With increasing frequency man is required to operate as a
controller of complex processes. Although his ability to operate
quickly varying processes has been extensively studied, his ability
to control slowly varying processes has been largely neglected.
Often his performance in such tasks is dependent upon his ability
to forecast...
Purpose: The major purpose of this study was to determine the readability of selected patient education materials for older adults using the cloze procedure as a criterion. Actual cloze test scores from three selected passages on hypertension were compared with the Coleman readability scores on those same passages. Age and...
The purpose of this study was to explore possible differences
in value patterns of students residing in four types of university living
environments--residence halls, Greek houses, cooperatives, and off campus
dwellings. The Rokeach Value Survey was utilized as the
major measurement tool for identification of the value patterns of
students....
The purpose of this study has been to investigate the effects of
an activity approach to teaching geometry in certain high schools of
Afghanistan. A brief review of the historical background of mathematics
education especially in Afghanistan has been presented in this
study. Students in the activity approach were involved...
Objectives of this study were to ascertain the effect of fat
and urea, used alone or in combination, on rumen cellulose digestion
in vitro.
A closed in vitro system (24 hour digestion) was used with a
5 x 4 factorial arrangement of treatments to study the effect of added
corn...
The central purpose of this study was to identify what animal
science technical competencies are needed by vocational agriculture
instructors and the degree of proficiency they need to perform
these selected animal science technical competencies. The following
questions were considered:
1. What animal science technical competencies are needed
by vocational...
The central purpose of this study was to identify the major
components of occupational articulation as perceived by Oregon's
community college and secondary school vocational education administrators
and instructors. Specifically, the objectives were:
(1) to determine the major components of occupational articulation;
(2) to test the hypotheses that there is...
Purpose of the Study:
The purpose of this study was to analyze, in the mathematics
classrooms, career-oriented verbal mathematics problems on the
achievement and attitude of the vocational mathematics student.
These career-oriented mathematics problems, used as advanced
organizers, were contrasted with mathematics word problems of a
more abstract and generalized...