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Datascan - April 30, 1991, Nova University

DataScan

No abstract provided.

Crusader, April 19, 1991, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Crusader, April 12, 1991, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Improving Pupils’ Achievement Levels Through Teaching Thinking Skills Across The Curriculum, Joseph A. King

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This report documents a project designed to improve pupils' achievement levels through teaching thinking skills across the curriculum at an inner-city, non-public school in New York. The Institution is co-educational and caters to the needs of a predominantly West Indian and South American Community.

An examination of the Otis Lennon School Aptitude Test (OLSAT) and the Stanford Achievement Test (S.A.T) scores (1988) for St. Stephen Lutheran School, Brooklyn (the school) revealed an achievement problem. The investigation diagnosed among other things that achievement problems were not with the weak students. It was the best students who were not performing up to …

Developing And Implementing A Program To Raise Verbal Scholastic Aptitude Scores Of High School Seniors In A Non-Public School., Janne B.H Banks

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

Flint River Academy is a private, independent school with enrolled of 410 students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12. This major research project describes a program that was designed to raise the Verbs’ Scholastic Aptitude Scores of seniors in high school. Students at Flint River Academy consistently scored below the national mean verbal score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The writer documented this disparity for the 1982-89 school years. Interviews with parents, students, and staff indicated concern about the verbal scores being lower than the national mean verbal score.

Probable causes of the existing problem were: students were not being taught …

Development And Implementation Of A Community-Drawn Community Life-Based Curriculum For Individuals With Mental Retardation And Developmental Disabilities Living In Summit County., Norman W. Czubaj

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This report describes a project that resulted in the development and implementation of community life-based curriculum for students in the County of Summit Board of Mental Retardation and Development Disabilities (CSBMR/DD) school program. The Summit curriculum altered the present self contained system of classroom instruction and utilized the community settings as a means to increase the amount of student instruction time in the “real” community environment. The most recent review of the Weaver School programs, by the Ohio Department of Mental Retardation and Development Disabilities suggests that the curriculum and the districts IEP process by re-designed to promote more and …

Datascan - March 11, 1991, Nova University

DataScan

No abstract provided.

March 1 1991, Friday Bulletin

CSUSB Friday Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Crusader, March 1, 1991, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

A Plan To Improve Mathematics Achievement For Students At Central Elementary School, Angela C. Mills

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This report describes a plan for implementing appropriate developmental mathematics practices in the primary grades so that assessment of student needs and knowledge correlated with state required assessment procedures. A large percentage of students beginning at the third grade level had been scoring at or below the national norm on the mathematics portion of the California Achievement Test and had consistently made lower report card grades beginning at the third grade level. Observations and documentation indicated a need for developmentally appropriate mathematics instruction during the beginning years of school so that learning in the mathematics areas was not superficial.

Probable …

Community-Based Instruction As A School Program That Will Enable Developmentally-Disabled Persons To Benefit From Instruction., John A. Waldron

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This report describes a program designed to improve the educational experiences of developmentally-disabled pupils who attended the Kaplan School in Rockland County, New York, These students demonstrated inconsistency in their ability in the areas of interpersonal relations, listening, self-confidence, responsible behaviors and adaptive behaviors.

Probable causes of the problem were identified as: pupil assignment to a segregated facility, a lack of access to non-handicapped persons and lessons that were partially based on normal infant development stages and phases for pupils who will be expected behave like non-handicapped adults in the post-high school environment. A review of the literature and school …

Datascan - February 18, 1991, Nova University

DataScan

No abstract provided.

February 15 1991, Friday Bulletin

CSUSB Friday Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Volume 26 - Issue 19 - Friday, February 8, 1991, Rose Thorn Staff

The Rose Thorn Archive

The Rose Thorn, Rose-Hulman's independent student newspaper.

Crusader, February 8, 1991, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

The Wooster Voice (Wooster, Oh), 1991-02-08, Wooster Voice Editors

The Voice: 1991-2000

In this edition of the Wooster Voice, the first page has an article explaining to students that Soup and Bread might be canceled. Soup and Bread is a program that allows students to easily donate money to different charities through eating soup and bread once a week. In order to keep the program running, they need a minimum of 350 participants, but the program kept missing the quota of participants. The article served as a call to action in some way, asking more students to join the program and keep it running. Halfway through the paper, there is a full …

February 1 1991, Friday Bulletin

CSUSB Friday Bulletin

No abstract provided.

The Use Of Cooperative Learning Strategies To Improve Achievement And Self Esteem Levels Among A Group Of Middle School Perceptually Impaired Students., John R. Dorney

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This report described a program for improving student achievement, as measured by the California Test of Basic Skills, and levels of self-esteem, as measured by the Piers-Harris Children’s Self-Concept Scale, in a middle school in a suburban/rural district of middle to upper middle class population.

Analysis of problem symptoms revealed initial perceptual impairments, low levels of self-esteem relative to intellectual and school factors, and a consistent history of below grade level achievement levels. Contributing factors were also found to exist in familial structure and attendance and behavioral factors. The research project sought to improve student performance in these areas through …

Using Critical Thinking To Improve Achievement: An Inservice And Instructional Program For New Castle Middle School., Janet Lacy

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

[no abstract provided]

Utilizing Integrative Approaches To Increase Academic Efficiency In Eighth Grade At-Risk Learners., Mattie B.H Gay

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This report describes four aspects of a two-year research project to promote an efficacy continuum as a school based paradigm in the face of infusion overload and fragmented instructional delivery system mandates. The targeted group is "at risk" Yellow House eighth grade students for which the project intervenes. The planning and implementation phases of the practicum facilitates renewal, continuity and integration of proposed system goals although the system is in constant upheaval and flux because of the change in two State Chief Officers.

The practicum initiates a school wide metacognitive study- thinking skills program to routinize independent skill development to …

January 25 1991, Friday Bulletin

CSUSB Friday Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Crusader, January 25, 1991, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

The Wooster Voice (Wooster, Oh), 1991-01-25, Wooster Voice Editors

The Voice: 1991-2000

On the first page of this edition of the newspaper is an article on the subject of two students called to active duty in the Middle East. Students Todd Musgrove and Matthew Matheney received official notices calling them to action. On the Viewpoints page, a page of opinion pieces written by students not associated with the Voice, there are numerous small articles and a political cartoon about the president. Later in the paper there is a large article on the international student's views on the war. The majority of the paper focuses on the war and opinions on civil disobedience. …

January 11 1991, Friday Bulletin

CSUSB Friday Bulletin

No abstract provided.

1991 Modulus, Rose-Hulman Institute Of Technology

Modulus (Yearbooks)

1991 Yearbook for Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, IN 47803

Summit Christian College Catalog, Summit Christian College

Academic Catalogs (TUFW & Predecessors)

The 1991-1992 academic catalog of Summit Christian College.

Student Fact Book, Fall 1991, Wright State University, Office Of Student Information Systems, Wright State University

Wright State University Student Fact Books

The student fact book has general demographic information on all students enrolled at Wright State University for Fall Quarter, 1991.

1991 Ruby Yearbook, Laura Anne Crowell, Michele Ann Pacific, Ursinus College Senior Class

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 1991 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

Ilium 1991, Taylor University

Yearbooks (1898-Present)

The 1991 yearbook of Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Theme: Timeless Tradition

Hi-O-Hi 1991 To 1992, Oberlin College

Hi-O-Hi Yearbooks

No abstract provided.