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Meditation and relaxation and their effect upon the pattern of physiological response during the performance of a fine motor and gross motor task

Creator:: Wood, Carolyn Jean
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of immediate prior meditation (transcendental meditation) and relaxation upon the pattern of physiological response and performance of a fine motor and gross motor task. A second purpose of this study was to determine whether the long term regular practice of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: - formance and physiological response to a fine motor or gross motor task. © 1983 CAROLYN JEAN WOOD All

The effect of inservice training on the ability of teachers to observe learning styles of students

Creator:: Beaty, Shirley A.
Abstract:: Research on the topic of learning styles has revealed the positive impact that implementation of a learning styles program can have on the education of America's youth. Yet for many districts in the state of Oregon, implementation is hindered by a lack of available funds and personnel trained to do...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: input data into the computer, Pam Brown and Carolyn Oeder. To Mary Langevin, a friend, who transported

An analysis of the effect of mathematics readiness education at the kindergarten level on the growth of conceptual ability of number as measured by Piaget's stages of the development of number

Creator:: Anderson, Doloris Gerkewicz
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to test two assumptions. They are that factors in a child's background correlate with the notion of conservation and that additional mathematical instruction will result in a higher level of maturity of the notion of conservation as well as increased achievement in mathematical skills....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: development formulated by Jean Piaget provided the theoretical framework for this study. Specifically

Influences on State-funded categorical enrollment patterns in thirteen of Oregon's community colleges

Creator:: Smart, Ann Dillie
Abstract:: The purpose of this investigation was to examine the influence of selected historical, fiscal, and organizational factors on enrollment patterns in Oregon Community Colleges during the academic years 1978-79, 1981-82, and 1984-85. Oregon was selected insofar as it is one of the few remaining states which observes the principle of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: The Leaders Project which encouraged me to begin this endeavor. Mildred and Carolyn have been

The acquisition of values : a theoretical model

Creator:: Robinson, Gail Patricia
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
Full Text:: based upon the popularized views of 12 the psychology of John Dewey (1922), Jean Piaget (1954), Carl

Wholistic primary education : investigation and development of an integrated curriculum model

Creator:: Beyer, Elmira K.
Abstract:: A five year longitudinal study was begun in 1976 to find a solution to the problem of early primary children who fail in school and then adopt the failure syndrome. The study was conducted in four elementary schools in Oregon which had distinctly different socio-economic populations. The tests used for...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Program; Carolyn Hjelt and Dean Thompson of the Parkrose School district; Jeanne Payne of Reedville

Study of student values as an index for determination of the feasibility of adding Liberal Arts major and minor programs to the Bible College curriculum

Creator:: Berger, William Robert
Abstract:: Objectives of the Study The study attempted to accomplish the following: 1. Document the fundamental or conservative nature of early American higher education, especially the nine colonial colleges, and verify its seemingly irrepressible progression toward liberalism. 2. Determine the nature of variables associated with the process of liberalization. 3. Isolate...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The context in which student teaching occurs and its effect on student teacher performance

Creator:: Gallagher, Patricia Reed
Abstract:: The central problem of this study was to construct and validate an instrument to measure the complexity of the contexts in which student teaching occurs and to use the instrument in the investigation of factors related to context complexity and its effect on student teacher performance. The instrument to measure...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The effect of a management course on leadership knowledge and behavior of baccalaureate nursing students

Creator:: Jones, Lenoa Kent
Abstract:: There are three avenues of education to prepare students for board examination leading to licensure as a registered nurse: diploma certificate, associate degree, and baccalaureate degree. The baccalaureate nursing programs are challenged to prepare students for acute care nursing, community health nursing and leadership in nursing. Baccalaureate nursing educators believe...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

An analysis of ecological indices and leisure participation with selected dimensions of self-concept among the elderly

Creator:: Guadagnolo, Frank Bernard, 1940-
Abstract:: The primary focus of this investigation was to assess whether or not selected ecological indices and leisure preferences demonstrated statistically significant relationships with the aged's self-concept. Gerontology, a relatively embryonic discipline, has only recently begun to examine the impact of demographic, physical and socio-psychological stresses upon the geron's self-concept. Even...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: investigation. A note of thanks is extended to Jean. Von Ezdorf, Director of Little House, for her agency's

Perceived needs of special education as identified by school personnel in small rural school districts in six eastern Oregon counties

Creator:: Veal, Lawrence Lyman
Abstract:: The purpose of the study, which was conducted in 33 school districts in six Eastern Oregon counties, was threefold: 1. To assess the perceived needs of administrators, counselors and/or specialists and special teachers of the handicapped and disadvantaged, to determine special education needs in small rural school districts; 2. To...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: School Date thesis is presented April 11, 1987 Typed by Carolyn Gilbert for Lawrence Lyman Veal

