This study compared intensive corrective reading instruction
with less intensive corrective reading instruction at the community
college level: Group 1 students received 50 fifty- minutes of intensive
corrective reading instruction during ten weeks, while Group 2 students
received the same amount of corrective reading instruction
during 20 weeks. Reading instruction...
The purpose of this study was to compare the number and
type of physical disorders of two hundred educable mentally retarded students and two hundred normal intelligence students. The relationship of physical disorders to sex and age was also investigated.
The descriptive survey method was chosen for the study.
Data...
The purpose of this research was to determine if significant
differences existed in college performance and in selected areas of
attitude and opinion between male upperclassmen residing in fraternities
and non-fraternity male upperclassmen living in residence
halls.
Two samples consisting of (a) 86 upperclassmen from the residence
halls and (b)...
The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether
there were significant differences between Oregon community
college collegiate freshmen and Oregon State University freshmen in
terms of interest, values, and manifest needs.
The study was limited to a representative sample of the freshman
population in the lower-division collegiate program...
The demand for college graduates is becoming increasingly apparent.
The fields of industry, business, and agriculture offer unlimited
opportunities for those who are qualified to assume positions
of leadership. In the field of agriculture, many new areas of technology have been developed in recent years. In some of these new...
This research was conducted to compare the performance of
community college students to four -year institutional students both
of which were enrolled in one of three different programs of general
college chemistry for nonscience majors during the 1967 -68 academic
year. The three programs were defined as follows:
Program A...
The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not a
significant difference existed between Oregon community college
transfer students and native students at Oregon State University with
respect to academic achievement, persistence, and graduation.
Two groups of students were selected for observation. The
first included all of the...
The central purpose of this comparison was to determine the
congruence or difference between two teaching techniques, the television
method and the conventional lecture method as used in teaching
General Hygiene on the freshman college level at Oregon State University.
Sub-problems associated with this study were, (a) the development
of...
The data gathered for the study of the health status of freshmen
at Oregon State University were derived by an analysis of health history
records. These were obtained from the Oregon State University
Health Service. The years sampled were 1930, 1940, 1950 and 1960;
300 freshman male and 300 freshman...
The purpose of this study was to answer three questions in
terms of learning methodology: (1) Is the inductive or deductive
approach more effective in teaching phonic generalizations to second
grade children? (2) Is the inductive or deductive approach more
effective in promoting retention ability after a three week interim?...
