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Effect Of Environment On Athletic Ability, Carroll Clinton Stowell

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

There have bean many arguments, pro and con, about which boys make the best athletes. One very well known college coach, so the legend goes, would do his recruiting of football players in the following manner. He would drive around the country and every time he saw a prospective football player plowing a field he would stop and ask directions to the next town. If the boy just told him how to get there he would depart, but if the boy picked up the plow and pointed in the direction he should go he would immediately ask him to come …

Safety Education In California Elementary Schools, Maxwell Alexander Cunninghame

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Statement of the problem: How does the program of safety education in California elementary schools meet the needs of youth as defined by selected authoritative criteria?

A sampling of 112 elementary schools of various grade combinations in thirty-four California counties furnished the basis for a questionnaire study. These schools fell within the average daily attendance range of 165 to 599. In addition to this the questionnaire was sent to twelve large city schools in various parts of the state, but in no case did the attendance figure go over seven hundred. The majority of the schools were in rural or …

A Survey Of Selected Parents Of Pupils In The Sacramento City Unified School District Relating To Their Opinions Concerning Four All-Year School Plans, Henry Merrill Wulff

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Many school systems throughout the United States have presented and tried various all-year-round school plans. The ever changing social and economic conditions of educational problems. Occasionally a practical solution of these has been to alter the conventional nine month school program to an all-year school plan. This has not always proven advantageous because boards of education many times failed to ascertain parental reaction before implementing the new educational program.

A Study Of The Essential Drills And Fundamental Skills For A Pass Offense In High School T Formation Football, Vernon John Warkentin

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It is the purpose of this study (1) to determine the theories and techniques of the pass offense in football; (2) to analyse the basic fundamentals and skills of the high school pass offense; (3) to compile a list of essential T formation passing drills; and (4) to determine the relative importance of the basic fundamentals and skills of high school T formation pass offense.

Reorganization Of The Elementary Schools In The Linden Union High School District, William Richard Johnsen

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Should the elementary schools of the Linden Union High School District consolidate into larger administrative units in order to improve educational services?

To determine if a plane of reorganization is feasible answers will be sought for the following questions: (1) What is the financial ability of the existing school districts?; (2) Are there inequalities in the economic burden of support?; (3) Are there educational inequalities?; (4) Is widespread transportation feasible?; (5) What are the population trends?; (6) What barriers affect district reorganization?; (7) Where are the community interest centers?; (8) What reorganization is educationally sound?

An Investigation Of Contemporary Dramatic Art Programs, Theater Plants, And Production Attitudes In One Hundred And Sixty-Six Public High Schools Of California, Curtis Cureton

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The existence of dramatic art activity at the secondary school level has been often accepted as expedient and profit- able. The objectives, nature, and operation of such & program are, however, topics for much dispute. An investigation of dramatic activity in our public high schools could drew a clearer picture of current dramatic activities in those schools responding to the study. Such definition might well lead to a better understanding of the problems peculiar to dramatic activity in the public nigh schools of California

A Comparative Study Of A Public Opinion Poll Of The Parents Of The Stockton Unified School District, Stockton, California, Ray Calvin Stevens

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to obtain a representative sample of public opinion to the following questions: (1) To what extent do the parents favor the educational program of the Stockton Unified School District? (2) What do the parents think of the treachers in the Stockton public schools? (3) Are the parents aware of the student growth and building problems that face the Stockton Unified School District? The data of this study were obtained by means of a questionnaire sent to parents of school children in nine elementary and four high schools in Stockton. The questionnaires were sent home …

The Development And Justification Of A Course In Alcohol Education For Secondary Schools, Ernest E. Kaster

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

With the increasing pressure of the American way of life, increased tension and anxieties of our fast civilization, and increased pressure of the advertisements of the liquor industry on billboards, magazines, radio, and newspapers, the alcohol problem has been steadily increasing. It is estimated that two-thirds of the alcoholics begin their drinking while in high school. It would appear then that the high school is the proper place in which to prepare the future citizens to solve their problems in an intelligent and unbiased manner.

