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...
Sixteen secondary school health teachers evaluated their own
course teaching performance. Students in each of these courses
evaluated the same teacher and the results were compared. An
adapted version of a teacher rating form developed by the School of
Agriculture, Oregon State University, was used by all study participants.
Teacher...
This study was designed to determine cardiorespiratory and energy expenditure responses elicited by recreational divers while finning at a submaximal intensity (35% max) in cold (18°C) and warm (29°C) water with and without wet suits. Male divers (15) volunteered to participate in five experimental procedures. A maximal graded exercise tethered...
The primary goal of the study was to determine if and
how baseball players discriminate the rotational direction
of an approaching pitch during the first 200 milliseconds
of the flight of the ball. In addition, college-level
baseball coaches were surveyed to assess the level of
agreement between coaches relative to...
The primary purpose of this study was the identification of
specific medicine education learning outcomes which are important
and appropriate for ambulatory, non-institutionalized older adults.
A modification of the Delphi technique was utilized and a panel
of 16 national experts was selected on the basis of four criteria to
respond...
The purpose of this study was to measure the relative prominence
of the values -- theoretical, economic, political, aesthetic, social, and
religious--among the four groups of institutional educators under the
direction of the State of Oregon Corrections Division in the two adult
and two juvenile facilities; namely, the Oregon State...
Competency-based education was introduced to the
state of Oregon in the early 1970's, mandating that the
graduating classes of 1978 would meet these competency
requirements for graduation. The Oregon Department of
Education allowed each school district to compile its
own lists of competencies in each of the mandated areas.
There...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of alcohol
on freshman women during the critical transition into college.
Specifically, the study focused on differences in knowledge of alcohol
facts and attitudes toward use of alcohol among freshman women prior to
college. Further, the study focused on changes...
The problem of this study was to determine the relationship
between selected autobiographical data and the personality characteristics
of high school basketball players.
The Athletic Motivation Inventory (AMI) measured the personality
traits of 150 high school basketball players. The Individual Data
Questionnaire was used to identify background characteristics for
comparison...
The purpose of this research was to determine the extent to
which parents and professionals were in agreement prior to and
following intervention regarding their Judgement of the gross motor
abilities of the parents' preschool children.
Each child was tested by a professional on the Ulrich Test of
Gross Motor...