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Clozentropy Procedure As An Instrument For Measuring Oral English Competencies Of First Grade Children., Hazel Viola Craker

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Testing of oral English competencies in pre­literate children has had two basic problems: tests were either specific to a particular program of instruction or were inefficient in terms of breadth of coverage of the complex language skills required for adequate communication. Cloze Procedure showed promise of efficient sampling of language skills unrelated to any specific instructional program, but was limited by inadequate scoring precision. Clozentropy Procedure in 1968 provided a precise mathematical scoring technique for Cloze Procedure and a valid and reliable measure of the compatibility of the English of foreign university students with that of native university students in …

Teacher Effectiveness:A Study Of The Relationship Between Teacher Personality Characteristics And Anxiety In Elementary Pupils., Ervin F. Holle

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From the theoretical and research literature on personality, interaction and teacher characteristics, a general hypothesis was formulated:

Personality maladjustment of a teacher generates personality maladjustment in the pupils in that teacher's classroom resulting in the pupils' failure to incorporate appropriate information and the maintenance of a state of high anxiety.

Reformulated operationally the hypothesis became: Personality maladjustment of a teacher, as measured by the MMPI, results in the maintenance of high levels of anxiety, as measured by the Sarason anxiety scales, in the pupils of that teacher's classroom.

Forty teachers responded to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and were scored …

Altruistic Therapy, Stephen H. Field

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This dissertation consists of a model of therapy, Altruistic Therapy, as developed by the author and a study to evaluate its efficacy. Altruistic Therapy, which focuses on getting versus giving, consists of helping people recognize their self-defeating patterns of getting and helps them learn to give to themselves and others so that they can come to appreciate themselves and improve their interpersonal relationships. Getting (as defined) is self-defeating because it reinforces feelings of deficiency, places one in a self-defeating bind and disrupts effective communications, cutting one off from others. Giving (as defined) is therapeutic because it focuses on an individual's …

A Measurement Study Of Attitudinal Interactions Of Selected Vocational School Teachers And Students Concerning Attendance And Grades With Implications For Administrator Training, James L. Maw

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This study was designed to measure attitudinal interactions of selected vocational school teachers and students concerning grades and attendance, school policy problems, at a Technical Vocational Institute. This was done in an attempt to determine whether students and teachers viewed themselves and existing attendance and grading policy as constants or variables. It was assumed that those receiving scores indicating they considered themselves constants would be more likely to support the existing policy while those receiving scores indi­cating they considered themselves variables would be more likely to desire a policy change.

Teachers and student attitudinal interactions were measured and plotted on …

Reports By Native And Non-Native Speakers Of English On Their Strategies On The Cloze Procedure: Implications For Language Proficiency Testing And Language Learning, Thomas Emil Beck

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This study utilizes an interview procedure to elicit self-report, or intuitive, data from a sample of native and non-native speakers of English, all university students, on their recall of their strategies on the cloze procedure. Interview procedures appear not to have been previously used in the study of behavior on integrative language tests. Thus the primary methodological goal of this study was to determine if the interview procedure would produce valid information of practical use both to language testing specialists and to language teachers. A second major goal was to determine how the use of strategies might differ among native …

A Comparison Of Raw Scored Of Two Second Grade Groups On A Reading Test Based On The Phonology, Morphology And Syntax Of The First Nine Levels Of The Miami Linguisic Readers, Sally L. Pavletich

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This study was designed to develop a criteria testing instrument for the Miami Linguistic Reading Program. The children involved in the study were two groups of second grade students taught to read by means of a reading program based on linguistic principles and two groups of similar students taught to read through a conventional basal program. The children were tested at the end of second grade, using a reading performance test prepared by the investigator. The study was designed to answer the following questions:

1. Is there a difference in reading test performance of second grade children who have had …

Education And Space In The Museum: A Structural Model, Margaret Ann Ramsey

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Statement of Purpose. The purpose of this investigation is to identify which elements are operating in a museum in order to determine the underlying structure of space and thereby build a model. A second­ary purpose is to synthesize various fields, including the social sciences, in order to understand better how space operates in a museum. The study treats the use of space as an educational problem.

