This analysis concerns the life and scientific work of Henry
Augustus Rowland (1848-1901), organizer and the first chairman of
the physics department at The Johns Hopkins University in 1876.
Special materials used in this research included three pieces of
Rowland's experimental apparatus which are extant in the Smithsonian
Institution Division...
Purpose of the Study
The basic purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes and
opinions of community college personnel toward faculty involvement
in policy formulation.
Procedures
The statistical and subjective data for this study were obtained
from two major sources. (1) A statistical questionnaire was
developed to identify...
The primary purpose of this study was to assess the influence
of information on Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance in motivating
homemakers to do further family financial security planning.
Planning was measured in terms of estimating OASDI benefits and
total income available for retirement and for survivors.
The subjects...
The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that four-year
old children would better remember what happened in science
experiments, and the basic concepts involved in them, when presentation
of the experiments involved an element of surprise. Surprise
for this study was considered as a situation in which...