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Young Adult Novels: Analysis With Implications For Senior High School Teachers
(1976)With the current trend toward relevancy in education what it is, teachers are taking a serious look at the young adult novel of the '70s as a solution to the cries from students for books that mean something to them. The ... -
Small Group Counseling to Reduce Intolerant Behavior of Elementary School Children
(1980)This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of small group counseling to reduce intolerant behavior of elementary school children. The hypothesis stated that intolerant behavior would be reduced by 50% after ... -
Student Inquiry in the History Classroom: A Case Study Approach
(1983)Most students are taught history as a body of author-chosen facts to be memorized. These "facts" are limited by the bias and prejudice of the historian. Students are not given the opportunity to explore, discuss, question, ... -
Legal Responsibilities of Educators in Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect in the United States
(1985)The purpose of this study was to learn what the legal responsibilities are in the United States for educators when they suspect child abuse and/or neglect in their classrooms. State superintendents or commissioners of ... -
Qualitative Effects of Touch in Patient Care
(1991)The purpose of this ethnographic research study was to see if there is a correlation between touch by the nurse and positive acceptance responses by the patient. The study was conducted in a Southeastern Wisconsin Medical ... -
An Evaluation of the Racine Unified School District Extended Day Kindergarten Program
(1991)The purpose of the Extended Day Kindergarten Program in the Racine Unified School Kindergarten Program was compared to the district's Chapter 1/Standard 's Pull-Out Program. The testing instrument used in the study was the ... -
Correlation Between Student Values and Academic Achievement of Seventh and Eighth Grade Students
(1991)The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not there is a significant correlation coefficient between student values and academic achievement. The students/ values were surveyed using the Rokeach Values Survey, ... -
The New Voice in Colombian Literature
(1991)The portrayal of the female character in Colombian literature has been traditionally biased: women have been represented as either Mary or Eve. Since the 1960's, Colombian writers have been making a transition in the ... -
The Effects of Various Teaching Methods on the Math Anxiety Level of High School Students
(1991)The purpose of the study was an attempt to determine, by the means of a classroom experiment, the effects of different teaching methods on the math anxiety level of high school students. The two methods used were a feedback ... -
Incorporating Idiomatic English "A La Cartoon"
(1991)The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of production. the necessity of use. and the situations of occurrence of idioms. slang. and fixed expressions used by North American people. in order to propose a ... -
A Survey of Elementary School Drug Abuse Programs and Practices
(1991)Drug and alcohol abuse has interfered with a positive learning environment in schools. Because drug abuse can prevent learning, this issue has become an educational issue. Public schools have the responsibility to educate ... -
Factors Affecting Enrollment of Vocational Classes in High School
(1991)A situational analysis was conducted in a Racine high school to explore factors which affect students in their choices of elective classes. With the information gathered from the survey, an appropriate market plan would ... -
The Effect of Storytelling and Sequencing Instruction on the Narrative Writing Skills of Nine Year Old Children
(1991)Storytelling combined with sequencing instruction was explored as a viable method for improving the narrative writing skills of nine year old children. In this study, the students wrote narrative compositions before and ... -
Attitudes Toward Science of Male and Female Seventh Grade Students
(1992)This study examined the current attitudes toward science of seventh grade students at a large middle school in Racine, Wisconsin. Attempts were made to determine if there is a significant difference in attitudes toward ... -
Encounter in the Garden: An Exegesis and Commentary of John 20: 11-18
(1992)In light of the publication of Raymond Brown's The Community of the Beloved Disciple, many have based their interpretation of certain biblical texts on his theory that one may read John's Gospel not only as a narrative ... -
The Effects of Targeting Vocabulary Words While Reading Aloud to Seventh Graders on Seventh Graders' Vocabulary Knowledge
(1992)This study examined the effect of targeting vocabulary words while reading aloud to seventh graders on the seventh graders' vocabulary knowledge of those targeted vocabulary words. An entire population of seventh graders ... -
Using Songs in the English as a Foreign Language Classroom
(1992)This project suggests the incorporation of American popular songs into the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum in Colombian high schools. Songs are taken as the introductory context in which the new material to ... -
The American Press and the Unification of Germany
(1992)This media analysis compares four American print media's coverages of the unification of Germany, and was designed to test the relativity of the term objectivity in news reporting. The selected periodicals, the New York ... -
Piaget's Operational Stages and a Child's Concept of Print: Is There a Correlation?
(1992)The correlation between a child's level of operativity and his/her understanding of conventions of print was investigated. The level of operativity was determined by Arlin's Piagetian Tasks Measure of Operativity and the ... -
An Investigation of Children's Trade Books for Use in Application of the Skills and Strategies Expected to be Taught in a Fourth Grade Basal
(1992)Using the skills and strategies expected to be taught in a fourth grade basal, a list of criteria for those skills and strategies was created. Children's trade books were then examined for the criteria within the list. 78% ...
