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Kiowa cultural values and persistence in higher education.
(1998)
Historically, the presence of American Indians on college and university campuses was disproportionate to their numbers in the common schools. Within the last three decades this trend changed. Though their attendance figures ...
Evolution, institutional analysis and path dependency: an administrative-history perspective on fashionable approaches and concepts
(International Review of Administrative Sciences, 1998-12-01)
Selected solo piano collections of Alexander Gretchaninoff: An analysis for teaching and performance.
(1998)
The final chapter contains a summary, conclusions and recommendations. Appendix A provides a listing of Gretchaninoff's solo piano music collections.
Naming the violence: Women's domestic violence narratives.
(1998)
Long before our twentieth-century, psycho-socio-political understanding of domestic violence, women wrote about this form of oppression in their letters, diaries, journals, essays, novels, poetry, and tracts. These highly ...
Emergent mathematics in a grade-two classroom: A search for complex relationships.
(1998)
In light of the organically interconnected relationships of learning mathematics, a theoretical heuristic was developed to exemplify the implications of the findings of the study. Called SEARCH, the heuristic highlighted ...
Political learning in adolescence: A survey of political awareness and attitudes of middle school students in the heartland.
(1998)
The results of this study of 942 middle school students in the Oklahoma City Public Schools reveal that family discussions of politics and group membership provide a pull into the world of politics for many adolescents. ...
The communicative impact of an older adult parent on the adult child/spouse long-term marital relationship.
(1998)
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the effect an older adult parent living with an adult child/spouse may have on the communication in the long-term marital relationship. This study is designed to examine the ...
Identification of Stable Asymptotic Performance on Computer-Based Cognitive Tests
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1998-10-01)
Examining whether human cognitive performance is affected by environmental conditions requires stable performance measures prior to stressor exposure. This study evaluated the stability and reliability of six computer-based ...
IV-VI semiconductor structures for laser fabrication of silicon.
(1998)
This dissertation describes experiments undertaken to develop techniques required to develop IV-VI lasers grown on silicon. A review of the IV-VI materials system, diode laser structures, recent IV-VI laser results, epitaxial ...
The Depth and Dynamics of Context: Tracing the Sources and Channels of Engagement and Disengagement in Students' Response to Literature
(Journal of Literacy Research, 1998-12-01)
In this article, we analyze one coauthor's 12th-grade English class, focusing on a small group of students who interpreted the character of Gertrude in Hamlet through a body biography, a life-sized human outline that ...