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Teacher Employment Follow-Up Survey Of The 1976-1977 Graduates At Western Michigan University, Ricardo T. Santuyo

Dissertations

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A Pilot Training Program For Improving Resident Physicians' Teaching Skills, Barbara K. Lawson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to design, implement, and evaluate a pilot training program on teaching skills and determine if such a program could significantly improve the teaching behavior of resident physicians in the East Tennessee State University College of Medicine. (Abstract shortened.)

The Effect Of A Planned Parent Education Program Upon The Young Child's Cognitive And Affective Development And The Prime Caregiver's Assessment Of Child Behavior, Jean T. Scogin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The problem was to determine the extent a selected parent education program influenced the oognitive and affective development of educationally deprived Appalachian pre-school children and to determine to what extent the program influenced the prime caregivers' assessment of the child's behavior. Subjects included 40 Appalachian prime caregivers and their children who participated in four intact home-based classes. They were randomly assigned to treatment by the teacher, in order to equate the home visitor case load. In the Experimental Group, prime caregivers were provided with resources developed from the Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP) program. Control Group prime caregivers participated …

Selected Language Tests And Reading Ability, Dale Leavesley Melada

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

he ability to communicate effectively in oral language precedes the ability to create and interpret language in its written form. Some research studies have shown that reading is a language based activity, but the problem is that little has been done with the knowledge of language and language competencies children bring to school, especially those children who read early or before they come to school. Insights into the ways in which children use language at various stages of their development would greatly assist teachers and parents in fostering both oral language compe­tence and the ability to read and write.

The …

Qualifications Needed By Teachers Of English: Ratings By English Curriculum Coordinators And English Educators, Eugenia Porretta Miller

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

A new climate of teaching has been established in which English teachers must be able to demonstrate those teacher behaviors, charac­teristics and qualifications that foster high quality instruction in the classroom.

The 1976 National Council of Teachers of English's (NCTE) Committee on Teacher Preparation and Certification published a statement on "Qualifications Needed by Teachers of English." These qualifications, based on an earlier set of Guidelines in 1967, suggested desirable competencies for teachers of English. The latest qualifications prepared by the NCTE Committee on Teacher Preparation and Certification represented progress from the generalities of previous efforts to a set of specific …

Effects Of Diad Arrangement & Use Of Audio-Visual Materials On The Achievement Of Freshmen In Quantitative Physical Science Classes, Jim Duke

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purposes of this study were to compare the mean achievement of students in a Quantitative Physical Science class in which the members were allowed to select their own partners with students in a Quantitative Physical Science class in which partners were assigned on the basis of high-low test scores and to compare mean achievement of students in a Quantitative Physical Science class that used audio-visual material with the mean achievement of students in a Quantitative Physical Science class that used no audio-visual material.

The population consisted of sixty-eight ninth grade boys and girls enrolled in Quantitative Physical Science classes …

The Content Of Consumer Education Teacher Preparation As Reported By Business Education And Home Economics Professors In Michigan, Michael Thomas Glenn

Dissertations

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The Antecedents And Consequences Of Organizational Crisis In A Voluntary Professional Organization, James Paul Miller

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

This study investigated two instances of organizational crisis occurring within a voluntary professional organization. The central research task was twofold: (1) to reconstruct accurately the historical events which preceded and followed two unsuccessful strike bids by a voluntary teachers' organization; and, (2) to develop a theoretical explanation which would account for the antecedents and consequences of the crises which inevitably surfaced after the strike bid defeat. Con­cepts drawn primarily from the organizational crisis and conflict literature provided the general conceptual orientation.

A large urban teachers' organization in the Southwestern United States was chosen as the research site. Due to the …

Head Start Four And Five Year Old Children’S Attitudes Toward School As They Are Related To Achievement, Eugene Smith

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study was to determine if there existed significant relationships between 4 and 5 year old children’s attitude toward school, their classroom teacher’s perception of their attitude toward school, length of time in school, sex, or a composite of these with their achievement on the Pre-School Attainment Record. A random sample of 55 Head Start children completed three instruments. The instruments used in this study were a revised Children’s Attitude Toward School Scale (CATSS-R), (Beere, 1970) The Pre-School Attainment Record (PAR), (Doll, 1966) and the Teachers Rating of Attitude of Children Toward School (TRACTS). The results of …

Continuing-Education Needs Of Municipal And County Recreation And Parks Professionals: Recommendations For Program Development, Jack Richard O'Neil

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this investigation was to identify and analyze the characteristics, functions performed, self-perceived continuing-education needs, and educational delivery systems preferred by a randomly selected sample of full-time municipal and country recreation and park professionals located in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. A secondary purpose was to utilize the findings and make recommendations for continuing-education delivery systems.

Making Curriculum Decisions And The Nature Of Mathematics, Paul Zwier

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1979

This paper explores the pedagogical decisions made by those teaching mathematics by discussing the various values and priorities of a mathematics course.

Mathematics In The Christian Philosophy Of Life, C. Ralph Verno

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1979

It is universally agreed that mathematics is important, that it is indeed very significant in life. This would be admitted even by those who are ignorant of or who dislike mathematics. There would be much less agreement, however, about why mathematics is important or significant. Such disagreement exists even more among mathematicians and mathematics educators. Unhappily many of the Christians who think about such things (and there are not very many who think about them at all) basically share the utilitarian view of many non-Christian thinkers, although endeavoring to place it within a Christian context. They think it is wonderful …

Brief Position Paper For Panel Discussion On Relation Of Mathematics And Christianity, C. Ralph Verno

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1979

Some people view a conjoining of Christianity and Mathematics as improper. They miss the point of the relationship. The content of mathematics is not affected by Christianity. The relationship does not concern what, or how (the Christian doesn’t solve equations or differentiate differently), but it concerns why. It concerns such things as the interpretation and appreciation of the beauty, the symmetries, the coincidences, the remarkable properties, man’s creative role, etc. This paper explores the relationship between Christianity and mathematics as part of a panel discussion on the topic.

