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MINORITIES AND REPRESENTATIVE BUREAUCRACY: AN EXAMINATION OF AREAS OF COMPATIBILITY AND CONGRUENCE BETWEEN MERIT PRINCIPLES AND MINORITY VALUES
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One of the most controversial issues of the past two decades involves the area of civil rights, specifically, the achievement of equality for minority individuals within American society. To that effect both scholars and practitioners of... In examining reasons for the inability of minority individuals to make necessary inroads into the higher levels of the bureaucratic hierarchy that are essential for the attainment of bureaucratic representativeness, this study... The hypothesis that the cultural environment from which an individual originates effects that individual's perceptions of the Federal merit system and Federal merit principles, in short, the proposition that perceptions of merit are a...
A STUDY OF CONDITIONS THAT FACILITATE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS
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The purpose of this study was to investigate certain conditions which have been associated with successful school improvement projects, including: (1) the local principal's support, (2) faculty enthusiasm, (3) support of the district... One survey instrument was designed to measure the relative importance that FLS personnel attributed to each facilitating condition and the relative degree that each condition existed at the project site approximately nine months after... The responses of FLS teachers and administrators were aggregated to represent individual project sites. Facilitating conditions were analyzed in terms of their mean importance to FLS project personnel and their mean existence at the... It was found that: (1) existence ratings for the six facilitating conditions yielded highly reliable (internally consistent) measures; (2) existence ratings were significantly different from importance ratings made on the same conditions...
AN INVESTIGATION OF FISCAL FACTORS AFFECTING THE STATE AND LOCAL RELATIONSHIPS IN FUNDING SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the educational effects of the state and local partnership in financing public school districts within the state of Georgia. The specific objectives were as follows: (1) To determine what... The research questions that constituted the framework for examining Georgia public school financing systems and data were as follows: (1) What impact has Georgia's ADA system of school financing (K-12) had on funding at the local... The major findings of this study suggest the following conclusions: (1) The ADA system of financing Georgia public schools fails to consider the following factors: (a) grade level; (b) district size; (c) urban and rural areas; (d)...
THE EFFECTS OF SELECTED ART HISTORY LESSONS ON STUDIO ART PRODUCTION AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL
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The purpose of this investigation was to study a comparison of the effects of two methods of teaching selected concepts from Cubism on the studio production of middle school students. Differences between the results of the teaching of... One hundred and forty-one heterogenous members of the eighth grade art classes of the four middle schools in Dothan, Alabama, were the subject of the study. The middle school supervisor randomly assigned two schools to be in the control... The content and learning materials for the control group were the same as for the experimental group and both groups participated in integrated studio art activity. The study sheets, discussion, studio art activity, and use of The... Experimental groups who were exposed to the art history enrichment lessons demonstrated gains in performance of skills, originality, and Cubistic influences in their art production as measured by the McDearman Judgment Scale used by...
A COMPARISON OF ATTENTIONAL TRAINING UTILIZING A RESPONSE COST PROCEDURE AND METHYLPHENIDATE (RITALIN) ON THE CLASSROOM BEHAVIORS OF HYPERACTIVE CHILDREN
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In Experiments I and II, the relative efficacy of an attentional training program utilizing a response cost procedure, methylphenidate (ritalin), and baseline levels of behavior were evaluated on the on-task and academic performance of... The purpose of Experiment III was to assess the replicability and generalization of using an attentional training program with hyperactive children in an academic setting. A multiple baseline design across two academic areas (i.e., ... Teacher ratings in all three experiments suggested that attentional training was an effective intervention for improving the classroom behavior of hyperactive children and normalized them to a significant degree. Additionally, post...
