The major purpose of this study was to identify those social behaviors
of children which a particular group of parents perceived as important in
the process of socialization. This purpose was in direct support of
Western Regional Research Project W-144. The study also investigated
changes in parental evaluations of children's...
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of therapeutic non- directive play treatment with third grade boys who were low achievers in reading and to determine how treatment was associated with changes in reading achievement: vocabulary and comprehension; reading attitude and academic self-concept; role expectations and self-adequacy....
Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study was to identify essential reading and study skills for academic success in each of the schools at Oregon State University. Further, this study related faculty perception of specific skills and scores of subjects who were tested in these skills. The study...
At its peak, Oregon produced 21 percent of the nation's
total commercial strawberry production. However, since
1971, Oregon's share of strawberry production has been
declining steadily. In fact, for the last three years
strawberry production in Oregon constitutes only 8 percent
of the nation's total production, which is the lowest...
The uncertainty in decay energy for those fission products
which contribute significantly to reactor shutdown
power was evaluated. The methodology used assigned significantly
larger uncertainties for data which were theoretically
predicted than it did for experimentally determined
data. The uncertainty was modeled as an increasing function
of distance from beta...
The genus Lichnanthe Burmeister contains eight extant and one
fossil species which are strictly nearctic in distribution. The
subfamily Glaphyrinae, however, is distributed nearly world-wide.
Five species were previously described and three are described as
new herein. All eight extant species are described in detail herein,
synonomies are made current,...
This study was designed to determine whether individual
students at the eleventh grade level who were graded on a pass-fail
basis in United States History would show any difference in academic
achievement from those of a similar group marked by the traditional
ABCD-F letter-grade method. In addition, the study was...
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