This study investigates the change in reading comprehension ability of a child who has a distinct type of visual dysfunction, scotopic sensitivity syndrome when treated with spectrally modified lenses, Irlen filters. Recent research has indicated...
Much is known about the problem-solving process. Despite this availability of information, however, many individuals are not effective when faced with a problem. Bandura (1977) suggested that perceived personal competence or self-efficacy affects...
The present investigation examined the level of depression in a sample of 100 learning disabled and non-learning disabled fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students. Levels of depression were assessed using a Children’s depression Inventory (CDI)...
The purpose of this study was to compare the results of teaching mathematics by the traditional approach and the modern approach. The study was limited to Eighth Grade Mathematics and Algebra I, and to those students who attended Glendale High...
The present investigation was designed to study the relationship between the ability to forget unwanted information and age. Hypotheses were evaluated through the use of the Directed Forgetting Paradigm (Bjork, 1972) in which the position of a cue...
This research was designed to investigate the relationships between intelligence, personality variables, and creativity. Forty-three males and twenty-seven females in general psychology classes at Fort Hays State College served as subjects. 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...
Teachers are faced with the problem of having pupils in their classroom who may be several years retarded in their reading ability. This study identities and reviews the causes of reading disabilities found in the elementary school. A. THE PROBLEM:...
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...
It was the purpose of the readability study to find: (1) the readability levels of three textbooks in use in the Science and Social Studies Departments of Russell High School, Russell, Kansas; (2) the reading ability levels of students using...
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...
The term dynamic assessment (DA) has been used to describe several types of informal diagnostic procedures that allow examiners to observe the changes in an individual’s performance over a period of time. The purpose of this study was to examine...
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 primary purpose of this study was to determine the concepts of superintendents in selected public school districts in Nebraska regarding their priorities of competencies in educational administration which they believe superintendents should...
There are many variables involved in the attitudes of adolescents. This thesis focuses on adolescents aged 14 to 19. Whether the adolescent had a conservative or liberal attitude was measured by a questionnaire called the Sexual Attitude Scale. ...
The problem of this study is to determine whether non-promotion contributes to the academic achievement of the student. The following null hypotheses were designed to be tested by this study: There is no significant difference in academic...
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate and compare perceptions of behaviors desirable to elementary science teachers. A related purpose to this study was to investigate the relationship between these perceived behaviors and the...
I. Purpose of Study: The purpose of this study was to evaluate, on the basis of student opinion: 1. The outstanding characteristics of the effective science teacher. 2. Student preference as to instructional procedures. 3. The attitudes of students...
The primary intention of this study was to investigate and determine the concepts of the presidents of the boards in one hundred selected school districts in Nebraska regarding their priorities of competencies that they seek in their evaluation and...
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 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 report was to develop measurements that can be used for predicting success in Plane Geometry in the Worland High School. The specific purposes of this report were (1) to determine coefficients of correlation between Plane...
In this paper an integration theory is used combining the threshold theory of Stanley Hoffman and the crisis theory of Louis Pye. The threshold theory maintains that there are propitious times in history when national and international goals of...
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...
The purposes of this thesis are to examine the strengths and weaknesses of the severance tax, to study the methods of administering the severance tax and to examine the severance tax history of Kansas.
The arguments favoring a severance tax are...
This study was intended to provide information regarding the use of the EMG to aid students who wish to concentrate and study better. The study hypothesized that the electromyography could be used to train subjects to attain specific levels of...
The temperament theory of Jung was adapted by Myers Briggs in the creation of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator Keirsey shortened the MBTI to make the Keirsey Temperament Sorter Keirsey suggests that the temperament types identified by the Keirsey...
The recent resurgence of interest in serving gifted children in our public school system and the mandate that all gifted children will be served by 1980 (K.S.A. 72-966) has reawakened the search for an identifying device that accurately predicts...
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 explored the possible relationships between eidetic imagery, memory for shapes, IQ, and reading ability. Fifty-nine third graders (34 boys and 25 girls) participated in determining the association values of certain shapes. An independent...
The primary purpose of this investigation was to determine the relationship between college entrance test scores and evaluations made by college freshmen of their college preparatory backgrounds in English composition, in reading, and in study...
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 Problem: The purpose of this investigation was to observe the foaming characteristics of some electrolytic solutions and to investigate some of the physical properties of the solutions, particularly noting any relations or trends indicated by...
The purpose of the present study was to attempt to validate the pattern of Wechsler (WISC) Subtest performance for retarded readers derived from the published literature on a population of retarded readers from northwest Kansas. This pattern...
This study examined the ability of the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (M-C SDS) to assess treatment outcome for alcoholics who had undergone an inpatient treatment program. The study sought to determine whether there would be a...
The identification of personality characteristics found to distinguish pregnant teenagers from established adolescent norms may eventually help various professionals to identify those female adolescents who are at greatest risk of becoming pregnant...
