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An analysis of the acceptance and the conceptual clustering of personal finance competencies as identified by the business community and personal finance teachers

Creator:: Stamps, Margaret Frances
Abstract:: This study was designed to determine the common personal finance competencies needed by graduating high school students in Oregon as perceived by personal finance teachers from the subject matter areas of business education, home economics, mathematics, and social studies and the business community. Two other purposes were to (1) determine...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: teachers AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Margaret Frances Stamps for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

A study of peer collaborative mentoring for the professional development of international graduate teaching assistants

Creator:: Kilburg, Gary M.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate Peer Collaborative Mentoring (PCM) as a professional development model for international graduate teaching assistants at an American university. Data were gathered from interviews and observations of three American peer mentors (Intracultural Peer Mentors/IAPMs), five Chinese Graduate Teaching Assistants (Intercultural Peer Mentors/IEPMs), and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Jan, his wife, Jane, and their family, Joel, Sarah, Becka and Anne. They have been my port in the

Factors which differentiate United States students who wish to study in cross-cultural educational programs

Creator:: Heisler, Mary Kathryn, 1943-
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Anne J. Tr ow The purpose of this study was: 1) to ascertain the effect of a student's demographic

Identifying knowledge and attitudes toward sexual expression among selected 65 to 74 year olds, utilizing a structured interview

Creator:: Smith, Margaret M. (Margaret Mary), 1942-
Abstract:: The two major purposes of this study were to gather data relative to the knowledge and attitudes toward sexual expression among sixty-five to seventy-four year olds and to determine whether or not significant differences existed between the sexes. The study focused on six research questions: These were: 1. Do older...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: MARGARET MARY SMITH for the degree of DOCTOR OF EDUCATION in EDUCATION presented on APRIL 1, 1981 Title

The identification of rural public health sanitarian competencies for developing countries

Creator:: Okoye, Peter Iloabuchi
Abstract:: The primary purpose of this study was to identify the competencies essential for effective performance as a rural public health sanitarian in developing countries. The need to identify rural sanitarian competencies in developing countries is closely related to the World Health Organization's goal of "Health for all by the year...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Margaret Lumpkin, for providing helpful ideas and suggestions; Dr. Robert Dale, for letting me realize that

Community conflict : a case study of the implementation of a bilingual education program

Creator:: Guzmán, Juan
Abstract:: This research project is an historical case study of the conflict which evolved from the deliberations and subsequent implementation of bilingual education in Central School District 13J, Independence, Oregon. The time period under consideration spans 35 months, beginning in August 1974, when district officials first proposed bilingual education, and ending...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: --Professors Carvel Wood, Jo Anne Trow, Cliff Trow, and Jack Dymond--for their encouragement, support, and

The impact of doctoral education on the marriages of doctoral students

Creator:: Dudzik, Shirley M.
Abstract:: The study was designed to determine the effect of doctoral study upon the marriages of doctoral students. The sample for the research was drawn from the total population of married doctoral students enrolled in Oregon State University/Western Oregon State College's School of Education and Oregon State University's College of Home...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Dr. Margaret Stamps and Dr. Pat Wells understood the difficulties faced by women with families who

Survey of collection analysis practices in public and academic libraries in the United States, and the effect of automation thereon

Creator:: Cochrane, Linda Louise Loomis
Abstract:: This study investigated the practices public and academic library administrators find useful and utilize in analyzing use of collections. The study also investigated administrators' satisfaction with their collection use analysis practices, and the impact they perceived automation to have upon collection use analysis practices. A survey developed for this study...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: graduate study. To my committee members, Dr. Wayne Haverson, Dr. Margaret Niess, Dr. David Phelps and Mr

A study to determine the effects of a college human sexuality course upon student sex knowledge and attitudes toward selected sexual topics

Creator:: Vennewitz, Peter Jan
Abstract:: The purpose of this research was to determine the effects of a college human sexuality course upon sex knowledge, attitudes toward sexual behaviors of non-significant others, and attitudes toward the sexual behaviors of self and spouse. In addition, the study sought to investigate the relationship between knowledge gain and attitude...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , and constructive criticism: Dr. Jo Anne J. Trow, Dr. Raymond S. Sanders, Dr. James Firth, Dr. G

The readability of selected fourth, fifth and sixth grade social studies textbooks as determined by the Fry Readability Graph and group informal reading inventories

Creator:: Pruitt, Janet Louise McCracken, 1930-
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine the readability of three series of selected fourth, fifth and sixth grade social studies textbooks, a total of nine textbooks. Two measurements were utilized: a readability formula (Fry Readability Graph; Knapp, 1971), and group informal reading inventories. The Fry Graph was applied...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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Women's studies : a new program for the community college

Creator:: Goltra, Raylene Denise
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: within Congress. Edith Green from Oregon, and the recently defeated Margaret Chase Smith of Maine

A Group Informal Reading Inventory : an instrument for the assess-ment of ESL students' reading performance

Creator:: Stark, Merritt William
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A comparative study of work values between selected tenth-grade Thai girls in Bangkok and Chiangmai, Thailand

Creator:: Sitthiphong, Bularat Suvarnabriksha
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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An examination and assessment of the SUTOE program in Oregon

Creator:: Campbell, Hartley Bernard
Abstract:: This study is focused primarily on the development and evaluation of the SUTOE (Self Understanding Through Occupational Exploration) program in the State of Oregon. It cites the need for a relevant curriculum for junior high school age youth, and reviews the philosophical basis for development of the SUTOE course. The...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Phonological contrasts and word-decoding skills of the reader of English as a second language

