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A Follow-Up Of Distributive Education Graduates At Old Dominion University 1969-1984, Debra Carroll Rollins

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

Through the follow-up study, data will be compiled toward answering the following questions: 1. To identify the current employment status of the Distributive Education graduate; 2. To determine the number and percentage of graduates in the teaching field; 3. To determine the number and percentage of graduates in the business and retailing fields; 4. To compute the average salaries of the graduates.

A Study To Identify The Communication Technology Competencies Needed By Secondary Level Industrial Arts Students For A Successful Life In Today's Technological Society, Dallas Evans O'Neal Jr.

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

This study has been undertaken to achieve the following goals: 1. Identify content appropriate for secondary education industrial arts communication programs; 2. Structure this content into competencies for program planning; 3. Identify basic technical jobs and job skills required in communication companies.

A Study To Determine If Economically Disadvantaged Adults Improved Their Reading And Math Scores After Utilizing Plato, Robert Allan Teravainen

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The purpose of this study was to ascertain the following questions: 1. Did the clients of the Learning center increase their scores in reading and math after completion of the PLATO program? 2. What percentage of students who completed the PLATO program were placed into either employment training program or directly into employment? 3. What percentage of students dropped out of the program after their start with the PLATO system? 4. Were the grade equivalencies (4.0 to 5.9) too narrow to allow maximum participation in the PLATO program by the clients of JTPA?

Resources/Services Available To The Handicapped Of Southside Tidewater Virginia, Joann S. Ervin

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

Two research objectives were set up for this study. These included: 1. Accumulate and analyze data on the services and resources available to the handicapped in the Southside Tidewater area; 2. Develop a method or media for information dissemination to those who work with the targeted population.

A Study To Determine The Effectiveness Of The Gregg Series Seven Method Of Teaching Typewriting I, Sharon S. Oast

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

Through the analysis of the data collected from tests given to four classes of Typewriting I classes, the following hypotheses were considered: 1. Students taught to type of Gregg's Series Seven method will reach higher levels of speed with greater accuracy on straight-coy material than students taught by non-directed means; 2. Students taught using the simultaneous approach of teaching skill-building, production, and language arts skills employed by the Gregg Series Seven method will complete a greater number of problems with greater accuracy in timed production work than students not receiving the simultaneous instruction.

A Study To Identify Graduated Advanced Marketing Students From Kempsville High School Who Have Pursued A Career In Entrepreneurship, Vernon W. King Jr.

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The research goals for this study were: 1. Accumulate and analyze data on the graduated advanced marketing student who has pursued a career in entrepreneurship; 2. Determine if there is a relationship between the curriculum taught in the advanced marketing classroom and the number of graduated students currently employed in an entrepreneurship field.

An Evaluation Of The Competency-Based Industrial Arts Workshops Sponsored By Old Dominion University Conducted Under Vocational Education Amendments Of 1976 Public Law 94-482 From The Virginia Department Of Education, Cuthrell Brockington

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

Research goals of this study were: 1. To evaluate the effectiveness of the competency-based industrial arts workshops as viewed by the participants; 2. To assess competency-based industrial arts workshop participant attitudes; 3. To restructure workshop course if necessary.

A Survey Of Burnout Among Dental Hygiene Educators, Sandra Boggs Ricks

Dental Hygiene Theses & Dissertations

A survey was conducted on 159 full-time dental hygiene educators in order to collect data on job satisfaction, morale, and perceived institutional/program effectiveness. Educators were chosen for the study by cluster sampling from two- and four-year accredited dental hygiene programs in the United States. The programs were selected at random from stratified groups according to type of institutional setting. Participants were asked to complete a questionnaire which contained four major sections: demographic data, job satisfaction, institutional/program effectiveness, and feelings related to their position. Findings were analyzed utilizing contingency tables and Chi-Square analysis. No attempt was made to establish a cause …

A Comparison Of Parenting Profiles Of Adolescent Mothers, Willar F. White-Parson

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

Statement of Problem. How do parenting profiles of adolescent mothers who attended an alternative school for pregnant students compare with adolescent mothers who did not attend this school?

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to compare the parenting perceptions of adolescent mothers who attended an alternative school for pregnant students and adolescent mothers who did not attend this school.

Procedure and Methods. The sample for this quasi-experimental study consisted of twenty volunteers who were enrolled in an alternative school and twenty volunteers who were admitted to a general hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. The school samples was the experimental group …

Factors Influencing College Choice Of Minority Students And Their Implications For Recruitment, Linda Blount Mccluney

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

This study was designed to determine factors of college choice and to evaluate their implications for the development of recruiting guidelines for minority students. The intent was to survey two hundred freshmen of two urban universities to determine which factors were influential in their college choice process and to design recruiting guidelines. The use of these guidelines may provide the impetus to direct more blacks to predominantly white urban universities and more whites to predominantly black universities.

