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  • Autotronics : Implications for automotive related training programs standards based upon emerging technologies

    Creator:
    Savin, Stuart
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    The purpose of the study was to provide a method for evaluating the effect, impact or role that (as perceived by automotive, diesel, automotive collision faculty and administrators) the nationally recognized industry training standards developed by Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) and National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation (NATEF) have on the...
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    Dissertation
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    consistent with business and industry practice is a major challenge for vocational education” (p. 1). An

  • A study of adult student learning strategies for a web based teacher licensure program

    Creator:
    Twomey, Sylvia Mary
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    The purpose of this study was to understand how adult learners in an online teacher licensure program selected and used learning strategies, transformed existing strategies or developed new strategies. Also examined was whether the environment itself facilitated or impeded usage of transformed strategies, or development of new strategies. Participants in...
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    Dissertation
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    Philosophy in Education on May 4, 2000. Title: A Study of Adult Student Learning Strategies for a Web Based

  • Working together for student success: cross-functional collaboration at community colleges

    Creator:
    Loveday, Joyce E.
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    The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the underlying mechanisms within community colleges that influence cross-functional collaboration. The study also explored the role of community college leadership in fostering internal collaboration. The following questions guided the research: (1) What does cross-functional collaboration look like at a community...
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    Dissertation
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    Education presented on September 21, 2009. Title: Working Together for Student Success: Cross

  • Una Perspectiva Etnica de la Sociedad Americana

    Creator:
    Perez, Alfred F.
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    The existence of the ethnic "barrios" (ghettos) across American society is proof of the legacy of racism, injustice and inequality in society today. In this thesis, the human experiences of Native, African, Mexican, and Asian people, are presented to contradict the notion that the "American Dream" is for all. In...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Studies, and Education presented on June 7. 2004 Title: Una Perspectiva Etnica de la Sociedad Americana

  • Research mentorship in counselor education

    Creator:
    Briggs, Cynthia A. (Cynthia Ann)
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    Research mentorship is a new construct emerging in the literature, but remains inadequately defined and scarcely researched. This topic is of relevance to counselor education because of the paucity of literature on the topic, and because of our professional commitments to diversity, wellness, and scholarship. Effective mentorship has been shown...
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    Dissertation

  • Congruence between student and adviser perceptions of academic advising

    Creator:
    Bingham, Lisa M.
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    The purpose of this study was to assess the congruence of perceptions of academic advising between students and advisers. Seventeen tasks involved in developmental academic advising were identified from a review of current academic advising literature. These criteria became the basis of a questionnaire that asked students whether their adviser...
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    Masters Thesis
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    the United States. After assigning each academic major into one combination of the six vocational

  • Social and learning strategies male community college students use to maximize learning from cooperative work experiences

    Creator:
    Risser, Edward M.
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    Employers often lament that many American workers are not qualified for present and future jobs due to changing skills requirements and deficiencies of schools. In 1991, the Secretary of Labor's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) report recommended educators use work sites to help students achieve foundation skills and workplace...
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    Dissertation
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    Doctor of Education presented on May 1, 2001. Title: Social and Learning Strategies Male Community

  • Food safety knowledge and continuing education interests of hospital foodservice managers

    Creator:
    Ramsay, Jean D.
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    Hospital patients are at high risk for foodborne illness; it is essential that hospital foodservice managers know food safety principles. The purpose of this research was to assess the basic food safety knowledge of hospital foodservice managers and to determine their interest in continuing education related to food safety. A...
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    acute care hospitals in every state in the United States except Delaware, Idaho, and Vermont. This

  • Responsible pedagogy : (re)framing contemporary educational theory and American cultural politics

    Creator:
    Rust, Stephen
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    Responsible Pedagogy is examination of contemporary education in the United States. Responsible educators are dedicated to being representative, responsive, and respectful. These three principles guide the best teaching and learning that are taking place in classrooms across the country. Launched in 2003, Shakespeare in American Communities is the most ambitious...
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    Pedagogy is examination of contemporary education in the United States. Responsible educators are

  • Academic achievement trajectories of adolescents from Mexican and East Asian immigrant families

    Creator:
    Jeong, Yu Jin
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    Academic achievement of adolescent children is directly associated with their success in adulthood. Little is known, however, regarding how adolescents in immigrant families academically grow over time and what factors influence the trajectories. Drawing on the National Educational Longitudinal Survey 1988 (NELS: 88), this study aimed to: 1) identify the...
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    DISSERTATION submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the