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The Effects Of The Cisi Process User Handbook On High School Students' Career Maturity Inventory Scores, Linda Rygh Cagley Jan 1982

The Effects Of The Cisi Process User Handbook On High School Students' Career Maturity Inventory Scores, Linda Rygh Cagley

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The Career Information Systems of Iowa (CISI) has produced a Process User Handbook (Department of Public Instruction, 1974) to help students explore their feelings, attitudes, and habits, as well as their skills, interests, and talents to explore the world of work. After completing the exploration process, each student is given the opportunity to compare his or her abilities and preferences to the world of work and to take a self-evaluation test which aids in clarifying his or her vocational preferences. Using a Needle-Sort Delivery system, job descriptions are matched to student's preferences.


A Student Milieu Evaluation Wartburg College, 1981-82, John Douglas Kirchner Jan 1982

A Student Milieu Evaluation Wartburg College, 1981-82, John Douglas Kirchner

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Traditionally, colleges and universities have set up and changed institutional curriculum, policies, services, and physical spaces in an effort to aid in the education of their students. This educational effort unfortunately was often misguided, since it was rarely done on the basis of a systematic survey of student need. Students who did not adjust to the campus environment were either referred to a service to help them make the necessary adjustment or eased out of school.


A Comparative Study Of The Involvement Of Dropouts And Graduates In High School Activities, Randall Charles Nichols Jan 1982

A Comparative Study Of The Involvement Of Dropouts And Graduates In High School Activities, Randall Charles Nichols

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In recent years, schools have been faced with an increasingly burdensome .financial strain as prices for fuel and supplies climb, maintenance costs grow, teacher associations demand better salaries and benefits for their members, and governmental regulations multiply. These .increased costs, combined with decreasing income due to declining enrollments, have severely pinched public schools' ability to continue to provide current programs. On top of this, schools confront a depressed economy and taxpayer cries for economic accountability. Schools find themselves increasingly forced to consider the possibility of eliminating programs.


Inservice Preferences Of Local Education Association Ipd Chairpersons And High School Principals Of Northeast Iowa, Craig Alan Gingrich Jan 1982

Inservice Preferences Of Local Education Association Ipd Chairpersons And High School Principals Of Northeast Iowa, Craig Alan Gingrich

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The success of our educational system today depends upon many factors, including recruitment of quality individuals into the profession, good preservice training, and the provision of adequate funds to support research, programs, facilities, and salaries. Teacher Inservice Education (TISE) is crucial because knowledge, society, and teachers are all subject to continuous change. "Teachers can not be prepared in one, two, three, or four years (Lord James 1972, p. 107)."


Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of A Job Coordinator In Reducing Recidivism At The State Training School, Sharon L. Caldwell Jan 1982

Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of A Job Coordinator In Reducing Recidivism At The State Training School, Sharon L. Caldwell

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The State Training School in Eldora, Iowa, is where Iowa Juvenile Courts send their male adjudicated "delinquent" youths. There are five regular cottage units, a reception-diagnostic cottage unit and four specialized living units. The operating capacity is 238 and the average daily population for 1984 was 213 males between 13 and 17 years of age. There are two on-going programs for the students -- clinical and educational.


Comparative Judgments Of Secondary School Principals About Collective Bargaining As A Function Of Prior Non-Management Experience, Paul William Massman Jan 1982

Comparative Judgments Of Secondary School Principals About Collective Bargaining As A Function Of Prior Non-Management Experience, Paul William Massman

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Collective bargaining has been in Iowa for only a short time. 1 Personal involvement and curiosity about the topic provided the intrinsic motivation for this study, The author organized and led a teachers' association in the first bargaining year and served as a grievance officer for that association for three years. Based on this involvement, the researcher was interested in ascertaining how administrator opinions have been affected by previous experiences with the bargaining process. What changes in opinions have new Iowa school administrators had when they changed sides of the bargaining table?


Criteria Used In Teacher Evaluation In Selected Northeast Iowa High Schools, Meredith C. Miller Jan 1982

Criteria Used In Teacher Evaluation In Selected Northeast Iowa High Schools, Meredith C. Miller

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A primary responsibility of an administrator is to provide leadership and direction to personnel within the organization in an effort to realize maximum efficiency of operation. Not unlike the endeavors in the business world, educational administrators must accept as a primary responsibility the evaluation of personnel. As reported by Sapone, "The major purpose of an organization must be to coordinate the activities of its personnel toward greater educational efficiency and effectiveness." (34: 44) Ryans suggested that the goodness of an educational program is determined to a large extent by the teaching act. He went on to suggest that the identification …


The Relationship Between Declining Student Enrollment And School Closure Of Public School Districts In Iowa, William Patrick Sinnott Jan 1982

The Relationship Between Declining Student Enrollment And School Closure Of Public School Districts In Iowa, William Patrick Sinnott

