Angela Heywood, a nineteenth century Free Lover, radical, labor reformer, anarchist, and ardent supporter of sexual freedom, has been relegated to the shadow of her husband by most historians. Heywood publicly discussed issues such as birth...
Women on the missions in Kansas during 1824-1870 were daring and courageous. Many of them had to travel thousands of miles to arrive at the Kansas mission where they were unsure of how the Indians would receive them and what their new life might...
The purpose of this study was to compare the rhetoric of two Negro women orators- Sojourner Truth and Frances E. W. Harper as shown by a critical analysis of selected speeches from 1851 to 1875. For this study, two working hypotheses were required....
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...
Much is known about the problem-solving process. Despite this availability of information, however, many individuals are not effective when faced with a problem. Bandura (1977) suggested that perceived personal competence or self-efficacy affects...
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...
The purpose of this descriptive study was to compare personality characteristics of varsity football players and non- football athletes with an emphasis on the variable aggression. This study of aggression may aid in the abolishment of the belief...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the effects o f six f actors: gender, age, race, English proficiency, cultural commitment, and family pattern on secondary school students' preferences for counselors' traits (gender, age, and race)...
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 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,...
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...
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between dogmatism and several selected variables which had previously been found to be associated with authoritarianism. The subjects were 212 college students and all four undergraduate...
To maintain a school system that offers a curriculum and extracurricular program that best fits the needs of its students, the Board of Education, U.S.D., 431, Hoisington, Kansas recommended that, in 1974, studies be conducted to determine the...
The author in this thesis prepared a formula investment plan for investing a low-priced stock and ran the study through two separate time periods to determine the feasibility of such a plan as an effective investment tool. Following the completion...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate a hot breakfast program. The independent variables were participation status, economic status, gender, Chapter I reading status, and race. The dependent variables were Total Battery, Total Reading,...
"A Kansas Glossary: A List of Words and Phrases Characteristic of Kansas Speech" has a twofold purpose: the presentation of a dialect vocabulary of Kansas and the testing of the use of prose fiction in dialect lexicography. The elements of the...
A review of the literature on sex related data employing a variety of measures of assertion indicated that males exhibit greater levels of assertive behavior s than females. The effect of the sex of the confederate upon the assertiveness of 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...
A naturalistic study was made of the risk-taking behavior of 120 subjects on a TV quiz program. Final wagers in a series showed a significant positive correlation between amount of capital and amount wagered. Significant negative correlations were...
The problem was to determine how an individualized instruction program in mathematics would work in a secondary school. An individualized instruction program for a mathematical topic, normally taught in the secondary school, was developed. A...
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...
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 purpose of this study was to determine how many of the people who were prepared in school administration at Fort Hays Kansas State College during a six-year period have actually been employed in an administrative position. Among the questions...
This research involved an attempt to synthesize 3,4-dihydrocarbostyril by electrophilic substitution involving a nitrenium ion. Preparation of 3,4-dihydrocarbostyril was reported in 1937, having been synthesized by the Schmidt reaction using...
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 Western Kansas students in grades 1-6. The sample consisted of 156 students; 93 girls and 63 boys. Forty-five students participated in the study group, and a control...
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....
The purpose of this study was to determine whether evidence from test results would support the statements that (1) a similar pattern of test results should emerge from a comparison of the results of the scores obtained on the 12 minute run -walk...
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 present study examined the relationship among the subjects age, sex, liberal-conservative attitudes, and their fantasies. Subjects responded to a questionnaire with seven scales (a) Positive-Constructive fantasies, (b) Attentional-Control...
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 problem and purpose of this study was to examine the marketing management training programs of eight oil companies and find if these programs contained the types of training thought to be most needed in the area of marketing and sales...
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...
There are many variables involved in the attitudes of adolescents. This thesis focuses on adolescents aged 14 to 19. Whether the adolescent had a conservative or liberal attitude was measured by a questionnaire called the Sexual Attitude Scale. ...
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...
It was the purpose of the researcher to survey administrators in Western Kansas high schools to determine attitudes toward teacher evaluation, practices employed in teacher evaluation and the effect of selected variables upon their opinions. ...