Critical thinking is considered an important component of nursing science. As an educational principle critical thinking is based on the philosophy that critical thinking is essential to true autonomy in nursing. However, very few studies were...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate characteristics public school superintendents consider important in choosing candidates to interview for elementary principal positions. Superintendents were mailed one of the following profiles, one...
One hundred sixty elementary school students and one hundred sixty undergraduate college students took a ten-item anagrams test. The subjects’ expectancies of success were manipulated by having them attempt to solve either easy or insolvable...
The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate how effectively Catholic poets have utilized Catholic doctrine in their poetry.
I became interested in the topic through a study of Catholic poets in two courses; one in Modern Catholic Literature and the...
A status survey design with predetermined and post hoc groups was employed to investigate what students rated as characteristics of an effective university professor. A professor effectiveness questionnaire designed by Dean and Valdes (1967, as...
A microorganism resembling a fungus, as revealed by light microscopy, was collected from a preserved cat dissection specimen in the Fort Hays State University anatomy laboratory. The organism subsequently was isolated and grown in pure culture on...
Salt cedar (Tamarix pentandra Pall .) is a phreatophyte which has created a major water conservation problem in the southwestern part of the United States. This plant has the ability to adapt to many different types of habitats. It may be found...
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...
Old World Bluestems (OWB), introduced from Europe and Asia in the 1920s, recently have begun to raise concerns in the Great Plains. Despite determination in the late 1950s that OWS were weedy and negatively impacted biological diversity, they were...
"Triclosan is a multi-purpose biocide that is used in many personal care products,
including antibacterial handsoaps and toothpastes. The wide usage oftriclosan fosters its
dispersal into the enviro11l11ent, which might contribute to the ability of...
Music has been seen as having significant effects on many areas of human activity. Very recent research into the effects of music on cognitive and spatial -temporal abilities prompted an attempted duplication of a study that claimed significant...
White male and female subjects were shown two series of photographs with the objective of identifying those pictures shown in the first series. The data were analyzed in terms of the errors committed and the actual choices made regardless of...
The purpose of this study was to examine the speaking of Dr. Charles Monroe Sheldon and to evaluate his speaking during the period from 1905 to 1915. The working hypothesis for this study was that during this period Dr. Charles Monroe Sheldon was...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the attitudes toward reading of elementary students in 3rd and 6th grade at a small, rural western Kansas school before and after implementing a read- aloud program. The sample consisted of 58...
The City of Hays, Kansas depends on the underlying Big Creek aquifer for part of its partial water supply. The Big Creek aquifer consists of unconsolidated consists of unconsolidated alluvial deposits making it suitable for water retention and...
The introduced shrub Tamarix ramosissima Lebed. invades riparian zones, but
loses competitiveness under flooding. This was tested in Tamarix ramosissima by
examining responses to flooding by soil type in a greenhouse setting. A field study
examined...
A non-verbal child was conditioned by operant techniques to imitate verbal items and name objects in pictures. The subject was rewarded for accurate imitations of the training items. Training was done by the concurrent method in which three items...
The relatively unique United States system of jury trails finds citizens form all walks of life being placed into a position of awesome responsibility. Quite often this entails passing judgment on the disposition of another human being’s life. ...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the effects of the implementation of a modified block schedule in a Junior/Senior High School setting. The sample size included 152 subjects. The independent variables investigated included gender,...
Invasion by nonnative plants is particularly prevalent in wetlands. While the ecological patterns in wetland plants are well known, it is less well known how flooding-related soil conditions influence the physiological success of introduced species...
A letter asking the President to redeem the unjust dismissal of Col. Bowen from the service. This letter apparently accompanied the affidavits. The letter is signed, but the person doing the transcribing was unable to decipher the name.
Military discharges; Military leadership; Military officers;
The antibiotic vancomycin was developed by Eli Lilly in the 1950s in response to
the growing number of Staphylococcus aureus infections that were resistant to penicillin.
Vancomycin was not widely used at the time because of its high toxicity....
The central grasslands of North America are a current focus for biological research because of the loss of native prairie across the continent. The loss of habitat due to farming, ranching, and urban development has adversely impacted a number of...
Milner, Branch, and Rasmussen (1962) first proposed evaluating memory during the sodium amobarbital (WADA) test. Milner hypothesized that people who demonstrated transient amnesia after injection ipsalateral to the seizure focus would be at risk...
Mixed prairie range sites vary in ability to produce for age for livestock consumption. One reason for the difference in variation is the degree of utilization of the ranges in past years. The purpose of the study was to determine variation in...
"Previous research regarding technology integration in education has indicated that
when technology is integrated into the classroom with fidelity it can enhance educational
experiences ranging from academic achievement to student attitudes toward...
Studies that have compared levels of activity with intelligence quotient scores have been contradictory results ranging from negative through strong positive relationships between the two variables. The present study is an attempt to provide a...
Job satisfaction is one of the most often mentioned constructs in the theoretical and descriptive literature related to nurses' burnout, commitment, and turnover. Little of the published research has focused on nurses employed in non-urban,...
