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A Study Of Selected Films As An Aid In An Eighth Grade Occupational Orientation Program, Russell Rex Kircher

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The study was made in an attempt to answer the question: Are selected films effective in an eighth grade occupational orientation program at California Junior High School in Sacramento, California?

The purpose of the study was to see if selected films used as an aid were effective in giving occupational information.

The Duties And Responsibilities Of The Counselor In The Secondary Schools Of Modesto, Dorothy Alice Boylan

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Does the individual guidance program of Modesto secondary schools meet the needs of the youth enrolled? This question is to be answered through a study of (1) the counselee loud of the counselors in the Modesto secondary schools; (2) the distribution of problems encountered in counseling; (3) the number of repeat counselees and how and why they came to the counselors; (4) the effectiveness of the counseling program from the students’ viewpoint; (5) the effectiveness of the counseling program from the counselors’ viewpoint.

An Education Index For The California Education Code Of 1949, Herndon Carroll Ray

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Some knowledge of the California School Law is presumed to be a part of the professional training of every teacher. A specific course in State School Administration and School Law in a prerequisite to the securing of an Administration Credential. The courses offered and the resultant use of the Education Code are not enough to make members of the teaching profession conversant with the many and varied aspects of legal restrictions and permissions concerning the California School System. The ordinary layman who has not had even the basis training in legal knowledge is even more inept at finding the law. …

Industrial Arts Programs In High Schools, Grades 9-12, With An Average Daily Attendance Of 300 Or Less, Edward Milton Grassell

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Today, we are living in a highly complex industrial world. In order to prepare both boys and girls adequately for a happy and essential living in our industrial society, provisions must be made in the general education program for adequate acquaintance with content related to the technical world. Industrial arts helps to interpret our industrial age to students, attempts to prepare youth to meet the challenges which result from industry, and strives; to give adequate preparation for gainful employment and worthy citizenship in a democratic society.

Statement of the problem:

It was the purpose of this study to determine whether …

A Study Of The Rehabilitation Programs Of Certain Sanatoria, Carol Walter Elmer Bond

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

How do certain tuberculosis sanatoria meet the needs of their patients through their rehabilitation programs?

The objectives of this study were (1) to compare a sampling of existing educational programs within tuberculosis hospitals and sanatoria in order (2) to find ways of improving curriculum for a five hundred bed institution such as the Weimar Joint Sanatorium, and (3) to find the most acceptable type of organization for the successful use of this curriculum.

A Study Of Interdistrict Attendance Agreements In The Elementary School Districts Of Calaveras, Merced, And Solano Counties, Harold Basil Youngblood

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The present study represents an investigation of the administration of the statutory provisions in California’s Education Code which allow pupils resident in one school district to attend school in another.

What are the financial and educational implications resulting from the administration of California’s statutory provisions allowing pupils resident in one school district to attend school in another? This question sums up the problem.

The purposes of this study were, therefore, as follows: (1) To determine the effect of interdistrict school attendance upon the apportionment of State moneys to school districts; (2) To determine the effect of interdistrict school attendance upon …

A Survey Of The Health Practices Of The Boys And Girls Of Stockton High School, Kenneth W. Rogers

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The health of the students in a class is of vital importance to every teacher because of the relationship between health of the students and their performance in school. Especially is this true of the Physical Education instructor and coach, whose job it is to work with the students in physical activities. High school teachers assume that the students in the elementary school have been taught the correct health practices. Whether the student is practicing the habit taught is a question that few teachers can answer. The only basis the teacher has for his answer to this question is observation …

The Status Of Sex Education In The Public Elementary Schools Of California, Will Shippee Cluff Jr.

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this paper is to attempt to determine what the schools are doing in the field of sex education. As the field of inquiry is great and the subject matter is one of importance, this study is limited to the elementary schools within the state of California, It is felt that through a study of this nature, one can ascertain what is or what is not being done, and whether the public schools of California are doing their part in this problem in which they are playing and ever increasing role.

A Survey Of The Effectiveness Of The Business Curriculum In Selected Small High Schools Of California, John Webster Anderson

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

A formal survey for the purpose of securing written statements by students of what they were doing, how the high school business education has served them in business, opinions regarding the sufficiencies and inadequacies of different phases in the business subjects, and difficulties encountered when first started working have not been made. Some attempt was made in Patterson to secure employer opinion of office workers apprenticed out from the school as part of their business education. However, no study was made of what employers thought of graduates that were working for them, the classification of office workers, or listing of …

A Study Of The Influence Of Alumni Contacts Upon The Educational Program Of Medium-Sized California High Schools, Arch Alexander Brown Jr.