PARENTAL ROLE CONCEPTS OF FOUR-YEAR-OLDS FROM HOME CARE AND DAY CARE FAMILIES
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The purpose of the study was to determine if there was a difference in parental perceptions of four-year-old children who have been cared for in home care or day care, and in child-rearing practices of parents who enrolled their children... The 51 children were 46-60 months old and came from intact, middle-class, Caucasian families. The day care children were enrolled in commercial day care centers. The Perception of Parents interview schedule and the Child-Rearing... "Mother" was the parent who was nicer, kissed, tucked children in bed, and cared for sick children. "Father" was the parent who yelled, punished, was smarter, and was the object of child's anger. Day care daughters named "mother" as the... Daughters of employed mothers stated that "mother" was smarter, played outside with the child, and gave ice cream cones more often than daughters with nonemployed mothers. Sons of employed mothers gave "father" as the parent who played... Fathers of home care sons used fewer behavioral rules than fathers of day care sons. Fathers of home care daughters used more rewards with children than fathers of day care daughters. Fathers of day care children preferred schoolage... Fathers of sons with employed mothers used fewer behavioral rules than fathers of sons with employed mothers. Fathers of daughters with nonemployed mothers rewarded children more often than fathers of daughters with employed mothers....
A SURVEY TO DETERMINE WHAT EMPLOYERS PERCEIVE AS DESIRABLE PREPARATION FOR ASPIRING NEWSPAPER PHOTOGRAPHERS IN ALABAMA, FLORIDA, AND GEORGIA
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The overall goal of this study was to identify what employers perceive as being the most desirable preparation for newspaper photographers. Specific objectives of this study were: (1)To determine the relative value that employers place... A survey instrument was designed to measure the perceived importance of specific experiences and knowledge about specific topics (subjects) relative to newspaper photography. The survey instrument was sent to the employer of... Replies were analyzed and, based on the perceived importance of specific experiences and knowledge about specific subjects, recommendations for career preparation were made. A two-year course of study was developed that would give...
AN EVALUATION OF GUIDELINES FOR THE REVIEW AND SELECTION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS BY CLASSROOM TEACHERS
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether guidelines for teachers on how to review and select instructional materials have any effect on their actual selection of materials, their teaching processes, and their students' test... Of the 115 original workshop participants, 24 were assigned to the three groups and proceeded to teach the lesson. These teachers provided feedback on the instructional process they used to teach the lesson, and they collected student attitude, pretest, and posttest data. One hundred and sixty one students were included in the analysis. (chi)('2) analyses were conducted on teacher background, teacher and student attitudes, and instructional-process data to determine whether groups of teachers differed in their background, attitudes, or the instructional processes. No... Student performance on a 10-item test administered following the lesson was analyzed by means of an analysis of covariance in which group assignment of their teachers was the independent variable; pretest scores were the covariate.... A formative product evaluation of the guidelines resulted in no suggestions for substantive content changes, but suggestions were to restructure the guidelines into a training section and into an application section.
PRESENTING SYMPTOMS OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS AT A PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE REPORTED SYMPTOMS OF BLACK AMERICAN, CUBAN AND WHITE AMERICAN CHILDREN
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This was a comparative study of the presenting symptoms, as reported by parents or parent surrogates, of Black American, Cuban, and White American children and adolescents at a psychiatric clinic. The sample consisted of 496 children, 18... The reported symptoms were viewed as being intimately related to the sociocultural setting of the child. The study attempted to describe and determine some of the factors that influenced the child's behavior. Data were gathered from clinic records of interviews conducted by professional social workers with parents or parent surrogates. Data were collected on the first 3 presenting symptoms for each child and on the social characteristics of... Major symptoms for Black American children in decreasing order were: underachievement, physical attacks, disobedience, stealing, and fighting. For Cuban children the modal symptom was underachievement, with fewer symptoms of disobedience...
IDENTIFYING AND VALIDATING CRITERIA FOR A COMPETENCY BASED VOCATIONAL TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM
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The purposes of the study were (1) to identify and validate criteria for describing a competency based vocational teacher education program in Florida, and (2) to determine if there were practically significant differences in perceptions... Data were collected through use of a mailed questionnaire containing 92 criteria statements. The statements, which were classified into five categories: (a) competency specifications, (b) instruction, (c) assessment, (d) governance and... Sixty-two (84%) of the 74 instruments distributed were returned. Usable data were provided by 61. Analyses of these data indicated that, of the 92 criteria statements submitted to the subjects, 82 received a mean rating of 3.0 or above, ... Differences of practical significance were found among respondents in different vocational program areas and among those with educational degrees of varying levels regarding importance of criteria. No differences of practical... Additional research is recommended for: (1) determining specific program indicators for each of the 82 validated criteria. (2) using the validated criteria to develop and field test an instrument to assess the extent to which Florida's...
