The major purpose of this study was to examine relationships
among biographical characteristics, psychological characteristics,
motives for returning to school, and the need for student support
services among Reentry Women.
Primary objectives were to:
(1) examine biographical and psychological characteristics of
Reentry Women to determine if significant relationships
existed among...
The central purpose of this study was to examine
physicians' attitudes and communication methods which
they used with deaf patients. This study was conducted
with 100 physicians practicing medicine in Linn and
Marion counties in Oregon.
Attitude was measured by the Attitude Toward Deaf
Persons Scale and was compared to...
National statistics indicate that over ten thousand persons
each year become disabled from spinal cord-injury. The need for
research in this area is evident.
The objectives of this study were:
1. To determine any relationship between selected attitudes
and activity levels with self-concept;
2. To identify certain demographic variables that...
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...
The objectives of this study were to: (1) determine if individual
differences in the learner characteristics of field dependence, state
and trait anxiety, age, sex, and prior computer experience were related
to performance in operating a computer system; (2) to determine if
differences in performance would occur as a result...
The purpose of this research was to test the effectiveness of
the ethnographic method as a tool for evaluating nontraditional
adult and continuing education programs. The program evaluated was
the Oregon Heritage Festival, a four-week Summer Term activity
designed to eclectically draw upon the arts, humanities, and science
to illustrate...
Although public sector unionism dates back at least
to 1916, collective bargaining emerged mid-century when
President John Kennedy signed into law Executive Order
10988 which established federal policy recognizing unions
for federal employees. Today all levels of public education
have unions. In today's community college, the curriculum,
the professional background...
The central purpose of this study was to develop a model for
the examination of productivity in Adult Basic Education. To that
end, an instrument developed for use in the field of business was
adapted for use with an educational audience. It examined the
relationship of adult education staff decision...
The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of placing
adults in reading materials based on scores from a word-opposite test.
The population was randomly selected from students attending
developmental education classes at three Oregon community colleges.
The Word Opposite Reading Placement Instrument (WOPI) was derived
from a...