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The impact dynamics of a tennis ball striking a hard surface

Creator:: Wang, Jin-cherng
Abstract:: The purpose of this research was to study the impact phenomena of a tennis ball striking a hard surface. Stroboscopic photography was used to collect the ball's impact images from seven angles of incidence, ranging from -23 degrees to -70 degrees with zero, top and back initial spin respectively. Through...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ."--- Harry Freund The purpose of this research was to study the impact phenomena of a tennis ball striking

A survey of research tasks required by public school administrators and secondary and elementary teachers in Oregon

Creator:: Burton, H. James
Abstract:: The purposes of this study were to determine which research tasks were necessary to the job descriptions of public school administrators, secondary and elementary teachers; what task clusters could be identified for college and university curriculums; what differences existed between sample groups. The instrument was validated through the Delphi technique....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: administrators and secondary and elementary teachers in Oregon AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF H. James Burton

A comparison of junior and senior high school student attitudes with faculty attitudes toward purposes, functions and responsibilities of the student council

Creator:: Hayden, James R.
Abstract:: The Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop an original validated Lickert-type attitudinal survey instrument and administer it to selected samples of teachers and students in the Mid-Willamette Valley of Oregon to determine their attitude toward the "purposes," "functions," and "responsibilities" of student councils and place these results...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF James R. Hayden for the degree

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:: . Carvel Wood, and Dr. James Krueger for serving on the doctoral committee. Special thank you's with love

A study of mathematical skills needed for entry-level employment in a cluster of electricity-electronics occupations

Creator:: LeDoux, Clarence E.
Abstract:: The purpose of this research was to determine if differences existed in mathematical skills needed for entry-level employment in selected electricity-electronics occupations in Oregon. The four primary objectives of the study were to: 1. Identify mathematical skills from task analyses of key electricity-electronics occupations. 2. Validate the identified mathematical skills....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Isabella McQuesten, and committee members Drs. Curtis Loewen, Henry Ten Pas, Carvel Wood, James Herzog

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
Full Text:: parents: my autonomous father, Harry Wed ler, who taught me to love books, the library and learning; and

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

Coaching preparation consistent with recommendations from active coaches

Creator:: Arritola, Pascual Pedro
Abstract:: This study investigated various aspects of coaching preparation at the undergraduate level to determine where coaches are being trained to enter the coaching profession as well as to determine where active coaches were trained in the competencies deemed necessary for an individual to be a success in the coaching profession....
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The attitudes of Oregon State Penitentiary minority inmates towards activity programs as a rehabilitative tool

Creator:: McIntosh, Mathew Allen
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes of three Oregon State Penitentiary minority inmate groups - Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans - towards the Activities Programs as a rehabilitative tool. Two other purposes were to (1) determine significant differences among group attitudes, and (2) determine the degree...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

"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
Full Text:: proposal and dissertation. It was my good fortune to have Dr. Harry Wolcott as a teacher. He instilled in

ScholarsArchive@OSU

The impact dynamics of a tennis ball striking a hard surface

A survey of research tasks required by public school administrators and secondary and elementary teachers in Oregon

A comparison of junior and senior high school student attitudes with faculty attitudes toward purposes, functions and responsibilities of the student council

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

A study of mathematical skills needed for entry-level employment in a cluster of electricity-electronics occupations

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

Coaching preparation consistent with recommendations from active coaches

The attitudes of Oregon State Penitentiary minority inmates towards activity programs as a rehabilitative tool

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

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