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A Parental Handbook For The Multiage Classroom: A Developmental Approach To Learning, Pamela Sue Zwick

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Descriptive Analysis To Analyze If Fourth Grade Students Recognize The Benefits Of Being Read Aloud To By Their Parents, Kerri Lynn Gayheart

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Improving Your Child's Reading Ability: A Handbook For Parents Of Primary Children, Marsha Genteline

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Socialization And Self-Concept Of Home-Schooled Children As Compared To The Traditionally-Taught Public School Children, David Deneal Enix

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Funding Levels And Expenditure Patterns In New Hampshire High Schools, 1985-1986 To 1993-1994, Thomas J. Carroll

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to determine if there was a relationship between the level of funds available and the pattern of expenditure in New Hampshire high schools. For example, was there a relationship between the percentage of its budget a high school spends on regular education programs and its overall per pupil cost? The hypothesis was that there would be less than a moderate correlation between each of eight variables and per pupil expenditure. A Pearson r value of 0.30 or greater was defined as indicating a moderate correlation.

The study also examined each high school's spending pattern …

Performance Management Within Cooperative Extension: Perceptions Of Extension Educators In The Northeast Region, John Edward Pike

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine Cooperative Extension educator perceptions regarding performance management. Performance management is defined as a system comprised of an ongoing process of planning and appraising which includes the establishment of goals and expectations through performance planning; continuing year round performance feedback and coaching; and a formal performance appraisal at the end of the performance period.

This research was intended to provide a better understanding of how extension educators perceived the performance management process within their respective state Cooperative Extension organization. An assumption of this study was that extension educator attitudes toward performance management are …

Critical Thinking: A Voyage Of The Imagination, David Glenn Hodgdon

Doctoral Dissertations

In this dissertation I contend that there is a strong connection between critical thinking and the imagination, a connection which increases the dynamism and vitality of critical thinking. By acknowledging a role for the imagination, we are able to form a more coherent and complete critical thinking conception, which leads to the positing of a new theory of critical thinking. This new conception has pedagogical implications demanding that we alter or augment current approaches to critical thinking instruction.

Employing a conceptual analysis, I first focus on critical thinking conceptions found on a continuum from traditional conceptions, which focus on logic …

"There Is No School Like The Family School": Literacy, Motherteaching, And The Alcott Family, Lisa Margaret Stepanski

Doctoral Dissertations

By the mid nineteenth century, Americans were increasingly recognizing the need for public education and literacy for all citizens if the United States was to survive, if not thrive. In addition, new industries and technologies were developed that would slowly transform the agrarian New England landscape into a terrain of mill towns and manufacturing sites. The industrialization of New England altered family life, as well, and lead to the rise of the "motherteacher" ideology, a cultural paradigm that profoundly influenced discussions of childrearing and public education in the United States.

This dissertation examines the motherteaching of three famous nineteenth-century figures, …

Changes In Self-Sufficiency: A Feminist Approach To Literacy Program Evaluation, Marcia Ann Makris

Doctoral Dissertations

This research was a follow-up investigation of a federally-funded literacy program which was established to assist its participants to achieve self-sufficiency through employment. The program was designed and implemented in response to the federal legislative law, the Family Support of Act of 1988 (FSA), which mandated that states provide Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) programs to "assure that needy families with children obtain the education, training, and employment that will help them avoid long term dependency" and "assist recipients to become self-sufficient." The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the characteristics of the program that …

Giving Voice To The Spirits: Storytelling In The Service Of Belizean Literacy, Gerald Joseph Kelly

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation examines the participation of indigenous storytellers in a textbook project undertaken by Belizean educators. A qualitative study of these narrators, who contributed both traditional stories and personal narratives, extended from February 1991 until February 1996 in Belize's Toledo District. Featured narrators were interviewed and audio-taped by the author throughout this time period, as they contributed their oral lore to the project.

This investigation reveals the complex interrelationships of anthropological salvage and cultural renewal. Certain contemporary scholars decry what they perceive as the limited pastoral dimension of salvage, which may suggest that the true value of traditional stories lies …

The Relationship Between Intellectual Development Using Hunt's Paragraph Completion Method And Buczynski's Ways Of Knowing Inventory And Collaboration In Full-Year Student Intern And Cooperating Teacher Supervisory Pairs, Mildred H. Struck

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to determine if there is a correlation between Hunt's (1971) Paragraph Completion Method (PCM) and Buczynski's (1992) Ways of Knowing Inventory (WOKI) and to examine the relationship between intellectual development and collaboration. The sample for the research included student interns in a five-year Master of Education program who were interning to gain their teaching certification. Also in the sample were cooperating teachers and university supervisors. Each of 74 women participants completed the PCM and the WOKI; the results were tabulated, a Pearson r correlation and significance levels were calculated, and a multiple regression was …

Student Satisfaction With Faculty Advisors: Influences On Retention In Higher Education, Susan Carole Wyckoff

Doctoral Dissertations

This study sought to expand existing research focusing on factors contributing to student retention in higher education institutions. The study examined the impact of students' levels of satisfaction with the faculty advising process on student retention from first year to sophomore year. The research sought to answer the question, "Are students' decisions to remain at a college following their freshman year influenced by their satisfactory or unsatisfactory experiences with their academic advisors?".

