Home management is the planning, controlling and evaluating
of family resources to attain the goals of a family. Since making
decisions and relating them to each other is an important part of
planning, decision making is an essential part of home management.
The purpose of this study was to test...
In the educational wave that is sweeping our country from ocean to ocean, technical education is at its crest, and no phase is more popular than domestic science. Indeed it has such a hold upon public opinion that it is quite the fashion, a commendable fact, for as soon as...
This study was designed (1) to identify and describe young
homemakers' problems through expressed difficulties in homemaking
activities, (2) to investigate the relationship between the expressed
problem areas and the homemakers' length of marriage,
family composition, employment status and family income, and
(3) to determine additional homemaking information young homemakers...
The study was designed to answer the following questions
1. What do eighth graders think is important in homemaking
classes?
2. Who do eighth graders believe should enroll in homemaking
classes?
3. What factors influence whether eighth graders take
homemaking?
4. How do eighth graders rate the importance of homemaking...
Purpose of the Study: The major concern of the study was to determine those factors in clothing and textiles, exclusive of clothing construction, which current home economics teachers felt were necessary for novice teachers to be proficient in. The objectives of the study were: 1. To evaluate, revise, and expand...
The purpose of this study was to determine competencies that
practicing home economics teachers believe future teachers must
possess to show proficiency in the area of foods. The objectives
were:
1. To evaluate, revise, and expand the competencies that have
been identified by the Oregon State University Home Economics
Education...
Uses of travel time and mode of transportation in selected two-parent,
two-child Oregon households was researched in this study.
The relationship between a number of demographic characteristics
and amounts of travel time as well as mode of transportation was
also examined.
The study used the Oregon data from the Northeast...
The purpose of this study was to assess the attitudes of students, teachers, and principals toward skills taught in consumer and
homemaking education. The sample included 35 principals, 58
teachers, and 272 students in Oregon secondary schools. Respondents'
attitudes were assessed by analyzing the data on the basis of the...