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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 ...
School improvement: An analysis of facilitating practices for central office administrators to support decentralized change in public school districts implementing the (I)(D)(E)(A) School Improvement Process.
(1997)
This study examined the perceptions of public school superintendents, central office administrators, principals, and teachers to determine the importance of central office administrator facilitating practices reported in ...
Delivering continuing professional education at a distance: The correlation of field dependence/independence and learning using the World Wide Web.
(1999)
Field independent participant scores showed an advantage on performance measures. Field dependence/independence was not predictive of learner completion rates, frequency of reporting a sense of 'becoming lost', or navigational ...
Transfer of educational concepts of an associate degree nursing program to the workplace.
(1998)
The purpose of the study was to determine if the educational outcomes of the associate degree nursing program at a university in a southwestern state facilitated entry level competencies which are anticipated following ...
The effects of a student response system on student achievement, satisfaction and interaction in an interactive video teletraining class.
(1998)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of using a student response system, and the capabilities it represents, as compared to using an audio conferencing system, and the capabilities it represents, on ...
Foundations of Afrocentric thought and practice and its implications as an alternative educational philosophy for African American individual and community empowerment.
(1999)
Afrocentricism stems from a total attempt by African Americans to define themselves based on their own value system and their interpretation of reality in which they find themselves without Eurocentric interference, ...
Cultural discontinuities between West African adult learners and print-based distance instructional materials.
(1999)
Findings suggest that cultural discontinuities in print materials occur in four areas. These areas include differences in the world views between authors and learners, culturally specific knowledge, linguistic factors and ...
Perceptions of AIDS education issues: A qualitative study of at risk individuals.
(1998)
The research affirmed certain elements of current AIDS education theories and revealed areas which should be added to instructional methods and curriculum content. Significant patterns affecting the participants' behavior ...
Sexual harassment policies, training and perceptions of the problem in the educational setting: A survey of Oklahoma middle level public school principals, counselors and teachers.
(1999)
The researcher mailed a survey to 155 Oklahoma middle school principals, 188 middle school counselors and 160 middle school teachers. Largely a rural state, Oklahoma has a wide range of school district size, school size ...
Distance education policy formation in state higher education systems: A case study.
(1998)
Prior research on distance education has primarily been concerned with the effectiveness of distance education programs. Although the effectiveness of distance education is increasingly being demonstrated, it remains to a ...