Procedure. The method of structuralism is applied to identify which elements operate in a museum in order to find the underlying structure of space. After these elements are identified, they are used in constructing …

Children's Books By New Mexico Writers, Margaret J. Homan

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The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the books in children's literature written by New Mexico writers. Major emphasis was given to those books published from 1950 to 1970. The study identified only the New Mexico writers of children's books who claimed the state as their place of residence while writing their books. The study identified and analyzed those books which an elementary school child would enjoy. Initially the study began by identifying New Mexico writers of books for children from lists of New Mexico writers which contained writers of both adult and children's literature. The lists …

An Educational Attitudinal Synthetic Plane Placement Instrument, Felix Garcia Jr.

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The purpose of the study was to generate a heuristic Educational Attitudinal Synthetic Plane Placement (EASPP) Instrument composed of six major components: (1) the X Coordinate, (2) the Y Coordinate, (3) the eight apexes, (4) the eight octants, (5) the two diagonals, and (6) the clusterings. A quasi-experimental ex post facto design was employed. Thus, the EASPP was created by using a proven, abstract and conceptual attitudinal rating scale--the Kerlinger and Kaya Education Scale and an unproven, experiential and conceptual instrument--a questionnaire developed by this investigator. The intent was to marry a general conceptual and abstract attitudinal response to an …

An Investigation Of Holland's Theory Of Vocational Psychology, Dale Mitchell Johnson

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The purpose of the study was to investigate questions which were generated within three basic areas of Holland's theory of vocational psychology with respect to a sample of technical-vocational students. The three phases of the study were related to occupational classification, personality consistency, and personality patterns as they relate to technical-vocational training success. A sample of 393 students majoring in eleven different technical and vocational fields were administered the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI). All students in the sample were enrolled in, and had completed a substantial portion of their training in technical, vocational, and beauty schools in Albuquerque, New Mexico. …

The Effect Of Work-Study Programs On Certain Student Behaviors, Stanley Schneider

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With the number of drop-outs on the increase, the federal, state and local agencies, as well as private industry, have become involved with methods of student retention. The Vocational Amendments of 1968 have given impetus to work-study programs of various types for the possible retention of these students.

The null hypothesis of this study was that the work-study programs examined do not change the characteristics of the potential drop-out which were used to identify him as a potential drop-out.

The study took place at North Babylon, New York. There a general work-study program known as the School to Employment Program …

A Survey Of Opinions Of Selected Principals Concerning Preparation And Characteristics Of Teachers For Junior High And Middle Schools., Lela Joan G. Brown

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The great majority of those who teach in junior high and middle schools have not experienced a professional preparation intended specifically for teachers of these grades. It would seem reasonable that the teachers for the junior high and middle schools should be prepared in programs specifically designed for teachers of these grades, programs that are distinct and different from either the traditional elementary or secondary type of teacher preparation. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the perceptions of principals of junior high and middle schools concerning what they felt to be important in the preparation of teachers of …

The Analysis Of Missing Data And Its Computer Implementation, John Phillips Grillo

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The major problem for investigation was to get useful information out of missing data, where missing data were defined as items not answered on a returned questionnaire. The author developed a scheme of analysis which can provide information not otherwise obtainable to a researcher using questionnaires. A model developed to categorize missing data was based on the reaction of the subject answering the questionnaire. The model rests on the notion the subject's avoidance reaction to the questionnaire item is his measurable attribute at that time. The mathematical development of the scheme of analysis uses the dichotomy of possible answers--the subject …

Sensitivity To Communication In School Administrators, Stephen G. Hess

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The purpose of this study was to compare the mean scores of a group of school administrators on a test of sensitivity to communication in terms of their sex, age, level of position, and length of time in position. The study employed 155 administrators at the central office and individual school levels in a large Southwest school district. Subjects were given The UNM Conversation Self-Report Inventory (Form 369A/Revised), which was designed to measure the extent of communication sensitivity in respondents. Sensitivity to communication is defined as visualizing the purpose of communication to be one of understanding the feelings of others …

A Bicultural Study Of Value Orientations, Leisure Attitudes And Activity Preferences, Royal G. Jackson

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A significant development of the twentieth-century has been the emergence in the United States and in other industrialized nations of a way of life increasingly oriented toward leisure rather than work. The body of knowledge gradually being formulated to cope with this new concern is still lacking in at least one important dimension. Insufficient attention has been given to the role of value orientations in the formation of attitudes toward leisure and leisure pursuits.

