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A Study Of Factor B Of The Early School Personality Questionnaire(Espq) As A Valid Measure Of General Mental Ability, Claude S. Iles

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This study investigated the validity of the general ability factor, Factor B of the Early School Personality Questionnaire(ESPQ), in two ways. First, validity coefficients for Factor B were obtained by computing product-moment correlation coefficients between the ESPQ Factor B raw scores of 40 developmentally disabled subjects and their raw scores on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R). Second, the Kruskal-Wallis rank sums test and a distribution-free multiple comparisons test were employed to determine if there were significant differences among the mean ESPQ Factor B raw scores of subjects designated as mentally retarded, learning disabled, or normal. Specifically, it was …

An Evaluation Of Administrative Practices Concerning Secondary-School Libraries, Raymond J. Young

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This study is an attempt to evaluate the practices of eight South-east Kansas secondary-school administrators concerning school libraries located in eight counties. Previous library studies have generally disclosed serious inadequacies. Administrators are responsible for conditions in any part of the school, and this study attempts to discover how nearly existing administrative practices agree with principles and practices accepted by library science authorities. After much study an information sheet was constructed and used to record data obtained during personal interviews held in the administrator's office of each school. Administrative practice concerning library housing, accessibility, finance, acquisition of materials, personnel, control, support, …

The Effect Of Benzedrine Sulfate On Personality Adjustment, John Francis Murphy Jr.

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The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of Benzedrine sulfate on personality adjustment, as measured by two personality tests.

The two personality tests used were the Bell Adjustment Inventory and the Bernreuter Personality test. These tests were administered to ten male college students of Kansas State Teachers College, Pittsburg, Kansas.

The test scores were obtained under three different conditions. A normal score was first obtained; the ten subjects were then divided at random into two groups of five each. The first group of five took ten milligrams of Benzedrine sulfate on Monday, while the second group of …

A Program For The Improvement Of The Wallace High School Library, Wallace, Kansas, Ruth Adair Mannoni

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The problem was to organize and improve the library in the small high school located at Wallace, Kansas. This study is based upon the assumption: (1) that the secondary school library has increased in importance with changing methods of instruction for high school pupils; (2) that the textbook is now generally used as an outline and reference, and should be supplemented with reference books, magazines pamphlets and a wide range of printed matter; and (3) that the secondary school that offers its pupils an enriched curriculum must also have a well equipped library organized to give efficient service. This manuscript …

The Establishment Of A School And Community Museum, Daniel Caldwell Simkins

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This study was made in order to determine the practicability of establishing school and community museums in the State of Kansas. Many of the state, private, and W. P. A. museums were visited in order to learn the best museum practices and procedures. According to the best authorities every small school and community museum should have four divisions of exhibits, history, art, science, and industrial materials. The methods of collecting , preparing, preserving, and exhibiting history, art, science, and industrial materials were outlined. The classifying, labelling, cataloguing, and arranging of exhibits according to the recognized standard procedure are presented. School …

An Evaluation Of Tests Of Musical Talent, Herbert Clark Levan

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The problem consists of an evaluation of tests of musical ability to discover which tests are most reliable and useful for elementary school purposes.

In a review of the literature related to the problem an attempt was made to present different viewpoints fairly, to summarize evidence of outstanding tests, to analyze contradictory evidences for possible solution of the questions involved, and to set up criteria for the selection of the best tests.

For further evidence, four selected batteries of comparatively new tests were given to over one thousand children in grades two to six in the schools of Parsons, Kansas. …

An Annotated Bibliography Of Books And Stories Suitable For First Grade Children Listed According To Units Of Work, Velda Mae Williams

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Modern reading experts believe that the fundamental goal of a good reading program is to instill in today's children a love of reading. One basic requisite of the primary reading program is a wide variety of easy reading material that a child can read and enjoy freely and naturally just as an adult does. Interesting, attractive books are provided in abundance for young readers by the publishers of children's books. However, there is a great deal of evidence to show that many of these books are introduced from one to three years before the average student has the background experience …

A Study Of The Psycho-Graphs Of Fifty-Five High School Students To Determine The Relationship Between Musical Talent And Various Degrees Of Intelligence, Marie H. Weatherly

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From time immemorial music has played an important part in the life of the race; but it has been incidental rather than purposive. This incidental process meant that only those persons who had extreme talent and the inner urge became musicians. Frequently, these persons were either highly intellectual or at the other extremity of mentality, so the belief arose that musical talent was associated with great intelligence and to be a successful musician one must have wide experience, a liberal education, broad purpose and high ideals; or that a musician was among the most un-intelligent of men, sometimes near the …