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 study is to find facts and figures concerning secondary curriculum and personnel in the schools in Kansas. This study did not cover every part of physical education, but it is rather to find pertinent information on the...
The purpose of the research was to investigate the decision process at the executive or school superintendent level in education. The total sample size was 150 superintendents randomly selected from a list supplied by the State Department of...
Statement of the problem: The problem was to determine whether the unit shop or the exploratory shop in the eight grade had been the more influential on decisions of boys to enroll in ninth and tenth grade industrial arts courses.
Methods and...
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...
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...
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,...
In this thesis I have given summaries and characterizations of the women characters in Eugene Gladstone O' Neill's plays of more than one act in the order of their writing. At the close of the summarizations and characterizations of the individual...
Foreign economic aid has long been one of the largest items in the annual budget of the United States government. By 1970, the U.S. government has had twenty-five years of experience in the business of foreign economic aid. It has committed at an...
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 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...
Teacher questionnaires were distributed to a community public school system that employed 234 teachers. A total of 58 teachers returned usable questionnaires. The questionnaire surveyed teachers' knowledge and attitudes about epilepsy in several...
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...
This study, based largely on the extensive use of primary source materials, including federal and state census records, state agency reports, state and local election returns, and newspaper accounts, addresses the rise of the populist movement in...
This paper reports the research that was conducted in an attempt to evaluate a basic assumption underlying Szondi Test theory. This assumption is that similarity of personality characteristics of the subjects tested and person pictured in the test...
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...
In this paper an integration theory is used combining the threshold theory of Stanley Hoffman and the crisis theory of Louis Pye. The threshold theory maintains that there are propitious times in history when national and international goals of...
This study examined the effects of a token economy program instituted on an open, adult, male ward of 29 mentally retarded residents at the Norton State Hospital in Norton, Kansas. The goals of the program were to reduce both specific inappropriate...
This study was designed to demonstrate that considerable freedom to discard human figure drawings from a group of drawings would increase the likelihood of a clinical psychologist correctly predicting levels of adjustment by the use of drawings. ...
The hypotheses stated were 1) that an experience-based concept of academic freedom did exist in America, 2) that there is a relationship between authoritarianism expressed in terms of the California F Scale and attackers of teaching freedom, and 3)...
The purpose of this study was to compare academic performance of students within a culturally diverse intermediate school. It was a comparison of students exhibiting bullying characteristics to the class norm. It was hypothesized that participants...
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Most studies on manipulating recovery variables during interval exercise have focused primarily on aerobic training and performances. It was the purpose of this study to investigate the effects of active versus passive recovery on physical...
This thesis was a descriptive study examining adviser awareness of the Kansas Student Publication Act (1992) as reported by advisers who were members of the Kansas Scholastic Press Association during the academic year 2002-2003. Because there were...
This thesis provides a history of the National Baseball Congress (NBC) tournament in Wichita, Kansas , from its founding in 1935 to 2005 . The NBC tournament, since its inception, has had an impact culturally, economically, and socially on the city...
Prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) use alarm calls to warn offspring and other kin of predatory threats. Dialects occur when vocalizations contain consistent differences among populations not isolated by geographic barriers. The Gunnison’s prairie dog...
People of the Central Plains tradition (A.D. 900 to 1450) practiced a lifestyle of diversified subsistence while occupying isolated to small clusters of earth lodges, or earthen dwellings. The Albert Bell site, in Sheridan County, Kansas, in 1990,...
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...
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...
This study was designed to demonstrate that considerable freedom to discard human figure drawings from a group of drawings would increase the likelihood of a clinical psychologist correctly predicting levels of adjustment by the use of drawings....
Alfred Korzybski, among others, has written about the harmful semantic effects of using the verb “to be.” D. David Bourland, following Korzybksi’s lead, devised E-Prime, a form of English that does not use the inflected forms of the verb...
This study was intended to provide information regarding the use of the EMG to aid students who wish to concentrate and study better. The study hypothesized that the electromyography could be used to train subjects to attain specific levels of...