On Kuyk’S Complementarity In Mathematics, Gene B. Chase

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1979

This paper examines Willem Kuyk’s book, Complementarity in Mathematics, and the interplay between the subjects of mathematics.

Are Mathematical Objects Ontologically Real? Ideas And Suggestions, Frank R. Bernhart

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1979

This essay will consider a few ways that realism in the modern philosophy of mathematics might be understood and defined.

An Analysis Of Population Changes In Eastern Kentucky 1970-2000, Gary C. Cox

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

Accurate population projections are essential for anyone engaged in long-range planning. Predicting future population trends any considerable distance into the future, however, is a notoriously risky undertaking. So many human variables are involved that all too frequently such projections make a mockery of the demographer's best efforts. Regardless of how sophisticated are the statistical models used, long-range population forcasting is statistical guessing with a fairly wide margin of error. Eastern Kentucky and Central Appalachia, in general, present an especially formidable challenge. Since the beginning of the 20th Century the economy of the region has been tied to one product, coal, …

Intuitionism, Terence H. Perciante

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1979

Intuitionism derives philosophically from Kant's Conceptualism -- the object of the mathematical knowledge only have reality within the mind, they do not have reality apart from our thinking. This paper examines the nature of intuitionism and its strengths.

Non-Standard Calculus, Ron Friewald

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1979

This paper is intended to provide a very cursory introduction to how “nonstandard calculus” works, giving a sketch of how elementary calculus can be presented using hyperreal numbers.

Axiomatic Structure And The Method Of Analysis: Shifting Styles In The History Of Mathematics, Calvin Jongsma

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1979

This article surveys the different views of mathematical methodology that occurred from ancient Greek times through the early modern period up until its codification around 1900. After summarizing the axiomatic approach advocated by Aristotle and implemented in mathematics by Euclid, the talk explores the character of analysis in ancient Greek times, its development into a symbolic algebra by Viete and Descartes, and its expansion into a calculus of fluxions and differentials by Newton and Leibniz. The article concludes by touching on the recovery and transformation of the deductive ideal for mathematics by Pasch, Peano, and Hilbert during the late nineteenth …

Two Philosophical Problems About Mathematics, Stephen Barker

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1979

Mathematics is a flourishing field of human endeavor, a field that is accorded great respect and high standing. For 2500 years or more, many of the best minds available have worked in this field; and the results produced have indirectly been of enormous value to other fields, such as physics, engineering, architecture, economics, and so on. But with is mathematics about? Physics studies moving bodies; engineering studies bridges; architecture studies buildings; economics studies commercial behavior: here there are phenomena we can point to that constitute the subject matter. But what does mathematics study? If you answer “Numbers”, or “Abstract types …

Introduction (1979), Robert Brabenec

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1979

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents (1979), Association Of Christians In The Mathematical Sciences

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1979

A Second Conference on the Foundations of Mathematics

Expectations For Teacher Role Behavior In A Multi-Cultural Community, George Michael Perreault

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Statement of the Problem

American public schools have been criticized for fail­ing to meet the needs of children from minority groups. The cultural heritage of these children is seen as an important factor in differential achievement in the public schools. It has been postulated that students and adults from different cultural groups would hold different expectations for teachers, and this would hinder the chances of minority students to benefit from Anglo-oriented schools. However, there is little empirical evidence regarding expectations teacher role behavior held by minority students or teachers.

A Descriptive Analysis Of Bilingual Education Teacher-Training Programs In The State Of Michigan, Gilbert L. Montez

Dissertations

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The Relationship Between Intellectual Development And Ratings Of Teaching Effectiveness, Carol Ann Norman

Dissertations

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Teachers' Attitudes Toward Egyptian Students As Reflected Through Their Evaluations Of Written Essays, Saida Belas Gianou

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Perceptions Of Teacher Educators And Public School Principals Concerning The Importance Of Selected Behaviors For Beginning Teachers: A Q Study, Jean C. Flanigan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the factors of agreement or disagreement between a group of public school principals and a group of teacher educators concerning their perceptions of the relative Importance of specific teaching behaviors to the success of the beginning classroom teacher. (Abstract shortened.)

Annual Report 1978/79, Center For International Education

211d: Non-Formal Education Grant

No abstract provided.

Manual De Avaliação De Cursos De Treinamento De Professores Em Serviço [Manual For Evaluating In-Service Teacher Training Courses], Karl M. Lorenz

Karl M Lorenz

O manual apresenta um modelo teórico para a avaliação de cursos de treinamento de professores em serviço desenvolvidos por agencias de treinamento. O modelo propõe um sistema que avalia o Despenho dos participantes dos cursos, a Implementação dos conteúdos e metodologias propostos ao longo dos cursos de treinamento, e o Impacto dos cursos sobre as escolas e a comunidade. São apresentados vários índices que indicam a efetividade destes três objetivos da avaliação, procedimentos gerais relativos à construção de instrumentos simples de coleta de dados, e a técnicas básicas de estatística para analisar os dados.
The manual presents a theoretical model …

Reading Enrichment Materials For Teaching Borderline Students, Katie M. Jackson

All Graduate Projects

Borderline students are always the students who seem to go unnoticed in the classroom. The students' reading levels are not high enough to function at grade level and not low enough to get the extra assistance from the Reading Specialist in the assigned building. Often the students are given just enough reading material to keep them busy.

A reading enrichment program, developed through the use of learning packets and supplemental books, is designed to help alleviate some of the problems these students experience in reading. The learning packet materials were selected to encourage students to appreciate books, learn to read …