Teacher Preparation Needed For Those Planning To Teach The "Culturally Different" In Grades 5 Through 9 As Perceived By Teachers Presently Teaching The "Culturally Different.", Colleen Hennessey

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This study was designed to obtain and analyze the perceptions of teachers of children who are culturally different regarding the curriculum necessary to prepare students to teach children who are culturally different. The teachers were at the time of the study, teaching in grades 5 through 9 in schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, Houston, Texas, and Dallas, Texas, designated as schools for children who were culturally different. Information concerning programs of teacher preparation was secured through the use of a questionnaire. Three hundred twenty-four questionnaires were usable for analysis.

Tabulation of the data from the questionnaire indicated the following inter-related …

A Field Study To Effect Changes In Academic Achievement Levels Of Underachieving Seventh-Grade Students, Raymond J. Gargiulo

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STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The purpose of this study was to improve the academic performance of underachieving seventh-grade students. Specific focus of the study was on improving reading achievement by using within-class instructional grouping to accommodate the range of achievement in the classroom and by matching various instructional materials to the learners' levels of reading (hereafter referred to as the open classroom concept). The study was also design to evaluated associated improvement in arithmetic and social studies skills, as well as the degree of school satisfaction demonstrated by students in the open classroom environment. Another factor measured by the study …

Family Income, Voting Behavior, And Financial Referendums:Educational Finance And Politics In Albuquerque, 1968-1969., Richard V. Hatley

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This study (1) described and analyzed the relationship between family income and voting behavior in four 1968-1969 public school financial referendums in Albuquerque, New Mexico, (2) investigated ether variables which might be related to voter responses in such elections, and (3) developed a method for studying school election voting behavior.

Retraining Efforts And Labor Force Status: Differential Effects Of Selected Demographic Variables, John Terry Abrahamson

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The Manpower Development and Training Act (M.D.T.A.) is the largest and one of the oldest of the federal manpower programs. This study is of the M.D.T.A. experience in one state during a one and one-half year period. The sample was limited to those who completed institutional type training programs. Data used were collected in the normal process of program operation and included characteristics of trainees, individual trainee termination information and the post-training report one year after completion of training. The problem was to create sets of relationships, of both theoretical and practical significance, between pre-training characteristics of trainees and post-training …

An Analysis Of Administrator And Student Leader Views Of Student Discontent And Solutions On One University Campus., Harold Peter Menninger

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The purpose of this investigation was to analyze problems of and solutions to student discontent as viewed by university administrators and student leaders. In addition, the responsibilities, future, and roles of these two groups were investigated, along with questions about the involvement of faculty and students in protest issues and their value positions. Talcott Parsons' theoretical framework, which includes the concept of functional imperatives, was used to achieve deeper interpretation of the results. Several hypotheses derived from Parsons' theory were set forth and tested.

Data were collected on the respondents' personal backgrounds, on reactions to stud��nt discontent and its solutions, …

A Need Assessment And Proposed Curriculum For Low Socio-Economic Elementary School Children., Mary Ann Jenkins Brewster

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This study was concerned with the problems of curriculum in disadvantaged areas. The purposes were to evaluate present curricula and also to discover the relationship of teacher training and teacher attitude to the major problems in low socio-economic areas.

Three third grade classes of various percentages of ethnic and racial groups were used. All schools were located in deprived areas.

Class One had 64.3 per cent Black, 25 per cent Spanish surnamed, 3.5 per cent Indian, and 7.2 per cent Anglo students. Class Two's percentages were 80 per cent Spanish surnamed, 8 per cent Black, 8 per cent Anglo, and …

Problem Solving Abilities And Psychomotor Skills Of Navajo Indians, Spanish Americans And Anglos In Junior High School, Rajabather Jayagopal

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The Problem

The purpose of this study was to investigate the problem solving abilities of Navajo Indians, Spanish Americans and Anglos in two schools of Albuquerque, using WISC performance subtests as criterion measures and including the five psychomotor skills, perception, visual set, emotional set, physical set and fine motor acts as predictor variables at intra- and inter-ethnic levels.

