Using a proficiency model of grading (credit for proficiency) in mathematics courses, high school students will achieve above average scores compared to the state and other comparison schools, as measured by OAKS state ...
Alston, Dana William(University of Oregon, 2018-06)
This thesis is an argumentative close analysis of themes, aesthetics, and political meanings within three New Hollywood films. It emerged out of an interest in the films of the 1960s and 70s and the changes within that ...
Carbon and oxygen isotopes in calcite crystals provide a record of the environmental conditions under which the crystals formed. To investigate the influence of temperature, pH, and growth rate on isotope discrimination ...
Historically, school counselors have been the primary facilitators in supporting the career and college transition process for students, but many school counselors do not have the knowledge, resources, or materials to ...
The aim of the present study was to examine the effects of Career Information System (CIS) on high school students’ vocational skills self-efficacy, outcome expectations, work hope, career planning, career decision-making ...
Parents of young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) often report heightened levels of parental distress. An increasing amount of attention is being directed to parental mental health and addressing the well-being ...
Pedraza, Alejandra(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)
This thesis explores how women heads of transnational households in one rural Mexican village in Querétaro, Mexico experienced the COVID-19 pandemic vis-à-vis their gendered family roles. From June 2021 to February 2022, ...
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of how members of the Indo-Guyanese community traveled from Guyana to New York City, carrying with them distinct understandings of Hinduism informed by their multiple dislocations ...
Lieberman, Gretchen Hughes, 1973-(University of Oregon, 2004-12)
There is growing evidence of an environmental movement within the religious sector. However, this phenomenon, referred to as faith-based environmentalism (FBE), is only present in some congregations. Previous research has ...
The Israel-Palestine Conflict is referred to in modern dialogues as perhaps "the world's most intractable conflict," engendering for contemporary Israelis and Palestinians alike a self- and national-perception that is ...
This essay will examine both Mary Astell’s proposal for women’s education as a protofeminist project and Descartes’ meditations on rationalism and the mind-body duality to understand how Astell’s project functions as ...
Miley, Emily; Meacham, James; Hendricks, Lauren(University of Oregon, 2017)
In order to aid the City of Albany’s Park and Recreation Department (P&R) in the creation and visualization of their 2017 P&R Master Plan and to help serve the growing population, Albany partnered with the Sustainable City ...
Homelessness is a racial justice issue, as well as a social justice issue, and finding
solutions to house the unhoused needs to be viewed through both lenses. Individuals
experiencing homelessness are not one homogenous ...
Daugherty, Joseph C.(University of Oregon, 1952-06)
Stone carving is one of the oldest of the arts. From the earliest times man has used the permanent native materials around him both to help maintain his existence and to enhance his life. Stone, being one of the more ...
Alhazmi, Mofareh(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)
My dissertation investigates the loss of morphological case and grammatical gender in the Germanic, Romance, and Balkan Sprachbund languages. Crucial language-internal and language-external motivations are considered. To ...
In-hospital mortality prediction is signi cant for evaluating a patient's
severity of illness ahead of the time. The outcome of the evaluation can
help physicians to identify which patient is at risk and needs immediate
care, ...
Wilson, Katherine R. Bryant(University of Oregon, 2008-12)
The purpose of this dissertation study is to explore and describe the development of political attitudes and behaviors in current undergraduate academic life. By undertaking this study, I sought to add to the understanding ...