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The influence of teacher feedback on children's peer preferences and perceptions
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Causal relationships between teacher feedback and children's peer preferences and perceptions were examined. Kindergarten, first, and second grade children (N = 149) viewed a videotape analog of a classroom scene in which a child actor ... Multivariate analyses of variance (2 (Sex) x 5(Condition)) revealed main effects for Condition only. Planned comparison tests indicated that teacher feedback was causally related to peer preferences and perceptions. Positive feedback...
Basic skills achievement patterns from kindergarten through tenth grade
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A descriptive and exploratory longitudinal study was conducted to investigate whether a gap existed between grade level standards and the academic achievement of students with low school readiness and to determine if the gap widened as... Mean differences and variability in communication and mathematics achievement among readiness groups on the norm-referenced CTBS test series and the criterion-referenced SSAT-I test series over time were examined. Because maturation and... Analyses revealed that the students in the low readiness groups did fall further from the set academic standard for the CTBS test series, however, the reverse was true for the criterion-referenced SSAT-I test series. Although for the...
The impact of measurement errors and multicollinearity on the study of the relationship between accounting information and market-determined risks
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This study develops a linear measurement structural equation model to study the relationship between accounting risk measures and market determined risk measures. Use of this model may reduce the risk of potential loss of information and... Extant literature in this area of research has produced conventional regression models which give inconsistent and conflicting results about the relationship between accounting risk measures and market determined risk measures. This... Overall, compared with traditional regression approach this study finds that the new model produces much more clearcut and interpretable evidence about the relationship between accounting risk measures and market determined risk measures... Finally, replications of previous studies indicate that the instrumental variables approach in this area of research is not a viable methodology. It produces inconsistent, erratic and hard-to-interpret results.
Investigation of the relationship between selected child death variables and bereaved parents' marital satisfaction and self-esteem
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationships between the marital satisfaction and self esteem of bereaved parents and the following four factors related to the child's death: (a) the amount of forewarning the parents... One hundred and eleven bereaved parents participated in this study. The parents were recruited from local chapters of Compassionate Friends in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. The data were gathered through self administered questionnaires... The results from this study revealed several relationships that shed light on the experiences of these bereaved parents. First, it was noted that a decline in marital satisfaction following the death of a child was related to an increase...
Clothing interest, self-esteem, body satisfaction and fashion opinion leadership compared with weight of college females
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This study was conducted to determine whether there were differences in clothing interest, body satisfaction, fashion opinion leadership qualities and self-esteem among underweight, average weight, and overweight females. In addition, ... Three out of the five null hypotheses were rejected (using a point.05 rejection level) when subjects were grouped according to the MET chart. Two out of the five null hypotheses were rejected when subjects were regrouped according to the...
The purpose of this study was to determine whether two parallel tests could be equated effectively (i.e., minimal equating error) using the multidimensional two-parameter IRT model (M2PL). Equatings were performed on both simulated and... The results indicated that effective equating was possible with the techniques used in this study when true scores, the response surfaces, and the contour plots were compared. When the equating of the ability estimates was examined, ...
The judiciary and criminal sentencing in the Dominican Republic
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An empirical study of twenty judges of the criminal courts of the first instance of the Dominican Republic conducted during 1982-1984 explored judicial selection, social backgrounds, professional preparation, sentencing philosophy, and... Every four years, following national elections, judicial candidates are screened by a bipartisan Senate sub-committee using legally defined educational and experiential requirements and other norms. Recommended candidates are ratified by... The majority of judges were middle-aged, middle class men and women who had graduated from university following the 1965 intervention. This upheaval resulted in an open admissions policy at the only public university, paving the way for... Judges said their sentencing philosophy developed from diverse sources and varied from crime to crime. They claimed their sentences recognized aggravating and mitigating factors. Genuine sentencing alternatives were non-existent, lengthy... Judges were concerned about the independence, integrity, image, competence, and efficiency of the judiciary and affiliated personnel, citizen cooperation, the growth and nature of crime, civil damage claims in criminal cases, their... These judges were quite similar to judges in other Latin American countries in terms of background and preparation. Their professional concerns and restraints coincided with the circumstances of the judges similarly situated worldwide.
