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A study of fund-raising at the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) affiliated public black colleges and universities
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The value of public black colleges has been well-documented. These institutions have played an important role toward ensuring minority participation in higher education. Yet, unstable government support has threatened their survival. The... The conceptual framework, the resource dependency model, evolved from organizational theory. In resource dependency, organizations must competitively acquire and maintain resources from the environment to survive (Pfeffer & Salancik, ... The results showed that the mean enrollment for state colleges (SCU) was 3, 798, land-grant institutions (LGI) 3, 500, and two-year colleges (TYI) 931. The first fund-raising programs in SCU and LGI were established over thirty years ago...
A study of the effectiveness of public library service to young adults
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This study examined the effectiveness of the young adult library specialist and the generalist librarian in reference to user satisfaction scores given by young adult clientele and based on their evaluation of their local public library.... Based on the findings of the study, the following conclusion was reached: a specialist young adult librarian makes a significantly positive difference in user satisfaction scores for the following factors: a feeling of welcome to the... The major recommendation of this study is that young adult public library users be provided with a young adult specialist and a room in the public library dedicated to their special needs. These needs include improved collection strength... Other recommendations and suggestions for further study are also included.
Study of redox and complexation interactions of neptunium with humic acid and chemical analogs
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The redox and complexation interactions of neptunium with humic acid and chemical analogs are studied in this research by solvent extraction and spectrophotometry. In the redox study, dicarboxylic acids and substituted phenolic compounds are selected as models for humic acids. Np(VI) is found to be reduced to Np(V) by both series of compounds, but phenolic compounds reduce Np(VI) more rapidly under... Np(VI) is reduced rapidly by humic acid to Np(V), which exists as free Np(V) and Np(V)-humate complex. In the subsequent study of complexation between Np(V) and humic acid, Np(V) is found to form a single type of complex with humic acid...
Trends in crime rates in postwar Japan: A structural perspective
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The present study examined which factors affect the national crime trends in postwar Japan from an integrated theoretical perspective, including a critical economic theory and theories of deterrence and social control. The primary focus...
The purpose of this dissertation is to, first outline a theory of Zeta regularized products which will work for sequences of complex numbers, and second to use this theory to compute Zeta regularized products and modular constants for... The gamma function $\Gamma(z)$ is represented as the ratio of two Zeta regularized products. This relation is then extended to define multiple gamma functions as the ratio of two corresponding Zeta regularized products. A full account of... Some other special functions are also discussed. Namely Jacobi's theta function $\theta\sb1$, the Weierstrass sigma function $\sigma(z), $ and $P(z\vert\tau)$ defined by The determinant of the Laplacian on an n-dimensional flat Torus is computed for $n \geq$ 2, by computing
An empirical examination of firm-specific characteristics associated with differential information environments
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Bhushan (1989), O'Brien and Bhushan (1990) and Brennan and Hughes (1991) have identified specific firm characteristics that they find to be associated with either the level of analyst following or year-to-year changes in security analyst... Drawing upon findings reported in the "earnings response coefficient" literature, I argue that analysts have an incentive to identify and follow those firms whose time-series properties reveal historically persistent earnings innovations... The results indicate that analysts can and do identify those firms with more persistent and less predictable earnings and concentrate research effort on these companies vis-a-vis other sample firms. The hypotheses of King et al. (1990)...
Public entrepreneurship in Florida local government administration
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The problem. Public entrepreneurship is increasingly regarded as the means to manage governmental organizations, even through, the approach has not been fully investigated and researched. The term entrepreneurship is often overused and... Research methods and strategies. Rather than concentrate on an ideal definition, the identification of traits, or a single influential person, this dissertation explores public entrepreneurship as an evolutionary process that follows... Findings and conclusions. Each case provides a profile of the entrepreneurial process in local government and exposes variations in the decision-making processes by which entrepreneurial activities are formed and operationalized. Public...
Marginal labor and county-level punishment patterns in Florida during the 1980s
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This study looked at the impact of marginal and surplus labor on criminal punishment. The primary objectives of this study were: (1) to provide a more comprehensive assessment of the relationship between surplus labor and criminal... The findings indicate that unemployment does predict prison and probation admissions. No support for the trade-off thesis was found. The most significant predictor of punishment rates was the percent of young, black males in the...
We present a preliminary test for nonlinear structure in large data sets. This procedure consists of transforming the data to remove the correlations, then discretizing the data and finally, studying the cell counts in the resulting...
