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A Study To Determine The Number Of Students Continuing In A Hotel Career After Completing A Vocational Education Course In Hotel Operations, Jill Anders Johnson

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The following goals were used to direct this study: 1. Determine if students who completed the hotel/motel operations course continued in the hotel industry; 2. Determine if students who completed the hotel/motel operations course continued to further their education in the hospitality industry; 3. Determine if the hotel/motel operations class is a valuable course to the Virginia Beach community under the philosophy of outcome-based education.

A Study Of Individuals Living In A Residential Environment Having Difficulty Following Their Bedtime Protocol, Lynelle M. Lockett

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The following objectives were established to guide the research; 1. How often do residents follow their bedtime protocol? 2. Why do residents undergo seclusions or restraints around bedtime? 3. How many seclusions or restraints are occurring around bedtime?

A Study To Determine The Effects Of An Interactive Audio/Video Classroom On Retention Test Performance, Timothy R. Barry

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The objectives of this study were established to determine: 1. If traditional lecture was replaced by a computer driven interactive AV teaching format in a technical training environment, would "retention test" scores improve? 2. Will retention test scores improve after only one week-long class using an interactive AV classroom?

Female Enrollment In Technology Education In Virginia During The 1993/1994 School Year, J. Scott Christman

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The problem of the study was to determine if a significant difference exists between male and female enrollment in the approved technology education courses offered as electives in Virginia for the 1993/1994 school year.

A Study To Determine Whether Oral Delivery Style, In Presenting Poetry To Students, Significantly Effects The Level Of Responsiveness To The Poetry, William H. Goff Ii

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Studies

Concerns about the lack of intrinsic motivation among students has been associated with behaviorism's emphasis on extrinsic rewards and with a general societal trend toward materialism. Teachers frequently comment that many students seem to have little interest in learning. This research examined one factor in student motivation, lesson delivery style.

Four 7th grade classes, two different classes from two different schools, were used, resulting in 69 subjects. Poetry was read to classes with either an aesthetic or a bland delivery style. The behavioral response of the students was noted as to whether or not they were indicative of physiological arousal. …

A Study Of Technology Teacher Education Graduate Programs And Their Philosophical Focus, Frederick Simpson Gard

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The problem of this study was to determine the philosophical focus and program emphasis of graduate programs in technology teacher education at NCATE approved institutions. The purpose of this study was: 1) To identify the philosophical focus of technology teacher education graduate programs at institutions approved by NCATE; 2) to determine the program emphasis at different institutions approved by NCATE for a graduate technology teacher education program.

A Study To Determine The Major Influences On Elite Athletes Development, Kelli James

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

To answer this problem the following objectives were established: 1. To determine the influence that the athlete's home environment had on their athletic development; 2. To determine the influence their coaches had on their athletic development; 3. To determine the influence their athletic environment had on their commitment to excel at the international level.

A Study To Assess Attitudes And Self-Efficacy Of Multi-Skilled Healthcare Employees Toward Computers, Cynthia Marie Kratzke

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The goals of this research were: 1. to determine the attitudes of the multi-skilled health care employees using computers; 2. to determine self-efficacy of the multi-skilled health care employees toward their feelings of competence in their performance of computer skills.

A Study To Determine The Relationship Between Students Who Excel In Mathematics And Students Who Excel In Technology Education, Kevin L. Pace

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

This study was used to gain information about the success of high school students in mathematics and technology. The goals established for this research are: 1. Students who excel in mathematics courses will also excel when studying technology education.

A Study To Determine Issues And Concerns Of Implementing The Tech Prep Concept Into Marketing Education Programs In Tidewater, Virginia High Schools, Colleen E. Smith

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The following objectives have been established to answer the problem: 1) identify which high schools in Tidewater, Virginia have Tech Prep marketing education programs; 2) determine reasons why high schools in Tidewater, Virginia have or have not developed Tech Prep programs; 3) determine financial resources received by Tidewater, Virginia schools to investigate the development of Tech Prep programs.

Resources For Professional/Staff Development, Dennis E. Gregory

Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Faculty Publications

Institutional staff development offerings vary greatly in content, quality, and direction. This article offers mechanisms which may be used to assist planners by showing how professional associations and CAS standards material may be used as parts of these programs. The article also describes several institutional staff development programs.

Mature Librarians And The University Faculty: Factors Contributing To Librarian's Acceptance As Colleagues, Jean A. Major

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

In an exploratory study, eighteen mature librarians who are considered colleagues of teaching faculty were interviewed to understand actual instances of acceptance within an institution. Participants demonstrated that performing the role of librarian and exploiting campus governance activities contributed significantly to collegial acceptance and were used to advantage more often than a common interest in research. The most important factor, however, was self-confidence as a librarian. Models and mentors reportedly helped subjects learn to be colleagues with other faculty; library school often did not.

