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A Study Of The Recidivism Rate Of First Offenders At Louisiana Correctional And Industrial School Who Completed Vocational Training Through L.C.I.S./Sowela Institute, Beverly Ruth Travis, Harold J. Lebleu Dec 1984

A Study Of The Recidivism Rate Of First Offenders At Louisiana Correctional And Industrial School Who Completed Vocational Training Through L.C.I.S./Sowela Institute, Beverly Ruth Travis, Harold J. Lebleu

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

T h e p i.i. r p 0 s e o f' t h e s t 'J. d y w a. •=• t o d e t e r rn i n & i t" 1 n m a t e s r e 1 e a. s e d +' r c> rn i_ o u i s i a n a C o r r e c t i o n a. 1 a n d Industrial School who completed a v o c a t i o n a 1 t r a i n i …


Career Lines In The Area Of Mental Retardation, Charlotte Ballard Jun 1984

Career Lines In The Area Of Mental Retardation, Charlotte Ballard

Dissertations and Theses

In the past few years there has been a large growth in the number of facilities and services provided to the mentally retarded in the community, as contrasted to the institutional setting.

This thesis reviews some of the factors involved in the transition to community care for the mentally retarded as a background for an examination of the characteristics and perceptions of the persons who provide community care.


National Certification As A Performance Measure: Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, 1977-1982, Barbara Hall Dunn Jan 1984

National Certification As A Performance Measure: Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, 1977-1982, Barbara Hall Dunn

Theses and Dissertations

This research involved an analysis of data for 3,387 candidates who took the National Qualifying Examination for pediatric nurse practitioners/associates between 1977 and 1982. Those data were available from the National Board of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and Associates, which administers the examination, and its testing agency, the National Board of Medical Examiners. Included in the data were sociodemographic characteristics of examinees, characteristics of their nurse practitioner educational programs, and their composite examination scores.

The purpose of the research was to determine the ability of these sociodemographic and educational program variables to predict examination performance. Sociodemographic variables included: examinee age; highest …


The 1981 T.A.P.S. Program: A Survey In Five California Prisons On Vocational Job Placement And Recidivism Rates, Lorene B. Bird Jan 1984

The 1981 T.A.P.S. Program: A Survey In Five California Prisons On Vocational Job Placement And Recidivism Rates, Lorene B. Bird

Theses Digitization Project

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