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An Investigation Of Occupational Interest Fields Of Special Class And Institution Retardates As A Function Of Intelligence And Chronological Age, Joseph A. Twaranovica

Student Work

Growth of special education for the mentally retarded within the past decade is evidenced by the appearance of a multitude of publications and legislative acts. The fundamental objectives of these programs are the same as those formulated for all children by the Educational Policies Commission.

The Suitability Of The Goodenough Draw A Man Test For Use In The Chagga Schools Of Tanganyika, Allan J. Gottneid

Student Work

The principal and staff of the Marangu Teacher Training Center, Tanganyikaf last Africa, have experienced a need for instruments of measurement suitable for studying the psychology of African school children. Several obstacles have effectively prevented the finding of, or the development of such measures. Among these obstacles are limitation of financial resources, limitation of time to devote to research, and limitation of personnel qualified to undertake such research as would be necessary. Another obstacle is more deeply rooted; it is the African himself. In Tanganyika alone, there are nearly 120 tribes, each with its own language and cultural heritage. A …

A Longitudinal Study Of The Relations Between Sex, Intelligence, Reading Grade Achievement, And Rate Of Reading Growth From Grades Four Through Eight, Janice M. Ebert

Student Work

Reading has been acknowledged as one of the basic subjects in formal education experience. School administrators, teachers, psychologists, parents, and other interested persons have stressed the urgent demand for such a skill for solving problems, reasoning, and learning. A considerable amount of time, effort, and attention has been devoted to reading in the elementary school. It has a vital place in nearly every aspect of academic endeavor. Unless a child attains a certain facility in reading, his educational progress is hindered. Snedaker and Horn indicated concern when they stated that pupils must obtain from books a vast part of their …

The Problem Of Time In The Philosophy Of William James, Teruaki Iida

Philosophy ETDs

The problem of time has continued to be a puzzle in the history of philosophy, just as "the problem of Being" has. The time which we experience in ordinary life -- not only emotionally, such as we feel, endure, anticipate or regret, but also intellectually, such as we measure and calculate -- it is not "time itself' but consists in individual, concrete movements and changes.

A Study Of Ninth Grade Remedial Reading Programs, Jean Marilou Furry

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study To Determine The Adequacy Of The Business Department Of The Negro High Schools Of Dallas County, Lucy Jackson Foy

All Theses

Purpose of The Study

The purpose of this study is to determine how adequately Negro schools of Dallas County, Dallas, Texas are conforming to certain standards in business education.

To assist the schools in ascertaining the effectiveness of the existing programs.

To assist the schools in finding existing weaknesses in their programs.

To help the schools recognize revisions needed in the present program.

To provide better personnel for business through a more effective school curriculum. A comparative survey of business administration programs has been made, and the programs were evaluated by standards formulated by the texas education agency and recognized …

An Experimental Method For Three-Dimensional Dynamic Stress Analysis, Larry E. Williams

Mechanical Engineering ETDs

It is the purpose of this thesis to present an evaluation of a method of experimental dynamic stress analysis utilizing electrical resistance strain gauges located internally. If it can be shown that the proposed experimental procedure is valid, then the transient stress phenomena could be continuously recorded from an internal, integral strain gauge placed at any desired location and in any orientation in a suitable model.

A Proposed Plan For Placement And Follow-Up Services In The Division Of Industrial Education At Prairie View Agricultural And Mechanical College, Prairie View, Texas, Jesse Leon Hill

All Theses

Purpose of the study

Prior to the twentieth century, the administrators of educational institutions in the united states did not assume the responsibility of setting up organized placement and follow-up programs for persons enrolled in their schools. However, by 1910 it had been firmly established that the school is the most strategic place in which to offer such services. Some of the functions of guidance had already been instituted in Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago, and other cities. The study of the programs in placement and follow-up seems to indicate that wherever placement and follow-up services are available, the students receive more …

Some Difficulties Which Indian Children Encounter With Idioms In Reading, Maurine Dunn Yandell

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was to determine the efficiency of ethnic group children in the use of English idiomatic expressions as found in standard reading texts in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. The procedure followed was: (1) To prepare a multiple-choice test of idioms used in readers in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades in the elementary schools; (2) To administer this idioms test to a selected sample of sixth grade Anglo children to establish percentile ranks as norms for comparison purposes for all sixth graders in Gallup-McKinley County schools; (3) To compare the performance of sixth grade …

Individual Differences With Implications For Grouping, George Baca

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was to analyze the differences in child development in selected areas and to show the inter-relationships between these areas.

