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1988-1989 Nova University Knights Basketball Media Guide, Nova University

NSU Athletics Sports Programs and Media Guides

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Race And Gender And National Student Placement In Programs For The Educable Mentally Retarded, Learning-Disabled, And Seriously Emotionally Disturbed From 1976 Through 1984, Robert Frederick Richardson Jr.

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

Both prior to and since the passage of 94-142 in 1975, researchers and policy analysts have raised consistent concerns about the overrepresentation of black males in EMR and ED programs, especially in view of an often noted disproportion of white males in LD programs.;All of the empirical research on overrepresentation since 1975 has been characterized by one or more of the following limitations: (a) Small sample populations were drawn from one school district or state, (b) Larger samples, when studied, were analyzed at one specific point in time rather than over a period of time, (c) The power of the …

Intercultural Training And International Exchange : An Exploratory Study Of The Association Of Intercultural Training With Hosting Goals Of American Families, Jan Marie Oehlschlaeger

Dissertations and Theses

This study investigated the host family experience, specifically examining the goals of host families and intercultural training of host families. It compares the the importance and accomplishment of goals between interculturally trained host families and untrained host families.The focus of the research addressed the following research questions:

1) Do host families who receive intercultural training rate their goals differently than families who do not receive intercultural training?

1a) Do host families who receive intercultural training rate differently the goals in which the student meets intra-family needs than families who do not receive intercultural training?

2) Do host families who receive …

Making Related Service Decisions For Students With Severe Handicaps In Public Schools: Roles, Criteria, And Authority, Michael Giangreco

College of Education and Social Services Faculty Publications

Students with severe handicaps frequently require related services from occupational therapists, physical therapists, or communication specialists to benefit from instruction. Effective delivery of related services requires the existence of a shared framework for decision-making among educators, related service personnel, and families. This framework may be broadly characterized by: (a) the roles served by related service professionals, (b) the criteria used to make related service decisions, and (c) the authority for making decisions. Differences between team members regarding roles, criteria, and authority perspectives may pose threats to the development of a shared framework, while similarities may provide foundations upon which to …

An Idea To Save Educational Theory, M. A. B. Degenhardt

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

The future looks gloomy for educational theory. The place of theory in the education of teachers and in deliberations on educational policy, is being speedily reduced. The number of persons employed to teach educational theory is declining and many of those who remain are having to teach adulterated or dubiously 'relevant' theory regarding which they can feel no real enthusiasm or honest commitment. It is possible that some areas of educational theory which have developed impressively over the last two or three decades will almost vanish. Already one can discern the unhappy consequences for practice. Thus a valuable contribution to …

An Analysis Of The Relationship Of Merit Pay Programs, Organizational Climate And Other Selected Administrative Variables In Du Page County, Illinois Elementary School Districts, Bernard J. Jumbeck

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Investigation Of The Relationships Among Social Support, Causal Attribution, Meaning, Perceived Control, Maternal/Family Characteristics, Child Characteristics, Length Of Time Since The Initial Diagnosis, And Maternal Adjustment In Mothers Of Young Developmentally Delayed Children, Linda Small

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Sibyl 1989, Otterbein University

Otterbein University Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Presenting The Past: Education, Interpretation And The Teaching Of Black History At Colonial Williamsburg, Rex Marshall Ellis

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation began in 1926. Within four years after its initial construction, the need to begin some means of presenting information to a growing population of visitors became apparent. In this study, an attempt will be made to answer the question, "How has the history of interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg influenced its teaching of black history?".;The major research question and the subsidiary questions were prompted by the recent inclusion of a black history program at the foundation. In this study, primary focus will be given to the history of interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg. An attempt will be made …

The Bison: 1989, Howard University

Howard University Yearbooks

This digital object was funded in part through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The digitalization of this object was part of a collaborative effort with the Washington Research Library Consortium and George Washington University.

Outstanding Educational Improvement Projects Volume V, 1989, Nova University

Fischler Postgraduate Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

The Effectiveness Of Response Interruption, Differential Reinforcement Of Other Behavior, And A Visual Cue, In The Treatment Of Self-Injurious Stereotypic Behavior, Clark Gunnell Porter

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The present study investigated the effectiveness of a combined procedure involving response interruption and DRO in the treatment of self-injurious stereotypy. A visual cue was utilized to assist in generalization and the subject's behavior was monitored outside of the treatment setting. The subject was a ten year old mentally deficient female who engaged in a self-injurious stereotypy involving the picking of skin from her fingers and hands. An ABAC single-subject design was utilized and the subject's behavior was monitored in her classroom on mornings following treatment. The treatment procedure was unsuccessful in reducing the frequency of the behavior and no …

