There are three avenues of education to prepare students for board
examination leading to licensure as a registered nurse: diploma certificate,
associate degree, and baccalaureate degree. The baccalaureate
nursing programs are challenged to prepare students for acute care nursing,
community health nursing and leadership in nursing. Baccalaureate
nursing educators believe...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of the
Delphi Technique on two types of judgment; factual judgment and value
judgment. Other considerations were the effect of the process on
mean response and variability of response.
In testing the Delphi Technique this study arrived at five
definite...
Teachers and administrators spend many hours of work reviewing
the State of Oregon Guidelines and drafting district guidelines in an
attempt to make the process of evaluation positive and productive.
Most districts agree the primary purpose of evaluation should be for
the improvement of instruction.
The amended state law, ORS...
This study was designed to investigate a phenomenon, retention of Hispanic adult second language learners in Washington State's community colleges, from a qualitative paradigm and phenomenological approach. The focus of this study was to capture eight foreign-born Hispanic ESL non-continuators' voices and experiences, in their native language of Spanish, who...
The purpose of this study is to name and give voice to the spiritual expression of leadership by women community college presidents. The following questions guided the research: (1) How do women community college presidents describe spirituality? (2) How does spirituality convey itself in the reflections, self-expression, and practice of...
The purpose of this study was to identify the dry season
vegetable production sources of information, technical knowledge
base and needs of women farmers expressed by the women farmers
themselves in Ngabu Agricultural Development Division, Malawi,
Central Africa.
The objectives were to identify the following aspects of dry
season vegetable...