The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare American and Thailand education for secondary school teachers, with an attempt to gain insight into the practices of the teacher education in the two countries, for the benefit of improvement...
The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two instructional approaches in the teaching of reading in the sixth grade. These approaches are (1) the diagnostic-basal reader approach, and (2) the basal reader approach.
This study...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the effects o f six f actors: gender, age, race, English proficiency, cultural commitment, and family pattern on secondary school students' preferences for counselors' traits (gender, age, and race)...
The purpose of this study was to compare the attitudes of junior college transfer students toward their junior college and senior college experiences. More specifically, this study was designed to gat her research from transfer students on the...
The purpose of the researcher was to compare the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Extraversion-Introversion scale and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) 0 Scale (Social Introversion). The subjects were students enrolled in 6...
The relative success of nesting pairs of the Northern Oriole (lcterus galbula) with second-year (SYM) and after-second-year (ASYM) males was investigated on a 120- hectare area near Hays, Ellis County, Kansas during 1981 and 1982. Clutch size,...
The purpose of this study was to examine the power output over a 30-second maximum effort bicycle sprint with three different pedal types; clipless, toe-strap, and flat. The participants for this investigation were eight (7 males and 1 female)...
The Fort Hays Kansas State College has sponsored six Summer Mathematics Institutes (including the one being held in 1965) under the SI program of the National Science Foundation, all of which have been directed by Mr. Wilmont Toalson.
The six Fort...
Fort Hays Kansas St ate College has sponsored t en Summer Mathematics Institutes, including the one held in 1969. These institutes have had financial support from the National Science Foundation and have all been directed by Professor Wilmont...
The purpose of this thesis is to add Sherman County to the list of completed county histories, thus presenting future historians with more evidence with which to prepare a history of the state of Kansas. Since little had previously been written...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate a hot breakfast program. The independent variables were participation status, economic status, gender, Chapter I reading status, and race. The dependent variables were Total Battery, Total Reading,...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the viewpoints of the various populations served by the secondary school counselor concerning the roles and functions of the secondary school counselor. Due to the nature of the study, the...
This research is a descriptive study of an isolated colony of common grackles, Quiscalus guiscula (Linnaeus), through two nesting seasons. The objectives of the study are: (1) to study the nesting habits of the common grackle in Western Kansas, and...
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to provide the teachers at the Lincoln Elementary School, Hays, Kansas with a guide to go by in preparing the physical education program.
Procedures: The procedures used in formulating the course of study...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the attitudes toward reading of second and fourth grade students before and after implementing a read-aloud program. The sample consisted of 78 students; 32 from second grade, 46 from fourth grade. ...
In 1992, an unusual piece of vesicular material with a recoverable mass of 3 kg was unearthed from a field near the lawn of Granada. Colorado. The material was analyzed using petrological and geochemical methods, which included: bulk and trace...
The purpose of this study was to measure the effectiveness of individualized reading with a group or nine- and ten-year-old pupils. The study was carried out in the Fort Hays Kansas state College Summer Laboratory School. Subjects participating in...
A study was made to determine some effects of competition for water on buffalo grass (Buchloe dactyloides (Nutt.) Engelm.). The primary objective of the investigation was to determine if effects of competition on buffalo grass, as determined in a...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the attitudes toward reading of Western Kansas students in grades 1-6. The sample consisted of 156 students; 93 girls and 63 boys. Forty-five students participated in the study group, and a control...
The purpose of this study is to investigate certain basic group properties as they apply specifically to dihedral groups. The following theorems and corollaries were formulated and proven in this study: 1. Every dihedral group Dn contains a cyclic...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate teacher selection for Kansas public high schools. The seven independent variables were: school district size, age of individuals who selected teachers, number of years in teacher selection,...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate personal change and family involvement/participation in the treatment of chemically dependent individuals. The 5 independent variables investigated were family involvement/participation, gender, age,...
