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A Practice-Teaching Program Model For Teacher Training Centers In Iran, Jalil Baharestan-Hanzaei

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Problem. It is the researcher's opinion that most of the educational administrators in Iran have not fully realized the significance of practice teaching programs in developing and providing competent teachers. As a result, there is no planned design, no guidelines, no model to perform and fulfill the practice-teaching experience, i.e., the absence of a consistent program that includes a practice-teaching component.

Purpose. The main purpose of this study is to develop a viable practice-teaching program appropriate for teacher preparation in Iran. Procedure. This study is descriptive research that typically employs observation, interview, and survey methods. Observation and tentative design were …

Influence Of Education Journals On The Classroom Practice Of California Public High School Department Heads, Jonathan Pearce

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Problem. Whether high school department heads were stimulated by professional journals to effect classroom change was an unanswered question. Needed was description of the effects of journal literature on the practice of leader-teachers in high school classrooms. Purpose. The study had companion purposes. The first was to discern the impact of journal reading on classroom practice as perceived by the high school department head practitioners themselves. The second was to describe the characteristics of the high school department heads whose practice had been influenced by the journals. Procedures. One thousand two hundred sixty-four California high school English, mathematics, physical education, …

Newsbulletin Vol. 9, No. 13, Salve Regina College

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Newsbulletin Vol. 9, No. 12, Salve Regina College

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Newsbulletin Vol. 9, No. 11, Salve Regina College

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The Effect Of Using Games In The Language Arts Classroom On The Achievement And Motivation Of Ninth Graders, Jan Dineen

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The proposed study would be conducted with fifty to sixty rural, male and female students enrolled in ninth grade language arts classes to determine whether the use of games bas a greater effect on achievement and motivation, than the use of the traditional techniques of lecture and discussion. A modification of the nonequivalent control group design is intended for use which two intact classrooms to test the two hypotheses. The effects of the treatment would be measured by a twenty item achievement test adapted from two other standardized achievement tests and one criterion-referenced test. It would also be assessed by …

The Development And Evaluation Of A Confluent Language Arts Program, Carolyn J. Nave

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The growing interest in the self-concept as a factor to learning and the idea of confluence as a possible motivator for building positive self-concepts influenced the direction and intention of this study. The problem of this study was (1) to develop a confluent language arts program designed to improve the self-concepts and reading achievement of students; and (2) to determine if there were increases in self-concept and reading achievement scores after participation in the program. The development of the confluent language arts program involved the following process: (1) theory formation to give substance and structure to the literature-language lessons; (2) …

The Effect Of The Ethnic Identification Of Teachers With Principals On The Teachers' Perceptions Of The Principals' Leadership Behavior, Elena P. Zayas-Bazan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The problem of this study was to determine whether the ethnic identification of teachers with their school principals affected the teachers' perception of the principals' leadership behavior. This study followed the ex-post-facto design of a co-relational study. Twelve dimensions of the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire, Form 12 (LBDQ-XII) were selected to assess the perception of teachers belonging to three different ethnic groups of the leadership behavior of principals belonging to the three ethnic groups. The statistical analysis of the data for hypotheses 1 through 7 was intended to determine significant differences in the ratings by white, black, and Spanish language …

Newsbulletin Vol. 9, No. 5, Salve Regina College

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Wooster Voice. (Wooster, Ohio), 1980-10-03, Wooster Voice Editors

The Voice: 1971-1980

This edition of the Wooster Voice begins with an article about illegal voter registration of college students and a different article about African-American equation. At the bottom of the first page, there is an article about the apprehension and sentencing of a male student that attempted to molest a senior female and actually attacked another female student in the shower. The student pled guilty and served 90 days in Wayne County Jail on charges of sexual imposition and criminal trespassing. Finally, there is information regarding athletics on campus and a number of advertisements for local businesses.

Wooster Voice. (Wooster, Ohio), 1980-09-26, Wooster Voice Editors

The Voice: 1971-1980

This issue of the newspaper begins with the announcement of an anonymous gift. According to the president, Henry J. Copeland, a donor (who wished to remain anonymous) donated $1 million to the college in order to add a dimension of religious substance. The president proposed that this money be used for symposia, student travel opportunities, and an endowed chair for the Department of Religion. This edition ends with information about athletic events with the college and a list of advertisements for local businesses.

The Effects Of Three Stretching Techniques On Flexibility, Mark Edward Wortman

Student Work

It was the purpose of the present study, therefore, to compare the effects of three stretching techniques (static, ballistic, PNF) for three different muscle groups (shoulder, trunk, hamstring) on the flexibility of college males. Speical consideration will be given to the consistency of individual differences in flexibility scores.