An Evaluation Model For Middle School Counseling And Guidance, Ann Salisbury Harrison

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

The literature on middle school counseling and guidance indicates program evaluation is not being conducted and is resisted by counselors for many reasons. A critical problem is the lack of a widely-accepted evaluation model. This study provides an evaluation model that can be used by middle school counselors to evaluate counseling and guidance. The model furnishes meaningful and useful information to be used in planning a comprehensive and developmentally-appropriate counseling and guidance program for early adolescence. The evaluation model used the framework of Daniel Stufflebeam's CIPP Model. The study provided information on the goals of middle school counseling and guidance …

A Follow-Up Study Investigating The Relationships Between Holland's Personality Types And Selected Career Choice Variables, Kennard S. Brackney Sr.

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

This follow-up study utilized John L. Holland's theory of vocational personalities and work environments to examine the relationship between students personality types and their career choices. The study sought to determine whether data collected using Holland's Self-Directed Search (SDS) was a valid predictor of (1) career goal, (2) eventual choice of college major, (3) persistence to graduation, (4) occupation (type of job held at the time the data was collected), and (5) level of satisfaction with occupation (job) at the time data was gathered.

The stratified random sample for the study was composed of 180 subjects drawn from a population …

A Meta-Analysis Of The Relative Effectiveness Of Two Cooperative Learning Models In Increasing Mathematics Achievement, Frances Burton Spuler

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

The meta-analysis compares two popular cooperative learning models, Student-Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD) and Teams-Games-Tournaments (TGT), for their relative effectiveness in increasing mathematics achievement of K-12 students. The findings of the available research were integrated to determine both the magnitude and the direction of the effects of the cooperative learning models and effect sizes were calculated. More studies comparing the TGT cooperative learning model with a traditional learning model (81% of the studies) resulted in statistically significant higher gains in mathematics achievement than studies comparing the STAD model with a traditional learning model (51% of the studies). Other measures of relative effectiveness …

A Comparison Of The Effectiveness Of Two Types Of Clinical Instruction On Selected Variables Among Urban Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Janice Parks Hylton

Health Services Research Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to provide baseline data regarding student perceptions of bureaucratic, professional, and service values and of instructors/preceptors as role models for each model of clinical supervision, traditional versus preceptored. A non-probability, convenience sample included 113 baccalaureate nursing students from two accredited programs in an urban area. Two instruments were used to identify student perceptions of bureaucratic, professional, and service values and of instructors/preceptors as role models. The results of the questionnaires revealed no significant differences between the students' perceptions of bureaucratic and service values and perceptions of instructors/preceptors as role models, Students' perceptions of professional …

Attributions For Change In Attitude Among Urban Elementary Parochial School Teachers Toward Children Who Speak Nonstandard English, Charles A. Saglio Jr.

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

A comparatively large number of African American children fail in urban schools. Hundreds of research studies concerning interpersonal expectations suggest a link between teacher expectancies and pupil performance. Researchers have found that teachers expect less of students who speak nonstandard English. Attempts to modify teachers' culturo-linguistic attitudes and expectations have been unsuccessful. While teachers' beliefs, theories, and attitudes change over time as a function of teaching experience, the mechanisms for change are unclear.

This study has attempted to uncover events to which teachers attribute a change in their culturo-linguistic attitudes. Once causal conditions for change have been identified, then those …

The Effects Of Educational Programs About Rape On The Attitudes Of First Year Urban University Students, Mary Jodine Wolford

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

This study investigated the effects of educational programs on first-year college students' attitudes toward rape. Subjects included 132 male and female (60 and 72, respectively) first-year students in an urban university who were selected randomly for participation. Each participant was assigned randomly to one of four treatment conditions: lecture-style programs, videotape programs, role play programs, or control. Data were collected in three phases: one pretest and two posttests. Attitudes toward rape were measured using the General Attitudes Toward Rape scale. Data were analyzed using Multiple Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) and Analyses of Covariance (ANCOVA). Findings included no significant differences due …

A Study To Determine If At Risk Adults Are Adequately Trained To Perform Well And Secure A Job After Utilizing The Norfolk Skills Center Horticulture Program, Ronald A. Grainger

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The purpose of this study was to answer the following questions: 1. Did the adult get hired in horticulture? 2. Was the job an entry level position or did the adult enter at a higher level? 3. How well did the N.S.C. horticulture program equip the adult for their job? 4. What modifications should be made within the curriculum, new equipment, and/or other recommendations?

