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Creator:: Hill, Marlene Evans
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to examine the meal management practices used in the homes of selected home economics graduates. A total of 296 questionnaires were mailed to Oregon State University home economics graduates for the years 1945, 1950, 1955, and 1960. Forty-nine percent (146) of the questionnaires were...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Colbert, Austin Michael
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Antone, Eugene Joseph, Jr.
Abstract:: The purpose of the study was to compare the visual-motor performance of college students who reported ingestion of certain drugs with those college students who reported no drug ingestion. The study drugs included the following drugs or groups of drugs: tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, LSD, mescaline, barbiturates, and amphetamines. A total...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Snyder, Geraldine Virginia
Abstract:: The purposes of the study were: (1) to provide a descriptive analysis and historical record of the undergraduate OSU Fourth Cycle Urban/Rural-Migrant Teacher Corps program; (2) to follow up former OSU Fourth Cycle corps members to determine their employment status and attitudes toward their educational experiences; and (3) to determine...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Abraham, Kitty Greene
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of two religious education curricula in facilitating measure-able concrete-to-abstract movement in children's religious thinking. Subjects for the study were 47 fifth and sixth grade children enrolled in the Sunday School classes of four Oregon United Methodist Churches. Twenty-four children who...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Lindauer, Shelley Lynne Knudsen
Abstract:: This study examined children's memory for traditional and nontraditional parental behaviors displayed in story content. Subjects were 40 male and 40 female preschool children between the ages of 47 and 60 months. Children were read a story portraying a mother and a father as the main characters. Each character performed...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Doescher, Susan M.
Abstract:: This study investigated the impact of prosocial classroom and home learning programs on children's prosocial behavior. More specifically, it determined the influences of adult modeling and encouragement in these programs on children's cooperating, sharing, and helping behaviors immediately following the six-week intervention programs, and six weeks after the programs' termination....
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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