Dr. Wooster's notes say this is the "1st Football Team later in Fall of '02". The young men here are unidentified. There is another picture in the university archives that has Principal Picken and his son, Chat, posing with the rest of the team,...
Football; Western Branch of the Kansas State Normal School
This study was designed to investigate and record the boyhood, educational, and professional experiences of Lowell “Alex” Francis, which combined, contributed to shaping Alex into an influential leader, and into a productive coach, educator and...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the creativity and self-concepts of university students, specifically, to determine if differences existed between art students and non-art students. The following independent variables were...
The National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX-RN) for Registered Nurses is the culmination of all nursing programs and passing is required to become a practicing nurse. Success on the NCLEX-RN is vital for nursing practice and used as a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This thesis is a study of Come Sweet Death: A Quartet from Genesis, by B. Davie Napier, Dean of the Chapel and Professor of Religion at Stanford University. The Quartet is made up of four sermon-poems in modern poetry to be included in Dr....
This study will be limited to a general survey of independent study on a national level, but study should be done on the state level relative to this very important facet of individualized instruction as far as personal educative precepts prevail,...
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 purpose of the researcher was to investigate internalized shame. The independent variables were gender, age, family structure, religious affiliation, and birth order. The dependent variable was the scores obtained by the Internalized Shame...
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...
The purpose of the researcher was to explore Kansas college counseling centers as they existed in the spring semester of 1985. A questionnaire was developed and mailed to 47 counseling centers throughout Kansas. Returned questionnaires were placed...
This survey of theme and creative writing in secondary schools was written to aid composition teachers. It consists of a compilation of errors made most often by high school students and offers methods to remedy the errors. Seven errors found to...
Aaron Beck (Beck, Emery, & Greenberg, 1985) has proposed that Acceptance, Competence, and Control schemata function as core-issues in mental/emotional disorders. Using Derry and Kuiper's (1981) criterion for the schematic processing of information...
This study examined the viability of Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime using academic dishonesty as a measurement of deviant behavior. Their theory proposes that low self-control is a primary characteristic of those who are deviant...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate C. Gilligan's postulates that men progress from a fear of intimacy (affiliation) to recognition of its importance, while women accept affiliation initially and remain constant in valuing it across...
Ageism is a term that has evolved in recent years to describe prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behaviors that occur toward members of the human population as a result of the members' chronological or perceived age. Recent studies suggest...
The present study was carried out to see if a possible relationship exists between the type of sport in which an individual chooses to participate (team contact, team non-contact, individual contact, and individual non-contact) and a combination of...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate factors associated with alcoholism among college students. The independent variables investigated were gender, academic class, academic achievement, parental history of alcoholism, quality of family...
The purpose of this investigation was to explore rural ambulatory care clients’ perceptions of spiritual needs, the nurse practitioner’s role in meeting spiritual needs, and the effect that age, sex, marital status, and frequency of church...
From the 1991 American Psychological Association (APA) National Conference on Enhancing the Quality of Undergraduate Education in Psychology evolved specific recommendations, Quality Principles For undergraduate psychology departments (McGovern &...
The purpose of this thesis was two-fold: (a) to establish a method of evaluating text books for use in the seventh and eighth grade mathematics program based upon subject matter recommended by the three selected sources, and (b) to evaluate twelve...
A status survey with post-hoc grouping was employed to investigate the adherence to a liberal or conservative attitude towards human sexual expression in 217 university students. The Sexual Attitude Scale (Hudson, Murphy, & Nuris, 1983) was...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate self-concept in selected groups of college students. The impact of five independent variables upon self-concept was investigated. The five variables were: college classification levels; sex-class...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate how color analysis and its application effects the self- concept of individuals. The dependent variable was 10 subscales of the TSCS. The 10 subscales employed were: identity; self satisfaction;...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the relationship between touching behaviors, self-concept, and the marital relationship. The subjects were 97 Fort Hays State University students. The total sample consisted of 32 males and 65...
