Police officers are frequently viewed as being unable
to perform the duties assigned to them by society.
Criticism has focused on inappropriate reaction to social
unrest and an inability to control crime. Improving the
selection process of police officers has been proposed as
an appropriate means of improving police officer...
This study was designed to determine whether individual
students at the eleventh grade level who were graded on a pass-fail
basis in United States History would show any difference in academic
achievement from those of a similar group marked by the traditional
ABCD-F letter-grade method. In addition, the study was...
In recent years almost all states have legislated educational
and licensing programs to protect the welfare and property of citizens
engaged in outdoor recreational pursuits. Such programs exist
for automobile, motorcycle, airplane, and snowmobile operators.
However, boating continues to be one of the major recreational outdoor
activities where operators of...
The major problem examined in this study was that of
determining whether or not there is any relationship between
student ratings of instruction in the community college
university transfer area and the professional teacher-training
backgrounds of instructors. In addition, several
other factors which may influence ratings and which might
interact...
The purpose of this study was to analyze and describe
the opinions and characteristics of black students enrolled
in Portland Community College.
Data were obtained through a random sampling of two
groups of subjects who were invited to participate in the
study as follows: (1) Black subjects were 109 students...
To determine whether there were differences between foreign (Arab) and American student attitudes toward academic dishonesty in Oregon State University, a seventy-eight item questionnaire designed by Kirk, (1970) was adapted and administered to two hundred and eighty Arab and American graduate and undergraduate students. Three aspects of academic dishonesty were...
The study's goal was to develop and initially validate the Food
Fantasies Questionnaire, a self-report therapeutic and research
instrument which assesses the occurrence and content of highly
irrational food cognitions (fantasies) common to eating disorders in
relation to seven theoretically derived factors characterisic of the
disorders: fear, anxiety, revulsion, pleasure,...
The purpose of this pilot study was to determine whether students
using a series of planned exercises designed to improve typewriter
composition skills would be better able to compose at the typewriter
than students in a control group. The study was also concerned with
the effect that the use of...
The purpose of this investigation was to identify sources of
influence on one major growth trend for college students: the development
of autonomy. Specifically, the study focused on whether
change in autonomy in college freshmen was related to the background
of the students, their associations with peers, their contacts with...
The purpose of this study was to determine if
students' school-related attitudes are significantly
affected by teacher classroom discipline management based
upon concepts contained in Judicious Discipline: A Constitutional
Perspective for School Rules (Gathercoal, 1986).
The data relative to student school-related attitudes
of elementary, middle, and high school students toward...