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Biographical Note
E. Wayne Courtney was born on April 15, 1931 in Elnora, Indiana. He was
an Eagle Scout before the age of 16. After graduating from high school as class
valedictorian in 1949, he enrolled in Purdue University, from which he earned
four degrees: B.S., Forestry, 1953; B.S., Agriculture, 1957; M.S., Agricultural
Education, 1958; Ph.D., Measurement, 1962. Courtney did postdoctorate work in
statistics at Oregon State University in 1968.
After serving in the U.S. Army in Germany (1953-1955) and as a
vocational education teacher and instructor in Indiana secondary schools
(1958-1960) and at Purdue (1960-1962), Courtney was appointed assistant
professor in the Stout State University (Wisconsin) School of Education in
1962. He remained at Stout State until 1972, when he became Professor and
Director of Research and Development in OSU's Division of Vocational, Adult,
and Community College Education. Courtney has held a number of faculty
appointments at OSU: Professor and Director, Division of Vocational-Technical
Education, 1973-1978; Professor, Department of Statistics, 1973-1983;
Professor, Department of Educational Foundations, 1985-1989; Professor and
Chair, Division of Secondary Education (OSU/WOSC), 1988-1989; Professor,
Department of Curriculum and Instruction, 1989-1993; and Professor Emeritus,
1993-date.
Courtney has also been a visiting faculty member at North Carolina State
University (1966-67), OSU (1970-71), Coleg Prifysgol Cymru in Wales and
University of Exeter in England (1983-84), and Instituto Educacional F. D.
Roosevelt in Lima, Peru (1984-85). Recently he has served as a faculty member
in the Kasetsart University (Thailand) Department of Sports Science, where he
teaches research design and statistics.
Courtney twice served in the OSU Faculty Senate, 1979-81 and 1986-88;
was a member of the OSU Press Board of Governors, 1981-1984; and served on
various OSU committees, including the OSU Library Expansion Faculty Advisory
Committee. He received OSU's Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement
Award for 1985-86 and was a Senior Collaborative Fulbright Research Scholar to
Thailand in 1994-95.
Content Description
Series 1 contains a volume of genealogical information on the Courtney
name and autobiographical information compiled by E. Wayne Courtney;
information on the name Kurtenai; four volumes of photocopies of Courtney's
military record from 1952 to 1987; and a 1966 soil and water conservation plan
for Courtney's farm in Dunn County, Wisconsin. Series 2 includes Courtney's
Ph.D. thesis, "A Comparison of Knowledge and Experience Levels Required in
Three Agricultural Occupations" (Purdue University, 1962); a copy of the 1966
Stout State (Wisc.) yearbook; and faculty reports on Courtney covering
1985-1990. Series 3, Honors and Awards, includes Courtney's Burlington Northern
Faculty Achievement Award nomination dossier (1986) and a report and plaque
pertaining to his Fulbright Award in 1995.
Series 4 contains various administrative reports written by Courtney
between 1973 and 1989 pertaining to the OSU Vocational and Technical Education
program. Series 5 consists of Courtney's consultant reports (1973-1996) for
various organizations and governmental units, including a consortium of six
Eastern Oregon counties, the Springfield Exemplary Career Education Project,
Lane Community College, the Math/Science Teacher Improvement Project (M/STIP),
and the Linn-Benton Health Consortium. Series 6 contains three technical
reports from July 1971 on professional education competencies. Series 7
includes statistical studies and surveys pertaining to industrial graphics,
education, and bird populations of selected places in Wisconsin.
Series 8 consists of materials prepared and published by Courtney for
his classes and workshops, as well as other writings on education. The series
includes
Applied Research in Education, 1965 (edited
by Courtney);
Elements of Research Foundations: An
Introduction, with Lorry K. Sedgwick, 1969 (revised 1970);
Inferential Statistics (The F Statistic),
developed for OSU Ed. 507 - Seminar: Advanced Research Methods, Winter 1977;
Laboratory Exercise Manual for Quantitative
Applications, developed for OSU Ed. 515 - Quantitative Applications,
1977; Techniques of Research, 1982 (Thai translation, with Supitr Samahito,
1983);
A Guide to Empirical Research in Education,
June 1988; and materials for Total Quality Management workshops, 1992-1993.
