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Staying Power : "Leaving School Too Soon" : Report Of The Advisory Committee On Truants, Dropouts And Alternative Programs, Department Of Educational And Cultural Services

Maine Collection

Staying Power : "Leaving School Too Soon" : Report of the Advisory Committee on Truants, Dropouts and Alternative Programs.

Maine.Department of Educational and Cultural Services. Printed Under Appropriation #4201.1111.

January 1987

Contents: Advisory Committee Members / Dedication / Acknowledgements / Contents / Introduction / Summary of Observations and Findings / Agenda for the Advisory Committee / What's Happening in Maine? / Maine Law / Alternatives in Education / Prevention / Recommendations for Action / Appendix / Fig.A - Adult High School Completion State Totals / Fig.B - Maine Secondary Dropouts by Grade & Year / Fig.C - Maine Secondary Dropouts …

The Relationship Of Cognitive Style To Social Problem-Solving And Empathy In Counselors-In-Training, Anne Louise Cummings

Digitized Theses

The goals of this study were, first, to study the relationship between cognitive style (field dependence-independence) and the counseling skills of empathy and social problem solving in an adult learner sample, and, second, to examine in detail, through protocol analysis, components of the social problem-solving process. The study was done with 70 elementary and secondary teachers in training to become school guidance counselors. The statistical design for the study was a 3 x 2 factorial design with repeated measures on one factor. The between-subjects factor consisted of three levels of cognitive style, while the within-subjects factor consisted of two types …

Teacher Flexibility In Relation To Classroom Teaching Behaviour And Perceived Teacher Effectiveness, Petra Duschner

Digitized Theses

The goal of this study was to investigate relationships among teacher flexibility, classroom teaching behaviour, and perceived teacher effectiveness in a sample of 95 secondary school teachers. Teacher flexibility was defined as a global, multifaceted characteristic consisting of both a cognitive and personality component. Three paper-and-pencil measures of each component of flexibility were employed. Frequency of occurrence of specific teaching behaviours and overall teaching effectiveness were rated by students in classes taught by participating teachers, using a 40-item teaching evaluation form.;The results provided very little support for an underlying unidimensional teacher flexibility construct in either the cognitive or personality domain. …

The Effect Of Cooperative Learning On The Spelling Skills, Self-Concept, And Locus Of Control Of Below Average Learners, Lyle Rangel Edd

Dissertations

THE PROBLEM A pilot study had shown that below average learners have commonalities in their learning styles. Since the literature had demonstrated that matching students’ learning style with a compatible teaching approach could improve the academic performance of children, this study attempted to determine what the impact of teaching cooperatively, a teaching approach that closely matched the preferred learning style of the below average learners, would have on such learners. The impact of the teaching strategy was evaluated through changes in spelling scores, in self-concept and in locus of control. Further, the impact on boys and girls was monitored to …

The Long Term Consequences Of Specific Language Disabilities: The Secondary School Years, Nancy Le Sanders Royal Edd

Dissertations

This research was directed toward the consequences of specific language disabilities on students during their secondary school years. The subjects were secondary students who had been identified as having the characteristics of specific language disabilities (SLD or developmental dyslexia) and who received remedial instruction while in elementary school. Remedial treatment utilized the Slingerland Adaptation of the Orton-Gillingham MultiSensory Approach to Language Arts with instruction given within regular education classrooms. These students were compared with a randomly selected cohort comparison group who were not known to have language learning problems. Major findings included: A higher percentage of the SLD group (81.4%) …

A Study Of Self-Perceived Current And Desired Career Stages Of Federal Government Engineers And Public School Educators In The Central Florida Area, Dennis Stephan Duke

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated the perceptions of public school educators and Federal Government engineers in the Central Florida area to determine their self-perceived current and desired career stages (Dalton, Thompson and Price, 1977). The influences of age, education and tenure variables on these perceptions and on the employee's preference for a technical or managerial career track were also examined. The rationale for the study is based upon findings in the literature which indicate that both occupations are experiencing motivation and retention problems caused by the requirement to leave classrooms or technical engineering positions and enter management ranks in order to gain …

An Analysis Of An Economic Classroom Reward System To Encourage Academic Achievement, Susan Louise Pendleton Tucceri

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Higher Education And Life Chances: A Study Of Occupational Attainments And Attitudes Among Some Public University Graduates, Richard Peter Talbot

Doctoral Dissertations

This study investigates the post-graduate educational and occupational experiences of the 1968 and 1978 graduates of a state flagship university. First, it explores the influence of parental variables upon respondents' choice of curriculum and of post-graduate study. Second, it examines the occupational placement of the respondents by cohort and by gender. Third, it explores the present attitudes of the respondents by cohort and gender.

