The purposes of this study were to identify the common elementary
education competencies necessary for a Master's degree curriculum in
Thailand as perceived by elementary education instructors in
universities and colleges, by elementary school teachers, and by
principals, supervisors, and administrators in Thailand; to determine
the common clusters of selected...
The purpose of this study was to explore under controlled conditions
possible differences between teacher expectancy and child performance
at the first grade level. The Beaverton Public Schools participated
in the study with their first grade children and teachers, using an
examination administered to a random sampling of children and...
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,...
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...
This study determined the importance of specific research tasks to the present job requirements of State Department of Education professionals, college and university instructional faculty, and secondary school counselors in Oregon. The instrument utilized in the research was designed and validated through a Delphi process. The computed reliability coefficient was...
The present study was a modified replication of the two pioneer
works in the field of sport and ethnic groups by Pooley (1968)
and Tindall (1973). This study investigated whether participation in
an ethnic basketball league in Japanese-American communities affected
the rate of assimilation of two groups of Japanese-American, high-school...
The Purpose of the Study
The central purpose of this study was to identify the common
competency elements deemed necessary for entry-level vocational
certification and to develop these elements into groups that would
serve as a basis for use in an occupational competency test. Questions
to be answered from the...
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...