SENATORIAL VOTING BEHAVIOR AND THE TEMPORAL PROXIMITY OF ELECTIONS
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The research is an attempt to empirically evaluate a number of questions pertaining to the voting behavior of U.S. senators. To that end, the activities of all 212 senators who served complete terms between 1958 and 1976 are examined. The first set of related hypotheses can be represented: The voting behavior of U.S. senators, measured on a liberal/conservative dimension, will tend to change immediately prior to their reelection effort. The hypothesis is tested by... Retiring senators do not display this ideological metamorphosis. Retiring Republicans become more conservative in the sixth year than they had been previously: Democrats become more liberal. The data also reveal a positive relationship (among reelection-seekers), between the level of perceived electoral risk and the magnitude of sixth-year change. The subsequent hypotheses suggest a positive relationship between senatorial and constituent conservatism. For reelection-seekers, the relationship is notably strong: for Democrats, r = .74, for Republicans, .64. For senators of both... We find that reelection-seekers participate in rollcalls significantly more often than retirees. Also, among reelection-seeking senators, unwillingness to indicate positions on issues increases significantly in the sixth year. In conclusion, senators occasionally vote contrary to constituency preferences, especially early in the term, when constituents are less attentive.
IDENTIFICATION OF COMPETENCIES FOR CORRECTIONAL EDUCATION CERTIFICATION IN FLORIDA
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The purpose of this descriptive study was to determine whether a set of specialized competencies necessary to perform effectively in the correctional education field could be identified and validated. If so, would such competencies be... Competencies were identified from a review of the literature and input from correctional educators and validated by a panel of experts. Through this process, 61 competency statements, using a taxonomy of the following six categories:... The 61 competencies were then incorporated into a survey instrument which was distributed to the entire population of 172 correctional educators employed in the nine Florida Department of Corrections youthful offender institutions. Ninty... Each survey competency statement was rated by respondents on a Likert-type scale as essential (5), important (4), useful (3), not important (2), and useless (1). In order to meet the criteria for a validated competency, the statement had... Findings of the study were that all 61 competencies were accepted as useful or higher. Preferred methods of learning the competencies were formal schooling or some form of formal or informal on-the-job training. Schooling was favored for... Suggestions for further research included means of utilizing the 61 validated statements in developing training programs and materials and evaluation instruments for correctional educators. In addition, differences in perceptions of the...
THE IMPACT OF THE FLORIDA ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION ACT OF 1978 AS IT RELATED TO DROPOUTS, DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS AND FUNDING
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This study was conducted to provide a formative evaluation of alternative education in Florida with respect to disciplinary actions, dropouts, and funding since enactment of the Alternative Education Act of 1978. Two major goals of this... Findings of this study provide an analysis of trends in dropouts, suspensions, and expulsions among all school districts in Florida from 1973-74 through 1979-80. Types of programs implemented, students served by these programs, ... Although it was concluded that alternative programs made no substantial differences in statewide trends in dropouts, and expulsions, changes among districts appeared to be more favorable over the 2 years, 1978-79 and 1979-80... Recommendations include: modification of programs; changes in funding method; development of guidelines to provide for more accountability; and, comprehensive evaluation of Florida programs after 2 or 3 additional years of development.
ACTIVITIES OF STATE LIBRARY AGENCIES IN CONTINUING EDUCATION OF PROFESSIONAL PUBLIC LIBRARIANS
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A survey of continuing education activities for professional public library personnel by state library agencies in the nine Southeastern states was carried out in the winter of 1980-81. Research questions focussed on policy, administrative commitment, planning activity, and program activities during the previous fiscal year. It was the policy of all state library agencies surveyed to conduct continuing education activities. Administrative commitment was reflected in reported expenditures by all states of $359, 547. Personnel totalled 71 persons involved with a full-time-equivalency of 5.02. No state had a full-time coordinator for continuing education. Two states had completed, viable needs assessments. One state had a completed, comprehensive statewide plan for continuing education. Administrative perceptions and decisions were found to be stronger determinants of activity than statutory authority or written policy or plans. Commitment of personnel and funding varied more widely than rankings of administrative... Reported participants in state agency continuing education offerings had declined to 3, 346 from 3, 925 during a 1972-1974 survey, while the numbers of opportunities had increased to 182 from 77. New types of opportunities, especially... Participants included 89% from public libraries and 58% with masters' degrees in library science. Library Services and Construction Act funds were used extensively to facilitate continuing education activity. Such use affected types of activities offered, inclusion of personnel from different types of libraries, and flexibility in...
