Video game violence and the effects on children : a review of the literature

This is a review of the literature on video game violence and its effects on children. I looked primarily at the aggressive and desensitization effects on children when exposed to violent video games

Hard Times = A New Brand of Advocacy

The author talks about the need for public library board directors to create new measures to address the current economic crisis and its possible impact on the profession. The author states two measures public libraries must create, such boosting educational and literacy attainment and improving labor force skills. he author also asserts that board directors must show voters, officials, leaders and the public how the library helps everyone

Sheridan Coliseum: Paper, How Sheridan Coliseum Got Its Name, by Nancy Ellen Miller

A paper for a feature writing course at Fort Hays State College written by Nancy Ellen Miller in the Fall of 1947. The story is about John W. Schlicher, a state representative form Sheridan County in Kansas in 1911-1913, who spearheaded a bill that would provide funding for the building of a coliseum. Note that this claims the building was named in honor of Sheridan County, the home of John Schlicher, which he requested when it was suggested that the building be named after him.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/sheridan/1041/thumbnail.jp

A comparison of the effectiveness of direct reading instruction on students of Caucasian and Hispanic backgrounds

According to U.S. census data Hispanics made up only 7% of the population of Dalton, Georgia in 1990. The 2000 census reveals the Hispanic population approaching 30%. Demographic change of this magnitude in a relatively short period of time has had a major impact on the community and the schools serving that community. One area of concern was reading instruction Beginning in 1997, the commercially available Direct Instruction Reading Program was fully implemented by Dalton Public Schools. The focus of this research was to compare the Iowa Test of Basic Skills reading scores of Caucasians and Hispanics in second, third, and fourth grades taught using this method. A comparison was made of. (1) the average total gain over the three-year period for Caucasians and Hispanics, (2) the average gain each year for Caucasians and Hispanics, and (3) the percentage of Caucasians and Hispanics at or above grade level in reading comprehension at the end of the three years. Independent t-tests were utilized to determine if significant differences existed between Caucasians and Hispanics in each of these areas. The purpose of the study was to examine the effectiveness of the Direct Instruction Reading program for Hispanic and Caucasian students as measured by the Iowa Test of Basic Skills Reading Comprehension Test

The Effects of Classification Systems on Management and Access in Selected Elementary School Libraries

Without an adequate access and delivery system for easy books, young children are locked out of the vast literary resources of elementary school libraries. The research described in this dissertation was conducted for the purpose of investigating the extent to which a variation in classification systems corresponded to variations in management and access. Elm\u27s Classification System and H. W. Wilson\u27s E classification for easy books were the two systems involved in the study. In the spring of 1985, a questionnaire was mailed to 38 librarians in the public school systems in four cities in the Tidewater Area of Virginia--Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach (84 percent return rate); a survey was mailed to 72 interested librarians and other professionals in the field of library science in cities throughout the United States (78 percent return rate); and 71 kindergarten through second grade students were interviewed. The nonparametric procedures, chi square and Kendall\u27s tau c, indicated a relationship and an association between the two variables under study; therefore, the following null hypotheses were rejected: (1) There is no relationship between efficiency of management and the use of a particular classification system in elementary school libraries; (2) There is no relationship between ease of access and the use of a particular classification system in elementary school libraries. The superiority of Elm\u27s Classification System over the traditional E classification was evidenced by the following: (1) Seventy-two percent of the librarians using Elm\u27s reported that the time required to assist students was either no problem at all or only a slight problem; whereas, 64 percent of the librarians using the other system reported this task to be a moderate to serious problem; (2) A strong chi square indicated that the time required to take inventory and read shelves was a much greater problem to those librarians using the traditional E classification than to those using Elm\u27s; (3) Librarians and other professionals in the field of library science reported that Elm\u27s encourages independence, simplifies the transition to the Dewey Decimal System, allows younger children to function as library assistants, provides ease in identifying weak areas of the collection, and enables librarians to devote more time to other library responsibilities. In summary, Elm\u27s Classification System is an access and delivery system which promotes efficiency of management and ease of access

Stone: Walking through The Burren

Poetry by Nancy Ellen Mille

The Master Parent: A Parent-Child Relationship Program for Parents of Elementary School Students

This project presents a parent education program for parents of elementary school children. The project was created with an extensive literature review. Parent education coordinators from various schools, hospitals, and social service agencies were consulted in the development of this project. Systematic Training for Effective Parenting, a published program from American Guidance Services, was used as a conceptual framework for The Master Parent program. The program was developed to provide information and support to elementary school parents. A summary with conclusions and recommendations for future parent education programs is included

The effect of team programming on student achievement in COBOL instruction

As computing systems, technology and the use thereof become more mature, new skills are being suggested for improving computer programming efficiency. Two of these skills are the use of structured programming and team programming. The subjects of this study of the effect of team programming were students enrolled in an introductory COBOL programming course at the University of Wisconsin--La Crosse during the Spring and Fall semesters of 1980. The subjects were divided into a control group who wrote programs in the traditional individualized manner and an experimental group who wrote programs in teams of three. Both groups used structured programming techniques. Student achievement was measured in the areas of knowledge of grammatical structure and syntax rules, the ability to read programs, and the ability to write programs. Data collected from the students included the score on the pretest, the average programming score, the score on the final exam, and the course grade;Results of the study indicate that those students involved in team programming had significantly better programming scores than the control group, showed moderately lower achievement in the areas of knowledge of grammatical structure and syntax, and showed no difference in achievement in the ability to read programs or in the ability to write programs. Those students involved in team programming not only had better programming scores but spent less time than those students working individually;Based on this study, it appears that the needs of industry (skill development in the area of team programming) can possibly be met without detracting from the student\u27s development of reading and writing abilities in traditional courses. However, team programming may detract from the student\u27s learning of syntax and the development of reading abilities