The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of training in interpersonal communications and public speaking on the factors involved in stage fright as shown by comparative analysis of certain factors of the Gilkinson Speech Anxiety Scale....
The purpose of this study was to compare the strength gained in the right knee extensor muscles using the DeLorme Boot with the strength gained in the right knee extensor muscles using the QEM Machine. Sixty- three male college students enrolled at...
The problem of this project was the investigation of the possible relationship between two selected teaching methods and achievement in areas of three basic language skills: punctuation, grammar usage, and spelling as measured by three criteria. In...
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...
It has long been theorized that self-concept and self-esteem have an affect on achievement in school, especially in children with problems in learning such as those with specific learning disabilities. Many studies have been done looking at the...
Significant deficiencies in general and specific type empathy (Fernandez, Marshall, Lightbody, & O’Sullivan, 1998) and in moral development (Buttell, 2002) among child molesters have been found to exist. Given the empirical support that child...
This study was designed to compare the effect of different types of extratextual interactions during joint book reading on first-graders’ storybook comprehension abilities. Extratextual interactions are adult utterances incorporated into shared...
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 sample consisted of 101 high school students. The dependent variable was the career maturity scores. Three independent variables investigated were: 1) gender, 2) race, and 3) high school classification. Six null hypotheses were tested in the...
This is a study of the comparison of the three-point stance and the four-point stance in football relative to starting times for Five yards. This study is being done to determine which stance is the best for interior lineman to use. The study...
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 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...
Fort Hays State University has never conducted a consumer-oriented self-study of its graduate program in school psychology, but such a study was completed that assessed the clinical program. This study closely followed the method Joseph Guydish...
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...
One of the major issues facing Marymount College of Kansas is the provision for a more total relevant experience along with its academic courses for its business administration students. Marymount College, also, wants to give continued service to...
The King, Sora, and Virginia Rails were studied at the Cheyenne Bottoms Waterfowl Management Area in Barton County, Kansas in 1974. An auditory index of these three rail populations was attempted with the use of tape-recorded calls. It is...
A study was conducted in selected hydric and mesic lowland sites in Western Kansas. The objective was to collect as many as possible of the plant species present and give an ecological description of the successional units.
A total of 105 species...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate consumer satisfaction and employment status for successfully rehabilitated VR clients from a central Kansas general caseload, and to identify clients in need of further services. The independent...
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 the researcher was to investigate the effects of a read-aloud program. Type of instruction, gender, family structure and perception of family were the independent variables investigated. The dependent variables were Reading...
The Ptychodontidae historically have been classified within the Hybondontoidea, a group of chondrichthyans at an intermediate stage of evolution. A s both the most primitive and most advanced forms of Ptychodus possess skeletal and histological...
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 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...
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...
Using a multidimensional approach, this study investigated the relationships between personality variables and death concern. The study utilized Durlak and Kass's (1981) conceptualization of death concern in terms of five factors. These factors are...
The purpose on this paper is to incorporate in textbook form, notes and methods that the author has used for the past three years on an experimental bisis.
Set terminology is introduced and applied to the development of the number system trhough...
Nesting of the Pine Siskin (Spinus pinus) was studied at Hays, Kansas during the springs of 1978 and 1979. Although Hays represents an isolated outpost beyond the major range of the Pine Siskin, no important differences in breeding biology were...
Eight species of three genera of shrews were recovered from the Albert Ahrens Site, Nuckolls County, Nebraska. Based on dental morphology, biomechanics, and paleoecology, one of these is believed to represent a previously undescribed species of...
The preparation of olefins has been practiced for many years, but no regiospecific and stereospecific methods, using vic-diols as starting materials, were investigated until recent years. In this work, the preparation of cyclic sulfites of...
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...
As a first step toward revising programs of teacher education institutions, and existing conditions in our school, a study was undertaken to determine the degree of teacher maladjustment among teachers in the Hays, Kansas area. All teachers...
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...
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 the researcher was to investigate the characteristics of effective university professors as determined by student ratings. The following independent variables we r e investigated: gender, classification, GPA, major, and student...
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...
The purpose of this study is three-fold. First, to prepare a background for research in the field. Second, to provide a review of some of the available literature for others interested in the field, particularly in this institution. Third, to...