An Outline Of The Humanities- A Source Book To Aid Teachers In Correlating Music, Art, Literature, Science And Socio-Economics In Western Civilization, Dorothy Bullock

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The objectives of this study are: 1. To gather together the most important facts from the fields of music, art, literature, science and socioeconomics which, in the writer's opinion and in the opinions of experts in these fields, have been of the greatest influence in the development of Western Civilization, 2. To present these facts in chronological order in an organized and systematic fashion in order to provide an easily accessible reference for teachers of grades five through twelve, 3. To show how the various areas already stated are chronologically related throughout the history of Western Civilization, 4. To give …

The Preaching Of H. Leo Boles, William S. Banowsky

Speech and Hearing Sciences ETDs

In the rich heritage of rhetoric, pulpit speaking has become one of the significant areas of public address. A wide gap would be left in the history of public address if pulpit orators were excluded from its heritage. In a sense, the history of this nation can be punctuated by a study religious speakers that have helped mold its development.

This study deals with the life and preaching of Henry Leo Boles, whose contribution to the dignity of the spoken word of the American pulpit has been significant. The pulpit ability of H. Leo Boles was no mere accident. He …

Promoting Parent Understanding Of The Beginning Reading Program, Thelma G. Condie

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was to prepare a booklet that will provide parents with information about some of the present methods and theories of teaching beginning reading. A further purpose was to validate the effectiveness of the booklet.

Four Aspects Of Milton's Samson Agonistes: Imagery, Comedy, Autobiography, Tragedy, Ronald Kutny

English Language and Literature ETDs

The lengthily extended figures of speech and the many instances of recurrent synonymous modifiers must be evident even to the most casual reader of John Milton's poetic drama, Samson Agonistes. It is difficult to label, in any simple literary terminology, the technique which I shall discuss and attempt to analyze in this chapter. Therefore, I shall borrow a term from the vocabulary of music in order to indicate, with as much precision as possible, the nature of this technique -- leitmotiv.

An Edition Of William Dean Howells' Literary Friends And Acquaintance With An Introduction Treating Literary Reminiscence As A Genre, David Franklin Hiatt

English Language and Literature ETDs

Although the literary reminiscence is a highly specialized kind of autobiography, many of the problems encountered in autobiography are worth considering when one attempts to focus on the reminiscence. Before placing Literary Friends and Acquaintance into the broad stream of literary reminiscence that appeared in America in the latter part of the nineteenth century, I should like to consider the critical problems of the autobiographical mode and the relationship between autobiography and literary reminiscence. Then I should like to suggest an approach to the literary reminiscence and to consider several individual reminiscences using this approach.

Anarchism And The Morality Of Violence, Edward Abbey

Philosophy ETDs

The idea of anarchism is embarrassed, however, by its traditional association with illegality and violence. The word itself is sufficient to evoke visions of riot and revolution, bombings and assassinations, in the minds of many who might otherwise be willing to lend to anarchism a measured degree of sympathetic consideration. If anarchism is to regain the intellectual respectability which it deserves, two preliminary quest ions must be answered 1 (1) To what extent is the traditional association of anarchism and violence warranted? And (2), In so far as the association is a valid one, what arguments have the anarchists presented, …

Teacher Awareness Of Socio-Cultural Differences In Multi-Cultural Classrooms, Horacio Ulibarri

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The public schools in the United States were created to serve all the children of all the people in order that youth might more ably participate in American society. The public schools along with the home, the church, and the community are the primary socializing institutions. With the acceptance of the principle of educating the whole child, the functions of the schools have been greatly expanded into a multitude of services are primarily aimed to help the individual child develop to his full potential. The practical application, however, may be somewhat different. Upon closer analysis, one may find great discrepancies …

The Student Population In The Institutions Of Higher Education In The Southern Appalachian Region, 1933-1958, T. Madison Byar

Doctoral Dissertations

This study was directed toward matters pertaining to the student population in the colleges of the Southern Appalachian Region from 1933 to 1958 and was developed principally around the limits of change marked by those two years.

The Role Of Learning In Olfactory Sensitivity, Monroe P. Friedman

Doctoral Dissertations

INTRODUCTION: In recent years the psychological literature has reflected an increasing interest in the role of learning in perception. On the theoretical level, this interest is expressed principally by the considerable attention given to two current attempts to account for perceptual learning (Gibson & Gibson, 1955a: Postman, 1955). On the empirical level, the problems of industry and the military have generated a multitude of investigations in this area. These problems range in diversity from the training of military personnel in the identification of aircraft to the training of tasters in the food industry.

