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Polush, Elena Yu.

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Program theory of a USDA grants program for use in evaluation based on quantitative content analysis and oral history narrative analysis.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Program theory of a USDA grants program for use in evaluation based on quantitative content analysis and oral history narrative analysis./
Author:	Polush, Elena Yu.
Description:	242 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Nancy Grudens-Schuck; Carl W. Roberts.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-09A.
Subject:	Education, Agricultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3283094
ISBN:	9780549255871

Program theory of a USDA grants program for use in evaluation based on quantitative content analysis and oral history narrative analysis.
Polush, Elena Yu.

Program theory of a USDA grants program for use in evaluation based on quantitative content analysis and oral history narrative analysis. - 242 p.

Advisers: Nancy Grudens-Schuck; Carl W. Roberts.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Iowa State University, 2007.

Keywords. agricultural education; competitive grants program; content analysis; evaluation; oral history; program theory; US Department of Agriculture

ISBN: 9780549255871Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022852
Education, Agricultural.

Program theory of a USDA grants program for use in evaluation based on quantitative content analysis and oral history narrative analysis.
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