The purpose of this study was to determine if
students' school-related attitudes are significantly
affected by teacher classroom discipline management based
upon concepts contained in Judicious Discipline: A Constitutional
Perspective for School Rules (Gathercoal, 1986).
The data relative to student school-related attitudes
of elementary, middle, and high school students toward...
The purpose of this phenomenological study is to describe how Oregon governors
Barbara Roberts and John Kitzhaber, whose tenures both coincided with the passage
and implementation of property tax limitation measures, determined the community
college budgets within their recommended state budgets. The stories of Robert’s 1993
and Kitzhaber’s 2001 decisions...
The major purpose of this study was to develop an Adaptation
Model for emergency departments in urban and suburban Health
Maintenance Organizations. Questions explored which provided data
for the Model were: 1) are there significant differences in the
demographic, sociologic, and decision-making characteristics of
clients seeking services in emergency rooms...
The primary purpose of this study was the identification of
specific medicine education learning outcomes which are important
and appropriate for ambulatory, non-institutionalized older adults.
A modification of the Delphi technique was utilized and a panel
of 16 national experts was selected on the basis of four criteria to
respond...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of deferring formal fraternity
and sorority rush upon scholastic achievement, levels of satisfaction, and quality
and quantity of involvement among students at a small, private liberal arts university.
It has been suggested that timing of rush may exercise an impact...
The two-fold purpose of this study is (1) to determine
differences in perception of counseling and guidance needs
between community college bound high school seniors,
community college counselors, and chief student services
administrators, and (2) to establish the nature and priority
of counseling and guidance needs of community college bound...
The antiquity of the Northwest Coast Indian pole is the subject
of a great deal of controversy. A few viewpoints referring to that
topic are given. The symbolic value of the Kwakiutl totem pole is
examined with respect to art, style and culture; more generally
"primitive" art is considered as...
Organization theory had seldom been applied to higher education
organizations but recent developments in organization theory appeared
to have potential for such application. No coherent theory of
educational change had been developed. However, one multidisciplinary
synthesis of literature on organizational change was congruent with
modern organization theory and contained both...