Lingnan College Hong Kong : Prospectus 1989-1990 = 香港嶺南學院概覽 1989-1990, Lingnan College

Lingnan University : Prospectus

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of Computational Errors In The Use Of The Division Algorithm In The Fourth Grade, Teri Sue Rokusek

Graduate Research Papers

Division i s considered by many teachers to be one of the most difficult skills in an elementary school mathematics curriculum (Holland, 1942). This study explored the first step of diagnostic teaching in division; identifying errors made by students. The study was specifically tailored to fourth grade students and their use of the division algorithm on the set of whole numbers. Research has shown that in the case of systematic errors, the child will continue to use the algorithm incorrectly if not corrected (Cox , 1974). Grossnickle (1936) concluded "Almost 60% of the total number of errors which will impede …

Writing In Kindergarten, Patrice M. Schulte

Graduate Research Papers

Children's oral language development is easily recognized by observing their oral vocabulary development, use of sentence structure, and involvement in the functions of language (Wiseman, 1984). Young children's oral language development has been considered a natural aspect of growth, but their written language development has generally been overlooked and has not been considered a part of acquiring literacy. Research indicates that young children show knowledge of written language long before formal instruction begins: Young learners develop abilities necessary for reading and writing on their own, as they grow and have experiences, just as naturally as they learn to talk (Beardsley, …

Acceleration As A Qualitatively Differentiated Educational Program For The Highly Gifted Learner: Its Positive And Negative Effects, Jann Weitzel

Graduate Research Papers

The provision of special educational opportunities for the most gifted members of our society is not a new idea. As early as the Fourth Century, B.C., Plato remarked in his Republic that society's task was "to compel the best natures" to provide education in order to ensure the survival of Greek democracy. The common good would best be served, he felt, by providing educational advantages for the most distinguished learners in order for them to eventually assume leadership positions. Such a desire for the optimum development of gifted potential has been an underlying reason for the return of the pendulum …

Prereading Strategies And Activities To Improve Reading Comprehension In Elementary School-Aged Students, Paula Dunham

Graduate Research Papers

The dominating trend in reading research in the past two decades has focused on the study of reading as a process. Basic theoretical research replaced applied research even though many federally funded projects in the area of reading called for improvement of teaching strategies. Applied research was dismissed as unimportant and theorists rushed to define, build, and verify theories of the reading process (Vacca & Vacca, 1982).

Broken Dreams, False Promises, And The Decline Of Public Schooling, Peter Mclaren

Education Faculty Articles and Research

The thrust of the most prominent proposals for educational reform in the 1980s has been to make the schools more efficient at servicing the needs of the dominant social order. In the meantime, a backlog of neglected social problems has developed which points up the need for schools to develop the critical faculties of their students. In fact, a wide range of telling statistics on the socioeconomic aspects of American education show that the schools themselves are severely impacted by the inequalities present in the larger society- particularly along racial lines. The need for a critical pedagogy is acute.

Writing Process And Program For Second Grade, Lorene Knutson Geiselhart

Graduate Research Papers

Recently the research on children's involvement in the writing process has prompted educators to revise school programs to extend thinking-language abilities and to capitalize on the potential for personal-social development as children create meaning through writing (Murray, 1985; Graves, 1983). For this study, the writer reviewed the recent research on the development of children's composition abilities and then formulated an instructional project to facilitate writing in her second grade classroom.

Extending The Literature Base Of A Reading Program Through Folk Literature, Ellen M. Grady-Mans

Graduate Research Papers

The report of the National Endowment for the Humanities (1987) stresses the need to present quality literature experiences to facilitate children's personal-social development. Literature needs to be presented as whole units in the form written by the author, not revised to facilitate the teaching of fragments through phonics instruction and to fit readability formulas. Since few basal reader series, the basis of much reading instruction today, focus on quality literature, this humanities group suggests that teachers need to take more responsibility in extending the literature base.

