Objectives of the Study
The study attempted to accomplish the following:
1. Document the fundamental or conservative nature of
early American higher education, especially the nine
colonial colleges, and verify its seemingly irrepressible
progression toward liberalism.
2. Determine the nature of variables associated with the
process of liberalization.
3. Isolate...
This study examined certain educationally related attitudes held by a disadvantaged group of college freshmen with no previous experience at the college level. The study focused on changes in attitude exhibited by disadvantaged students enrolled in a program of study skills instruction at Oregon State University during the Fall term...
Purpose This study was designed to determine and compare the work values held by tenth-grade Thai girls in Bangkok and Chiangmai, Thailand, in order to lay the groundwork for a more systematic approach to career counseling and curriculum planning in the Thai school system. Procedures D. E. Super's work values...
The major focus of this research was to examine the factors, both
instructional factors and student factors, that influence student
gains in economic knowledge in economic education. This study sampled
twelfth grade students from randomly selected high schools in the
Williamette Valley of Oregon. The stepwise regression analysis was
used...
The goals of this study were to discover and compare the religious
and philosophical traditions which have shaped Japanese and American
cultures, and to make a case for interdisciplinary transcultural programs
of study in higher education. Specifically, the purposes of this
study were to: (1) describe and trace historically the...
Purpose of the Study:
The purpose of this study was to.investigate the achievement
effect of providing students in a college-level introductory
psychology course with behavioral objectives. The non-experimental
literature provides a rationale for student use of behavioral objectives
(Bobbitt, 1918; Tyler, 1950; Taba, 1962; Gagne and Briggs,
1974; and Popham,...
The purposes of the study were: 1) to describe and analyse the
search for the meaning and purpose in life and its implications for
education; 2) to assess the degree of development of the purpose
in life among Korean high school seniors; 3) to determine whether
there were significant purpose...
The purpose of this research was to examine the Iranian
culture and society, and its relationship to some Western
countries in order to understand the basis for the conflict
between Western and Iranian educational values.
Specifically, the objectives of this study were to
describe:
(1) the historical development of Iranian...