A study to develop a career education component for teacher education students

Creator:: Swinney, Richard James
Abstract:: This study, dealing with the concept of career education, was undertaken to: 1) develop a multi-media career education component for Phase I of the undergraduate teacher education program at Oregon State University. 2) measure the effect of that component on selected students. 3) compare their responses with students who had...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The influence of applied mathematics problems on the achievement and attitude of community college vocational students

Creator:: Swearingen, Dell L.
Abstract:: Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study was to analyze, in the mathematics classrooms, career-oriented verbal mathematics problems on the achievement and attitude of the vocational mathematics student. These career-oriented mathematics problems, used as advanced organizers, were contrasted with mathematics word problems of a more abstract and generalized...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , I am deeply indebted to my wife Carolyn and our two sons Sean and Shae for their love and supreme

Influence, techniques, and therapeutic change : a study of the relative efficacy of the common components in psychotherapy

Creator:: Lynagh, Ian Lawrence
Abstract:: This study examines the relative efficacies of the specific and non-specific factors in psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is conceptualized as having three common components: the problem component whose essence is low self-esteem; the interactional component which induces change through social influence; and the treatment component which elicits change through therapeutic techniques. The...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Jack Dutro, Satsuki Tomine, and Carolyn Witcher, I express my thanks for the often much- needed

The effects of a summer institute for cultural awareness on the measured level of self-actualization of experienced teachers

Creator:: Ayers, Lawrence W.
Abstract:: Purpose of the Study The purpose of this investigation was two fold: (1) to determine the effects of a Summer Institute for Cultural Awareness upon the self-actualization of experienced teachers from four separate high schools, and (2) to determine the success of the Summer Institute for Cultural Awareness in terms...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

An analysis of attitudes and opinions of employer groups concerning cooperative vocational education

Creator:: Martin, Wanda Mae
Abstract:: The Purpose of the Study: The major purpose of this study was to determine if there were differences among the opinions of participating employers, previous participating employers, and non- participating employers concerning cooperative vocational education,. The hypothesis that there is no significant difference among the mean scores for the three...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Carl L. Anderson : life and contributions to public health and health education

Creator:: Asan, Virginia Marie
Abstract:: The purpose of this study of the life and career of Dr. Carl Leonard Anderson was to recount his professional contributions to the field of health and relate these to public health and health education. The major emphasis of this study concerned Dr. Anderson's professional life. The accomplishment of the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: early love of writing was intensified by Miss Jean Goudie, his senior rhetoric teacher. Miss Goudie's

The role of the city manager in policy making : a study of differences in the conception of actual and perception of ideal policy making roles of the city manager by elected mayors and appointed managers in small California council-manager municipalities

Creator:: Feldman, Steven, 1954-
Abstract:: In recent years, the role of the City Manager in municipal policy making has been the focus of considerable attention and debate in both the academic and local government arenas. The purpose of this study was to determine the differences in views of elected mayors and appointed managers with regard...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Postsecondary student consumerism : a national Delphi forecast of developments and articulation of policy options

Creator:: Franks, Robert Grover
Abstract:: The purpose of this research, expressed in two coequal parts, was: to establish a forecast of developments and an articulation of policy options vis-a-vis postsecondary student consumerism; and to determine if interest groups of experts differed significantly in their evaluations of the aforementioned developments and policy options. The Delphi technique...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The construction and preliminary validation of an instrument to assess the food fantasies of individuals with eating disorders

Creator:: Bruyer, Annette
Abstract:: 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,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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Meditation and relaxation and their effect upon the pattern of physiological response during the performance of a fine motor and gross motor task

The effect of inservice training on the ability of teachers to observe learning styles of students

An analysis of the effect of mathematics readiness education at the kindergarten level on the growth of conceptual ability of number as measured by Piaget's stages of the development of number

Influences on State-funded categorical enrollment patterns in thirteen of Oregon's community colleges

The acquisition of values : a theoretical model

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

Wholistic primary education : investigation and development of an integrated curriculum model

Study of student values as an index for determination of the feasibility of adding Liberal Arts major and minor programs to the Bible College curriculum

The context in which student teaching occurs and its effect on student teacher performance

The effect of a management course on leadership knowledge and behavior of baccalaureate nursing students

An analysis of ecological indices and leisure participation with selected dimensions of self-concept among the elderly

Perceived needs of special education as identified by school personnel in small rural school districts in six eastern Oregon counties

A study to develop a career education component for teacher education students

The influence of applied mathematics problems on the achievement and attitude of community college vocational students

Influence, techniques, and therapeutic change : a study of the relative efficacy of the common components in psychotherapy

The effects of a summer institute for cultural awareness on the measured level of self-actualization of experienced teachers

An analysis of attitudes and opinions of employer groups concerning cooperative vocational education

Carl L. Anderson : life and contributions to public health and health education

The role of the city manager in policy making : a study of differences in the conception of actual and perception of ideal policy making roles of the city manager by elected mayors and appointed managers in small California council-manager municipalities

Postsecondary student consumerism : a national Delphi forecast of developments and articulation of policy options

The construction and preliminary validation of an instrument to assess the food fantasies of individuals with eating disorders

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