A stratified random sampling of the graduates (N = 433) via a mailed survey questionnaire shows that more men than women in the 1968 cohort return their forms. There is the suspicion that only those who …

A Description Of The Meaning-Making Strategies Reported By Proficient Readers And Writers., Sarah H. Martin

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to develop a description of the cognitive strategies reported by proficient readers and writers as they completed a variety of reading and writing tasks. Seven above-average, twelfth-grade students were selected as subjects from teacher recommendations and standardized test scores. Each subject was involved in five data collection sessions: (a) a writing assessment/think aloud practice session, (b) writing a reflexive task, (c) writing an extensive task, (d) reading a concrete text, and (e) reading an abstract text. All sessions were held with subjects individually. The data collection techniques included: (a) recording the thoughts subjects reported …

Leadership Styles And Career Paths Of Selected Women In Higher Education Administration And Corporate Administration, Nancy Briggs Master

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study was made to determine if there were similarities or differences in the leadership styles and career paths of women in educational administration and women in corporate management; The populations of this study consisted of 50 women in higher education administration selected from the 1988 edition of the Higher Education Directory and 50 women in corporate administration from the 1988 Standard and Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives. Women, in both areas, listed as presidents, vice-presidents, directors, deans, managers, chancellors, CEOs or other corresponding titles, were selected; The instruments used to gather data in this study were the …

A Content Analysis Of The Developmental Bibliotherapeutic Implications Of The Books Nominated For The California Young Reader Medal (1975--1986), Armin Richard Schulz

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to investigate the developmental bibliotherapeutic implications of the California Young Reader Medal nominated books from 1975-1986 in six different selected categories of thematic content. Emotional Health, Self-Awareness, and Identity Needs; Cultural Differences; Family Relationships and Dynamics; Peer Relationships and Dynamics; Physical Limitations and Handicaps; and Economic Situations and Factors. Findings. Primary Category books, largely modern fanciful fiction, demonstrated limited developmental bibliotherapeutic potential. However, story illustrations affected the over-all impact of the story. Intermediate Category books had greater levels of potential, especially stories dealing with family, peers, and emotional health. The greatest levels of …

Occupational Ethos Of Executive Directors Of State Councils On Vocational Education., Michael B. Moon

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The fundamental purpose of this study was to describe the occupational ethos of Executive Directors of State Councils on Vocational Education. As the literature concerning education-related occupational ethos is sparse, the study was an effort to contribute to the literature and to provide an understanding of the occupation of Executive Director of State Councils on Vocational Education. The description of the ethos was derived from two significant viewpoints--orientations and sentiments exhibited by the executive directors. Collection of data for this study was accomplished through two means. The first method involved elite interviewing of a sample of 15 current executive directors …

A Study Of Preschool Directors' And Elementary Principals' Perceptions Of Planning For Children's Transitions From Preschool To Kindergarten, Edward Mitchell Greene

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This investigation examines the perceptions of elementary principals and preschool directors in the areas of (a) communication and coordination, (b) child-related information, and (c) program and professional development opportunities. A Likert scale was used to record the levels of agreement, and a formality scale was used to record the presence or absence of practices or policies. Thirty-five elementary principals and thirty-seven preschool directors responded to the survey mailed to each licensed preschool program director and public elementary school principal in a major metropolitan county of Indiana. The two-tailed independent t -test (p $<$.05) was used to determine if significant difference existed between the two groups. The chi-square analysis (p $<$.05) was used to analyze frequency data. As a result of the survey analysis several conclusions were reached. The importance of planning and coordinating children's transitions between preschool and kindergarten is perceived to be important. Information about children's previous experiences is useful in planning for children's entry into school. Program and staff development opportunities are important to preparing for children's transitions between settings. Information about child development and its implications for appropriate practices are known to both groups of respondents, but the information is not used in planning for children's transitions. Preschool directors feel the most useful sources of information about program practices and guidelines are teacher training institutions, while elementary principals prefer school corporation inservices. One recommendation based on this study is to replicate the survey with a larger and more diverse sample to examine the interactions between subgroups of independent variables. Also, the goals and uses of readiness tests and screening instruments should be studied in the preschool and elementary settings. The nature of teacher training and leadership development programs in higherEducation should be examined to determine how they promote the development of skills related to planning for children's transitions.

