The purpose of this research study is to investigate and gain understanding of the factors contributing to development of the Center for Advanced Learning (CAL), a regional collaborative educational reform project and the partnerships that emerged from that process. The development process and partnerships are examined from a systems thinking...
This study Is a rhetorical analysis of ten documents of Joseph
Smith, Jr's. early revelations spanning the period of 1829 to 1831
to determine the extent to which he used demagogic rhetoric in pursuit
of his goals. A definition of demagoguery is provided and is
applied in an analysis of...
The Purpose of the Study
The overall purposes of this study were: (1) to identify and
analyze the attitudes of the school board members, vocational
teachers, non-vocational teachers, school administrators and career
education administrators toward career education; (2) to identify and
analyze the attitudes of the above five personnel groups...
The major purpose of this study was to determine if
there were significant differences in the self-concepts of
vocational education teacher-trainees, non-vocational education
teacher trainees and non-education students at
Montana State University.
Two hundred students were surveyed to determine if
there were any differences in self-concepts based on
either major...
Purpose of the Study
The study was an examination of the effect of utilizing the
DECA Merit Awards Program (MAP) materials on high school
distributive education student interest levels toward careers in
marketing. It compared three groups of high school distributive
education students who used MAP with three groups who...
Although the rate of social and technological change seems to be
growing ever faster, and such changes are reflected in new directions
for vocational education, the process of developing vocational programs
in keeping with probable future contingencies remains
unformalized. The purpose of this study was to examine the practicality
of...
The purpose of this study was to gather participant/ campus data, and to measure morale and teaching faculty participation in institutional governance on the 107 California public community college campuses to determine if collective bargaining faculty have statistically higher or lower morale and greater or lesser participation in institutional governance....
The purpose of this study was to investigate the interrelationships
between loneliness, college academic achievement, and locus of
control. The sample consisted of 97 subjects who were randomly selected
from those students living in the residence hall system at Oregon
State University.
Five null hypotheses were tested:
1. There is...
Purpose of the Study
The purpose of the study was to determine whether there were significant
statistical differences in achievement between first-grade students
taught mathematics by male teachers as compared to first-grade students
taught mathematics by female teachers. A substantive hypothesis was
formed, which stated: "This writer hypothesizes that mean-gain...