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In today's society the educational system has been assigned a broader and more complete responsibility for the total development of its' students. It is also the responsibility of the school system to provide the most efficient, economic and quality educational program available. At present there is a controversy over how to deal most effectively with the growing problem of declining enrollment in meeting these responsibilities. The complexities of whether to close a school or not, do not appear to balance solely on the school population. School closings are more than a numbers problem, they are also people problems. The growing …


An Evaluation Of The Usage Of The Career Information System Of Iowa In Secondary Subscriber Schools As Reported By C.I.S.I. Contact Personnel, Kim Sterling Greenwood Jan 1982

An Evaluation Of The Usage Of The Career Information System Of Iowa In Secondary Subscriber Schools As Reported By C.I.S.I. Contact Personnel, Kim Sterling Greenwood

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The Career Information System of Iowa (C.I.S.I.) has been a functioning part of the Department of Public Instruction (D.P.I.) since August 1, 1974. Its primary function has been "to provide each school's staff with information and assistance in order that the challenging career education task may be accomplished." (Eilbert & Crowley, 1975, p. 1)


Nature And Effect Of Bilingual Education Programs On Second Language Acquisition, Mark David Finanger Jan 1982

Nature And Effect Of Bilingual Education Programs On Second Language Acquisition, Mark David Finanger

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Bilingual programs, a newcomer to public education, are struggling against the hardships which accompany stages of infancy. Historically, bilingualism has been attempted in American schools since the eighteenth century when early immigrants organized schools to educate their children. Even today, public school classrooms contain children from other countries speaking different languages, representing different cultures. An education which enhances this bilingual atmosphere seems appropriate to fulfill the needs of non-English-speaking children. However, bilingual education in America is being denied the attention it deserves; consequently, the bilingual education effort to implement successful programs is accompanied by numerous problems.


A Correlational Study Between Piagetian Concrete Reasoning Level And Academic Achievement, Mark Anthony Randall Jan 1982

A Correlational Study Between Piagetian Concrete Reasoning Level And Academic Achievement, Mark Anthony Randall

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Jean Piaget has been identified as one of the great contributors to knowledge in our time. Robinson (1952) lists him in his book, 100 Most Important People in the World Today. During his life he developed the learning theories of genetic epistemology that brought him recognition as the father of modern child psychology. During countless hours of observations performed by him personally, he developed clinical interviewing techniques to reveal the cognitive developmental level of a child. Similarly, all educators are concerned with cognitive development of the learner. The Piagetian clinical interviews glean information on the subject ability to process information …


A Review Of The Literature On Peer Counseling Programs, Claude Bartley Snead Iii Jan 1982

A Review Of The Literature On Peer Counseling Programs, Claude Bartley Snead Iii

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The field of counseling has rapidly expanded during the past two decades while seeking more effective and more efficient means of helping people meet individual and collective needs. Concurrently, American society has witnessed an intense increase in personal and social problems. Educational institutions have been plagued with acts of disruption and violence. The family system has been jolted by an unprecedented rise in the divorce rate which was recently projected at a ratio of one divorce for each two marriages (U. S. Dept. of Justice, 1975). The emotional well-being of the citizenry has often been questioned in light of the …


Brain Growth: Intuitive And Scientific, Karen Marie Patterson Jan 1982

Brain Growth: Intuitive And Scientific, Karen Marie Patterson

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Developmental processes of the brain have long been considered the last frontier by scientists as well as educators. There has been much speculation concerning how and when the mind grows and if intellectual growth appears at the same time the skull and brain are physiologically and neurologically growing. Prior to recent research many educators assumed that learning, or intellectual advancement, occurred in an almost continuous manner. Educators felt children built skill upon skill and constantly moved from one stage of cognitive development to the next higher level of cognitive development. Traditionally, educational systems have been based on this concept of …


Stereotypes Of The Native American In Fiction Books In Elementary School Libraries, Karma Anderson Jan 1982

Stereotypes Of The Native American In Fiction Books In Elementary School Libraries, Karma Anderson

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This study proposed to investigate the kinds of Native American materials which were found in elementary school library media centers in Iowa Education Agency Seven (AEA 7). A questionnaire was prepared with seventeen recommended titles and fifteen presently criticized titles on which media specialists in AEA 7 were to indicate availability in their media centers. The hypothesis to be tested was: Given a list of books containing both reconnnended and presently criticized titles, 75 percent of school library specialists in AEA 7 will indicate that there are more recommended titles than presently criticized titles on Native Americans in their fiction …


Man To Man: Counseling Males Through Gender-Roles Expansion, Dennis Duane Feltz Jan 1982

Man To Man: Counseling Males Through Gender-Roles Expansion, Dennis Duane Feltz

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The purpose of this paper is to first examine some specific psychological and physiological concerns of men as these concerns relate to masculine socialization in this culture. Secondly, alternative behaviors to traditional masculine socialization,. and specifically androgyny, will be delineated. Finally, the role of the helping professions in helping men resolve the issues of gender-role conflict will be explored.


