DEVELOPING A NEW APPROACH TO CHANGE AND LEARNING IN PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANISATIONS

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Premarital Preparation : An Educational Content Design for Seventh-day Adventists in the United States

Problem. The church participates in the marriage process by providing its facilities, performing the ceremony, and establishing marriage supportive norms. Increasing divorce rates produce calls for premarital preparationefforts by the church. It was the purpose of the present study to develop a validated educational content design for Seventh-day Adventists useful to the church in preparing couples for marriage. Method. An analysis of the relevant literature from religious and secular authorities was made to isolate factors deemed important to adequate premarital preparation. These factors were then rank-ordered. A random sample of seven hundred presently married Seventh-day Adventists from the northwestern, midwestern, and southeastern United States was obtained. Using the content factors obtained from the literature, a Premarriage Education Survey was developed using a seven-point Likert Scale. The responses by category were rank-ordered and compared with the factors obtained from the literature using the Spearman rank order correlation coefficient. The survey respondents provided a number of demographic variables that were compared with their survey responses using an analysis of variance to determine if factors varied significantly by age, geographical area, marital status, or by participating in the Seveth-day Adventist Church. Results. No denomination-wide premarital preparation programs were identified. Seventh-day Adventists in thesample did differ in the rankings of topics and factors from that of taxonomy developed from the literature and experts analyzed using Spearman Rho coefficients at the .05 level, often inversely. The analysis of variance comparing mean factor scores with demographic varibles showed few significant differences in response patterns within the sample. An educational content design was produced based on the Adventist-validated taxonomy of factors

Results of correlations for transition location on a clean-up glove installed on an F-14 aircraft and design studies for a laminar glove for the X-29 aircraft accounting for spanwise pressure gradient

Results of correlative and design studies for transition location, laminar and turbulent boundary-layer parameters, and wake drag for forward swept and aft swept wings are presented. These studies were performed with the use of an improved integral-type boundary-layer and transition-prediction methods. Theoretical predictions were compared with flight measurements at subsonic and transonic flow conditions for the variable aft swept wing F-14 aircraft for which experimental pressure distributions, transition locations, and turbulent boundary-layer velocity profiles were measured. Flight data were available at three spanwise stations for several values of sweep, freestream unit Reynolds number, Mach numbers, and lift coefficients. Theory/experiment correlations indicate excellent agreement for both transition location and turbulent boundary-layer parameters. The results of parametric studies performed during the design of a laminar glove for the forward swept wing X-29 aircraft are also presented. These studies include the effects of a spanwise pressure gradient on transition location and wake drag for several values of freestream Reynolds numbers at a freestream Mach number of 0.9