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Using Controlled Misalignment To Increase Poetry Appreciation Among High School Students, Kelli Cliff Mccrea Jan 1997

Using Controlled Misalignment To Increase Poetry Appreciation Among High School Students, Kelli Cliff Mccrea

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Personal Variables And Critical Incident Stress Among Correctional Officers, Robin L. Sanabria Jan 1997

Personal Variables And Critical Incident Stress Among Correctional Officers, Robin L. Sanabria

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The purpose of this study was to examine whether personal variables including age, gender, length of correctional work experience, years ofEducation, and work locus of control predict levels of critical incident stress among correctional officers. Fifty-two federal correctional officers completed: (a) the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (Weiss & Marmar, 1997) to measure critical incident stress, (b) the Work Locus Control Scale (Spector, 1988) to measure work locus of control, and (c) a demographic questionnaire. The instruments were distributed at the work place, and completion was encouraged during duty hours. Correlation and multiple regression analyses were conducted. The personal variables tested, …

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Self-Efficacy As Described In Bandura's Social Learning Theory Among Boys With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Michelle Beabout Viro Jan 1997

Self-Efficacy As Described In Bandura's Social Learning Theory Among Boys With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Michelle Beabout Viro

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This study investigated self-efficacy as described in Bandura's social learning theory and how it applies among boys with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The Student Self-Concept Scale (SSCS) (Gresham, Elliott, & Evans-Rernandez, 1993) was administered to assess the degree to which boys with ADHD differed from a standardized national sample of boys with respect to self-efficacy as outlined in Bandura's social learning theory. In addition, self-efficacy of third to sixth grade boys with ADHD and seventh to twelfth grade boys with ADHD was compared to determine whether self-efficacy differed in the two age groups, and the direction of the difference. …

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An Evaluation Of Parent And Teacher Rating Scales As Predictors Of The T.O.V.A. Measures Of Inattention, Impulsivity, Response Time And Variability, Nancy Claire Kiger Jan 1997

An Evaluation Of Parent And Teacher Rating Scales As Predictors Of The T.O.V.A. Measures Of Inattention, Impulsivity, Response Time And Variability, Nancy Claire Kiger

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This study evaluated the relationship of six parent and eight teacher rating scales to the T.O.V.A. measures of Inattention, Impulsivity, Response Time and Variability. Subjects consisted of 88 children 6 through 14 years of age, referred by teachers and parents to a school psychologist in a small midwestern community for evaluation of ADHD symptomatology. These students attended school at four public elementary schools and three private religious elementary schools. Sixty-eight subjects were males and twenty subjects were females. Each child was administered the T.O.V.A. by a school psychologist. Parents filled out the BASC:PRS, CPRS-48, and the ADHD Rating Scale. Teachers …

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Ritual And Pedagogy : Teachers' Use Of Ritual In Pre-Primary Classroom Settings, Carmel Maloney Jan 1997

Ritual And Pedagogy : Teachers' Use Of Ritual In Pre-Primary Classroom Settings, Carmel Maloney

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Pre-primary teachers' daily organisation and routines are established through repetitive patterns of actions which become highly ritualised. This study examines how pre-primary teachers use ritual and how ritual structures teaching in pre-primary classroom settings and in doing so serves a pedagogical purpose for teachers. Describing forms and functions of ritual provides a way of examining and interpreting what teachers know and do and how they go about their work. The interpretive paradigm of qualitative methodology has been adopted for the study. Participant observation and structured interviews are used as the primary methods of conducting field work and collecting data. The …

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Concerns And Perceptions Of Parents Of Children And Adolescents With Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder, Stephen Gerard Viola Jan 1997

Concerns And Perceptions Of Parents Of Children And Adolescents With Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder, Stephen Gerard Viola

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The study investigated the concerns and perceptions of parents of children and adolescents with Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity-Disorder (ADHD). Parental concerns regarding behaviors, skill deficits, and settings were identified as well as the helpfulness of interventions and professionals. The Parent Perception Opinionnaire for Parents of Children and Adolescents with ADHD was constructed. Data were collected from 112 members of a parent support group. The data were summarized according to ages 8 and less (primary), ages 9 through 11 (intermediate) and ages 12 through 17 (secondary). The highest ranked concerns of parents were symptoms of inattention, distractibility and hyperactivity. Regarding skills deficits, highest concerns …

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Development And Standardization Of The School-Based Consultation Orientation Rating Scale, Susan Marie Wilczynski Jan 1997

