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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

Generative evaluation of instruction in an Honors College, using small group instructional diagnosis : more than dots on a page

Creator:: Ringle, Judith Ann
Abstract:: Instruction in a University Honors College was evaluated using Small Group Instructional Diagnosis (SGID), a qualitative evaluation process. Fifty-one class sections were evaluated over a three-year period to determine what worked to help students learn, what did not work, and suggestions for improvement. Seven instructors used both SGID and an...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: cumulative and cooperative. . . . The UHC recognizes that personal initiative is essential for a meaningful

Life on the plains of the Pacific : Oregon, its history, condition and prospects, containing a description of the geography, climate and productions with personal adventures among the Indians during a residence of the author on the plains bordering the Pacific while connected with the Oregon Mission, embracing extended notes of a voyage around the world

Creator:: Hines, Gustavus, 1809-1873
Abstract:: Gerald W. Williams Collection
Resource Type:: Book

Expressions of modernity in rural Pakistan : searching for emic perspectives

Creator:: Niazi, Amarah
Abstract:: This dissertation examines women's lives in a rapidly urbanizing rural community in Southern Pakistan to understand their responses to modernity in developing societies. Applying a mixed-methods approach, socio-demographic data is collected and contrasted with oral history and personal narratives to analyze social change through women's access to education and reproductive...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

An adult education program for Orissa, India

Creator:: Osgood, William Cyril
Resource Type:: Dissertation

An Interdisciplinary Agent-based Evacuation Modeling Framework: Seeking Convergence of Social, Natural, and Engineered Systems to Improve Life Safety in the Cascadia Subduction Zone

Creator:: Chen, Chen
Abstract:: Social scientists have studied people's responses to disasters for many decades, and behavioral commonalities and variations are summarized in different mental schemes/models in disaster studies. Integrating those findings from social science into evacuation simulation can improve simulation accuracy and eventually better support decision-making and disaster preparedness. However, this kind of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creation of an Initial Course and Curriculum Overview for a Positive Youth Development Certificate

Creator:: Pugh, Kiley M.
Abstract:: Positive Youth Development (PYD) is both a set of outcomes and a program model that serves to support youth in building healthy relationships with adults and developing the strengths necessary for healthy adulthood. It centers around the 5 C’s of compassion, character, competence, confidence, and connection, which lead to a...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: -to-keep-kids-off-streets/5236330/. King, A. (1993). From sage on the stage to guide on the side

Extension orientations toward poverty : bootstrap, culture of poverty, systemic : an empirical study

Creator:: Fletcher, Roger LeRoy
Abstract:: This study describes Extension field staff orientations toward poverty. Expressions on origins, solutions and definitions of poverty were elicited from informants. Responses were then classified by categories, coded and analyzed using the Statistical Interactive Programming System (SIPS). Orientations were then measured by identifying modal categories. A category was identified as...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The role and function of physical education and sport in the nation building of Thailand

Creator:: Tapsuwan, Sakchye
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate physical education and sport in Thailand and, based upon expert opinion, to develop a blueprint of physical education and sport for the nation building of Thailand. The investigation concentrated on the history, role and function, purpose of governmental involvement, and future prospects...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Neighborhood emergency networks in Uzhhorod, Ukraine and Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A. : women's neighborhood network and Linn-Benton neighborhood emergency training

Creator:: Weidner, Naomi
Abstract:: This thesis examines two neighborhood emergency preparedness programs: the Linn-Benton Neighborhood Emergency Training (LB NET) program in Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A., and the Women's Neighborhood Networking Program (WNNP) in Uzhhorod, Ukraine. In Corvallis, the LB NET began in 1996, in part out of concerns that in a large disaster the local...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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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

Generative evaluation of instruction in an Honors College, using small group instructional diagnosis : more than dots on a page

Expressions of modernity in rural Pakistan : searching for emic perspectives

An adult education program for Orissa, India

An Interdisciplinary Agent-based Evacuation Modeling Framework: Seeking Convergence of Social, Natural, and Engineered Systems to Improve Life Safety in the Cascadia Subduction Zone

Creation of an Initial Course and Curriculum Overview for a Positive Youth Development Certificate

Extension orientations toward poverty : bootstrap, culture of poverty, systemic : an empirical study

The role and function of physical education and sport in the nation building of Thailand

Neighborhood emergency networks in Uzhhorod, Ukraine and Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A. : women's neighborhood network and Linn-Benton neighborhood emergency training

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