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Dissertations from 1970
Determining some validities of the test of quantitative judgment (form T), Cynthia Tuttle Hall, Education
The development and organization of an alternative campus-based living/learning environment., Richard B. Holzman, Education
The operationalization of educational objectives for the evaluation of an ongoing program., Leon Jones, Education
Scientific behaviors promoting an understanding of science and a positive attitude toward science as exhibited by selected high school physics classes., Marvin Robert Kendall, Education
A comparison of responses to the original and the oppositely stated items of the Learning Atmosphere Attitude Scale., Simon V. Keochakian, Education
Requestive schooling--organizing for individuals., Lloyd W. Kline, Education
A model for learner-directed behavior change in small groups of student teachers., Richard A. Lacey, Education
Investigation of a modeling conditioning paradigm applied to a social learning program to facilitate social interaction in chronic psychiatric patients., Miriam Leveton, Education
A study of various factors in Head Start and Title I programs in twenty school districts., Cornell Theodore Lewis, Education
Learning to feel-- feeling to learn : a study of humanistic education., Harold Clifford Lyon, Education
The design and feasibility study of the mathematics component of the model elementary teacher education program., William J. Masalski, Education
Developing and demonstrating a curriculum of affective education for early childhood., Harry Morgan, Education
An organizational innovation in residential undergraduate education and its effects on student behavior., George Barton Ogden, Education
The administration of an inter-disciplinary feasibility study, designed as a performance based dissertation in educational administration., Milton H. Ojala, Education
The school as a social partner in urban communities., Royce Marcellus Phillips, Education
Client attitudes generated by varied interaction distances and counselor trunk lean in the dyadic counseling interaction., Paul Arthur Byron Pierce, Education
SARGO : Simulated Administration of Regular Guidance Operations, a training program for directors of guidance services., Charles Frederick Popken, Education
The effects of field teaching assignments : made on the basis of the teaching behavior of the student teachers and the cooperating teachers, on the attitudes and dogmatism of student teachers., Peter John Quinn, Education
Cultural spoor as a focus for inquiry in the social studies., Walter Swanson Reuling, Education
Measuring aspects of quantitative judgment of upper elementary and junior high school students., William Joseph Roberts, Education
The development and testing of a performance curriculum in human relations., Stephen Alter Rollin, Education
Feasibility study of a performance-based teacher education curriculum in language arts., Masha Kabakow Rudman, Education
A study of the relationship between specified personality traits and body-cathexis of male participants and non-participants in high school athletics., Elimelech Shochat, Education
Identification of alternative forms of specific learning disabilities., Barbara Anne Murphy Smith, Education
Design of an in-service program for assistant principals of the English schools of the Montreal Catholic School Commission., Donald Alan Stockton, Education
Evaluation of a visual response system using multiple television cameras in a school for the deaf., Peter. Utz, Education
An auditory and visual discrimination test for kindergarten and first grade children : a new approach., Sarah Street Van Camp, Education
A follow-up study on the implementation of the recommendations of the committee on the undergraduate program in mathematics and other mathematics study groups within selected Massachusetts elementary school classrooms., Mildred L. Vinskey, Education
Chemistry laboratory behaviors affecting scientific understanding and attitude development., Mark Fernald Waltz, Education
The evaluation of a performance based curriculum in the language arts., Mary-Alice B. Wilson, Education
The development of the Center for Urban Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1968-1970., John Carr Woodbury, Education
Development and evaluation of a training program in human relations : TEA: Training for Effective Attending., Shimshon Zeevi, Education
Dissertations from 1969
Characteristics of teachers who have received an "outstanding teacher" award from New England Institutions of Higher Education in the five year period beginning with the academic year 1963-64., John F. Ahern, Education
Motivational implications of attractant and expellant factors as they relate to "brain drain" personnel on college faculties in the United States., Thomas L. Bernard, Education
A study of the effects of positive suggestion and directed imagination of the reading achievement of sixth grade students., Marguerite Bumpus, Education