The purpose of the researcher was to examine university students’ knowledge of alcoholism. The total sample consisted of 153 students from a small Midwest university. The students participating in the study included 112 females and 41 males, 29...
Widespread interest usually exists as to the effect of a college or university on the economy of a local area. The author shares this interest; thus, the primary goal of this thesis was to quantitatively determine the impact that Fort Hays Kansas...
A GIS database was constructed for Morton County, extreme southwestern Kansas, on the Fort Hays State University Geographic Information System (GIS) with data layers representing roads, public land-survey system, railroad, pipelines, soil types,...
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 teaching of calculus in the high school has been an issue quite heavily debated for the last few years. Educators, mathematicians, and textbook writers have written much concerning how and when to teach calculus. However, few people have...
The present study examined Antifat attitudes and Body Image concerning individual differences along gender, weight, and ethnicity. Researchers have concluded that how a person perceives his or her own body weight may affect that person's view about...
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...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the attitudes of undergraduate university students toward the disabled. Four independent variables were investigated; 1) gender, 2) classification, 3) GPA, and 4) exposure to the disabled. The...
Attribution has always been a problem for schools of nursing. Fueled by an intensifying nursing shortage, faculty are under more pressure to address attribution.
A correlational non-experimental design was used to examine the relationships...
Cast of the 1909 Senior Play. Picture is in May 27, 1909 edition of the Western College Leader. Photo is also available in the University Archives Photo Collection - A295.28
Theatrical productions; Western Branch of the Kansas State Normal School
Cast of the play "The Mikado" which played to audiences in the Picken Hall Auditorium March 2-3, 1911. A photo printed from the negative is in the University Archives photo collection - A295.38-1
Musical revues & comedies; Western Branch of the Kansas State Normal School
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...
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...
Fatty acid methyl ester analysis (FAME), scanning electron microscopy, and 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis were used to partially characterize an apparently unique bacterium isolated from the environment. The first 500 base pairs of the...
The purpose of the researcher was to evaluate the effect that gender, classification, grade point average, and class attendance had upon reported cheating behaviors, and to evaluate an individuals attitude toward cheating. The subjects consisted...
This study examined the relationship of cognitive matching between students and instructors on student grades. The participants were 47 student volunteers enrolled in General Psychology classes at Fort Hays State University, and 19 of their...
ABSTACT
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate knowledge, behavior, and prevention beliefs of college students pertaining to HIV/AIDS. The Independent variables were. Gender, Behavior, AIDS education, and media form which most...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate college students’ attitudes toward alcohol. The independent variables investigated were sex classification, age, choice of drink, consumption level, religious belief status, and drinking status. ...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the sexual attitudes of college students at a western Kansas university. The sample consisted of 201 females, 183 males; 122 freshmen, 72 sophomores, 77 juniors, and 113 seniors, a total of 384...
The primary focus of the current study was to examine the current stale of school psychology in the state of Kansas, Demographic characteristics of school psychologists in the slate of Kansas on such variables as age, gender, salary, degree level,...
According to McCroskey (1984), Communication Apprehension (CA) refers to an individual’s fear or anxiety associated with either real or anticipated communication with others. There are numerous studies on various aspects of CA since the 1970s,...
The purpose of the current research was to examine: (a) if a relationship existed between an individual's sex-role orientation and that individual's method of coping; and (b) which sex-role orientation was most adaptive in coping with stress....
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...
The main purpose of this thesis was to study relationships between coping and adaptational outcomes. The first hypothesis of the study predicted that adaptive coping as measured by COPE will be positively related to adaptational outcome...
Two hundred and eighteen psychology and math students of Fort Hays State University helped to investigate the relationships between math anxiety and a coping style based on the attentional process. These two constructs were measured by the...
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,...
Although the amount of theatre being performed in Hays, Kansas in 1978 had been relatively limited in comparison with some other cities, the good attendance at University theatre productions and at performances by touring companies and occasional...
The purpose of the researcher was to evaluate the effects of certain variables upon death anxiety. The dependent variable was death anxiety scores. Eight independent variables were investigated: 1) gender, 2) classification, 3) college major, 4)...
