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  • Exploring resilience in the lives of women leaders in early childhood health, human services, and education

    Creator:
    Turner, Susan Diane
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    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...
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    Dissertation
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    DISSERTATION OF Susan Diane Turner for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education presented

  • "Playing with computers" : the hidden impact of the computer in a school

    Creator:
    Turner, Martha I.
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    The topic of this study is the cultural impact of the computer in a school. "Impact" is 'defined as the cultural consequences of intended and unintended learning that occur when computers are used in the school. The major theoretical orientations of the work include the concepts of manifest and latent...
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    computer in a school AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Martha I. Turner for the degree of Doctor of

  • An historical review of Kolb's formulation of experiential learning theory

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    Hickcox, Leslie K. (Leslie Kay), 1951-
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    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...
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    Dissertation
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    purposes of this study were to review the historical sources of David Kolb's formulation of experien

  • Attitudes of college students toward developmentally disabled peers

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    Turner, Robert W. (Robert William), 1952-
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    The central purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes of non-disabled college students toward their developmentally disabled peers attending the same college. Specifically, it examined the attitudes of non-disabled students toward the developmentally disabled students in the Transitional/Vocational Program the Fairview campus of Fairview College, Alberta, Canada. Objectives...
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    disabled peers AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Robert W. Turner for the degree of Doctor of Education in

  • A descriptive study of Oregon schools/school districts to investigate how they planned to implement Oregon Administrative Rule 581-22-413

    Creator:
    Denevan, James P.
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    The purpose of this study was to investigate how schools/school districts plan to implement Oregon Administrative Rule 581-22-413, specifically: (1) How schools plan to integrate alcohol and drug abuse prevention into the Comprehensive Health Program. (2) How schools plan for age appropriate annual instruction at the senior high level. (3)...
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    Dissertation
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    OF James P. Denevan for the degree of Doctor of Education in Education presented on July 12, 1990

  • A study to assess the knowledge about AIDS held by mental health counselors

    Creator:
    Turner, Micki
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    The purposes of this study were to assess mental health counselors' knowledge of AIDS and to determine the effect of various independent variables upon knowledge. The variables used were gender, professional contact with PWAs, personal contact with PWAs, age, sexual preference, AIDS training, and personal acquaintance with a person who...
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    health counselors AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Micki Turner for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

  • Identification of realistic learning activities for attaining FHA/HERO goals in home economics classrooms

    Creator:
    Buckovic, Nancy Jo
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    The purpose of this study was to identify learning activities that were both Future Homemakers of America/Home Economics Related Occupations goal-related and realistic for use in the home economics classroom. The hypothesis tested was: there is no significant difference between mean scores of individual learning activities related to FHA/HERO goals...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Turner and Dr. Sylvia Lee for their assistance in serving as committee members. Gratitude is extended

  • Development of an attitude scale for personal health

    Creator:
    Nichols, Stephen P.
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    The purposes of this study were to construct a Likert scale to measure the attitudes of individuals toward their personal health, then to establish the reliability and validity of the scale. A 22 item scale was developed from computer part whole analysis of 100 random items written and edited by...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Stephen P. Nichols for the degree of Doctor of Education in Education presented

  • Influences of a career curriculum on changes in vocational interests of mildly handicapped high school students

    Creator:
    Koval, David P.
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    The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a course of study developed at the University of Washington to provide a career education class at the beginning of the high school experience for special education students who are mildly handicapped in Tacoma Public Schools. The problem was...
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    vocational interests of mildly handicapped high school students AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF David P

  • Who We Are and Will Be

    Creator:
    Jackson, Linda Carol, 1949-
    Abstract:
    The protagonists in the fiction of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison illuminate American cultural perceptions of black women and illustrate how the creators of these characters hope to change those perceptions. I studied Paule Marshall's Daughters, Alice Walker's Meridian and The Color Purple, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Education. Presented on April 1, 1994. Title: Who We Are and Will Be. Abstract approved: David Robinson