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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.
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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.
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.
THE "INNER GAME" APPROACH TO MOTOR SKILL LEARNING AND PERFORMANCE: AN INVESTIGATION INTO A SUGGESTED SUBCONSCIOUS MOTOR MECHANISM
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The "inner game" approach to skill acquisition and performance as presented by Gallwey was investigated in this study. His ideas were transposed into a working model which, in turn, formed the basis for all hypotheses in this study.... Data in this study suggest that under certain dual processing conditions, learning and performance are facilitated. The cueing method advocated by Gallwey was effective in both the novice (learning) and advanced (performing) groups.... The approach presented by Gallwey, while in need of further exploration, may be considered a viable instructional strategy. The results are discussed in relation to previous findings reported in the motor learning literature.
THE DISTRIBUTION OF ACTIN IN CULTURED NORMAL AND DYSTROPHIC RAT PIGMENT EPITHELIAL CELLS DURING PHAGOCYTOSIS OF ROD OUTER SEGMENTS
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A new procedure for assaying the phagocytosis of isolated rat rod outer segments (ROS) by cultured rat pigment epithelial (PE) cells has been developed. Utilizing an ROS antiserum and the technique of indirect immunofluorescence, ROS... The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) strain of rat has been extensively studied in recent years because it has an hereditary retinal dystrophy in which there is a defect in the phagocytosis of shed ROS material by the PE cells. Numerous... Since actin is the main component of the microfilaments which surround an attached particle during its ingestion by a phagocytic cell, it seemed likely that actin might be the defective component in the ingestion process for dystrophic... The failure of ingestion to take place at all but a few sites of ROS attachment in the dystrophic PE cells raises the possibility that these cells are deficient in those plasma membrane receptor sites which normally mediate ROS ingestion...
ANALYSIS OF PERSONNEL COST DIFFERENTIALS AMONG SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN FLORIDA
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This study was conducted for the purpose of developing an alternative to the method presently used in the State of Florida for equalizing educational costs among public school districts in the K-12 program. For this purpose, an attempt... Data for the study were collected primarily from state and local government agencies. This data included: information on salaries of teachers and administrators; personal characteristics of teachers and administrators and their... The sample of teachers and administrators was randomly selected and included approximately ten percent of the certified personnel in each district. The final sample contained 7, 644 observations, of which 6, 404 were teachers and 1, 240... The results of this study challenge the view, implicit in the cost equalization method used in Florida, that variations in the cost-of-living in the districts correspond with variations in the cost of procuring equivalent personnel... It is recommended that future research in this area should be conducted using schools as the unit of analysis. This, may provide a more accurate measure of the effect of personal and job characteristics on the salaries paid by school...
MEGARGEE'S MMPI-BASED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR CRIMINAL OFFENDERS: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE IF MMPI TYPE HOW IS IN NEED OF SUBCLASSIFICATION
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The MMPI-based typology, developed by Megargee and his associates, classifies criminal offenders and makes recommendations for the management and treatment of the ten types. Recently, several authorities suggested that type How, which is... The MMPI profiles of 155 men (X age = 22.3) incarcerated at(' )a medium security federal correctional institution were subclassified by three clinicians into: "neurotic-like" (HowN: negatively sloped) and "psychotic-like" (HowP:... Next, the proposed subtypes were compared with t-tests on six dependent variables measuring institutional adjustment and three measures of recidivism to determine if they differed in behavior. The two subgroups were also compared with... The third phase of this investigation considered conceptual issues. The subtypes were compared using t-tests and were also compared with the other nine MMPI types on eleven variables measuring background, demographic characteristics and... While clinicians could subclassify MMPI profiles into subtypes reliably, the major conclusion was type How is not in need of subdivision since the proposed subtypes did not differ in their behavior. The empirical procedures used to...