The remainder of this chapter will be …

An In Situ Method For Alteration Of Catalytic Activity By Generation Of A Reactant On The Surface Of The Catalyst, Clyde Dunn Alley

Doctoral Dissertations

In many researches dealing with catalysis there are properties of the catalyst that are attributed to the effect of hydrogen on the surface of the catalyst. The interpretations of the effect of hydrogen on the catalyst surface range from statements which indicate that surface hydrogen is necessary for the reactions to proceed to statements that surface hydrogen is a poison on the reaction. A clearly interpreted picture of the role of hydrogen at the present time is not available.

Rearrangements Of The Benzilic Acid Type; Preparation And Use Of Dialkali Metal Adducts Of Aromatic Ketones., Stanley Selman

Doctoral Dissertations

Introduction: The benzilic acid rearrangement is the base-catalyzed transformation of an α-diketone to the salt of an α-hydroxy acid. This rearrangement can be effected in aromatic, semi-aromatic (o-quinones), in alicyclic, and aliphatic, as well as in heterocyclic α-diketones. Examples of the rearrangement in the above type compounds are illustrated in equations 1-6.

An Investigation Of Variables Differentiating Between Good And Poor Athletes, Leonard Dean Mcneal

Master's Theses

One of the most important problems facing college athletic officials is their selection of player personnel. Each year large numbers of outstanding high school performers enter institutions of higher learning to attain a degree and to gain athletic recognition. In the end, however, success comes to approximately one in five.

A Study Of The Health And Physical Education Program At Binford Junior High School, Linwood Hugh Metzger

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Four Dimensional Graphs Of Complex Functions, Malcom Lee Murrill

Master's Theses

Complex functions of a single complex variable involve four unknowns, two independent and two dependent variables, and thus cannot be adequately represented in two- or three- dimensional space. Various geometric constructions in both two and three dimensions have been devised in the past, however, in attempts to illuminate complex function theory. The standard and most useful, of these representations is that developed by Gauss and Riemann employing two complex planes simultanesously. These show the correspondence between a particular curve or region in the object plane and its image, as mapped by a given transformation, in the image plane.

A Comparative Study Of The Salivary Glands Of Certain Animals With Widely Diverse Food Habits, Arthur E. Dalgleish

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

A comparative study was made of the salivary glands of six animals with diverse diet and food habits. These consisted of the following species: coyote, bobcat, opossum, kangaroo rat, cow and goat. Correlations were sought between the food habits of the animals and the relative size and microscopic structure of their glands.

After recording the gross weights of the animal and the removed glands, microscopic sections were prepared by the paraffin method. Tissues were stained by routine and special stains, including stains specific for mucins.

The cytology of the different glands and the varied mucin reactions are described. Special attention …

A Survey Of Public High School Journalism Departments In The State Of Washington, James Wesley Scott

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to obtain an understanding of the current practices and procedures now in effect in the high school journalism programs throughout the State of Washington and to provide data for educators on the present status of the journalism departments for curriculum study and improvement.

Program Analysis Study Of Selected Freshmen Student At Appalachian State Teachers College, Louis Leroy Rogers

Doctoral Dissertations

Introduction: College dropouts represent an alarming waste of competent manpower. Personal problems of students may be a factor in the dropout situation, and may merit the attention of college staffs. College administrators are realizing that the American student is not the same as a college student of a century ago. The present day college student is an entirely different type, living in a changing and different world. The former concept of the purpose of higher education is not suitable. It emphasized the training of mental faculties. The newer concept of education is concerned with the whole individual.

The Effects Of Soaking And Storage On The Radiosensitivity Of Barley Seeds, Philip E. Hoskinson

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which the effects of irradiation on barley seed could be modified by varying the moisture content of the seed and the storage time.

The Need And Desire For Instruction In Farm Home Repair Mechanics In The Porter High School Community, Ray Jones

Masters Theses

Should Farm Home Repair Mechanics be taught as a part of the vocational agriculture curriculum in the Porter High School, and if so, What should be the teaching units? In order to solve this problem the following questions will be answered:

1. Is there a need for Farm Home Repair Mechanics education In the Porter community?

2. Should Farm Home Repair Mechanics be taught in the Porter High School?

3. Should Farm Home Repair Mechanics be taught to vocational agriculture students?

4. What repairs and adjustment units should be taught in a course on Farm Home Repair Mechanics to students …

Vegetational Changes In A Shadscale-Winterfat Plant Association During Twenty-Three Years Of Controlled Grazing, Kimball T. Harper

Theses and Dissertations

This paper will report the results of a study commenced in 1935, at the Desert Experimental Range, Pine Valley, Millard County, Utah, to determine the relative effects of various grazing treatments upon the plant members of the shadscale [Atriplex confertifolia (Torr. And Frem.) S. Wats.] - winterfat [Eurotia lanata (Pursh) Moq.] plant association. Results of this study indicate that distinct vegetational changes have occurred within that plant association during twenty-three years of controlled grazing by sheep.