Browsing by Subject "Adult and Extension Education"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, )Continuing medical education (CME) is postgraduate education activity designed to up-date practicing physicians and keep them abreast of innovations and new developments in medicine. Programs are based on needs identified ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)Generalizations and the assumptions underlying them provide the basis for the practice of any discipline. Adult educators have supposed that the hopes and expectations students bring to a learning situation have important ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)With an increasing amount of attention focused on productivity in the United States, industry is involved in an effort to provide training for employees. A concern which top management in industry must face is what avenues ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1978)This research was designed to determine attitudes and practices of the larger manufacturers in the United States toward continuing education and to determine any significant difference between industries in those attitudes. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)This research was designed to examine the relationship between participation in a pre-retirement education program and attitudes towards retirement of women religious ages forty through fifty-nine. A non-randomized sample ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, )This study was undertaken to determine what factors are associated with the Colombian small farmers' acceptance or nonacceptance of the selected corn practices recommended by the Colombian Agricultural Institute's (ICA) ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)The purpose of this study was to explore patterns of value change in individual Chinese and how these changes related to societal transitions in China under the Communist Regime. The three research questions of the study ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, )The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a relationship between student performance on the GED Test and the APL Test and if variables of sex, age, employment status, highest grade level completed, number of ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, )This study was conducted to compare the cost effectiveness of a stipend versus a non-stipend adult education program that prepared students to obtain the General Educational Development (GED) certificate. The programs ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)The purpose of this study was to design and carry out a correlational study of student performance on the APL Assessment and the California Achievement Test, Form C, Level 17. The rapid growth and expansion of programs of ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)This study was undertaken to develop a computer simulation model which would be able to simulate cognitive-style-related learning behaviors for a group of students. Studies and research findings have suggested that behaviors ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)This study was designed to analyze and describe the policies established by professional associations and licensing boards to direct and regulate continuing professional education. Fifty-three professional groups, representing ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)The primary purpose of the study was to determine if bias was present in the 1982 performance appraisal process of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. More specifically, does sex, race, age or tenure of district ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)The purpose of this study was to determine if selected personality traits, job attitudes, and/or selected background characteristics were related to success as an Air Force recruiter. The process of selecting, assigning, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)This experimental study utilized a modified pretest/posttest control group design augmented through the collection of process data. Forty-six personnel assigned to the Directorate of Plans and Programs at Kelly Air Force ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1978)This research was designed to analyze the effect of preretirement planning on the job satisfaction and attitudes toward retirement of workers. All workers were age 55 or ever. The subjects were employed with companies in ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)The purpose of this study was to evaluate the School Food Service Nutrition Awareness Project which was developed by the southwest region nutritionists of the Dairy Council, Incorporated (DCI), during 1979. The effectiveness ...
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Identification of emergency medical service job characteristics using the CODAP job analysis system (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)The purpose of this study was to analyze paraprofessional jobs within the emergency medical service (EMS) career field in Texas. The objectives of this study were to: (1) Develop an EMS inventory. (2) Verify accuracy of ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)The concept of teacher concerns in regard to innovation adoption encompasses the idea that teacher concerns about an innovation are developmental. Concerns about self progress to concerns about task and then to concerns ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)The purpose of the study was to describe and analyze the learning episodes undertaken by adults to matriculate into a community college. Eight learning episodes were examined. They were: self, educational goals, special ...