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  • The nomenclature of crime and violence as it appears in the educational and criminal justice systems

    Creator:
    Kincaid, John Thomas
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    In many schools, drugs, vandalism, assaults, thefts, and violence against both students and teachers have destroyed the orderly atmosphere needed for teaching and learning. While juvenile criminal behavior, both in school and elsewhere, is caused by a large and complex set of sociological and psychological conditions, there is evidence that...
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    Dissertation
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    the educational and criminal justice systems AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF John Kincaid for the

  • A study of the accidents within the trucking industry and the effectiveness of the accident countermeasures

    Creator:
    Lewellyn-Barnett, Tracey A.
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    A random sample of Oregon motor carriers was selected to determine the effectiveness of the Accident Countermeasures (ACM), a process created to address the factors involved in truck accidents and recommendations a motor carrier may utilize to prevent future similar accidents from occurring. Two groups of fifty motor carriers were...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Teacher-Researchers in Composition Studies : Subverting Education's Political Hierarchy

    Creator:
    Hardin, Holly E.
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    This study focused on composition teachers in elementary and secondary schools who researched their own teaching practices. Specifically, it examined political implications of their work within the larger context of the education hierarchy. Central to this examination were teacher-researcher (t-r) perceptions of and interactions with other members of the education...
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    a new problem (e.g. the existence of germs). Linda Flower and John Hayes 1991 Conference on College

  • Success in distance education courses versus traditional classroom education courses

    Creator:
    Anderson, Michael R.
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    This study was conducted to determine if there were possible areas of student individuality and uniqueness that might contribute to successful completion of distance education courses as compared to successful completion of traditional classroom courses. Five areas of possible differences were identified and studied: 1) differences between the number of...
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    Dissertation
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    correspondence education or correspondence study (Rumble & Keegan, 1982). Shale (1990) stated that

  • Circles in the sand

    Creator:
    Amsk, Allyn W.
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    The creative writing project Circles in the Sand began as a collection of interrelated short stories but is now the three opening chapters of a novel, a chapter and an early draft of what was originally the ending to a novella, and one short story. The landscape is the upper...
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    Masters Thesis
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    voice hoarse above the bike engine's rumble. "I'm going to see if I can hit third gear this time

  • The Ecology of Celtis reticulata Torr. (Netleaf hackberry) in Idaho

    Creator:
    DeBolt, Ann M.
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    The ecology of netleaf hackberry (Celtis reticulata Torr.) is poorly known throughout its broad western range. To gain some understanding of the species' basic ecology, three components of its life history were studied. First, seed germination requirements were analyzed under laboratory conditions. Second, hackberry population dynamics were evaluated from tree...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Factor patterns that foster or impede distance education in Washington State community and technical colleges

    Creator:
    Baker, Ronald L.
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    This study was conducted to develop a holistic understanding of distance education by identifying factors and patterns of factors that foster or impede distance education. The Washington State Community and Technical College System provided the context for the investigation of four primary questions: 1. What is the community and technical...
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    Dissertation
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    time at the same place (Kaye & Rumble, 1979). Conventional Funding - Funding to support usual and

  • Time to listen : an annotated bibliography of environmental readings, featuring Oregon writers, for middle school and high school students

    Creator:
    Crateau, Carole Ann
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to guide middle school and high school students into critical thinking about environmental issues. Through keen observation of their bioregion and through an integration of interdisciplinary literature which focuses on Oregon writers, students will be challenged to think, write, and discuss current issues...
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    Masters Thesis
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    permit me to accept her gracious invitation to teach John McPhee's Encounters with the Archdruid in her

  • Hannah of Troy, and other stories

    Creator:
    Nadelson, Scott
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    The six stories in this collection center around an extended Jewish family in the New York Metropolitan area and the curse its members relentlessly wish upon themselves. The protagonist in four of the six stories is Daniel Brickman, younger brother in a very ordinary and chaotic household in suburban New...
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    Masters Thesis

  • A paradigmatic framework for flight safety

    Creator:
    Routledge, Garry L.
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    Statistically, travel by air is one of the safest forms of transportation. Yet we continue to experience aviation tragedies. Do we fully understand flight safety or is there another way of looking at the problem? In this work a new way of approaching the question of flight safety is developed,...
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    community of believers developing methodologies and quantitative models. ...But there is a growing rumble of