachers as more custodial than non-hearing teachers report. (2) Non-hearing teachers will perceive PCI of hearing teachers as more custodial than hearing teachers report. (3) Hearing teachers will perceive hearing teachers' PCI as less custodial than non-hearing teachers' PCI. …

Developing A Conceptual Framework For Evaluating Economic And Social Consequences Of Cooperative Extension Work Impact (Program Impact Indicators)., Solomon Ahyuwa Yabaya

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Purpose. The basic purpose of this study was to develop a conceptual framework of economic and social consequences for evaluating Extension work. The general objectives were: (1) to develop and refine a taxonomy of economic and social consequences of Cooperative Extension programs, and (2) to develop a generic model for measuring economic and social consequences of the Cooperative Extension program impacts. Methodology. The respondents were identified by the State Extension Directors. Data were collected using a mail questionnaire. The respondents reacted to an eighty indicator instrument, and their responses were tabulated and analyzed on the basis of appropriateness, importance and …

The Interaction Of Conceptual Tempo And Modeling On Motor Performance (Learning Style)., Shirley Devard Brown

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This experiment was designed to examine the effects of conceptual tempo and modeling on performance of a serial motor task. There were 48 subjects, 10- and 11-years old males and females, classified as impulsive or reflective. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of three modeling groups or a control group. The modeling strategies included: silent-model, verbal-model and verbal-model with self-instruction. The task was a motor skill obstacle course in which both speed and errors were scored. Data were analyzed by a 2 x 4 (Cognitive Style x Model Type) MANOVA with the number of trials to criterion, the average number …

The Effects Of Performance Standards On Behavior Patterns And Motor Skill Achievement In Children (Goals, Time-On-Task)., Rosaland Veatrice Edwards

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The effect of individual performance standards on the relationship between selected process variables and achievement for students in elementary physical education classes was investigated. The subjects were 78 fourth grade and 80 fifth grade students from eight classes in two elementary schools. Two fourth and fifth grades received standards and two fourth and fifth grades did not. A one week experimental teaching unit was used. A Solomon 4-group design was used in an effort to determine if there was a pretest effect. The data were analyzed in a Treatment (standard-no standard) x Pre (pre-no pretest) x sex (male-female) x grade …

Analysis Of Special Education Due Process Hearings In Louisiana., Leona H. Liberty

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The provision of special education due process hearings is mandated by P.L. 94-142 to resolve any conflict between the parents (or guardian) of the special education child and public school personnel in providing educational and related services that address the unique needs of the child. An impartial hearing officer is to preside at the hearing. This person is empowered to resolve the dispute. If either party is dissatisfied with the decision rendered by the hearing officer, they may appeal to the State, and even higher court level. This investigation was an in-depth analysis of the structural characteristics and outcome of …

College Cheaters In An Educational Intervention Program: Their Characteristics, Self-Perceptions, And Summative Evaluation Responses (Moral Reasoning, Judgment, Locus Of Control, Developmental Tasks, Values, Self-Actualization)., Nancy Irle Mathews

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

As an alternative to disciplinary suspension, Louisiana State University implemented an educational intervention program for students found guilty of charges of academic dishonesty as defined by the Code of Student Conduct. The purpose of this study was fourfold: (a) to describe the characteristics of 68 cheaters who participated in the intervention programs over four different semesters, (b) to describe the psychosocial and environmental factors that were perceived by identified students as influencing their decisions to cheat, (c) to determine the extent of change in selected psychological measurements of cheaters upon completion of the program, and (d) to describe cheaters' summative …

Community Schools Of The Arts: Outreach, Scholarship, And Financial Assistance Programs (National Guild Of Community Schools Of The Arts, Inc., Settlement Music Schools)., Douglas Bruce Pflieger

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to collect data on outreach, scholarship, and financial assistance programs of community schools of the arts. The National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, Inc. requires that organizations seeking full institutional membership offer scholarships and financial assistance programs for students. In addition, outreach program offerings are recommended and encouraged by the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, Inc. A questionnaire was mailed to one-hundred member schools of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, Inc. Sixty-four (64%) questionnaires were used in data analysis. The survey instrument was designed to …

The Effect Of Metacognitive Strategy Training On Critical Reading Ability., Jacqueline Means Parson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The ability to read materially critically is recognized as a goal of educators. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of training metacognitive strategies on critical reading ability. Critical reading was defined as the ability to judge or evaluate written materials and to compare them against some norm or standard. Metacognitive strategies encourage a conscious awareness of and/or control over one's own mental processes. A review of literature indicated that past researchers had considered critical reading as a distinct skill area, but more recently, educators have begun to recognize it as a part of the overall comprehension …

Poverty: A Descriptive Study Of Attitudes And Aspirations Among Selected Respondents In North Baton Rouge (Louisiana)., Tajpertab Rajkumar

