Thesis (M.S.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2002. / Thesis advisor(s): Janice Laurence, Kenneth Thomas. Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-60). Also available online.

Thesis (M.S.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2002. / Thesis advisor(s): Brad Johnson, Susan Hocevar. Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-66). Also available online.

Thesis (M.S.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2002. / Thesis advisor(s): William Bowman, Kenneth Thomas. Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-92). Also available online.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-159).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oklahoma, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references.

Jag har många gånger känt mig ”fel” under min skolgång. Utåtriktad, att ta för sig etc. har intalats som positiva egenskaper, medan exempelvis tyst och introvert ofta används i negativ benämning. Vad innebär det att vara introvert eller extrovert? Det är biologiskt mätbart och ärftligt. Våra hjärnor fungerar faktiskt olika. Det styrs av hur vi reagerar på ett ämne som dopamin, och hur våra blodflöden styrs i hjärnan. Introverta visar bland annat högre aktivitet i områden som står i förbindelse med känslocentra i limbiska systemet. Detta innebär bland annat att introverta aktiverar känslor som rädsla och skräck lättare i pressade situationer. Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) är ett personlighetstest som mäter bland annat extraversion och introversion. Femfaktorteorin mäter också detta, och är idag den enda erkända personlighetsmodellen inom psykologin. Kulturella långtidsstudier visar på att det finns en ökad trend kring utåtriktat beteende sen 50-talet. Att ta plats har blivit en positiv egenskap som uppmanas och hyllas, vår tids ideal. Det finns flera konkreta exempel på vetenskaplig dokumentation om vad som skiljer introverta och extrovert åt i det centrala nervsystemet, i praktiken. Bland annat förbättras extrovertas verbala förmåga i en kombination av tidspress och koffein, vilket är det motsatta hos introverta. Det är viktigt att inte glömma bort att man fungerar olika och har olika förutsättningar. Introverta behöver avskildhet för att överhuvudtaget kunna vara kreativa och produktiva. Mitt syfte är att undersöka hur lärare upplever och tänker om de inåtvända eleverna i skolan. Jag har använt elektroniska enkäter som metod för att samla in mina svar. Man kan ana en okunskap kring introversion och extroversion som jag grundar i litteratur och hur majoriteten av lärarna beskriver vad de tänker när de hör ”introvert”. Jag ser också en tendens till okunskap när jag ser till deras svar kring hur de vill göra för att anpassa efter varje individ i klassrummet. Ambitionen verkar vara att anpassa för varje individ, men verkar trots allt ganska ofta falla in på att anpassa efter en mer extrovert personlighet.

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The use of Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) in schools continues to increase, as it is a useful brief assessment of students’ basic academic skills. CBM measures are used for multiple tasks such as identifying students at-risk, creating local norms, monitoring students’ progress during interventions, and assisting with special education eligibility determinations. Much of the research has focused on CBM in the areas of math and reading. Relatively few studies have examined the area of CBMWritten Expression. Even fewer studies exist exploring the reliability among alternate writing forms. This study determined alternate form reliability coefficients for written expression probes at the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth grade levels using productiondependent, production-independent, and accurate-production scoring methods. When all grade levels are combined, alternate forms reliability coefficients are at a sufficiently high level. However, some scoring methods resulted in much higher correlations at younger grade levels than older grade levels. In general, the correlations were lower at the eighth grade level. Implications of the results for school personnel are discussed.

In this study, the relationship between personality type, perfectionism, and stress was examined in gifted adolescents attending the Indiana Academy for Mathematics, Sciences, and Humanities in Muncie, Indiana. A sample of 120 of these gifted individuals completed the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS) and the Profile of Mood States (POMS). Results for participants were then matched with archival data of their Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality types. Results from a path analysis indicated that perfectionism is significantly positively associated with negative mood state, or stress. Results failed to indicate a significant relationship between MBTI personality type and perfectionism, or MBTI personality type and stress in these gifted adolescents. The mediator model was found to best explain the relationship among the variables in this study, indicated by the use of Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC). Clinical implications and possibilities for future research are discussed. / Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services

The study implied that a basic writer's overall abilities, shown through a type of "emotional intelligence quotient" [EQ], could help in determining that individual's inherent abilities in the writing classroom. Using prompted and timed writings plus two EQ surveys, developed by the investigator, the study analyzed students' emotional cognition in their writing environments. EQ qualities displayed while interacting with their instructor and peers or self-disclosed EQ qualities displayed in surveys or metacognitive writings were interpreted and compared to portfolio assessments by outside readers.During the spring semester of 1996, 409 students enrolled in 27 Ball State University English 102 basic writing classes. From 7 classes, 108 sample subjects accomplished surveys and prompts. Fifty randomly-selected subjects of the 108 were scrutinized. Comparisons of the two samples were detailed. Providing a close look at the 50 random-sampled group, 13 students occupying opposing levels at particular scoring-range margins were further detailed. Portfolio results, course grades, and how classroom teachers viewed their classroom students' emotional intelligence skills were the quantitative data compared with two EQ surveys' results.The study's governing gaze revealed self-disclosed, emotional dynamics of basic writers. It surrounded those disclosures with particulars on the biology of emotions. It extended the views on students' personality types as determined by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The study combined the conceptual knowledge of the biology of our emotions and the specific knowledge of personality traits to explain certain dimensions of the composing process. With the beginnings of a comprehensive synthesis, we may better understand how basic writers begin to evolve as effective writers and thinkers.Whether two surveys and portfolio assessments can determine a relationship between basic writers' emotional intelligence and how appropriately they write is still undecided. The statistical results are not as convincing as would be desired for any clear breakthrough. However, the descriptive information, written by the students themselves, coupled with information about preferred and inferior traits, displayed a nucleus of support for the hypothesis: a predisposition toward the four categories of emotional intelligence relates to basic writing skills and composing processes. / Department of English