THE MOTIF OF THE SERPENT AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS 850-1050
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This study demonstrates that the art motif of the serpent at the foot of the crucifix, which appeared between 850 and 1050 in the northern Frankish kingdom, has previously been misinterpreted, due to critics not paying sufficient... The origins of this motif derive from liturgical drama, only performed in certain northern Frankish Lotharingian reformed monasteries. History shows the remarkable tenacity of the Franks for their own liturgy, which was more dramatic... From the visual evidence of the motif, it seems possible that the serpent candlestick was introduced into the liturgy in the mid-ninth century during the ceremonies for Holy Week, and thereby provided the artists with a model for...
A COMPARISON OF FACULTY GOVERNANCE, WELFARE, AND ATTITUDES AT FLORIDA COMMUNITY/JUNIOR COLLEGES WITH AND WITHOUT COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
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This was a study to determine if any of the differences in the areas of faculty governance and administration, salaries, job security and attitudes, which had been predicted in the literature, were observable in Florida community/junior... An elective faculty council was found at four out of five of the non-collective bargaining colleges but only one of the collective bargaining colleges had an elective faculty council. At the collective bargaining colleges the union... Institutions without collective bargaining made greater gains in average salary and maximum salary in the period 1974-75 to 1978-79 than institutions with collective bargaining. Institutions without collective bargaining paid higher... Institutions with collective bargaining had more elaborate retrenchment plans in which individual rights were more clearly delineated than institutions without collective bargaining. All collective bargaining institutions had... Faculty at collective bargaining schools reported a statistically significant lower measure of trust in the administration, lower rating of job satisfaction, lower rating of administrative openness and lower rating of the level of... Recommendations for further study included a balanced assessment of differences among institutions with and without collective bargaining including areas outside the more narrow faculty concerns of the study and development of a model...
SYNTHESIS OF A PROCESS MODEL FOR THE COMPENSATION OF EMPLOYEES AT COMMUNITY COLLEGES IN FLORIDA
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A process model providing employees of community colleges in Florida with a formal means to participate in the determination of their salaries and fringe benefits was developed. Systems analysis was used to establish the requirements for...
PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP, TEACHER JOB SATISFACTION AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN SELECTED KOREAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
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This study was designed under the assumption that the schools in which principals display higher instructional leadership, teachers are more satisfied with their jobs and prefer a new instructional program will produce a higher... Thirteen hypotheses were generated to investigate the relationships between these variables. The subjects were 280 principals, 903 fourth grade teachers and their students, from 280 experimental schools in Korea. The instruments employed... There was no conclusive evidence that the staff's attitude variables resulted in improved student achievement at the school level. However, some sub-factors of teacher job satisfaction were found to have a statistically significant... From the auxiliary questions, it was found that the teacher's professional experience exerts a significant influence on student achievement, teacher job satisfaction and preference for the new instructional program. The most significant...
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEACHER PERCEPTIONS OF INSTRUCTIONAL TELEVISION DELIVERY SYSTEM ATTRIBUTES AND THEIR USE OF INSTRUCTIONAL TELEVISION PROGRAMMING
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This study determined whether the quantity and quality of instructional television (ITV) use and attitudes toward ITV varies between teachers served by a centralized ITV delivery system or by a decentralized system. It determined the... Centralized system users were teachers receiving ITV programming from a broadcast or district-wide closed-circuit television facility. Decentralized users were teachers utilizing videotape copies of ITV programs in their classrooms. Quantity and quality of ITV use, attitudes toward ITV and perceptions of the attributes of the available ITV delivery system were measured by a specially designed instrument, the Comprehensive ITV Survey Instrument (CISI). The CISI was... T-tests between the CISI responses on the quality and attitude scale measures revealed no significant differences between the two ITV delivery systems. Centralized system use was found to be significantly higher in quantity than the... Pearson product-moment correlations revealed that there was a significant relationship between four of the five attributes of innovations and quantity, quality and attitude scores. The relationships were in the directions predicted by... There was no apparent advantage to the use of either delivery system in terms of quality of ITV use or attitudes toward ITV. Despite the statistically significant difference in quantity of ITV use, the actual differences were too small... Utilizing Rogers' and Shoemaker's attributes was not documented to be a strong predictor of teachers' use of or attitudes toward ITV.