A Measurement Of Improved Self-Esteem In Third Grade Students With Elementary Counselor Intervention, Ann Margaret Jamason Jan 1982

A Measurement Of Improved Self-Esteem In Third Grade Students With Elementary Counselor Intervention, Ann Margaret Jamason

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In recent years, school counselors have become an important and essential part of the educational team. As educators become more aware of the needs of individual children, educators have worked more closely with school counselors in both identifying the problems of individual children and developing programs to help individual children. At the elementary level, counselors have been working in the affective domain of children's lives to emphasize the importance of communication (Getz, Morrill, 1978). By developing skills in communication, counselors have learned the concerns that children have about themselves. Realizing that children begin to develop their self-esteem at an early …


A Comparison Of Gregg And Forkner Shorthand In The Public Schools, Randall Charles Krejci Jan 1982

A Comparison Of Gregg And Forkner Shorthand In The Public Schools, Randall Charles Krejci

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Business education was born as the result of office technology developed at the beginning of the century. It was business education that advanced typewriting beyond the hunt-and-peck level of skill. It was business education that elevated records and management from the realm of the simple alphabetic file, and it was business education that transformed shorthand from the pasttime of a few intellectuals into a key vocational skill for millions. (6:14)


A Study Of The Consequences Of High School Athletic Participation, Mark Myers Hendrickson Jan 1982

A Study Of The Consequences Of High School Athletic Participation, Mark Myers Hendrickson

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Sports participation within the total American educational system holds a unique position when compared to the rest of the world: Most countries in the world sponsor sports either completely apart from educational institutions, or else sponsor organized sports that display weak structural alignments with their school so Athletics in America are taught, sponsored, sanctioned, and administered by selected representatives of the American educational system. Sports in American culture, using school as a vehicle, continue to reach all levels of contemporary society. l Interscholastic sports competition for males has long been an integral part of contemporary American educational systems. As such, …


The Role Of The School Counselor In Helping Chronically Ill Students, Nancy Camp Warren Jan 1982

The Role Of The School Counselor In Helping Chronically Ill Students, Nancy Camp Warren

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Statistics kept since the passage of the National Cancer Act in 1971 indicate that slow but significant gains in lengthening the life span among many cancer patients have been made. The five-year survival rate for seven of the fourteen cancers in children and adolescents including all leukemias, Wilm's tumor, Hodgkin's disease, and neuroblastomas has increased dramatically. Dr. Edward Beattie Jr., Director of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York City, estimates that half of all cancer patients could now be cured, meaning to live their lives without a recurrence of their cancer, if all the available diagnostic and treatment techniques were …


Blind Clients Perceptions Of Sighted Counselor's Empathy In The Counseling Relationships, Mae Porter Jan 1982

Blind Clients Perceptions Of Sighted Counselor's Empathy In The Counseling Relationships, Mae Porter

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The research paper was designed to study the ability of sighted counselors to counsel blind clients with empathy. While blindness should not pose a difficulty, many sighted counselors do have difficulties working with blind clients. Based on the research done for the study, this problem occurs mainly because of their difficulties in distinguishing empathy from sympathy. A major problem is the counselor's understanding of his/her own feelings about the blind client. Many counselors cannot get beyond the label "blind" and view the total person, not simply the handicap.


The Motion Picture Patents Company: A Monopoly, Rhonda A. Abbott Jan 1982

The Motion Picture Patents Company: A Monopoly, Rhonda A. Abbott

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My interest in the subject of motion pictures extends far past the development and the significance of the Motion Picture Patents Company. It does so because the history and changes in the film industry appear to both directly and indirectly reflect the history of the cultural, social, and economic trends of the period.


Descriptive Study Of The Development Of A Support Group For Widowed Persons, Virginia Kay Boeckmann Jan 1982

Descriptive Study Of The Development Of A Support Group For Widowed Persons, Virginia Kay Boeckmann

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The purpose of the paper was an exploration of the premise that a need exists in Black Hawk County for a support group for widowed persons. For this purpose, widowed person can be defined as anyone, male or female, who has lost a spouse through death. Bereavement can also be defined with sufficient precision to be useful~ that is, the state of having lost a loved one through death. As a cultural norm in our society, we tend to view the death of a close family member as a loss. In this case the loss brings with it a new …


Specific Problem Behaviors Of Single-Parent Children: The Need For Teacher Inservice Programs, Emily Jane Schilke Jan 1982

Specific Problem Behaviors Of Single-Parent Children: The Need For Teacher Inservice Programs, Emily Jane Schilke