Communication, cognition, emotion and conversation between distressed spouses in a clinical setting: A constructivist explanation
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Maturana's (1988) theory of constituted reality is used to explain the relationships among language, cognitive domain and emotion. His theory is applied to explain distressed couples' conversations about their own marital problems. The...
The migration and generation of oceanic eddies along western boundaries
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Since oceanic eddies migrate westward, they eventually reach the western boundaries of the oceans. Therefore, it is of interest to find out in which direction a surface eddy moves after eddies collide with walls. First, we show... Our second aim is to study the detailed temporal evolution of an eddy colliding with a wall on an f-plane using a barotropic, as well as a one-and-a-half-layer contour dynamics model. At t = 0, the circular eddy is conceptually cut off... Possible applications of these models to various oceanic situations are discussed.
Resonance Raman characterization of N(alpha)-acetyl-microperoxidase-8 and its high valent intermediates
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A variety of methods have been used to explore the suitability of Ac-MP-8 as a water soluble, non-aggregating ferric heme model for the peroxidases. In particular, resonance Raman spectroscopy has been used to investigate the structure... The addition of two equivalents of hydroperoxide to Ac-MP-8 at pH 7.0 gives a green intermediate whose optical spectrum resembles that of HRP compound I and other $\rm\sp2A\sb{2u}$ porphyrin $\pi$-cation radicals. The resonance Raman...
Students filming in Oglesby Union while others watch
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Photograph, black and white, of students filming in Oglesby Union while others watch. Students stand near a camera, while others stand around watching, and a few students sit at tables and watch.
Estimating and modeling gene flow for a spatially distributed species
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We model the genetic behavior of a large population of individuals which is to some extent subdivided into colonies. At some stage of the life cycle there is genetic exchange among the colonies due to migration. We consider the... The Island Model assumes that migrants into a given colony are equally likely to come from any of the other colonies. In the Island Model with all mutations producing new alleles (the infinite-allele model), we use a moment argument to... If migration is more likely to be from nearest-neighbor colonies, then the Stepping-Stone Model is an appropriate extension of the Island Model. For a stepping-stone migration pattern we consider the two-allele case, and study the...
The effects of on-hold telephone music on number of premature disconnections to a state-wide protective services abuse hot line
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This study investigated the effects of music styles on number of lost calls (premature disconnections) to a busy State Abuse Hot Line. The music that callers listened to when put on hold while waiting for an available counselor, was controlled for a period of ten weeks. The five musical styles used were: classical, popular, music arranged for relaxation, country and... The Newman-Keuls Multiple Comparison Procedure revealed significance between most lost calls during relaxation and jazz music and between relaxation and country music. The results indicated that the average of lost calls was greatest...
Far infrared properties of uranium nickel tin, thorium nickel tin, and granular yttrium barium(2) copper(3) oxygen(x) in the correlated states
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Far infrared transmission properties of metallic and insulating granular free standing $\rm YBa\sb2Cu\sb3O\sb{x}$ thin films were measured. Since no substrate was present, we were able to cover a 10-650 cm$\sp{-1}$ frequency range, wider... The transmission spectra of the metallic films were measured both in the normal and the superconducting states. These films behaved as a mixture of conducting and insulating small grains in the vicinity of the percolation threshold. The... We also measured the reflectance spectra of modified Heusler alloys, UNiSn and ThNiSn, at temperatures 10-300 K in the frequency range 10-700 cm$\sp{-1}, $ and at room temperature in the range 10-44800 cm$\sp{-1}.$ These are the first...
This study investigates what literature, drama, the visual arts, and music may reveal about the place of dance in society through the early sixteenth century. Its emphasis is on attitudes, emotions, and beliefs connected with dance, ... Dance music and manuals through the fifteenth century are examined to determine the state of scholarly consensus regarding performance practice prior to the sixteenth century. The study of musical instrumentation is shown to be a... Preaching manuals of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and other moralizing materials are surveyed for references to dance; they reveal a generally negative attitude toward dance, and specifically warn against the wiles of dancing... Literature and the visual arts from the period between 1250 and 1525 have been surveyed for references to dance. Those references illustrate the role of dance in social institutions, as entertainment, emotional expression, and... The results of the analysis and comparison among the arts reveal a rich variety of conflicting attitudes toward dance. Dance was an indispensable social skill and, at the same time, an activity dangerous for the soul.
