Women on the missions in Kansas during 1824-1870 were daring and courageous. Many of them had to travel thousands of miles to arrive at the Kansas mission where they were unsure of how the Indians would receive them and what their new life might...
The purpose of the problem was twofold. First, the problem involved the compiling of a current bibliography and catalog of the reptiles and birds of the Kansas Cretaceous. Second, the problem involved describing two new species of Cretaceous...
The purpose of this study was to compare the rhetoric of two Negro women orators- Sojourner Truth and Frances E. W. Harper as shown by a critical analysis of selected speeches from 1851 to 1875. For this study, two working hypotheses were required....
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the creativity and self-concepts of university students, specifically, to determine if differences existed between art students and non-art students. The following independent variables were...
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 chief purposes of this study were (1) to determine the expenditures of ad valorem taxes in Reno County by the various governmental agencies for the year 1963; and (2) to make a percentage comparison of the different governmental expenditures...
This thesis dealt with one aspect of the proposition that rural mental health care is different than urban mental health care. This aspect is the assumption that the population of children seen at a rural mental health clinic is different from the...
The purpose of the present study was to compare self reported and actual self-presentational behavior. One hundred two students from several undergraduate courses were asked to take part in two separate sessions. In session one, subjects were...
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...
Hat Six Ranch, by Edgar Watson Howe, is a novel of the frontier west. In its present form, the novel appears to be an edited version of an earlier draft. The revisions appear to be responsible for many of its weaknesses. Three major sources of...
The study was conducted to determine the distribution, structural characteristics, and total and relative amounts of woody phreatophytes which occurred along 250 miles of the Arkansas River Valley in Western Kansas.
Floodplain phreatophytes in the...
To maintain a school system that offers a curriculum and extracurricular program that best fits the needs of its students, the Board of Education, U.S.D., 431, Hoisington, Kansas recommended that, in 1974, studies be conducted to determine the...
The author in this thesis prepared a formula investment plan for investing a low-priced stock and ran the study through two separate time periods to determine the feasibility of such a plan as an effective investment tool. Following the completion...
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...
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This study is an analysis of current practices of School Psychologists in the area of early childhood/preschool assessment. Surveys were sent by mail to school psychologists who were members of former members of the Kansas Association of...
Toothaker, Mr. / Photo of photo. Photo ordered by James Fitzgerald for a funeral. James Fitzgerald was the brother of Nora (Stauffer) Toothaker. Mr. Toothaker was probably Nora's husband or father-in-law.
Photographs--Reproductions--1910-1930; Men; Automobiles; Clothing & dress; Hats; Stafford County (Kan.);
The purpose of this study was to explore one aspect of self-concept in divorced women. The study was concerned with differences in experienced control between a group of wives, a group of recently divorced women, and a group of women who had been...
Critical care nurses work in a fast-paced and sometimes volatile work environment. Compassion fatigue is a risk that nurses and other helping professionals face. It is a secondary traumatic stress disorder similar to post-traumatic stress disorder...
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 problem was to determine how an individualized instruction program in mathematics would work in a secondary school. An individualized instruction program for a mathematical topic, normally taught in the secondary school, was developed. A...
Six male recent stroke patients served as subjects for the experiment. The patients were randomly assigned to one of three groups. All three contained two treatment conditions (B1, B2) and one control condition (A). Each group had a different...
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 this investigation was to study state- supervised school lunch programs in city schools of Kansas to disclose some of the more common administrative practices and to determine the degree of satisfaction with these same programs as...
The purpose of this study was to find contributing factors influencing teachers in selected high schools of Western Kansas to change teaching positions. No previous study or survey was located which dealt with this problem in Kansas.
The procedure...
A pilot study was conducted near Lamar in the sandhills in southeastern Colorado during the summer of 1958. The purpose of the investigation was to determine the species of plants and animals present in the area and the relative abundance of each...
The purpose of this study is to analyze the fundamental problems of rice, both in production and distribution with emphasis on international trade. This study is divided into four main parts. The first gives the general characteristics of the...
The intent of this study was to determine whether right of reply could be used to restore an injured reputation without the lengthy and costly process of litigation. Right of reply was defined as an opportunity to respond to a defamatory report or...
The purpose of this study was (1) to determine the feasibility of organizing and adopting shared time programs to secure additional instruction and services for individual students of public and nonpublic schools; (2) to determine the procedures...
This study was designed to test three hypotheses: (1) College freshmen and sophomores will be more like their parents in social attitudes than will juniors and seniors, (2) The more dogmatic the parent, the more similar will be the child and parent...
The Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA, 1997) states that students with disabilities should be served in the least restrictive environmental possible. This legislation has caused an increased interest in obtaining more information on how to...
The purpose of this paper is to (1) determine whether a clear understanding of the roles the school psychologist serves in the school, influences teachers' acceptance of his services, and (2) whether classroom teachers' feelings concerning their...
