A molecular nitrogen laser was constructed and preliminary tests were performed to establish the fact that lasing action was taking place. The purpose was to show that a high energy pump source of ultraviolet radiation could be constucted, given a limited budget and expertise, which would be of the quality required to perform spectrographic research.

The purpose of the study was to determine the attitudes of parents of students enrolled in non-IGE elementary schools of the Metropolitan School District of Washington Township, relative to existing educational programs provided in district non-IGE elementary schools, educational alternative preferences for elementary school students, and reporting of pupil progress to parents. The study population consisted of 1,244 parents from the 3,522 households having children enrolled in district non-IGE elementary schools. A survey instrument was developed consisting of fifty-five statement items, each utilizing a Likert scale with forced response. One instrument was sent to parents in each of the 8,522 households having children enrolled in district non-IGE elementary schools.The following summary of the findings is based on an analysis of parent responses received from the study population.1. Most responding parents expressed pride in the Washington Township non-IGE elementary schools and perceived the overall educational program quality of the schools as high, with children learning what parents preferred children to learn in school.2. Parents responding were generally satisfied with child-teacher relationships, student instruction, the degree of respect for individuals in school, and the degree of difficulty of educational materials.3. The majority of parent respondents perceived children as comfortable with the classroom atmosphere, experiencing successful school progress, and eager to go to school.4. Parent respondents generally indicated school rules, regulations, and policies were reasonable and that order and control in school should not be more strict.5. Most parents responding expressed positive attitudes toward existing parent-school relations.6. A majority of parent-respondents expressed satisfaction with the appropriateness of the report card parents received regarding student progress and did not perceive an over emphasis on grades by the school.7. Most parents preferred being kept informed of student progress through the use of parent-teacher conferences and written evaluations. The types of written evaluations most preferred by responding parents were check lists of specific skills in particular subjects and report cards utilizing A, B, C, D, and F grades.8. A majority of parents responding to survey items relative to alternative programs expressed interest in alternative educational programs for children.9. Parent respondents interested in alternative educational programs for children were almost evenly divided in opinion relative to a willingness to have children transported at least thirty minutes each way in order to attend preferred alternative educational programs.10. Parents expressing interest in alternative educational programs indicated a willingness to send children to schools with the following alternative educational programs, in descending order: Continuous Progress, Basic Fundamental, and Creative Arts.11. A majority of the parents expressing an opinion relative to the need for at least one junior high alternative educational program available to all junior high students in the township expressed a willingness to consider sending children to a junior high school with an alternative educational program.Study research and findings support the contention that school officials can advantageously survey parents as a means of securing parental attitudes, views, and expectations to plan more effectively for future educational programs.

This thesis has examined the language of the various statutes regulating public purchasing by local Governments in the State of Indiana as it applies to non-bid and bid purchasing. The procedures outlined in those statutes were then compared to the purchasing practices observed in various local governments in northern Indiana.Attention was given to intergovernmental cooperation, centralization of purchasing, and to recommendations made by such authorities as the Council of State Governments and the National Association of State Purchasing Officials in an effort to determine if the language of the statutes and the procedures actually practiced by purchasers in Indiana local government provide for the taxpayer's receiving the most for his money.Finally, the thesis has provided a number of recommendations for modification of current law through inclusion of a proposed purchasing statute.

The Newport Army Ammunition Plant archaeological survey showed the existence of a more complex settlement pattern than could be explained by the simple dispersed hunting model used in organizing the survey. This reexamination of the survey data in light of a more complex model of subsistence and settlement drawn from ethnographic data indicates the existence of a system of three classes of sites including camps, intelligence gathering stations, and resource extraction locations, that can be distinguished in part by the number of artifacts per site. It is further shown that the subsistence activities of prehistoric Indians did not differ significantly between unwatered forest sites and prairie sites. Finally, it is suggested that a relatively high density of sites in the prairie and the high intensity of their occupation is related to the presence of nearby water sources.

