Purpose
The purpose of this study was to compare the ability and achievement
of students in career cluster programs to the ability and achievement
of students not in career cluster programs. The cluster programs
included in this study were Distributive Education, Health
Careers, Mechanical, Food Services, Metals, Child Care, Construction,...
The study had four objectives, the major one being the identification
of the common professional competencies for adequate performance
as a Baptist clergyman. A second objective was to determine
the common professional competencies needed by Baptist pastors and
ministers of education. The determination if significantly different
competencies were required for...
Objectives of the Study
The study attempted to accomplish the following:
1. Document the fundamental or conservative nature of
early American higher education, especially the nine
colonial colleges, and verify its seemingly irrepressible
progression toward liberalism.
2. Determine the nature of variables associated with the
process of liberalization.
3. Isolate...
A study to determine possible impacts of cattle and big game grazing on streamside erosional responses was initiated in 1975. The objectives of the study were to: (1) establish the study and collect base line measurements; (2) determine the impact of animal grazing on soil bulk density and erosional potential,...
A sinking fund payment must be made each year to
retire a bond issue. Instead of paying cash, the corporation
will typically surrender bonds that it has purchased
on the open market. The sinking fund problem is to
determine an optimal strategy in the form of a stopping
rule to...
This investigation has been carried out primarily to define the Columbia
River bar crossing problem, to determine the physical factors involved in
hazardous transit developments, and to develop a method for predicting
hazardous bar transit conditions sufficiently in advance to allow proper
safety precautions to be effected.
Actual records of...