This qualitative study sought to discover how students evaluate their progress in writing. Previous research has addressed self-evaluation of single compositions and of writing ability, but no study has focused on students' perceptions... My study examined 11th- and 12th-graders' interpretations of their progress--through grades, teacher commentary, peer response, comparison with other student writers, and their own knowledge based on experience in reading and writing.... The students were generally accurate in their self-evaluation, but were not able to articulate a complex understanding of themselves as writers. They were conscious of problems they had solved and ways that their writing had improved, ... Three case studies were contrasted with patterns in the class as a whole to distinguish developmental characteristics. Students' use of terms and consciousness of problems contribute to an understanding of writing improvement that is...
The state-wide tours of the Florida Federal Theatre Project, October, 1937-June, 1939: A description and evaluation of two seasons on the road for the "People's Popular Theatre"
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This is a detailed account of the Florida Federal Theatre's State-Wide Touring Company, starting with the formation of the Jacksonville Repertory Company in 1936, through its transformation into a touring theatre company in October, 1937...
The effect of positive mood on performance on an academic task
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This investigation consists of two experiments. The first experiment attempted to generalize the findings of a study by Kirschenbaum, Tomarken and Humphrey (1985) who found that positive mood facilitates performance on a mathematics task...
Factors influencing the decision-making process in the substantiation of child sexual abuse cases
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Child sexual abuse has existed for a long time, but it has only been recognized as a national problem since the 1960s. There has been minimal research in this area and the prior literature on child sexual abuse has ignored many important... This study addresses the question of "What factors affect the decision making process in the substantiation of child sexual abuse cases?" The research question is important because there is little known about the decision making process... To investigate this research question, secondary data from the Protective Services Unit of the Department of Human Resources in Opelika, Alabama were used. Case files of children reported to the agency between January 1982 to October... Stepwise logistic regression analysis was used to determine whether or not there was a relationship between specified factors and the decision to substantiate or unsubstantiate sexual abuse cases. Findings indicate that the most...
This issue includes: announcement for '"Do you serve borscht for breakfast?": A Study of Women in the U.S.S.R''; information on the 88--89 program agenda; announcement of meeting dates.
Coexistence in harlequin habitats: The organization of mite guilds (Unionicola spp.) inhabiting freshwater mussels
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Adults and nymphs of three species of mites (Unionicola abnormipes, U. fossulata, and U. serrata) co-occur in the bivalve hosts, Villosa villosa, V. vibex, and Uniomerus declivis, in St. Mark's River, north Florida. Monthly samples of... Mite species had frequently higher abundances in one host species. De-mited mussels placed out monthly at each site showed that these higher abundances are achieved within a month. Recruitment varied greatly between sites, years, and... Two field experiments indicated that the low abundance of U. abnormipes in the larger host species, Uniomerus declivis, was caused by competitive, and possibly predatory, interactions with U. serrata. However, U. serrata did not occur in... Interactions between mites did not occur as predicted by either simple, theoretical models or more biologically-realistic ones developed for other systems but did demonstrate that experimental tests of models are essential.
The impact of divorce groups on individual adjustment: A single case and group comparison approach
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The effects of a short-term semi-structured group on individual adjustment to divorce were examined. The 10-week group treatment program was adapted from Fisher's Divorce and Personal Growth Seminars. Single case design and group... The presence of factors such as multiple stressors, life events, social support, who initiated the separation, and the passage of time, were judged to have an effect in the divorce adjustment process of individual cases. The use of the...
A comparison of techniques for scheduling non-homogeneous employees in a service environment subject to non-cyclical demand. (Volumes I and II)
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This dissertation has addressed the issue of labor scheduling, focussing primarily on environments in which employees are limited in number and/or not continuously available for work. New modeling procedures have been developed for these... Three shift scheduling procedures were developed: (1) an iterative construction improvement procedure (HO), (2) a combination single-break-position linear programming and heuristic procedure (LP), and (3) a combination break-less linear... LP was found to be the best shift scheduling procedure, while one of the HO-based procedures was best for tour scheduling. The NT and NT-based shift and tour scheduling procedures were the poorest performers, a finding with important... Extensive investigations into the determinants of technique performance were conducted. These investigations included examining the effects on technique performance of (1) problem restrictiveness and (2) the ratio of understaffing to... An extensive list of interesting and potentially fruitful research avenues has been provided for the benefit of researchers considering the field of labor scheduling.
An evaluation of the effectiveness of two methods for providing computer-assisted repeated reading training to reading-disabled students
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The present study evaluated the instructional effectiveness of two methods for providing computer-assisted repeated reading training to reading disabled students. One repeated reading method, the Processing Power program (ICT, Inc., 1983... Forty seven reading disabled students, matched in groups of three based on intelligence, age, and word recognition ability were randomly assigned to either the processing power condition, repetitive reading condition, or no-treatment...