STOCHASTIC VERSIONS OF REARRANGEMENT INEQUALITIES WITH APPLICATIONS TO STATISTICS
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In this dissertation we develop a theory which offers a unified approach to the problem of obtaining stochastic versions of deterministic rearrangement inequalities. To develop the theory we first define two new classes of functions and establish preservation properties of these functions under various statistical and mathematical operations. Next we introduce the notion of stochastically similarly arranged (SSA) pairs of random vectors. We prove that if the random vectors (X, Y) are SSA and the function f from R('n) x R('n) into R('n) is monotone with respect to a certain... (DIAGRAM, TABLE OR GRAPHIC OMITTED...PLEASE SEE DAI) hold. This result yields a unified way of obtaining stochastic versions of rearrangement inequalities. We then show that many multivariate densities of interest in statistical practice govern pairs of random vectors which are SSA. Next we show that under certain statistical operations on pairs of SSA random vectors the property of being SSA is preserved. For example, we show that the rank order of SSA random variables is SSA. We also show that the SSA property is... Finally, we show how the results we obtain can be applied to problems in hypothesis testing.
LOVE AND DEATH IN THE NOVELS OF ALEJO CARPENTIER. (SPANISH TEXT) (CUBA)
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In this dissertation love and death in the novels of Alejo Carpentier are analyzed. The following novels are studied: (INV!)Ecue-Yamba-O!, El reino de este mundo, Los pasos perdidos, El siglo de las luces, El acoso, El recurso del metodo... This author presents love in diverse aspects, from the most tender, charming and spiritual expression of feeling to the savage effect of lustful passion. Passion and instinctive love are predominant in his novels. The characters of Carpentier's novels try to escape the torment of their lives by devoting themselves to materialistic and passionate love; unfortunately neither the heroes nor the heroines ever find the happiness they desire. A very important element presented by Carpentier is death. It is seen in many different ways, such as: sudden death, suicides, executions, poisonings, old age and finally, wars. There are several links between the themes of love and death. Carpentier uses techniques such as manipulation of time, mysticism of history and magic realism. Music is used specifically in the themes of love and death. In the scenes of... Finally, the themes of love and death in Carpentier's novels reveal the agonistic state of man as the mythological figure of Sisyphus who is unable to find happiness at all.
GEOMETRY AS A SOURCE OF THEORY-LADENESS IN EARLY MODERN PHYSICS
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It is well recognized that early modern physics represented a "geometrization" of nature. Considerable effort has been put forth in the endeavor to explicate the exact characteristics and extent of the contribution of geometry to the... In this dissertation I fix the source of geometric influence on early modern physics in Book 5 of Euclids Elements, where the Eudoxian theory of proportion is developed for magnitudes in general. It is argued that it is the concept of... A third element which contributes to the geometrization of nature in early modern physics is the geometrical method of analysis. This method, stated very briefly, works backward from that which is already known. This method was... The philosophical lesson I draw from the geometrical contribution to early modern physics concerns theory-ladenness. What has been lacking in recent discussion of theory-ladenness is concrete, historical instances of it. It seems to me...
ROTATIONAL RELAXATION OF A DIPOLE IN TWO DIMENSIONS
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A general theory of spin relaxation developed by Fulton is applied to the problem of rotational relaxation of a dipole rotating in two dimensions. The model system is composed of a rotor with dipole moment (mu) at the center of a... halides formed in molecular beam reactions. We also derive and solve numerically an equation of motion for the orientational correlation function of the rotor.
