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  • Changing student learning approaches in fundamental accounting education through the use of graphic organizers

    Creator:
    Fisher, Paul A.
    Abstract:
    The field of accounting has experienced dramatic changes in the past 20 years. Advances in technology and workplace requirements have changed the responsibilities in the accounting position of a historical recorder to a functioning manager within the organization. The curriculum used by accounting instructors has not changed or kept pace...
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    Dissertation
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    understand that my dissertation will become part of the permanent collection of Oregon State University

  • Experiencing service-learning in prison

    Creator:
    Kopet, Julie G.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of incarcerated women who participated in a service-learning program to help the homeless. Service-learning is effective pedagogy for involving students in civic engagement, and their involvement has been shown to increase the self-esteem of participating college students....
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    Dissertation
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    permanent collection of Oregon State University libraries. My signature below authorizes release of my

  • Voices from the coast : drawing on family funds of knowledge to build ocean literacy and home school partnerships

    Creator:
    Roebber, Susan Merwin
    Abstract:
    In this qualitative study, ethnographic methods were used to identify parent funds of knowledge related to ocean literacy in a rural, coastal context. Participants included 16 parents of students in the teacher-researcher's third-grade classroom. Interactions between parent-child, parent-parent, and parent and the teacher-researcher were studied in order to determine factors...
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    Dissertation
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    permanent collection of Oregon State University libraries. My signature below authorizes release of my

  • Faculty perceptions of organizational climate for innovation at community colleges

    Creator:
    Batazhan, Tatyana
    Abstract:
    Higher education is faced with ever-increasing challenges, which require fundamental changes in order to ensure its relevance in the future. Business leaders and academic scholars urge organizations to continuously reshape and renew through learning and innovation to assure viability and sustainability. Organizational climate serves as a foundation that can promote...
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    Dissertation
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    A DISSERTATION submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the

  • Community leaders' perspectives of a rural community college's impact on community development

    Creator:
    Thomas, Reine M.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this qualitative research study was to examine the role a rural community college plays in the development of its community, using a holistic, community-based lens that considered college and community context, interactions and results to answer the question: How does the rural community college impact the development...
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    Dissertation
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    dissertation will become part of the permanent collection of Oregon State University libraries. My signature

  • The human spirit and higher education : landscapes of persistence in first generation students of color

    Creator:
    Valdez, Cristobal
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of first-generation persons of color attending and persisting at a community technical college. Students of color continue to be an increasing population in our higher education system. Many of these persons of color are choosing to attend two-year institutions. A...
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    Dissertation
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    permanent collection of Oregon State University libraries. My signature below authorizes release of my

  • Exploring how Secondary Agriculture Teachers Reconcile the Competing Demands of the Profession

    Creator:
    Traini, Haley Q.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of secondary agriculture teachers as they reconcile the competing demands of the profession in the social landscape of School-Based Agricultural Education. Previous literature about the agriculture teacher shortage problem revealed opportunities for research to utilize qualitative approaches and alternative...
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    Dissertation
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    DISSERTATION submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the

  • The Impact of Income Generating Programs at Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

    Creator:
    McDowell, Dylan
    Abstract:
    The newest pilot project at Tarangire National Park (TAR) is Income Generating Programs (IGP) where community groups organize themselves around an activity that earns income. TAR initiated the project by paying for ten members from each of the three existing community groups on the park’s northern end and fifteen members...
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    Honors College Thesis
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  • Family Sustainable Survival and the Advocacy Response Scale based on Rural Perspectives of Additives and Chemical Exposures

    Creator:
    Winterbourne, Amber H. S.
    Abstract:
    Learning is lifelong, life-wide and life-deep, meaning it happens anywhere, at any time (Banks, et al., 2007). The implications of learning with intent, is where “free choice learning” began (Falk and Dierking, 2002; 2010). Families play a vital role in developing an integrated curriculum including: rural anthropology (epigenetics, tribalism), Geosciences...
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    Masters Thesis
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    submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of