Individuals with mild developmental disabilities have
traditionally been excluded from full participation in
their career decision making due to the stereotyping of
their perceived incompetence. This view forms a mind ...
The creation of a new business venture is a
multidimensional event, but little research has addressed
the interaction of entrepreneurial characteristics and
their relationship to new venture creation. The purpose
of ...
The purposes of the research presented in this thesis were
to: (l) assess the nutritional status of vegetarian and nonvegetarian
Seventh-day Adventists (SDA), non-SDA non-vegetarians,
and non-vegetarian hormone depend ...
This study examined graduate international students'
knowledge, attitudes, experiences, practices, and
satisfaction relating to credit cards. Based on the
literature, international students attending U.S. colleges
an ...
Job aids are instruments used on the job to improve
human performance by enhancing the knowledge and/or skills
of performers. Conventional job aids are usually printed
on paper; examples include checklists, recipes, a ...
This study documented the history of the development and practice of the
kinlein associate. Consumer dissatisfaction with health care, nursing unrest, and
increased demand for long-term care-givers were the antecedents ...
The major question of this study was why do community
college women choose traditional occupations? The study
examined the characteristics of community college women who
chose preparation for a traditional occupation ...
Five student-researchers and the author engaged in
a continually-evolving, student-driven qualitative
research study. Despite significant disadvantages,
including navigating a. foreign culture without speaking
the la ...
The adoption and increasing uses of the Internet in higher education
in many parts of the world have resulted in fundamental changes in
academic cultures. The transfer of information is essential to academic
life, and ...
This study attempted to answer the following question: What
instructional methods should dietetic preceptors use to help dietetic interns
meet the performance requirements specified by the American Dietetic
Associatio ...
The purpose of the study was to explore a needs
assessment method for suggesting target-based training
interventions for managing conflict between the resource
user/interest groups in Oregon's riparian zones. An
inst ...
This study is a critical ethnography of my professional career as an educator
born and raised in the Shona culture in Zimbabwe. In this metaphysical study I
reconstruct a worldview that I consider to be representative ...
In the past decade, issues related to cultural diversity and pluralism
have risen to the forefront in education. The increasing cultural diversity in
American classrooms and communities requires preservice teachers to ...
Strategic planning is a frequently used method for defining appropriate institutional responses to changing internal and external conditions. Numerous efforts have been made to adopt strategic planning styles that were o ...
Researching what I believe to be exclusionary practices in higher education against
African Americans has compelled me to approach this subject, in part, historically.
Although I realize that a historical chronology of ...
The purpose of this research was to explore
non-persistence by vocational students in the College of Career
and Vocational Education at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
A cohort of 156 students were identified and ...
Although the career choice decision for women is
recognized as a complex process, there is little
understanding about how the influencing factors affect
the choices of disadvantaged women returning to community
colle ...
The purpose of this study was to determine whether a
relationship exists between perceived realism of computer
graphic images and the ability of children to solve
spatially related problems. Experiments were performed ...
This study co-investigated with students with hidden disabilities the
phenomenon of disability identity. This qualitative study utilized phenomenology
and strategies proposed by Paulo Freire in an effort to understand ...