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This study proposes to determine if there is a significant difference in the behaviors of single-parent children and two-parent children in grades K-7 of a south-central Iowa school district in order to justify developing teacher inservice programs to deal with these behaviors in the classroom, School enrollment records were used to arrive at a random sample of 34 single-parent children in grades K-7 and a control group of 3} two-parent children in grades K-7, The study used the Walker Problem Behavior Identification Checklist to measure the specific behaviors of "Acting-Out," "Withdrawal," "Distractability," "Disturbed Peer Relations," "Immaturity," and the Total Raw …


Parental Perception Of Nursery School Education, Ömür Bozkurt Jan 1982

Parental Perception Of Nursery School Education, Ömür Bozkurt

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Early childhood education has been a part of man's history for many years. Psychologists have pointed out that the first four or five years of a child's life is the period of most rapid growth and greatest susceptibility to environmental influences. Early childhood educators have been equally outspoken regarding the need for early childhood programs to supplement the home experience of children between the ages of three and six years. Evidence suggests that early childhood programs have positive effects on the child (Moore, 1978). Parents enroll their children into early childhood programs for different reasons such as socialization, education or …


A School Follow-Up Questionnaire As A Measure Of Post Hospital Success In Residential Treatment Of Children, Merrill L. Carruthers Jan 1982

A School Follow-Up Questionnaire As A Measure Of Post Hospital Success In Residential Treatment Of Children, Merrill L. Carruthers

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This paper is a review of available studies and literature published over the past ten years. Its purpose is to suggest the need for elementary students, third, fourth, and fifth graders in particular, to become computer literate. It is also the intent of this paper to suggest, as an alternate to in-school computer instruction, a summer computer camp as a viable means of introducing elementary students to microcomputers, their uses, and how to program in BASIC. The literature was reviewed to find 1. a common definition for the term "computer literacy" , 2. the need for an elementary school computer …


A School Follow-Up Questionnaire As A Measure Of Post Hospital Success In Residential Treatment Of Children, John W. Carroll Jan 1982

A School Follow-Up Questionnaire As A Measure Of Post Hospital Success In Residential Treatment Of Children, John W. Carroll

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Throughout the history of education in the United States, the American Public has attempted to meet the needs of all students. This has become more evident through the most recent legislation and programming for students with special needs. The passage of Public Law 94:142 and similar state laws have directed education to meet the needs of all students. This includes students who had previously been overlooked and were not receiving the special education they needed and deserved.


An Explication Of Nine Current Central Contentions Regarding Writing Instruction, Dianne W. Hickerson Jan 1982

An Explication Of Nine Current Central Contentions Regarding Writing Instruction, Dianne W. Hickerson

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The ability to express thoughts through written symbols has traditionally been considered basic to the profile of the educated person. Written expression is valuable for communicating thoughts to others and as a means of self expression. Writing affords the opportunity to make one's best thoughts permanent.


The Changing Role Of The Black Woman In Media, Ursula J. Joyner Jan 1982

The Changing Role Of The Black Woman In Media, Ursula J. Joyner

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My topic for my research paper is "The Changing Role of the Black Woman in Media." My information will come from various sources including books, magazines, and informal conversations with Black women in media. Because information on Black women in media is scarce I will explore print journalism, including newspapers and magazines and broadcast journalism, encompassing radio and television.


A Study Of The Teaching Of Literature And The Place Of The Literature Of Iowa In The Secondary English Curriculum, Carol B. Mcmullen Jan 1982

A Study Of The Teaching Of Literature And The Place Of The Literature Of Iowa In The Secondary English Curriculum, Carol B. Mcmullen

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To a teacher of English in an Iowa high school, it is amazing to find the literature of Iowa is not included in the English curriculum. Anthologies may include a short story by Hamlin Garland or one by Ruth Suckow, but often students are unaware these are Iowa authors. Even the history of Iowa is mandated in the Iowa curriculum. The omission of Iowa literature is disturbing, especially when a wide variety of other literary works are used.


The Relationship Between Less Able Readers' Inferential Comprehension As Opposed To Their Literal And Applied Comprehension, Stephanie Rae Stone Jan 1982

The Relationship Between Less Able Readers' Inferential Comprehension As Opposed To Their Literal And Applied Comprehension, Stephanie Rae Stone

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The ability to derive meaning from what is read is considered by most theorists in the field of reading education to be the optimum outcome of reading (Golinkoff, 1976; Goodman, 1972). The comprehension process enables the reader to apply his/her decoding skills to print and gain an understanding of the author's message (Golinkoff, 1976). This statement in and of itself is not accepted by all reading theorists as representative of what the reading process really entails (Bannatyne, 1973; Flesch, 1955). Beyond this initial controversy concerning the nature of reading, there is also the debate over just what exactly is involved …