This study was designed to determine whether individual
students at the eleventh grade level who were graded on a pass-fail
basis in United States History would show any difference in academic
achievement from those of a similar group marked by the traditional
ABCD-F letter-grade method. In addition, the study was...
The primary purpose of this study was to identify the
competencies essential for effective performance as a rural
public health sanitarian in developing countries. The need
to identify rural sanitarian competencies in developing
countries is closely related to the World Health Organization's
goal of "Health for all by the year...
The purposes of the study were twofold: (1) to compare selected
personality traits of male and female interscholastic and intercollegiate
athletic coaches with standardized norms for personality
traits established for all men and women, and (2) to compare personality
traits of interscholastic male and female athletic coaches with
the personality...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of a
labyrinthine dysfunction, with and without visual cues, on underwater
submergence. The subjects utilized were fifteen bilateral
neural deaf males, nine conductive deaf males and sixteen hearing
males. Following a series of pre-tests, administered to determine
balancing difficulties, each...
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...
The central purposes of this study were to review the
historical sources of David Kolb's formulation of experiential
learning theory, and to determine the effect and
application of Kolb's theory and Learning Style Inventory
as reflected in the literature between 1971 and 1990.
It was found that Kolb based his...
The purpose of this study was to give a fifty-nine year historical overview of the development of the state female juvenile institution, Hillcrest School of Oregon. The material covered in the study included state laws which had direct effect upon the programs at the school; the philosophies and goals of...
The purpose of this investigation was to compare the results of
two methods of gathering data on the stress of wheelchair propelling
at equivalent work loads and to account for differences in physiological
responses with a mechanical analysis of wheelchair propelling.
Physiological data collected were heart rate, systolic blood pressure,...