Series 9 includes Courtney's other writings, such as a history of the OSU
Agricultural Education Department (1984), and various printings of his treatise
on the Oregon coast,
Under the Winds of Yaquina and
The Indians of Yaquina Bay.
Use of the Collection
Preferred Citation :
E. Wayne Courtney Papers, Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis,
Oregon.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
The Courtney Papers consist of nine series, most of which are arranged
chronologically: I. Biographical and Genealogical Information; II. Educational
and Professional History; III. Honors and Awards; IV. Administrative Reports;
V. Consultant Reports (Evaluation and Assessment); VI. Technical Reports; VII.
Studies and Surveys; VIII. Teaching Materials and Writings on Education; and
IX. Other Writings.
Related Materials :
See RG 184 for administrative records and P 108 for photographs
pertaining to the School of Education. Related Memorabilia Collection files
include MC - Education, College of; MC - Education, School of; MC - Education,
School of-History; and MC - Vocational Education.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series I: Biographical and Genealogical
Information
Container(s)
Description
Box
1
" For My Children" ,
Courtney genealogy and autobiographical sketch of E. Wayne Courtney, 1987
1
Kurtenai, 1990
4 volumes
History of the Kurtenai family.
1
Military records, 1952-1987
4 volumes
1
Soil and water conservation
plan, Courtney farm, Dunn County, Wisonsin, 1966
Ph.D. thesis,
" A Comparison of Knowledge and
Experience Levels Required in Three Agricultural Occupations" , Purdue
University (major advisor - Dr. John K. Coster, Associate
Professor), June 1962
2
Tower, Stout State
(Wisconsin) University yearbook, 1966
apx 10x13 in.
1
Faculty reviews, 1985-87 & 1988-90
1
OSU Faculty of Color Resource
Directory, 1992-93
1
Kasetsart University
Laboratory School General Information Handbook, February 1997
Series V: Consultant Reports (Evaluation
and Assessment), 1973-1996
Container(s)
Description
Box
3
Common Professional Education
Competencies Needed by Alaska's Vocational Secondary School
Teachers, July 1973
3
Initial Critique - Six
Eastern Oregon Counties, 10 July 1974
3
Interim Evaluation Reports,
SIXCO Career Education Project, 15 November 1974 and 18 February 1975
3
Interim Assessment Report,
SIXCO Project, 18 May 1975
3
Final Evaluation Report,
SIXCO Project, 1 July 1975
3
Final Assessment Report,
Springfield Exemplary Career Education Project, 1 July 1975
3
Final Report, Department of
Vocational-Technical Education, College of Education, University of
Tennessee, Sept. 1, 1974-August 31, 1975
3
Interim Evaluation Report,
Kodiak Island Borough Career Education Project, 15 December 1975
3
Interim Assessment Report,
Springfield Project, 15 December 1975
3
Evaluation Review,
Springfield Project, 22 January 1976
3
Statistical Test Report,
Springfield Project, 10 February 1976
3
Interim Assessment Report,
SIXCO Project, 8 April 1976
3
Interim Assessment Report,
Springfield Project, 15 April 1976
3
Interim Evaluation Report,
Springfield Project, 15 April 1976
3
Final Report, SIXCO
Project, 1 July 1976
3
Final Evaluation Report,
Kodiak Island Project, July 1976
3
Final Report, Springfield
Project, 1 August 1976
3
Interim Report, SIXCO Rural
Schools, 5 November 1976
3
Final Evaluation Report -
Educational Planning, Data Gathering, and Instructional Assistance for Career
Education, SIXCO, 30 November 1976
3
Final Report - Methodology
for the Evaluation of Career Decision Making Skills in Rural