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...
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...
This study was an attempt to determine soil and vegetative differences in pastures on upland and slope sites caused by different utilization rates in the past year. Soil and vegetative differences were determined with reference to the following...
Aerobic dance and aqua exercise are rapidly gaining popularity, with aqua exercise now being recognized as a legitimate training modality. However, the effects of aqua exercise programs on various physiological parameters have not been well...
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 general problem of the present study was to determine the effect of an instructional wellness program upon lifestyle knowledge of fourth grade students, as well as to determine a similar effect on a significant other who was exposed only...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of an interdisciplinary cognitive fitness program on the fitness knowledge of fourth grade students. The subjects that participated in this study were selected from a population of fourth grade...
The problem of the study is to determine whether a planned listening program in grade three would improve the scores obtained on the Otis Mental Ability Tests. The basic assumption is that giving the subjects to be tested the opportunity to develop...
The purpose of this investigation was to establish validity and reliability on the Creative Movement/Dance Analysis (CM/DA). A review of the literature indicated this study is one the few to address the issue of assessment within the realm of...
Research was conducted 27 April 1963 through 20 May 1964 at the Finney Basin, a large depression in Finney County, Kansas. The objectives of this study were to determine migration peaks and periods, relative numbers, status of nesting species, and...
The purpose of this study was two-fold. First, to determine what the cities of Western Kansas are doing to attract industry and what industries already located in Western Kansas looked for when they chose a particular city in which to locate. ...
ABSTRACT: The current study examined the relationship between ages of entry into formal
education and the effects it had on participation in the Accelerated Reader program. More
specifically, the variables being compared were: the child’s age in...
Researchers are only recently beginning to look at the effects of acculturation on the individual. Most or the research in this area has largely focused on the effects of acculturation on a group of people. We are seeing a dramatic increase in the...
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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...
Activity of small mammals in relation to time of day, various weather conditions, and moonlight was studied during July, August, September, and October, 1964, in a relict area located 1.5 miles southwest of Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. The activity...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate C. Gilligan's postulates that men progress from a fear of intimacy (affiliation) to recognition of its importance, while women accept affiliation initially and remain constant in valuing it across...
This thesis correlates the major issues discussed in the 1880 Senate Report #693 (the Voorhees Committee), an investigation into "The Causes of the Removal of the Negro from the Southern States to the Northern States” with the extraordinary...
Ageism is a term that has evolved in recent years to describe prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behaviors that occur toward members of the human population as a result of the members' chronological or perceived age. Recent studies suggest...
People of the Central Plains tradition (A.D. 900 to 1450) practiced a lifestyle of diversified subsistence while occupying isolated to small clusters of earth lodges, or earthen dwellings. The Albert Bell site, in Sheridan County, Kansas, in 1990,...
A description and analysis of the Alliance for Progress is presented in this work. Development of a cooperative attitude in United States foreign policy toward Latin America, which culminated in the Alliance for Progress, is sketched. Economic and...
I describe a partial skeleton of a theropod from the Later Jurassic Morrison
Formation of Converse County, Wyoming. Collected material included 17 vertebrae,
three ribs, two associated left metatarsals and an incomplete ilium of an Allosaurus in...
The purpose of this investigation was to study and determine types of objectives selected by teachers of beginning speech courses in Western Kansas high schools and to compare these selections with those of certain college speech instructors.
/ An...
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...
Big bluestem (Andropogon gerardi), side-oats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula) and blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis) represent a tall, mid and short grass type of vegetation respectively, and can typically be found growing in the mixed prairie. It was...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the orientation program at a mid-western regional medical center. This researcher conducted experiments while actually taking part in the newly developed program.
Following the observation experiments,...
An electrophoretic study of serum protein fractional percentages was conducted on 72 samples with abnormal albumin/globulin ratios (above 2.0 or below 1.1). Thirty-seven percent of the samples had factional percentages above or below the normal...
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...
Because of the increasing importance of science in the modern world, this thesis examines the validity of Sir Charles
Snow's theory of the "two cultures." This examination is done in the light of the picture revealed by the novels Sir Charles has...
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...
This study examined the reliability and validity of the Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory (MARSI) (Mokhtari and Reichard, 2002). Mokhtari and Reichard (2002) developed the MARSI to assess students' metacognitive awareness of...
Sociology, from the time of Durkhelm and Weber, has been intrigued, mystified and frustrated by the continued existence of organized religion in a historical era which claims to be rational and secular. Moore (1963) typifies the sociologists'...
A combination of the etching and aquatint techniques were superimposed over relief color-printing giving this linear medium a painterly effect. The above process was also used with the woodcut producing a most pleasing effect. In both the woodcut...
