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Issue 3, Allen Lanham
Issue 3, Allen Lanham
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Collection budget formulas; African American poetry; Library catalog replaced
Volume 24, Number 6, Post Amerikan
Volume 24, Number 6, Post Amerikan
The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)
No abstract provided.
Volume 24, Number 5, Post Amerikan
Volume 24, Number 5, Post Amerikan
The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)
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Volume 24, Number 4, Post Amerikan
Volume 24, Number 4, Post Amerikan
The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)
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Volume 24, Number 3, Post Amerikan
Volume 24, Number 3, Post Amerikan
The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)
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Issue 2, Allen Lanham
Volume 24, Number 2, Post Amerikan
Volume 24, Number 2, Post Amerikan
The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)
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Volume 24, Number 1, Post Amerikan
Volume 24, Number 1, Post Amerikan
The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)
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A Special Case Of Second Language Acquisition: Nthla, Naomi Gurevich
A Special Case Of Second Language Acquisition: Nthla, Naomi Gurevich
Faculty Research and Creative Activity
In investigating the process of language acquisition, researchers differentiate between the acquisition of a learner’s native language (L1) and non-native language. Second Language Acquisition (SLA) has traditionally come to mean any language learned by an individual after the L1. Some researchers have started distinguishing between monolinguals acquiring a second language (2ndLA) and bi- or multi-linguals acquiring another language (NthLA). It is claimed that having undergone the language acquisition process once, multilingual individuals approach this task with a more universal understanding of the rules and forms of language. A review of four studies shows aspects of how NthLA is different from …
Treatment Acceptability By Label And Role, Larry D. Fairbanks
Treatment Acceptability By Label And Role, Larry D. Fairbanks
Masters Theses
This study examined differences in ratings of treatment acceptability among groups of individuals who are often involved in the recommendation, selection, implementation, and evaluation of behavioral interventions in the educational setting; teachers, school psychologists, and school social workers. An analogue-type study was conducted, utilizing a written case description of a 3rd grader exhibiting a problem behavior, a written case description of an intervention applied to that problem behavior, and a 15-item instrument utilized in rating treatment acceptability (IRP-15) . Also varied in the study was a label (LD, BD, ADD) placed on the student in the vignette, and intervention type …
Explanatory Style And Perception Of Negative And Positive Daily Events, Amy K. Jester
Explanatory Style And Perception Of Negative And Positive Daily Events, Amy K. Jester
Masters Theses
This study investigated explanatory style and people's perceptions of negative and positive daily events. Explanatory style can be measured by rating causal explanations that people give on three dimensions; internality, stability, and globality. College students wrote stories in response to pictures, using the Thematic Apperceptive Test (TAT), and also completed a 28-day Daily Event Log Questionnaire. It was expected that how people explain good and bad events that happen to them, would be the same whether someone was explaining a personal daily event or explaining a story written in response to a picture. To prove this, it was expected that …
Can We Talk?: Gender And Age Differences In Self-Disclosure Among Close Friends, Nancy Curtin Alwardt
Can We Talk?: Gender And Age Differences In Self-Disclosure Among Close Friends, Nancy Curtin Alwardt
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Perceptions And Attitudes Of Pc And Multiculturalism, Matthew Brent Goken
Perceptions And Attitudes Of Pc And Multiculturalism, Matthew Brent Goken
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Gender, Waking Personality, And Sexual Behavior In Dreams, Jeffery W. Willis
Gender, Waking Personality, And Sexual Behavior In Dreams, Jeffery W. Willis
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Religiosity, Fears Of Personal Death, And The Acceptability Of Suicide Within Reformed, Conservative, And Orthodox Jews, Lawrence B. Stein
Religiosity, Fears Of Personal Death, And The Acceptability Of Suicide Within Reformed, Conservative, And Orthodox Jews, Lawrence B. Stein
Masters Theses
