638 research outputs found
The Feasibility of Training Teachers to be More Humanistic and the Training's Effect on the Teachers' Students
No full textvi, 82 leaves. Advisor: Edward E. HakansonThe problem. Research has indicated that human, person-centered characteristics in a classroom do make a difference. This study was concerned
with the effects of a midwestern intermediate education agency's human relations training program. The study determined certain effects of this training on teachers and its transferability to the teachers' students in a midwestern school
district.
Procedures. Ten elementary teachers (five teachers in the control and experimental groups, respectively) were selected from a midwestern school district. The research design was a nonequivalent control group design. The five experimental teachers were selected from the group of elementary teachers who had registered for human relations training in the summer of 1978. The five control teachers were chosen from the group of elementary teachers not taking training. They were matched with the five in the experimental group by grade level, achievement of students in the last three years. and instructional setting. Data for the research study were collected by video tapes and achievement
tests. Each teacher in the control and experimental groups was taped for one-half to one hour in the classroom as a pretest during May of 1978 and during April of 1979 as a posttest. The experimental group of teachers participated in
forty-five hours of human relations training in June of 1978. In September of 1978, all students of the ten teachers were administered the Stanford Achievement Test. Data only from the subtests of Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, and Word Study Skills were used. In April of 1979, the three subtests of the SAT were administered to the students of the ten teachers participating in this
study. The video tapes were viewed and rated by professional, trained raters from the National Consortium for Humanizing Education. The raters used the Carkhuff Scales to assess the pretest and posttest video tapes of the ten teachers for empathy, congruence, and positive regard. The ruters also rated the responses and actions of the students in the ten classrooms on the Taxonomy of the Affective Domain by Krathwohl, Bloom and Masia (for both pretest and posttest video tapes).
Findings. There were no significant differences between the mean gain score of "the experimental group of teachers and the mean gain score for the
control group of teachers for each interpersonal functioning variable: empathy, congruence, and positive regard. Also, there were no significant differences between the mean gain score of the students of the experimental group of teachers
and the mean gain score of the students of the control group of teachers for each of the subtests of SAT: Vocabulary. Reading Comprehension. and Word Study Skills. By looking at the percentages of responses and actions of the experimental
students versus the control students on the Taxonomy of the Affective Domain, there appeared to be no major changes in responses up the affecti
ve scale from preaasessment tapes to the postassessment tapes.
Recommendations. Replicate the study utilizing other evaluative instruments which may more accurately reflect the effectiveness of the program. The number of research participants needs to be increased and randomly selected from a population in any further research on this topic.
Research to determine the validity of the Carkhuff Scales in studies of this type should be carried out
Letter from Dwight Heard to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from Dwight B. Heard, president and publisher of The Arizona Republican, to Carl T. Hayden about a visit by Stephen Mathe
Letter from Carl Hayden to Dwight Heard
No full textLetter of introduction for Dwight B. Heard on the arrival of National Park Service Director Stephen T. Mather to Phoenix. Mather's visit includes trips to Roosevelt Dam and Tumacácori
Minnesota Water: A Geographical Perspective
No full textWater Resources Research CenterGersmehl, Carol; Drake, Janet; Brown, Dwight. (1986). Minnesota Water: A Geographical Perspective. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/95623
Theology : explained and defended, in a series of sermons ... with a memoir of the life of the author.
No full textMemoir by the author's sons, Sereno E. Dwight and William T. Dwight.Mode of access: Internet
Sex Discrimination in the Insurance Market
No full text96 leaves. Advisor: Dwight SaundersThe problem. Public interest in the practices of the insurance industry that affect women has developed in recent years. Allegations have been made that many of these practices unfairly discriminate against women in the sale of the insurance product. Critics claim that it is often more difficult for women to obtain insurance because of different underwriting practices for men and women. They also claim that coverage and benefits for the same kinds of insurance are more limited for women than men. Finally, the claim is made that women, because of their sex, pay considerably higher premiums for health and disability insurance.
Procedure. The purpose of this paper is to identify those practices that differentiate between men and women, and then to evaluate and analyze those practices in terms of their fair or unfair impact on women. The results of two sets of questionnaires provide the basic research data for the project. The first set of questionnaires was developed for, and distributed to insurance companies licensed in the state of Iowa. Separate questionnaires were prepared dealing with life, health, disability, automobile, and homeowner and property insurance. The second was a questionnaire for the consumer which was distributed to approximately 3,500 persons, most of whom were women. Because the questions were general in nature, the results were not readily quantifiable. Therefore, information from the consumer questionnaire was used to illustrate the potential problems identified with the findings of the company questionnaires.
Findings. The project findings are many and vary by kind of insurance, and they are presented separately in the report by type of insurance surveyed. The following is a brief summary of the major findings.
1. Rate classification by sex was found in all but homeowner and property insurance.
2. Maximum coverage and benefits were not as universally available to women as to men.
3. Comprehensive pregnancy-related coverage is not generally available.
4. Disability insurance for homemakers is not generally available.
5. Marital status is often a factor in determining insurability.
Conclusion. While the adverse effect on women of these findings is readily seen, the elimination of the disparities raises further questions and controversy. Legislation to remove some of the inequities is a logical beginning but further study and interpretation of the discriminatory impact of sex-related classifications is also indicated
Four Year's Relics Volume 1
No full textFirst volume "Four Year's Relics" from the papers of Henry Otis Dwight, consisting of original drawings, documents, maps, and a partial narrative of 1st Lieutenant Dwight's service in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry 20th Regiment. The drawings and narrative depict camp life and fellow officers during the Civil War. Henry Otis Dwight was born in Constantinople, Turkey, to missionary parents. He traveled to the United States to attend college at Ohio Wesleyan in Delaware, Ohio, and while there in September 1861 enlisted as a private in Delaware's "Lenape Greys" and subsequently mustered as Company D, 20th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He rose through the ranks to brevet Captain before mustering out in July 1865. For four years of campaigning with Union armies in the west, he made notes and sketched. In November 1864 Harper's Magazine published an account he wrote on the Atlanta campaign. After the war he married and then returned to Turkey where he had a long and distinguished career as a missionary and author
An Essay on education; delivered at the public commencement, at Yale-College, in New-Haven, September 9th, 1772.
No full text8 p. ; 21 cm.Trumbull suggests Timothy Dwight as author
Crop production response to moisture supply in Minnesota.
No full textThe purpose of this report is to define how variations in moisture affect state-wide crop production. To accomplish this goal we controlled geographic variations in the response of crops to changing technology, and regional differences in the severity and timing of wet and dry periods. The regional differences from local norms or unexpected values. Technology changes are controlled by subtracting the general trend in yield from the actual yield technology.Brown, Dwight A.; Gersmehl, Carol A.; Drake, Janet; Skaggs, Richard H.. (1987). Crop production response to moisture supply in Minnesota.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/163892
Mr. Dwight L. Hunter Jr. and Mrs. Dwight L. Hunter Jr.
No full textMr. and Mrs. Dwight L. Hunter Jr., friends of author Paul Horgan, is examining volumes in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Fort Worth Star-Telegram Evening January 24, 1961.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1960s/1326/thumbnail.jp
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