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The Communicator - Vol.7 No. 1 - Spring, 1995, Nova Southeastern University

The Communicator

No abstract provided.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 03/02 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Race, intelligence and ideology : a review essay of The bell curve / John C. Culbertson.

The Alumni Network, February 1995 (Vol. Xi No. 1), Nova Southeastern University

Alumni Network Newsletter

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Education Policy Analysis Archives 03/01 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Coordinating family and school : mothering for schooling / Alison I. Griffith.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Mbti): Applications In Student Services, Susan Converse Mixdorf

Graduate Research Papers

Every year, somewhere between 1.5 million and 2 million people in the United States sit to take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), supporting the notion that the MBTI is the hottest personality inventory 1 on the market (Zemke, 1992). Developed through clinical experience and research, the MBTI makes it possible to test individuals and groups to show personality type and preferences. Basically, the MBTI has two uses; first, it is an instrument that helps individuals to understand the developmental path all individuals take; second, the MBTI can be used to study and explain relationships among group members. Using the MBTI …

Effects Of Size And Wealth On Implementation Of Tech Prep In Indiana, John Robert Hutton

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In 1987, Indiana became the first state to mandate the development of a Tech Prep curriculum. Since Tech Prep was essentially an unfunded legislative mandate, this study was designed to determine whether school corporation wealth or high school size were implementing factors. A one-way and two-way analysis of variance along with a chi square statistical test were utilized to analyze the data in this study. The following conclusions were drawn: (1) The wealth of school corporations did not affect the stages of Tech Prep implementation in Indiana high schools. (2) Differences did exist in the stages of implementing the five …

The Animal Research Controversy: Protest, Process & Public Policy, Andrew N. Rowan, Franklin M. Loew, Joan C. Weer

Experimentation Collection

The controversy today regarding the use of animals in research appears on the surface to be a strongly polarized struggle between the scientific community and the animal protection movement. However, there is a wide range of opinions and philosophies on both sides. Mistrust between the factions has blossomed while communication has withered. Through the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, the animal movement grew in numbers and financial resources, and developed much greater public recognition and political clout. The research community paid relatively little attention to the animal movement for much of this period but, alarmed by several public relations coups …

Prior School Leadership Experience Of Secondary School Assistant Principals, Dennis Goldberg

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to identify whether the type of previous extracurricular leadership experiences of secondary school assistant principals was related to their current role as secondary school assistant principals. In particular, the study examined whether secondary school assistant principals were more likely to have athletic rather than non-athletic extracurricular activities as part of their background leadership experiences. In addition, type of background leadership experience was examined for relationship to a number of sociodemographic factors including principals' ages, number of years in the field of education, number of years as administrators, gender, and grade configuration of the school. …

An Investigation Of Value Accessibility And Its Role In The Value-Attitude Relationship, Rae Sidney Gilchrist

Digitized Theses

The primary thesis of this research is that values can causally influence attitudes, and that one mechanism of that influence involves value accessibility, or the ease with which values can be accessed from memory. Three studies are reported that address questions concerning the nature of value accessibility and its role in the value-attitude relationship.;A significant positive relationship was found to exist between the importance people ascribe to various values and the speed with which they can indicate the perceived importance of these values. This was interpreted to mean that response latencies constitute a valid measure of value accessibility.;It was further …

Parenting For Emotional Growth: Lines Of Development, Henri Parens, Md

Parenting for Emotional Growth

In developing the Parenting for Emotional Growth Textbook, we planned to structure the units in such a way that the same issues, be it the development of self and relationships, of aggression, etc., would be addressed in the same sequence at the various stage levels of the child's development. Thus, in the Textbook, the issues will be ordered in the same sequence in all of the units.

While using the textbook for classroom or workshop preparation or for individual study, some users have sought to follow one or another particular line of development through the length of its …

Parenting For Emotional Growth: A Curriculum For Students In Grades K Thru Twelve, Henri Parens, Md

Parenting for Emotional Growth

The PEG Curriculum has 3 distinctive features:

• It addresses the mental health domain of parenting. We emphasize that we are talking about the emotional aspects of rearing 'the human child', whatever the child's race, ethnicity, or religion, because all human infants have the same basic emotional and psychological needs. This course of study for parenting consists of three sub-domains of study: (a) human emotional and behavior development; (b) strategies for optimizing the child's development; and (c) other pertinent parenthood issues.