One hundred and fifty adults completed the Gladding, Lewis, and Adkins Scale of Religiosity (GLASR), Fears of Personal Death Scale (FPDS), and the Suicide Acceptability Scale (SAS) to investigate the relationships between religiosity, fears of personal death, and suicide acceptability within the Reformed, Conservative, and Orthodox Jewish denominations. Differences between the Jewish denominations were detected such that Orthodox Jews were less fearful of transpersonal death than Conservative individuals. However, no differences existed between Jewish denominations for interpersonal or intrapersonal fears of death. Results also indicate that Reformed Jews were less religious and more accepting of suicide than Orthodox individuals with …
A Brief Discussion Of The History, Role, And Function Of The School Psychologist In The Former Soviet Union And Russia, Todd W. Knutson
A Brief Discussion Of The History, Role, And Function Of The School Psychologist In The Former Soviet Union And Russia, Todd W. Knutson
Masters Theses
School psychology in the former Soviet Union and Russia had its beginnings as the field of Pedology which thrived in the early 1900s in Europe and in the former Soviet Union. School psychological services, in Western psychometric sense, have been virtually dormant since Pedology's downfall following ideological conflicts with Communist leaders in 1936 when standardized testing was banned in the U.S.S.R. This paper sketches a brief history of school psychology in the former Soviet Union and Russia, outlines the educational system, reviews the Soviet research on mental retardation, and calls for the sharing of general information related to international school …
The Relationship Between Internship Training And Perceived Preparedness To Practice In School Psychology, Mary Patricia Krones
The Relationship Between Internship Training And Perceived Preparedness To Practice In School Psychology, Mary Patricia Krones
Masters Theses
The relationship between school psychologist internship training and perceived preparedness to practice was investigated. Ninety-two school psychologists who completed their internship in Illinois completed a survey asking them to rate their internship experience and indicate how well these experiences prepared them to be a school psychologist. Overall, participants reported they were moderately to well prepared to be school psychologists, although variability was noted among individual items. Intellectual assessment, report writing, academic achievement assessment and psychoeducational diagnosis received the highest mean ratings for exposure and adequacy. Psychologists felt most prepared for working with the kindergarten through high school age population, those …
Graduate Training In Geropsychology Among Licensed Psychologists In Illinois, Steven J. Johnston
Graduate Training In Geropsychology Among Licensed Psychologists In Illinois, Steven J. Johnston
Masters Theses
Recently, it has been suggested that several factors will likely lead to an increase in the number of elderly Americans in need of psychological services. In June, 1981, the Older Boulder Conference addressed the need to implement graduate level training of psychologists to serve elderly clients. It was found that after the Conference: 1) more graduate courses on geropsychology were taken by psychologists during their graduate training; 2) most psychologists either had no or 75% or more elderly clients; and 3) psychologists were more likely to have sought out post graduate continuing education in geropsychology yet they were less likely …
The Representation Of Older Women In Gerontological And Women's Studies Research In Selected Psychological Publications, Anna Jean Mehl
The Representation Of Older Women In Gerontological And Women's Studies Research In Selected Psychological Publications, Anna Jean Mehl
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
The Three Republics Of Ghana: The Failure Of Three Attempts At Democracy, Otis Benefor
The Three Republics Of Ghana: The Failure Of Three Attempts At Democracy, Otis Benefor
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Angola: A Victim Of The Cold War Cross-Fire, Johnson Kofi Kuma
Angola: A Victim Of The Cold War Cross-Fire, Johnson Kofi Kuma
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Lying And Cheating Behavior In School Children, David Workman
Lying And Cheating Behavior In School Children, David Workman
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
The Attributions Of Young Adhd Children, Who Are On Medication, Tonya M. Brinkman
The Attributions Of Young Adhd Children, Who Are On Medication, Tonya M. Brinkman
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Disordered Eating Patterns And Parenting Styles Among Female College Students, Jennifer E. Simms
Disordered Eating Patterns And Parenting Styles Among Female College Students, Jennifer E. Simms
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Impact Of "Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder" On Educational Placement And Service Delivery, Marsha L. Groves
Impact Of "Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder" On Educational Placement And Service Delivery, Marsha L. Groves
Masters Theses
