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...
This study compared three types of outcome evaluation techniques currently used in community mental health center evaluation programs. They were the subjective report scales of the Denver Community Mental Health Questionnaire (DCMHQ,), Goal...
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 history of the Taiwan Stock Exchange in the past seven years indicates that the Nationalist government has attempted to achieve a sound securities market for capital formation of the national economy. However, the performance of the TSE in the...
This study examined the effects of parent characteristics on the success or failure of a behavior modification project with their children. The subjects were parents enrolled in a Behavior Modification for Child Management course at Fort Hays...
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...
One of the most crucial problems which hinders educational advancement in Thailand is the lack of qualified textbooks. The Ministry of Education of Tha1land has been striving to solve the problem by taking charge of printing the textbooks and...
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...
Seed bank composition and floristic species diversity were examined in the spring seep zone of the marsh ridge community at Haberer’s Salf Marsh in central Kansas. One hundred cores were collected in the spring seep zone on each of the four...
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 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...
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,...
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...
This study was designed to compare the attitudes of beginning, early-tenured, and career teachers toward pupils and teaching as revealed in the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory. Fifty beginning teacher s. Fifty early-tenured teachers (four or...
The purpose of this thesis was to present the complete results of changing the accounting method of The Russell State Bank from cash basis to accrual basis. Advantages and disadvantages of each system are reviewed. Comparison is made of the...
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...
The purpose of the researcher was to evaluate the effect of Socratically presented drug education information in changing students’ attitudes toward drug abuse. The subjects consisted of 110 fifth graders who attended four elementary schools. The...
This study was initiated to study the philosophy, organization, and staffing of some selected middle schools in the states of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Colorado, from lists of exemplary middle schools supplied by the respective State...
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 accounting profession is undergoing a change in services offered to clients. Accountants are gradually re-entering the field of management services and are drawing criticism for their actions. Critics doubt the competence of the accountants in...
The introduction to this paper relates the history of technological change in the agricultural sector of the economy and defines terminology necessary to place the various farm ownership methods in proper perspective. The significance and t he...
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 Taylor Associates, Inc. Reading Plus program has been hypothesized to increase visual reading efficiency and, as a result, to also increase reading skill and achievement. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the Taylor Associates, Inc....
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'...
The primary purpose of this field study was to indentify administrative attitudes in the state of Kansas towards the extended school day or school year. A questionnaire, which was developed by the researcher, was mailed in March of 1984 to 120...
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...
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 purpose of this study was to determine the effects of agricultural noise on farm workers' auditory thresholds before and after a work day's exposure during the harvest season. Twenty volunteer subjects from a small farming community in North...
A review of the literature concerning the Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (MARS) revealed that the MARS is currently being employed as a measure of therapy progress despite a lack of conclusive research to justify this procedure. Many scales of a...
The specific problem of this thesis was to gather evidence bearing upon the existence of a +1 oxidation state for tin. When the loss in weight of a metal anode is due solely to oxidation of the metal to its cation by an electrolytic current,...
The visual arts lend themselves naturally to contemplation of, and a more complete and total development of self (McNiff, 1981). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of art therapy in increasing self-awareness using...
There have been many studies on attitude change and the influence of interviewer characteristics. Studies on attitude change have concerned themselves with such factors as methodology used in attitude change studies and forms of communication that...
This study was designed to investigate the feasibility of utilizing operant conditioning techniques in changing delinquent girls’ attitudes and behavior towards authority figures. Two experimental groups, performing on a modified Taffel task,...
Relaxation training was integrated into the regular education program of 2 rural Kansas communities. The treatment group, totaling 9 Kindergarten students, received 9 training sessions of approximately 15 minutes in length. Physiological indices of...
This thesis reports research concerning the services rendered by the Fort Hays Kansas State College Psychological Service Center. Its main purpose was to collect information to determine the effectiveness of these services. It attempted (1) to...
From the mid-nineteenth century until the early decades of the twentieth century, medicine underwent a tremendous transformation. No longer was medicine to be based on archaic theories that were grounded on unquantifiable guesswork. Instead,...
California’s 2011 Realignment Legislation Addressing Public Safety is the most sweeping public safety reform package since shortly after California’s statehood in 1850. Traditionally, any person convicted and confined for a felony has been...
The purpose of this paper is to examine several plausible causes and consequences for the American revolt against Britain. The most popular causes seem to be: the tyrannical actions of the Mother country; social change within and economic factors...
Very little is known about the perceptions and expectations of students as they progress through a postgraduate program (Phillips, 1980). Using a longitudinal methodology, this study investigated the process of transition and the trajectories of...
The purpose of this experiment was to determine children’s degree of preference for working for a reinforcer over that of obtaining an identical reinforce by not working, i.e., “freeloading”. Using a single-organism design, twelve children...
Climate change threatens biodiversity; in particular, species with narrow distributions and specific habitat requirements. The Great Basin provides an excellent model system to evaluate the effects of climate change on species with isolated...
Vegetational composition and the origin of surface water were studied during 2007 and 2008 at two small (<3 ha) wetlands in Ellis County in west central Kansas. Methods used to analyze plant community composition included line transects, point...
The purpose of this investigation was to determine nurses preferred continuing nursing education (CNE) delivery method. Specific preferences of CNE delivery methods for nurses in rural and urban regions were explored, as well as CNE delivery method...
The artist’s early work was executed rapidly with heavily defined charcoal lines. At the time, subject matter, usually figurative, was placed in situations which stressed the overall composition and design elements of the painting. The artist...
This research addressed two questions concerning strategies for coping with betrayal that were emphasized in recent studies by Rupp (1999) and Hickel (2000). The first question was to what extent do participants report using the coping strategies...
