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A Comparison Of Gregg And Forkner Shorthand In The Public Schools, Randall Charles Krejci
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)
The Counseling Center: A Student Evaluation, Lynn Lee
The Counseling Center: A Student Evaluation, Lynn Lee
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Professional school counselors are taught to identify important factors in providing effective counseling services. Although the importance of these services is not always recognized by the general school population, it is the personal responsibility of the school counselor to see that these services are provided. In establishing a desirable guidance program, students, faculty, administrators, and members of the community can help the counselor identify needed services and aid in the establishment of priorities. Hollis and Hollis (1965) express the opinion that all good guidance services develop from recognizing the needs of these factions. When a new program is implemented, a …
Comparative Judgments Of Secondary School Principals About Collective Bargaining As A Function Of Prior Non-Management Experience, Paul William Massman
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?
A Preferred Vision For Administering Elementary Schools : A Reflective Essay, Linda Christine Blau
A Preferred Vision For Administering Elementary Schools : A Reflective Essay, Linda Christine Blau
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In the past 10 years, many aspects of American culture have changed dramatically. One aspect of American culture is our economic system, based on individual enterprise, entrepreneurship, and competition. In the workplace, the goal is to "get to the top. 11 Even though the goal may remain the same, the avenues needed to reach the goal have been completely remodeled. We are becoming an automated, information-based society. We are no longer held within the confines of an immediate area, but can become informed of new developments worldwide in a matter of minutes. As we view these changes from an educational …
Descriptive Study Of The Development Of A Support Group For Widowed Persons, Virginia Kay Boeckmann
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 …
The Fundamentalist Movement And Its Effect On The Educational System, Gail Lowe Brown
The Fundamentalist Movement And Its Effect On The Educational System, Gail Lowe Brown
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The most rapidly growing segment of American elementary and secondary education is that of private Protestant fundamentalist schools. Between 1965 and 1972 the number of students enrolled in such schools increased from 615,548 to 1,433,000, or 123.4% according to an estimate by the Bureau of the Census. 1 During the past two decades while educators have been learning to deal with the handicapped, bilingual education, busing, affirmative action, in sum, while educators were involved with self and the rush of developments in education and in society, large groups of parents and taxpayers were becoming increasingly disillusioned with their schools. They …
Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of A Job Coordinator In Reducing Recidivism At The State Training School, Sharon L. Caldwell
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.
A Study Of Selected Aspects Of The Social Studies Curriculum In American Secondary Schools, James Ching-Bin Chang
A Study Of Selected Aspects Of The Social Studies Curriculum In American Secondary Schools, James Ching-Bin Chang
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The social studies has been changing during the last twenty years. Until the 1970's, more than 100 major social studies curriculum projects were financed by the U. S. federal government, ·foundations, and institutions of higher learning. However, there was little agreement on which concepts or ways of working in the social sciences were most fruitful and representative of accepted structure.
Man To Man: Counseling Males Through Gender-Roles Expansion, Dennis Duane Feltz
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.
Nature And Effect Of Bilingual Education Programs On Second Language Acquisition, Mark David Finanger
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 Study Of The Consequences Of High School Athletic Participation, Mark Myers Hendrickson
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, …
A Measurement Of Improved Self-Esteem In Third Grade Students With Elementary Counselor Intervention, Ann Margaret Jamason
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 …
Criteria Used In Teacher Evaluation In Selected Northeast Iowa High Schools, Meredith C. Miller
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 …
Brain Growth: Intuitive And Scientific, Karen Marie Patterson
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 …
The Motion Picture Patents Company: A Monopoly, Rhonda A. Abbott
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.
Specific Problem Behaviors Of Single-Parent Children: The Need For Teacher Inservice Programs, Emily Jane Schilke
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 …
A Review Of The Literature On Peer Counseling Programs, Claude Bartley Snead Iii
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 …
The Role Of The School Counselor In Helping Chronically Ill Students, Nancy Camp Warren
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
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.
A Correlational Study Between Piagetian Concrete Reasoning Level And Academic Achievement, Mark Anthony Randall
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 Comparative Study Of Freshmen Entering The University Of Northern Iowa In The Fall 1975 Who Received A First Semester Grade Point Average Below 2.00 And Who Completed A Baccalaureate Degree By Summer 1981, Margaret Rolfe
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For the past decade educators in institutions of higher learning have begun to open their doors to a diverse population of students and to design programs that would help them to best "fit" into the college environmental milieu. This diverse student group has brought along with it a multitude of values, cultures, needs and interests that have been totally different from those of the traditional middle-class college-going population. These two groups differ in terms of academic abilities, educational aspirations, career goals, and usually grade point averages. This is not always the case, but oftentimes some students form the diverse population …
The Relationship Between Declining Student Enrollment And School Closure Of Public School Districts In Iowa, William Patrick Sinnott
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 …
The Social Behavior Of Undergraduate Music Majors - Are They Socially Different?, Dawn Michelle White
The Social Behavior Of Undergraduate Music Majors - Are They Socially Different?, Dawn Michelle White
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This study will examine two concerns relating to the social patterns of undergraduate music majors at the University of Northern Iowa. The first concern is whether or not undergraduate music majors have different patterns of social interaction and behavior when compared to their non-music major counterparts. In this, the researcher is interested in the truthfulness of many stereotypes that have been placed upon undergraduate music majors by their peers in terms of their so called "unusual" day-to-day activities. Are they quite different at the University of Northern Iowa? The second concern is interested in the inward feeling expressed by music …
A Comparative Study Of The Involvement Of Dropouts And Graduates In High School Activities, Randall Charles Nichols
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.
A School Follow-Up Questionnaire As A Measure Of Post Hospital Success In Residential Treatment Of Children, Merrill L. Carruthers
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 Student Milieu Evaluation Wartburg College, 1981-82, John Douglas Kirchner
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 Comparison Of Piagetian And Psychometric Measures Of Intelligence, Kathryn Ann Berntson
A Comparison Of Piagetian And Psychometric Measures Of Intelligence, Kathryn Ann Berntson
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The ideas of Jean Piaget have sooner or later been applied to practically every aspect of education. These ideas are based on Piaget's theory that every individual progresses through four cognitive developmental stages: the sensorimotor stage, the preoperational stage, the concrete operational stage, and the formal operational stage. According to Piaget, during these stages an individual progresses from reflex reactions to the environment to the point, if and when he reaches the level of formal operations, he can think abstractly and test hypotheses.
Career Planning Programs And Processes For Undergraduate Students, Marilyn C. Hawkins
Career Planning Programs And Processes For Undergraduate Students, Marilyn C. Hawkins
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College students, traditional or non-traditional, experience a state of development in which they are searching to discover themselves. Chickering (1969) assumes that they are searching to discover what he has labeled the seven developmental vectors. They are: achieving competency, managing emotions, becoming autonomous, establishing identity, freeing of interpersonal relations, clarifying purposes and developing integrity. The student may face difficulty in adjusting to these developments because of peer and family pressures and because of the need to maintain a stable academic life. To ease the transition period, they are in need of understanding and mature role models. These role models should …
The Effects Of The Cisi Process User Handbook On High School Students' Career Maturity Inventory Scores, Linda Rygh Cagley
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.
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
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)