Development And Standardization Of The School-Based Consultation Orientation Rating Scale, Susan Marie Wilczynski

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Behavioral and mental health approaches to consultation differ in theoretical foundation, interpersonal interaction style of the consultant, and identified source of problem assessment, interventions, and decision-making. These consultation approaches may yield different levels of consultation effectiveness. Studies conducted to date have not consistently found differences between these approaches in terms of consultation effectiveness. However, there have been methodological flaws in these studies. In order to determine if either approach yields better outcomes, a means of assessing consultation orientation (i.e., the theoretical approach endorsed by a psychologist) must be developed. The School-based Consultation Orientation Rating Scale (SCORS) was designed to measure …

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Personality And Cognitive Characteristics Of Students In Science And Engineering, Scott Duncan Jan 1997

Personality And Cognitive Characteristics Of Students In Science And Engineering, Scott Duncan

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This study was a longitudinal investigation into the relationship of personality and cognitive variables to persistence and success behaviors at a technological institute. Personality was assessed with the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Cognitive measures were the Learning Environment Preferences (LEP) and the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (WGCTA). The sample included the entire class (N = 354) matriculated in the Fall of 1990 at a private technical institute. Multiple regressions, discriminant analyses, and cluster analyses were utilized to test five hypotheses. Dependent variables were: grade point average, persistence to degree in a regular curriculum, and persistence …

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The Effects Of Two Brief Intervention Strategies On Homophobia And Negative Attitudes Toward Women, Bradley Benjamin Huffey Jan 1997

The Effects Of Two Brief Intervention Strategies On Homophobia And Negative Attitudes Toward Women, Bradley Benjamin Huffey

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This study investigated the effects of a gay and lesbian panel and a videotape on homophobia and negative attitudes toward women. The sample consisted of 96 undergraduate students from a variety of introductory courses at a midwestern university. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four groups: (1)Educational videotape with posttest; (2)Educational videotape with pretest and posttest; (3) gay and lesbian panel with posttest; and (4) gay and lesbian panel with pretest and posttest. The dependent variables included scores of homophobia (Index of Attitudes toward Homosexuals; Hudson & Ricketts, 1980) and scores of attitudes toward women (Attitudes toward Women-Simplified; Spence, …

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The Relationship Of Womanist Identity Attitudes To Age, Life Events, And View Of Women's Roles, Ingrid Karen Toews Jan 1997

The Relationship Of Womanist Identity Attitudes To Age, Life Events, And View Of Women's Roles, Ingrid Karen Toews

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Similar to minority groups, women often possess inferiority feelings about themselves and have difficulty developing a positive view of womanhood. Womanist Identity Development is the stage-wise process by which women develop womanist attitudes, forming a positive gender identity. The stages are associated with specific attitudes about womanhood, including external negative definitions (i.e. societal stereotypes) and positive internal definitions. The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not womanist identity attitudes vary according to age and whether or not attitudes are related to views of women's roles and life experiences. The sample consisted of fifty-two participants ages 20 to …

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Variables Influencing The Reporting Of Sexual Harassment, Thomas Michael Welsh Jan 1997

Variables Influencing The Reporting Of Sexual Harassment, Thomas Michael Welsh

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The focus of this study wag to determine if women who report and women who do not report sexual harassment could be differentially described by a subset of the following variables: age, marital status, feminist ideology, frequency of behavior, perceived offensiveness, perceived outcomes, normative expectations. This study was based on a model for reporting sexual harassment by Brooks and Perot (1991) and extended the original test of this model by adding two variables, normative expectations and perceived outcomes, which were not tested by Brooks and Perot. The sample for this study consisted of 178 undergraduate juniors and seniors from upper …

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Increasing Eye Contact And Appropriate Verbalizations Of Young Children With Autistic Characteristics, Ping P. Seah Jan 1997

Increasing Eye Contact And Appropriate Verbalizations Of Young Children With Autistic Characteristics, Ping P. Seah

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Social skills have been widely regarded by researchers and educators to be crucial to successful school performances as well as an individual's overall social functioning. The need to be competent in social skills increases for children with autism or autistic characteristics. A teaching strategy was modelled and taught to increase appropriate verbal and nonverbal responses of the participants through sociodramatic play with the researcher and trained peers. Hats and toys belonging to various occupations were used as training material. The two dependent variables measured were the number of appropriate verbalizations and total length of eye contact time given by each …