Children with "Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder" face many changes within the school environment. Teachers strive to help these students meet those changes by providing for special learning and behavior needs. This study obtained teacher responses to examine demographic data, disability categories, placement, and educational treatment of children clinically diagnosed and/or suspected of having "Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorders". Of the 76 teacher surveys returned, 107 students were reported to have or were suspected of having "Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder". Forty-five were identified as learning disabled, seven were considered behavior disordered, seven were receiving speech services, seven others were health impaired, three …
Gratification Changes Among Country Music Radio Listeners, Larry E. Oathout
Gratification Changes Among Country Music Radio Listeners, Larry E. Oathout
Masters Theses
Several past studies explore the gratifications received by mass media users. However, no former research focuses on radio as a single medium and investigates how gratifications change over a person's lifespan. This study utilized an altered version of Elliott and Quattlebaum's (1979) ten media gratification list and questioned a 14 to 60 year old sample group about the gratifications they receive from country music radio. The researcher selected country music because it is the most popular radio format today and because it provided the wide age parameters needed for the study. Two hundred and thirty-nine users of an Internet country …
Local Newspaper Agenda-Setting As Reflected In Letters To The Editor, Thomas J. Mcdonnell
Local Newspaper Agenda-Setting As Reflected In Letters To The Editor, Thomas J. Mcdonnell
Masters Theses
In an effort to test the basic agenda-setting theory, a content analysis of three small to mid-size Illinois newspapers was done to determine what correlation, if any, existed between the content of the front page and the issues addressed in the letters to the editor section. Pearson product moment correlations were calculated for all issues addressed by the papers and the public. No support was found for basic agenda-setting in this study. There was partial support the hypothesis that local newspapers would be more effective setting the local issue agenda.
The Stabilization And Structural Adjustment Procedures Of The International Monetary Fund And The World Bank, Douglas A. Reznick
The Stabilization And Structural Adjustment Procedures Of The International Monetary Fund And The World Bank, Douglas A. Reznick
Masters Theses
The IMF and the World Bank began to attach structural adjustment restrictions to many of their loans to developing countries in the early 1980s. Some of these restrictions are not based on solid economic ground and are, in many cases not effective in improving the economic standing of the countries that receive loans. In addition, there was also a misdiagnosis of the problems that occurred in the underdeveloped countries of the world. Under the IMF/World Bank paradigm, the difficulties that most underdeveloped countries experienced were due to internal distortions and non-effective development strategies. Evidence to the contrary shows that many …
Effects Of Labeling Bias On Prognostic Outlook For Children With Behavior Problems, Julie D. Fox
Effects Of Labeling Bias On Prognostic Outlook For Children With Behavior Problems, Julie D. Fox
Masters Theses
Labeling bias refers to biases that might occur toward a person who has a particular label. This study investigated the effects of labeling bias on prognostic outlook for children as a function of diagnostic labels. School psychologists, regular and special education teachers, and introductory psychology students read a vignette that described a child with behavior problems. The vignette was held constant for all participants, but one of four labels (conduct disordered, socially maladjusted, serious emotionally disturbed, no exceptionality) was varied at the end of the vignette. Respondents then estimated the child's likelihood of future success in interpersonal relationships, the likelihood …
Achievement Assessment Techniques: Their Frequency Of Use, Perceived Importance, And Relation To Job Satisfaction, Robin L. Chesnut
Achievement Assessment Techniques: Their Frequency Of Use, Perceived Importance, And Relation To Job Satisfaction, Robin L. Chesnut
Masters Theses
A random sample of Nationally Certified School psychologists was surveyed to determine the current academic achievement assessment practices of school psychologists. Frequency of administration and importance of standardized achievement tests, interviews, observations and work sample collection was determined. Further, knowledge of, experience with, and future plans to develop skills in alternative achievement assessment areas was examined. Job satisfaction was investigated and its relationship to involvement with alternative assessment measures. Results indicate that assessment activities still consume about half (45%) of school psychologists' time followed by consultation (22%), and treatment (18%). Informal assessment techniques such as child, teacher, and parent interviews; …