Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study was to identify essential reading and study skills for academic success in each of the schools at Oregon State University. Further, this study related faculty perception of specific skills and scores of subjects who were tested in these skills. The study...
The purposes of this study were to (1) identify major problems
faced by the youth who, in transition from school to work, have resorted
to anti-social behavior and are now inmates of Deuel Vocational
Institution, (2) identify the behavioral patterns of youth having employment
problems that resulted in incarceration within...
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...
The purpose of this study was to provide information
pertaining to performance levels of Dvorak keyboard operators
through retraining. More specifically, the purposes of
this study were:
1. To compare operator performance rates on the
Dvorak keyboard with operator performance
rates on the Qwerty keyboard.
2. To determine whether keyboard...
The purpose of this study was to present the new women's
studies program for the community college. The study advocated
consciousness raising for females at all levels of public instruction,
but this paper was limited to the community college. The program
outlined would seek to help women to assume a...
This study investigated the effect of first aid instruction on
college students' attitudes toward safety. It evolved from previous
studies of the relationship between first aid and accidents in Canada
and the United Kingdom. These earlier studies were concerned with the
effect of first aid training on accident rates. The...
Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this investigation was to measure some of the effects of an elementary science program, the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) on science achievement of certain sixth grade students. Important to the problem was how the SCIS students compared with students exposed to a...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of an in-service project for teachers of the social studies (K-12). The project was sponsored by the Region II Committee of the Oregon Council for Curriculum and Instruction (O.C.C.I.) during the period from November 1, 1966 to April 1, 1969....
The problem of this study was to determine whether graduate students
in education (the experimentals) participating in a counseling
practicum would demonstrate a change in self-actualization which would
be significantly different when compared with other graduate students
in education (the comparisons) who were not participating in the above
program. The...
The purpose of the study was to survey aspects of environmental
knowledge and beliefs among Grade 10 students in Australia, in the
belief that such information would be useful for workers in the developing
field of environmental education there.
A survey instrument prepared and used for a similar purpose in...