The purpose of this study was to assess the relative
involvement of four muscles - rectus abdominis, external
obliques, rectus femoris, and the lumbar region of
sacrospinalis - during performances of eight different
variations of the sit-up exercise. The sit-up variations
investigated were long-lying sit-ups with/without feet
support and hook-lying...
The appointment of interim community college presidents, the topic of this study, is a little understood phenomenon. A growing shortage of community college presidents coupled with a lack of replacements suggests the appointment of interims will continue well into the future. This study, with a purpose of looking at the...
An interpretative philosophical framework was applied to a case study to document the particular experiences and perspectives of ten women engineering transfer students
who once attended a community college and are currently enrolled in one of two university
professional engineering programs. This study is important because women still do not...
Women leaders in early childhood health, human services, and education face tremendous challenges in their efforts to cultivate resilience amidst a myriad of risk factors including incessant stress, low wages, and limited professional support. Women who foster mental health in young children and high-risk families are vulnerable to secondary traumatic...
In this qualitative study, ethnographic methods were used to identify parent funds of knowledge related to ocean literacy in a rural, coastal context. Participants included 16 parents of students in the teacher-researcher's third-grade classroom. Interactions between parent-child, parent-parent, and parent and the teacher-researcher were studied in order to determine factors...
The purpose of this research was to study the
effects of cerebral palsy on the ability to plan and
execute a gross motor movement, as measured by the
fractionation of Simple Reaction Time (SRT) into its
premotor (central) and motor (peripheral) components.
The experimental task required subjects (N = 10...
This qualitative study explores the experiences of women who are welfare
recipients attending a community college under the auspices of a new program,
Washington State's WorkFirst/Work Study program. The study, conducted over
two academic quarters, includes in-depth interviews with WorkFirst/Work Study
students, observations in a weekly seminar, and interviews with...
Research has established that poor outcomes are the future for those without a
high school diploma--yet students continue to drop out and become members of
that population. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the
experiences and perceptions of individuals who did not complete high school
within the...
The purpose of this study was to understand the individual experiences of four adult literacy practitioners, Anne, Bill, Candy, and Emily, in the first cohort of the Oregon Field-Based Cohort Master's Program. This program, which Oregon established in 1993 as one venue of professional development for adult literacy and English...
With over 800 languages spoken on the continent of
Africa, inter-cultural communication has always been difficult.
In addition, many of the peoples of Africa have
experienced colonial oppression. Various powers have
sought to interfere with intra-cultural dialogues and the
free flow of information. Their effectiveness, however,
was limited because of...