The criterion group approach allowed for the two groups (black students attending a predominantly white university versus black students attending a predominantly black …

The Educated Worker: A Case Study Of Educational Needs And Program Of Developmental Reading, Margaret Barnes Carter

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

In today's developed societies, there is a need for workers to possess educational skills commensurate with the positions which they hold. It appears that a significant group of workers do not have sufficient educational skills.

Today's business, industrial and governmental organizations need to become aware of the educational requirements for the various positions within their organization and to be aware of the educational level which their employees actually have attained. A problem arises if there is a gap between need and actual performance. Human resource development, HRD, is one method of remediating any discrepancies found between employee educational needs and …

Admissions Criteria As Predictors Of Students' Successful Completion Of A Dental Hygiene Program, M. Linda Brown

Dental Hygiene Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate the criteria used to select dental hygiene students and to determine the ability of these criteria to predict students' successful completion of a dental hygiene program. One hundred sixteen graduates of the certificate level dental hygiene program at Old Dominion University between 1971- 1981, inclusive, comprised the sample. The majority of the subjects were Caucasian females, ages 20 to 24. The admissions criteria examined were (1) Dental Hygiene Aptitude Test scores, (2) Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, (3) preadmission quality point average, (4) college chemistry quality point average, and (S) percentile rank in …

Research To Develop A Consensus Self-Evaluation Model Of National Norms Of Excellence For Alternating Cooperative Education Programs At Four-Year Colleges And Universities, Constance F. Brothers

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

The research described in this dissertation was conducted in response to an expressed need for the development of national norms of excellence for cooperative education programs in the United States in 1980. In academic year 1981-1982 a Delphi technique was used with 12 cooperative education experts, who identified 155 cooperative education program norms of excellence specifically for four-year alternating cooperative education programs.

In academic year 1982-1983, the 155 norms identified were transposed into a 90-item self-evaluation questionnaire which was field tested and sampled at 14 colleges and universities with alternating cooperative education programs in the United States. Of 900 college …

The Impact Of Ceta Activities On Selected Hampton Roads Manpower Programs: Cost-Benefit Analysis And Utilization-Focused Evaluation, Raymond A. Gromelski

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

The study examined the effects of Classroom Training, On-the-Job Training, Work Experience, and JobShop programs of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) on the job opportunities, amount of government transfer payments, and criminal activities of the 1982 terminees. The purposes of the program were to determine (1) program cost-effectiveness; (2) which program components operate at higher levels of efficiency; and (3) which selected client characteristics influenced program results.

The evaluation described program success in terms of increased job opportunities and reductions in government transfer payments for CETA participants in the Hampton/Newport News area. Comparisons were made of the employment …

A Follow-Up Of Job-Entry Training Completors At Madison Secondary School 1978-84, Holly B. Evans

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The research objectives for this study were: 1. To determine Job-entry training completors' status, i.e., employment and/or continued education; 2. To evaluate the attainment of specific program goals; 3. To make recommendations for program/curriculum change.

A Survey Of The Teachers' Attitudes Towards Special Needs In Industrial Arts At The Intermediate Level, Elliott Riddick

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

Research questions for this study were: 1. What is the teacher's major concerns in working with special needs students in industrial arts programs? 2. What is the percentage of teachers modifying their schedule for special needs? 3. What is the percentage of teachers sharing the responsibilities of teaching the student of special need?

A Study To Determine The Effectiveness Of The Vocational Resource Program In Newport News Public Schools, Newport News, Virginia, Maury Eugene Middleton

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The objectives of this research were: 1. To determine to what extent the services were being used and if they were not, why; 2. To determine the usefulness of the services provided by the Vocational Resource Program; 3. To determine the desired needs of the teachers that were covered by the Vocational Resource Program; 4. To determine the effectiveness of the vocational aides.

Assessment Criteria For Special Education Students In Vocational Education, Joyce A. Francis

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The basic research questions of this study are as follows: 1. What are the exit competencies for a given learning disabled according to the student's career/vocational goals and/or needs? 2. Is it possible for a special education student to be placed in a vocational learning environment with their peers that are "normal" (mainstreaming)? 3. Can a special education student be productive during this period of mainstreaming?

A Study Of The Attitudes And Beliefs Of Tidewater Area Businesses Regarding The Employment Of The Trainable Mentally Retarded, Fred Hadley

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The research goals of this study were: 1. Accumulate and analyze data on the attitudes currently held by both prospective and actual employers regarding the employment of mentally retarded persons; 2. Demonstrate a relationship between the attitudes of employers who had actually hired mentally retarded persons and those who had not.

An Analysis Of Attitudes Toward Morals In Education, Richard W. Aadahl

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The basic purpose of this study was to determine whether or not morals education was important to the individuals surveyed and if it was found to be negligible or totally lacking at he various levels would the inclusion of morals education make a "noticeable" difference in the individuals.

A Study Of Future Business Leaders Of America And Future Homemakers Of America/Home Economics Related Occupations Organizations In Essex County, Gloucester County, King And Queen County, Middlesex County And The Town Of West Point, Phyllis B. Carver, Kathy N. Rodgers

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The basic questions of the study are: 1. Can vocational student organizations positively effect students' employability? 2. Does training provided by vocational student organizations aid in developing leadership skills? 3. In what ways can a vocational student organization positively effect community involvement by its members?

