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Brinkman, Paul T. | Instructional costs per student credit hour: differences by level of instruction | The variation of unit costs by level of instruction, on either a per-student or per-student-credit-hour basis, is a traditional issue in the economics and finance of higher education. Funding formulas, for either requesting or allocating funds, often include recognition of an institution's effort by... | | 1989 |
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Gardner Michael K.; Woltz, Dan J. | Representation of memory for order of mental operations in cognitive tasks | Recent research shows that people learning a cognitive task acquire a memory for the order of operations applied, independent of the data to which those operations were applied. We designed two experiments to show how this sequence memory is represented. Experiment 1 compared predictions based on... | Cognitive skills; Operation sequences; Sequential skills | 2002 |
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Bergerson, Amy A. | Gender disparity in engineering: results and analysis from school counselors survey and national vignette | In an earlier paper by our group [1] we presented statistical analysis based on 30 years of ACT data illustrating gender disparity in engineering majors and career choices. Obtained results also revealed the presence of a large number of students who are interested in engineering but who may not be ... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Brinkman, Paul T. | Financial impact of part-time enrollments on two-year colleges: a marginal cost perspective | The number of part-time students attending public two-year colleges increased rapidly during the 1970s. By the end of the decade, aggregate part-time enrollment constituted about 63 percent of total headcount enrollment at those institutions. Concern has been expressed about the financial implicatop... | Students; Part-time; Full-time; Colleges; Costs | 1985 |
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Johnston, Susan S.; Hawken, Leanne Sue | Preventing severe problem behavior in young children: the behavior education program | Best practice in preventing severe problem behavior in schools involves implementing a continuum of effective behavior support. This continuum includes primary prevention strategies implemented with all students, secondary prevention strategies for students at-risk, and tertiary interventions for st... | Behavioral Problems; Prevention; Intervention | 2007 |
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Hillman, Nicholas W | The impact of state appropriations and grants on access to higher education and outmigration | Education policymakers at all levels of government have long been interested in finding ways to entice more students to go to college. This goal has been driven by the belief that, as people acquire more education, they not only reap personal benefits from their investment in education, but they als... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Brinkman, Paul T. | Factors affecting instructional costs at major research universities | The purpose of this article is to analyze in quantitative terms why unit instructional costs differ among major research universities. Previous studies have uncovered many of the factors that account for costs in higher education. The primary task here is to specify the relative importance of thes... | Research universities; Costs; Instruction | 1981 |
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Hawken, Leanne Sue | Preventing problem behavior : implementing a school-wide system of behavior support | This edition of the Utah Special Educator focuses on what works for schools. Almost a decade of research has provided evidence for the best method of preventing problem behavior in schools-implementing a school-wide system of behavior support. | | 2003 |
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Hillman, Nicholas W | Preparing for the silver tsunami: the demand for higher education among older adults | (Over the next decade, Baby Boomers will be reaching retirement age in large numbers and the U.S. will be undergoing one of the most significant demographic shifts in its history. This demographic shift has important implications for the role of higher education as a provider of lifelong learning an... | | 2010 |
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Hillman, Nicholas W | Tuition discounting for revenue management | Over the past decade, institutionally-funded financial aid (or "tuition discounts") have been the fastest-growing item within most public four-year college and university operating budgets. One explanation for this trend is due to the changing structure of public colleges' revenue streams, as tuitio... | | 2010 |
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Bergerson, Amy A. | Outreach and identity development: New perspectives on college student persistence | College student persistence continues to pose challenges for higher education institutions, despite over 40 years of research. Although persistence is studied from many different angles, the majority of studies examining the causes of and cures for students' departure from college reflect the import... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Brinkman, Paul T. | Student price response in higher education: the student demand studies | What happens to enrollments when colleges and universities raise their prices? Who, if anyone, is sent away? What is the net impact of higher prices and reduced enrollments upon institutional financial ledgers? These questions have been investigated in what have come to be called the "student dem... | Enrollment; Colleges; Universities; Student demand; Tuition | 1987 |
