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Occupational Implications Of The Industrial Arts Program In Coffeyville, Kansas, George W. Koon Jul 1954

Occupational Implications Of The Industrial Arts Program In Coffeyville, Kansas, George W. Koon

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The purpose of this thesis was to determine the occupational implications of an industrial arts curriculum when used as terminal education. Questionnaires were sent to: past students, selected to eliminate those having more than a high school education and those working in jobs not related to industrial arts training; employers selected on the basis of job requirements and number of employees; and state teachers chosen at random from all points of the state regardless of school size. The findings of the study indicate definite advantages for industrial art students when compared to people with similar education but not having the …


The Relationship Of Four Factors (Intelligence Quotient, Mental Age, Chronological Age, And Arithmetical Ability), With Achievement In First-Year Bookkeeping, Richard Stanley Seymour Jul 1954

The Relationship Of Four Factors (Intelligence Quotient, Mental Age, Chronological Age, And Arithmetical Ability), With Achievement In First-Year Bookkeeping, Richard Stanley Seymour

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The purpose of this study is to determine if any of these four factors (intelligence quotient, mental age, chronological age, and arithmetical ability) are valid measures for prognosticating success in first-year bookkeeping. The bookkeeping students for three consecutive years (1950-51, 1951-52, 1952-53) were grouped together and their achievement in relation to IQ, CA and MA was compared to the achievement of the 1953-54 bookkeeping students through use of scattergrams, by percentages for the entire group and percentages by classification (sophomore, junior and senior). The 1953-54 bookkeeping students were given the Hundred-Problem Arithmetic Test and their probable bookkeeping success in relation …


The Use Of Quality And Rating Scales For Evaluating Industrial Arts Projects, Bobby L. Agnew Jul 1954

The Use Of Quality And Rating Scales For Evaluating Industrial Arts Projects, Bobby L. Agnew

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The main objective of this study is to present to those who may be interested a means of objectively evaluating (grading) industrial art projects. The means used in this study were project rating and quality scales. The information that was used in developing this study was acquired through research in the library on the campus of Kansas State Teachers College, Pittsburg, Kansas, and experiments carried out on the same campus.