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Title: The "Chastoiement" and the "Decameron": Rhetorical "examples" of vernacularization.
Creator: Roman, Marco David., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Some of the greatest names in medieval literature, Chretien de Troyes, Jean de Meun, Brunetto Latini, and Chaucer, to name a few, proudly include their vernacular adaptations of popular Latin sources within the corpus of their literary work. Yet, as Peter Dembowski points out, critics have paid little attention to the actual mechanics involved in the vernacularization practices. While the common medieval literary processes of auctoritas, translatio, and conjointure linked by Karl D. Uitti to...
Show moreSome of the greatest names in medieval literature, Chretien de Troyes, Jean de Meun, Brunetto Latini, and Chaucer, to name a few, proudly include their vernacular adaptations of popular Latin sources within the corpus of their literary work. Yet, as Peter Dembowski points out, critics have paid little attention to the actual mechanics involved in the vernacularization practices. While the common medieval literary processes of auctoritas, translatio, and conjointure linked by Karl D. Uitti to the development of courtly vernacular literature are known to function in the transference of source texts to the vernacular, the role of rhetoric, an aspect of the conjointure process, has as yet remained unexplored., Taking as its study the popular Latin tale collection, the Disciplina clericalis which appeared as a common source in almost all the vernacular literatures of Western Europe and which enjoyed a tremendous popularity throughout the Middle Ages, this study analyzes how one French vernacularized tale collection, the anonymous thirteenth-century Chastoiement d'un pere a son fils and the Decameron recast through rhetorical manipulation three of the tales found in the Disciplina., The two prologues of the vernacularizations reveal the outline of a specific rhetorical scheme employed by the vernacularizer in the "adaptation" of the individual tales. Each of the clerks chooses the rhetorical method of argumentation best suited to his purpose. The tales present themselves as the elaborations of one part of the particular rhetorical scheme chosen by the clerk. Thus, rhetorical training not only aides the medieval clerk in the embellishment of the material but also serves him in the "translation" of the material to the new audience. Just as the development of courtly literature depended on the scholastic practices of the interdependent literary processes of auctoritas, translatio, and conjointure, so too the establishment of "bourgeois" literature relied on these same procedures as exercised by the clerks of the courtly tradition. Through these processes and rhetorical techniques, the clerks produced works in the vernacular that took their place next to the source texts.
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Date Issued: 1993, 1993
Identifier: AAI9402511, 3088188, FSDT3088188, fsu:76995
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Title: The "noble experiment" in Tampa: A study of prohibition in urban America.
Creator: Alduino, Frank William., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Prohibition sprang forth from the Progressive Era--the widespread reform movement that swept across the United States at the turn of the century. Responding to the dramatic changes in American society since the end of the Civil War, the Progressive movement encompassed a wide array of individuals and groups advocating a far-reaching program of economic, political, and social reform. For over forty years temperance zealots strived to impose their values on the whole of American society,...
Show moreProhibition sprang forth from the Progressive Era--the widespread reform movement that swept across the United States at the turn of the century. Responding to the dramatic changes in American society since the end of the Civil War, the Progressive movement encompassed a wide array of individuals and groups advocating a far-reaching program of economic, political, and social reform. For over forty years temperance zealots strived to impose their values on the whole of American society, particularly on the rapidly expanding immigrant population. These alien newcomers epitomized the transformation of the country from rural to urban, from agricultural to industrial., Rapidly-expanding urban centers were often the battleground between prohibitionists and supporters of the whiskey traffic. European immigrants, retaining their traditional values, gravitated to metropolitan areas such as Boston, New York, and Chicago. With the opening of the cigar industry in the mid-1880s, Tampa, Florida also began attracting large numbers of immigrants. Because of its pluralistic composition, the city might serve as a microcosm of the national struggle between the "wet" and "dry" forces., Using newspapers, oral interviews, and other primary materials, this study traces the various aspects of the prohibition movement in the city of Tampa. In addition, it details other peripheral areas associated with the advent of the Eighteenth Amendment including the drug and alien trades. Finally, this study examines the lengthy efforts to repeal the "Noble Experiment" and return legalized drinking back to Tampa.
