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My journey with preservice teachers : reflecting on teacher characteristics that bridge multicultural education theory and classroom practice

Creator:: Moule, Jean Golson
Abstract:: In the past decade, issues related to cultural diversity and pluralism have risen to the forefront in education. The increasing cultural diversity in American classrooms and communities requires preservice teachers to be ready to promote multiple perspectives within their curricula and among their students. The purpose of this study was...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A study of the factors that influence disadvantaged female community college students' career choices

Creator:: Hagan, Jacky May
Abstract:: Although the career choice decision for women is recognized as a complex process, there is little understanding about how the influencing factors affect the choices of disadvantaged women returning to community colleges. This study was concerned with understanding how certain factors influenced the career choices of this population. A random...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: in order to enable them to succeed (U. S. Congress, 1990). For many disadvantaged women, further

Factors that influence electronics technicians to participate in work-related training

Creator:: Kuo, Chu-hsun
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to identify the factors that influence electronics technicians to participate in work-related training and to explain the relationships among those factors. Based on Steers and Rhodes' Employees Attendance Process Model, the subjects' willingness to participate in work-related training was regarded as an indicator of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: training (Hawes & Hawes, 1982; Husen & Postlethwaite, 1985; Page, Thomas & Marshall, 1980; Rowntree, 1982

A study of factors influencing the selection of vocational teacher education by undergraduate students at Oregon State University

Creator:: Toby, Tony Udo
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to ascertain the factors which influenced undergraduate students in the School of Education at Oregon State University to select vocational teacher education as their major. Data were collected from 315 vocational, practical arts, and non-vocational undergraduate teacher education majors who were enrolled in teacher...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: school enrollment during the 1980's, enrollment in vocational and technical education should actually

Using evaluative results in program improvement by public vocational high school instructors in Taiwan

Creator:: Yeh, Chung-ta
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to explore factors which influence Taiwanese vocational teachers' participation in program evaluations, use of evaluative results and, in turn, program improvement. Twelve Taiwanese public vocational high school teachers were interviewed during February and March 1992. To confirm the responses of the teachers, 12 school...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The career decision making of individuals with mild developmental disabilities

Creator:: Thyfault, Alberta J.
Abstract:: Individuals with mild developmental disabilities have traditionally been excluded from full participation in their career decision making due to the stereotyping of their perceived incompetence. This view forms a mind-set or stigma that is recognized as the disability myth. This study initially addressed the vocational development of individuals with mild...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Characteristics of Oregon agricultural export entrepreneurs

Creator:: Johnson, Wayne E.
Abstract:: The creation of a new business venture is a multidimensional event, but little research has addressed the interaction of entrepreneurial characteristics and their relationship to new venture creation. The purpose of this study was to propose a conceptual framework for systematically studying the entrepreneurial personality. The major components of the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: appreciated. To my major professor(s): Dr. Larry Kenneke, thank- you for the initial support to start the

A study of non-persisters within a cohort of vocational students at the University of Alaska Anchorage

Creator:: Vinson, Julia Flory
Abstract:: The purpose of this research was to explore non-persistence by vocational students in the College of Career and Vocational Education at the University of Alaska Anchorage. A cohort of 156 students were identified and tracked from fall 1989 through spring 1992. In the first part of the study, using the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: 1970's to the successful recruitment of nontraditional students including persons of color, adult

The development, practice and education of kinlein associates

Creator:: Carpenter, Patricia A.
Abstract:: This study documented the history of the development and practice of the kinlein associate. Consumer dissatisfaction with health care, nursing unrest, and increased demand for long-term care-givers were the antecedents for a paradigm shift to "caring with" persons based upon the theory of esca developed by M. Lucille Kinlein. Interested...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: used were described by Leininger (1985), Lincoln and Guba (1985), and Marshall and Rossman (1989

Understanding university students' construction of their hidden disability identity

Creator:: Bentley-Townlin, Tracy
Abstract:: This study co-investigated with students with hidden disabilities the phenomenon of disability identity. This qualitative study utilized phenomenology and strategies proposed by Paulo Freire in an effort to understand identity development specific to individuals with hidden disabilities. There were seven students from a medium-sized, public university who participated in the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: (Henderson, 1999). "This mean[s] that one in every 11 freshmen enrolled full-time reported at least one

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My journey with preservice teachers : reflecting on teacher characteristics that bridge multicultural education theory and classroom practice

A study of the factors that influence disadvantaged female community college students' career choices

Factors that influence electronics technicians to participate in work-related training

A study of factors influencing the selection of vocational teacher education by undergraduate students at Oregon State University

Using evaluative results in program improvement by public vocational high school instructors in Taiwan

The career decision making of individuals with mild developmental disabilities

Characteristics of Oregon agricultural export entrepreneurs

A study of non-persisters within a cohort of vocational students at the University of Alaska Anchorage

The development, practice and education of kinlein associates

Understanding university students' construction of their hidden disability identity

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