How The Spanish Culture Can Contribute More Significantly To The Social Studies Program Of California Elementary Schools, Samuel Encínas Renteria

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In the past, evidence indicates that the teaching of social studies in many places in California has been a perfunctory, superficial type of instruction, For example, early attempts to expose the child to the historical background of California were through a history or geography book. In most cases, the usual procedure was to tell the child to read so many pages and then answer the questions at the end of the chapter. The main objective was to cover the text by the end of the school term and pass an examination over facts with little or no concern for the …

A Survey To Determine Whether The Eighth Grade Students Of San Joaquin County Are Working Up To Their Ability In Language Arts, John Hamilton Hodgson

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This study represents a survey of selected eighth-grade students of San Joaquin County and the measurement of their ability and achievement in certain aspects of the Language Arts program of the elementary school.

Population Trends And School Building Needs In The Merced City School District, James Lafayette Daniel

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The natural result of this increased population was to place an abnormal strain on the Merced City School facilities. In the last ten years the enrollment of the schools in this city has increased from a peak of 1773 to 3566 pupils.

The administrators of Merced City schools, in attempting to provide adequate facilities for the mounting enrollments, have in the last three years, with the support of the patrons of the district, financed and constructed six new school buildings. Four of these are additions to the total number of district buildings and have been located at new sites because …

A Comparative Study Of Attendance Problem Students And Students Of Regular Attendance At Arvin High School, 1952-1953, Earlene Patricia Waters

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Since the Massachusetts Compulsory Education Law of 1642, the nature of the public secondary school student body has undergone .widespread changes. Public education has broadened its base to include all educable students of school age.

Attendance problems seemed to have increased with compulsory education. In the past, assumptions based upon limited observation have been drawn by educators concerning the individual students who constitute this attendance problem group. Since no specific study of attendance conditions existed for the Kern County Union High School District, this investigation has undertaken to meet that need.

An Investigation Of The Imaginative Productions Of A Selected Group Of College Students, Harlan Wesley Wayne

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Statement of the problem. The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not imaginative productivity can be significantly increased by the use of relatively obscured pictorial material as compared with the productions obtained through the use of a criterion set of pictorial materials.

The Use Of Standardized Test Results In Elementary Schools Of The Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod In The United States, 1950-1951, Melvin Kieschnick

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The primary question which this study endeavors to answer is: How are achievement, intelligence and personality tests results used in the elementary schools of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod?

This study will investigate only the use of standardized tests. As each school and each teacher would use different types of teacher-made tests for different purposes, it was felt that no general conclusions could be reached in the use of that type of instrument were included in this study. Limiting the study to standardized tests provides for a common basis on which to evaluate all schools. Another reason for selecting …

The Contributions Of John Swett To Free Public Education In California, Will Shippee Cluff Jr.

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

To no one man can go the full credit for establishing and building the free public schools of California, any more than can any single individual be given full credit in any complex community undertaking. But in any communal activity, one man usually stands out, and in the case of the schools of California, John Swett is that individual.

Much has been written about Swett, the man, but little has been written about his contributions to the school structure of his adopted state. The latter is the problem with which this paper deals. In view of an ever increasing interest …

The Effect Of Mobility On The Scholastic Achievement Of Students At Sacramento Senior High School, James Percy Catterall

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The hypothesis being tested in this study is that students who move from place to place and attend a variety of schools exhibit a level of school achievement below that attained by students from a more stable population. The particular area of investigation was the relationship between the physical mobility of children on the move to industrial areas, and their school achievement as measured by their scholastic grades.

Whither Geyserville, A Problem In School District Reorganization : A Theses ..., Cyril Graham Vassar

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to show whether it will be more advantageous for the Geyserville Union High School District to join with the Healdsburg High School District sven miles to the south, or with the Cloverdale Union High School District nine miles to the north, distances being registered from the center of Geyserville.

Biological Factors Involved In The Absenteeism Of Children From Stockton Public Schools, Fae-Belle Coudeyre

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Every state has a compulsory school attendance law, and yet at any time during the school year approximately 12 percent of the children will not be in school - cannot very well be in school, because of some physical, mental, or emotional handicap, either temporary or permanent.

These absentees are what are now often called the “exceptional” children, including the blind and partially-blind, the deaf and hard-of-hearing, the speech-defective, the crippled, the delicate, the epileptic, the mentally deficient, those with serious social maladjustments, together with those who are temporarily out of school because of a disease or accident. The total …

A Study Of Continuation Education Practices In Small California Secondary Schools, Clarence Joseph Golomb

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The main purpose of this study was to discover if and why some small California secondary schools fail to provide continuation education.

The study involved two problems: First, to show the arrangements, methods, and problems encountered in carrying out statutory provisions concerning continuation education in small secondary schools; Second, to determine the attitude of secondary school administrators toward continuation education.