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...
This study examines educator perceptions related to what has been termed New-Union labor reforms. The study provides a review of literature related to teacher Unionization and details a mixed methods analysis of educator beliefs related to three specific labor reforms: (a) alternative salary structures, (b) collaborative, or interest based bargaining...
Materials concerning ethnic and minority groups are a concern
for many curriculum leaders. Inappropriate materials perpetuate
stereotypes, in many cases due to a lack of study concerning the
information within the materials. The materials concerning Native
Americans typically presented in public school classrooms tend to
overgeneralize information about the cultural...
The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of
teaching high school health by team teaching and traditional teaching
methods. For this study 114 second-semester sophomore health
students from Centennial High School in Gresham, Oregon were
used, distributed in three health classes as a control group, utilizing
traditional...
Problem
While the primary emphasis of this study was on the professional
aspects of a business teacher's preparation, by necessity it was
concerned with other aspects of the preparation of business teachers,
especially as these relate to the so-called "professional sequence."
Thus the purpose of the study was to seek...
Problem: The primary purpose of this study was to investigate interactions
between learner characteristics and instructional settings and their
affect on retention of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR.) competency..
An effort was made to determine if college students identified as
Independent or Dependent-Conforming learners interacted with traditional
or self-instructional CPR educational modes....
This is an interdisciplinary study combining the areas of
Sociology, Religious Studies, and Adult and Community Education.
Drawing from these disciplines, an investigation was made into
the religious and socio-economic variables of development and
their relation to family planning policies in the Muslim world.
The primary focus in this study...