Bibliography: New Mexico (page 080 of 235)

This annotated bibliography is reformatted and customized by the Center for Positive Practices.  Some of the authors featured on this page include Nora Hutto, Michael Judd, Craig Sidles, Washington Congress of the U.S., Nancy Schilling, Elizabeth Judd, John Chadwick, Jack D. Gittinger, Dennis W. Raisch, and Beverly T. Watkins.

Berver, Kitty; And Others (1992). Off the Track, but in the Fold, Academe. New Mexico State University addressed the trend toward employing non-tenure-track faculty (NTTs) by capping the proportion of NTTs; acceptance of a two-tiered faculty with differentiated responsibilities; extension of professional rights to NTTs; full and regular NTT evaluation, participation in merit pay, and promotion opportunities; and commitment to stabilizing NTT positions. Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Faculty, Employment Practices, Faculty Evaluation

Seifert, Edward H. (1985). Career Status of Secondary Principals in Small Schools in the Southwest, Rural Educator. A random sample of 559 secondary small school principals in Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas revealed that 73 percent of the principals were actively seeking new positions or were leaving school administration. The findings have implications for selection procedures, salary/fringe benefit packages, principal autonomy, evaluation systems, and multi-year contracts. Descriptors: Career Change, Employment Practices, Fringe Benefits, Job Applicants

Stuart, Sheela; Massey, Anne (1995). Do We Keep Driving? Effectiveness of Rural Augmentative and Alternative Communication Mobile Service Delivery, Rural Special Education Quarterly. Evaluation of a program that traveled to various sites in rural New Mexico to evaluate special education students for augmentative and alternative communication needs revealed that parents and teachers were positive about the quality of services provided. Additionally, graduate students involved in providing services were positive about their learning experiences. Includes questionnaires and response data. Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education

Sidles, Craig; And Others (1987). Analysis of Navajo Adolescents' Performances on the Raven Progressive Matrices, Journal of American Indian Education. Analyzed performance of 183 Navajo students (aged 13-15) from Bureau of Indian Affairs and public schools in Arizona and New Mexico on the Raven Standard Progressive Matrices (RSPM). Reported RSPM as a "culture fair" measure of non-verbal mental processing with secondary level Navajo students. Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Culture Fair Tests, Junior High Schools

Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. (1985). The Indian Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Act of 1985. Hearing before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs. United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session on S. 400. (Gallup, NM, June 1, 1985). The document contains transcripts of a Congressional hearing on providing health promotion and disease prevention services to American Indians. The bill under consideration would add the following programs to the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25, U.S.C. 1603): reduction of drug, alcohol, and tobacco use; improvement of nutrition and physical fitness; immunization; control of stress, high blood pressure, sexually transmitted diseases, toxic and infectious agents, and accidental injuries; family planning; pregnancy and infant care; occupational health and safety; and water fluoridation. Witnesses include representatives from health committees and community-based health programs of New Mexico and Arizona tribes, and from the Navajo Council of Physicians, Navajo Nation Council on Aging, Indian Health Service, National Indian Health Board, and Bureau of Indian Affairs, as well as New Mexico and Arizona agency officials. Testimony focuses on Indian health problems, currently successful programs to improve Indian health, and problems encountered in establishing and administering Indian health programs. Included are papers on fetal alcohol syndrome among American Indians, and data on disease/mortality rates at specific Pueblos, adolescents in New Mexico, and New Mexico health education standards.   [More]  Descriptors: Alcoholism, American Indian Education, American Indians, Disease Control

Laadt-Bruno, Ginny; And Others (1993). A Collaborative Approach to Developmental Care Continuity with Infants Born at Risk and Their Families, Topics in Language Disorders. This article describes a collaborative consultation process developed at the University of New Mexico's University Hospital to address the needs of newborns at risk and their families. It considers the interdisciplinary team structure of the Developmental Care clinical team, collaborative service delivery approaches, and specialized competencies of the speech language pathologist on the team. Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Consultation Programs, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs

