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  • Women engineering transfer students : the community college experience

    Creator:
    Patterson, Susan J.
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    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...
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    the degree of Doctor of Education presented on November 9, 2011. Title: Women Engineering Transfer

  • The interrelationship between academic achievement of college freshmen women and measures of anxiety and ability

    Creator:
    Stutler, Douglas L.
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    The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between a measure of anxiety and academic achievement of freshmen women enrolled in the University of Northern Colorado (U.N.C.). One thousand and eighty women, eighty-seven percent of the freshmen women, were included in this study. All subjects completed the American...
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  • The relationship of locus of control to career development in college engineering students

    Creator:
    Flynn, Cynthia A.
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    The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between career development and locus of control as they relate to barriers encountered in career development. The sample included 144 students in the engineering program at Oregon State University. The Rotter Internal- External Scale and the Career Development Inventory (Form...
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    in college engineering students AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Cynthia A. Flynn for the degree of

  • College women, alcohol consumption, and negative sexual outcomes

    Creator:
    Good, Debora L.
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    While it is generally assumed that alcohol consumption plays some role in the advent of negative sexual outcomes among college students (sexually transmitted diseases, unplanned pregnancies, and date rape), that role has not been empirically demonstrated or quantified. The purpose of this study was to assess the association of alcohol...
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    College women, alcohol consumption, and negative sexual

  • Factors that influence the selection of a traditionally female occupation by women in Oregon community colleges

    Creator:
    Dresser, Judy Riebli
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    The major question of this study was why do community college women choose traditional occupations? The study examined the characteristics of community college women who chose preparation for a traditional occupation either immediately after graduation from high school or after a period of absence for family responsibilities. The sample for...
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  • The culture of undergraduate computer science education : its role in promoting equity within the discipline

    Creator:
    Howell, Kathy
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    Although a concern for gender equity provided the framework for this research, the results of this study highlighted the fact that the question of equity should be broadened to include concern for the tier of talented women and men who currently choose not to persist in an undergraduate computer science...
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    equity should be broadened to include concern for the tier of talented women and men who currently

  • Moral dilemmas of bulimics and non-bulimics : a study of voice and self in eating disorders

    Creator:
    Wiggum, Candice Diehl
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    The central question of this study was to examine the moral orientation and the role of self in subject generated moral dilemmas for information on the developmental and cultural forces contributing to the etiology and maintenance of eating disorders in college women. The research was based on the theories of...
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    cultural forces contributing to the etiology and maintenance of eating disorders in college women. The

  • The lived experience of women student mentors

    Creator:
    Rennick, Vikki
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    This is a phenomenological research study of the lived experience of women student mentors at one community college located in an urban setting on the West Coast. The study participants were women students who served as mentors to other women at the community college who are participants in a returning...
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    of Women Student Mentors. Abstract approved: Rich Shintaku This is a phenomenological research

  • Latina student perceptions of learning communities

    Creator:
    Yaqub, Samia
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    The purpose of this study is to examine the learning that occurs in Latina students who enroll in learning communities designed for underprepared community college students. The research question guiding this study is: What are the experiences of Latina students enrolled in developmental learning community courses which have the greatest...
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    , 2010 Title: Latina Student Perceptions of Learning Communities Abstract approved

  • Social capital in engineering education

    Creator:
    Brown, Shane
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    A theoretical argument is presented to suggest that engineering curriculum be designed to develop social capital. Additionally, the value of social capital in the retention of students in the College of Engineering, and the development, role, and value of social capital in an electrical engineering laboratory is evaluated. Data collected...
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    ................................................................................................. 33 Chapter 3 Student Social Capital and Retention in the College of Engineering ............ 35