Procedures

The study was divided into the following parts: (1) review of the pertinent literature, (2) design of the study outlining selection of subjects, selection and application of test instruments and compilation and treatment of data, (3) presentation, analysis and interpretation of …

La Fortalecita:A Study Of Low-Income (Urban) Mexican Americans And The Implications For Education., Richard Werner Arndt

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The purpose of this study was to examine the life-style coIIU:1on to La Fortalecita, a low-income Mexican-American community comprising approximately 300 inhabitants and located within an urban population center exceeding 300,000, and to discuss certain educational implica­tions arising from the findings.

An Investigation Of Occupational Values Held By A Group Of Rural Northern New Mexico Senior High School Students, Bill Leslie Johnson

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The general objective of this research was to make certain predictions concerning occupational values from the cultural values of the three major ethnic groups represented in northern New Mexico—Anglo, Spanish-American, and Indian. A corollary to this main purpose was an investigation of the effect of maturation and sex upon occupational values. The research problem, then, centered upon analyzing differences in patterns of occupational values among various categories of individuals.

A Comparative Study Of Middle Schools And Junior High Schools In New York State., Edward L. Davis

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This study was undertaken to determine to what extent the middle school, in actual practice, is doing a better job of meeting the needs of young adolescents than its predecessor, the junior high school.

Thirty-five middle schools and thirty-five junior high schools were paired in terms of school population, soci-economic conditions, and geographical location.

Letters and questionnaires were sent out to principals of schools included in this study. The study was explained to these administrators and the need was stressed for the return of all questionnaires for the completion of the study.

The summary of the findings indicated some differences …

Dictation Procedures And Related Practices In Offices In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Hazel Powell

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The problem.

The purpose of this study was to determine and to analyze the procedures and related practices that characterize office dictation as it is given in representative offices in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Procedure.

Interviews held with forty dictators of office dicta­tion and the forty persons who transcribed their dictation yielded cur­rent data concerning dictation procedures. Organizations represented were distributors of goods and services, educational institutions, gov­ernment, manufacturing businesses, military establishments; and- service organizations. One-half of the dictators were asked to dictate three or four items each to be tape-recorded as a supplement to the interviews.

Findings and conclusions.

Findings …

The Influence Of Leadership In The Growth Of Positive Self-Concept, Orval David Hughes

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The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of the establishment of a para-military program in a large comprehensive high school. Specifically, the study compared two educational programs operating within the same school; one, the traditional program with objectives oriented to intellectual achievement, the other, a para-military program with objectives oriented to developing qualities of citizenship through experiences in leadership. The study attempted to discover how leadership experiences influenced the growth of positive self-concept. The experiment followed a non-randomized pre-test - post-test design with the experimental group composed of students of the para­military program (a Naval Junior ROTC), …

The Relationships Between The Illinois Test Of Psycholinguistic Abilities, Reading Performance, And Iq Of Third-Grade Children., Miyoshi Ikeda

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The clinical model of reading as a communication process provided a theoretical basis for this study. This exploratory research was carried out to investigate the relationships between the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, Revised Edition, reading perform2nce, and IQ of children in regular third-grade classrooms.

The Use Of I/T/A In A Special Summer Remedial Reading Program, Dianne Mair Sego

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Purpose of the study: The purpose of this study was to determine the efficiency of the use of the Initial Teaching Alphabet as a remedial reading teaching technique. Six children who failed to learn a basic sight vocabulary from their respective basal text reading programs in the first or second year of school were chosen as participants.

Procedure: In May, 1967, he pupils were tested with the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children to determine the intelligence quotients of each child. All of the boys received a score which placed them within the lower limits of the average rang of intelligence. …

The Effects Of Type Of Reinforcer On Several Lower-Class Cultural Groups., Irene D. Hassett

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Seventy-two is (half males, half females) from each of four lower-class cultural groups, i.e., Anglo, Black, Spanish-American, and Navaho, were randomly assig ed to four reward conditions: money, candy, personal-praise, and performance-directed-praise. Each S was given a 10-minute marble dropping task, in which the third minute was designated as the baseline. D ring minutes four through ten, two response measures were derived for each S: rate of response, and a reinforcer effectiveness score. Data on both of these measures were subjected to an analysis of variance. One female graduate student in psychology tested all of the Ss. The following hypothesis …