Schools, 15 June 1977
3
Addendum Evaluation Update -
A Model System for the Design and Maintenance of Related Instruction Curriculum
for Approved U.S. Department of Labor Apprenticeship Occupations, Lane
Community College, 24 November 1987
3
Evaluation Report, Phase II,
Lane Community College Project, 12 October 1988
3
Final Evaluation Report,
Phase III, Lane CC Project, 10 September 1989
3
External Evaluation Proposal,
Linn-Benton Consortium Project for Drug Abuse Education and Prevention (Year
3), 12 March 1991
3
External Evaluation Proposal
- Title II Project, Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education Act
(Year 2), Linn-Benton ESD, 12 March 1991
Series VIII: Teaching Materials and Writings
on Education, 1963-1996
Container(s)
Description
Box
4
" Non-Farm Agricultural
Occupations and Curriculum Planning" , with John K. Coster,
The Agricultural Education
Magazine, August 1963
4
Analysis of Variance and
Analysis of Covariance: Examples of Practical Research Models for Graduate
Students in Education and Psychology, 1964
4
Applied Research in
Education, edited by Courtney (Littlefield, Adams), 1965
4
Elements of Research Foundations: An
Introduction, with Lorry K. Sedgwick, 1969 (revised 1970)
4
Vocational, Individualized
System for Education (VISE) - The Instructional Package (OSU School of
Education), 1971
4
Moving Toward Individualizing
Instruction, 1972
4
Individualized Learning
Packages (Science Research Associates), with Lorry K. Sedgwick (Stout State
University), 1972 & 1974
4
Inferential Statistics (The F
Statistic), developed for OSU Ed. 507 - Seminar: Adavanced Research
Methods, Winter 1977
4
Determining Sample Size: A
Conspectus, 1977
4
Laboratory Exercise Manual for
Quantitative Applications, developed for OSU Ed. 515 - Quantitative
Applications, 1977
4
Sample Size
Determinants, 1979
4
Designs for Research (OSU
Division of Continuing Education), April 1982
4
Techniques of Research (OSU
Division of Continuing Education), 1982; Thai translation by Courtney and
Supitr Samahito, 1983
4
Professional Improvement
Workshop for Apprentice Instructors, Lane Community College, 1984
4
Analysis (OSU Division of
Continuing Education), 1984
4
Design for Research
(Sanderling Press), 1986
4
Methods of Analysis (The F
Statistic) (Sanderling Press), 1987
4
Computer Applications for
Social Science:
Analysis, with E.M. Starmach
(Sanderling Press), January 1987
4
Computer Applications for
Social Science:
Measurement, with E.M.
Starmach (Sanderling Press), June 1988
4
A Guide to Empirical Research in
Education, June 1988
4
Practice Problems for Basic
Empirical Methods (partial copy), with E.M. Starmach, September 1988
4
Distributions: An Empirical Treatise
for Social Scientists (Sanderling Press), 1990
4
Reliability: A Quantitative Treatise
for Social Scientists (Sanderling Press), 1990
4
Scaling (Sanderling
Press), 1990
4
Hypotheses (Sanderling
Press), 1991
4
Qualitative Methods: A
Definition (Sanderling Press), 1991
4
Sampling (Sanderling
Press), 1991
4
Empirical Methods: An
Introduction (Sanderling Press), 1991
4
Total Quality Management
lecture - Tools of Daily Quality Improvement (handouts and slide copy),
Linn-Benton Community College, 12 November 1992
4
Quality Control Tools for
" Doing It With Data" ,
Linn-Benton Community College, 1992
4
Using Quality Control Tools
to Solve Problems and Make Decisions (Session 2 - Performing Basic Data
Analysis), Strategies for Quality Improvement Workshop (U.S. Bureau of Mines),
Linn-Benton Community College, Winter 1993
