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...
Despite the growing number of students with disabilities receiving an increasing share of their education in inclusive classrooms, there is little evidence that inclusion increases academic responding or social interactions. The current...
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,...
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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...
Morphological characteristics including leaf size, shape, color, type of margins, type and degree of pubescence, and stomatal density, and anatomical characteristics including arrangement of tissues, relative size and shape of cells, and types of...
For many years the loss of Kansas-trained and experienced teacher has been a source of concern to those interested in the quality of instruction in the secondary schools of Kansas. A number of factors have combined to keep teaching salaries below...
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 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...
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...
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 surveyed the attitudes and beliefs of school personnel regarding Inclusion policies for students in several Southwestern Kansas school districts. There were 58 regular and special educators as well as administrators who participated in...
This study sought to determine teacher attitudes toward discipline and the relationship between teacher values, and modes of discipline. To test these hypotheses during the Spring of 1983, teachers in three different areas in Kansas complete the...
This study assessed causal attributions on the Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire (CASQ) for 30 learning disabled (LD), 30 gifted, and 29 normal achieving elementary school children. In addition, gender differences in attributional style...
Perceptions of barriers to behavior modification, as related to knowledge, stress, and perceived utility, were surveyed in a sample of 80 educational staff members in several rural Kansas school districts.
The results of this study found a...
The bat fauna of Jewel Cave National Monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota is poorly known. The objectives of this study were to locate, identify, and census bats residing in and around Jewel Cave during the summer, to identify foraging...
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 purpose o f this study was to investigate whether differences in self- presentation styles lead to differences in tactics used to influence others. Specifically, do consistent and flexible impression managers differ in their use of attributive...
The cave myotis (Myotis velifer), a predominately cavernicolous species, selects various types of sites for maternity roosts. In Kansas, some females remain in caves during the summer whereas others travel from cave hibernacula to maternity roosts...
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...
In this study an attempt was made to induce temporary depressed, happy, and neutral mood states in college students using a between-subjects design. The students were then tested for self-control by making repeated choices for either a large,...
Social interaction between 18 experimental subjects, who had been dichotomized as either high assertive or low assertive from scores received on the College Self Expression Scale, and 36 non-target subjects, was unobtrusively videotaped. Sixteen...
The present study examined what factors contribute to students experiencing supportive, positive relationships with their teachers. The study assessed teachers’ perceptions (n=37) of randomly selected kindergarten through third grade students...
"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 purpose of this study was to investigate the difference in the frequency of teacher-initiated interactions with male and female students in a rural elementary classroom before and after training on gender equity issues. Additionally,...
This study investigated individual rape reactions from the perspective of personal construct theory. Structured interviews which included both traditional survey devices and repertory grids were held with eight adult female sexual assault victims....
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...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate perceptions of the cultural environment of a college campus as perceived by residence hall students. The following independent variables were used, citizenship, gender, academic classification,...
Bansemer, Nancy S.
Elderly clients are often homebound due to culminating health problems. The deteriorating health status of the elderly combined with the accumulating losses of family, friends, financial support, and autonomy may result in...
This is a study to identify how Kansas municipal and county law enforcement agencies implement the personnel recruitment and selection process, and to gather data to determine if smaller police agencies are more likely to follow the Internal Model...
The nursing profession is experiencing a nursing shortage that is expected to only worsen. The current nursing work force is aging (Buerhaus, Staiger, & Auerbach, 2000), and fewer students overall are choosing nursing as a career (Mangan, 1999),...
Reveille is the yearbook of Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas....
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Stems of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) seedlings were exposed to localized, acute X-irradiation in an effort to determine effects of such treatment upon the vascular tissues. Exposed stem sections received 1500, 3000, or 9000 r in initial...
The debate over the effectiveness of large schools versus small schools is a long-standing one, one in which there is no general consensus among researchers. Much of the past research has yielded mixed or inconclusive results. Previous...
This study investigated revised applications of therapeutic music in childbirth, specifically examining its effects upon stress and pain. After examining literature on childbirth stress and pain, the applications of therapeutic music in...
Today fewer students are choosing nursing as a career. Because of our increased aging population, as well as a soon to be retiring baby boomer registered nurse (RN) population, there is an urgent need to replenish the dwindling numbers of students...
Previous research has found that individuals performing either physical (Latane', Williams, & Harkins, 1979) or cognitive (Petty, Harkins, & Williams, 1980) tasks alone or in groups exert less effort in groups, an effect called social loafing. Need...
This study examined the relationship between the adaptive-innovative cognitive style, experienced control, and anxiety in work situations. A questionnaire packet was distributed to the faculty and administrators at a middle-sized midwestern state...
A review of literature dealing with moon phases and psychiatric emergencies was undertaken. It was found that few empirical studies were done and that the earlier empirical studies did not reveal a lunar relationship while more recent research...
The present study assessed the performance of kindergarten subjects on a two dimensional concept-shift task. Subjects were 32 children (16 males and 16 females) ages 63 months to 75 months. The task required the subject to choose one stimulus...
The purpose of this research was to collect data in an effort to establish the status of health education in Kansas secondary schools. To meet this end, the questionnaire on the Status of Health Education in Kansas Secondary Schools, an instrument...
The Trial of the Major War Criminals at Nuremberg, the personalities associated with the trial, the verdicts rendered, and criticisms directed toward both those verdicts and the tribunal itself have generated a multitude of historical works....
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