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A study of special education STRs and caseloads in Oregon and their impact upon teachers' perceptions of success, job satisfaction and burnout

Creator:: McDow, Sandra M. Shaw
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between student-teacher ratios (STR) and caseload sizes and feelings of success and satisfaction and three factors of burnout as reported by Oregon teachers of students with mild disabilities. The target population of this study (N = 1347) were teachers of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Agriculture and science integration : a pre-service prescription for contextual learning

Creator:: Balschweid, Mark Allen
Abstract:: The purpose of the study was to determine if the delivery of an integrated agriculture and science curriculum to the Agricultural Education MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching) students, increased their desire and ability to integrate their curriculum and collaborate with other teachers once they started teaching, and to identify...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Factors affecting enrollment trends in secondary agricultural programs as perceived by Oregon and California secondary agricultural instructors and their respective principals

Creator:: Bender, Mark E.
Abstract:: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the major contributive factors affecting enrollment trends in secondary level agricultural programs in Oregon and California, as perceived by Oregon and California agricultural instructors and their respective principals. Methods and Procedures: A review of the literature revealed three areas that were...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: vocational education. (Oregon Teachers Standards and Practices Commission, 1996; Commission on Teacher

A description of teachers' sense of self-efficacy of the first graduate elementary pre-service teacher cohort at Oregon State University

Creator:: Bigler, Duane A.
Abstract:: Research studies indicated that teachers' sense of self-efficacy is a multidimensional construct related to teachers' beliefs about teaching, their ability to teach, and their students' ability to learn. This study described the change in a cohort of graduate preservice elementary teachers' sense of efficacy as they progressed through a four...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: first graduate elementary pre-service teacher cohort at Oregon State University AN ABSTRACT OF THE

Five programs for four participants : stories of paradox and learning in a graduate cohort for adult literacy practitioners

Creator:: Fish, Susan A.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to understand the individual experiences of four adult literacy practitioners, Anne, Bill, Candy, and Emily, in the first cohort of the Oregon Field-Based Cohort Master's Program. This program, which Oregon established in 1993 as one venue of professional development for adult literacy and English...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: cohort of the Oregon Field-Based Cohort Master's Program. This program, which Oregon established in 1993

Development and administration of a scale to measure the computer attitude of preservice and inservice teachers at the elementary school level

Creator:: Evans, Anantaporn Disatapundhu
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to: (a) develop a comprehensive plan consisting of a series of logical steps based upon recommendations derived from psychometric, measurement, and research literature and utilize the plan to develop a Likert-type scale to provide valid and reliable measures of the attitude of preservice and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: toward computers and selected teacher variables. The comprehensive plan consisted of the following

Selected Oregon student, parent, and teacher perceptions of the factors that influenced eleventh grade students' readiness to make career choices

Creator:: Derr, Debra A.
Abstract:: Oregon educational reform efforts are moving ahead with the support of legislation, business and industry, and education. There has been little apparent consideration given to the readiness of tenth graders to make career choices even though the research in the area of career maturity indicates that students at this period...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Selected Oregon student, parent, and teacher perceptions of

Rural educator values in the implementation of drug education : a critical assessment of a crisis moral community

Creator:: Holmes, Donald Clifford
Abstract:: This study examined the values, competencies, and goals of educators related to preventing drug abuse. Its purpose was to develop a new theory to define the crisis moral community among the educators: a theory which linked the primary variables (values, competencies, and goals) in such a way as to reveal...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: A THESIS submitted to Oregon State Universtiy in partial fulfillment of the requirements

Perspectives of teacher leaders in an educational reform environment : finding meaning in their involvement

Creator:: Birky, Virginia Davidhizar
Abstract:: The purpose of this qualitative research study was to describe the experiences of secondary teachers who were actively involved in positions of teacher leadership in their schools and to discover the meaning that leadership activities had for them in their work. The informal teacher leaders performed their leadership functions in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: .........................................................219 APPENDIX F: LETTER: REQUEST FOR OREGON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT TO IDENTIFY TEACHER

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A study of special education STRs and caseloads in Oregon and their impact upon teachers' perceptions of success, job satisfaction and burnout

Agriculture and science integration : a pre-service prescription for contextual learning

Factors affecting enrollment trends in secondary agricultural programs as perceived by Oregon and California secondary agricultural instructors and their respective principals

A description of teachers' sense of self-efficacy of the first graduate elementary pre-service teacher cohort at Oregon State University

Five programs for four participants : stories of paradox and learning in a graduate cohort for adult literacy practitioners

Development and administration of a scale to measure the computer attitude of preservice and inservice teachers at the elementary school level

Selected Oregon student, parent, and teacher perceptions of the factors that influenced eleventh grade students' readiness to make career choices

Rural educator values in the implementation of drug education : a critical assessment of a crisis moral community

Perspectives of teacher leaders in an educational reform environment : finding meaning in their involvement

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