PURPOSE: The purpose of the study was to identify a set of core competencies needed to meet the minimal requirements for high school graduation and to test their level of acceptance by administrators, counselors, teachers and parents in 50 Oregon secondary school districts. PROCEDURES: Utilizing the 1136 existing graduation competencies...
Transferrin of Columbian black-tailed deer (Odocoileus
hemionus columbianus) displayed two types of polymorphism. One
type involved differences in sialic acid content. The nature of the
other polymorphism is not known. A hypothesis for three codominant
alleles at a common locus was proposed and tested by using the
Hardy-Weinberg Principle. The...
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships and the differences between the self-concept and the coping
behavior of two selected groups of graduate students namely, foreign-born
Asians and American Caucasians who were enrolled in graduate
school of Oregon State University during the 1981-82 academic year.
The...
The study compares the differences in verbal responses between
39 Anglo-resident and 32 Anglo-migrant children in the first grade in
selected school districts in Oregon.
The children were tested for I. Q. using the Goodenough Draw-
A-Man test. They were grouped for comparison purposes by age,
sex, and by migrancy...
Esophageal fistulation, stomach content analysis, fecal analysis,
and ocular-estimate-by-plot are four of the most publicized methods
of determining the diets of large herbivores. The principal objective
of this study was to compare the relative values of each of these
methods based upon information collected from bi-fistulated (esophageal
and rumen) sheep...
This paper examines the constitution of 'sustainable management' within the context of the New Zealand marine environment. Firstly this paper examines the difference between 'sustainable ecosystems' and 'sustainable utilisation'. The distinction is important if we are to make sense of the different ways in which various stakeholders (fishers, fisheries companies,...
The problem of this study was to develop and validate an instrument
that would measure vocational teacher trainees and practitioners'
attitudes toward handicapped learners. The item pool consisted
of 90 items which addressed three major dimensions of attitudes
toward handicapped vocational students: handicapping conditions,
characteristics of these conditions, and the...
This paper contends that stakeholders represent New Zealand fisheries through a sustainable fisheries imaginary. Stakeholders use the imaginary to legitimise sustainable utilisation. The imaginary is built using a series of calculative practices that constitute a measurement system (or metrology), that shape regimes of control. This imaginary is made manifest through...