Determining The Validity Of The Auto Mechanics I Curriculum And Student Competencies At Virginia Peninsula Vo-Tech (South Campus), Bruce M. Godwin

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The objectives of this study were as follows: 1. Craft committees, consisting of members of the business community, were used to review the curriculum and offer ideas that would help update the curriculum; 2. An employer follow-up was developed to survey the abilities of automotive graduates working in the community and determine the effectiveness of their educational experience at Vo-Tech; 3. By talking to area employees and industry representatives, we were able to determine those work traits most necessary for successful employment.

An Analysis Of The Reasons And Influences Causing Students To Enroll In Industrial Arts Education Programs At Virginia Universities, Robert Beauter

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The problem of this study was to conduct a survey of industrial arts education majors at Virginia universities to identify and analyze their reasons for enrolling in a university industrial arts education program and who had the most influence on their decision. This data would be used as an aid in recruiting students for the Industrial Arts Education Program at Old Dominion University.

A Study Of The Robustness Of The Three-Parameter Item Response Model, James B. Flynn

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

Simulation techniques were employed to investigate the use of the three-parameter item response model on psychological test data which violated the model's assumptions of large sample sizes, long tests and test unidimensionality. The accuracy of the person ability and item characteristic curve parameter estimates derived by the three-parameter item response model was evaluated. Data sets and distributions of person ability and item characteristic curve parameters were generated using a computer-based algorithm, AVRAM (Ree, 1980), which employs the three-parameter logistic probability equation described by Birnbaum (1968). A computer software package, LOGIST5 (Wingersky, Burton & Lord, 1982), which utilizes the three-parameter logistic …

A Comparative Study Between A Readiness Measure And An Achievement Test As Measured By The Metropolitan Readiness Test And The Science Research Associates Achievement Series, Linda L. Ditchburn

Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Theses & Dissertations

The objective of this research was to complete an experimental study which would investigate the nature of the relationship between readiness and achievement. Data collection included two components: scores from the Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT), administered at the kindergarten level; and scores from the Science Research Associates (SRA) Achievement Series, administered to the same 284 subjects at the fourth grade level. Correlation coefficients between these two tests were determined for all subtests, total tests, composites, and the Educational Ability Series. Since correlation coefficients between the MRT and the SRA evidenced significantly positive relation­ ships, the implication is clear that performance …

A Comparative Study Of Teacher Burnout In Regular And Special Elementary And Secondary Teachers, Carolyn Yvonne Wells Simmons

Communication Disorders & Special Education Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent, if any, does stress resulting in burnout differ among regular and special educators. Three hundred regular and special education teachers in the public school systems of Chesapeake and Portsmouth, Virginia participated in the study, The regular teachers represented a range of educational levels from kindergarten to twelfth grade, The special education teachers represented a range of educational levels from pre-school to the senior high level and from self-contained classes to resource rooms. A 2x2 analysis of variance was used to analyze the data. Rank ordering of the mean scores …

A Study Of The Effectiveness Of Selected Aspects Of The Developmental Education Program At An Urban Multicampus Community College, Michael Anthony Barton

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of developmental/remedial education at an urban multi-campus community college. The study sought (1) to identify the number and demographic characteristics of students served by developmental studies, (2) to determine the academic achievement and persistence of these students, and (3) to assess the performance of developmental English students in regular college English.

Data were obtained for a two year period on all new students who enrolled in the fall of 1980. The study employed two approaches: (1) a descriptive analysis of the variables of age, sex, race, enrollment status and day/night …

A Survey Of Scholastic Aptitude Test Scores Among Black Students Before Integration And 12 Years After In Gloucester County, James Newton

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The research goals for this study are: 1. To determine the reason for the low SAT scores among black students; 2. To determine if integration helped to raise the SAT of if they remained the same.

A Study To Show The Correlation Between Students' S.R.A. Math Scores And Their Ability To Accurately Employ A Measuring Scale And Math Functions On Practical Problems, Louis Temple

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The basic questions under study in this thesis are: 1. Can students who have mastered mathematical theories and concepts apply this knowledge in practical situations? 2. Is the use of a measuring instrument such as standard 12 inch ruler subdivided into inches and 1/16 inch increments a more difficult operation than has previously been supposed? 3. Does mastery of mathematical concepts ensure measurement skills?

An Analysis Of The Attitudes Of Area Secondary Business Teachers And Guidance Counselors Toward The Secretarial Programs At Paul D. Camp Community College, Carolyn Wall Crowder

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

This study sought to answer the following questions: 1. How do area high school business teachers and guidance counselors perceive the Secretarial Science programs and course offerings at Paul D. Camp Community College? 2. How can the relationship of high school personnel and the Secretarial Science faculty at Paul D. Camp Community College be strengthened? 3. How can the transition of high school graduates to the community college Secretarial Science programs be made more efficient? 4. What programs, activities, etc. would be of interest and value to the secondary teachers?