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A Comparison Of Personality Characteristics Of Male And Female Engineering Students, Erin Beth Williams Jan 1997

A Comparison Of Personality Characteristics Of Male And Female Engineering Students, Erin Beth Williams

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The purpose of this study was to investigate differences between personality characteristics of female and male freshmen, engineering students. A secondary purpose was to ascertain whether personality characteristics of freshmen, engineering students were different from those of general collegiate students of the same sex. The Millon Index of Personality Styles (MIPS) was administered to a sample of 72 female and 86 male freshmen, engineering students at a private midwestern engineering institution. The MIPS college normative sample of 1,600 college students was used as a comparison group. A total of 24 personality characteristics were assessed in the domains of motivation aims, …

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A Study Of Social Support Variables In Three Stages Of Hiv-Illness, Urszula Izabela Klich Jan 1997

A Study Of Social Support Variables In Three Stages Of Hiv-Illness, Urszula Izabela Klich

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Social Support (SS) has been shown to have an effect on health and well-being. Patients with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) are particularly vulnerable to stigmatization which may effect SS. This study examined the SS networks of 155 gay men with HIV. It was hypothesized that (a) perceived SS differs according to stage of HIV-illness and time since diagnosis, (b) there are select factors that are associated with variations in perceived SS, and (c) level of SS is predictive of future functional capacity and mental health. To assess SS, the Social Support Questionnaire based on the General Social Survey (1995) …

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Education Policy Analysis Archives 04/19 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Dec 1996

Education Policy Analysis Archives 04/19 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Inclusive education in the United States : beliefs and practices among middle school principals and teachers / C. Kenneth Tanner, Deborah Jan Vaughn Linscott, [and] Susan Allan Galis.

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Education Policy Analysis Archives 04/20 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Dec 1996

Education Policy Analysis Archives 04/20 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

The bell curve : corrected for skew / Haggai Kupermintz.

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Education Policy Analysis Archives 04/18 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Dec 1996

Education Policy Analysis Archives 04/18 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Review of Michael W. Apple : Cultural politics and education / Dieter Miseld.

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The Alumni Network, December 1996 (Vol. Xii No. 4), Nova Southeastern University Dec 1996

The Alumni Network, December 1996 (Vol. Xii No. 4), Nova Southeastern University

Alumni Network Newsletter

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Need For The Professional Development The Head Teachers Of Secondary Schools In Pakistan, Muhammad Memon Dec 1996

Need For The Professional Development The Head Teachers Of Secondary Schools In Pakistan, Muhammad Memon

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

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Funding Of Higher Education In Tennessee: A Qualitative Study Of The Perceptions Of State Legislators And Higher Education Leaders, David D. Collins Dec 1996

Funding Of Higher Education In Tennessee: A Qualitative Study Of The Perceptions Of State Legislators And Higher Education Leaders, David D. Collins

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The purpose of this study was to identify issues that are considered important to the legislators and higher education leaders of Tennessee in making decisions that affect the funding of higher education. A further purpose was to identify actions that such individuals believe should be taken by higher education leaders to ensure that higher education is accountable and worthy of continued or increased financial support. Using a qualitative research design, interviews were held with 10 legislators and 6 higher education leaders selected in accordance with the concept of purposeful sampling. Legislative participants included five members from the Senate and five …

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An Analysis Of The Transactional Distance In Asynchronous Telecourses At A Community College Using The Group Embedded Figures Test, Roger J. Brenner Dec 1996

An Analysis Of The Transactional Distance In Asynchronous Telecourses At A Community College Using The Group Embedded Figures Test, Roger J. Brenner

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Asynchronous distance education telecourses are the technological version of traditional correspondence courses. Students in asynchronous telecourses receive videos and printed material but they may not have any contact with the instructor or other students. This study analyzed the academic performance of 154 Southwest Virginia Community College students enrolled in 27 different telecourses during one semester. The purpose of this study was to determine if students' cognitive styles impacted their achievement in distance education courses. Students were given the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT) which categorized the students as field dependent or field independent. A field dependent's cognitive style is one …

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Public School Teachers’ And Principals’ Knowledge Of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Judy Blevins Dec 1996

Public School Teachers’ And Principals’ Knowledge Of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Judy Blevins

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The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge level (general, etiology, assessment, treatment) of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD/ADD) of principles, regular education teachers, and special education teachers in the First Educational District in Northeast Tennessee. The study further the amount of instruction on ADHD/ADD that educators received as part of their teacher training and after they began teaching, the number of books and articles they read on ADHD/ADD, the number of students with ADHD/ADD they worked with, and the number of students they worked with who were on medication. The study also revealed teacher beliefs about ADHD/ADD …

