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Teacher Perceptions Of And Satisfaction With The Power Base Uses Of Elementary And Secondary Principals, John P. Franzoia

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was (1) to determine how elementary and secondary teachers in a large North Dakota school district perceived the power base use of their principals and (2) to determine how satisfied these teachers were with the power base use.

The researcher administered the Power Perception Profile- Perception of Other and a brief questionnaire to the teachers to study the relationship between satisfaction and background variables. Of 544 teachers in the district, 410 participated resulting in 379 usable responses, a total of 69.7% of all teachers in the district. Interviews were conducted with principals after results were …

Writing Apprehension: Can An Individualized Approach Help?, Elizabeth B. Loftin

Theses and Dissertations

This study was a descriptive investigation of the effects of the Individualized Language Arts (ILA) program חס writing apprehension. Subjects were 152 eighth graders enrolled in a middle school. The subjects were from five language arts classes and were taught writing during the 1986-87 school year by the Individualized Language Art's (ILA) program. The data gathering instrument for this study was the Daly-Miller Test of Writing Apprehension (WAT), administered in August, 1986 as a pretest and again in the spring of 1987 as a posttest. Between the pre and posttests, students were instructed by the ILA, a method of teaching …

A Study Of Teacher, Principal, Coordinator Perception Of The Role Of A Latter-Day Saint Seminary Principal, Richard A. Vehar

Theses and Dissertations

This study was designed to determine the perceptions of teachers, principals and coordinators in the LDS Seminaries along the Wasatch Front of Utah as they relate to (a) the role of the seminary principal and (b) the actual performance of seminary principals.