1988 Florida State University Football Media Guide
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The 1988 FSU Football media guide includes information on the coaching staff, the players, the opponents of the season, records, and the university itself.
Community responses to variation in predation and prey recolonization: Field experiments with bluegill sunfish and freshwater macroinvertebrates
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Studies of variability in the processes that structure animal communities have focused on the impact of catastrophic physical disturbances, but have largely ignored the more subtle variability associated with biological phenomena, like... During the summer, predation by bluegill was patchy in middepth and deep water habitats and homogeneous in the shallow littoral zone; in winter, bluegill were only present in shallow water. Predation was most variable among sites within... Caging experiments revealed that the variable predation treatment mimicked natural conditions better than conventional constant predation treatments. Variable predation tended to increase (1) prey abundances, (2) the spatial patchiness...
Events included: "A Curmudgeonly View of the Dance Boom" and "Collaborative Ventures: Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company" by Roger Copeland, American Tap Dancer by Steve Condos.
Analysis of the intentional prelinguistic communicative behaviors of profoundly mentally retarded children
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The purpose of this investigation was to describe the intentional communicative behaviors of profoundly mentally retarded children. Ten 6 to 12 year old subjects, equally grouped according to age, participated in communication sampling... Findings revealed communicative profiles characterized by a predominance of functions to regulate others' behavior and by gestural means. The majority of older subjects demonstrated more communicative acts per minute and a broader range... The use of the communicative sampling and analysis procedures implemented in this investigation with profoundly mentally retarded persons is discussed. Some suggestions for how these procedures can be used to generate communicative...
A longitudinal analysis of depression-related deficiencies in social behaviors
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This prospective study attempted to assess whether deficiencies in social behaviors are antecedents, consequences and/or residual effects of an episode of depression. This study was part of a larger investigation of the relationships of...
The effect of internally vs. externally set training goals on performance and satisfaction
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of internal vs. external goal setting on the performance and satisfaction of communication skills training participants. The subjects consisted of 41 male and 33 female undergraduate students enrolled in Introduction to Management and Introduction to Marketing courses at St. Peter's College. Following the completion and scoring of the Discriminating... Results obtained in this study indicated that the satisfaction and performance of subjects were not significantly different at the.05 level with respect to the goal setting procedures in which they participated. Post-hoc analyses...
An evaluation of behavior modeling training designed to improve selected skills of educational managers
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The major purposes of this study were (1) to determine the extent to which educational managers, who have completed a behavior modeling training program, such as Interaction Management, are judged by their subordinates and by themselves... The study employed a one group pre-post design. Principals employed in Florida school districts served as the subjects of the study. The principals completed the behavior modeling training program Interaction Management. Superiors of the... The major findings were that: (1) both the principals themselves, and the assistant principals, viewed the principals as more effective in the five types of employee-supervisor interactions after they completed Interaction Management...
Stress among assistant police inspectors in Bangkok, Thailand
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Besides criminal justice research, empirically relevant evidence and theoretical constructs from other academic fields were also utilized to develop a theoretical model of police stress. This attempt was expected to provide a conceptual... The theoretical model was tested with two data sets collected from assistant police inspectors of the Bangkok-Thonburi metropolitan police force in Thailand. The 234 and 169 usable questionnaires returned resulted in final response rates... The research findings, in general, provided considerable support to the revisionist paradigm including both undesirable factors and social supports in work environment of policemen. Specifically, perceived role overload and/or social...
A spectroscopic and theoretical investigation of the proton transfer laser
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The lasing characteristics and the spectroscopy of intramolecular proton transfer molecules have been investigated in nonpolar and polar solvents. In addition molecular orbital calculations on intramolecular proton transfer molecules... becomes biexponential. The tautomer ground state transient absorption has been observed. The results are explained in terms of a double proton transfer mechanism resulting from dimer formation. Finally a supersonic molecular beam...
The development of a process model to include elements of a discipline-based art education approach at selected senior citizens centers
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The current prevailing perspective in curriculum design in art education is the discipline-based model. This model focuses on teaching art as a discipline with distinct methods within general education and within the context of aesthetic... This qualitative study sought to develop a model that included elements of a discipline-based approach in a setting other than the ones traditionally in place in public and private school settings. The study's specific focus was on older... The model was developed through a synthesis of information collected in three specific data sets utilizing qualitative methodologies. The data sets included: (1) a comprehensive review of literature in related disciplines; (2) an... The model was developed by combining two approaches to model design through an integrated systems approach. If implemented, the model should provide programs with elements of discipline-based art education in senior centers, thereby...
