The topic of this study is the cultural impact of the computer in a school. "Impact" is 'defined as the cultural consequences of intended and unintended learning that occur when computers are used in the school. The major theoretical orientations of the work include the concepts of manifest and latent...
Post-secondary education institutions across the United States are increasingly allocating resources to promote international education exchange programs as a pedagogical praxis to develop students into global citizens. Underlying such notions of global citizenship is the assumption that students will also develop a stronger post-national or cosmopolitan identity as a result...
Learning disabled students in special education
programs have not been demonstrating equal achievement
gains in reading when compared to their non-handicapped
peers.
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects
of Accelerated Learning methods in teaching reading to ten
learning disabled middle school students in southwest
Washington.
Accelerated...
This study compared intensive corrective reading instruction
with less intensive corrective reading instruction at the community
college level: Group 1 students received 50 fifty- minutes of intensive
corrective reading instruction during ten weeks, while Group 2 students
received the same amount of corrective reading instruction
during 20 weeks. Reading instruction...
This study was designed to determine and compare the academic
experiences encountered by both American and foreign students in
master's and doctoral programs at Oregon State University in Winter
term, 1982. The findings of this study are meant to contribute to
the area of international education, by defining and describing...
The purpose of this study was to compare and evaluate personal
attitudes and perceptions, educational and vocational plans, activities
and satisfaction among students of two basic groups selected for the
study: a) financial aid recipients, b) non-financial aid recipients.
Subgroups in each category consisted of over-achievers and under-achievers.
Over-achievers were...
The goal of this research was to identify those program elements
and their levels of fulfillment in community college cooperative
education programs which are essential if the success of an employer's
contribution to a student's training is to be reasonably assured.
The primary purpose was to determine if statistically significant...
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The problem studied was whether there exist significant differences
between the perceived knowledge obtained by former secondary
cooperative work experience students as compared to the instructional
goals and objectives of these programs as identified by the Oregon
State Department of Education.
THE PROCEDURE
The problem as...
The purpose of this research was to determine if significant
differences existed in college performance and in selected areas of
attitude and opinion between male upperclassmen residing in fraternities
and non-fraternity male upperclassmen living in residence
halls.
Two samples consisting of (a) 86 upperclassmen from the residence
halls and (b)...
This study was concerned with determining if: (1) the
effectiveness of residence hall student government varies according to
the perceptions of its role held by residence hall student staff and
government officers, and the hall type and population; (2) the
perception of hall student government held by student staff varies...