PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The purpose of the study was to determine the effectiveness of televised instruction to aid in changing attitude toward problem solving. The study determined whether fifth and sixth grade students would demonstrate significant differences in: 1) attitude toward the nature of problem solving, 2) self-confidence in...
The study was designed to determine the effect of doctoral
study upon the marriages of doctoral students.
The sample for the research was drawn from the total population of married doctoral students enrolled in Oregon State University/Western Oregon State College's School of Education and Oregon
State University's College of Home...
Narcolepsy is a complex of physiological and behavioral
symptoms. The most striking of these are: excessive daytime
sleepiness, extremely short latency to rapid eye movement (REM)
sleep, hypnogogic hallucinations; sleep paralysis, and cataplexy,
which is loss of skeletal muscle tonus in response to intense
emotions such as surprise, anger, laughter,...
This study was designed (1) to determine if selected family
oriented factors influence student wives' housing satisfaction, (2) to
determine which housing factors have the greatest influence on the
student wives' satisfaction with their housing, (3) to determine which
housing factors influence most the selection of married student housing,
(4)...
Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study was to identify essential reading and study skills for academic success in each of the schools at Oregon State University. Further, this study related faculty perception of specific skills and scores of subjects who were tested in these skills. The study...
Concern regarding the large numbers of personal bankruptcies
in Oregon prompted this study. Although information was available
from a few studies in other parts of the United States, none was
available for Oregon. Very little data has been collected on personal
and family characteristics of people filing bankruptcy and less...
OSIRIS is an integrated information architecture which was developed at Oregon State University. SIDUR is the data model upon which the semantic level is based. The semantic level is the mediating level between user's information needs and the stored data. The advantages of providing a semantic database environment include flexibility...
This thesis is an exploration of how male trickster figures operate in the Gothic fiction of 20th century American female authors. Specifically, I look at the short stories “The Daemon Lover” by Shirley Jackson, “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor, and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by...
In This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the importance of wealth as a factor in supporting happiness and fostering the American Dream on an individual basis. With these texts, Fitzgerald acknowledges that wealth is a factor and, simultaneously, a...