Creator:: Morray, Marjorie Kuh
Abstract:: Purpose of the Study The purpose of the present study was to investigate the extent to which phoneme and grapheme-phoneme contrasts between English and Spanish influence the word-decoding skills of Spanish-speaking adults who are early readers of English. The major objectives of the research were to investigate: 1. The differences...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Margaret Hubbard Jones' studies (44:117-30) into the inconsistencies in letter-sound relationships in

Guidelines for curriculum development in the preparation of health education specialists in health-care delivery settings

Creator:: Niemie, Debra Ardell
Abstract:: This study was designed to establish a baseline of data regarding guidelines for curriculum development in the preparation of health education specialists in health-care delivery settings. The survey method was utilized and an expert panel of 15 jurors was selected to respond to a 51 item questionnaire. Professions represented on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Personality characteristics of selected community college dropouts

Creator:: Edelbrock, Gary Ray
Abstract:: The Purpose of the Study The central purpose of this study was to determine if certain personality characteristics differ between community college persisters and those who drop out of school. The following 12 a priori hypotheses involving six Adjective Check List personality scales were tested: 1. Male persisters would have...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: and children Laurie Anne and Kevin Merritt. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page I. INTRODUCTION 1 Preface 1

The development of masculine sex role stereotypes : sex differences in verbal interruptive behavior between first grade students and male and female teachers

Creator:: Edberg, Patricia Tanner
Abstract:: Male dominance in conversation is encouraged by the adult socialization pattern in which men routinely interrupt the conversation of women and develop a topic out of turn. The purpose of this study was to investigate verbal interruptive behavior by utilizing an experimental approach focusing on children's interruptions and teacher responses...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A theoretical design of rational autonomy : integrating elementary and early childhood teacher education through a contemporary derivation from Maria Montessori's social cognitive field paradigm

Creator:: Mitchener, Virginia Wedler
Abstract:: The individual through earliest recorded history reveals contradictory views of the human life-span. "Am I a free and unique individual, able to make choices and decide my own destiny?, or, "Am I only a victim of circumstance, a speck of dust in the universe's whirlwind of fate?" Each view is...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Expert opinion regarding program activities and resources leading to and supporting districtwide, comprehensive school health instruction programs

Creator:: Templin, Paul Hans
Abstract:: This study was concerned with identifying the program activities and resources believed necessary to support a districtwide, comprehensive school health instruction program and investigated the perceptions of an expert committee composed of persons involved in school health instruction in the State of Washington. A questionnaire, developed after extensive review of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A study of classroom behaviors contrasting the behavior of children with auditory and visual screening ability with the behavior of children with poor screening ability in grades one through six

Creator:: Ling, Marcelene Smith
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: upon auditory processes (Smith, 1968, p. 24). Anne Morency after carefully defining auditory

Descriptive factors of career education applied to a teacher education model

Creator:: Ashlock, James William
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: only" definition are the comments of T. Anne Cleary, Executive Director of Examinations of the College

Students' perceptions of teacher characteristics : how these perceptions relate to student self-esteem and locus of control perceptions

Creator:: Alexander, Robert M.
Abstract:: This investigation was a two stage study performed in two urban/ rural communities in Washington State. Stage I was an effort to replicate a study performed in an eastern Virginia school district whereby results were obtained demonstrating that 9th graders and black students identified teacher warmth behaviors as being important...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

An evaluation of the effectiveness of guidance assistants in selected school guidance programs in Oregon

Creator:: Erickson, Joan Elizabeth
Abstract:: Purpose: The basic purpose of this study was to evaluate theeffectiveness of paraprofessional workers trained to work as guidanceassistants to professional counselors in elementary and secondaryschools. The study included an identification of the appropriate roleof guidance assistants, counselors, and administrators in their relationshipwith one another in a team setting. Role...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Analysis of selected factors relating to the Neighborhood Youth Corps program in rural counties of Oregon

Creator:: Bigsby, Robert Alexander
Abstract:: Purpose of the Study There were two major purposes of this study. The first was to determine which socio-economic and educational factors normally available to Neighborhood Youth Corps personnel were associated with success and failure in the out-of-school program. The second purpose was to utilize these available socio-economic and educational...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Comparing the performance between high school students with esteem needs and those with security needs in solving a problem through insight in a verbal learning situation

Creator:: Clukey, Darrell Frank
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to compare the performance between high school students with esteem needs and those with security needs in discovering a two-second delay between correct response and feedback in a paired-associated learning task, Subjects had to determine which one of seven possible responses (digits) to a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The development of an adaptation model for emergency departments in urban and suburban health maintenance organizations

Creator:: Robertson, Barbara J.
Abstract:: The major purpose of this study was to develop an Adaptation Model for emergency departments in urban and suburban Health Maintenance Organizations. Questions explored which provided data for the Model were: 1) are there significant differences in the demographic, sociologic, and decision-making characteristics of clients seeking services in emergency rooms...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The status of family life/sex education in the public high schools of Oregon

Creator:: Ishisaka, Howard Sadanobu
Abstract:: The major purpose of this study was to determine the current status of family life/sex education programs in the public high schools of Oregon. A mail questionnaire was submitted to all health teachers in all the high schools in Oregon. The questionniare was mailed twice to 447 health teachers in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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