• The curriculum materials extend from the kindergarten level through 12th grade. In a unique collaboration between mental health and …

Parenting For Emotional Growth: Textbook, Henri Parens, Md

Parenting for Emotional Growth

This textbook, on which the Parenting for Emotional Growth Curriculum, Workshops, and Lines of Development are based, is highly detailed and is based in psychodynamic theories that address parenting issues pertinent to optimizing the child's psychological development, mental well-being, and abilities to adapt constructively. The presentation of materials is organized by the rationale that when parents know, understand, and can positively handle the child's evolving emotional and experiential needs and psychological developments, the parents' rearing strategies tend to better optimize their children's developmental potential than when such knowledge, understanding, and handling are lacking. It is exactly because this …

Parent Communication In A Second Grade Whole Language Classroom, Christina Watts

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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A Descriptive Analysis Of High School Teachers' Implementation Of Selected Research-Based Teaching Models, Lisa L. Brewer

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Study Of The Television Viewing Habits Of Children In A Typically Developing Preschool Classroom Versus Children In An Integrated Preschool Classroom, Cynthia Ann Calobrisi

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Knowledge Attainment Of Chinese Culture By American Adult Students In A Chinese Language School, Ming-Min T. Yen

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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Professionalization Of Occupational Therapists: A Study Of Emergent Identities, Lou Ann Sooy Griswold

Doctoral Dissertations

The unprecedented demand for occupational therapists and resulting growth in student numbers necessitates the need to understand how students acquire professional ideology, learn expected role behavior, and identify themselves as occupational therapists. This ethnographic study includes interview data from a series of three interviews with 37 trainees, from freshmen to the first year of employment, who had been or were in the occupational therapy program at Worcester State College, in central Massachusetts. Students included women and men who were preparing for either a first or second career. Interviews with six academic faculty and seven fieldwork supervisors in three areas of …

The Availability Of Spatial Information In A Situation Model, Christopher Mark Hakala

Doctoral Dissertations

Four experiments were conducted to determine the availability of spatial information from a situation model. In Experiment 1, participants were told to either focus on spatial information while reading the texts or to read for comprehension. At the end of each text, participants were presented with a probe word to name. The probe word was either spatially associated or dissociated with the final spatial location of the main character. Participants named the spatial probe more quickly only when told to focus on spatial information. Experiment 2 used reading time as a dependent measure to determine ease of integration of spatially …

Education, Class And Gender In George Eliot And Thomas Hardy, Keith Ronald Jones

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation examines the relationship between education, class and gender in The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Daniel Deronda (1876) by George Eliot; and in The Woodlanders (1887) and Jude the Obscure (1896) by Thomas Hardy. The Introduction discusses how, in nineteenth-century Britain, education was intended to "improve" individuals and society. The Introduction establishes the Marxist and feminist critical background of the study, and briefly surveys the nineteenth-century debates on "The Education Question," and on education for women.

The novels examined show education failing to 'improve.' Maggie Tulliver, in The Mill on the Floss, and Jude Fawley in Jude …

An Investigation Into Students' Conceptual Understandings Of The Graphical Representation Of Polynomial Functions, Judith Ellen Curran

Doctoral Dissertations

Mathematics educators are realizing the impact that technology is having on the way mathematical functions can be represented and manipulated. The increased use of graphing technology in the classroom is paralleled by an increased emphasis on the role of the graphical representation of a function to solve problems. These changes together with a recognition of the significance and complexity of developing a rich understanding of the graphical representations of polynomial functions are the motivation behind this research.

The study was designed to explore students' conceptual understandings of the graphs of polynomial functions. Guided by a constructivist approach to conceptual change, …

Acquaintance Rape, Thomas A. Paulsen

Graduate Research Papers

Most people associate rape with strangers. More women fear being raped by a stranger than by an acquaintance and authorities are more likely to respond to reports of stranger rape than acquaintance rape (Abbey, 1991). Sexual aggression in dating situations, commonly called date rape or acquaintance rape, is more common and more serious than is often realized. Acquaintance rape occurs when the assailant and the victim know one another and is four times more likely to occur than stranger rape (Warshaw, 1988).