An Analysis Of The Attitudes Of Selected Public School Educators In Tennessee Toward Minimum Competency Testing, Judy A. Walters

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The problem was to determine whether significant relationships exist in the attitudes of eighth-grade teachers, their principals, and their superintendents toward minimum competency testing in Tennessee. Literature was reviewed in order to determine the problems associated with the implementation of a minimum competency testing program. Questionnaires were developed to obtain the attitudes of teachers, principals, and superintendents about the questions most often encountered in the literature. School systems to be surveyed were selected by stratified random sampling from defined pupil enrollment categories after the questionnaires were field tested. Superintendents from 36 public school systems were identified to receive questionnaires and …

The Development, Implementation And Evaluation Of An Alternative Approach To Learning For Selected Students, Luvenia C. Hartman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The problem of the study was to describe the development, implementation and evaluation of an alternative approach to learning for a selected group of students within the Kingsport, Tennessee City School System. Literature was reviewed, researched, and presented the reader with information concerning options in public education. An intact group consisting of 11 students enrolled in the Alternative School, Kingsport, Tennessee from August, 1979 through May, 1980 comprised the sample of this study. The students' ages ranged from 12 years through 15 years. All students were exposed to the program design. A program was developed which was based upon objectives …

The Development, Implementation And Evaluation Of An Alternative Approach To Learning For Selected Students, Luvenia C. Hartman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The problem of the study was to describe the development, implementation and evaluation of an alternative approach to learning for a selected group of students within the Kingsport, Tennessee City School System. Literature was reviewed, researched, and presented the reader with information concerning options in public education. An intact group consisting of 11 students enrolled in the Alternative School, Kingsport, Tennessee from August, 1979 through May, 1980 comprised the sample of this study. The students' ages ranged from 12 years through 15 years. All students were exposed to the program design. A program was developed which was based upon objectives …

A Comparison Of Teachers' Perceptions Of Female Versus Male Principals' Leader Behavior And Organizational Climate In Elementary Schools, Diana R. Rogers

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine if the leader behavior of the principal and the organizational climate of the school were perceived differently by teachers in elementary schools with female principals when compared to elementary schools with male principals. It also sought to determine if significant differences existed between female and male teachers' perceptions of both female and male principals. A total of 217 subjects responded. Ten female and 10 male principals were evaluated by 119 female teachers and 98 male teachers using the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire, Form XII (LBDQ) and the Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire, Form …

A Comparison Of Priority Ratings Of Evaluative Criteria For Instructional Personnel, Cynthia A. Suarez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to compare the priority ratings given to evaluative criteria of four groups within the education profession--superintendents, secondary supervisors, secondary principals, and secondary teachers. The research sought to determine whether or not factors of agreement existed among the four groups of people regarding their attitudes toward important teacher characteristics. A total of fifty-two subjects from four occupational roles was used: thirteen superintendents, thirteen supervisors, thirteen principals, and thirteen teachers. The subjects were administered the Teacher Characteristics Q Sort, a ninety-item sort of adjectives. The results were factor analyzed, and four significant factors emerged. Factor A …

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 …

An Assessment Of Faculty Understanding And Attitudes Toward General Education At Utah State University, Scott H. Gittins

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The data used for the following thesis were collected from tape-recorded interviews of a sample of U.S.U. faculty, and from a course evaluation list which each of these participating faculty members were asked to fill out. Thirty-six faculty members were selected for the in-depth interviews, which was slightly more than five percent of the faculty. The study was done in conjunction with the Provost's General Education Evaluation Committee, as part of a larger evaluation of general education at U.S.U. Thirty-four of the U.S.U. professors were interviewed and 28 of these completed the course evaluation lists.

This thesis evaluates faculty conceptualizations …

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

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Newsbulletin Vol. 8, No. 24, Salve Regina College

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Newsbulletin Vol. 8, No. 23, Salve Regina College

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Henri Temianka Correspondence; (Bodnar), Nina Bodnar

Henri Temianka Correspondence

This collection contains material pertaining to the life, career, and activities of Henri Temianka, violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher, and author. Materials include correspondence, concert programs and flyers, music scores, photographs, and books.

Newsbulletin Vol. 8, No. 18, Salve Regina College

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Reverence For Life: An Ethic For High School Biology Curricula, George K. Russell

Education Collection

Ethical and pedagogical arguments are presented against the use of animals by high school students in experiments causing pain/suffering/death of the animal. No justification is seen for such experimentation when perfectly valid alternatives, using noninvasive techniques, exist or could be developed. An important concern is the emotional and psychological growth of young people. An overall objective of high school biology curricula must be to assist students in making viable connections with living biological processes and the natural world.

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).

A Study Of Leisure Activities Of Young People / Chen Ka Foo, Ka Foo Chen

Pre-2000 Student Works

This study attempts to investigate the leisure activities of young people and to see their range of leisure, whether there is any occupational and sex differences in the choice of leisure. A total of 40 respondents, comprising 20 clerks and 20 Sixth Form students, males and females ranging between the age of 18 to 24 years were interviewed. In addition, three officers of the Ipoh Municipal Council were interviewed to obtain information regarding leisure provision and planning in Ipoh town. The findings of this study generally showed that leisure activities of respondents are basically home-oriented. Analysis of the results shows …

A Curriculum For Training Extension Agents In The Field Of Animal Science., Ronald Alvin Harrell

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of the study was to develop a curriculum for inservice training of Extension agents involved in animal science work. Selected aspects of curriculum and learning theory furnished the basis for a curriculum model applicable to the work area of animal science. The curriculum was derived from inputs obtained from Extension specialists in animal science, Extension agents doing livestock work and selected animal science disciplines. Curriculum disciplines included: (1) livestock management, (2) nutrition, (3) marketing, (4) breeding and physiology, and (5) meat technology. An analysis of agent cognitive ability established the agent's educational requirements. Thirty-two concepts in the animal …

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 …