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The Perception Of Indiana State Legislators Concerning Funding For Higher Education, Robert William Dinnen

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The purpose of the study was to investigate the perceptions of state legislators in the state of Indiana concerning funding for higher education in the state. A survey questionnaire designed to collect data reflecting the perceptions of Indiana state legislators concerning higher education funding was sent to the 150 members of the legislature. An Analysis of Variance was conducted on each of twenty funding variables to test six null hypotheses related to (1) years of legislative service, (2) legislative service as either a representative or senator, (3) district represented being predominately rural or urban/metropolitan, (4) education level, (5) legislative district …

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

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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 Philosophical Orientation Of Indiana Elementary School Principals, Gregory Dean Wilson

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Building principals develop and maintain anEducational philosophy. That philosophy guides their actions and their decisions. This study was designed to investigate the philosophical orientations of progressivism and essentialism among Indiana elementary school principals. Variables of this study included elementary schools with a restructuring Indiana 2000 designation and non-Indiana 2000 elementary schools. Other variables included the gender (male, female) of the principals and the size (small, medium, large) of school. Principals of Indiana 2000 elementary schools were more strongly aligned with the philosophical orientation of progressivism than were principals of non-Indiana 2000 elementary schools. A difference of the philosophical orientations was …

Part-Time Courses 1995-96, City Of Dublin Vocational Education Committee

Prospectus: Bolton Street

Courses for the College of Technology, Bolton Street, Dublin 1.

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 …

Nps Educational Directory, Kathryn L. Farrell-Poe

All Archived Publications

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

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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. …

The Equity In General Fund Financing Of Indiana Public Schools: The Effects Of The Indiana 1993 Public School Funding Formula, Fred M. Stump

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The purpose of the study was to analyze the equity of public school funding in Indiana with regard to general fund appropriations as provided by the state's 1993 funding formula. The study was organized around seven research questions, each emphasizing an area related to the appropriation of general fund dollars among Indiana public school corporations. The study examined the 1994 per pupil full revenue general fund appropriations and general fund tax rates to determine if there was a difference in their distribution among Indiana public school corporations. The study analyzed the general fund tax rates and assessed valuations. The study …

Successful Literacy Passport Test Remediation Strategies For Elementary And Middle School Students: A Research Report, James H. Mcmillan

MERC Publications

The purpose of this study was to examine instructional strategies teachers and other school personnel have employed to successfully remediate students who have failed the reading and writing parts of the Virginia Literacy Passport Test (LPT), or the LPT Predictor Test. The intent was to determine if specific approaches seem to work best for different types of students, and if particular materials, teaching strategies, scheduling, and other factors are associated with successful remediation.

A qualitative research design was employed to gather and analyze information related to successful remediation. Classroom and resource teachers who had experience in remediating students who had …

Scheduling Secondary Schools: Questions And Answers, Lynn Westfall

MERC Publications

Some researchers believe scheduling techniques have changed frequently and dramatically since the early 1960's. And, there is no doubt that changes have occurred in education. Changes such as the development of computerized scheduling techniques in the 1960's; the increase in the number of courses offered; the concern for equal opportunity; the individualization of instruction; and the increase in the variety and flexibility of scheduling models available to schools, led to a growing awareness of accountability by the 1970s (Dempsey * Traverso, 1983). The quality of individual opportunity prompted educators to revitalize conventional scheduling, and to consider diverse options.

Though such …

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 …

Year Round Education: History, Philosophy, Future, Don E. Glines

Books

"A definitive book on year-round education, including the Mankato Wilson program and the year-round education history from the first program in 1909 to 1995"--Don E. Glines (2023).

Leadership Practices Of Secondary School Principals Related To School Violence And Other Demographic Factors, John Flores

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This study compared school violence for principals whose leadership practice is high in human relations with those whose leadership is low in human relations. The study also examined leadership practice and school violence in relation to school size, socio-economic status of the student body, percentage of students living in single head of household homes, percentage of students participating in extra-curricular activities and geographic location of the school. The Leadership Practice Inventory and the researcher-designed Demographic Data sheet were used in this study. Both were sent to every public high school principal in Indiana. Two hundred fourteen Indiana public high school …

Early Childhood Educators' Beliefs, Knowledge Bases, And Practices Related To Assessing Early Literacy, Linda G. Marley

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Two major pedagogical orientations currently dominate literacyEducation of young children in American schools. These two philosophies, "reading readiness" and "emergent literacy," share the common goal of efficiently and effectively teaching children to read. The purpose of this study was to determine if there has been a split between the theoretical orientation that practitioners believe they hold and the teaching methods that they practice. A survey instrument was designed to study the relationships among the early literacy assessment beliefs, knowledge bases, and practices of a systematically selected sample of Head Start, kindergarten, and first grade educators within the state of Indiana. …

The Effects Ofeducational Intervention On Perceptions Of Sexual Harassment, Diana L. Bonate

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The effect ofEducational interventions upon perceptions of sexual harassment was the focus of this study. An additional focus was whether oft-reported sex differences, if any, were altered byEducational interventions. Ninety-six undergraduates volunteered to participate, with participants being randomly assigned to three groups. All participants completed the pretest Harassment Sensitivity Inventory and demographic data form during their first group meeting. A meeting for each group was held two weeks hence, at which time Group One viewed anEducational video about sexual harassment and completed the posttest, Group Two readEducational literature about sexual harassment and completed the posttest and Group Three, the control …

A Hermeneutic Study Of Theeducational Theories Of Willa Cather, Marie Hassett Mcdonough

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The hermeneutic analysis conducted for this study suggests that five theories about AmericanEducation may be found in Willa Cather's work. First, she believed that the needs of the individual, not the society, should be the primary concerns of educators. Second, she shows us that the family and the community may play an important role in a learner's development, but cautions that the learner should not be seen as limited to the values and attitudes of the family and community. Third, she believed that Americans had developed a warped view ofEducation, confusing the memorization of facts about art, literature or philosophy …

0398 School Finance, Colorado Legislative Council

All Publications (Colorado Legislative Council)

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Index 1995, Index Editors

1971-2017

This is the College of Wooster Index from 1995. The contents of the Index include, Challenged to Speak Out - Opening Theme, Students Speak Out - Student Life, Out Taking Action - Organizations, Speaking Under the Arch - Faculty, Competitively Speaking - Sports, Living Out and About - Dormitories & Small Houses, and Out On Top - Seniors.

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 …

A Handbook For Parents Who Wish To Promote Literacy In Their Pre-Schoolers, Cheryl Lynn Upperman

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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Contemporary Issues In Educational Technology: Challenges, Processes, Tools, And Solution Options In K-12 Applications, D. Verne Morland

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

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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

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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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A Comparative Study Of The Self-Contained And The Departmentalized Methods Of Instruction At The Elementary (1-6) Level, Margaret V. Harris

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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Autobiographical Understandings: The Evolution Of A Teaching Self, Joann Portalupi

Doctoral Dissertations

In this study the author uses autobiographical method to explore specific questions about teacher development: How is a teacher identity constructed; What constitutes the teaching self? In addition this study seeks to consider the potential uses of autobiography as a tool in teacher education.

Part One, "A Quiver of Truths," is an autobiographical text in which the author explores issues of her own development as a teacher to reveal its broad roots in a wide expanse of life experiences, specifically the familial, cultural, and historical influences as well as broader issues of human development. Any attempt to make meaning out …

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 …