A conceptual analysis of public participation in the decision-making function of the public schools., Donald Parsons Cande, Education
An investigation of alternatives to improve attitudes of junior high school staff members toward vocational education in the high school., William Gardner Conroy, Education
Academic, attitudinal and personality correlates of a cross-cultural educational experience., Francis George Driscoll, Education
The effects of token reinforcement and verbal remediation on the rate, accuracy, and length of sentence composition by deaf children., Herbert Todd Eachus, Education
A proposal for the arbitration of academic freedom and tenure disputes., Sherman Edward Fein, Education
Some relationships between specified values of student groups and interscholastic athletics in selected high schools., Michael Feldman, Education
Modifying social attitudes toward the physically disabled through three different modes of instruction., Alvin Thomas Forader, Education
Construct reduction of counselor empathy and positive regard : a replication and extension., Harold Hackney, Education
An analysis of the effectiveness of selected short term summer training programs as sources of information about educational innovations., Paul Anthony Leary, Education
An application of computer technology to educational administration., Robert Theodroe Linstone, Education
The need for bilingual education in the schools of Vermont., Daniel Giles O'Connor, Education
The effects upon attitudes of a short-term intensive vocational guidance workshop., Beatrice Orr Pressley, Education
Interracial group process in an experimental course in race relations : an evaluation employing direct measurement of attitudes., Peter John Racheotes, Education
Environmental press in the secondary school : a measure of teacher and student perceptions., Paula M. Rizzo, Education
The degree of compromise and elements involved in job satisfaction expectancy in the initial job interview process., Charles Frederick Smith, Education
Student responsibility and the nature of the learning process., Peter H. Wagschal, Education
Dissertations from 1968
Academic characteristics and academic success patterns of community college transfer students at the University of Massachusetts., Ernest Wesley Beals, Education
Judicial decisions affecting the administration of the public school system in Maine., Merrill Evan Cobb, Education
Increasing the cognitive level of classroom questions : an application of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives., George Thomas Farley, Education
A study of factors relevant to the development of applied educational research training programs., Bernard J. Fleury, Education
Group counseling with educable mentally retarded adolescents in a public school setting : a description of the process and a quantitative assessment of its effectiveness., Charles W. Humes, Education
A study of the independent, union, and regional school districts in Worcester County, Massachusetts, October, 1966 : proposal for reorganization., Lawrence Anthony Ovian, Education
The control of interview content through minimal social stimuli., Edward Walter Pepyne, Education
The effect of role-playing on student attitudes toward high school counselors and guidance., Lawrence Albert Rodgers, Education
Repression-sensitization and verbal conditioning., Leon David Silber, Education
The effects of organizational structure on the leadership behavior of single-district and multi-district school superintendents in certain school districts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts., William Allen Small, Education
The effects of bussing versus non-bussing on the intellectual functioning of inner city, disadvantaged elementary school children., Bruce Hartley Wood, Education
Dissertations from 1967
The organization and administration of elementary off-campus student teaching programs in Massachusetts : current practices and proposed patterns., Robert Joseph Armstrong, Education
A comparison of the effects of five schedules of reinforcement on a selected verbal response class., Leslie Edward Dolhenty, Education
A comparison of the reinforcing value of five stimuli conditions on the production of self-reference statements in a quasi-counseling situation., John J. Kennedy, Education
A concept of mind for the behavioral sciences., William G. Quill, Education
Physiological effects of tape recording on supervised counselors., Kenneth Robert Roulx, Education
Four attitudinal dimensions of counseling relationships as perceived by students in relating to a real and an ideal teacher., Tom Schlesinger, Education
An analysis of the effects of a summer remediation and counseling sequence on nonadmissible applicants' goal attainment at a regional community college in western Massachusetts., John Joseph Shea, Education
Dissertations from 1966
The basic theoretical contribution of Chester I. Barnard to contemporary administrative thought., Daniel Gerard Donnelly, Education