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Date Issued: 1989, 1989
Identifier: AAI8915736, 3161760, FSDT3161760, fsu:77959
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Title: The "talk" of returning women graduate students: An ethnographic study of reality construction.
Creator: McKenna, Alexis Yvonne., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study looked at women's internal experience of graduate school. In particular, it focused on the experience of women returning full-time to graduate school after an extended time-out for careers and/or family. The questions examined were: (1) how do returning women "name and frame" their experience? (2) what, if any, is the relationship between the way the women "name and frame" their experience and their response to it? and, (3) what role does the researcher-as-interviewer play in the...
Show moreThis study looked at women's internal experience of graduate school. In particular, it focused on the experience of women returning full-time to graduate school after an extended time-out for careers and/or family. The questions examined were: (1) how do returning women "name and frame" their experience? (2) what, if any, is the relationship between the way the women "name and frame" their experience and their response to it? and, (3) what role does the researcher-as-interviewer play in the construction of the data?, Data were collected through a series of three ethnographic interviews with 12 returning women, ranging in age from 28 to 50. Two of the twelve women were single, two were widowed, seven were divorced and one was divorced and remarried. Eight of the women had children., Analysis of the data showed that returning women, as a group, "named and framed" their experience in terms of change. Some women wanted to change self-image or self-concept while others wanted to acquire a new set of skills or credentials. Individually, the women "named and framed" their experiences in terms of an internalized "meaning-making map" acquired in the family of origin but modified through adult experiences. This "map" told them who they were and what kind of a life they could have. It gave their "talk" and behavior a consistency that could be recognized; it could make life easier or harder. A woman who felt she must "prove" herself, for example, found graduate school more difficult than a woman who wanted to "work smart.", The researcher-as-interviewer influenced the construction of data through her presence as well as through the kinds of questions she asked. The women understood and gave meaning to their experiences through the process of explaining them to the interviewer. The insights gained through this process of "shared talk" influenced future action and decisions.
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Date Issued: 1990, 1990
Identifier: AAI9024104, 3162005, FSDT3162005, fsu:78203
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Title: (oxygen-16 + thorium-232) incomplete fusion followed by fission at 140 MeV.
Creator: Gavathas, Evangelos P., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Cross sections for incomplete fusion followed by fission have been measured for the reaction ($\sp{16}$O + $\sp{232}$Th) at 140 MeV. In plane and out of plane measurements were made of cross sections for beamlike fragments in coincidence with fission fragments. The beamlike fragments were detected with the Florida State large acceptance Bragg curve spectrometer. The detector was position sensitive in the polar direction. The beamlike particles observed in coincidence with fission fragments...
Show moreCross sections for incomplete fusion followed by fission have been measured for the reaction ($\sp{16}$O + $\sp{232}$Th) at 140 MeV. In plane and out of plane measurements were made of cross sections for beamlike fragments in coincidence with fission fragments. The beamlike fragments were detected with the Florida State large acceptance Bragg curve spectrometer. The detector was position sensitive in the polar direction. The beamlike particles observed in coincidence with fission fragments were He, Li, Be, B, C, N and O. Fission fragments were detected by three surface barrier detectors using time of flight for particle identification. The reaction cross section due to incomplete fusion is 747 $\pm$ 112 mB, or 42% of the total fission cross section. The strongest incomplete fusion channels were the helium and carbon channels. The average transferred angular momentum for each incomplete fusion channel was calculated using the $Q\sb{opt}$ model of Wilczynski, and the angular correlation was calculated using the saddle point transition state model. The K distribution was determined from the Rotating Liquid Drop model. The theoretical angular distributions were fitted to the experimental angular distributions with the angular momentum J and the dealignment factor $\alpha\sb{o}$ as free parameters. The fitted parameter J was in excellent agreement with the $Q\sb{opt}$ model predictions. The conclusions of this study are that the incomplete fusion cross section is a large part of the total cross section, and that the saddle point transition state model adequately describes the observed angular correlations for fission following incomplete fusion.