The effects of exile in a Colonial society on the protagonists of four of Graham Greene's novels: The Heart of the Matter, The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, and A Burnt-Out Case
The proportional relationships constructed by two fifth-grade girls
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Solving proportion problems in schools is a difficult task for most children. Often techniques for solving fractions are utilized in teaching ratio and proportion. These techniques may prove useful for obtaining a solution, they do not... Researchers have studied proportional reasoning and have described the developmental stage at which individuals are able to solve proportional reasoning tasks, as well as the individual solution strategies. While this body of research... Individual interviews, problem solving episodes, and personal journals were the primary tools used in collecting data for this study. The problem solving episodes became the key component in observing and interacting with the... The researcher found that individuals must have many elaborated constructions to solve proportion tasks. Without these elaborated constructions the individual is unable to effectively coordinate the information needed to solve proportion...
The motivational effects of norm-referenced, knowledge-of-results, and criterion-referenced feedback
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of three different forms of feedback on student goal orientation, belief in whether ability could be improved on a task, and continuing motivation to learn. Eighty four high school...
Treatment information channels and treatment information-seeking behavior of HIV positive persons in Dade County, Florida: A qualitative study
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This study examined the treatment information seeking behavior and use of treatment information channels/sources by individuals with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 in Dade County, Florida. The Centers of Disease Control... The data was gathered using a semi-structured interview supported by written questionnaires seeking information on self-reported symptoms, the use of 45 types of information sources within the last two months, and demographic data. The...
The effect of vibrotactile stimulation, instrumentation, and pre-composed melodies on physiological and behavioral responses of profoundly retarded children and adults
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Fifteen profoundly handicapped clients ages 6-46 residing in a facility for the developmentally disabled served as subjects for this study. Subjects received four music therapy treatments; two with vibrotactile stimulation and two... Respirations and pulse rate served as physiological measures while observations of eye movement, facial expression, vocalizations, and motor movement served as behavioral measures. Deep inhalations were shown to increase significantly...
Photograph, color, of School of Nursing Pinning Ceremony; April 24, 1992. A woman stands behind a podium and talks into a mircophone. The bottom of the photograph reads, FSU - School of Nursing Pinning Ceremony April 24, 1992.
The effects of a teacher-directed method and an individualized learning program in teaching motor skills to college students
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The purpose of this study was two-fold: (1) To compare the effects of a teacher-directed method and an individualized learning packet in teaching a unit of beginning badminton skills to college students. (2) To determine the attitude of... Seventy students were selected from two activity courses in the Physical Education and Recreation Department at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia, to serve as the population samples to be studied. These students were not... At the end of the formal instruction a questionnaire was administered by the investigator in order to determine the students' perceptions concerning the value of the badminton course. The t-test of significant difference indicated at the...
School district principal appraisal process: Case analysis of an approach derived from competency and effective leadership research
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The purpose of this study was to assess the Escambia County Performance Appraisal System in both design and process. The study incorporated naturalistic methods of inquiry and was reported in a narrative format. This format was selected... Four principals participating in the appraisal system were studied. Fieldwork was conducted at each school site over a year and a half period of time. Evidence in this narrative case study was derived from documents, interviews, and from... The study provides a chronological narrative of the assessment process, and the role relationship between principals and the supervisor. It further provides an interpretive analysis of the documents, and observations... The study supports the research findings of effective leadership and principal competencies used to develop the Escambia County Performance Appraisal System. Using the constant comparison methods, the study identifies specific... The study findings define the need for training, district level support, and a clarification of the role of the supervisor. The study concludes with recommendations for improving the appraisal performance of the principal.
Assessment of psychosocial treatment integrity in an inpatient psychiatric setting: Can retrospective self-ratings by clinicians reflect actual behavior?
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In residential treatment settings, it is essential for many clinical and research purposes to conduct high-quality assessments of the integrity of treatment, that is, the extent to which the intended therapy is occurring. When...