Watkins, Beverly T. (1994). Breaking Down Barriers, Chronicle of Higher Education. Faculty at 11 higher education institutions in California, New Mexico, Texas, and northern Mexico have been experimenting with computer conferencing on the BESTNET (Bilingual English-Spanish Telecommunications Network). The growing system is credited with creating an international student-faculty community that crosses cultural barriers for discussion of a wide variety of topics. Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Computer Networks, Educational Improvement

Reeve, Kay A. (1981). Pueblos, Poets, and Painters: The Role of the Pueblo Indians in the Development of the Santa Fe-Taos Region as an American Cultural Center, American Indian Culture and Research Journal. Historically, the Pueblo Indians appealed to artists and writers' colonies in Santa Fe-Taos (New Mexico), inspiring a superficial art and, on a deeper level, inspiring a desire to explore and communicate the Pueblos' intrinsic values. The deeper appeal crucially influenced the establishment and continued productivity of the Santa Fe-Taos American cultural center.   [More]  Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Art Expression, Art History, Artists

Raisch, Dennis W.; And Others (1993). Development and Qualitative Evaluation of Rural Ambulatory Care Clinical Clerkships, American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. A University of New Mexico pharmacy clerkship in Indian Health Service rural ambulatory clinics is described and its results compared with an urban hospital clerkship. Unique benefits to participants included improved skills in patient counseling and chart screening, more hands-on experience, extensive individual physician consultations, and opportunities to serve several clinic types. Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, American Indians, Clinical Experience, Higher Education

Chadwick, John (1992). The Development of a Museum Multimedia Program and the Effect of Audio on User Completion Rate, Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia. Discusses the role of interactive multimedia in museums; describes the development and design at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History of a multimedia program on water conservation; analyzes the effect of the presence of audio on the users' completion of the program; and discusses evaluation of the program. (10 references) Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Auditory Stimuli, Computer Software Development, Computer Software Evaluation

Schilling, Nancy; Gittinger, Jack D., Jr. (1989). The Eastern Navajo Agency Network: Computer Networking for Native American Schools, Winds of Change. Describes a computer-based communications network linking the University of New Mexico and six isolated Bureau of Indian Affairs schools. Discusses network structure, staff training, and network delivery of instructional programs and in-service teacher education and staff development programs. Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, College School Cooperation, Computer Networks

Anderson, Donna G.; And Others (1997). Three Medical School Responses to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic and the Effect on Students' Knowledge and Attitudes, Academic Medicine. A survey of 1991 and 1994 graduating medical school students at medical schools (N=175) in Colorado, New Mexico and South Dakota found that differences in prevalence of AIDS/HIV cases in those states did not affect schools' training programs but indirectly affected students' knowledge and attitudes, which were related to the numbers of HIV-infected individuals known personally. Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Communicable Diseases, Comparative Analysis, Disease Control

Dacus, Judy M.; Hutto, Nora (1989). Improving Science Education in Rural Elementary Schools: A Collaborative Approach for Centers of Rural Education and Museums of Natural History, Journal of Rural and Small Schools. Describes the New Mexico Rural Science Education Project, a school-university-museum cooperative effort that seeks to improve rural elementary science education through teacher workshops, teacher-developed materials on local themes, individualized support services, and natural history field schools for teachers and students. Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Elementary Schools

Judd, Michael; Judd, Elizabeth (1996). Tradition and Technology. A Magnet School-Museum Partnership, New Schools, New Communities. Presents a case study of an educational partnership between an Albuquerque magnet elementary school and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. Descriptions of the school and museum are provided as well as the program's goals, current activities and products, outcomes, and future directions. The Proyecto Futuro program, a multiyear initiative for family science learning, is described. Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Magnet Schools

Romero, Mary E. (1994). Identifying Giftedness among Keresan Pueblo Indians: The Keres Study, Journal of American Indian Education. To address American Indian underrepresentation in New Mexico's gifted and talented education programs, the Santa Fe Indian School investigated Keresan Pueblo communities' perceptions of giftedness within their own cultural context. In contrast to the mainstream individualistic concept of giftedness, the Keresan Pueblo concept focuses on the sharing of a person's gifts and talents with the community. Descriptors: Ability, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, Cultural Context

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