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Date Issued: 1993, 1993
Identifier: AAI9334278, 3088176, FSDT3088176, fsu:76983
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Title: 125-Iodine: a probe in radiobiology.
Creator: Warters, Raymond Leon
Date Issued: 1976
Identifier: AAI7722169, 2988583, FSDT2988583, fsu:73090
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The 1988 World Bank policy study on education in sub-Saharan Africa revisited: A value-critical policy inquiry.
Creator: Ota, Cleaver Chakawuya., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The spirit and logic of the 1988 World Bank report resides in the trilogy that is its subtitle: adjustment, revitalization and expansion. In the context of ongoing austerity in Africa, it is strongly asserted that a fundamental restructuring of education is necessary to improve efficiency, effectiveness and equity in education. Controversial adjustment reforms proposed include measures that will substantially shift the burden of educational finance from government to students, parents, and...
Show moreThe spirit and logic of the 1988 World Bank report resides in the trilogy that is its subtitle: adjustment, revitalization and expansion. In the context of ongoing austerity in Africa, it is strongly asserted that a fundamental restructuring of education is necessary to improve efficiency, effectiveness and equity in education. Controversial adjustment reforms proposed include measures that will substantially shift the burden of educational finance from government to students, parents, and other parties. Such measures include cost recovery and the reduction of teachers' salaries among other things., If and only if, adjustment measures have been implemented and begun to take hold, then revitalization and selective expansion may be undertaken. Revitalization and selective expansion will reportedly improve quality and access in education. They include the provision of a minimum package of textbooks and other instructional materials and expansion of primary education to provide universal access., The purpose of this study was to investigate and critically evaluate the knowledge base that undergirds the World Bank study and the technical and political feasibility of the proposed reforms. A multi-methodological research strategy including critical public policy analysis and value-critical policy inquiry was employed., The main findings of this study are that: the data used in the Bank study are unreliable, the knowledge base narrow, the arguments underlying the policy framework of the report, unpersuasive and controversial and the agenda for action internally inconsistent. These criticisms should not detract from the immense value and importance of the document in that it is the first document that critically looks at education in the crisis beleaguered continent.
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Date Issued: 1991, 1991
Identifier: AAI9130958, 3087595, FSDT3087595, fsu:76411
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: 218 parent-child relationships of working and non-working mothers known to the Child guidance Clinic of Pinellas County, St. Petersburg, Florida, July 1, 1956 to June 30, 1957.
Creator: Craigo, Lillian Rule
Identifier: ahc0938, 164826, fsu:14807
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: 50 MeV lithium-6 scattering from carbon-12, oxygen-16, and beryllium-9 and the calibration of the tensor-polarized lithium-6 beam.
Creator: Trcka, Darryl Eugene., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The experimental work reported consists of (1) the measurements of the angular distributions for the scattering of $\sp6$Li from the targets $\sp9$Be, $\sp{12}$C, and $\sp{16}$O at a lithium bombarding energy of 50 MeV, and (2) the measurement of the tensor polarization of the FSU polarized $\sp6$Li source. 50 MeV data were taken for elastic and inelastic scattering to the 2$\sp+$ (4.44 MeV), 0$\sp+$ (7.65 MeV), and 3$\sp-$ (9.64 MeV) states in $\sp{12}$C, the 5/2$\sp-$ (2.43 MeV) state in $...