Successful nursing leadership requires positive interpersonal qualities, superb critical thinking skills, diverse expertise and knowledge (Allen, 1998). Most importantly, nursing leaders must be flexible, supportive, visionary and highly visible to...
Use of epidural anesthesia during labor has become prevalent, although epidural use has been associated with a number of undesirable childbirth outcomes (MacArthur, Lewis, & Knox, 1992; Nicholson & Ridolfo, 1989: Scott & Hibbard, 1990; Thorp et...
Radiographic techniques were applied to a human simulation pelvis phantom with evaluations of the resultant image analyzed by a designated radiologist. Results indicate that a lower patient dose is received when coupled with an increase in the tube...
The present study examined the possible relationship between the frequency of occurrence of CVA and the month of admission to a rural regional medical center. Previous studies suggested a relationship existed. The purpose of this investigation...
Triangular habitat "islands" at interchanges along interstates are utilized extensively by small mammals. I attempted to monitor the movements of small mammals at the West Hays interchange, Exit 157, on Interstate Highway 70 in Ellis Co., Kansas....
While the canonical nested subset pattern suggests that less species-rich areas will contain a proper subset of the species observed in richer areas, actual data sets do not show perfect nestedness; however, they show a pattern with more structure...
In today's healthcare providing an atmosphere that facilitates nurses to be empowered and satisfied with their job is a challenge for hospitals and nursing administrators. The nursing environment provides the elements necessary for nurses to...
Nursing job satisfaction is an important component in today's healthcare environment. Job satisfaction, nurse recruitment, and retention are related throughout current nursing literature (LaSala, 2000; Muus et at, 1993; Stratton et al., 1991;...
One of the most important roles of the nurse in the delivery of patient care is the management of clinical information. The use of computerized patient records can improve nursing's ability to document care given to patients, evaluate nursing...
Critical thinking and empowerment are controversial concepts in nursing. A systematic review of the literature using a computer search of CINAHL, MEDLINE, ABI-Inform, Cochrane Library, National Library of Medicine, and the Virginia Henderson...
This study investigated the relationships between open-mindedness and learning and thinking. Fifty-five subjects were taken from General Psychology classes. They were given Haiman's Revised Scale for the measurement of Open-mindedness, a...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate participation in extracurricular activities, academic achievement, and attitude towards school. The independent variables were participation, classification and gender. The dependent variables were...
The purpose of this investigation was to describe the hospitalized patient's evaluation of their pain management during their hospital stay. This investigation evaluated if there was a statistically significant relationship between the patient's...
The purpose of this investigation was to determine if perceived enactment of autonomy was related to level of life satisfaction in an elderly population. Perceived enactment of autonomy (PEA) was examined as the potential for self-care action. ...
Abstract:
Persons considered hardy view change as a challenge, feel deeply committed to and involved in life activities, and believe they can control events in their life. A change that has become increasingly evident in healthcare is the...
Situational Crisis Communication Theory (SCCT) posits that communicative responses to individual crises must be customized to each situation. An organization’s response following a crisis event could be to deny any knowledge of the crisis,...
The purpose of this study was to determine relations between measures of aggression and ability level of male and female sports participants. Subjects for this study were randomly selected college students who participated in intramural basketball....
"The purpose of this study was to determine the speech recognition abilities of individuals with hearing loss using multi-talker babble as a competing stimulus. Twenty-six young adults participated, 15 in the normal hearing group (mean age of 21.9...
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among specific tasks of meta-linguistic skills and decoding and reading comprehension abilities. Thirty children with 10 in each grade of first, second, and third participated in the study....
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between (1) physical fitness and social adjustment, (2) physical fitness and self-concepts, and (3) social adjustment and self-concepts of ninth and tenth grade girls. RESEARCH...
Current research indicates that family environment factors can affect a person's psychological well-being. However, there tends to be a paucity of research investigating whether or not these various family environment factors are associated with...
A playa wetland’s ability to retain moisture and water has the greatest influence on the ecological and hydrological functionality of the playa. In this project, Landsat TM/ETM+ satellite imagery was analyzed to determine whether it could be used...
Reveille is the yearbook of Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas. The Reveille began publication in 1914 shortly after William A. Lewis became President of Fort Hays Kansas Normal School. It was published annually, with the exception of 1918...
Fort Hays State University--Students—Yearbooks ; Fort Hays State University—Periodicals ; College yearbooks--Kansas—Hays ; College students--Kansas—Hays ;Universities and colleges--Kansas--Hays
Reveille is the yearbook of Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas....
Fort Hays State University--Students—Yearbooks ; Fort Hays State University—Periodicals ; College yearbooks--Kansas—Hays ; College students--Kansas—Hays ;Universities and colleges--Kansas--Hays
Reveille is the yearbook of Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas....
Fort Hays State University--Students—Yearbooks ; Fort Hays State University—Periodicals ; College yearbooks--Kansas—Hays ; College students--Kansas—Hays ;Universities and colleges--Kansas--Hays