Environmental issues were at their peak in the 1960s'. The concern and willingness of the public to work for a better environment brought new federal laws and regulations to the United States. After more than twenty years, it seems that the public is losing interest in attaining a better environment.This case study deals with perception and recognition of environmental issues such as solid waste disposal in Delaware county, Indiana. Statements regarding knowledge and willingness to get involved in issues like solid waste disposal and environmental education were addressed. / Department of Landscape Architecture

The purpose of this study was to define the lithofacies and areal extent of the Fort Atkinson Formation (Maquoketa Group, Upper Ordovician) in the subsurface in Indiana. Two distinct lithologic facies (Members) of the Fort Atkinson Formation can be distinguished in the subsurface. The upper Shoaling Member consists of coarse grained crinoid-bryzoan grainstone deposited in a high energy depositional environment. Beneath the Shoaling Member is the Transition Member of the Fort Atkinson. This Member consists of alternating beds of shale and limestone which were deposited in depositional environments that varied from high to low energy. The Fort Atkinson is an important stratigraphic marker used to define four depositional provinces within the Maquoketa Group in Indiana. The four depositional provinces include the Maquoketa Shelf, the Overlap Ramp. the Cincinnati Shelf, and Michigan Shelf. / Department of Geology

The purpose of the study was to determine the attitudes and judgments of public school superintendents in the State of Indiana in regard to the public school system and early childhood programs. Early childhood education was defined as: parent education for parents of young children, nursery school (prekindergarten) for children of ages three and four, kindergarten for five year olds, and day care programs for children.A questionnaire containing forty-five items was developed and refined with the aid of the Northeastern Indiana School Study Council serving as the pilot study group. A questionnaire was sent to all 289 superintendents of public school corporations in Indiana. Two hundred five, or 71 per cent of the superintendents replied to the questionnaire. The data were analyzed and reported as raw numbers, percentages, and totals.Major findings included:1. Approximately 51 per cent of the superintendents indicated the present educational services available to all three, four, and five year old children were not adequate in the school districts represented.2. Approximately 80 per cent of the schools did not provide educational programs for adults relating to the role of the parent.3. Approximately 78 per cent of the superintendents strongly agreed the early childhood programs should have been concerned about all aspects of a young child's development.4. Over 95 per cent of the responding superintendents indicated strong agreement or agreement that the family had the primary responsibility and the rest of society had a supplemental responsibility for providing adequate health, education, and care of young children.5. Approximately 64 per cent of the respondents strongly agreed or agreed that teaching people ways to be better parents was an educational need in the community.6. Approximately 63 per cent of the superintendents disagreed that day care and nursery school programs in the community might have been best provided by the public school.7. Approximately 97 per cent of the superintendents strongly agreed or agreed the availability of revenue for financing programs for young children was limited.8. Approximately 87 per cent of the superintendents expressed agreement that an enriched experience in a planned educational program was important to a young child's development.9. A total of approximately 63 per cent of the respondents agreed or strongly agreed early childhood services could be effective when delivered through the public school system.10. Approximately 57 per cent of the responding superintendents disagreed or strongly disagreed that the nursery school for three and four year old children should have been operated as an integral part of elementary education in the public schools.Conclusions were:1. Early childhood programs, outside the home, were a need in the State of Indiana. Kindergarten programs were not available for all five year old children. The educational needs for all three, four, and five year old children were not being adequately met.2. A program teaching high school students and adults how to be competent parents was a need in the State of Indiana. A t the same time competency as a parent was judged to be an important element for the provision of meaningful experience in a young child's life.3. Approximately 75 per cent of the superintendent's attitudes and judgments concerning the philosophy of early childhood development was in agreement with the review of research and related literature.4. Superintendents expressed agreement that a Planned educational program was important in a young child's development and the public schools could effectively deliver the early childhood services. However, over one-half of the superintendents expressed disagreement that the educational programs for three and four year old children should be operated in the public schools.

The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the elimination of the Indiana public school general fund property tax on student cash transfer school board policy. As a result of the data collected for this study, it includes an analysis for the general fund financial trends of all 292 Indiana public school corporations, as well as trends regarding other data such as; Average Daily Membership (ADM), General Fund (GF) cash balances, and percentage of student cash transfer of total ADM. The following recommendations are made; (1) Any Indiana public school corporation currently not allowing student cash transfers per board policy should change the policy to begin allowing such transfers, (2) The Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents (IAPSS) should adopt guidelines for ethical behavior regarding student cash transfers, specifically as it pertains to advertising, for member superintendents to follow, (3) Small school corporations, particularly those with an ADM of less than 1,000 students, should begin partnering with other small school corporations to coordinate administrative service and instructional services, and (4) Indiana public school corporation superintendents and boards of education should begin working towards a better understanding of how to compete in a school-choice atmosphere. / Department of Educational Leadership