Cognitive Strategy Training Effects On Reading Comprehension In Learning-Disabled Readers., Erin Cuccia Agostini

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study was conducted to investigate the hypothesis that learning disabled children with reading deficits demonstrate a "production deficiency" by failing to spontaneously employ appropriate cognitive strategies in reading situations. Moreover, it was anticipated that providing them with explicit instruction regarding these strategies would improve their comprehension. Thirty learning disabled seventh- and eighth-grade students were randomly assigned to one of three training conditions: (a) summarization, (b) self-questioning, and (c) control. The effectiveness of the training strategies was assessed by having students write an 80-word summary and answer a 10-item multiple choice comprehension test on each of two passages during three …

An Analysis Of Management Practices---Louisiana Sheep Producers Association, 1986., Terry Lee Dumas

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The objectives of this study were: (1) To develop a personal profile of the membership of the Louisiana Sheep Producers Association (LSPA). (2) To determine the relationship between flock management practices followed by members of LSPA and their purpose for producing, size of operation, age and education. (3) To determine the educational needs in sheep production. The data were obtained by a mail questionnaire sent to 275 of the 304 members of LSPA. A total of 189 members engaged in sheep production returned the surveys. Chi-square, analysis of variance and correlation analysis was used to determine statistically significant relationships (.05 …

Spacing Of Repetitions And Contextual Interference Effects In Motor Skill Learning., Harry John Meeuwsen

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Three experiments are reported that examined the possibility that the contextual interference effect in motor skill learning is a variation of a multiple trial spacing of repetitions effect. Specifically, the question why a non-spaced condition in a spacing of multiple trials motor learning paradigm has not produced predicted retention deficits. Subjects in all experiments learned to perform a simple motor skill in a criterion movement time. Experiments 1 and 2 examined why spacing of multiple trials did not produce expected retention performance benefits in previous spacing experiments. The results of Experiment 1 and 2 showed that the randomness of the …

An Investigation Of The Inference And Mapping Components Of The Componential Theory Of Analogical Reasoning., Catherine Sheard

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Sternberg's componential theory of analogical reasoning (1977) provides a series of steps that may be followed in order to solve analogies. According to Sternberg, when given a simple analogy (in the form A:B::C: (D$\sb1$, D$\sb2$, D$\sb3$)) the reasoner: (a) encodes the terms of the analogy, (b) infers the relation between A and B, (c) maps the relation between A and C, (d) applies a relation analogous to the inferred one from C to each answer option, choosing the closer option, and (e) responds. The purpose of this research was to further investigate the inference and mapping processes of the componential …

Factors Affecting Developmental College Readers' Abilities To Mobilize And Use Prior Knowledge., Rhonda Holt Atkinson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of the study was to examine differences in comprehension scores and recall of expository text by developmental college readers following manipulation of traditional and technological factors affecting use of mobilized prior knowledge. This research differed from previous research in three ways. First, it endeavored to determine if a visible link between old and new knowledge would enhance comprehension and recall. Second, it compared traditional (verbal statements) and technological (computer-mediated) methods of linking prior knowledge and new information. Third, it featured the use of individual brainstorming as a means of mobilizing schemata. The literature review focused on theory and …

The Effects Of Applicant Sex, Applicant Attractiveness, Rater Sex And Sex-Role Stereotype On The Evaluation Of Applicants., Nadia Ann Bugg

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study was designed to test the main effects and interaction effects of applicant sex, applicant physical attractiveness, rater sex, and rater sex-role stereotype on the ratings of applicants in the screening phase of undergraduate student admission procedures. The participants were undergraduate students in the allied health sciences at a regional university in the southeast. The experimental task consisted of rating hypothetical applicants on overall suitability, a series of adjectives which reflect personality characteristics of the applicant, and assigning causal attributions for the past performance of the candidate. Each subject evaluated four hypothetical applicants: attractive male, unattractive male, attractive female …

Acceptability And Effectiveness Of Group Contingencies For Improving Spelling Achievement., Timothy Lawrence Turco

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This 12-week study conceptually merged cooperative learning and group contingency approaches to classroom interventions to assess how varying task and incentive structures affect fifth-grade students' spelling achievement, social status, and perceptions of treatment procedures. The study used two groups (treatment and control group) of fifth-grade students. The students in the treatment group were actively involved with one of six group contingency procedures designed to improve spelling performances. The conditions for students in the treatment groups varied on dimensions of task structure (group or individual) and incentive structure (interdependent, dependent, or no incentive). Treatment acceptability, spelling achievement, and peer nominated social …

Evaluation Of The Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service Housing Education Program, And Analysis Of Audience And General Public Housing Practices., Claudette Hanks Reichel

