In recent years the conversion of agricultural lands to more
intensive non-rural land uses has become a focus of increasing public
awareness and concern. The growing attention to farmland conversion
is manifested in increasing public policies and legilsation to protect
agricultural and forestry land uses. Nevertheless, our understanding
of the...
An examination of the technical and historical literature
concerning the discovery and development of antibiotics suggests the
possible existence of an era of discovery. This era appears to have
a well-defined beginning (about 1940) and a well-defined close (about
1960). It is the purpose of this dissertation to examine the...
The purpose of the study was to prepare and statistically
evaluate a series of 11 history of science case studies designed to
teach the following abilities involved in scientific thinking:
1. Recognizing problems, hypotheses, experimental conditions,
and conclusions.
2. Understanding the relationship of evidence to hypotheses.
3. Understanding experimental conditions...
The primary purpose of this study was the identification of
specific medicine education learning outcomes which are important
and appropriate for ambulatory, non-institutionalized older adults.
A modification of the Delphi technique was utilized and a panel
of 16 national experts was selected on the basis of four criteria to
respond...
This study was designed to determine the common personal finance
competencies needed by graduating high school students in Oregon as
perceived by personal finance teachers from the subject matter areas
of business education, home economics, mathematics, and social studies
and the business community. Two other purposes were to (1) determine...
Purpose of the Study
The education of culturally diverse children has been one of the
focuses of education since the early 1960's. One of the factors
influencing education's inability to deal with the needs of culturally
diverse children is the lack of teacher's foundational knowledge of
language and linguistics as...