There were six major objectives of this study. The first was to
identify the common career education competencies that elementary
and/or junior high school teachers should have as they adopt and
utilize the concepts of career education. The second purpose was to
identify where, in the professional preparation of the...
Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this study was to determine if upper division,
undergraduate, elementary education students would demonstrate a
significant change in self-actualization as measured by the Personal
Orientation Inventory following instruction in five (5) communication
skills (paraphrasing, behavior description, description of own feelings,
perception checking, feedback...
The Purpose of the Study
The central purpose of this study was to identify the common
competency elements deemed necessary for entry-level vocational
certification and to develop these elements into groups that would
serve as a basis for use in an occupational competency test. Questions
to be answered from the...
This study, dealing with the concept of career education, was
undertaken to:
1) develop a multi-media career education component for Phase I
of the undergraduate teacher education program at Oregon State
University.
2) measure the effect of that component on selected students.
3) compare their responses with students who had...
The purpose of this study was to assist the development of an
improved technical teacher education program. Specifically, the
project sought to determine what, if any, factors in the backgrounds
of successful technical teachers may have accounted for their success
in teaching. To provide information to this end, the investigation...
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the factors which
influenced undergraduate students in the School of Education at Oregon
State University to select vocational teacher education as their
major. Data were collected from 315 vocational, practical arts, and
non-vocational undergraduate teacher education majors who were
enrolled in teacher...
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between technological changes in business and industry and vocational teacher in-service training. Data were collected from 134 vocational teachers from the nursing, welding, automotive, and secretarial technologies in 12 Oregon community colleges. Questionnaires were used to collect the data. Descriptive...