PURPOSE: It was the purpose of this study to perform an item analysis on a women's physical education test concerning speed-a-way. The analysis will determine the difficulty and discrimination of each individual item in the test. From this analysis...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the Animated-Literacy approach to reading instruction by analyzing the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills scores taken at the conclusion of the school year. The subtests scaled scores...
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 family structure, family happiness, and children’s self concepts. Independent variables were family structure, family happiness, gender, and grade level. Five hypotheses were tested at the .05...
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;...
An attempt has been made in this study to determine the relationship which exists between non-voting and the personal characteristics of sex, age, and occupation. An attempt was also made to discover some of the reasons why eligible voters do not...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate opinions pertaining to counseling services received in high school as reported by college students an d to determine the effect of selected independent variables. The following independent variables...
An investigation of family structure, family happiness, and academic achievement was conducted. The subjects for this study were 264 elementary and junior high students from one school. Three instruments were used: SRA Achievement Test, Personal...
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 Status survey one group design was employed to investigate the effects of diabetes on self-concept of 38 diabetics. Ten scales of the Tennessee Self Concept Scale were employed as dependent variables. Seven null hypotheses were written and tested...
This study investigated the difference in pretest and posttest scores between those children who attended an extended school year program and those children who did not. Twenty-five early childhood special education (ECSE) students, ranging in ages...
A group of 90 high school seniors, enrolled in a senior English course, were administered both the experienced Control (EC) Scale and the Quick Word Test (QWT). The degree of correspondence between the scores on the QWT and the component scores of...
Subjects were middle school students enrolled in a public school setting. Initially, students' cognitive styles were measured with the Test of Cognitive Style in mathematics which depicts three styles labeled as "Inchworms", "Medial", and...
A descriptive, exploratory investigation examined relationships among anger and other variables in teenagers with Type I insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). A convenience sample of teenagers with IDDM (N = 25), ages 12-19 was selected from...
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,...
Little research has been done on the meaning of sexual intercourse experience, and the way that men and women construe the experience, its value (or lack of), and their expectations of the experience. Herold and Goodwin (1981) imposed a three...
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...
This research was designed to investigate the relationship between anxiety level as measured by the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale and the willingness of individuals to cooperate in a two-person non-zero-sum game.
The subjects consisted of 32...
Small mammals were trapped on four habitats; cropland, roadside ditch, pasture, and remnant grassland. The small mammal community of each of these habitats were compared on the basis of richness, evenness, diversity, and similarity. The cropland...
"Most walleye Sander vitreus populations in Kansas are supplemented or sustained with stocking. In 2006, gamete collection for hatchery production was initiated at Cedar Bluff Reservoir because the walleye population has a high abundance of...
The purpose of this study was to compare parenting attitudes of adolescent mothers and teenagers who have never had a child. Previous research indicates that teenagers may be at an increased risk for atypical patterns of parenting that could have...
This analytic, relational survey explored the effects of ethnic group and sex on school related attitudes and the relationship between academic achievement and attitudes toward school. A direct, self-report measure of attitudes toward various...
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...
Negative fetal effects of maternal smoking are well documented in the literature. Survey data suggests as many as 22% of women may smoke during pregnancy (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2001). However, few studies have examined the...
Eight riparian sites along the two major rivers in Ellis County, Kansas, were studied during summer of 1978. Studies were designed to elucidate historical intensity of livestock grazing, vegetative cover and structure, and avian...
Mary writes about coaching her first play and the other plays that had been or will be presented at the school. She also mentions some items she read about in newspapers, including the merger of Missouri Wesleyan into Baker University.
A letter from L A Phillips in Wichita to her brother and sister in Ohio. In it, Mrs. Phillips writes about Kansas being a good country with lots of water.
A letter written by A. J. Huntoon to his wife, Lizzie. Huntoon was a doctor who had moved to Kansas in 1857 hoping to help the people who were fighting to bring Kansas in as a free state. In 1861, he enlisted in the 5th Regiment of the Kansas...
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