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"Playing with computers" : the hidden impact of the computer in a school

Creator:: Turner, Martha I.
Abstract:: The topic of this study is the cultural impact of the computer in a school. "Impact" is 'defined as the cultural consequences of intended and unintended learning that occur when computers are used in the school. The major theoretical orientations of the work include the concepts of manifest and latent...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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The effect of games on cognitive abilities and on attitudes toward mathematics

Creator:: Henry, Kermit Maxson
Abstract:: The purpose of this investigation was to determine if either of two selected commercial games, when used by seventh-grade mathematics teachers, would significantly improve students' (1) attitudes toward mathematics, (2) quantitative cognitive abilities, and (3) nonverbal cognitive abilities. Equations, a mathematics game, and Tac-Tickle, a strategy game, were chosen as...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ability; To Dr. Norbert Hartmann for providing his statistical expertise; And to Dr. William Simons, Dr

Selected demographic variables as predictors of small group attendance or nonattendance among adult Conservative Baptists : a discriminant analysis

Creator:: McBride, Neal
Abstract:: Small groups are an important and widely used educational format in adult church education. It is estimated that ninety percent of the churches that belong to the Conservative Baptist Association of Oregon provide some type of small group eductional opportunity for their adult members. The purpose of this study was...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: works by other men like Carl Rogers, Fritz Perls, Abraham Maslow, Eric Berne, and William Schutz, many

A comparison between current industrial arts philosophy expressions derived from professional publications and their acceptance by industrial arts teacher educators

Creator:: Parker, David Warren
Abstract:: Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study was to identify and compare the current written philosophical expressions of industrial arts with the acceptance of these by select groups of industrial arts teacher educators. Procedure: The data for this study were obtained through the use of a questionnaire derived...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A theoretical design of rational autonomy : integrating elementary and early childhood teacher education through a contemporary derivation from Maria Montessori's social cognitive field paradigm

Creator:: Mitchener, Virginia Wedler
Abstract:: The individual through earliest recorded history reveals contradictory views of the human life-span. "Am I a free and unique individual, able to make choices and decide my own destiny?, or, "Am I only a victim of circumstance, a speck of dust in the universe's whirlwind of fate?" Each view is...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Comparing the performance between high school students with esteem needs and those with security needs in solving a problem through insight in a verbal learning situation

Creator:: Clukey, Darrell Frank
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to compare the performance between high school students with esteem needs and those with security needs in discovering a two-second delay between correct response and feedback in a paired-associated learning task, Subjects had to determine which one of seven possible responses (digits) to a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The identification of long-term care administrator competencies

Creator:: Smith, David Adelbert
Abstract:: The primary purpose of this study was to identify the competencies needed to perform effectively as a long-term care administrator. An original list of competency statements was generated from the literature and from persons active in the field of long-term care administration. This list of 53 statements was placed into...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Major contributors included Mary Follet, Elton Mayo, Chester Bernard, Fritz Roethlisberger, and Herbert

Competency needs for physical education master's degree programs in Thailand

Creator:: Samahito, Supitr Chotinukul
Abstract:: This study was to determine the common competencies needed in physical education graduate curricula as perceived by physical education teachers and other physical educators in Thailand, to determine if differences existed among three groups of physical educators on the Importance of Content and Level of Learning of the selected competencies,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A factor analysis of the professional education competencies of administrators of vocational education

Creator:: Sundstrom, Lloyd Conrad
Abstract:: The primary objective of this study was to identify, and to group, the professional education competencies common to administrators of vocational education. The technique of factor analysis was used to form logical groups of competencies. The secondary objectives were to: 1. determine, by the method of the analysis of variance,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The effect of esoterica on institutional goals as measured by the use of cherished terms in the pulpits of the Church of the Nazarene and church growth

Creator:: Parrott, Richard Leslie, 1952-
Abstract:: This is a psycho-socio-linguistic study of language as the primary tool of institutions such as education, government, and religion. These institutions have goals associated with identifying with, communicating with, and influencing individuals in the general public who are not Part of the group. A review of psycho-socio-linguistic theory suggests that...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

ScholarsArchive@OSU

"Playing with computers" : the hidden impact of the computer in a school

The effect of games on cognitive abilities and on attitudes toward mathematics

Selected demographic variables as predictors of small group attendance or nonattendance among adult Conservative Baptists : a discriminant analysis

A comparison between current industrial arts philosophy expressions derived from professional publications and their acceptance by industrial arts teacher educators

A theoretical design of rational autonomy : integrating elementary and early childhood teacher education through a contemporary derivation from Maria Montessori's social cognitive field paradigm

Comparing the performance between high school students with esteem needs and those with security needs in solving a problem through insight in a verbal learning situation

The identification of long-term care administrator competencies

Competency needs for physical education master's degree programs in Thailand

A factor analysis of the professional education competencies of administrators of vocational education

The effect of esoterica on institutional goals as measured by the use of cherished terms in the pulpits of the Church of the Nazarene and church growth

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