Several groups of siliceous microorganisms possess a skeletal latticework of interconnected rods. Skeletal configurations of one of these groups, the silicoflagellates, can be produced by a simple mathematical model, in which the apical... The diversity of silicoflagellate skeletal morphologies suggests that both the minimization of apical surface area and the conservation of skeletal material are important factors in silicoflagellate skeletal morphology. The two most...
Irving's "The Alhambra": Background, sources, and motifs
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This dissertation studies Irving's The Alhambra as a whole literary work. The first chapter, The Spanish Background of Irving's Work, illustrates Irving's extensive knowledge of Spanish and Arabic culture and history. It also shows... The second chapter, Sources and Analogues of The Alhambra, studies the various sources for the book. Here, the book is divided into three main sections according to the subjects presented in it: (a) Personal Experiences and Historical... Chapter three, Structure and Major Motifs, examines Iriving's revision of the book in 1850. The chapter also reviews the three major parts of the book: (a) The Journey and Spanish Character, (b) The Palace: Its History, Occupants, and... Chapter four, Irving's Literary Technique in The Alhambra, discusses the book's romanticism, setting, local color, characters, plot, language (including the incorporation of Arabic and Spanish language), themes, narrative, humor, and... Chapter five, The Importance of The Alhambra: The Palace and the Book, shows how The Alhambra, the book as well as the palace, symbolizes and celebrates important social and moral values that Irving found in the Islamic civilization, ...
An evaluation of the use of the bug-in-the-ear device in the live supervision and training of marriage and family therapy students
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A program of research was conducted to measure the effectiveness of the use of the bug-in-the-ear device in the supervision and training of marriage and family therapy trainees. A reliable and objective methodology was developed for obtaining behavioral observational measures of therapist behavior. A single subject research design (SSRD) was employed which permitted the experimental analysis of individual... Baseline data on trainee use of two therapy skills, facilitate and support, were obtained and compared with trainee use of these skills when prompted and reinforced through the bug-in-the-ear device. Participants in the study were four Ph.D. students in the Interdivisional Program in Marriage and the Family, Department of Home and Family Life, Florida State University. Each trainee worked with four clients from their regular caseload... The study demonstrated a significant increase in therapy-trainee use of the targeted skills when prompted and reinforced through the bug-in-the-ear intervention. The effect was replicated with additional therapy-trainees across different... This study brought the methodologies of single subject research design and applied behavior analysis to marriage and family therapy training research to investigate the effect of the bug-in-the-ear device in live supervision. Research results were evaluated in relation to causal inference, practical significance and social validity and discussed with regard to their implication for family therapy training and future research.
An investigation of problem recognition: Developing a measure of problem recognition ability and assessing its usefulness to strategic managers
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This study examined problem recognition ability and its importance to strategic managers. Few studies have empirically investigated problem recognition as a separate activity preceding strategic problem solving. The overall goal of this... The problem identification instrument developed was pilot tested among a student sample. Managers were then surveyed in a two-phase study to collect demographic information, the sensing-intuition scale of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ... Analysis of covariance tests yielded support that problem recognition ability is related to the personality type of the manager, as measured by the MBTI, with intuitive (N) managers have significantly higher skill at recognizing problems... Further research into this area should be conducted in an attempt to overcome some of this study's limitations. The findings suggest that individual personality preferences are related to problem recognition ability, yet organizational...
The state and product cycle in the world system: The industrial change in South Korea
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East Asia's capitalist growth has generated many interesting questions concerning Third World development. While radical and critical theories tend to ignore East Asia, modernization and neoclassical economic theories offer ahistorical...
The effects of activating schemata at different structural levels on high school students' retention and comprehension of a narrative passage
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This study investigated the effects of schemata at three different structural levels (superordinate, parallel, and subordinate) on high school students' learning of a narrative passage. A schema was defined as a domain of knowledge one... Seventy-three tenth grade students were randomly assigned to one of three experimental conditions: Activating a schema superordinate (Superschema), parallel (Paraschema), or subordinate (Subschema) to the target learning domain. Three... As predicted, results indicated that the Superschema group scored significantly higher on both retention and comprehension tests than did the Subschema group. The Paraschema group performed at a similar level as did the Subschema group.... The study results indicated that both types and quality of schemata activated prior to learning determined the quality of performance. Various instructional strategies should be employed to help students activate an appropriate schema so...
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