Show moreThe experimental work reported consists of (1) the measurements of the angular distributions for the scattering of $\sp6$Li from the targets $\sp9$Be, $\sp{12}$C, and $\sp{16}$O at a lithium bombarding energy of 50 MeV, and (2) the measurement of the tensor polarization of the FSU polarized $\sp6$Li source. 50 MeV data were taken for elastic and inelastic scattering to the 2$\sp+$ (4.44 MeV), 0$\sp+$ (7.65 MeV), and 3$\sp-$ (9.64 MeV) states in $\sp{12}$C, the 5/2$\sp-$ (2.43 MeV) state in $\sp9$Be, and the unresolved 0$\sp+$/3$\sp-$ (6.05/6.13 MeV) and $2\sp{+}/1\sp{-}$ (6.92/7.12 MeV) states in $\sp{16}$O. The measurement of the tensor polarization of the FSU $\sp6$Li source allowed the absolute polarization efficiency of the source-accelerator system to be determined., The analytical work reported consists of a determination of the energy dependence of the optical potential parameters for $\sp6$Li + $\sp{12}$C scattering over the energy range from 11 MeV to 210 MeV. This has been attempted previously and the results have not been successful. A large body of data for $\sp6$Li + $\sp{12}$C allows more severe constraints than in previous studies. The inclusion of an angular momentum-dependent imaginary potential provides a good description of the elastic scattering data and the parameters determined in this study are smoothly varying with energy using Woods-Saxon form factors for the real and imaginary potentials. Inelastic scattering to the 2$\sp+$ (4.44 MeV), 0$\sp+$ (7.65 MeV), and 3$\sp-$ (9.64 MeV) states in $\sp{12}$C are described well using the constructed energy dependent potentials in DWBA calculations. Analysis using the double folded real potential and a Woods-Saxon imaginary potential were performed on the same $\sp6$Li + $\sp{12}$C scattering data from 11 MeV to 210 MeV., The scattering data for 50 MeV $\sp6$Li scattering from the targets $\sp{16}$O and $\sp9$Be are described using optical potentials and DWBA calculations. Less information is obtained from these analyses because data do not exist at this time over a wide enough energy range to provide a constraint on the interaction potentials.
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Date Issued: 1989, 1989
Identifier: AAI9002943, 3161873, FSDT3161873, fsu:78072
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: 8Wa39, a Panton, Leslie and Company trading post site: history, ethnohistory, and archaeology.
Creator: Stacy, Pheriba Kay
Date Issued: 1967
Identifier: 15266617, FSU_ARCH_F314S82
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A basic course in quantity food preparation.
Creator: Welch, John M.
Identifier: ahq8692, 164818, FSDT164818, fsu:14803
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A blind student's use of problem solving processes for positive professional learning experiences.
Creator: Coen, James P.
Identifier: ahj0501, 165103, fsu:15108
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A case study of community organization services in Savannah-Chatham County, Georgia, 1950-1958.
Creator: Allen, Clarence L.
Identifier: AHK1920, 164936, FSDT164936, fsu:14879
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A case study of personnel and fiscal practices of Leon County government.
Creator: Slick, Marlene J.
Identifier: afq9771, 164876, FSDT164876, fsu:14831
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A comparative analysis of home and school backgrounds of 72 handicapped and 72 non-handicapped elementary school children, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1959.
Creator: Hansen, James S.
Identifier: ahn6773, 165060, fsu:15087
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A comparative study of 60 community placement veteran patients from the Veterans Administration Hospital, Gulfport, Mississippi, June 1961.
Creator: Higgins, Robert N.
Identifier: ahn3812, 165109, fsu:15111
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A Comparative study of certian selected socio-economic characteristics and clinical findings of thirty patients seen at the Mental Health Clinic and thirty patients seen at the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, Between July 1, 1959 and June 30, 1960.
Creator: Bowers, Edwin Cullen
Identifier: AKN3733, 165002, FSDT165002, fsu:15058
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A comparative study of the traumatic events and behavior disorders of the first 16 years of life of white male veterans diagnosed as psychotic and white male veterans diagnosed as neurotic.
Creator: Kennedy, James F.
Identifier: ahm6784, 165046, FSDT165046, fsu:15080
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A comparision of cases at United Cerebral Palsy of Miami, Florida with the review of the literature.
Creator: Polliard, Forbes W.
Identifier: akp4858, 164666, FSDT164666, fsu:14729
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A comparison of attitudes between relatives and eighteen foster parents of mental patients at the Veterans Administration Center, Gulfport Division, Biloxi, Mississippi, 1960.
Creator: Yaffe, Dorothy F.
Identifier: AHN3758, 165004, FSDT165004, fsu:15059
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A comparison of attitudes toward home, school and peer group of first generation Cuban immigrant children and children with one Cuban born parent in three elementary schools in Hillsborough County, Florida.
Creator: Wilson, Charles T.
