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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University / Purpose The purpose of the study was to identify those factors which are related to success in the doctoral program, to analyze the relative importance and frequency of factors identified, and to draw implications and conclusions from the findings. Procedures The population of 327 subjects in five groups were all applicants to the doctoral program at Boston University School of Education, some of whom graduated, some of whom did not. Information for the study was obtained from the records of the School of Education, from responses to a questionnaire and data sheet, and from interviews. A group of graduates were first compared with a group of non-graduates to see if there were significant differences between the groups on four screening variabless undergraduate grade point average, graduate grade point average, score on the Boston University General Association Test, and recommendations in seven areas (taken individually and as a total). There was a difference on total recommendations in favor of the graduates significant at the .05 level. On the other variables there were no significant differences between the groups. [TRUNCATED]

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Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University / The purpose of this study is to determine to what degree a group personality inventory, the Gordon Personal Profile, can differentiate among high, low, over, and under-achievers among male freshmen students at Boston University College of Business Administration.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Boston University, 1994. / It has been estimated that there are between one and ten million "biracial persons living in the United States at this time, yet a paucity of empirical data exists as to how those with mixed racial heritages manage the developmental tasks associated with identity formation. This project studies racial identification and parental similarity as they relate to psychological well-being in a non-clinical sample of biracial persons. Well-being served as the independent variable in the analyses and was assessed with the Affect Balance Scale which measures both positive and negative affective experiences in subjects' daily lives. Greater wellbeing is attributed to those for whom positive affect is not outweighed by negative affect. All subjects were adults with one black (African-American) and one white (European-American) parent. [TRUNCATED]

Patient-care skills in medicine have become more important over time to promote the health and well-being of patients. It has become critical to research how medical schools can best teach students patient-care skills. This is a mixed-method study on the experiences of first and second-year Boston University School of Medicine students and faculty about the relationship between their medical school curriculum and patient-centered care skills including communication, empathy, and the cultural context of care. Patient-centered care and its accompanying skills (empathy, communication, and cultural context of care) are supported and developed at the Boston University school of Medicine. These skills are promoted through curricular adaptation influenced by changing concerns within biomedicine. As well as Doctoring 1 and 2 courses, their patient-actor events, and the development of students’ professional physician identity. Methods will include participant observation and review of curriculum and program documents. This study also includes surveying first and second-year students and in-depth interviews with students and faculty. The conclusion of this study is the importance of evaluating medical school curriculum as it relates to patient-centered care skills, and particularly how those skills are utilized in the clinical world.

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Thesis (Ph.D)--Boston University. / The primitive Christian hope of the immediate coming of the Kingdom of God was based on the memory of the teachings of Jesus. The fact that that hope remained unfulfilled forced a transformation of the Christian faith which enabled it to survive the failure of the original expectation. The place of Paul in this transformation has been uncertain. His early letters show a strong expectation of the Parousia, but scholarly opinion on the later letters remains contradictory. R.H. Charles has suggested that in Paul's later letters there is a noticeable decline in eschatological thought and, in effect, a transformation of Paul's original hope for the immediate Parousia. This transformation may be clearly shown by arranging Paul's letters into four stages on the basis of the diminishing emphasis of declining eschatology. Albert Schweitzer has held that Paul maintains a consistent eschatological hope throughout his letters. The background of Charles' position was rooted in the work of F.C. Baur and the Tubingen School and culminated with H.J. Holtzmann. This background centered about two questions of Pauline doctrine: 1. Its relationship to primitive Christianity, 2. Its relationship to Hellenistic ideas. The Tubingen School explained the decline of eschatology on the hypothesis that Paul introduced Hellenistic thought. Schweitzer regarded this explanation as unfounded and attempted to demonstrate that there were no clear affinities between the thought of Paul and the Hellenistic world. Paul's thought thus did not develop in any Hellenistic direction but remained consistently Jewish eschatological throughout his literary production. The purpose of this dissertation is to outline and criticize the Pauline eschatological theory of R.H. Charles in the light of Schweitzer's thorough-going eschatology with particular reference to the Parousia. The two positions are first compared on the basis of their relationship to critical norms regarding the Pauline corpus. These norms reject the authenticity of Ephesians and the Pastorals and establish the genuineness of nine letters. These genuine letters are chronologically arranged into three groups, each group being separated by a period of three or four years. The eschatological material in the letters is then isolated and analyzed under three headings: the imminent expectation of the Parousia, the immediate resurrection upon death, and the eschatological chronology. This last heading is subdivided into the problem of the temporary Messianic Kingdom and a dual resurrection. The results of this analysis are applied to an evaluation of the two positions with the following results: 1. There is a consistent imminent hope for the Parousia throughout Paul's letters sustaining Schweitzer's basic position. There is no evidence for a correlation of this hope with the dating of the letters. Charles' failure to acknowledge the eschatological evidence of Philippians is a primary objection to his developmental argument. 2. In the light of the possibility of his own death prior to the Parousia, Paul revises his concept of the time of the resurrection in the Imprisonment Letters, arriving at a new doctrine of immediate resurrection. It is uncertain whether or not Paul wishes to apply this new doctrine only to his own death. 3. Evidence for a Messianic Kingdom is limited to a single passage in I Corinthians which does not adequately support Schweitzer's theory, a theory which is based primarily on non-Pauline materials. 4. Paul believes in a single resurrection for the righteous only. Schweitzer's reconstruction of eschatological chronology, which includes a dual resurrection, is based on non-Pauline materials. Insofar as the eschatological evidence is concerned, Paul seems to stand apart from the process of Hellenization and, despite the possibility of his introduction of the doctrine of immediate resurrection, he remains within the Jewish eschatological framework. [TRUNCATED]