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The Reading Achievement Of Eleventh And Twelfth Grade Indian Students And A Survey Of Curricular Changes Indicated For The Improved Teaching Of Reading In The Public High Schools Of New Mexico, Irving D. Townsend

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The indigenous natives of the Western Hemisphere known as Amerinds, are endowed with numerous Mongolian characteristics indicating the racial stock from which they have derived. Today, those Amerinds residing in North America are known as American Indians, whose numbers total well over 400,000 in the United States. Of this total there are some 110. 000 living in the Southwest of which over 45,000 reside in New Mexico. This Indian population broadly includes a portion of the Navajo Tribe, which constitutes the greater percentage of the total, the Apaches, and the numerous groups of Pueblo Indians. There were undoubtedly earlier probes …

The Application Of The Meaning Theory To The Teaching Of Arithmetic In Selected Third Grade Classes Of Indian Children In The Public Schools Of New Mexico, Hitoshi Ikeda

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purposes of this study were (1) to initiate in selected third grade classes in New Mexico, a planned program of arithmetic instruction based on the meaningful approach to the teaching of arithmetic; (2) to determine the effectiveness of the program in terms of children's achievement in arithmetic; and (3) to determine the attitude of pupils and teachers toward the program of instruction.

An Experimental Study Of The Effect Of Teaching English Grammar From The Traditional And Structural Approaches, Bobbie Carlene Anthony Walker

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It was the purpose of this study to conduct an experiment in a junior high school classroom situation to compare, through pre-testing and post-testing, the achievement of a group of ninth grade students taught English grammar from a traditional approach, the achievement of a group of ninth grade students taught English grammar from the structural approach, and the achievement of a group of ninth grade students taught literature in English class with no specific instruction in grammar, with the evaluation to be limited to measurement to gains or losses in the ability of students to (1) recognize specific types of …

How Exceptional Children Function In Regular Classrooms, Kathryn Stephenson Talley

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Statement of the problem: This study attempts to determine the degree of efficiency with which exceptional children function in regular classrooms and the extent of their social acceptance.

Importance of the study: Because it is necessary for a large percentage of exceptional children to be educated in the regular classrooms of the public school system, it is important to obtain information concerning the achievement such children make in this situation and the degree of social acceptance they are able to win in the peer group.

Delimitation of the problem: This study is concerned with teacher-selected exceptional children from twenty-one sixth-grade …

A Study Of Three Cases Of Extreme Reading Disability, Dora Francis Hardy

Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs

The purpose of this study was (1) to relate three cases of severe reading disability in which the condition variously described as strephosymbolia, congenital alexia, or mirror vision has been considered a contributing cause of the reading handicaps; (2) to present the opinions held by various authors concerning such cases; and (3) to describe various types of remediation attempted for such cases.

A Survey Of The Public School Administrators' Attitudes Toward Physical Education, Patrick A. Tabor

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

It is the purpose of this study to identify certain attitudes of the administrators of the public schools in the state of New Mexico. It is the further purpose of this study to determine the incidence of particular attitudes.

Hypothesis: The administrators of the state schools hold certain adverse opinions about physical education.

An attempt to measure an attitude is an attempt to measure an intangible. THe use of the questionnaire method of determining attitudes is limited by the response a person can give.

This study is limited to the public school administrators of the state of New Mexico.

An Experimental Laboratory Approach To The Teaching Of Botany In The Secondary Schools, Robert F. Miller

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It was the purpose of this study: (1) to evaluate new techniques that utilize an experimental laboratory approach in the teaching of botany, and (2) to develop a laboratory manual based on the results of the experimentation emphasizing basic plant physiological concepts that can be easily used by high school sophomores.

The Personality Differences Between Unilingual And Bilingual 9th Grade Students In A Depressed Area, Martha Mersman Mullins

Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs

The purposes of this study were (1) to present a summary of the literature on the personality differences of unilingual and Spanish bilinguals, and (2) to determine the personality similarities and differences of unilingual and Spanish bilingual ninth graders in a depressed area

An Experiment In Second-Language Instruction Of Beginning Indian Children In New Mexican Public Schools, Leroy Condie

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It was the purpose of this study to determine whether, and to what degree, the quality of instruction of non-English-speaking beginning Indian children could be improved by the (1) elaboration of the curriculum of selected beginning classrooms to provide wider learning experiences for the children, and (2) acquainting the teachers of these classrooms with aids, skills, and techniques judged to be effective in teaching oral English to Indian children and in promoting readiness for reading.

The study, as is seen, was in actuality an experiment in curriculum building and teacher education focused upon a specific instructional problem, namely: teaching a …

An Analysis Of The Allocation Of State Support To Pupil Transportation In New Mexico, Lloyd Laverne Cockrell

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The origin and development of pupil transportation in the United States has been influenced by social, economic, and technological factors. In an interdependent way, these factors have directed and controlled the evolution of pupil transportation. The reason for transporting pupils to school are rooted in the elements of our rural culture and in the social, economic, and technological forces acting upon it. The American farmer, by living on the land he tilled, helped to introduce forms of rural social structure which made pupil transportation inevitable. The needs of early rural people were met by the establishment of social organizations such …

The Development Of Certification Practices In New Mexico And The Study Of The Relationship Between These Practices And Improved Educational Levels In The State, John A. Barrett

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It was the purpose of this study: (1) to trace the historical development, through various levels, of the certification of professional educational personnel in New Mexico; (2) to note the extent to which the schools of the state had reached or exceeded state-prescribed standards for their educational personnel from 1912 to 1958; and (3) to use widely accepted factors which may indicate whether improved educational levels in the state had accompanied higher certification requirements. Factors which were used as indicators are the following:

Number of new eighth grade graduates as a percentage of the population.

Number of new high school …

The Indian Child's Status In New Mexico's Public Elementary School Science Programs, Carol M. Charles

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

In the year 1950, public laws 815 and 874 were formally added to the federal statutes through action by the Congress of the United States. This legislation provided federal funds to public schools under conditions which enabled and encouraged their integration of Indian students. Overall, such integration was advantageous to Indian groups. Since the 1920's the conviction that Indians learned better in the public schools, where there was increased contact with the majority culture, had been growing. Recent research, involving Indian students from mission schools, federal schools, and public schools, supported this conviction. The transfer of students from Bureau of …

An Investigation Into The Bilingual Child's Comprehension Of Antonyms, Christine Glass Dudding

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was to determine the Indian or Spanish-American bilingual child's proficiency in the comprehension of antonyms of the English language. The method employed was (1) to devise a test which will give the child an opportunity to indicate his use of antonyms and his ability to recognize common pairs of opposites. These test items are arranged in an order of increasing difficultly, but are kept well within the range of fourth grade reading ability; (2) to direct the administration of this antonym test to a selected sample of fourth grade Anglo children in the Albuquerque Public …

An Investigation Of Bilingualism And Achievement In Reading In The Fourth Grade Of The Parochial School System In The Archdiocese Of Santa Fe, 1957-1958., Albert Schneider

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It was the first purpose of this study to investigate a considerable group of elementary school pupils with the intention of determining the measurable growth in reading ability during a seven-month period of instruction. The second purpose of this study was to determine whether or not a significant difference existed in the amount of reading growth between the unilinguals of the sampling and the bilinguals. The third purpose of the study was to identify specific areas of weakness in reading and either to make appropriate recommendations for their corrections or to point out the area of indicated research.