Identifier: ahe7541, 164620, fsu:14707
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A comparison of the extent of participation of trained and untrained social work practitioners in voluntary community organizations in St. Petersburg, Florida and in Atlanta, Georgia.
Creator: Horne, Lou Ann
Identifier: ahk1924, 165086, FSDT165086, fsu:15100
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A comparison of the severity of illness in intake patients in 1950 and 1957 in the Veterans Administration Mental Hygiene Clinic, Miami, Florida.
Creator: Hida, Edward T.
Identifier: ahn3726, 165018, fsu:15066
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A comparison of the treatment of "The Negro in the United States" in four major adult encyclopedias and their yearbooks.
Creator: Hannah, Wanda Lee
Identifier: ahm9576, 164628, fsu:14710
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A comparison of two distinctive preparations for quantitative items in the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
Creator: Kelly, Frances Smith., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The SAT is a major milestone for many high school juniors and seniors. Scoring as high as possible is of utmost concern for college bound students because SAT scores often determine the college or university they may attend and the scholarships they may receive. As a result, those who can financially afford to take prep courses for the SAT do., Over the past forty years research studies have found that SAT preparation increases test scores. These previous studies have been concerned only with...
Show moreThe SAT is a major milestone for many high school juniors and seniors. Scoring as high as possible is of utmost concern for college bound students because SAT scores often determine the college or university they may attend and the scholarships they may receive. As a result, those who can financially afford to take prep courses for the SAT do., Over the past forty years research studies have found that SAT preparation increases test scores. These previous studies have been concerned only with increasing test scores. To date, no study has investigated if one method of preparation produces higher gains than another, nor has any study identified those students for whom preparation is most beneficial. A comparison of methods among existing studies is impossible because most reports do not include the methods or materials used., The contents of most SAT preparatory books deal primarily with a review of the mathematical concepts involved. However, an inspection of several SAT items reveals that the SAT tests more than mere rote calculations and algebraic manipulations--it tests "understanding," "application," and "nonroutine" methods of problem solving. Therefore, the present study was proposed to examine and assess the effectiveness of two methods of student preparation for the SAT-M: the first method of preparation explored content review, solving each item in a rigid traditional manner, and the second method of preparation examines the use of flexible problem solving strategies to answer the items rather than using routine mathematical manipulations., Sixty-two juniors and seniors participated in the study. The results of the study showed that the students taught test-taking strategies scored significantly better than the control group. However, this strategies group did not score significantly better than the group who was taught content. The content group did not score significantly better than the control group. This indicates that students could benefit from instruction in flexible, nonroutine methods of solving SAT-M items efficiently.
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Date Issued: 1992, 1992
Identifier: AAI9306060, 3091100, FSDT3091100, fsu:77757
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A comparsion of perceptions toward family crises between eleventh grade students who have had and had not experiences with such crises.
Creator: Schumaker, Martha
Identifier: akp2720, 164559, fsu:14678
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A critical edition of W. B. Yeats's automatic script, 11 March-30 December 1918.
Creator: Frieling, Barbara Johnston., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Professor George Mills Harper writes in his recent book The Making of Yeats's 'A Vision': A Study of the Automatic Script that, despite his copious quotations from these unpublished manuscripts, "nothing but the whole will satisfy the truly involved reader." Perhaps the most comprehensive occult papers that have been preserved in the history of psychical research, the 3627 existing pages of the Automatic Script are of extreme interest to Yeats scholars, not only as the source for A Vision but...
