In education today, there is a growing sense of urgency to build the capacity of
educators, parents, and community members to work together to solve the complex issues
facing schools. The central purpose of this study was to explore how one elementary school
site council learned and adopted a set...
This study investigated the job satisfaction of
elementary school counselors in the Pacific Northwest,
defined as Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. The purpose of
the study was to (a) describe current elementary counselor
characteristics, duties and functions; (b) determine the
overall level of job satisfaction of elementary school
counselors; (c) investigate...
Under the auspices of a United Stated Department of Education National
Workplace Literacy Program grant, the Columbia-Willamette Skill Builders, a community
college consortium, developed a prototype workplace educator training program in 1994.
The Skill Builders workplace educator training program was 9 months long and offered 90
hours of instruction, including...
The purpose of this study is to explore the applicability of Collins’ (2001) Good-to-Great theory, as originally introduced for the business sector and as adapted for the social sector, to the ways a community college moved from being “good” to being
“great.” The following questions guided the research: (1) Which...
Purpose of the Study:
The purposes of this investigation were threefold:
1. To determine the areas of commonality existing in known
juvenile delinquents in Umatilla and Union Counties of Oregon.
2. To devise a test that would aid in identifying delinquency
tendencies in preadolescent children on the basis of areas...
The purpose of this study was to examine and compare the effectiveness
of two approaches in nutrition education instruction among culturally
diverse adolescents: the teacher-oriented lecture approach and the
student-oriented instructional design approach. The study was
designed to help culturally diverse students gain a basic
understanding of practices that promote...
The purpose of this research was to investigate the
effects of three levels of contextual interference on the
acquisition and retention of a sequential motor skill, by
moderately mentally retarded and nonretarded subjects. The
subjects were functioning between an eight and twelve year
level. The dependent measures included; Reaction Time...