Results of recent studies on Piagetian cognitive development,
though equivocal, showed that the architectonic of formal operational
schemata is not possessed by a sizeable percentage (up to 52%) of adolescents
and young adults. The purpose of the present study is two
fold: (i) To assess the cognitive levels of a...
One purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable instrument based on the Oregon Personal Finance Education Guide which would measure teacher competency in consumer education/economics/ personal finance. A second purpose of this study was to assess the level of competency possessed by persons teaching consumer education/...
The Beat Generation was an American counter-culture movement in the 1950's. Comprised of nomadic writers, poets, actors, musicians, and artists, the Beat movement represented no systematic philosophy and its most distinguishing characteristic was its apolitical disengagement from society. The Beats offered no substantive alternatives to the existing social order, but...
The purpose of this study was to determine if a relationship
exists between a Competency Index Score and the following: educational
background, professional attitudes toward the changing role of the
pharmacist, participation in continuing pharmaceutical education,
and various demographic and miscellaneous characteristics.
A mail questionnaire was sent to a random...
Purpose of the Study
This exploratory study examined whether nontraditional career role
(female) teachers in vocational agriculture differ significantly from
traditional career role (male) teachers in vocational agriculture on
perceived (a) events in career choice, (b) work satisfaction, and (c)
future career plans.
The Procedure
A survey instrument was developed,...
The issues featured in this study are the vulnerability to inflation of several depreciation methods allowed by the Internal Revenue Service (straight-line, sum-of-the years and declining balance), possible consequences when depreciation allowances are based on historical cost and are not updated to price level changes, two proposals under national consideration...
The principles of justice developed by John Rawls and
articulated in his work A Theory of Justice, published in 1971, were
used as the evaluative tool in assessing health care distribution in
the United States. A model for using Rawls' theory was developed
emphasizing the role of the 'least advantaged'...
Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of university cooperative education coordinators regarding the importance of tasks identified by cooperative education experts as being critical to the operation of university programs. The study was also concerned with coordinators' preferences regarding the organizational formats...
My teaching experiences raised questions about the nature of literacy,
especially about its relationship with education and schooling. Common
sense, straightforward definitions of literacy failed to address those questions
adequately, and that inadequacy led to the study which culminates in this
thesis. In Pursuit of Literacy focuses on literacy in...
The increasing prevalence of marital breakdown in
the United States has been met by the proliferation of
premarital counseling programs in professional counseling
centers and churches. As increasing masses of couples turn
to premarital counseling to prevent future interpersonal
problems, and as communities and churches across the United
States deem...
Human beings are condemned to freedom, according to Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. Every individual creates his or her own identity according to choice. Because we choose ourselves, each individual is also completely responsible for his or her actions. This responsibility causes anguish that leads human beings to avoid their...
The objective of this study was to identify and investigate the
underlying basis for the increasing volume of U.S. imports of fishery
products from 1958-1969. It was recognized that many institutional
constraints contributed to the high marginal cost of domestic harvesting
which placed the United States at a comparative disadvantage...
This study seeks to estimate and compare tax burdens for hypothetical
families assumed to reside in each of the eleven contiguous
Western states--Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana,
Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The
estimates are made for a wide range of incomes--from $3,500 to
$50,000--in each state....
The objective of the study is to analyze empirically the demand
for hired farm labor and the elasticities of substitution of capital for
labor in the U.S., the Middle Atlantic region, the Pacific region, and
in the states of California and Oregon.
The data period 1941-1969 was analyzed for the...
The U.S. white wheat industry relies heavily on export markets.
Since the early 1960s these markets have been geographically concentrated
in a few countries in Asia. This suggests that developments
in a few Asian countries may significantly affect the prospects for
U.S. white wheat exports and thereby the economic well...
The principal objective of the study was first to
present a historical discussion of foreign and domestic
trade in canned salmon in the United States and Canada, and
secondly, to estimate the ex-vessel derived demand characteristics
for red and pink salmon facing the fishermen in both
countries. Secondary sources were...
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Published October 1974. Fourth reprinting August 1979. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Published June 1944. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Literature has often misrepresented Natives and women. I involved Native Women in researching and
editing my novel to fairly and accurately represent them. in open-ended interviews they described their
experiences of nature, enjoyment, and discrimination as well as their critiques of the novel itself.
Descriptions were of discrimination as perceived...
The study was conducted to obtain information concerning the factors affecting the differences in the marginal propensities to consume of farm and nonfarm families observed by Friedman and Lee
and Phillips. As a first step a theoretical framework was developed which indicated the factors affecting the marginal propensity to consume....
This study expresses the hypothesis that historical patterns of national beef cow herd accumulation and liquidations (the cattle cycle) have been related to investment incentive differences across cow ages through time, resulting each year in changes in herd age structure,
performance and potentials for adjustment in subsequent years. A review...
Over the last two decades the Republic of Korea (South Korea) has become an increasingly important market for U.S. wheat. It is now a particularly important market for white wheat produced in the Pacific Northwest. This bulletin tracks the history of U.S.-Korean trade in wheat. It describes the Korean wheat...
During the First World War, the need to secure a domestic supply
of nitrate compounds necessary to the manufacture of explosives caused
the federal government to undertake an extensive program of research
and development of industrial nitrogen fixation processes. These
government activities were to have far-reaching consequences for the
development...
Published October 2001. Declared out of print June 2009. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the underlying mechanisms within community colleges that influence cross-functional collaboration. The study also explored the role of community college leadership in fostering internal collaboration. The following questions guided the research: (1) What does cross-functional collaboration look like at a community...
Scandinavian textiles have played an important part in the family life of the Nordic people. During the evenings, members of a family worked on textiles and wove colors and designs of the countryside and of the family life into their fabrics. Traditional motifs, techniques, and color combinations were developed and...
"Cadastral surveys are performed to create, mark, and define, or to retrace the
boundaries between abutting land owners, and, more particularly, between land of the
Federal Government and private owners or local governments. As referred to here,
cadastral surveys were performed only by the General Land Office during its existence...