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The GED college graduate: A profile of Detroit-area community college graduates who were high school dropouts.
(1988)
The numbers of high school dropouts have become a national problem. Some of these dropouts do re-enter the educational system via the General Educational Development (GED) program and graduate. This study, carried out in ...
The effects of singing and solmization training on the musical achievement of beginning fifth-grade instrumental students.
(1989)
The main problem of this study was to determine whether beginning elementary instrumental students who engaged in singing and solmization as part of their instrumental class activities developed greater aural, performance, ...
Factors associated with the use of research-based knowledge in nursing.
(1989)
Despite a long recognized need for scientifically based practice, the nursing profession continues to experience a gap between the generation of clinically relevant research-based knowledge and its actual use in practice. ...
Professionalization and Power of the Serbian Secondary Teacher.
(1981)
The literature on professionalization largely focuses on the differentiation of professions from other occupations and attempts to define the characteristics of professions. This study utilizes the model of Terence Johnson ...
Writing in a small business management course: Doing business/doing school.
(1989)
This study investigated writing and its functions in an important but neglected academic context: undergraduate study in business. The focus of the study was a small business management course at The Chinese University of ...
Program quality and the emergence of criminal justice education.
(1988)
In 1968 Federal legislation provided funding to improve the quality and delivery of criminal justice services through higher education. Despite the positive intentions, these programs came under considerable criticism for ...
A case for children: A way to improve upon their lives.
(1988)
A case for children: A way to improve upon their lives is a three year study of the lives of kindergarten children, their teachers and parents. The dissertation begins with a discussion of the plight of children in our ...
An investigation of the relationship between performance expertise and melodic ear-to-h and coordination of music patterns within various degrees of contextual constraint.
(1992)
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between expertise of one's principal instrument and the ear-to-h and performance achievement of various aural melodic patterns. Melodic patterns were ...
Choosing Retirement Housing: a Study of Relocation from a House to an Apartment By Well-Elderly Persons Living in a Canadian City.
(1987)
This is a qualitative study of well-elderly persons living in a Canadian city. The problem is that the experiences of relatively healthy retirees who moved from a house to a non-subsidized apartment unit seldom have been ...
An Evaluation of the "From Jumpstreet: a Story of Black Music" Television Series' Effect on Urban Senior High School Students (Michigan).
(1984)
This study was designed (1) to evaluate the educational effect of the Form Jumpstreet television series on urban senior high school students, and (2) to determine whether or not the series' culture-specific format would ...