An attempt has been made in this study to determine the relationship which exists between non-voting and the personal characteristics of sex, age, and occupation. An attempt was also made to discover some of the reasons why eligible voters do not...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate opinions pertaining to counseling services received in high school as reported by college students an d to determine the effect of selected independent variables. The following independent variables...
The primary purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of cognitive functioning between matched eidetic and noneidetic aged subjects. In addition, the relationships between eidetic imagery, color afterimage, and Necker cube were...
The present research was designed to examine the role that self-efficacy plays in psychotherapy. Thirty-one consenting clients of 18 years and older voluntarily receiving psychological services from practicum students at the Kelly Psychological...
The focus of the current study was to examine the academic responding and the social interactions of students with learning disabilities LD in three educational settings: resource room, inclusive classroom, and general education. Two third grade...
The nation's schools are currently in the midst of reassessing their instructional systems and the impact that they have on student achievement. Educational reform efforts are moving education from an isolated, highly autonomous academic model to a...
The current trend in special education involves providing services for students with disabilities in general education settings instead of pull-out programs (Cheney & Muscott, 1996), even students with mental retardation (MR). While inclusion may...
The research focus of inclusion in the general education programs is often directed toward the students who have been identified as eligible for special education services. The research on the effects of inclusion on typically developing students...
Historically, students with behavioral difficulties have been educated in self-contained rooms or in separate educational settings. Recently, the educational field has moved to teaching students with special needs in an inclusive setting. In such...
Antibiotics are used in human medicine as well as agriculture. In the United States thousands of tons of antibiotics are annually given in low levels to livestock as prophylactics and to promote growth. This is in addition to antibiotic treatments...
Little research has been done on the meaning of sexual intercourse experience, and the way that men and women construe the experience, its value (or lack of), and their expectations of the experience. Herold and Goodwin (1981) imposed a three...
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...
Improvements in health care and standards of living have resulted in the elderly becoming one of the fastest growing groups of people. Current estimates by the US Department of Health and Human Services (1990), projects by the year 2000, the 35...
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 two sisters in Edwin, Kansas to their sister in Allen County, Pennsylvania. Details include life on the farm, the weather, the sisters' families, and the crops.
The purpose of this investigation was to identify thoughts, feelings, and circumstances experienced by diabetics before self-glucose monitoring, after glucose monitoring, and after deciding not to monitor glucose. Monitoring glucose is essential...
The remains of the mosasaur genera Clidastes, Platecarpus, Tylosaurus, and Ectenosaurus are found in the Smoky Hill Chalk Member, Niobrara Formation (upper cretaceous) of western Kansas. Some taxa are found only in limited horizons, whereas others...
Two subspecies of Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis) occur in the United States, and neither has been studied extensively. Of the two, the Eastern subspecies (L.j. jamaicensis) has a larger range, but has been studied to a lesser degree than the...
Prior to the 2000 and 2001 breeding seasons, 150 nest boxes were erected throughout riparian habitat in Ellis County, Kansas, to study breeding productivity and the post-fledging stage of the House Wren (Troglodytes aedon). During that interval I...
The various Geneva Conventions were designed to protect both combatants and noncombatants from unnecessary suffering during wartime. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, nations developed treaties like the Red Cross Treaty of 1929...
The purpose of this thesis was to explore the possibilities of the trapped air technique in creating ceramic forms. The trapped air technique grew out of the writer's experimentation with the various existing hand- built techniques. It was...
The purpose of the study was to examine certain problems related to seventh and eighth grade science programs in a sample area of North Central Kansas and to relate these problems to similar problems which appear to exist in other areas of the...
Sects constitute a force in the Christian religion, in addition to Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, in most communities of the United States. Sects have a basically negative religious orientation. An important distinction between sects and...
Previous studies of Ulmus pumila Linnaeus and Ulmus rubra Muhlenberg and their hybrid Ulmus x notha Wilhelm and G. Ware were restricted mainly to investigations of Dutch elm disease resistance/breeding for the cultivar trade. Recent studies have...
A study was made to determine the average monthly and seasonally yields of seven native grasses as they grew in pure stands in an ungrazed mixed prairie near Hays, Kansas. The study was conducted for two growing seasons (1952-1953) on the upland,...
The purpose of the current research was to examine: (a) if a relationship existed between an individual's sex-role orientation and that individual's method of coping; and (b) which sex-role orientation was most adaptive in coping with stress....
Beginning in the early 1960s, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have evolved from mainframe computer programs written in FORTRAN into the highly complex desktop PC software that we have today. In the early 1980s, GIS development went in two...
This study made comparisons of the methods of programed-text instruction, tutoring and lecturing in the classroom. A three by three factorial arrangement of treatments was used as an experimental design. One factor was the three methods of...
The purpose of this investigation was to collect information on basal cover, percentage composition, yield of grasses and common forbs found on five undisturbed prairies, as well as a detailed description of the limy upland soils. Sites selected...