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The main purpose of the study was to describe the attitudes and aspirations of low-income families in North Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Personal interviews were conducted to collect data from 100 heads of households. The sample was comprised of 98 women and 2 men who were living in low-income housing projects and areas surrounding housing projects. One-way analysis of variance was used to examine the relationships between mean attitude scores and selected variables. Frequencies and percentages were also utilized to show the distributions of responses. Analysis of the data indicated that marital status, level of education, and extent of employment were …

Children's Affective Expression In Human Figure Drawings: Adult Recognition Of Children's Depiction Of Six Affective Expressions., Ralph Darrell Ramsden

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The understanding of children's abilities to express affect in drawings of the human figure has clinical and developmental significance, yet is an area that until recently has received relatively minimal research attention. The present study investigated the abilities of child psychologists, graduate psychology students, and non-mental health raters to correctly identify the attempts of 72 kindergarten, second, fourth, sixth, eighth, and tenth-grade students to depict six common affective expressions in human figure drawings. The affective expressions were: happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, surprise, and fear. Thirty-six adult raters (18 female; 18 male) reviewed 216 drawings, identified the perceived affective expression, and …

Multi-Curricular Units Based On Animal Life For The First Grade, Elaine Sanchez

All Graduate Projects

A booklet for teaching first grade science through multi-curricular units was developed and compiled. The booklet contains ten such units, which cover animal life. Each unit is a five-day plan for an approximate thirtyminute period, and was designed for total group instruction. Included in each unit are activities for language arts, math, art, and handwriting, all of which are based upon a particular animal. The materials were compiled from commercial and handmade sources.

Evaluating The Effect Of Project H.O.P.E.: An After-School Study Hall, Eugene Joseph Schmidt

All Graduate Projects

The effectiveness of Project HOPE, an acronym for Helping Our People Educationally, was tested to determine if improved academic achievement would result from an after-school study hall. Intended for ninth grade students that fall behind because of uncompleted daily work and missed assignments, Project HOPE was created to give students "a last chance." It was thought that daily work scores would rise and that students would realize an overall increase in their final course grades. The actual experiment was run from November 19, 1984 until January 17, 1985. The experimental group was the writer's tenth grade English class. Despite improvements …

A Program For Teaching Reading Readiness Skills To Primary Spanish-Speaking Children, Mary Ofelia Smith

All Graduate Projects

Methods and procedures for teaching reading readiness skills to primary Spanish-speaking children were developed. The methods and procedures were developed to enrich the basic teaching of reading programs and to provide a means for development of specific skills that the standard program failed to develop for the limited English speakers. Each procedure contains step-by-step directions for the teacher to combine with current methods of the teaching of reading.

Computer-Based Graduate Programs For International Educators, Nova University

College of Engineering and Computing Course Catalogs

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Attitudes Of Principals Toward Written Composition Research And Instructional Leadership Practices Associated With Effective Writing Programs, Patricia R. Parlin Edd

Dissertations

One purpose of this study was to assess the attitudes of principals toward recent research findings concerning the teaching of writing. The second purpose of this study was to assess attitudes of principals toward the instructional leadership practices which would be essential to the management of an effective school-wide writing program. Subjects were (N = 180) elementary and secondary principals from San Diego County, California. The questionnaire used for this study, "Principals' Attitudes Regarding Written Composition," and the interview schedule were developed by the researcher based on a review of the literature. Fiftyeight percent of the questionnaires were returned with …

The Iss On Campus: The Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 1905-1921, John Wertheimer

Honors Papers

"Student activism" is a commonly used-and somewhat loaded-phrase. In the mind of the modern observer, the phrase inspires images of peace signs, love beads, sit-ins, and Kent State. Student activism, however, has not always been true to this imagery. The tradition of student groups devoted to political, ideological ends extends back to the early years of the twentieth century. The group that established this tradition also forms the subject of this study: the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS).

The ISS was founded in 1905. It led no rallies or sit-ins; nor were any of its members martyred at the hands of …

An Analysis Of Parental Rights In The Education Of Their Children, Marylou Brain Mundy

All Master's Theses

This study presents an analysis of the parental rights involved in the selection and direction of the education of their children.

Six kinds of source materials are examined in the study: (1) legal citations, annotations, and digests; (2) constitutions, laws, codes, statutes, rules, regulations, policies, and proceedings; (3) law reports, reviews and analyses; (4) general reading lists, books and periodicals; and (5) related graduate degree dissertations.