Previously, research regarding the area of betrayal has examined the motivations for betrayal, relationship changes following betrayal, individual differences in betrayal, and betrayal and the social network. Until Rupp’s (1999) recent study,...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of isometric strength testing of the wrist palmar flexion muscles on the strength of the contralateral muscle group in male high school students. Twenty-two male high school students enrolled at...
The purpose of this study was to determine the amount of strength transferred to the unexercised contralateral wrist flexor muscle group utilizing a unilateral maximal isometric strength measurement schedule with college men. Twenty right-handed...
This study deconstructs Eve Ensler's Obie award winning 1996 play, The Vagina Monologues using theatrical genres as a means of comparative analysis. Genres studied: Social, Popular and Feminist Theatre, were chosen for their similarity with the...
This study investigated the conditionability of mentally retarded adults with speech intensity disorders using feedback and various schedules of reinforcement. A voice volume feedback apparatus was used in training with six female subjects who...
This study was designed to assess whether a written demythologizing handout, which points out myths about mental patients and the medical model, would affect students' attitudes toward specific behavioral descriptions. Each subject responded to one...
The purpose of this thesis was to examine the effect of Continental Airlines' 1983 bankruptcy on its advenising in the Rocky Mountain News.
This thesis was a descriptive study. A total of 14 Continental Airline advertisements were analyzed in the...
This paper reports a study of one aspect of perseveration learning theory. Three assumptions led to this study. The first was the theory that the perseveration of neural activity initiated by a learning stimulus results in the removal of calcium...
Previous research on betrayal has focused mainly on motivations for betrayal, relationship change, individual differences in the tendency toward betraying others, and betrayal and the social network. There appears to be no empirical work on how...
The present study was an attempt to assess the effects of a systematic mental health program in an elementary school. Three variables were considered: the child's emotional adjustment; group interaction; and the teacher's rating of each student's...
ABSTRACT Previous studies indicate the black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) alters its environment through grazing, clipping, and burrowing, which affect plant community composition, cover, species richness, and biomass. Previous...
This study investigated the change in a subject's affective, academic achievement, and psychomotor behaviors prior to and after treatment with Ritalin. The subject of this study was a 12 year 5 month old adolescent diagnosed as having Attention...
The purpose of this research was to help provide the nursing profession with a better understanding of the possible relationships that education and life experiences (age, hospitalization and prior work experience in health care) have with empathy...
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of implementation of modern mathematics into the Algebra I course in the schools of the regional four-state geographical area in the proximity of northeast Kansas and to determine whether some...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate variables related to teachers’ perceptions of inservice effectiveness. The following nine independent variables were investigated: teacher involvement during inservice planning; teacher...
In recent years, there saw a rapid expansion of trade by the Republic of China on Taiwan. The volume of trade has been growing continuously over the years, but the upswing since 1963 has been particularly fast. The average annual rate of growth of...
The Kansas River System currently represents the western range limit for 9 species of freshwater mussel, although 24 species were reported historically. The purpose of this study was to assess the current status of native mussels (Unionidae) and...
"The phenotype of two Andropogon gerardii subspecies, big bluestem and sand bluestem, varies broadly throughout the Great Plains of North America, giving rise to ecotypes within the species. This study sought to discriminate between genetic and...
The beginning of the twentieth century was a time a great change and development within American astronomy. The period is rife with astronomers, both men and women, who advanced the discipline. However, few historians have looked at the lives of...
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The purpose of the researcher was to Investigate the effectiveness of planned career awareness actIvities and unisexual occupational activities for second graders. The subjects of this study consisted of 78 second grade students...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of summer camp experience and accompanying independence training on the need to achieve, as measured by French’s Test of Insight. The camp utilized learning principles in an attempt to bring...
14 Ss were paired according to pre-treatment smoking rate, then randomly assigned, 7 each, to either a systematic desensitization-covert sensitization (SD -CS) or relaxation-discussion (R-D) group. Ss were seen in groups of 3 or 4 each for 4...
This study has one major purpose: to discover the formation of Dryden’s dramatic theory in the “essay of Dramatic Poesy” published in 1668 through a detailed study of his seven earlier plays.
The first chapter shows an elaborate...
To best meet student needs, university counseling centers must be aware of gradual changes within the campus population and how needs change across time. A needs assessment can help match services to student needs. The university counseling...
The current study examined whether children can learn behaviors from fictional characters in books. Additionally, the researcher explored whether discussion of the topic at hand would improve the learning of those behaviors or if it would have no...
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.
Relatively little research has been done on the stability of expressed values of children and adolescents. The majority of the studies conducted on the subject suggest that there are many aspects of children and adolescents which remain stable with...
The digitization of media organizations has brought about changes in both the organization and the practices of journalism, which have resulted in a change in how the news is made. Media convergence has required news organizations to combine online...
Dystocia, or difficult labor, is one of the primary indications for cesarean sections and complications with cervical softening contribute significantly to the number suffering with dystocia. The cervix must change shape, size, and histological...
The purpose of this investigation was to provide a temporal database model to “represent the progression of states of a nursing home resident's care plan over an interval of time" (Hassett et al., 1993, pp. 290). The investigation used an...
This descriptive, comparative study examined freshmen and sophomore student perceptions of faculty caring behaviors in an associate degree nursing program. The literature review reflected sparse research studies or student perceptions of caring....
This study was designed to investigate the relationship between how a client's past interpersonal relationships and self-efficacy towards therapy are related to the therapy relationship and the outcome of therapy. The clients' perceptions of a...
