Mounting inflationary economic pressures and the obvious spiralling costs of education, at all levels, has drastically augmented public, administrative, and government concern regarding the effectiveness of many educational training programs. Secretarial Science, which is designed to provide occupational-level training represents such a program. Therefore, this study was conducted in order...
The Purpose of the Study:
The primary purpose of this study was to compare the clerical
office occupations teachers' and business employers' perceptions of
the competencies important for a high school graduate to possess for
an entry-level clerical office job in Oregon. A secondary purpose
was to determine the best...
This study had two purposes: to determine solid waste management needs of residents and organizations of the San Xavier District Indian reservation near Tucson, Arizona; and to develop a solid waste management plan to be recommended to the San Xavier District Tribal Council.
A solid waste generation study compared the...
This study was designed to determine the differences and similarities among first-year
accounting curricula in high schools, community colleges, and four-year colleges in Oregon. The
areas studied were teaching methods, testing methods, communication skills, evaluation methods
used in the communication skills, inclusion of necessary computer application skills, and the testing...
The Purpose of the Study: The major purpose of this study was to determine if there were differences among the opinions of participating employers, previous participating employers, and non- participating employers concerning cooperative vocational education,. The hypothesis that there is no significant difference among the mean scores for the three...
Purpose
The purpose of this study was to compare the ability and achievement
of students in career cluster programs to the ability and achievement
of students not in career cluster programs. The cluster programs
included in this study were Distributive Education, Health
Careers, Mechanical, Food Services, Metals, Child Care, Construction,...
The Purpose of the Study
The overall purposes of this study were: (1) to identify and
analyze the attitudes of the school board members, vocational
teachers, non-vocational teachers, school administrators and career
education administrators toward career education; (2) to identify and
analyze the attitudes of the above five personnel groups...
The purpose of this study was to test the use of the published simulation, Jeffrey's Department Store (Koeninger and Hephner, 1978), in high school Distributive Education classrooms. The simulation was compared to "traditional" methods of instruction, testing for achievement (knowledge gained) and attitude (feelings about the class after instruction). Control...
The purpose of this research was to study the effect of teachers' written comments on students' homework papers. Fourth, Sixth and ninth grade mathematics classes in Saudi Arabia were selected for the study. The hypotheses for the study stated the following: Teachers' comments significantly increase students' achievement in mathematics. The...
The purpose of the study was to identify a list of skills, knowledges and related factors that are common to fourteen occupational cluster areas representative of the work community of Oregon. PROCEDURES A list of skills, knowledges and related factors needed for successful employment was derived from existing task analyses...