The purpose of this investigation was to identify sources of
influence on one major growth trend for college students: the development
of autonomy. Specifically, the study focused on whether
change in autonomy in college freshmen was related to the background
of the students, their associations with peers, their contacts with...
The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which personal
values congruence and self-actualization related to the question
of counselor effectiveness. The subjects consisted of the 20 Oregon
State University graduate students enrolled in the counseling practicum
class fall term, 1972, at Oregon State University. Most of...
The basic problem of this investigation was to determine if
peer counselors could be effective as group counselors for Educational
Opportunity Program (EOP), freshman students. This effectiveness
would be demonstrated by changes in self concept and
academic adjustment for those students who participated in the group
counseling process. This investigation...
Purpose
The purpose of this study was to compare the ability and achievement
of students in career cluster programs to the ability and achievement
of students not in career cluster programs. The cluster programs
included in this study were Distributive Education, Health
Careers, Mechanical, Food Services, Metals, Child Care, Construction,...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between poverty and mental retardation and to place mental retardation in its true perspective as a social condition which thrives especially in poverty areas. More specifically, this study attempted to determine if there was any significant relationship between selected social...
The purpose of this study was to investigate one individual difference,
i.e., rate of response, and the effect on student performance
when teachers recognize this difference. Using disadvantaged third
grade students as subjects, three null hypotheses were formulated as
follows:
1. Slow responding accurate students' (Group LH) scores will
show...
The purpose of this research was to determine if there were
initial differences in selected dimensions of self-actualization, as
measured by the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI), between the
freshmen who selected co-educational residence halls and those who
selected single-sex residence halls; and to determine if the type
of residence hall...
Purpose This study was conducted to investigate the influence
that awards of financial aid have on the educational decisions and
academic achievement of applicants for freshman year financial aid
at Oregon State University. The study was primarily concerned with
the effectiveness of financial aid in assisting students to enroll and...
The purpose of this study was to identify the values
and attitudes of a group of freshman female students and
their parents and to determine if value and attitude differences
existed between these two groups. Therefore, of
equal importance in the study was the quantification of
intergenerational differences.
The subjects...
The central purpose of this study was to determine various
views of the professional competencies required by community
college student financial aid administrators. Respondents in the
study included a student financial aid recipient, a student financial
aid administrator and a president from forty-five selected community
colleges. The major tasks were:...
The central purposes of this study were to identify the common
professional education competencies of junior high school teachers
and to
1. Determine the proficiency levels necessary in order to
accomplish these tasks.
2. Determine the cognitive domain levels required in order to
fulfill these tasks.
The major dimensions of...
The purpose of this study was to compare two groups of freshmen
entering Oregon State University in the fall of 1970; (1) men and
women who were uncertain about choices of academic majors at the time
of entry, and (2) men and women who were certain about choices of
academic...
The purposes of this study were to determine whether the generally accepted procedure of campus elections as a method of choosing student government representatives (1) appears to encourage the candidacy of students who hold perceptions of the university environment similar to other students who do not choose to become candidates;...
The purpose of this study was to seek information regarding
issues around which dating decisions were made and some of the steps
college freshmen women considered in deciding for or against certain
courses of action while random and steady dating. A second more
general purpose was to determine if the...
This study was developed in order to determine whether substantiation
for Carl Rogers' theory of originality as related to an internal
locus of control could be located among groups of elementary
school children. The setting was in Portland, Oregon, in three types
of city schools: suburban (upper/ upper-middle class); conventional...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of an in-service project for teachers of the social studies (K-12). The project was sponsored by the Region II Committee of the Oregon Council for Curriculum and Instruction (O.C.C.I.) during the period from November 1, 1966 to April 1, 1969....