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A Comparison Of Two Methods Of Typewriting Numbers And Symbols, Veronica E. Bender

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

From Chapter 1:

There has been a large increase in number typewriting In the last decade and a half. The demand for statistical typists and other clerical positions involving the typewriting of numbers is greater than ever before. In modern business offices specialized typists are hired to prepare statis­tical reports, billings, payrolls, bookkeeping machine reports, IBM programs and general reports. There has also been an Increased use of numbers in ordinary business correspondence.

An Analysis Of Study Skills Taught By Intermediate Basal Readers, Richard D. Van Dongen

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

An important skill area of the complex reading process is that of study skills. Differences of opinion exist regarding what these skills are and how important they are in the development of the reading process. They are seen to be necessary for reading in content field subjects, and instruction is provided in the basal reading program for their development.

An Inquiry Into The Effects Of Goals In The Motivation Of Adult Students In The New Mexico Adult Basic Education Program, Thomas Manuel Trujillo

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Adult basic education has only in recent years become an integral part of the total educational picture in New Mexico. Since 1964, federal funds under Title II, Part B of the Economic Opportunity Act, and more recently under Title III, Public Law 89-750 in the Amendments of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, have been procured for the teaching of adults. Because of its relative newness no studies have been made in New Mexico which have identified the goals and motivations of the adult students who are participating in this program.

An Analysis Of Differences Among Cultural Groups In Readiness For The Social Studies Program In The Fourth Grade, Carmen Lobato Tapia

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In recent years there has been considerable research done concerning teaching the social studies at all grade levels. Much of the research has been done in the curriculum area, the subject matter content to be taught, interests of children in the social studies and the sequence of units to be taught. However this writer found no literature that discussed the area of readiness for the social studies subject matter at any grade level.

An Experimental Spelling Program In Third Grade., Elizabeth U. Mixon

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Problem. This study was undertaken to discover if spelling would be improved if the words to be learned were based on some other area of the curriculum and were a natural outgrowth of the activities in that area, rather than an arbitrary list taken from the spelling workbook currently in use in the Albuquerque Public Schools.

The Relationship Of Anxiety, Intelligence And Reading Achievement, Margaret R. Fry

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Educators have become more and more concerned with the emotional area in the lives of children. M special interest has been that of anxiety and its relationship to learning. Various scales have been developed to measure anxiety in children. Several investigators, such as Wrightman, Cox, Feather, Lunneborg, and Pachecho have made significant studies which show that anxiety or fear correlates negatively with achievement. Further, Phillips, Hindsman and Jennings,

Feldhusenand Klausmeier, Cauble, and others have shown that anxiety or fear and intelligence are negatively correlated. Grooms and Endler and Maltzman, Eisman, and Morrisett found contradictory results in that high anxiety did …

A Comparative Study Of Individualized And Basal Reading Methods In Fourth Grade., Margaret A. Peke

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

I. THE PROBLEM

Statement of the problem. There is no controversy over the importance of reading instruction in the modern school curriculum. The ability to read is essential for learning in every field of knowledge. The purpose of this study was to investigate how individual differences could be more effectively provided for in the middle grades by (1) determining an indication of pupil interest, mental maturity, and reading achievement among three fourth grade classrooms, (2) establishing a method of procedure by which individualized instruction could be executed without utilization of the traditional basal reading approach, and (3) making an analytical …

An Investigation Of Albuquerque's Married Elementary Teachers Who Have Dropped Out Of Teaching Because Of Pregnancy, Ada Crawford Gorton

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I. THE PR0BLEM

Statement of the problem. It was the purpose of this study (1) to discover why elementary teachers 1vho have resigned from the Albuquerque Schools because of pregnancy have not returned to teaching; (2) to ascertain if fact ions existing within the school community or forces within the school system were influential considerations in the decisions of teachers who have not returned to teaching.

Plans For The Development Of A High School Art Program For Socorro, New Mexico., Eleanor Wolf Oliver

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THE FIELD PROBLEM IS PRESENTED AND ASSESSED

In the spring of 1963, the Socorro High School principal contacted the teacher (an art education major and English minor), who was teaching five sections of sophomore English, about teaching an art class. A conference with the principal established the following ideas: