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A Plan For Teaching Listening At Benjamin Franklin Junior High School, Springfield, Illinois, Charles R. Pulliam

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Art Education And Appreciation: A Syllabus For High School Teaching, Max I. Briggs

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A Study Of Equipment And Activities For A Proposed Office Practice Course At Cumberland High School, Lucille Baker Buchanan

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A Proposed Outline For A Course In School Business Management, Donald L. Pyle

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A Survey Of Businessmen In Effingham, Illinois To Determine How Effectively The Business Curriculum At Effingham High School Is Meeting Employment Needs, Joseph F. Green

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Business-Sponsored Films For Physical Science, Bertha Elizabeth Slye

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For many years business-sponsored films have been used widely in instruction in the science classroom. Because of the potential of the films in helping teachers bridge the gap between the fundamental teaching of scientific principles, and the applications found in the actual experiences of the student's consumer world, requests for them have often exceeded the output of those that are educationally sound. In the last decade in particular, the development of atomic and space technology, as well as the growing interest in science, have made it necessary to teach science beyond the confines of information in the ordinary science textbook. …

Quantitative Standards For The Implementation Of Qualitative Standards In Student-Teaching Programs, Dan B. Cookie

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This study was selected because there was evi­dence that some defensible quantitative standards were needed to implement the desirable practices which would be consistent with the philosophies set forth in the standards of both the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the National Council for Accreditation or Teacher Education. Recognizing that the value or the student teaching experience depends to a large extent on the quality and the quantity of the types of experiences provided during student teaching, and the supervision or the program, the writer has identified two major purposes of the study as follows:

1. To …

The Application Of Elementary Statistics In Analysis Of Data By Selected Secondary School Students, Charles Martin Bridges Jr.

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The purpose of this study was to determine the ability of apt secondary school students to apply principles of elementary probability and statistical inference in the analysis of data following a semester of instruction in statistics and elementary probability.

Physical Education Curriculum For Boys Senior High School, Edwards County Community Unit District #1, Albion, Illinois, David L. Hart

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A Study Of The Importance Of The Fine Arts In A Balanced Curriculum, William O. Sargent

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A Study Of The East Richland High School Business Education Curriculum, James Allen Mcwilliams

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An Elementary Teacher Enriches A Science Program, Ruth I. Good

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An Evaluative Study Of The East-Alton Wood River Business Education Curriculum, Richard Leroy Olmstead

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Controversial Issues In The Junior High School, John A. Dively

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Historical Fiction In The Teaching Of World History, Helen Bernice Lobdell

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The Problem

I. Intent. The purpose of this study is two-fold. The first is to survey historical fiction with a view to the selection, on the basis of established criteria, of readings which would be suitable for use in a senior high school course of study in world history. The second purpose is to determine certain periods as recognized by teachers of world history in which such literature is readily available.

Integration Of Speech With Other Subjects In High School Classrooms, Harry Franklin Kirchner

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Understanding Fractions In The Sixth Grade, Marvin T. Carwell

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A Survey Of The Reading Program In The Charleston Community Unit School District Number One And Recommendations For Improving The Program, Francis X. Vogel

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Textbooks Of World History For The Senior High School, David E. Proud

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The Problem and Its Background

The Place of World History in Secondary Education

The study of world history has great significance in our secondary schools. In an age of persistent world crisis, the importance of the skills, information, and powers of analysis that may be acquired through the study of world history is deemed essential by many educators. The fact of its presence in the curriculum is in itself evidence that world history is considered important. In the most recent survey available from the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

it was noted that world history is "quite …

Problems Of Teaching Social Studies In The Intermediate Grades, Avanella C. Jeffers

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Reorganizing A Primary Department In Reading To Meet Learner Needs, Naomi Gaede

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A Study Concerning The Need For Efficient And Continuous Instructional Improvement, Ray Edward Wright

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An Analysis Of Selected History Tests Prepared For Use In The High School, Charles E. Reed

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The Problem and Its Background

The Scientific Movement in Education

It is a well-known fact that for several decades educators have been trying to place the educational profession on as scientific a basis as possible.¹ One outgrowth of this effort has been the “educational measurement movement.” This movement has involved widespread attempts to use objective techniques in solving educational problems, objective measures in obtaining educational data, and to use the data thus obtained as a basis for organizing educational plans and procedures. The importance attached to this trend has led, in some cases, to an undue, and occasionally, distorted …

The Chemistry Of Digestion, Lester B. Burrus

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The Scope Of An Industrial Arts Program For Community Unit School District #4 Of Paris, Illinois, Raymond V. Griffin

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The 3 R'S And Modern Education, Louis Stivers Jr.

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Supplementing Formal Drill In Teaching Primary Arithmetic, Fern Brown

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A Study Of The Business-Education Curriculum In The Charleston Community High School, Artrel A. Mills

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A Junior High School Teacher Tackles Her Reading Problems, Irma W. Young

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The Effect Of The Use Of A Textbook As Compared With Supplemental Material In Teaching Biology, Wayne A. Stafford

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Chapter I

The Problem and Its Background

Biology in the Secondary School Curriculum

There is ample evidence, both direct and tacit, that biology has justified its place in the curriculum of the secondary school.

Among the direct evidence is that stated by Heiss, Obourn, and Hoffman¹ as follows:

"On the Senior High School level, general biology is well established as a tenth grade course and is usually offered as an elective for each of three years. There is a considerable body of evidence available that seems to indicate that both general science and biology are going a long way …