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An Assessment Of The Utilization Of Permanent And Temporary Classrooms As It Relates To Cost And Efficiency In Selected School Divisions, E. Carlton Bowyer

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

In the mid-1900s there were over eighty thousand public school buildings in the United States housing approximately thirty-nine million pupils. Many were constructed thirty or forty years earlier and have approached the end of their useful life without requiring major retrofitting or replacement. Rising construction costs prompt school systems to investigate alternative means of housing rapidly growing student populations. This study traced the historical background of the school facility and the development of school construction relative to the function of education.

The focus of this study was to ascertain the current use of temporary and permanent housing in the fifty …

Effects Of An Urban Alternative High School Dropout Prevention And Rehabilitation Program On The Attendance, Attitude And Academic Achievement Of At-Risk Students, Margaret Shearin Bell

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a dropout prevention program on at-risk high school students who returned to their home schools. The study was conducted in Newport News, Virginia at four high schools and an alternative school site, housing the dropout program. The subjects were divided into two independent treatment groups: Group One (N = 30) who participated in the program in the fall semester of 1988 and returned to their home schools in the spring semester of 1989, and Group Two (N = 21) who participated in the program in the spring semester of …

Marketing Higher Education To Mexican-Americans: Identification Of Successful Marketing Strategies And Tactics, Cynthia Gale Coiner

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

In this study, a comprehensive set of successful marketing strategies and tactics for the recruitment of Mexican-Americans into four-year colleges and universities was identified. A taxonomy of findings ranging from very successful to not successful was developed. The methodology included focus groups conducted in Los Angeles, California and San Antonio, Texas to aid in the creation of survey instrument items. The resulting survey was mailed to admissions directors of four-year colleges and universities located in the six southwestern states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas.

The responses were analyzed by computing frequencies and crosstabulations. Subsequently, factor analysis …

The Relationship Between Occupational Choice And Perceptions Of Professional Nursing Functions And Characteristics, Ellis Quinn Youngkin

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Management

This study identifies the occupational interests and predominant vocational personality types of freshmen students (undeclared majors, nursing majors, and non-nursing majors), explores perceptions about selected professional nursing functions and characteristics among the students, and examines perceptual differences between groups (majors).

A non-experimental ex post facto design is used to analyze data from 312 students in a large urban university. Descriptive and inferential statistics are applied in data analysis. The following findings support the hypotheses: (1) Nursing continues to attract the traditional student who has Holland's Social vocational personality type as measured by the Self-Directed Search, although many Social types are …

Retirement And Re-Entry Decision-Making: A Faculty Perspective, Seth Zimmer

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

Universities are faced with an aging workforce and threatened with deficits in number and quality of replacements for retirees. New policies and programs affecting retirement and workforce re-entry are taking shape. This points to the need for research on the factors used by faculty members in the retirement decision-making process.

Faculty are somewhat unique in that their university roles and responsibilities often allow them to be professionally active simultaneously in other settings. The usual concept of retirement becomes somewhat blurred where faculty members are concerned.

The decision of when to retire and whether or not to re-enter the workforce must …

A Study To Determine The Effects Of Lengthy Space Exposure On Tomato Seeds And Plants, Daniel Robert Smith

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

Through the analysis of the data collected from the identical planting techniques of the flight seeds verses the control seeds, the following hypothesis was considered: H1-the tomato seeds of the SEEDS program will produce genetically altered mutant plants.

A Study Of Creative And Critical Thinking Abilities Of Traditional As Compared To New Problem Solving Programs In Technology Education, Edward L. Welliver

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The following hypothesis was applied to this study: 1. The research contained in this study will demonstrate that the innovative approach to problem solving in education, characteristic of the "new" Technology Education programs, is more effective than is traditional Industrial Arts instruction.

A Comparison Of Students Attitudes Toward Fashion Merchandising Careers, Stephanie Michele Brown

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The problem of this study was to determine the student's attitudes toward fashion merchandising careers. This study compares male and female student attitudes from San Diego Fashion Institute on the west coast to Commonwealth College on the east coast. This research was to provide the school on the east coast, Commonwealth College, a better way of attracting more fashion students. By studying the attitudes, we can identify the appropriate marketing strategy in attracting these students.