The philosophical enterprise is a critical inquiry into the fundamental assumptions of what is real, what can be known, what is right and just, and how we can formulate precise patterns of sound reasoning about these fields of inquiry.... Because Marx himself pointed out that all the categories of political economy could be evolved from the concepts of private property and alienated labor, that the division of labor and private property are identical expressions, and that... Since Marx limits the development of communism to a period in which man's technological ability will provide all his necessities, and man will only have to be concerned with those products which have been added to his subsistence, it... If the economic 'infrastructure' is the source of man's social relations, his perceptions of reality, and his political ideology, then workers cannot gain self-control by doing away with the division of labor which is the form of all...
DEPRESSION, ATTRIBUTIONS, EXPECTANCY CONFIDENCE, JUDGMENTS OF CONTROL, AND EXPECTANCY SHIFTS: THREE HYPOTHESES OF EXPECTANCY SHIFTS
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The phenomena of expectancy shifts has been examined and discussed in the psychology literature for the past twenty years. Expectancy shifts are defined as changes in subjects' expectancies to succeed in response to success and failure... To test the predictions of these three explanations of expectancy shifts, nondepressed and depressed college students were exposed to an ostensibly skill determined task which was objectively uncontrollable. Subjects were exposed to one... The results indicated that although the measure used to assess stable-unstable attributions was not highly reliable, subjects' attributions on this dimension were, as predicted by the causal stability hypothesis, found to be related to...
AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF MOWRER'S THEORY OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY APPLIED TO A THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
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In this study the author has undertaken an empirical assessment of O. H. Mowrer's theory of psychopathology applied to a therapeutic community. Mowrer has asserted that much of all psychopathology is rooted in the inability of an... An organizational and psychosocial perspective is presented of Daytop Village, the current research site. The intent of the study was to gather socialization and anxiety data from six groups of subjects (N = 232) selected on the basis of... The data indicate that once the initial impact of the socialization change is made, it is sustained and moderately increases over time. No definite conclusions can be drawn in deciding whether the sociopath, mixed-type personality...
The months following treatment for alcoholism are crucial ones and the incidence of relapse is high. Many alcoholics lack the support systems and social skills for smooth reentry and readjustment to a sober existence in a community that... A structured training program was designed to address a number of specific issues related to aftercare and posttreatment functioning of alcoholics. Components of the training program included: identification and utilization of community...
A COMPARISON OF PARENT AND CHILD EDUCATION IN FACILITATING DIVORCE ADJUSTMENT AMONG CHILDREN
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In response to the increasing number of divorces involving children in recent years, several intervention models have been described in the literature. The educational model is one of these interventions for assisting children in their... Twenty children were recruited for participation in an eight week educational group, while another 14 children participated only in assessment procedures and did not receive treatment. The parents of the group of 14 children participated... This study found no significant differences between parent education and child education on postassessment scores. Drawing conclusions about the relative effectiveness of either treatment, however, should be made in the light of...
EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND INTERESTS OF SELECTED OLDER PERSONS IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDA
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The purpose of this study was to determine the educational needs and interests of selected older persons in Hillsborough County, Florida. Specifically, the study identified those needs that could be met by Hillsborough Community College.... When examining the group as a whole, Cultural Enrichment, Hobbies, Health and Medical Problems, and Recreation, were the most frequently indicated choices of learning experiences. The three subgroups were also analyzed in order to... The choices of desired learning experiences of recent participants in some type of educational class were then compared with those who had not participated. Two of the most frequently chosen desired learning experiences--Cultural...