The call experience of Southern Baptist ministers and its dynamic influence on their vocation
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This dissertation examines the call experience of various religious leaders as recorded in literature, and compares these to the call experiences of contemporary Southern Baptist ministers. The analysis and comparison will be accomplished through application of a five-stage paradigm taken from Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces and Roger Walsh's Spirit of Shamanism. Chapter One describes and compares the call experience of the shaman, the biblical prophet, and reformational literature on the call to ministry. Campbell's paradigm is applied to the specific ethnography of Black Elk as a shaman, the... Chapter Two presents a brief history of the Baptists. The historical data focuses on the development, and growth of the Colonial Baptists, the Southern Baptists, and the Florida Baptists. Chapter Three develops further the methodology and research context of this study. It presents biographical data on the research group, and historical data on Wakulla County and the Southern Baptist churches of Wakulla County. In... Chapter Four presents the interview data and analyzes it in terms of the first two stages of Campbell's paradigm. These two stages incorporate the early childhood and life experiences, and the awakening and call to adventure of the... Chapter Five examines the ethnographic interview material for the final three stages of Campbell's paradigm dealing with religious vocation. These three stages incorporate discipline and training, culmination of the quest, and... Finally, in Chapter Six the religious call experiences of the shaman, and the minister are compared within the context of Campbell's paradigm. This comparison will seek to examine how the call experiences and...
An exploratory study of successful African-American couples, their social construction of marriage and the sociological, psychological and sociocultural attributes of their relationships
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Existing research in the field of marriage report that African-American marriages are less happy, less stable and different from other marriages. These findings are based on correlates of marital satisfaction that are culturally... To achieve this end the African Self-Consciousness Scale (ASC) was used to attain level of acculturation, a basic demographic scale was used to attain socio-economic status, and an intensive interview utilizing the narrative discourse...
A comparative analysis of ethical judgments in consumer decision-making
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The decisions made within the organization can have a significant impact on the perceptions that consumers have of the organization. Thus, if the decisions made by the organization conflict with the ethical thought processes and value... Marketing has been an area within the organization where ethical behavior has been scrutinized to a large extent. This scrutiny is due in large part to the role of the consumer. The impact of the ethical behavior of marketers within the... This dissertation assesses the ethical thought processes of groups of consumers--namely, Blacks and Non-Blacks, income levels, religious affiliations, and gender. Through questionnaires, student consumers evaluated the behavior of... Findings indicated that significant differences were found between gender, and limited support was found between race and religious affiliation. No support was found for differences between income levels. In addition, value structures...
Development and validation of a model for evaluating aircrew checklists
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For the past forty years, alternative methods and techniques have been researched and developed in light of reducing the burgeoning knowledge and memory requirements of individual workers. One such method is reliance on print-based job... Checklists are an invaluable resource and a virtual necessity in the aircraft cockpit. Paper checklists are commonly used in the aircraft cockpit for many of the normal and emergency flight procedures. Yet, there is contention within the... The question the aviation industry and governmental regulators must confront is whether the current design of checklists is a problem. Degani and Wiener (1990) and Turner and Huntley (1991) contend that traditional flight-deck checklist... The intent of this study was to (a) document the practices and procedures that guide the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of checklists and job aids in some of the major airlines, and (b) to develop and field test a... A three phase development and validation approach was used in this study that included: (a) an analysis of the current status of aircrew checklist development in the aviation industry, (b) development of a model and job aid for...
Training and development: The Neely D. Gardner approach
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The study examined and described Gardner's theory of training and development and its application. The theory brings to the public sector new ideas which challenge the traditional training and development approaches. Gardner believed in... Gardner theorized that it was possible to create an organizational setting which produced continuous training and learning. The establishment of this setting required three ingredients: a climate allowing what was learned to be utilized;... The process of creating these ingredients required the acceptance within an organization of the notion that everyone in the organization is a trainer and that every transaction is a training event, the acceptance of the action training... There is evidence that Gardner's theory offers a successful strategy for organizational change. His theory provides an alternative to the traditional management approach which seems to be ineffective in the contemporary environment.
Sexual satisfaction and childbirth: A treatment study
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Considerable evidence exists that pregnancy disrupts sexual activity and intimacy among married couples. In this study, the impact of a psychoeducational intervention on the sexual and marital satisfaction, and sexual behavior was... Follow-up data were collected at three months postpartum, using the Demographics, Sexual Diversity, and Sexual Frequency Scales of Pregnancy and Sexuality Questionnaire developed for this study; and the Marital Satisfaction, Sexual... Consistent with the reports of others in the literature, significant correlations were found between communication and diversity and frequency of sexual activity at three months postpartum among men in the treatment group, but not among... Recommendations for future research were offered to address limitations of the present study and other issues. In particular, replication of this study using more intensive, repeated psychoeducational interventions in group formats and...