An investigation was conducted to determine the relationship between contrasting levels of reading achievement and three psychodynamic factors, identification with parents, relationship with peers, and the value of reading and good...
The purpose of this study was to determine which of the following approaches to the teaching of high school chemistry is providing a better background for the college preparatory student: the Chemical Education Material Study, or the traditional...
The purpose of this study was to compare the actual duties of selected Western Kansas secondary school administrators with the duties that were advocated by selected authorities in education. This study was limited to secondary-school...
The research investigated how various forms of organizational structures and institutional characteristics affect the efficiency of administering Federal aid programs. Four hypotheses and 12 pos t hoc hypotheses were tested. The measures of...
The purpose of this study was to determine some of the possible differences in three different types of motivational orientations and two different environmental conditions in behavior in a bargaining game. Sixty undergraduates enrolled in General...
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 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 the researcher was to investigate the attitudes toward reading of third grade students involved in a whole language program. The sample consisted of 71 students. Forty eight students participated in the study group, and a control...
This thesis was done to study the culture of three small church congregations in central and western Kansas. Ed Schein's (1985) cultural model was modified so that the level he called "espoused values" was expanded to include both espoused values...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 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 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...
The purpose of this research was to investigate the communication styles of radiologic technologists in Kansas. The total sample size was 240 registered radiologic technologists of Kansas. A questionnaire was mailed to these 240 registered...
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...
In the study of the effects of a teacher-planned literature instructional program, a teacher re ad – aloud program, and a non-specified reading instructional program on the reading attitudes of first and fourth grade students in two rural,...
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...
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...
The purpose of the field study was to determine the relationship between criteria of quality (COQ) and teachers' salaries in the ten Kansas school districts with enrollments of three thousand to four thousand pupils. The COQ variable in the Kansas...
A Solomon five group design was employed to investigate the effects of the “Every Kid Aware" drug education and prevention program upon the attitudes of 106 sixth grade students. The program was developed to give students the facts about drugs,...
Presented in this thesis are the results of a study conducted on twenty economic indicators. A hypothesis was developed to show the future economic growth of our Nation and each economic indicator was tested to determine whether or not 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 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...
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between reading disability and certain demographic characteristics of the elementary school referral population of the Fort Hays Reading Service Center.
The primary question...
This thesis contains the results of three surveys which were made to try to determine the most important courses in the major field of economics, general business, and accounting. These surveys were conducted from college catalogues, industry, and...
This survey attempted to measure evaluative, cognitive, and predicted behavioral components of the attitudes of Fort Hays Kansas State College students towards the High Plains Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center, the Psychological Service...
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...
Shorebirds were studied in Ellis County, Kansas from 22 March to 15 November, 1968. Objectives of the study were to: 1) determine the relative frequency and migration peaks and periods of charadriiform birds and, 2) investigate factors relating to...
King, Sora, and Virginia Rails were studied at 10 different marshes in Kansas in 1975. Populations of these three species were studied by using tape-recorded calls during the period 27 March through 10 June. Dates of first calling and peak calling...
The quest for security has been an integral part of human want ever since the dawn of civilization. Various methods have been developed to meet the need. Among them insurance is a dominant one at the present time. The origin of Chinese insurance is...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the attitudes and perceptions of SLPs who are currently using the 3:1 service delivery model. The 3:1 Model consists of services being directly administered for three out of the four weeks of a month and...
This study is the first to determine which species of Schinia occur in Kansas and to describe the geographical and temporal distribution of each. Ultraviolet (UV) light-traps were operated for 140 nights, in 68 counties, during three seasons...
Seventy-two fish collections at 31 localities were taken from the spring of 1985 through December of 1986 in an effort to clarify the status of the fish fauna in a poorly sampled area of northeastern Kansas. Species composition and distributions of...
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. ...
The Problem: This study was concerned with the identification of the services provided by elementary school counselors in Kansas during the 1966-67 school year.
Procedure: Books, Periodicals, and other publications were reviewed to provide...
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 present study was to replicate and expand on a study conducted by Feltz (1980). A path analytic procedure was utilized to evaluate the effectiveness of three theoretical models (an anxiety-based, Bandura, and Feltz) in...