The Ultra Project (The Universities Language Teaching Research Agreement) : A Joint Investigation By Edith Cowan University, Western Australia And The Guangzhou Foreign Language University, The People's Republic Of China, Into The Use Of Intensive And Immersion Approaches To Language Teaching And Learning At University Level, Alistair L. Mcgregor, Ian G. Malcolm

Research outputs pre 2011

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Queen Anne's Lace, Patricia Z. Cowden

Intertext

This paper, an assignment for Chris Madden's Writing 105 Class, asked us to write about a time or event which caused us to change our minds about something important to us. I thought that there couldn't be a better change for me to write about than the one that seemed to be culminating at that moment. We were asked to explain and contextualize our original belief, identify how our ideas had changed, and account for the process of re-thinking. Writing Queen Anne's Lace was quite a release, and the experience has left me fascinated with the power of writing to …

The Secondary School Assistant Principal, Victoria W. Halsey Edd

Dissertations

School leadership research typically centers around the high profile roles of the site level principal and the district superintendent. The resulting scarcity of information in regard to the role of the assistant principal is contributing to ineffective training, fewer initial guidelines and an overall lack of clear conceptualization of the position. The purpose of this study was to construct a realistic portrayal of the assistant principal's daily professional life in the educational arena. This qualitative, ethnographic study stressed depth, richness and accuracy to depict the singular and collective voices of the participants. Eight practicing Junior and Senior High School assistant …

Toward A New Concept Of Local Curriculum., Yonghwan Lee

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study aims at exploring the possibility of a new concept of local curriculum. On the basic recognition that the New National Curriculum in Korea which is allegedly localized is not a localized one, this study analyzes the problems of Korean education and the New National Curriculum, and examines the new Korean curriculum in relation to debates on curriculum localization in the United States and England. The debates in the United States and England have been proved to be centered around the relinquishment of power from the central government to the local educational authorities and schools. To search for a …

Achievement Goals And Motivational Climates For Physical Education., Jerry Wilson Boone

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The focus of this study was the examination of relationships of dispositional goal orientations and perceived motivational climates to learning strategies, attributions for causes of success, practice patterns, and achievement. The study also examined the effects of an intervention designed to implement mastery focused strategies in physical education. Specifically, the research questions addressed were: (a) How do students' dispositional goal orientations relate to the perceived motivational climate in physical education classes? (b) How do students' goal orientations and the perceived motivational climate relate to attributions for success and learning strategies employed in a physical education class? (c) Are practice patterns …

The Effects Of Teacher Efficacy, School Climate, And Stages Of Concern On The Implementation Of A Physical Science Program., Jennifer B. Baird

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study investigated the implementation of a physical science education innovation in a large, urban school system. The program began in the summer of 1993 with the selection of two teachers from each of seventeen elementary schools. Participants were selected by program staff from among a pool of applicants with an interest in science education. The goals of the program included retraining teachers to implement hands-on, inquiry-based physical science and performance-based assessments. Teachers were provided with instructional materials, including science kits, and on-going support and assistance from science and assessment specialists. Specifically, the study examined the relationship between the independent …

A Cross-Case Analysis Of Middle School Reading Teachers' Theoretical Orientations As They Relate To Classroom Practices., Shirley Theriot Fogleman

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Each interaction between teachers and students is a reflection of the theory that these professionals, sometimes unknowingly, posit about what should be occurring in their classrooms. The purpose of this study is to explore the differences between middle school language arts teachers' beliefs about how children actually read a text, and how these teachers translate these beliefs into classroom practices. The beliefs we hold about reading comprehension are essential to our understanding about how we should instruct and assess our students in our classes. Leu and Kinzer (1988) refer to two beliefs' frameworks of comprehension in reading, based on the …

The Effects Of Metacognitive Advice And Control Of Sequence On Student Achievement And Attitude Toward Computer-Assisted Instruction And Content., Andrew Mark Holden

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of the CAI design features--metacognitive advice and control of instructional sequence upon student achievement and attitude toward the instructional program and content. The topic of the CAI was designing comparative research to control threats to internal validity. Four versions of the CAI were created based upon the combinations of the bi-level independent variables--metacognitive advice and control of instructional sequence. The participants of the study were graduate students from four departments at Louisiana State University. The independent variables were metacognitive advice, control of instructional sequence, and the participant's self-directed learning readiness …

Factors Influencing The Intention To Choose A Physical Or An Applied Science Track In College: A Ghanaian District-Level Study., James Adu Opare

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of the study was to identify the determinants of Ghanaian senior secondary school students' intentions to choose their college majors from the physical and applied sciences. The specific objectives were, first, to find out if males and females are equally likely to major in the physical and applied sciences, and second, to find out if the sex composition of the school a student attends can have an influence on his or her inclination toward the subjects in question. Through paper-and-pencil questionnaires, data for the study were collected in summer 1994, from a sample of 624 12th graders drawn …