DECISION RULES FOR APPLICATION OF PROGRAM STANDARDS
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The problem addressed by this research was the lack of procedures for use in establishing decision rules for application of program standards. The purpose of the research was to develop and evaluate procedures for establishing decison... Two research questions were addressed in the study. The first question was what factors should be considered when establishing decision rules for application of standards to education programs. The second question was what procedures... Through interviews with local education authorities and use of a paired comparison procedure, factors which should be considered when establishing decision rules were identified, defined, and evaluated as to their importance. Five... The results of the study indicated that five factors should be considered when establishing decision rules. The five factors were: current status of the educational programs under review; legal basis for the criteria and standards being... The utility of the Conventional Interacting Group Process and the Nominal Group Technique was compared. The results of the study indicated that both the Conventional Interacting Group Process and the Nominal Group Technique are...
THE EFFECTS OF AN INTERRELATED LANGUAGE SKILLS APPROACH ON A REMEDIAL PROGRAM FOR THE ADULT LEARNER
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This study investigated the effectiveness of a remedial program for the adult student based on an integrated language skills approach. The researcher designed and implemented a program based on this philosophy at the community college... An assessment of student performance in reading comprehension, vocabulary development, and written syntactic complexity was conducted after the experimental and control groups completed a regular college-level basic English course. A... Recommendations were suggested for (1) strengthening the written composition component of the remedial program, and (2) furthering research of remedial adult programs based on an integrated language skills approach.
ADOLESCENT PROVERB COMPREHENSION: RACIAL SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
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The problem of this investigation was to determine if: (1) there are differences between black eleventh grade students and white eleventh grade students in the ability to interpret proverbs, (2) either the socio-economic status of the... The population was composed of 90 eleventh grade students; 33 black students and 57 white students. All students had met the criterion of functional literacy as defined by the Florida Statewide Assessment Test, Part II (Communications... The instrument used in this study was The Proverb Test developed by the researcher. The instrument was field-tested for reliability and validity. Four hypotheses were tested. Hypothesis one stated that there is no significant difference between the mean scores of literate black eleventh grade students and literate white eleventh grade students in the ability to interpret proverbs.... Hypothesis two stated that there is no significant difference between the mean scores on a test of proverb comprehension of subjects of different socio-economic levels. The null hypothesis was accepted. Hypothesis three stated that there is no significant difference between the mean scores of subjects with parents of differing educational backgrounds on a test of proverb comprehension. The null hypothesis was rejected. Hypothesis four stated that there is no difference between the scores of literate black eleventh grade students and literate white eleventh grade students on individual proverb items. This hypothesis was tested using a frequency table. A... The conclusions from this study were: (1) that linguistic characteristics associated with race constitute a factor in the ability to understand and apply the common proverbs used in this study; (2) that family income is not a factor in...
Child second language acquisition: Language learning strategies and sources of errors
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Research findings show that studying the acquisition of a second language in natural situations not only provides information about second language learning but also helps ESL teachers adopt themselves to the learners' needs and find out... To explore more fully the language acquisition process by close longitudinal observation, this study was designed to examine child second language acquisition at a fairly advance level by analyzing an adequate sample of oral English... The subjects achieved the same level of maturity in syntactic development as their native peers in $2{1\over2}$ years. This faster rate of development implies that syntax and embedding ability might be transferred to the second language... In three different activities, the growth rate was the same but the average T-unit length differed. Sixty-five percent of total errors were developmental errors but the remaining thirty-five percent transfer errors were more persistent...
AN EXAMINATION OF THE PERCEPTIONS OF SELECTED EDUCATIONAL LEADERS AND POLICYMAKERS IN ALABAMA RELATIVE TO THE DESIRED GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE FOR THE STATE'S 43 PUBLIC TWO-YEAR INSTITUTIONS
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The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of selected educational leaders and policymakers relative to the desired governance structrue for the State's 43 public, two-year institutions. The State of Alabama has 43 public... Within the past seven year's plans have been developed in the State of Alabama which address a governance problem with the two-year institutions. Additionally, a Special Committee to evaluate the Alabama Commission on Higher Education, ... Data were obtained from an instrument devised by the researcher. The instrument was designed to identify the subjects' perceptions of governance in four categories: (1)The perception of the type of acceptable state level governance; (2... The results of the study indicate that, according to the selected educational leaders in the State of Alabama, a single state level system of governance for all two-year institutions is the desired structure for the State of Alabama. There is no difference in the type of state level governance desired according to the type of two-year institutions. Although the educational leaders, as a whole, indicated that the single system was acceptable, the presidents of... The study further revealed that there is no basic difference in the type of state level governance favored by educational leaders compared with those favored by non-educational leaders. The majority of the educational leaders and... The conclusion of the study indicate that a single system for all two-year institutions is acceptable by both the educational leaders and the policymakers. The agency which will give control and direction to the single system will be the...