Show moreProfessor George Mills Harper writes in his recent book The Making of Yeats's 'A Vision': A Study of the Automatic Script that, despite his copious quotations from these unpublished manuscripts, "nothing but the whole will satisfy the truly involved reader." Perhaps the most comprehensive occult papers that have been preserved in the history of psychical research, the 3627 existing pages of the Automatic Script are of extreme interest to Yeats scholars, not only as the source for A Vision but also as documentation of the creative collaboration between Yeats and his new wife George during the 450 sittings held between 5 Nov 1917 and 28 Mar 1920. This critical edition provides the complete text for that portion of the Automatic Script written during the Yeatses' first visit to Ireland following their marriage. (Under the direction of Professor Harper, Steve L. Adams has edited the first two months of the Script as a doctoral dissertation in 1982, and Sandra Sprayberry is preparing that portion of the Script written between 2 Jan 1919 and 28 Mar 1920.) Included in this dissertation is an editorial introduction describing the methods used by the Yeatses in the automatic writing and its subsequent "codification"; the relationship of the Script to Yeats's 1918 poetry and plays; and the synthesis of his life-long involvement in the occult Yeats achieves in the two versions of A Vision. Extensive endnotes relate the Automatic Script to Yeats's Card File and Vision notebooks as well as to his poetry, plays, and the two versions. Of special note is the emergence of the tower as a major symbol as the Yeatses first occupied Thoor Ballylee, and their growing conviction that their expected child would be the Irish Avatar. The 1918 Script demonstrates clearly that George Yeats was an equal partner in the amazing collaboration that produced A Vision and that provided her husband with metaphors for his later poetry.
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Date Issued: 1987, 1987
Identifier: AAI9016487, 3091117, FSDT3091117, fsu:77774
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A critical survey of the actual use of the Palm Terrance Service Club in terms of its potential and economic value.
Creator: Waite, Marilynn Margaret
Identifier: akj3455, 164912, FSDT164912, fsu:14864
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A description and evaluation of the rehabilitation programs at the Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee, Florida.
Creator: Hollingsworth, Connor Wright
Identifier: ahf7372, 164756, fsu:14773
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A description of brief treatment service as revealed in five cases known to the Dade County Child Guidance Clinic, Miami, Florida, January 1 - March 31, 1955.
Creator: Dawson, Jean Helen
Identifier: ahc4432, 165052, fsu:15083
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A descriptive analysis of a students learning experience in meeting the research requirements in a two-year graduate program of social work education.
Creator: Sylvester, Martin J.
Identifier: ahk3747, 164964, fsu:14894
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A descriptive follow-up study of forty-one patients evaluated by the Neuropsychiatric Therapeutic Review Committee From March 25, 1959 through June 20, 1959, U.S. Vetrens Administration Hospital, Augusta, Georgia.
Creator: Weeks, Ben Edward
Identifier: AHN3782, 165008, fsu:15061
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A descriptive study of eleven Negro client's use of the Dade County Child Guidance Clinic, Miami, Florida, January 1, 1954 to December 31, 1956.
Creator: Steiss, Donald Emery
Identifier: ahf7422, 164850, fsu:14819
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A directory of social and health services and of selected recreation services in the State of Maine in 1953.
Creator: Michaud, Neil D.
Identifier: ahk1932, 164724, fsu:14757
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A follow-up study of eight mothers and eight children served by a child guidance clinic of Jacksonville, Florida.
Creator: Clay, Clinton O.
Identifier: ahk1900, 164730, FSDT164730, fsu:14760
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A follow-up study of mentally retarded children referred to a child guidance clinic to determine movement in parental acceptance of the retardation.
Creator: Farrar, Geraldine.
Identifier: ahc1115, 164978, fsu:14901
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A follow-up study to evaluate the adjustment of twenty-six adopted children placed by the Child Service Association, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, 1948-1950.
Creator: Hutchins, Charles Anthony.
Identifier: ahm6772, 165058, fsu:15086
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A handbook of experiments for a basic electronic course.
Creator: Deterding, Floyd M.
Identifier: ala7340, 164704, fsu:14747
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A history of the County Department of Public Welfare, Charleston, South Carolina.
Creator: Randall, Patricia M.
Identifier: AHK1927, 164948, FSDT164948, fsu:14886
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A history of the Department of Physical Education for Women at Florida State University from 1923-1953.
Creator: Stanaland, Peggy
Identifier: akp4897, 164575, fsu:14685
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A land-use study, with the emphasis on forest grazing, of Craven County North Carolina.
Creator: Fuson, Robert Henderson
Identifier: ahm6809, 164810, fsu:14799
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A Limited study of the relation of the school to juvenile delinquency.