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Groth, Cori Ann | Six factors of successful school improvement: blueprint for reform or process for continual school improvement? | The last two decades have brought considerable attention to schoolwide improvements intended to raise student achievement-particularly in the area of literacy. In response to the emphasis on improved student achievement, many promising programs for school improvement have emerged. These programs, ... | Schools; Student achievement; Literacy | 2000 |
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Pounder, Diana G. | Theory to practice in administrator preparation: an evaluation study | The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of a field-based doctoral program in educational administration on linking theory and research to the improvement of practice. Specifically, the study evaluates the degree and ways in which doctoral student field-based projects and studies c... | Educational administration; Doctoral programs; Theory-practice programs | 1995 |
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Hawken, Leanne Sue | What's helpful in secondary schools: behavior programs for older students | Almost a decade of research has identified the most effective approach to addressing issues of behavior before they become a problem: schoolwide positive behavior support (SW-PBS). | | 2005 |
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Brinkman, Paul T. | Concepts of cost and cost analysis for higher education | Costing can be a useful planning and management tool. It can provide information relevant to assessing operational efficiency, planning an investment strategy, evaluating comparative performance, or justifying funding requests and prices charged for services (Balderston, 1972), Given the utility of... | Management; Budgeting; Planning | 1986 |
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Brinkman, Paul T. | Options for cost analysis | Many kinds of cost analysis are possible. Indeed, given the variety of purposes, methods, and types of cost, the number of permutations is virtually unlimited. In broad terms, one can disaggregate the universe of cost studies by distinguishing whether their primary purpose is to determine costs or t... | Budget; Allocation | 1989 |
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Rudolph, Sidney; Gardner Michael K. | Remote site instruction in physics: a test of the effectiveness of a new teaching technology | This study tested the effectiveness of a remote site instructional system utilizing audio-graphic teleconferencing technology. The subject matter taught was high school level physics. The test site was Bountiful High School in Bountiful, Utah. The study consisted of a treatment-control group compari... | Remote site instruction | 1986 |
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Gardner Michael K. | Word-frequency effect in lexical decision: finding a frequency-based component | Subjects making lexical decisions are reliably faster in responding to high-frequency words than to low-frequency words. This is known as the word frequency effect. We wished to demonstrate that some portion of this effect was due to frequency differences between words rather than to other dimensio... | Stimulus; Interaction; Variance | 1987 |
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Pounder, Diana G. | Organizational orientation in public and private elementary schools | In this study, we investigated the relationship between organizational value orientation and tow variables, organizational commitment and job satisfaction, among teachers from private and public elementary schools. | Organizational commitment; Job satisfaction; Value orientation | 1993 |
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Findley, Sam P. | Contributing factors to academic success among student Veterans | | Student veteran; Student success; Veteran | |
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Bergerson, Amy A. | Will work for a college education: an analysis of the role employment plays in the experiences of first-year college students | College students across the United States struggle with the challenges of balancing work and school. In 2005, 29.5% of full-time students worked over 20 hours a week while attending college, with 70.1% of their part-time counterparts in the workplace for 20 or more hours each week (NCES, 2005). Give... | Social class; Income; Hierarchy | 2007 |
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Johnston, Susan S. | Coordinating preservice and in-service training of early interventionists to serve preschoolers who engage in challenging behavior | This chapter focuses on the need to coordinate and improve preservice and in-service training (including technical assistance) for professionals who serve individuals and family members who live or work with young children who engage in challenging behavior. Positive behavioral support: includin... | Behavior problems; Proactive strategies; Intervention strategies | 1996 |
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Pounder, Diana G. | Gender-related biases in admission decisions | The competitive admission process for educational programs in health sciences usually begins with a screening phase. Raters, who are often the same people who later interview the applicants, screen candidates based on information on their application forms. Only the applicants who survive the scree... | Attractiveness; Attributions; Evaluation | 1993 |
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Pounder, Diana G. | Decision making in videotaped selection interviews: age and position effects retested | This study was designed to test the effects of a candidate's age and the effect of the type of position under consideration on candidate ratings as assessed from a videotaped interview simulation. To investigate the effect of these variables, a 2 x 2 factorial design was used. The independent varia... | | 1985 |
