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...
Over the past twenty years, the national three-year graduation rate for community college students has ranged from 44% to roughly 31% in 2013 (NCES, 2013). As a way to address such low graduation rates, colleges have implemented a myriad of services and programs (i.e., tutoring, mentoring, etc.). Another intervention is...
Purpose of the Study
The study was designed to determine whether the amount of
formal education industrial education teachers have completed does
affect their (1) attitude toward teaching and (2) performance in the
classroom. The specific questions formulated to investigate this research
were:
1. Will the amount of formal education...
Recent trends in higher education have led to the development of
alternatives to traditional on-campus graduate degree programs. There is a
concomitant need to understand student experience in field-based programs
which support continuing education and career development for employed
adults. The central purpose of this research was to explore the...
Purpose of the Study
The purposes of this study were to (1) identify the educational
and socioeconomic characteristics of Latin American students who
have graduated from the California State College system, (2) to identify
those characteristics which significantly affect academic success,
utilization of training and return home to Latin America...
Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this study was to determine and analyze criteria
and procedures used in the selection of occupational advisory committee
members in Oregon community colleges. The existence of a
common core of criteria and procedures for selecting occupational
advisory committee members was investigated. Further, the...
The influence of boundary layer pumping on an externally-forced
synoptic-scale flow is examined. The results follow earlier theories of
stratified incompressible Boussinesq flow. These theories state that
the spin-down time scale and the penetration depth of the influence of
boundary layer pumping are inversely proportional to the stratification
and directly...
Purposes of the Study The study had several purposes, the major one being to
determine the common professional education competencies needed by
community college instructors of trade and industrial education. Two
other purposes of the study were to determine if differences existed
among community colleges according to scores trade and...
The study was designed to determine if students using the individualized
instruction method, scored significantly higher on a 30 question
achievement test than did students in more traditional group paced
programs. The study also attempted to determine if attitudes displayed
by educators, as measured on an attitude scale, aided in...