This study will be limited to a general survey of independent study on a national level, but study should be done on the state level relative to this very important facet of individualized instruction as far as personal educative precepts prevail,...
The purpose of this study was (1) to determine the procedures employed in identifying intellectually gifted children attending the elementary Catholic schools of the Diocese of Wichita, Kansas; (2) to determine the type or types of programs...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate internalized shame. The independent variables were gender, age, family structure, religious affiliation, and birth order. The dependent variable was the scores obtained by the Internalized Shame...
Finding out the post secondary educational pursuits of the 1961 and 1962 Mitchell County high school graduates as well as their opinions concerning the nine areas of study of their high schools was the purpose of this study. A total of 265...
The purpose of this study was to provide information regarding the qualifications, duties, and salaries of male coaches of ten selected interscholastic athletic sports in the state of Kansas.
/ A list of 1235 male coaches, class of schools, and...
This thesis is an examination of the migration, agricultural production, and probability of success of slave-owners of Lamar County, Texas, in 1850 and 1860. The chief sources for the study are the various census schedules for the two enumerations....
The purpose of this study was to compare the importance of selected morale building factors as indicated by ninety teachers. The teachers were attending Fort Hays Kansas State College during the summer of 1968 and were divided into the following...
The purpose of the research was to investigate the decision process at the executive or school superintendent level in education. The total sample size was 150 superintendents randomly selected from a list supplied by the State Department of...
It was the purpose of this study to determine the preferences of mothers as to course content in all course areas: to determine the preferences of daughters as to course content in four course areas: to compare the preferences of mothers and...
The specific problems of this field study were: (1) to find the major reasons why the graduates of the former Prairie View High School left the community and established residence outside the immediate area; (2) to find why the graduates who did...
This study consisted of an analysis of the responsibilities of the public school business manager in selected school districts in central Kansas. Twelve school business managers were interviewed in the spring of 1975 and were asked to respond to...
As of the 1991-92 school year, states accepting federal funds for young children with disabilities must guarantee a full range of services for 3- to 5-year-olds. This legislative mandate brings with it specific questions regarding the...
The purpose of this study was to compare the relative importance that teachers and administrators place on selected statements relating to teaching. An inventory was developed containing forty-one statements relating to selected abstracts of...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the knowledge and attitudes of students pertaining to AIDS. Students from 7th and 8th grades in a South Western Kansas middle school were surveyed. The sample consisted of 392 students. Of the...
The purpose of the researcher was to explore Kansas college counseling centers as they existed in the spring semester of 1985. A questionnaire was developed and mailed to 47 counseling centers throughout Kansas. Returned questionnaires were placed...
The purpose of this report was to survey the literature available for the school custodian. In beginning the survey a request was mailed to the State Department of Public Instruction in each of the fifty states. The response indicated that a...
The purpose of this paper was to determine the frequency of occurrence of seven factors which tend to aid personal adjustment of residents in a Protestant home for the aged. The seven factors were: (1) presence of good physical health, (2) feeling...
The problem in this investigation is to discover teacher reaction to various in- service educati0n practices and techniques utilized by administrators and teachers in the development of in-service education programs in the elementary schools of...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate abuse during teen dating relationships. A status survey design with pre-determined and post hoc grouping was employed. The independent variables investigated were self-esteem, gender,...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the cumulative grade point averages of student-athletes. The independent variables investigated were gender, academic classification, type of sport participation, and transfer status. The dependent...
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Most studies on manipulating recovery variables during interval exercise have focused primarily on aerobic training and performances. It was the purpose of this study to investigate the effects of active versus passive recovery on physical...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the factors which influence adolescents in selecting dating partners. The sample consisted of 801 high school students, of which 402 were male and 399 were female. The following independent...
PURPOSE: The major purposes of this study were to (1) study the reliability of the McDonald Soccer Skill Test, (2) set up norms at Brooks Junior High School for the McDonald Soccer Skill Test, and (3) set up a grading scale that would be used after...
