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Causal Attributions for Success and Failure in High School Classes By Special Education and General Education Students.
(1987)
The purpose of this study was to explore the utility of constructs from attribution theory to explain the phenomenon of special education programming for mildly h and icapped adolescents. The principal hypothesis of the ...
Diffusion of Instructional Television in Higher Education: a Study of the Annenberg/Cpb Project (Innovation).
(1986)
This study examines the dynamics of higher education innovation as reflected in the introduction and utilization of five instructional television courses produced by the Annenberg/CPB Project. Following thirty-four interviews ...
The Relationship Between Organizational Climate and Power and Influence as Perceived By Teachers and Department Chairpersons in Selected Schools in Texas.
(1980)
The purpose of this investigation was to find ways to assist administrators in reducing teacher stress by providing information about the manner in which power, as perceived by teachers and department chairpersons, related ...
Historical Factors Affecting the Vocational-Technical Emphases of Michigan's Public Community Colleges.
(1984)
Michigan's two-year public colleges differ widely in the extent to which they emphasize vocational-technical programs over liberal arts, transfer programs. One indicator of this, which controls for variation in the size ...
The Philosophy of Duality: an Education Proposal on the Odyssey of Thinking and Writing (Inquiry, Culture, Systems).
(1986)
This dissertation sketches a philosophy of education acknowledging principles of thinking and writing which govern every act of knowing. It defines the complementary acts of thinking and writing as one cross-disciplinary ...
Group Identity as a Self-Schema (Social Cognition, Ethnic Studies, Script).
(1984)
This study examines the influence of group membership on the processing of information about self and others. Black subjects were divided into two groups, Centrally identified and Nonidentified, based upon their responses ...
Cognitive Functioning of Children with Phenylketonuria (Learning Disabilities).
(1984)
A descriptive study of the cognitive performance characteristics of thirty-three early-treated, diet-terminated children with phenylketonuria (PKU) was conducted. The subjects, aged six through seventeen years, were ...
An Application of Force-Field Analysis to Urban High School Graduating Seniors During the Process of Career Preparation.
(1980)
Persistently high levels of unemployment among youth, particularly minorities, have made the jobless situation of young persons a matter of national concern. Long term solutions, based on the realities of the job market, ...
A Comparison of Three Methods of Preparing College Seniors for Employment Interviews.
(1984)
The purpose of this study was to determine which of three one-to-one methods of interview training requiring forty-five minutes of time was most effective in increasing the stated preparedness of college seniors for ...
Human Resource Correlates of Older Adult Participation in Self-Selected Community College Settings.
(1982)
Adult educators are faced with the challenge of responding to the needs of an increasing older population. Of particular interest are strategies for recruiting older learners to programs in higher education. Historically, ...