Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-09, Section: A, page: 4929. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-09, Section: A, page: 4930. / Thesis (Educat.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

The purpose of this study was to analyze textile motifs represented in The John and Mary Carter Collection of Pre-Columbian Peruvian Textiles, Florida State University. Objectives were (1) to investigate literature providing the historical context of pre-Columbian Peru, a description of Peruvian textiles, and specific textile motifs; (2) to identify and classify selected motifs by source, artistic interpretation, and arrangement, and to suggest possible cultural interpretations. / A preliminary examination was conducted to select the sample of 153 fabrics having an identifiable motif(s). The data collection worksheet was designed, tested, and revised. Each textile was visually examined. Data were recorded and tabulated. Motifs were described and possible cultural associations were suggested. / Fifty-seven geometric shapes were found. Every textile (100%) contained at least one geometric shape. Fifteen textiles (10%) had one or more stylized motifts believed to be plants. One hundred and five fabrics (69%) included one or more motifs presumed to be animals. Twenty-one textiles (14%) contained motifs believed to be human figures and faces. Motifs resembling implements were found on two fabrics (1%). Ten fabrics (7%) contained motifs classified as ambiguous. The most frequently encountered arrangements were one-way, border, or a combination of the two. / Works of sixteenth century chroniclers provided added insights into Peruvian cultures. Textile artisans selected their broad design repertory from familiar objects, plants, animals, and human forms. Some domesticated animals such as dogs and guinea pigs were not generally employed as textile motifs. Motifs might be depicted in a geometric or stylized interpretation and may have had both decorative and symbolic functions. Fabrication techniques were related to interpretation. The predominance of one-way and border arrangements reflected the use of the back-strap loom. / Textiles were excellent vehicles for the spread of religious and cult symbols and the quipu was useful in recording numerical observations. These aspects gave textiles a communicative function. The artisan's labor as well as the finished fabric were regarded with such value that professional weavers worked full-time and were state-supported. The persistence or change of motifs over time allows researchers to make inferences as a provenience and data of unidentified specimens. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-06, Section: A, page: 2537. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.

The purposes of the study were (1) to develop the Haley-Hendrickson Person Preference Test, (2) to assess the reliability of individual and group forms of the test, and (3) to explore the influence of clothing, hair, and part-whole perceptual development on children's perceptions of persons. / Participating in the group study were 38 white middle-class second-grade children. In addition, 20 of these children were tested individually. The instrument consisted of female stimulus-figures, approximately eight years of age, presented in 12 sets of 4 figures. Hair and clothing variables were selected by judges to represent four distinct types for a second-grade child: yin most expected, yin least expected, yang most expected, yang least expected. These variables were presented in ink drawings with body type, posture, and face controlled. During the test, each child ranked the stimulus-figure from most preferred to least preferred and indicated a reason for his most preferred choice. As a measure of perceptual development, these answers and responses of the individually-tested children on the Picture Integration Test were categorized as parts, wholes, or parts-and-wholes. Although the stimuli on the Picture Integration Test and the Person Preference Test were different, children seemed to perceive them using the same perceptual regulations. Part or whole answers were more frequently given than part-and-whole answers on both tests. / Reliability of the Person Preference Test was determined by correlating rankings assigned by each child on test and retest and on individual and group forms. The number of children having correlation coefficients of 1.0 and .8 for each set was greater than could have occurred by chance. On this evidence, the researcher concluded that the test was reliable. / Children were found to perceive stimulus-figures differently when hair and clothing were manipulated. Concordance among subjects on the ranking of stimulus-figures was frequently higher for girls and for the group test than for boys or the individual test. The researcher concluded that girls were probably more opinionated as a group perhaps because the figures being ranked were girls. The group's presence seemed to alter the child's frame of reference, reinforcing a cultural stereotype even though there was no direct exchange among participants. / Significant preferences were found for some stimulus-figures over others. Significant preferences were less frequently observed among boys than among girls. Both sexes seemed to feel more strongly about hair preferences than about clothing preferences. The children did not seem to match hair and clothing variables according to personality type. For example, yin hair was preferred with yin and yang clothing. Yang hair and clothing were never significantly preferred when respondents had the opportunity to select yin variables. The preference seemed to reflect a highly accepted feminine stereotype among the children. The researcher proposed that clothing seemed to be used as a social manipulator making the stimulus-figure more acceptable. / Perhaps the presence of preferred clothing, even in combination with less desired hair, had a transference effect, creating a more acceptable Gestalt or overall image. When forced to choose a most preferred figure from a group of figures incorporating disliked variables, children frequently gave no reason as the justification for the choice. Some differences among boys and girls were found regarding most and least expected variables. Girls preferred least expected, and boys preferred most expected types. The Person Preference Test proved to be a functional instrument with numerous possibilities for future research. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-01, Section: A, page: 0136. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1972.

