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Cultural diversity and management style /
(1984)Data on the occupational distribution patterns and education of Hispanics in the United States has revealed that the majority may be living in low socio-economic-status (SES) environments. Variance in the acculturation/s ... -
Cultural identification and academic achievement: Validation of the Cultural Connectedness Achievement Measure and its use in understanding motivational characteristics of oppositional, racelessness and primary cultural identification.
(2006)The present study presents evidence regarding the reliability and validity of the Cultural Connectedness Achievement Measure (CLAM). The CCAM consist of three subscales representing three cultural dimensions of African ... -
Cultural identity and personal involvement of community interpreters
(2008)The current study is based on 30 in-depth interviews with Russian professional interpreters. It addresses three broad questions: cultural identity, invisibility / involvement, and the relationship between the two. In doing ... -
The cultural impact of shorthand /
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Cultural Lag, Anomie, and Single Women in Japan
(2010)This study uses Japan as a case study and seeks to contribute to a better understanding and theorizing of the phenomenon of marriage decline in the industrial world. Guided by a theoretical framework that synthesizes the ... -
Cultural Paradigms of Contemporary Indigenous Art: As Found in the Work of Shan Goshorn, Norman Akers, Marie Watt, and Joe Feddersen
(2018-05-11)This dissertation is the product of an ongoing inquiry into the relationships that exist between artists, their Indigenous cultures, and their aesthetic pursuits as materialized in the contemporary art they produce; and, ... -
Cultural Values and Persistence in Muscogee (Creek) College Students: Attrition in Post-Secondary Education
(2011)Cultural Values and Persistence in Muscogee (Creek) College Students: -
Culturally relevant pedagogy in practice: using critical whiteness to create critical consciousness in urban education
(2021-05)This dissertation examines the purpose of urban k-12 public schools and identifies the explicit and implicit ways in which they disrupt and limit urban students’ opportunities. Through interviews with white teachers in ... -
Culturally responsive teaching in one urban school district: a needs assessment
(2022-12-17)There exists a pattern of underperformance in minority children in urban school districts across this country. Nationally, minority students—especially African American students—score lower on standardized assessments than ... -
The culture trait of hierarchy and junior high school socioeconomic status in a large urban school district /
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Culture, conflict and coexistence : American-Soviet cultural relations, 1917-1958.
(1980)Beneath the strained official relationship between Washington and Moscow, American and Soviet cultural representatives have maintained a long standing cultural intercourse. Only at the depths of the cold war did contacts ... -
Culture, politics and television: A cross-cultural comparative study of Korean and United States televised presidential debates.
(2000)This dissertation treats televised presidential debates as a mirror of culture. However, the study sees the televised presidential debate as a traditionally Western or American political event. The televised presidential ... -
Culture-independent characterization of methane-oxidizing microbial communities in unexplored extreme environments
(2021-08-05)Methane is the second most abundant greenhouse gas in atmosphere. With increasing emissions and more effective in trapping heat than CO2, it contributes up to ~20% of total global warming. Methanotrophs playing a critical ... -
Curiosity and self-directed learning readiness among a sample of baccalaureate nursing students.
(1998)The curiosity materials, based on Berlyne's theory of epistemic curiosity, included ten psychological experiment accounts and participants rated three responses: (1) how surprising or unexpected the results were; (2) how ... -
A Currency Union Odyssey: Monetary Policy in the CFA Zone
(2019-08-01)This thesis focuses on one of the most important currency unions in the world known as the CFA zone. The goal of this thesis is to draw a comparison of African countries with their own national currencies to African countries ... -
Current and ideal professional roles of NCAA Division I-A sports information directors: Analysis and implications.
(1998)The study garnered a 53 percent response rate $(n=187)$ from NCAA I-A members of the College Sports Information Directors of America. Based on their responses, practitioners were classified according to one of four role ... -
The current level of implementation of eighteen basic middle school characteristics in Oklahoma middle school programs /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1985)Generally, the findings and conclusions focused on the relatively low and moderate implementation of a majority of recognized and accepted middle school characteristics. Some areas virtually have been ignored, or administrators ... -
CURRENT PRACTICES AND SCHOOL-BASED PERSONNEL’S PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT NEEDS IN FUNCTIONAL BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT IN QATAR
(2017-12)The concern about young children challenging behaviors has produced a wide range of intervention programs to reduce problem behaviors and promote development of social skills. Over the past two decades, researchers have ... -
Curricular perception of business curriculum involving selected educators and businesspersons.
(The University of Oklahoma., 1977)