This multivariate study examined attitudinal and demographic variables affecting the degree of foreign news exposure on the basis of the data collected from 102 daily newspaper readers in Carbondale, Illinois. The data were obtained in personal interviews with the respondents. The ultimate goal of the study was to contribute to the investigation…

This study was concerned with the investigation of those factors or combinations of factors which are predictive of success in reading under four methods of teaching beginning reading. The total population of 114 kindergarten children in a semirural, middle-class city in the Southwest were selected for the study. It was concluded that the most…

This study sought to relate the dynamic patterns of older adults to their use of television within the whole range of activity patterns available to them. Central to the study was an intensive interview study of a select sample (32 women and 18 men in a Columbus, Ohio, senior citizen community); this precluded derivative generalizations for the…

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effects of planned classroom teacher verbal behavior and resulting classroom pupil verbal behavior on the achievement of classroom pupils in 40 selected biology classes. The verbal behavior of 20 teachers and 867 pupils was observed by the use of audio tapes and categorized with the Verbal…

This dissertation examined whether leadership behaviors of the teacher within a particular instructional context were associated with student learning and satisfaction. Data were generated from two samples from distinctly different student populations: Miami Dade Community College and the University of Denver. A 28-item multiple choice examination…

Concentrating on theory and practice on sensitivity training groups (T groups) in human relations training laboratories, this study investigates aspects of the process whereby participants are said to learn cooperatively about their group and about themselves as members. As evidenced by training "dilemmas" noted in the literature, relevant T group…

Relationships of science attitudes, science content, and process knowledge to initial science teaching behaviors were studied among 25 student teachers of a liberal arts college. The 13-subject experimental group was subjected to an elementary school methods course with emphases upon positive attitudes and process knowledge. The control group was…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 21 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) interpersonal communication patterns in whole families, (2) interpersonal conflict and cognitive complexity, (3) adult conceptualization of interpersonal…

This study investigated relationships among subjective experience, verbal formulations, and effective purposeful behavior in psychiatric nursing. The Quest (an unstructured, short paragraph paper and pencil test using 30 randomly chosen English words) was administered to a random sample of Northern California student nurses. A highly consistent…

Forty-nine sophomore students identified from reading and nonverbal IQ scores received remedial reading instruction, based on individual, diagnostic reading evaluations, in small classes of 10 to 15 students for one hour each day of the school year. Thirty-four received remedial instruction for the full academic year; 15 received instruction for…

The purpose of this study was to identify, define, and operationalize the communication concepts required by adult educators in agriculture to fulfill their role as educational change agents. Four stages were seen: (1) the determination of anticipated behavioral requirements; (2) identification of relevant communication concepts; (3) the…

This investigation was undertaken to determine what relationships exist between the teacher's personal response to a literary selection, behavior when teaching the story, and response to student essays on the story. The investigative procedure used was that of a modified case study involving eight teachers. Findings indicated that teachers…

This study investigates the factors that have a bearing on the elementary urban child's standardized reading test scores. Three areas were investigated: parental contact with the school, supportive services that the child received, and the teacher's perception of the child's behavior and the behavior of the child's class. The study included 637…

The research question for this dissertation study was: Do behavioral outcomes identified in people who commit suicide exist in people who publicly exhibit productive behavioral outcomes and have not attempted suicide? More specifically, do selective affective and physiological behavioral outcomes identified in people who kill themselves exist is…

This study compared differences in the classroom verbal behavior of 30 teachers in East Texas who taught both adult basic education (ABE) and public school classes. Each teacher was observed, by means of Flanders' System of Interaction Analysis, for 30 minutes in each teaching situation. Amounts of teacher talk and student talk were determined, as…