The sample (N = 269), drawn from three higher education institutions in New Hampshire, included fulltime, traditional-aged sophomore (non-transfer) students seeking a bachelor degree with 30-60 credits completed …

The Generation Of Predictive Inferences And The Availability Of Contextual Information, Michelle Lenore Rizzella

Doctoral Dissertations

Five experiments were conducted to determine whether readers generate predictive inferences when biasing context was available at either a local level (i.e., in short-term memory) or global level (i.e., in long-term memory). Subjects read passages that described two characters; one description contained contextual information supporting a predictive inference and the other description did not. Experiments 1 and 2 examined whether subjects generated a predictive inference when biasing context was locally available. Reading time differences in Experiment 1 demonstrated that subjects experienced comprehension difficulty when critical sentences were inconsistent with biasing context. Experiment 2 showed that subjects had generated a predictive …

Beyond The Postmodern Impasse Of Contemporary Composition: The Non-Foundational Alternative Of Deweyan Pragmatism, Donald Crosby Jones

Doctoral Dissertations

In their critique of the autonomous individual of foundationalism, postmodernists have rejected the epistemological assumption that a knower directly perceives reality in thought then expresses these perceptions through language. Yet as these theorists have asserted the influence of language upon an individual's thinking, they have been unable to explain an individual's agency--the ability to create, assert, examine, and maintain/or modify a belief. Once considered to be situated in prior discourses, the individual has been conceived as a postmodern subject dominated by language. Yet the subject's ability to influence as well as be influenced by discursive practices has not been explained …

Profiles Of Reform In The Teaching Of Calculus: A Study Of The Implementation Of Materials Developed By The Calculus Consortium Based At Harvard (Cch) Curriculum Project, Alice Darien Lauten

Doctoral Dissertations

The research question addressed in this study is: What profiles of interpretation and implementation of reform in the teaching of calculus emerge from data obtained from mathematics faculty members using Calculus Consortium Based at Harvard (CCH) Curriculum Project materials? Site liaisons from mathematics departments using CCH Curriculum Project materials in 117 academic institutions, consisting of 13 secondary schools, 30 two-year colleges, 19 doctoral and research universities, and 55 other colleges and universities, completed Initial and Site Liaison Surveys. Site liaisons and 266 other instructors from 117 academic institutions completed a Faculty Survey. Six clustering scales were developed from the survey …

"If You Can Educate The Native Woman...": Debates Over The Schooling And Education Of Girls And Women In Southern Rhodesia, 1900-1934, Carol Summers

History Faculty Publications

As the turn of the century, European settlers, officials, and missionaries in Southern Rhodesia were apathetic about promoting African girls' schooling. By the late 1920s, however, all sectors of the European community-settlers, officials, and missionaries- were debating whether, and for what reasons, girls should attend mission schools.¹ Europeans discussed girls' and women's schooling as a strategy for coping with problems in the social and economic development of the region. Some Native Commissioners hope that disciplined moral education would encourage women to remain in rural areas and take responsibility for their families, supporting the system of migrant labor. Many missionaries …

Law Teachers And The Educational Continuum, Michael K. Jordan

Faculty Scholarship

There are many difficulties in teaching the law. These problems are often referred to generically as the difficulty in training students to "think like lawyers." The primary focus of the literature discussing these concerns has, therefore, been on how law schools should assist students in developing this ability. Underlying much of this literature is the assumption that what is needed is some tinkering with the law school curriculum. Students are believed to enter law with a set of abilities and potentialities that are honed by the law school curriculum to produce something called a lawyer or the skill denominated as …

Relationships Among Indiana Secondary School Principals' Perceptions Of Internet Utilization And Selected School Demographic Variables, James Todd Washburne

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the investigation was to determine the extent that Indiana secondary school principals' perceptions of policy existence, censorship concern, Internet usage by faculty, and Internet usage by students were associated with community population, school size, economic rating, number of schools per district, and the cognitive skills index of the school district. A simple random sample of all Indiana secondary schools was selected for use in this study. Sixty-one randomly selected schools were then administered the survey via telephone interview. The collected data were then analyzed using a t-test. All twenty-five hypotheses were then tested at the.05 level of …

The Effects Of Performance Feedback On Treatment Integrity In School-Based Consultation., Kevin Michael Jones