The purpose of this study was to explore the feasibility of individualized modular instruction as an alternative to a traditional lecture-demonstration method for teaching ten selected aspects of flat pattern design in a college course. Ten sets of individualized instruction materials were developed according to a systems approach model designed by Walter Dick and Lou Carey at Florida State University. The materials were tested and revised in a three-stage formative evaluation prior to classroom use. The instructional value of the materials was analyzed by comparing performance results of twenty-four students taught in a traditional lecture-demonstration class with performance results of sixteen students taught by the individualized instruction materials. / A pre-instruction attitude and experience survey first classified students as having high or low experience levels in flat pattern design based on prior clothing construction practice and, second, determined pre-instruction student attitude toward the flat pattern design course. A post-instruction attitude survey determined student attitude toward the subject after instruction and attitudes toward the instruction that had been received. Performance test scores and learning time were compared between methods of instruction and experience levels to determine instructional value of the materials. / The individualized instruction students had higher average test scores than the lecture-demonstration students on all ten performance tests. Learning time data showed that the individualized instruction students used an average of 141 minutes for all ten units of instruction compared to a total of 156 minutes used by the teacher of the lecture-demonstration class. / Students in both groups expressed favorable attitudes toward the flat pattern design course before and after instruction. Students also expressed favorable attitudes toward the instruction they had received. / Performance test results suggested that students working on the individualized instruction materials at their own pace had higher levels of mastery of the selected flat pattern design principles and techniques than students taught in a traditional teacher-paced lecture-demonstration manner. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-06, Section: A, page: 2536. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.

This study was conducted to appraise the effect of occupational clothing programs in home economics on the development of employment skills of specific high school graduates. The investigation was directed toward determining the extent occupational graduates were prepared to be productive and reliable in the apparel industry as compared to a control group of other high school graduates who had had no prior industrial sewing training or experience. Also studied were the opinions and suggestions made by managers in the apparel industry regarding the occupational program and its graduates. / The population for the study was chosen from the northeastern portion of the state of Mississippi. It encompassed the apparel manufacturing industries which had employed May 1976 to May 1979 graduates of the State's various occupational home economics programs which offered training in industrial sewing. Participants included 12 occupational home economics teachers, management personnel in 26 apparel manufacturing firms, 70 occupational graduates, and a control group of 67 other high school graduates. / Two instruments were used to collect data for this research. The first was a questionnaire mailed to occupational teachers to secure data on graduate placement. The second instrument, developed for interviewing managers in apparel firms, was designed to provide data to test hypotheses that there would be no significant differences between occupational clothing program graduates and other high school graduates regarding: (1) length of employment, (2) tardiness and absenteeism, (3) length of on-the-job training, (4) ability to meet production schedules, (5) quality of work, and (6) reasons for leaving employment or for being terminated. / The two-sample hypothesis test on the group mean revealed that there were no significant differences between occupational clothing graduates and other high school graduates in relation to length of employment, absenteeism, length of on-the-job training, ability to meet production schedules, and quality of work. There was a significant difference, however, between the two groups regarding tardiness. The Chi Square Test had been selected to evaluate the differences between the graduates in relation to reasons for leaving employment and for being terminated, but because the data did not contain at least five responses in each cell frequency, significant differences could not be determined. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-08, Section: A, page: 3472. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.

The major purpose of this exploratory study was to develop a profile of educators within the Home Economics' discipline who are receptive to technological innovation in respect to selected demographic characteristics, previous technological experiences, and computer attitudes. A self-administered questionnaire was designed by the researcher. Section one requested information pertaining to the educators' race, age, marital status, household income, degree preparation, and present employment status. Section two asked for information about the respondents' knowledge and experience with technical products and services, and section three was a 30-Item Computer Attitude Scale developed by Loyd and Gressard. / A convenience sample of 237 educators, members of AHEA attending the 76th annual meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania were administered the questionnaire. Data from 218 female educators were obtained and analyzed. A post hoc appraisal was conducted to determine how similar or dissimilar the sample was from the general 1979 AHEA membership survey population. / Descriptive statistics, including chi-square analysis, were used to reveal the overall characteristics of the sample. Pearson Product Moment Correlations identified the associations existing between innovation adopters and non-adopters and the users of home computers. / Results revealed no significant differences in age or educational attainment between the computer innovation adopters and non-adopters. Significant differences were found between the adopters who had incomes of $30,000 or more and the non-adopters whose incomes were less than \$30,000. There were also significant differences in marital status with more adopters than non-adopters married. A greater percentage of adopters than non-adopters used nine of the ten technical product/service items. Non-adopters were greater users of video games. There were no identifiable differences in the computer attitude of adopters or non-adopters; both groups had favorable attitudes toward the computer. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-08, Section: A, page: 2128. / Major Professor: Carol E. Avery. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1988.

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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 38-05, Section: A, page: 2613. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1977.