REFLECTIONS OF THE THEOLOGICAL TRADITION OF ST. AUGUSTINE IN CERVANTES
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This dissertation investigates certain theological principles of the tradition established by St. Augustine which are reflected in a number of the works of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. These principles are gathered from the City of God, ... Chapter I examines the salient religious ideas of Cervantes utilizing data both from his life and from his works. Chapter II posits the various ways through which Cervantes would have become acquainted with the elements of the... Chapter III commences an investigation of the first Augustinian principle which is that of the influence placed on faith over reason. In the dissertation, various examples of the manifestation of how faith is more important than reason... Chapter IV investigates Christian dualism and how this principle applies to the works of Cervantes. Christian dualism is an important element of the religious tradition which can be traced back to St. Augustine himself in the above-cited... Chapter V studies the concepts of saving grace, free will, and original sin. These three important religious elements, common to the tradition established by St. Augustine, are most operative in the works of Cervantes. Certain works, ... All of the above theological elements are investigated and traced within the entirety of such Cervantine writings as Persiles, El coloquio de los perros, El curioso impertinente. Certain episodes of the Quijote involve or are motivated...
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MALE AND FEMALE PERCEPTIONS OF LEADERSHIP STYLES OF SELECTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS IN FLORIDA
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The purpose of this study was to investigate leadership styles of selected female and male Florida elementary public school principals as perceived by the principals and by samples of female and male subordinates utilizing Hersey and... Through the use of Hersey and Blanchard's Leadership Effectiveness Adaptability Description (LEAD SELF and LEAD OTHER) and a demographic data sheet, data were collected from a sample of 28 elementary public school principals (15 females... This study indicated that the largest number of principals (15) perceived their leadership behavior as High Relationship, Low Task (Style 3). A comparison of principal perceptions of their leadership styles with those of their... The frequency distribution of LEAD OTHER scores of subordinates of female principals by sex indicated that the largest number of female subordinates (23.75) perceived female principal leadership behavior as High Relationship, Low Task ... The frequency distribution of LEAD OTHER scores of subordinates of male principals by sex showed that an equal number of female subordinates (14.5) perceived the male principal leadership behavior as falling in two styles: High Task, ... A Multiple Correlation Coefficient at the .01 level was used to determine if there was a significant relationship between the demographic variables and leadership styles. A significant weak to moderate positive relationship (.342) was... Recommendations for further research studies included replication with a larger sample to determine if a significant difference in perception of dominant leadership style by male and by female principals exists and a cultural study of...
ESTIMATION AND PREDICTION FOR EXPONENTIAL TIME SERIES MODELS
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This work is concerned with the study of stationary time series models in which the marginal distribution of the observations follows an exponential distribution. This is in contrast to the standard models in the literature where the...
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE INCARCERATED ADULTS IN THE ABILITY TO DETECT FALLACIES IN REASONING
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The following objectives were stated for this investigation: (1) To determine if there is a significant difference in the ability to detect written fallacies in reasoning between incarcerated male and female adults. (2) To determine if... The sample consisted of 234 incarcerated adults from two offender rehabilitation units. The sample included 41 male personal offenders, 107 male property offenders, 36 female personal offenders and 50 female property offenders. All... The following conclusions were drawn: There was no significant difference in the ability to detect written fallacies in reasoning between incarcerated male and female adults and there was no significant difference in the ability to...