WOMEN'S CAREER ASPIRATIONS: A NATIONAL SURVEY OF TRADITIONAL AND NON-TRADITIONAL ASPIRATIONS OF COLLEGE FRESHMEN
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The purpose of this research was to investigate college women's career aspirations and to determine if there are differences between women who aspire to non-traditional and traditional careers. Conflict Theory and Symbolic Interactionism... The subjects were a national probability sample of 3, 879 female college freshmen who responded to a 1978 survey by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program. The respondents were asked to select their probable careers from a list of... Eleven hypotheses were tested; all were supported. The data indicated that the more non-traditional a woman's career aspirations: (1) the younger her age, (2) the more educated her mother, (3) the more educated her father, (4) the... Path analysis using four of the eleven independent variables revealed minimal indirect effects; it also demonstrated that traditionality of mother's occupation could be removed from the model without any appreciable loss in predictive... The findings indicated that women are aspiring to more non-traditional careers; however, there is still considerable sex-typing in career aspirations. It was concluded that structural changes in society need to be made in order to...
AN EVALUATIVE COMPARISON OF THE SATISFACTION WITH THE UTILITY OF NEW BUILDINGS VERSUS LIBRARY ADDITIONS AND ADDITION/RENOVATIONS
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This work provides a critical, comparative evaluation of the utility of academic libraries as perceived by library directors and library department heads. North American libraries which had undergone either a new construction or an... A thirty-three item questionnaire divided into four sections was employed to gather the data. One section on respondent background information and three sections with Likert-scaled items related to public, technical, or audio-visual... The findings indicate that a higher level of satisfaction with utility exists for new buildings than for additions, that involvement in the building process has a direct, positive relationship to the perception of utility, and that a...
THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERENTIAL LEVELS OF INDUCED STATUS ON DEVIANT BEHAVIOR
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The present study attempted to examine the relationship between status and deviant behavior. An experiment was designed to determine whether an individual possessing low status in a small group would be more likely to cheat when... Sixty female undergraduate students volunteered to participate. Each subject met in a small group with two (2) female confederates and one (1) male confederate who posed as subjects. Differential levels of status were induced by... It was suggested that the small sample size and the use of a nominal-level dependent variable may have contributed to the lack of statistically significant findings. Therefore, the experiment was reexamined in terms of its methodology....
Cotton effects in circular dichroism and optical rotatory dispersion spectra of 1, 3-dienes and (alpha), (beta)-unsaturated ketones, for their (pi)-(pi)* transitions, are believed to arise from inherent dissymmetry of the chromophores as...
A COMPARISON OF HYPNOSIS VS. WAKING STATE AND VISUAL VS. NON-VISUAL RECALL INSTRUCTIONS FOR WITNESS/VICTIM MEMORY RETRIEVAL IN ACTUAL MAJOR CRIMES
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Anecdotal evidence has suggested that hypnotic procedures enhance recall performance in actual crime cases, but experimental data in applied settings has been lacking. This study examined the comparative effectivness of hypnosis and goal... The experimental design was a two-by-two factorial: hypnotic induction vs. no hypnotic induction, and visual recall instructions vs. non-visual recall instructions. Forty-four witnesses and victims were randomly assigned to one of four... The yield and accuracy of new and confirmatory data were measured with several instruments designed or adapted for the study. Sixteen identified eyewitness and interviewing factors were also analyzed for their moderating effect on recall... The results of the present study fail to support the notion that hypnosis, with or without visual imagery cues, enhances eyewitness or victim recall performance. No significant differences were found on either the production or... The effect of selective eyewitness and interviewing moderator factors is less clear. Although group equivalence on each of the moderator variables was obtained, the author did not conduct a multivariate analysis on the combined effects... Additional refinements of the design paradigm and a larger subject pool are indicated to further explicate the potential values and hazards of these procedures in criminal proceedings.