Instructional Development Of Community Improvement Programs, Constance P. Hargrave

Graduate Research Papers

Across the nation there exists many housing communities that have poorly maintained, run down, and/or vandalized external properties. These communities, although strongly manipulated by the amount of public monies that circulate within them, may not solely be the direct result of such economic influences. But rather, these external living conditions may be the result of a lack of education, organization, and motivation on the part of the people of these communities. This lack of education, organization, and motivation may result in the neglect and poor maintenance of external properties and grounds in such areas as: condemned housing that may be …

Professional Training Of Library Media Personnel And The Effect On Students' Library/Research Skills, Roger A. Hop

Graduate Research Papers

We are in the midst of an era in which school systems are, out of necessity, being guided by constricting principles based on tightened budgets and increased demands for accountability. Federal and state funding of education have decreased during the last decade, general inflation and salaries have continued to rise from year to year, and the public's demands for more efficient and effective use of funds have grown louder. As a result, school programs have been evolving through an era of ever increasing critical evaluation; school boards and administrators have been searching for additional means to reduce expenses in ways …

The Role Of Communication In The Organizational Change Process, Marilyn R. Hibbs

Graduate Research Papers

There is a common saying that change is one of the most certain things in life. While the saying may seem trite, it is even more applicable today than ever before. Alvin Toffler, in his book The Third Wave (1980), examines the factor of change in today's world, and points out the implications of the Information Age: The world that is fast emerging from the clash of new values and technologies, new geopolitical relationships, new life-styles and modes of communication, demands wholly new ideas and analogies, classifications and concepts. We cannot cram the embryonic world of tomorrow into yesterday's conventional …

Punishment To Discipline: Evolution Or An Alternative Method, Gwendolyn Johnson

Graduate Research Papers

Walter Dick and Lou Carey (1985) wrote about the two different views of the role of the teacher. The role of the teacher is to effectively instruct students. No instructor would deny that the tools of the trade fall into the categories of preparation, presentation and evaluation. The role of the student is to learn what is being taught. Traditionally the burden of the effectiveness of this relationship has been placed on the instructor. However this view is changing because, it doesn't matter how great a subject matter expert a teacher becomes or how well they've mastered their educational technique …

Exploring Conflict And Resolve Through Quality Children's Literature, Frances D. Kennedy

Graduate Research Papers

This paper explores the value of story structure in offering insights into human conflict and its resolve and in providing bounds in which children can explore these conflicts. A search for quality literature judged appropriate for the intellectual development of middle childhood (ages nine to eleven) will be conducted. The potential offered by these selected works in relating that characters create action and therefore resolve will be investigated.

Peer Editing In Upper Elementary Classrooms, Janice Kittelson

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this study was to determine teachers' perceptions of peer editing in upper elementary classrooms. Semi-structured interviews were the central focus of this study. Six teachers participated in the study. Two taught fourth grade, two taught fifth grade, and two taught sixth grade. Each teacher was interviewed twice. In the first round of interviews, open-ended questions were asked of the teachers. In the second round of interviews, teachers were asked to elaborate or clarify selected responses to initial questions and were asked to comment on the preliminary findings from the first round of interviews. This study produced seven …

The Gerontology Institute: The First Years, 1984-1987, Gerontology Institute, University Of Massachusetts Boston

Gerontology Institute Publications

During the first years of its existence, the Gerontology Institute has worked with older people to convert "retirement years" into opportunities for continuous growth and learning, while simultaneously seeking to re-examine social, political, and economic roles for elders in society. It is hoped that through such engagement of older individuals, the Institute has inspired a more positive attitude in society towards its aging population.

Oregon Women In Educational Administration: Profiles And An Analysis Of Upward Career Mobility Factors, Leland D. Chapman

Dissertations and Theses

The first purpose of this study was to determine from the positive and negative factors identified by Jones and Montenegro (1982), which factors Oregon female administrators perceived had influenced upward mobility in their careers. Study of this topic reveals added information and direction to administrators of university administrative programs, school board members and school personnel administrators involved in hiring and providing training or staff development. As a result, the commonalities and differences among female school administrators in Oregon are identified. Identifying the factors that relate to upward mobility of tenured and nontenured female administrators provides insight and hopefully will promote …

An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Learning Style Perceptual Preferences And Attitudes Toward Computer-Assisted Instruction, Mary Brambilla Mcfarland

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this investigation was to identify the perceptual learning style preferences of nursing students and to examine the relationship, if any, among students whose learning style perceptual preferences were identified as being auditory, tactile or visual and their attitudes toward the use of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) in the areas of comfort, creativity and function. The relationships between nursing students' perceptual learning style preferences and the following were also examined: (a) the amount of time they spent using the computer program, Cardiac Exam Bingo; (b) whether the use of the computer program added to their learning the content about …

Discussion Method Teaching: A Practical Guide, William M. Welty

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Preparation Before Class

Read the Assigned Material

Decide on Important Concepts and Outline

A Question Outline

A Board Outline

Knowing Your Students

Looking at the Whole Semester and the Whole Institution

Physical Setting

The Ideal

Usual Situation

The Class

Beginning the Class

Questioning, Listening, Response

Body Language

Sense of Time

Group Work

Ending the Class

After Class

How to Start

Bibliography: Case Method and Discussion Method Teaching