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF THE SWAMPING PHENOMENON ON SEVERAL BLOCK PROCEDURES FOR MULTIPLE OUTLIERS IN UNIVARIATE SAMPLES
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Statistical outliers have been an issue of concern to researchers for over two centuries, and are the focus of this study. Sources of outliers, and various means for dealing with them are discussed. Also presented are general... Specifically, the primary aim of this study is to assess the susceptibility to swamping of four block procedures for multiple outliers in univariate samples. Pseudo-random samples are generated from a unit normal distribution, and varying numbers of upper outliers are placed in them according to specified criteria. A swamping index is created which reflects the relative vulnerability of each... The results of this investigation reveal that the four block tests disagree in their respective susceptibilities to swamping depending upon sample size and the prespecified number of outliers assumed to be present. Rank orderings of... Recommendations concerning the appropriate application of the four block procedures under differing situations, and proposals for further research, are advanced.
RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION PROCEDURES IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ESCAMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA
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The problem for this study was to examine the relationship between the importance of recruitment and retention efforts offered by a public junior college and an upper level university and the degree to which these services were provided, ... This research study was descriptive in nature. Elements that should be included in recruitment and retention programs and unique characteristics of high risk minority students were identified from the review of the literature. A... The following major conclusions were drawn from the findings of this study: (1) the assumption that the programs, at both institutions, were somewhat relevant and effective in meeting student needs; (2) only a moderate relationship...
It was hypothesized that the desire for equity in relationships and the desire for validation from significant others are common human concerns which affect marital relationship satisfaction. Sixty married couples from Colorado Springs, ...
A STUDY OF THE SYSTEMATICS OF LOW-LYING LEVELS IN NUCLEI IN THE MASS REGION A=80 WITH A NIM CONTROLLED RABBIT SYSTEM
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Heavy ion reactions were used to produce nuclei away from beta stability in the mass region A(TURNEQ)80. The irradiated targets were transported to an isolated detector site using a rapid target transfer (Rabbit) system to aid in the... Lifetime measurements were used to study the decay of ('79)Sr produced in the reaction ('54)Fe + ('28)Si at 90 MeV (lab). The lifetime of the ground state of ('79)Sr was measured and a positron feeding to the 39.3-keV level in ('79)Rb... The reaction ('68)Zn + ('16)O was also studied with the gamma-gamma coincidence technique. Extensive level schemes were constructed and new levels were established for the decays of ('81)Rb and ('81)Sr. The beta-gamma coincidence... The information from these measurements as well as information previously known are then used to look for apparent systematics in a number of isotopes of Zr, Y, Sr, Rb and Kr. Possible explanations of these trends are given in terms of...
THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE LEADERSHIP STYLE OF MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPALS AND SELECTED SCHOOL PROBLEMS
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The problem addressed by this study was to determine if significant relationships existed between the leadership style of the principal and the kinds and severity of administrative problems, including disciplinary problems, found in the... Subjects of this study included 30 Florida middle school principals and 450 Florida middle school students. The Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire--Form XII Self instrument and a demographic information sheet were used to collect... The canonical correlational analysis was used to determine if a significant relationship at the .05 level existed between the leadership style of the principals and identified school problems. The findings of the study indicated the following: (1) Student respondents perceived discipline as the most severe problem area existing in the schools. Students identified profanity; cheating; theft; and violence or threats of violence...
THERMALLY REVERSIBLE GELATION IN SOLUTIONS OF LINEAR POLYETHYLENE AND ETHYLENE-BUTENE COPOLYMERS
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Fractions of both linear polyethylene and ethylene-butene copolymers were found to form thermally reversible gels when crystallized from quiescent p-xylene solutions. For linear polyethylene, gels were observed over the molecular weight... Studies of the crystallite thickness and accompanying thermodynamic properties demonstrated that the gels were composed of lamellar crystallites very similar in nature to those shown to be characteristic of crystallization from dilute... Polarized light microscopy studies revealed in all the gels studied large supermolecular structures up to 100 microns in length. The concentration where adjacent supermolecular structures begin to exhibit substantial overlap was found to... In conclusion, this work showed thermally reversible gelation to be a more general aspect of polymer crystallization than had been thought previously.