A Study Of Student Employment And Its Effect On Student Achievement, Roberta A. Rakestraw

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

This study investigated the achievement of high school students who worked part-time. The following hypotheses were investigated: 1. Students who work 15 or more hours a week have a lower-grade point average than those who do not work or who work fewer than 15 hours a week; 2. The absenteeism rate is higher for students who work 15 or more hours a week than those students who do not work or who work fewer than 15 hours a week; 3. The tardiness rate is higher for students who work 15 or more hours a week than those students who do …

A Survey Of High School Seniors' Career Choices: Implications For Allied Health, Shelley C. Mishoe, Kim L. Valeri, Laura H. Beveridge

Community & Environmental Health Faculty Publications

This paper describes a research study conducted using a survey instrument to determine what factors influence high school seniors when making decisions related to future careers and college education. Students were asked to indicate what careers they intended to pursue, what people and factors influenced their careers choices, and their familiarity with and impressions of the allied health professions. The majority indicated that personal satisfaction, employment opportunities, and income were the most important factors influencing their career choices. Although 76.5% of the respondents had a favorable impression of allied health, only 15% indicated that they were very familiar with the …

The Revolutions In Knowledge And Literary Theory: Their Impact On English Classrooms, Nancy Topping Bazin

English Faculty Publications

Since teachers, scholars, and scientists began in recent decades to study people who were previously marginalized or totally ignored, revolutions have occurred in knowledge and in literary theories and criticism. An increasing number of literature teachers acknowledge that they cannot ignore these significant changes. Indeed, they recognize that because of multicultural and global awareness, new questions are constantly being asked, new kinds of research are being done, and new approaches are being t:iken to subject matter.

The Effect Of Noncognitive Variables On The Prediction Of Academic Difficulty And Attrition Of Freshman Student-Athletes, Bruce W. Cunningham

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

This study identified a set of noncognitive variables, indicators of attitudes, habits, and beliefs as they relate to an individual's educational pursuits, in the form of Probation and Attrition Scores, to be used as alternatives to the exclusive use of cognitive variables to identify freshman student-athletes who are at risk of academic difficulty or attrition. Data were collected at an urban, public university of approximately 17,000 students using the University's Freshman Survey, an instrument that combines a number of scales designed to measure specific sets of noncognitive indicators.

Noncognitive survey data, as well as demographic information and cognitive admissions data, …

A Comparison Of Minority And Non-Minority Engineering Students On Selected Personality And Program Variables, Thomas Mercer Collier Jr.

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there are common characteristics associated with 226 Hispanic, African American, and White engineering students who persist at predominantly White colleges and universities. A personality profile of minority and non-minority engineering students was developed. Information regarding factors influencing choice of major, university, study, work and extracurricular involvement, possible reasons for withdrawal from college, awareness and satisfaction with student support services and selected academic courses was also compiled. Components of Minority Engineering Programs (MEPs) which are most used or valued by minority engineering students were identified.

Analysis of Variance identified four of the …

A Study To Determine The Inservice Training Needs Of Red Cross Emergency Services After Hours Duty Workers, Sharon Wingate

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The research goals of this study were to determine: 1. What are the most requested emergency needs? 2. What are the problems duty workers encounter in addressing these needs? 3. What are the recommended in service training topics for after hours duty workers?

A Study Of Educational Resources Available To Older Adults In Norfolk, Virginia, Dolores E. Mcfarland

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The following questions were used to identify and describe educational resources available to adults fifty years and over: 1. What educational institutions and organizations in Norfolk provide learning activities and services to adults fifty years and over? 2. What types of educational activities are provided by each? 3. What other educational supportive services are provided by those groups?

A Study To Determine The Correlation Between School Attendance And The Passing Rate On The Virginia Literacy Passport Test At Rosemont Middle School 1990-1992, Victoria R. Porter

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

Examination of the following questions established a relationship between school attendance and the passing rater of the test: 1. Did students with high attendance records earn higher test scores? 2. Did students with low school attendance records earn lower test scores? 3. Is there a relationship between Literacy Passport Test Scores and school attendance?

A Study To Determine The Correlation Between The Virginia Common Core Of Learning And The Secretary's Commission On Achieving Necessary Skills Reports To The Marketing Education Curriculum, Lalita Brinkley Samrai

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The problem of this study was to determine the correlation between the Virginia Common Core of Learning and the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills Reports to the marketing education curriculum in Newport News. The research goals of the study were 1) to determine how Marketing Education Curriculum compares to the outcomes identified in the Virginia Common Core of Learning; 2) to determine how the Marketing Education Curriculum compares with the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills Report; and 3) to develop a plan to improve the Marketing Curriculum to meet the demands of society.

A Study Of The Relative Effectiveness Of Alternative Instructional Delivery Schedules For Adult Achievement, Wendy A. Gee

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

The purpose of this study was to investigate what effect altering the instructional delivery schedule would have on student achievement and knowledge retention. The independent variable was the training week schedule which was comprised of two treatment conditions. The first level consisted of the conventional five-day training week and the second level was the compressed four-day training week. The dependent variables of the study were student achievement and student descriptive/demographic collateral data.

A quasi-experimental study was employed to compare the two delivery schedules. Two treatment groups were established. Both groups received instruction from the same instructors. Student subjects (N = …

A Study To Determine The Impact Of Instructional Technology On Hampton Roads Area Teachers In The Development Of Classroom Instruction, George M. Everett Jr.

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

This study sought to answer the following questions: 1. Do teachers currently use instructional technology in the classroom? 2. Doe teachers consider using available instructional technology during course and lesson planning? 3. Do teachers feel confident enough to use instructional technology in the classroom?