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 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...
Education has come a long way over the course of history. Gone are the days of simply training a student in the technical skills that he or she might need in order to be successful in a career after graduation. Increasingly, colleges and...
The present study examined whether adult children of high-conflict divorced families and adult children from high-conflict intact families would display more jealousy, a greater lack of trust, and more marital or intimate relational conflict in...
ABSTRACT: The current study examined the relationship between the variables: school size, motivation, and college attendance to determine if the size of a student’s high school, along with his/her motivational tendencies, influenced the...
The researcher investigated the literature review process of educational doctoral students at the University of Kansas State University. The independent variables investigated were gender, program of study, university attended, Masters Thesis...
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...
Globalization is the name of the game and, for better or worse, the rules of engagement have been established by an international system that encompasses Western-based principles and practices (Marsh & Dreyer, 2003). China's economic reform program...
This thesis examines the partnership between Fort Hays State University, a public, state-supported institution in the United States, and Sias International University, a private university in China. The purposes of this thesis include analyzing the...
Distance education has grown rapidly in the United States, reflected by more students and increased numbers of institutions offering distance learning. Studies on distance education primarily focus on domestic distance education in the United...
This study surveyed the opinions of educators toward educating children in an inclusive stetting. For the purposes of this study, inclusion was defined as the practice of educating children with disabilities within a regular education classroom. ...
The main features of the method of the present research involved asking 96 university or college students enrolled in summer session classes to complete a packet of self-report instruments. These students were asked to identify the most stressful...
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...
Previous research has indicated that physical attractiveness affects impression formation and interpersonal attraction in a wide variety of social situations. However, little is known about the effect of physical attractiveness in the counseling...
The Internet has brought significant developments and challenges to universities and their publics. Meanwhile, the channels to deliver messages have gradually become digitized through the strong impact of the Internet, which offers an additional...
Epidermal patterns of the widest portion of the leaf blade of selected members of the Andropogoneae were studied. These included 23 genera 2nd 71 species, some of which were duplicates, making a total of 63 entries. The specimens were collected by...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate criticism of unemployment statistics and to suggest corrections which would tend to correct problems upon which these statistics are criticized. Research materials were used from Forsyth Library, the...
In the last two decades, this society has experienced the paradigm shift known as the Information Age, which impacted our world, and changed the structure of our nation’s economy, our work environments, our institutions, our lifestyles and how we...
The rapid growth of computer information technologies (ClTs) has made a significant difference in our society. CITs are changing the learning methods from traditional face to face teaching 10 different types of distance teaching/education...
The migrational patterns of wood warblers in west-central Kansas were investigated at the Fort Hays State University banding station on Big Creek during the autumns of 1979 and 1980. Five species (yellow warbler, Nashville warbler, Myrtle warbler,...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the contemporary Chinese young adults’ family communication patterns and conflict styles. The participants in this study were 278 Chinese college students (included 200 participants from 3...
The present investigation examined the school psychology training program at Fort Hays State University as it relates to the job satisfaction and employability of graduates. Thirty two graduates of the school psychology program at Fort Hays State...
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....
This thesis studied several problems that concerned humor as a means of coping with stressful situations involving loss, threat, and challenge. First, the study sought to obtain empirical data as to the differential effectiveness and use of humor...
This study examined whether incongruent parenting styles in intact and divorced families led to increased adjustment difficulties. Participants were ninety-five female and forty-eight male students from the Fort Hays State University campus. Twenty...
This study examines infection control practices in the clinical education of university speech-language pathology and audiology programs. Responses to surveys are presented from 114 of227 accredited programs, for a 50% return. Specific questions...
This study investigated the cardiovascular changes that occurred following a 30 day period of nontraining of elderly stroke survivors participating in a health related exercise program. Data collection for the study occurred during exercise...
"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...
The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between instructor immediacy behavior and university student motivation and satisfaction in instructional video-based courses. In a mid-western state university, a total number of 89...