PURPOSE: It was the purpose of this study to perform an item analysis on a women's physical education test concerning speed-a-way. The analysis will determine the difficulty and discrimination of each individual item in the test. From this analysis...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Chicago Archdiocesan Reading Program from an academic, social and psychological viewpoint over a three-year period, 1962- 1964. The investigation was limited to the seventh and...
A status survey with post-hoc grouping was employed to investigate the adherence to a liberal or conservative attitude towards human sexual expression in 217 university students. The Sexual Attitude Scale (Hudson, Murphy, & Nuris, 1983) was...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate family structure, quality of family life, academic achievement, grade placement and student gender. Independent variables were family structure, quality of family life, gender and grade placement. ...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate jealousy in college students. The sample consisted of 79 females and 43 males for a total of 122. The independent variables were gender, age, living status, self – esteem family structure and...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the needs of nontraditional students especially in the areas of life skills development, career development, educational planning and association with others. The sample consisted of 163...
The purpose of the researcher was to examine university students’ knowledge of alcoholism. The total sample consisted of 153 students from a small Midwest university. The students participating in the study included 112 females and 41 males, 29...
A GIS database was constructed for Morton County, extreme southwestern Kansas, on the Fort Hays State University Geographic Information System (GIS) with data layers representing roads, public land-survey system, railroad, pipelines, soil types,...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the effects of a continuing education course designed to improve adults' self-concepts. The independent variables investigated were gender, age, and implementation-no implementation. The dependent...
A Status survey one group design was employed to investigate the effects of diabetes on self-concept of 38 diabetics. Ten scales of the Tennessee Self Concept Scale were employed as dependent variables. Seven null hypotheses were written and tested...
A descriptive, exploratory investigation examined relationships among anger and other variables in teenagers with Type I insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). A convenience sample of teenagers with IDDM (N = 25), ages 12-19 was selected from...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the concerns of middle school students in urban and rural school settings. The independent variables investigated were residential background, ethnic background, gender, grade placement, age, and...
Since its first known appearance in North America in Queens, New York in 1999, West Nile Virus (WNV) has spread westerly across the United States and caused many human and avian deaths. Previous protocols testing for WNV RNA in birds were only...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the attitudes toward alcohol and other non-prescriptive mind altering substances of students in grades 7-9. The 8 independent variables investigated were gender, grade placement, DARE participation...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate college students attitudes towards biracial children. The independent variables investigated were gender, age, classification, ethnic background, and major. Scores from the Attitudes Toward...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate attitudes toward parenting. The following independent variables were investigated: gender of the parent, age of the parent, number of children, ages of children, and marital status of parent....
Attribution has always been a problem for schools of nursing. Fueled by an intensifying nursing shortage, faculty are under more pressure to address attribution.
A correlational non-experimental design was used to examine the relationships...
A letter written by Pastor W. W. Smith, while he is vacationing in Colorado Springs, to Charles T. Carpenter about being asked to resign his pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church in Coffeyville.
A letter written by a homesteader named Henry B. Shaw to his cousin Thomas Shaw. Henry lived in Lawrence, and Thomas lived in Norwich, New York. In this letter Henry talks about living in his cabin, gives details about Territorial Kansas, tells...
Behavior and some vegetative and edaphic influences of steers grazing under intensive early (IES) and season long stocking (SLS) was investigated in 1961 on two adjacent paddocks with yearling steers at the Fort Hays Branch Experiment Station,...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate burnout in college seniors. The independent variables were: gender, major, career maturity level, post college job status, grade point average, and semester of graduation. The dependent variable was...
The Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) is a common occupant of Smoky Valley Ranch located in Logan County, Kansas, where the abundance of black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) burrows provides ideal habitat for the Burrowing Owl. The...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of natural growing conditions on carbohydrate reserves of roots, rhizomes, and crowns of big bluestem (Andropogon gerardi), little bluestem (A. scoparius), and side-oats grama (Bouteloua...