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Relationships Between Selected Environmental Characteristics, Neighborhood Type, And School Achievement, Franklin Titus Iii Dec 1996

Relationships Between Selected Environmental Characteristics, Neighborhood Type, And School Achievement, Franklin Titus Iii

Student Work

The primary purpose of this study was to determine if neighborhood and school type help to predict 4th and 6th grade academic achievement above and beyond traditional socioeconomic status (SES) indices. A second purpose was to determine whether the findings of environmental effects research for smaller-size cities differ from studies which investigate larger urban centers. The study also sought to identify potential ways neighborhoods could be meaningfully classified in ways that might aid future research, and the possible presence of schools that succeed despite a profile that says they should not. Achievement test results of schools (N=61) from two Midwest …

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Institutional Climate And Institutional Effectiveness At Three Community Colleges, Connie S. Buckner Dec 1996

Institutional Climate And Institutional Effectiveness At Three Community Colleges, Connie S. Buckner

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The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to explore the impact of employee morale, as manifested in institutional climate data, upon institutional effectiveness; and (2) to determine the extent to which information generated by climate survey data was used in developing and implementing change initiatives at each of the institutions studied. Three institutions were selected for this multiple site case study. Four sources of data from each institution were used to provide a "picture" of institutional climate. These sources of data were (a) the Personal Assessment of the College Environment (PACE) climate survey, (b) institutional self-study reports, (c) reaffirmation …

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Articulation Practices Of Two- And Four-Year Public Colleges In Tennessee, Amy L. Freeman Dec 1996

Articulation Practices Of Two- And Four-Year Public Colleges In Tennessee, Amy L. Freeman

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This study had two purposes. The first was to identify present articulation practices within Tennessee public colleges. The second was to select recommendations for ideal articulation practice that might lead to improved transfer/articulation among two- and four-year public colleges in Tennessee. A survey instrument was sent to persons identified as chief articulation officers within Tennessee public colleges. They were asked to evaluate identified articulation practices according to present practice and according to ideal practice. Results were used to determine which transfer and articulation practices were currently used in Tennessee public colleges, which transfer and articulation practices ideally should be used …

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Education Policy Analysis Archives 04/17 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Nov 1996

Education Policy Analysis Archives 04/17 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

What does the psychometrician's classroom like like? : reframing the assessment concepts in the context of learning / Catherine S. Taylor [and] Susan Bobbitt Nolen.

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Holding Power Index; Considerations Associated With Administrators Willingness/Unwillingness To Use The Cohort Method To Measure Student Dropout Rates Of Nebraska Public High Schools, Richard A. Dierkhising Nov 1996

Holding Power Index; Considerations Associated With Administrators Willingness/Unwillingness To Use The Cohort Method To Measure Student Dropout Rates Of Nebraska Public High Schools, Richard A. Dierkhising

Student Work

Public high schools do not consistently use one method to measure student dropout rates. The purpose of this study was to identify differences in the reasons given by principals and district office administrators from various size public high school/districts which describe willingness or unwillingness to adopt the cohort method as the standard measure of student dropout rates.

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Master Of Science In Computing Technology In Education 1996, Nova Southeastern University Nov 1996

Master Of Science In Computing Technology In Education 1996, Nova Southeastern University

College of Engineering and Computing Course Catalogs

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Pages, Volume 4, No. 3, November 1996, Frank Oldfield Nov 1996

Pages, Volume 4, No. 3, November 1996, Frank Oldfield

PAGES

Contents: Bruno Messerli and the International Geographical Union -- Pages in Perspective -- Project Organization -- Acronyms -- Workshop Report -- PEP I -- Published Workshop Reports -- Pages Calendar

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Learning To Live With Conformity: Student Teachers' Reactions To Multiple Conformity Factors During Teaching Practice, Clive Mcgee Nov 1996

Learning To Live With Conformity: Student Teachers' Reactions To Multiple Conformity Factors During Teaching Practice, Clive Mcgee

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

This paper reports one aspect of a larger research project on the teaching practice experiences of staff, student teachers and associate teachers. The project is located in the School of Education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and early phases have already been reported in occasional papers and conference papers (Calder, Faire and Schon, 1993; Faire, 1994; Harold, 1994; McGee, Oliver and Carstensen, 1994.

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