There were two major reasons for analysis of parents' rights in the affairs of learning and education of their children. They include (1) that many of the controversies involving parental rights have their roots …

The Effects Of Increased Academic Requirements For Graduation On Secondary Vocational Education Programs, Wendy Marie Smith

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study examined the effects of increased academic requirements for graduation on secondary vocational education programs in Washington since 1983. Each of the 211 school districts meeting the criteria of the study were surveyed with a questionnaire. Instruments were administered to the vocational directors of each of the identified school districts. The questions asked on the questionnaire were to determine: (1) the total number of units required for graduation, (2) the total number of general education units required for graduation, (3) the kind of classes allowed for general and vocational education (dual credit), (4) the number of academic and vocational …

New Approach To Curriculum Organization: The Administrative Implications Of Cassirer's Theory Of Symbolic Form, Robert Everett Morse

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1980 - 1989

It is the purpose of this study to explore the administrative implications of an alternative to the rationale of the subject-centered organization used by many nonpublic secondary schools. The literature review shows that the planning and assessment of education goals involves assumptions which administrators are being challenged to reexamine. The study proposes and tests a new conceptual framework based on Cassirer's theory of symbolic form as a suitable base for the development of administrative plans and programs. The study itself is exploratory and descriptive. It is limited to nonpublic schools and directed to the secondary level. Following Katz, theses are …

Fulltime Courses 1985-86, City Of Dublin Vocational Education Committee

Prospectus: Bolton Street

Courses for the College of Technology, Bolton Street, Dublin 1.

College Of Technology, Bolton Street Prospectus 1985-86, City Of Dublin Vocational Education Committee

Prospectus: Bolton Street

Courses for the College of Technology, Bolton Street, Dublin 1.

Prospectus: 1985-86, City Of Dublin Vocational Education Committee

Prospectus: Kevin Street

Courses for Dublin Institute of Technology, Kevin Street

Knox-Wise Family Papers - Accession 591, Knox-Wise

Manuscript Collection

The Knox-Wise Family Papers includes a land grant issued to John Knox in 1768; diaries written by Dr. John Knox [1792-1859] covering the 1840s and 1850s; James N. Knox [1806-1880] covering 1859-1880; and William D. Knox [1847-1928] covering 1869-1928; indentures, deeds, receipts, court summonses and other papers of Hugh Knox [1757-1821], sheriff and justice of the peace in Chester County, South Carolina (ca. 1780s and 1790s); correspondence of James N. Knox, correspondence, and other professional papers of Dr. John Knox; correspondence, and other papers of William D. Knox, Superintendent of Education in Chester County from 1896-1928. Papers of various other …

An Examination Of Sense Of Story In Proficient Bilingual, Partial Bilingual, And Monolingual Children As Evidenced In Stories Told In English, Kathleen Kenfield

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the study was to determine what differences, if any, existed among monolingual (English) children, partial bilingual (English-Spanish) children, and proficient bilingual (English-Spanish) children in the level of sophistication of their sense of story. Sense of story was defined as the degree to which one has internalized the features, conventions, and structures of the story genre. Sense of story was analyzed in three areas: structural complexity (number of words, number of T-units, mean length of T-units, number of characters, number of incidents), story convention usage (use of past tense, formal beginning, formal ending, use of quoted and described …

A Comparative Survey Of Chicano And Anglo Community College Students, Jose Luis Hurtado

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Purpose. The purpose of the study was to examine the social and cultural characteristics of successful and unsuccessful Mexican American community college students and compare them to successful and unsuccessful Anglo American community college students. The goal of this study was to collect data on ten independent variables that consistently appeared in the review of literature and were suspected of affecting the success of Chicanos in the California College system. Procedures. The major research question of this study was exploratory in nature in that it looked at possible factors which might affect the success or failure of Chicano students. A …

The Academic Achievement Of Chinese-American Fluent English Proficient And Non-Minority Background Intermediate Grade Students (Bilingual, Asian-American), Edmund W. Lee

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

More than a decade has passed since the United States Supreme Court made its historic decision in Lau v. Nichols on January 21, 1974. Ruling in favor of the non-English-speaking Chinese plaintiffs, the Court upheld earlier guidelines established by the office for Civil Rights for school districts with more than five percent national origin-minority group children. In delivering the Court's opinion, Justice Douglas reiterated these words of J. Stanley Pottinger, former director of OCR:

Missouri Challenges, Patsy J. Lilienkamp

Theses

This work was written to present selected portions of Missouri history, using the approach of anecdotal records interspersed with factual material. It focuses on the lives of the common people rather than the usual heroes concentrates on their of daily history books. It lives, their feelings, their beliefs, and their questions and fears.

The information was magazines, newspapers, and Some of the information is gathered personal factual; from books, conversations. some is a collection of happenings and customs which undoubtedly have been altered and amended a s they were handed down through generations.

It is the author's hope that a …

Success: A Reading And Writing Program Compared To A Basal Reader Program, Helen Jansen

Theses

The Wentzville R-IV School District initiated a pilot program using the SUCCESS in Reading a nd Writing approach to teaching reading in the Fall of 1984. This study was conducted to compare the effects of the SUCCESS approach on the vocabulary , comprehension , attitudes , and behavior of the students participating in the pilot program to those who were taught in the Houghton-Mifflin basal reading program . It was predicted that students who experienced instruction i n the SUCCESS app roach would achieve significantly greater gains in vocabulary and comprehension . It was also predicted that the SUCCESS students …