Browsing by Subject "Major adult and extension education"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)The purpose of the study was to determine if adults learn more effectively through a dominant sensory modality across or within subject matter. A set of 12 activities and tests was designed to teach concepts and rules and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1978)Effective teaching of adult basic education is imperative, because adults have great, demonstrated difficulty in reading, writing, and arithmetic. If adult basic education teachers can be trained to teach, as most of the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)The purposes of this study were: (a) determination of imaging technologists' and sonographers' perceived barriers and incentives to participation in continuing professional education (CPE) external to the work setting; (b) ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)This study examined the behavior of deaf young adults on the Wechsler Performance Scales relative to variables of deafness, type of schooling and degree of loss. It also compared performance results of the deaf young adults ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)The purpose of this study was to determine how well the Specialty Knowledge Tests (SKTs) selected for this study matched the airman population assigned to their respective Air Force career fields in regard to reading grade ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)The purpose of this study was to investigate processes used by physical therapy students in developing conceptual knowledge in physical therapy. Qualitative methods were used to collect data during a 15-week course entitled ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)The professional dietitian functions as educator and counselor to the general public and peer professionals. The pressures of decreasing revenues, malpractice, and an increasingly technical nutrition field has resulted in ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)This study illuminates the creation of plausibility in experience-based learning. Two dimensions of plausibility, environmental perspective and human perspective, are identified through this qualitative study of participants ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)This descriptive study identified financial management competencies adults need to effectively manage their financial resources, determined the relative importance of the competencies, and defined their performance at ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)This study deals with the relationship between and among characteristics of three groups of Korean seminarians in Houston and Dallas Theological Seminaries based on demographics, religious profile variables, and sociocultural ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)This study was concerned with the essential competencies that juvenile probation officers need to possess in order to effectively discharge their duties. The research utilized the Delphi methodology in identifying both the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)This study dealt with differences in selected aspects of professionalism, autonomy and problem solving ability, among registered nurse students enrolled in baccalaureate degree nursing programs in Texas. A total of 246 ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)To investigate the relationship of adult education teacher attitudes towards evaluation, two experimental variables (feedback involvement and assessment approach) were combined in a 2 X 2 factorial arrangement of treatments. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)The responsibilities of correctional education must extend beyond the cognitive domain of reach into the affective domain as well, specifically the realm of moral reasoning, if offenders are to be successfully reintegrated ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)This research was designed to examine the relationship between variations in mode of interview behavior rehearsal and locus of control in a vocational institute setting. Random assignment of treatment was employed with 21 ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)The objective of this study was to determine the effects of cognitive style and mode of study on achievement in self-paced, auto-tutorial instruction. Although previous research indicated that cognitive styles were influential ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)This research studied the effects of advance disclosure of learning style on academic achievement and course satisfaction in adult learners. The subjects were 635 U.S. Air Force Security Police technical school students ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1979)A multivariate case analysis was developed to examine the relationships between specified variables and student cognitive achievement in three Texas adult education programs. Data were collected from an existing statewide ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)The effects of extending wait times among teachers in science classrooms has been examined in studies that found improvements in quantity and quality of student responses. This study examined the potential for eliciting ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)Complications of non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) are the primary cause of death of Mexican Americans over age 40 in Texas. In Texas, 51.2% of Hispanics have eight or fewer years of school. Many are functionally ...