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In line with the revised philosophy, objectives, and emphases of the modern secondary school, the problem with which this study is concerned is: How do alumni contacts influence the educational program of medium-sized California high schools? The extent to which these schools maintain contact with their alumni, their procedures in maintaining contact, and the objectives and utilization of such contact fall within the scope of the study.

Ascendance : Submission Traits As Correlated With Some Aspects Of The Authoritarian Personality, Leo A. Moore

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The problem is to see if there is a correlation between some of the ideologies that make-up the fascist personality, as measured in terms of the University of California Public Opinion Study and Ascendance - Submission traits as measured in terms of the A-S Reaction Study. Is there a statistical correlation between the "E" - ethnocentric, "PHC" political-economic conservatism, and "F" - fascist scale, and ascendance-submission traits of individuals? If so, what does this correlation imply? What generalizations can be made on the basis of statistical indications, if any? Will this study indicate that it will be possible to predict …

A Comparison Of Two Methods Of Teaching English In Selected Classes Of The Same High School, Richard Louis Hughes

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to set up equivalent groups of conventional and experimental classes in English in order to test both groups with certain standardized tests before and after a definite period of instruction, and to evaluate the relative efficiency of the two teaching methods in light of the statistical evidence.

A Study Of The Legal Provisions For Tort Liability By Schools And Private Parties Engaged In Off-Campus Activity, James Maurice Alexander

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The original problem which was proposed for this study is as follows: What are some of the provisions being made for secondary schools in providing for tort liability when students engage in off-campus curricular activity for mutual benefit of private party and the student, in absence of legal provision in the California State Education Code?

A Study Of The Relationship Between Hand Preference And Motor Ability In Secondary School Pupils, James Lynn Shannon

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This study was undertaken in an effort to determine whether or not left-handed students achieve as high pro- ficiency as do right-handed students in secondary school subjects which require motor ability. This problem came to the attention of the writer after he had examined the pre- vious writings in the general field of inquiry. It was found that mich of the material contained in these earlier studies had to do with the probable causes of handedness and what the effect would be to change a sinistral indi- vidual to dextral usage. Less material was found concern- ing the relative success …

A Study Of Corcoran Joint Union High School Drop-Outs For The School Year Of 1949-1950, Emmit Rowland Wheat

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The problem for the study of Corcoran Joint Union High School can be stated in its simplest form with three closely related questions: Why did the students drop out? Where are they living now? What are they doing now?

Until these questions can be answered, until the various causes of drop-outs can be determined, little or beneficial changes can be made either in or out of schools to solve the problem or, at least, alleviate the tendency for students to leave high school before graduation.

The problem which this particular study has attempted to solve is to determine why high …

An Organized Guidance And Counseling Program For High Schools Enrolling Less Than One Hundred Fifty Pupils, Frank Balogh

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The problem is, "Does a need exist for an effective guidance program in the small high schools of the State of California?" This study is based on the data obtained from the State Department of Education, Division of Secondary Education, Sacramento, California, and is based on the October, 1948, reports of the principals of California high schools to the Department of Education, and on nine interviews with high school principals or guidance directors in the following schools: Sutter Creek, Jackson, Brete Hart, Linden, Galt, Sonora, Oakdale, Tuolumne, and Lodi.

Language Training For Missionaries, Laurence Mcpherson Farr

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Every foreign missionary is confronted with one basic task. Without its successful accomplishment his work as a missionary will fail. It is the task of learning the language of the people among whom he is working. However laudable his motives may be, however great his consecration, and however capable he may be in many tasks, if he fails to gain the ability to understand readily speech addressed to him or to communicate his own thoughts intelligibly and accurately to them, he is working behind a closed door — a door which he failed to unlock,

It is the purpose of …

A Survey Of The Techniques Of Football Line Play In Selected Colleges, F. Sheldon Harden

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It was the purpose of this study (1) to determine the importance of techniques of line play in college football; and (2) to note by comparative analysis the viewpoints of leading authorities now in the coaching profession, and those of noted football authors.