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SELECTED VARIABLES IN SPECIAL EDUCATION AND REGULAR CLASSROOM TEACHERS' ATTITUDES TOWARD THE HANDICAPPED STUDENT
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This is a descriptive study of Florida teachers and their attitudes toward disabled learners. As a result of Public Law 94-142 with its concept of "least restrictive environment, regular classroom teachers have special need students in... The population included secondary school teachers selected as representive of the entire state. Two sampling populations were used: first, special education teachers and second, social studies and math teachers. Teachers within these... The data gathering instrument consisted of a biographical checklist, the Attitude Toward Disabled People Scale by Yuker, Block, and Younng, the Empathy Scale by Robert Hogan, and the Survey of Ethical Attitudes by Robert Hogan. The... Responses from 71 percent of the teachers sampled were received and computed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Analysis of variance revealed that there is a significant difference between special educators and regular classroom teachers' attitudes toward the disabled. There were also significant differences among the teachers of each group,... A path analysis of the survey items revealed that there were causal relationships between variables. The strongest positive relationship was found between empathy and attitude toward disabled people. Age and number of years teaching had... Recommendations include: inservice teacher training that considers differences of teachers, incorporation of empathy training into teacher education programs, planning by Teacher Education Centers for P.L. 94-142 workshops. Further research was recommended: duplication of the study using preservice teachers; examination of other variables that could effect teachers attitude; experimental research using existing inservice programs; in-school research to...
AN ANALYSIS OF THE RESULTS OF FLORIDA'S USE LAW PROGRAM WITH SUGGESTED IMPLICATIONS FOR LEGISLATIVELY DIRECTED SOCIAL CHANGE PROGRAMS
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The present study was concerned with examining the results of Florida's Use Law Program and applying these results to explore the relationship between law and social change. Five variables, which influence the results achieved by... In order to measure the results obtained by Florida's Use Law Program economic data were gathered for the experimental and comparison groups three years before and three years after the implementation of the program. The two-way analysis... Results revealed that there were no significant differences between the experimental and comparison groups on any of the economic measures tested. It was concluded that Florida's Use Law Program did not significantly improve the economic... The results of the present study were used to make suggestions to law makers and those involved in implementing social change programs.
PARTIAL SEQUENTIAL TESTS FOR THE MEAN OF A NORMAL DISTRIBUTION
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Recently, Billard (1977) introduced a truncated partial sequential procedure for testing a null hypothesis about a normal mean with known variance against a two-sided alternative hypothesis. That procedure had the disadvantage that a... For the case of unknown variance and a one-sided alternative hypothesis, there are a number of tests, the best known of which are those of Wald (1947) and Barnard (1952). These tests have concerned themselves with tests for units of (mu)... The ideas developed for the partial sequential t-test are extended to develop tests of hypotheses concerning the parameters of a simple linear regression equation, general linear hypotheses and hypotheses about the mean of special cases...
COMPARISON OF STIMULUS CONTROL BY BLISS AND REBUS SYMBOLS IN THE ACQUISITION OF MANUAL COMMUNICATION BY NONVERBAL MENTALLY RETARDED SUBJECTS
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The purpose of this study was to compare the controlling function of two standardized visual symbol systems used as antecedent stimuli in training manual communication to four nonverbal moderately mentally retarded school aged children....
BIOGENETICALLY PATTERNED STEREOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS OF EUDESMOLS VIA NITRONE-OLEFIN CYCLOADDITIONS
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((+OR-))-(alpha)-Eudesmol (1)* was synthesized in eleven steps from methyl farnesate (2) via the intramolecular 1, 3-dipolar cycloaddition of E-monocyclofarnesal nitrone (3). The cycloaddition of this nitrone afforded two isoxazolidines 4... The double bond isomer ((+OR-))-(beta)-eudesmol (8) was obtained when water was present in the quaternization reaction mixture of 7. This double bond isomerization was apparently initiated by a reversible deprotonation of the C-8 methyl... The synthesis of the three isomers of (alpha)-eudesmol as well as epi-(beta)- eudesmol (10) were realized from this approach. Epi-(alpha)-eudesmol(11) and the epi-(beta)- isomer 10 were obtained by the same reactionsequences from 5. The... cis-(alpha)-eudesmol (15) and cis-(alpha)-eudesmol (16). *See abstract accompanying dissertation for the structures of the numbered compounds.
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