The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate Oregon public high school history teacher perspectives concerning standards-based reform initiatives springing from the No Child Left Behind legislation. The central question addressed in this study is: At what level has Standards-Based Education reform initiatives impacted Oregon high school history instruction and...
This study was conducted to develop a statistical model of the influence of
course characteristics on student ratings of instruction. Unique to this study was
the inclusion of the student participation rate as a variable. Other course
characteristics studied were: expected grade, attendance, grade point average,
sex of students, reason...
This study examined the impact of a Sex Education Workshop on mothers' responses to their children's sexual questions and behaviors Subjects included 88 mothers equally divided into experimental and control groups. Experimental and control groups consisted of an equal number of mothers from high and low socioeconomic levels. Furthermore, an...
The purpose of this research was to determine the effects of a
college human sexuality course upon sex knowledge, attitudes toward
sexual behaviors of non-significant others, and attitudes toward the
sexual behaviors of self and spouse. In addition, the study sought to
investigate the relationship between knowledge gain and attitude...
This thesis presents our investigation of the problem of creating an intelligent tutor for solving algebra word problems that employs effective pedagogy. Among our major concerns are the problems of sufficient knowledge and proper knowledge organization. From student protocols and test papers, we derived sets of general purpose strategic rules...
The purpose of this study was to contrast the effectiveness of
computer-assisted ear-training instruction with the traditional style
of ear-training instruction to determine if computer-assisted instruction
increased the students' ability to identify auditory stimuli utilized
in Basic Musicianship at a rate different from that of the traditional
methodology.
Procedures
The...
The purposes of this study were: to collect information relative
to the content of the sex education information adolescents have received
from selected sources, to ascertain their appraisal of the
value of this information and to test hypotheses concerning communication
and dissemination of information on sexual topics between
adults and...
A key aspect of how we understand the world revolves around an ability to
manipulate our surroundings to experiment. From the scientific method through
theories of child development, the ability to experiment is deemed critical; however,
few studies have been performed to understand the strengths and weaknesses of
different experimental...
The hypotheses of this study stated the following:
Interaction with the computer game will significantly
increase the class means in: (1) mathematical
achievement, (2) attitudes toward mathematics, and (3)
graphing ability in high school advanced algebra.
ALGEBRA ARCADE is a computerized simulation game
played on a coordinate grid. One can...