LATENT AND CONSISTENT COMMITMENT: A STUDY OF COMMITMENT AS BOTH A COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIORAL VARIABLE
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This study was concerned with the effect of social acts upon commitment to social responsibility. Commitment was defined as the pledging or binding of an individual to an act. It was typologized into: (a) commitment to an act which had... This study, basically, examined the effect of two factors upon the two types of commitment. First, the factor explicitness, whether an act is performed publically or privately, was of interest with regard to the influence that it might... A modified social responsibility scale was administered to 216 students from East Carolina University both prior to and following the performance of acts which were manipulated in respect to explicitness and number of acts performed.... Data on the 216 subjects were analyzed using an analysis of variance (ANOVA) of a social responsibility scale. The independent variables were explicitness and number of acts performed. The conditional variables were latent commitment and... The results of the analysis of variance indicated that there were no significant differences in the latent commitment condition. The main effects of the interactions were not significantly different as a result of explicitness and/or... The results of the analysis of variance indicated that there were no significant differences in the consistent commitment condition. Explicitness and number of acts performed made no significant differences in either main effects or...
PERCEPTIONS OF A PROPOSED PLAN FOR A COMPETENCY-BASED VOCATIONAL EDUCATION SYSTEM: ANALYSIS OF SURVEY RESULTS
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A survey of Florida's vocational teachers and administrators in school districts and community colleges was performed to assess their perceptions of a proposed plan for competency-based vocational education (CBVE) system. Background... In addition to these analyses, potential resistance to the plan was assessed by comparing the attitudes of survey recipients with a control group of respondents who received only the attitude scale without the proposed plan and its... The results of the study showed that, among teachers, statistically significant differences among perceptions (ratings) of the attributes of the plan were most often found for the variables of age, level of education, program area within... Although no significant differences were found between attitudes of survey recipients and a control group, such differences were found between attitude scores of teachers and administrators, although the differences were not found to be... The results suggest that the findings of such differences would be of most value of the design of dissemination and diffusion strategies necessary for the promotion and adoption of educational innovations. The study is also an example of...
ANALYSIS OF SELECTED POLICY DECISIONS MADE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, 1959-1980
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The purpose of this investigation was to identify and examine some of the major forces and pressures affecting admissions policy decisions and to ascertain the role and impact of these forces and pressures as a component in the... Literature was reviewed in the areas of policy sciences, education, and college admissions. An independent history was prepared on The University of Tennessee. Selected findings of the study were: (1) A uniform, accepted definition of policy was not available from literature sources. Authors tended to define policy for their particular application. (2) Three major social forces were found that...
THE VALIDITY OF AN INDEX OF CONSUMER SATISFACTION WITH PUBLIC PRODUCTS
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A private sector consumer satisfaction measurement method and aggregation procedure were validated in the public sector. Generating the index involved the identification of the attributes of local government goods and services. The... The essence of the study was the determination of the validity of the measurements and weighting scheme. Validity testing included test-retest reliability estimation, convergence with a criterion measure, scale discriminability, and... Results of the research supported the validity of the index method and aggregation scheme. Subjects could identify public product attributes, although fewer than in previous private sector product research. Conjoint analysis satisfaction...
THE SUBTROPICAL JET STREAM OF WINTER SIMULATION AND SENSITIVITY STUDIES
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A multi-level, quasi-geostrophic model was designed to study the tropics and middle latitude general circulation for the northern hemisphere winter. A coarse mesh (5(DEGREES) x 5(DEGREES)) domain covering global belt from 30(DEGREES)S to... The initial field was derived from the mean January, 1978 data obtained from the National Meteorological Center (NMC). Simulation with real data initial state showed reasonable agreement with mean January flow field in terms of planetary... Results of these experiments were evaluated within the framework of quasi-geostrophic energetics. The importance of terrain and differential heating in defining and maintaining the subtropical jet stream is demonstrated.
A PLAN FOR FORMATIVE EVALUATION OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION RESEARCH AND EXEMPLARY PROJECTS
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The purpose of this study was to develop an evaluation plan for on-going research and exemplary projects funded through the Division of Vocational Education in Florida's Department of Education. A decision-centered approach to evaluation... The evaluation plans and procedures were critiqued by a jury of qualified persons in evaluation to establish validity; two of the plans were field tested to establish interrater reliability. The consensus of participants in this study is... The researcher recommended that the plans and procedures for evaluating research and exemplary proposals and projects be submitted to the Bureau of Research, Dissemination and Evaluation in Florida's Division of Vocational Education for...
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