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Bibliography, Bruce Kessler
Bibliography, Bruce Kessler
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Bibliography of publications by Bruce Kessler.
Meeting Minutes, Wku Council Of Academic Deans
Meeting Minutes, Wku Council Of Academic Deans
Council of Academic Deans
Meeting regarding graduate fair, commencement, enrollment, accreditation, zoom connect classroom and fifth week assessment.
Ua35/5 Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1, Wku Center For Teaching & Learning
Ua35/5 Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1, Wku Center For Teaching & Learning
WKU Archives Records
Newsletter created by and about WKU Center for Teaching & Learning.
Ua68/10/1 Dare In Nashville Schools 1988-89, John Faine
Ua68/10/1 Dare In Nashville Schools 1988-89, John Faine
WKU Archives Records
This report summarizes the results of a partial evaluation of the 1988-89 Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) effort implemented in all sixth grades in the Nashville, Tennessee, Metropolitan Public School system by trained instructors from the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department. As documented in the following pages, the evaluation effort had two major components.
1. An evaluation of the program by teachers and principals in all the participating schools.
2. Inner-City Study, an investigation designed to assess the impact of the program in elementary and middle schools that service those students thought to be most at risk to the threat of …
A Study Using The Initial Teaching Alphabet As A Remedial Technique For Ninth Grade Students With Learning Disabilities, Jeanette Conner
A Study Using The Initial Teaching Alphabet As A Remedial Technique For Ninth Grade Students With Learning Disabilities, Jeanette Conner
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The reading achievement of two groups of ninth grade students with learning disabilities was compared using the standard scores on the Reading subtest of the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) as the pre- and posttest measurement to determine gain in reading achievement. The experimental group used only curriculum materials written in the Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA). The control group used curriculum materials written in traditional orthography provided for students with learning disabilities by a rural Kentucky School District. At the end of an 80-day period, the standard scores on the Reading subtest of the WRAT were compared using a t-test, …
Behavior Of Retarded Clients As A Function Of Access To Leisure Activities Oriented Toward Task Completion, David R. Keltner
Behavior Of Retarded Clients As A Function Of Access To Leisure Activities Oriented Toward Task Completion, David R. Keltner
Home Economics and Family Living Theses
This thesis represents an investigation of the effects of increased access to task completion activities on the behavior of institutionalized retarded clients. The hypothesis was that increased access to task completion leisure activities (non-competitive free time activities requiring the subject to attend to a constructive task during at least five free time periods over the course of the study) would result in reduced frequency of unacceptable social behaviors in a group of institutionalized retarded clients. A hobby kit designed according to the experimental definition of leisure activity was made available to each subject in the experimental group. Target behaviors (social …
The Effects Of Review And No Review On Underlined Material With More Or Less Able Subjects, Melvin Van Dyke
The Effects Of Review And No Review On Underlined Material With More Or Less Able Subjects, Melvin Van Dyke
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
A sample of high school graduate, first year technical school students was measured for retention improvement of underlined textual material under the treatment condition of no review versus review. The sample of 61 students was divided into two groups, more able and less able, subsequent to the first treatment condition of no review to provide a within group measure in the final analysis. The reading material consisted of 14 brief typewritten passages of which the core content was underlined. The criterion measure consisted of 7 multiple choice questions derived from the core content. The experiment consisted of presenting the same …
Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 40, No. 2, Wku Alumni Relations
Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 40, No. 2, Wku Alumni Relations
WKU Archives Records
Quarterly magazine created for WKU alumni. Regular features are Hilltopics, Sports, Alumni Newsgrams and Notes and In Memoriam. This issue includes:
- Graduate School (College) is On Its Way
- Evening Class is Thataway
- The Hilltopper Hundred to the Rescue
- ETV - Keep Watching, It's All in Color
- Student Interns Learn How Government Works
- Significant Statements: The New Year Begins
- Good News for Fishermen: Reservoir Research
- There it Was! Your Homecoming - 1971
- Performing Arts Illuminate the Campus Scene
- Discovery 1 - Uncovering the Kentucky of Antiquity
- Discovery 2 - Reviving the Heritage of Kentucky
- Discovery 3 - The Intercultural Studies Program …
Ua3/4/1 Memorandum Re: Training School, James Carpenter
Ua3/4/1 Memorandum Re: Training School, James Carpenter
WKU Archives Records
Memorandum regarding programs instituted at the WKU Training School which "give evidence that we are breaking away from the traditional self-contained classroom and moving in the direction of progress in the future." Memo written by James Carpenter and sent to Tate Page. This copy is housed in UA3/4/1 WKU President's Office - Downing Subject File.
A Course Of Study In Beginning Bookkeeping, Burton C. Jones
A Course Of Study In Beginning Bookkeeping, Burton C. Jones
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
After having majored in Commercial Education and having taught bookkeeping for three years, the writer is attempting to organize his past experiences, knowledge, and material into a concise form. It is hoped that by so doing it will be possible to make a course of study in beginning bookkeeping interesting and beneficial to his students and help the teacher do a better job of teaching.
The writer realizes that he has three types of students – (1) those who plan to continue their education; (2) those who do not plan to continue their education and feel a need for a …
A Course Of Study For General Chemistry, Paul E. Kerrick
A Course Of Study For General Chemistry, Paul E. Kerrick
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
- This study should help the teacher create a greater interest among the students for chemistry. The study should enable the teacher to do better teaching.
- The study was prompted by a felt need on the part of the writer and to satisfy the partial requirements for a Masters degree.
- The study involves three main divisions:
- A course of study in chemistry consisting of an introduction.
- A course of study in chemistry consisting of nine developed units.
- The means of evaluating a course of study.
- The scope of the study includes an introduction to chemistry usually taught in high school.
- Materials …
A Comparative Study Of The Relative Achievement Of The Training School & Non-Training School Pupils, Ruth Borders
A Comparative Study Of The Relative Achievement Of The Training School & Non-Training School Pupils, Ruth Borders
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The writer, having been employed as a critic or supervising teacher in a city training school, has a personal interest in student teaching and student teachers. Frequently patrons voice their opinions concerning the work done in the training school. While many parents are well pleased with the results of student teaching, there are some who believe that the type of work given in the training school is inferior to that done in the public schools.
The major purpose of this study is to endeavor to answer, to some extent, a few of the many questions, arising from day to day, …