Creator: Rankin, I. Virginia
Identifier: aku8594, 164599, fsu:14696
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A limited survey and evaluation on guidance in elementary schools.
Creator: Wakefield, Homer E.
Identifier: akp2750, 164563, fsu:14680
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A list of science and applied science books for Florida junior colleges.
Creator: Green, Robert John,
Identifier: akd9122, 164640, fsu:14716
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A method for the objective examination of social work records to determine the presence of and the manner in which religious data factors are part of the cultural milieu of clients of a mental hygiene clinic.
Creator: Morley, Frances Stevens
Identifier: ahk1916, 164994, fsu:14909
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A model for reading comprehension.
Creator: Salazar Melendez, Clara Enriqueta., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study intended to provide the information needed when deciding which reading processes to develop in order to improve the reading comprehension of seventh and eighth graders., Of 49 possible variables, Inferences, Text Structure, Decoding, Prior Topical Knowledge, Vocabulary, and NewVocabulary were chosen to create a model for Main Idea performance which was embedded into a model for overall comprehension as measured by a Cloze exercise. The variables having the greatest total effects on...
Show moreThis study intended to provide the information needed when deciding which reading processes to develop in order to improve the reading comprehension of seventh and eighth graders., Of 49 possible variables, Inferences, Text Structure, Decoding, Prior Topical Knowledge, Vocabulary, and NewVocabulary were chosen to create a model for Main Idea performance which was embedded into a model for overall comprehension as measured by a Cloze exercise. The variables having the greatest total effects on comprehension were defined as the most indicated to be included in treatment studies., Subjects were 102 seventh and eighth grade average readers from the Florida Developmental Research School. The materials used were a standardized vocabulary test, a reading passage, a list of decoding words, and a set of 56 questions which measured the included processes., The hypothesized model, which was tested using LISREL 7, was not supported by the data. Improvement in fitness resulted from fixing effects falling on Main Idea and estimating effects falling on the Cloze., In the new model, the included variables explained more Cloze, 62%, than Main Idea, 37% variance. Moreover, Main Idea performance was unrelated to overall comprehension as measured by the Cloze. Inferences, Prior Topical Knowledge, and Text Structure had large and statistically significant direct, indirect, and total effects on comprehension; Decoding affects comprehension only indirectly. Vocabulary and NewVocabulary were unrelated to comprehension., Three conclusions stemmed from these findings. First, since Inferences affected both vocabulary measures and comprehension and since the vocabulary measures did not affect comprehension it was suggested that the positive correlation between vocabulary and comprehension is due to an intervening variable, Inferences. Second, the evidence for defining Inferences and Text Structure as having the potential for being causally related to comprehension became stronger. Lastly, if performance on a cloze exercise is the outcome variable from a study with average seventh and eighth grade readers possessing adequate prior knowledge, then it is hypothesized that Decoding, Prior Topical Knowledge, Inferencing ability, and Text Structure are the variables most indicated to be included in treatment studies since they had the largest total effects on comprehension.
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Date Issued: 1991, 1991
Identifier: AAI9130960, 3091105, FSDT3091105, fsu:77762
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A Pakistani observes welfare programs in the County of Buncombe, North Carolina, 1960.
Creator: Ahmed, Firoza
Identifier: AHK1921, 164938, fsu:14880
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A population study of the Dade County Child Guidance Clinic for the years 1948-1958, Miami, Florida.
Creator: Cranford, Frances Marie.
Identifier: ahn3735, 165099, FSDT165099, fsu:15106
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A preliminary report on the ecology of plants and animals of the St. Marks wildlife refuge.
Creator: Stevens, Rollin R.
Identifier: ajp1022, 164541, FSDT164541, fsu:14670
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A quantitative comparison of meiofaunal distributions in an open sand area and a sea grass bed (Thalassia testudinum).
Creator: Ruddell, John Milton
Date Issued: 1976
Identifier: FSU_QL121R8
Format: Thesis

Title: A recreation program for Milledgeville State Hospital, Milledgeville, Georgia.
Creator: Prosser, Bruce Reginald
Identifier: ahn3724, 165022, fsu:15068
Format: Document (PDF)

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