A Study To Determine The Perceptions Of Marketing Education Students At Old Dominion University Toward Respective Programs And Curriculums Offered, Michele Gregoire

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

Through the collection and consolidation of data from the undergraduate marketing education students at Old Dominion University, the following objectives were achieved. To determine: 1. Why students enrolled in marketing education classes; 2. To determine the students' perceptions of the curriculum offered; 3. To determine the students' perceptions of the marketing education program at Old Dominion University as a whole.

A Study To Determine Recruitment Strategies Used By Virginia Beach High School Marketing Education Teachers In The Spring Of 1990, Stacie R. Hayden

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The following questions were identified and answered through this study: 1. What were the major recruitment methods used by Virginia Beach marketing education teachers? 2. Which of the recruitment methods used was most successful? 3. Why did students enroll in marketing education programs?

A Study To Determine The Number Of Fashion Merchandising Employment Opportunities, By Type, Available In Virginia Beach, Virginia, Monique N. Jones

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

To answer this research problem, the following questions needed to be answered: 1. What are the career opportunities available in the fashion merchandising field? 2. What are the fashion merchandising employment opportunities at the entry level for degree graduates in Virginia Beach? 3. Within each type of employment opportunity, how many people were needed currently and projected for 1993?

A Study To Determine The Recommendation Of A Semester Course For The Marketing Education Program In Virginia Beach City Public Schools, Ruth P. Karangelen

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The following objectives were established to answer this problem: 1. Identify semester courses currently used in Virginia school divisions; 2. Compare curriculum contents of semester courses with current Virginia Beach curriculum content to prevent overlap; 3. Determine the specific semester course that should be recommended to the Marketing Education program in Virginia Beach Public Schools.

A Study To Determine The Influences Guidance Counselors Have On Students Enrolling In Marketing Education At Frank W. Cox High School, Jennifer P. Nopper

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

Through the analysis of the results of a survey administered to the guidance counselors and the secondary students enrolled in Marketing Education courses, the following questions were used as guidelines to provide insight on the influences counselors has on the selection of courses: 1. How do high school guidance counselors perceive the Marketing Education courses? 2. What were the students reasons for enrolling in Marketing Education? 3. Who had the most influence on student's decision to enroll in Marketing Education?

Academic Improvement Of Education For Employment Students At Churchland Junior High School After Their First Year Of Enrollment, Alvin L. Mayo

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The objectives of the research were: 1. To determine improvement in the students' overall academic proficiency; 2. To determine improvement in the students' English proficiency; 3. To determine improvement in the students' Mathematic proficiency.

Teaching Literature In The 1990'S: Meeting The Challenge, Nancy Topping Bazin

English Faculty Publications

English teachers are currently beset by a variety of political forces vying for their attention. Education has become big news again for the first time since October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union inaugurated the Space Age by launching Sputnik, the first man-made satellite. In 1957, astonished at the Russians' success, Americans panicked and decided that their math science, and foreign language training was inadequate. Recent survey~ showing the superiority of Japanese and European students over American students have provoked serious concern about the quality of education going on in American public schools and in our colleges and universities. The …

A Study Of The Uses Of Expert Systems In The Training Environment, Edward Patrick Kappes

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The objectives of this study were: 1. to determine if expert systems can be useful in the training environment; 2. to show the types of training that expert systems can assist in solving; 3. to review the available literature to determine the applications of expert systems in the training environment.

The Effects Of A Program To Develop Collaboration On Teacher Interactions And Norms Of Collegiality Within The School As A Workplace, Michael E. Sicignano

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Management

The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of the Effective Teaching Network (ETN), a program designed to develop collaboration among teachers. This study employs the pretest/posttest nonequivalent comparison group design. The treatment group (n = 75) represents an intact group of teachers who participated in the ETN pilot program. Thirty teachers participated in the direct level of treatment, and 40 teachers participated in the indirect level of treatment. The comparison group (n = 77) represents an intact group of teachers who were matched with the treatment group on teacher characteristics and pretest scores. The Professional Collegiality Questionnaire …