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The re-discovery of soul and reclamation of spirit anew : the influence of spirituality on the persistence of Mexican American Chicana (o) community college transfer students at a small liberal arts university

Creator:: Rasca-Hidalgo, Leo
Abstract:: Low completion rates have created serious "leakage points" (Astin, 1988) and "severe hemorrhaging" (Lango, 1996) in higher education to a large number of Hispanics. Traditional research on college persistence, which has blamed the students' culture for low performance, is inaccurate. Little research has specifically investigated academic persistence from a cultural...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: thank him for being a colleague and faithful friend. Equally important are a cadre of persons who have

Cultural appropriateness in education and development : the case of the 4-H Yukon River Fisheries Education and Youth Development Program

Creator:: Marcey, Jean L.
Abstract:: The 4-H Yukon River Fisheries Education and Youth Development Program is a federally funded youth-at-risk program created to help youth escape from the social ills of substance abuse, teen pregnancy, low academic achievement, and suicide that plague rural Alaskan villages. By providing youth the opportunity to learn the skills needed...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: relative and to give public recognition to the person or persons who were of most help at the time of

The effectiveness of culture-free tests in measuring the intellectual characteristics of German immigrants to Canada

Creator:: Ellis, Edward Norman
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: this research, communications were exchanged with the following persons: Dr. A. Schwarslose, Berlin

The relationship of personal factors and reading performance to academic achievement of selected Oregon State College students

Creator:: Eppley, Mary Vineita
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: problem (s) to gain insights for problem solving in a person to person communication relationship between

Wholistic primary education : investigation and development of an integrated curriculum model

Creator:: Beyer, Elmira K.
Abstract:: A five year longitudinal study was begun in 1976 to find a solution to the problem of early primary children who fail in school and then adopt the failure syndrome. The study was conducted in four elementary schools in Oregon which had distinctly different socio-economic populations. The tests used for...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the brain for complete understanding. This mode of presentation follows the concept that a person

Identifying knowledge and attitudes toward sexual expression among selected 65 to 74 year olds, utilizing a structured interview

Creator:: Smith, Margaret M. (Margaret Mary), 1942-
Abstract:: The two major purposes of this study were to gather data relative to the knowledge and attitudes toward sexual expression among sixty-five to seventy-four year olds and to determine whether or not significant differences existed between the sexes. The study focused on six research questions: These were: 1. Do older...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Variables Which May Influence Present Sexual Expression in Older Persons 3 2. Distribution of Ages of

The development of a performance-based adult high school diploma program at Linn Benton Community College : a case study

Creator:: Johnson, Jerome Alfred
Abstract:: The purpose of this case study was to describe the development of an adult high school diploma program at Linn Benton Community College, Specifically, the purposes of this study are: (1) the creation of an instructional approach utilizing performance objectives as a means of satisfying the minimum adult high school...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the lack of this document is a severe handicap, 2 For the majority of persons lacking the diploma

The readability of selected fourth, fifth and sixth grade social studies textbooks as determined by the Fry Readability Graph and group informal reading inventories

Creator:: Pruitt, Janet Louise McCracken, 1930-
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine the readability of three series of selected fourth, fifth and sixth grade social studies textbooks, a total of nine textbooks. Two measurements were utilized: a readability formula (Fry Readability Graph; Knapp, 1971), and group informal reading inventories. The Fry Graph was applied...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: interests of the person doing the reading. Gilliland (1972) pro- posed that text and student be assessed

The effect of a perceptual-motor physical education program on reading achievement in grade one

Creator:: Shaw, Joan S.
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Research on the Effect of Perceptual-Motor Training on Academic Achievement Authors such as Piaget, Hunt

A comparison of three approaches to vocabulary improvement in ninth grade language arts : an experimental study

Creator:: Hammack, Mary Lorraine, 1922-
Abstract:: This study compared three approaches to the improvement of vocabulary in ninth grade language arts classes: the direct-teaching approach, the interest-in-words approach, and the wide-reading approach. Answers to the following questions were sought: which of these approaches to vocabulary improvement is more effective than each other approach used in this...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: particular person or group of persons. One could conclude that use of the term vocabulary is equated with

ScholarsArchive@OSU

The re-discovery of soul and reclamation of spirit anew : the influence of spirituality on the persistence of Mexican American Chicana (o) community college transfer students at a small liberal arts university

Cultural appropriateness in education and development : the case of the 4-H Yukon River Fisheries Education and Youth Development Program

The effectiveness of culture-free tests in measuring the intellectual characteristics of German immigrants to Canada

The relationship of personal factors and reading performance to academic achievement of selected Oregon State College students

Wholistic primary education : investigation and development of an integrated curriculum model

Identifying knowledge and attitudes toward sexual expression among selected 65 to 74 year olds, utilizing a structured interview

The development of a performance-based adult high school diploma program at Linn Benton Community College : a case study

The readability of selected fourth, fifth and sixth grade social studies textbooks as determined by the Fry Readability Graph and group informal reading inventories

The effect of a perceptual-motor physical education program on reading achievement in grade one

A comparison of three approaches to vocabulary improvement in ninth grade language arts : an experimental study

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