The study was designed to ascertain the tax supported cost of implementing collective bargaining in Indiana School Corporations in 1975. Two research questions were developed: (1) What was the statistically estimated direct cost to taxpayers attributable to implementation of Indiana Public Law 217 in 1975, and (2) what was the relationship between school corporation size and costs factors pertaining to implementation of Indiana Public Law 217.A questionnaire was designed, to obtain actual and/or estimated costs of administrative and clerical man-hours utilized to implement collective bargaining, costs of consultants and/or legal services, training workshops and materials, equipment and expendable materials. The questionnaire was sent to approximately one-half of the school superintendents in randomly selected Indiana School Corporations with large, medium and small size pupil enrollments.Useable responses were obtained from 93 out of 153 potential participants (60.7 percent), which included 13 reports that no bargaining occurred in 1975. Information from each questionnaire received was sorted and tabulated by means of a computer program especially designed for the purposes of the study. The total cost of implementing bargaining within each school corporation, the total and average cost of implementing bargaining within the groups of large, medium and small size school corporations, and within the entire set of respondents were found and analyzed.Findings derived from the present study indicate that the average cost of implementing bargaining in large size Indiana school corporations, as reported by 28 superintendents, was $10,839. The average cost of implementing bargaining in medium size school corporations, as reporter: by 32 superintendents, was $6,128 and the average cost of implementing bargaining in small school corporations, as reported by 20 superintendents, was $3,761 per school corporation. The average cost of implementing collective bargaining within the set of respondents, as reported by 80 superintendents, was $7,185 per school corporation. The total direct cost of implementing collective bargaining, determined by extending the average cost to all school corporations believed to have engaged in collective bargaining, was $2,047,725.The major conclusions were that: If all 305 Indiana school corporations had bargained and experienced expenses comparable to the reported expenses, implementation of collective bargaining would have cost taxpayers $2,191,425 and would have consumed 158,905 man-hours by administrators, clerical personnel and members of boards of trustees.

The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between age, teaching experience, and major degree preparation area of the last degree earned of senior high school women teachers in Indiana and their motivation to pursue administrative careers. A second purpose was to report the opinions of women teachers relative to perceived opportunity to actively seek a position in administration at the senior high. school and/or central office level.An opinionnaire was designed to solicit responses from female senior high school teachers in Indiana concerning age, years of teaching experience, major degree preparation area of the last degree earned and their motivation to pursue administrative careers. Women teachers were asked to respond to questions requiring personal opinions on mentoring, relocating to assume an administrative position, interview opportunities for administrative positions, and the perceived reasons administrative positions were denied the respondent. In addition, the teachers were asked to state perceived opinions regarding the opportunity for women to actively seek an administrative career at the senior high school and/or central office level.One thousand names of women teachers in Indiana senior high schools, grade 9 through grade 12, were drawn by the Bureau of Educational Research from computer lists at the Department of Public Instruction. Six hundred twenty-two teachers responded to the opinionnaire.The responses to all questions soliciting demographic information were reported by number and percentage in three categories:1. Total number of respondents,2. Women who indicated an interest in pursuing administrative careers, and3. Women who stated they were disinterested in administrative careers in education.Responses to open-ended questions were separated into the following two categories and reported by percentage and/or number:1. Women who indicated an interest in pursuing administrative careers, and2. Women who stated they were disinterested in administrative careers in education.The following major findings were derived from the analysis of data:1. Of the 622 respondents, 142 respondents or 22.8 percent indicated an interest in pursuing administrative careers in senior high schools or central administration offices.2. Sixty-eight and four-tenths of the women interested in administration as a career were younger than 40 years of age.3. The largest number of respondents in each group, women who indicated an interest in administrative careers and women who indicated a disinterest in administrative careers, had taught from 5 to 15 years.4. The largest number of respondents in each group, women who indicated an interest in administrative careers and women who indicated a disinterest in administrative careers, reported the English degree as the major preparation of the last degree earned.5. Sixty-six and three-tenths of the 622 respondents indicated a lack of encouragement from administrators in their home district in regard to pursuing administrative careers.6. Twenty-one percent of the respondents perceived the major reason women have not pursued administration careers was due to family responsibilities.7. Eleven and seven-tenths percent of the respondents perceived the socialization process imposed on the American female as reason women have not pursued careers in school administration.8. Of the respondents who indicated an interest in pursuing careers in school administration, none cited family responsibilities as a limiting factor in the pursuit of an administrative career.