The institutional definition of art: A pragmatic reconstruction
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Institutional theories of art define works of art within a context of surrounding social relations, and in terms of their functions as the loci for specific social activities. The best known example of an institutional theory of art is... The deficiencies of the theory may, however, be remedied with a thorough description of the intersubjectivity of aesthetic creation and appreciation. Toward this end, the pragmatic interactionism of John Dewey and the social behaviorism... To execute this reconstruction, I draw upon Dewey's account of human propensities to respond creatively to novel situations arising in the everyday interactions between living creatures and a world--responses that reach apotheosis in... Finally, my pragmatic reconstruction of the institutional theory clarifies the functional roles that one may fill within the artworld, may be used to ground an analysis of the unique value of the artworld as a social institution.
Photograph, color, of FSU Homecoming 1992. A decorated table is pictured. Garnet and gold balloons are in a black and gold pot, with a sign that says "57, also in garnet and gold.
The effects of self-focus and self-concept of ability on performance, effort, and interest
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of variations in the levels of self-focus and general and task-specific self-concepts of ability on performance, effort, and continuing interest. It was hypothesized that in... A total of 129 ninth and tenth graders from a high school in a small southern city participated in the study. Premeasures of reading and problem solving ability and test anxiety were collected and used as covariates. Subjects were... The treatment effects for performance, and interest were analyzed using ANCOVA. The results indicate that students in the high self-focus group performed more poorly on the lesson posttest, and expended less effort than students...
Photograph, color, of FSU Homecoming 1992. A woman stands at a podium, talking. The podium reads, The Augustus Turnbull Florida State Conference Center.
A political systems analysis of the NCAA Presidents Commission: 1984-1991
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Easton's model of political systems was used to conduct an historical analysis of the NCAA Presidents Commission's contributions to the reform of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). A review of the literature revealed... The study identified the stresses acting on the Presidents Commission, how they were communicated, how the Commission coped with the stress, the processes which existed to relieve the stress, the critical points in the Commission's... The stresses acting upon the Presidents Commission included issues relating to academics, economics, institutional control and integrity, and student life. The sources of stress were the members of the Commission, the NCAA Council, ... The critical points in the Commission's history came when a number of its major legislative proposals failed at the 1987 special NCAA Convention, and when the Commission did not sponsor any legislation at the 1988 annual Convention. The...
Faculty mentor behaviors in community colleges and research universities
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Emergent Mentor Behavior of community college and research university faculty, from hard and soft disciplines, was studied to determine the frequency and type of behavior in which they engaged in their normal role and customary behavior.... Emergent Mentor Behavior was identified as the composite score of seven (7) elements of mentor behavior described by Levinson (1978): teach, sponsor, counsel, host guide, exemplar, developer of skills and intellect and supporter of the... The differences between mean scores of faculty at a community college and a research university in Hard and Soft academic disciplines were computed. An analysis of variance was used to determine the significance of the differences. Type... Frequency of Emergent Mentor Behavior (EMB) was identified by a composite score of all mentor behavior element scores. Type of mentor behavior was identified by a composite score derived from four (4) behavior statements representing... Faculty were found to engage in emergent mentor behavior, sometimes, once or twice per month. The most frequent mentor behavior element engaged in by faculty was supporter of the dream and the least frequent behavior elements were host...
The development of a conceptual framework and model for uncovering meaning in contemporary print advertising in secondary schools
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America's consumer society runs on desire. The mass media are instrumental in feeding this desire, transforming common objects and experiences from peanut butter to political candidacy into signs of things people covet most: security, ... A review of literature provided the data for the study. First, an overview of advertising theory and history established advertising's philosophical foundations and reasons for being, and advertising philosophy's relationship to the...
On the characterization of turbulent thermal convection as spatio-temporal chaos
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Direct numerical simulation of two dimensional turbulent thermal convection of an incompressible fluid (Prandtl number = 0.71) in a laterally heated rigid box has been carried out for a range of Rayleigh numbers. The nonlinear dynamics...
A naturalistic study of student teaching in physical education: A conflict of expectations
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The purpose of this study was to describe the physical education student teaching experience as a student progressed through a twelve-week experience. This study was conducted in the naturalistic setting using qualitative methods ... During data analysis, themes and categories were discovered through analytic induction and constant comparison (Goetz & LeCompte, 1984; Patton, 1983). To insure that these themes and categories were derived systematically, a strategy... During analysis three major domains emerged that framed the first three research questions: (a) What instructional tasks occurred during the student teaching experience? (b) What management tasks occurred during the student teaching... The major findings of this study were the two "recurring themes" and their implications for teacher preparation programs. From the findings of this study, recommendations for teacher education programs were made and suggestions for...
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