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Block Scheduling Versus Traditional Scheduling And Its Effects On Student Sat Scores, Amanda Crites

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The problem of this study was to determine if there was a difference in SAT scores at Bethel High School since it moved from a traditional schedule to an A/B block schedule. The hypothesis is that there is no correlation.

A Study To Determine The Supply And Demand Of Marketing Education Teachers Within The Next Five School Years In The Tidewater, Virginia Area, Christin Leigh Gilbert

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The following goals were established to find a solution to this problem: 1. Determine the number of graduates in this field that will be seeking employment; 2. Determine the number of positions to be filled due to the number of persons retiring from Marketing Education teaching positions; 3. Determine the number of positions to be filled due to career changes of Marketing Education teachers; 4. Determine the growth of local school district Marketing Education programs; 5. Determine the future needs for Marketing Education teachers.

A Survey Of The Student Attitudes Toward Woodworking Technology At F. E. Kellam High School, Michael R. Vanture

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The problems of this study was to determine the reason or reasons behind the selection of woods technology by those students who were fulfilling an elective course credit at Kellam High School. Among those ideas that were being examined were 1) the student's attraction to the material and the product that results from the material; 2) other influences such as parents, peers, and school counselors; 3) to what degree does occupational or vocational intent interest the student.

A Study To Determine The Feasibility Of A Joint Military Family Assistance Program In The Hampton Roads Area, Janice G. Poole

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The following questions were addressed: 1. What, if any, are the commonalities in the family programs between the service branches? 2. What is the primary focus of each system? 3. What is the background and purpose of each of the organizations? 4. What are the major components of each services family programs? 5. Is there currently any cooperation between the different branches?

A Study To Determine International Technology Education Association Teacher Of The Year Recipient Attitudes Toward Program Change In Technology Education, Kevin Wayne Wong

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The following goals were used to direct this study: 1. Determine the technology education program classification of teachers of the year when they were selected for the honor; 2. Determine if programmatic changes have been made by teachers since being selected teacher of the year; 3. Determine the state of technology education programs as taught by ITEA teacher of the year recipients.

A Study To Determine The Attitudes Of Students Involved In A Junior Achievement Project Business Program, Jennifer K. Mcewen

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The objectives of this research were: 1. To identify the positive/negative attributes of volunteers; 2. To determine if the type of role model makes a difference in the classroom; 3. To determine if we need additional minority role models in Project Business classroom.

A Study To Determine The Effectiveness Of Self-Paced Learning Activity Packaged Compared With Various Teacher Directed Instructional Classroom Techniques On Fundamentals Of Marketing Students At Lakeland High School, Edward L. Sawyer

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The hypothesis of this study was: 1) there would be no significant difference in the learning outcomes of the students who were exposed to various teaching techniques and those who were exposed to only using IDECC learning activity packages.

A Study To Determine The Development Of Organizational Commitment In Restaurant Training Practices, Stephanie Kamp-Carcano

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

By completion of this study, the following goals will have been answered: 1. The methods and procedures used by Virginia Beach restaurants in the training of wait staff will be identified; 2. the existence of restaurant objectives in training programs will be identified; 3. the attitudes of managers toward the effectiveness of training programs will be documented; 4. the organizational commitment of waitpersons in Virginia Beach will be measured.

History And Analysis Of Food Guides In The United States, Barbara B. Carlson

Health Services Research Dissertations

This work elucidates the development of nutrient-based dietary standards in the United States from the original energy and protein-based standards proposed by Atwater in 1894 to the micronutrient-based Recommended Dietary Allowances revised by the National Research Council in 1989. This qualitative historical research chronicles the development and subsequent revisions of nutrient-based food guides and food guidance models issued in the United States between 1916 and 1991. A literature search of historical food guides, research, and review papers from the fields of nutrition science and education, dietetics, and health science provided primary sources of information for the history. A literature search …

The Ability Of The Special Needs Child In Comparison To The Average Child In A Beginning Computerized Keyboarding Class, Deborah K. Marshall

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The problem of this study was to determine how the ability of the special needs child, when mainstreamed into a Beginning Computerized Keyboarding course, compared to that of the average child. The hypothesis was that there was no significant difference in the learning of special needs students and academically average students when taught Beginning Computerized Keyboarding.

A Study Comparing Basic Skills Of Computer Assisted Drafting Students To Traditional Drafting Students, Mark D. Pavlak

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The problem will be addressed through the following hypotheses: 1. There is a significant difference in the performance of students enrolled in basic drafting who are taught CAD drafting instruction compared to those taught traditional drafting instruction in the quality of drawing; 2. There will be a significant difference in the technical proficiency of the CAD group compared to the technical proficiency of the traditional group.

The Effects Of An Inservice Training Program For Cooperating Teachers On The Supervision Of Student Teachers In An Urban School System, Cheryl S. Baker

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

The primary task of this research was to develop, implement, and evaluate an inservice training program designed to provide cooperating teachers with supervisory skills. The research design employed to evaluate this study utilized both quantitative and qualitative methods and procedures. Quantitative methods included a quasi-experimental design with the inservice training program as the independent variable and the posttest measure of cooperating teacher effectiveness as the dependent variable. Participants in the investigation were 42 student teacher triads--student teachers from two large urban universities, their cooperating teachers in schools providing placements for the student teaching experience and their university supervisors. The 21 …

The "Virginian-Pilot" Newspaper's Role In Moderating Norfolk, Virginia's 1958 School Desegregation Crisis, Alexander Stewart Leidholdt

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

This dissertation explores the critical role played by the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot newspaper's editor, Lenoir Chambers, in moderating public opinion during Norfolk, Virginia's, 1958/1959 public-school closing.

In 1958 the nation's attention was focused on Norfolk. In an attempt to stymy judicially mandated integration, Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., supported by the powerful political organization of United States senator Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., ordered the city to close its public schools.

Norfolk was a major urban area. Over ten thousand students were displaced by the state action; and four months after the closing, three thousand students were still receiving no education. …

Identification Of The Potential High School Dropout, Alan L. Vaughan

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

This research was conducted to determine a methodology for the early identification of potential dropouts in the Chesapeake Public School System. A review of research literature determined that many discriminating characteristics had been identified as influential in a student's decision to drop out or stay in school. This study sought to be useful in a practical school setting. Therefore, the study limited its scope to those discriminating characteristics available in student records and thus readily accessible to school personnel. The predictor variables listed below are well documented in the research as discriminating characteristics relating to a student dropping out of …

Compressed Digital Video Instructional Delivery: A Study Of Student Achievement, Student Attitude, And Instructor Attitude, Eddyth Niceler Worley

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

The purpose of this study was to investigate compressed digital video as an instructional delivery system for distance learning. The independent variable was delivery mode. Two levels of this variable were considered. Level 1 was one-way video/two-way audio. Level 2 was two-way video/two-way audio. Student achievement, student attitude, and instructor attitude were measured as dependent variables.

A quasi-experimental study comparing the two delivery modes was conducted. Two treatment groups were established. Both groups received instruction simultaneously from the same instructors. Instructors used both treatment modes (delivery systems) during instruction.

Instructor and student subjects were naval, civilian and military personnel involved …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 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 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 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.

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 …

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 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.