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examined the relative effectiveness of traditional consultation, with and without performance feedback, on treatment integrity. Six teachers employed in a residential treatment community were responsible for treatment implementation. Treatment integrity was defined as the percentage of 2 min intervals during which contingent teacher attention for student on-task behavior was directly observed. Teacher and child behavior were monitored across baseline, traditional consultation, and consultation with performance feedback conditions in a multiple baseline design. In only one of six cases did mean levels of contingent teacher attention, following a Problem Identification Interview and Problem Analysis Interview (Bergan, 1977), exceed 35%. …

Restructuring In Louisiana Schools., Sharon Lee Pol

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study employs both quantitative and qualitative techniques to study the restructuring processes at the district, school, and teacher levels. The quantitative procedures include surveys used to distinguish between teachers's perceptions of highly and moderately restructured schools. Qualitative research techniques included interviews, observations, and document analysis to describe the restructuring. A new instrument, the Attributes of School Restructuring Scale (ASRS), was developed to measure teachers' knowledge about restructuring efforts and their involvement in the restructuring projects. The final version of the ASRS, included 48-items spread across three subscales: Budget/Finance, Governance/Decision-Making, and Curriculum/Instruction. The quantitative results from the statewide study indicated …

President's Report, 1996, University Of Montana (Missoula, Mont.). Office Of The President

University of Montana President’s Report, 1993-2016

The President’s Report of the University of Montana, produced by University Relations on behalf of the President’s Office.

Perceptions Of Site-Based Management By Administrators And Teachers In School City Of Hammond, School District, Louis Michael Lindinger

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Purpose. The major purpose of this study was to examine the differences in perceptions of elementary, middle, and high school teacher and principal plan team members relative to what extent the site-based management process has been implemented in the School City of Hammond. Areas of site-based management that were examined were the decision making process; financial support from central office; determining staff development needs; determining the goals and objectives of each school; and the delegation of responsibilities for general building management. Method. The population in this study consisted of teacher and principal plan team members from each of the twenty-three …

The Communicator - Vol.8 No. 1 - Winter, 1996, Nova Southeastern University

The Communicator

No abstract provided.

Shaping Tomorrow With Research More Favorable Attitudes Toward Breast-Feeding As A Result Of Increasing Knowledge Of Benefits Of Breast-Feeding, Roberta J. Dagenais

Honors Capstones

The trend in breast-feeding in the United States during this century has generally declined and at present represents a little over half of newborn infants being breast-fed at hospital dismissal and approximately 20%-35% at four to six months of age. The Healthy People 2000 National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention objective to increase breast-feeding to at least 75% of all babies in the early weeks of life is not being achieved. Another goal of the objective is that at least 50% of the babies continue to be breast-fed to five or six months of age. The purpose of this study …

Analysis Of A Teaching Experience Integrating Art, Math, And Contemporary Pedagogical Theory, Julie K. Borda-Hill

Whittier Scholars Program

This project is a study in designing a unit for elementary students that combines art with mathematics to prove art can be used to assist teaching as well as be a subject on its own and to teach math processes. This study includes a specifically designed unit plan that combines art and math concepts as well as the success and reflection on this study.

Reflections On The Limitations Of Rational Discourse, Empirical Data, And Legal Mandates As Tools For The Achievement Of Gender Equity In American Higher Education, Susan J. Scollay, Carolyn S. Bratt

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Scholars and academicians implicitly accept and subscribe to the notion that reasoned discourse supported by empirical data is at the core of the academic enterprise. Theoretically, then, organizational change within the academy ought to be attainable through the use of rational processes based upon the systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data to define the scope of the problem and to identify logical solutions. However, the centuries-long attempt to achieve gender equity for women in institutions of higher education belies the truth of that belief in the power of reason as a catalyst for reforming American higher education.

Beginning with …

The Untitled News: Lesley College Expressive Therapy Program News, V.1, Fall 1996, Lesley College

Expressive Therapy Newsletters

Lesley Expressive Therapy Newsletter was first published in Fall 1996 as The Untitled News. From Fall 1997, it was called Expressions. In 2001, it became Expressive Therapy News, and by Spring 2003, it was renamed Exth Press.

An Overview Of The Development Of Primary Education In Pakistan, Muhammad Memon

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

No abstract provided.

Nsu Fischler Center For The Advancement Of Education Programs In Education And Technology Ed.D. Program In Child And Youth Studies 1996·1997 Student Handbook, Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

No abstract provided.

A Procedural Handbook For The Washougal Learning Center, Michael J. Strever

All Graduate Projects

It is the intent of this project to create a handbook for the parents, students, and staff of Washougal Leaming Center in Washougal, Washington. This handbook was designed to both be consistent with current district, state, and federal guidelines, and communicate the policies and procedures of the Washougal Leaming Center to parents, students, and staff. The handbook was developed with input from staff of Washougal Leaming Center. Handbooks from various school in Washington were also review in the development of this project. Recommendations included an annual review of the handbook to ensure its validity and appropriateness.