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The objectives of this study were to: determine the housing practices of the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service housing audience and of the general public (for use in program planning); determine if significant differences existed between the housing practices of the general public and the Extension housing topic audiences (for accountability and impact assessment); and, determine if household characteristics are significant predictors of housing practices. The research procedure utilized a "comparison group" design. Data were collected in 1984 from matched random samples of the Extension housing audience and the general public of Louisiana. Over 800 telephone interviews were completed by Extension …

The Effects Of Semantic Mapping Instruction On The Text-External Inferences Of College Developmental Readers., Debbie Guice Longman

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

In reading, text-external inferences are made when the reader integrates schemata with text information. Because inference generation occurs within the reader, background knowledge and reading skill affect inferential comprehension. This research consists of two studies to determine, first, whether college developmental and non-developmental readers activate prior knowledge when reading and making inferences (Experiment One) and, second, if direct instruction in semantic mapping increases activation of prior knowledge by developmental readers. The results of Experiment One indicated non-developmental readers with high prior knowledge use prior knowledge more than developmental subjects and that developmental subjects with high prior knowledge use that knowledge …

Planning And Interactive Decision-Making In Expert Elementary Physical Education Teachers., Deborah J. Howell

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This paper describes the planning and interactive decision making used by expert elementary physical education teachers as they developed and taught a 5 day unit on basketball dribbling. Secondly, it explores the relation between teachers' planning productivity (number of statements made) and student achievement. Expert elementary physical education teachers (N = 11) provided information regarding their thought processes during planning and interactive decision making. Planning sessions were conducted prior to each lesson with teachers using the "think aloud" technique. All instructional lessons were videotaped. Following each of the first three lessons, teachers were shown a videotape of the lesson and …

The Relation Between Selected Student Characteristics And Activity Patterns In A Required High School Physical Education Class., Karen Martha Greenockle

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study described the activity patterns of students in a high school fitness class and explored the structural relations between particular student characteristics and their coded exercise behavior. Exercise behavior was systematically coded during an 8-week jogging unit in 10 high school physical education classes. Additional measures of distance covered, heart rate, perceived exertion, percent of days participated, and fitness level were also collected. Although percent of time spent jogging was low (18%), with no significant gains made in cardiovascular fitness, the amount of time spent jogging, the distance covered, and fitness level were all significantly correlated (r $>$.48, …

Old Bush Schools: Life And Education In The Small Schools Of Western Australia 1893 To 1961, John A. Mckenzie

Research outputs pre 2011

In researching and recording historical and anecdotal comment on the Old Bush Schools of Western Australia, John McKenzie has secured oral elements of our history which could well have been lost forever, and woven them into the recorded facts of past decades. He has produced an entertaining and particularly illuminating picture of the life of the small-school teacher in outback Western Australia during most decades of the last one hundred years...

Growth Contracting In The Small College, Patrick Allen

Faculty Publications - College of Education

Hard times are producing nothing less than a complete change in the character of our institutions of higher learning. Every aspect of their work is being affected.

The Maintenance Of Treatment Effects For Families Of Aggressive Boys Participating In Social Learning Family Therapy, Thomas V. Sayger

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated the effectiveness of a time-limited social learning family therapy model in maintaining treatment changes in families of aggressive, second- through sixth-grade boys. Twenty of 28 families completing a treatment program offered by the Family Therapy Project at Indiana State University also completed follow-up assessments nine to twelve months following their termination from treatment. These families completed instruments to assess the maintenance of treatment gains in the areas of child behavior, family environment/relationships, family problem-solving abilities, parental depression, and marital adjustment/satisfaction. The following instruments were used to determine treatment gains and maintenance on the aforementioned variables: Daily Behavior …

Grievance Mediation Of Contracual Disputes In Public Education, Sylvia Skratek

Journal of Dispute Resolution

This summary provides an overview of the findings of the study. There are, of course, many findings in the body of the report which are not summarized here, and interested readers are encouraged to examine the full report for these details.

A Longitudinal Study Of Changes In Reading Comprehension Of Individual Elementary Students, Virginia K. Reynolds

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine what changes occur in individual students' reading comprehension during the non-instructional time period of summer vacation compared to the changes that occurred during an equal instructional time period. Data were obtained from 96 students enrolled in the third, fourth, and fifth grades of an urban public school. The Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests, Level C and Level D, Forms 1 and 2, were used to evaluate students' changes in reading comprehension. The three intelligence levels, established through ranking of the Otis-Lennon Mental Abilities Test scores, and three grade placements were used as independent variables …

Equipping The Laity Through Christian Education: The Pastoral Role , William J. Douglas

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.