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Financial Impact Of School District Reorganization In The State Of Missouri, Glendon Laverne Farmer

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to analyze the financial data of selected reorganized high school districts in the State of Missouri for the two years immediately following reorganization and the two years immediately preceding reorganization to determine what changes occurred in financial patterns of the districts after reorganization had occurred.

The following subproblems were examined:

1. Assessed valuations were analyzed for the two years preceding and the two years following reorganization.

2. Tax rates were analyzed for the two years preceding and the two years following reorganization.

3. Bonded Indebtedness of each district was analyzed to determine what changes …

A Study Of Factors Involved In Establishing A Satisfactory Thermal Environment In The Classroom, Homer Franklin Mincy Jr.

Doctoral Dissertations

Introduction: Since the dawn of civilization, man has wrestled with the weighty problems of government, war, science, philosophy, and religion. Perhaps no problem has taxed man's ingenuity as much, however, as that of determining and maintaining the proper thermal environment for the various activities in which he has engaged. Indeed, some sociologist believer that the satisfactory solution of this problem has often aided man in the solution of his other problems.

Although the term "thermal environment" is a comparatively recent addition to the vocabulary of school administrators and teachers, the control of temperature, humidity, cleanliness, and movement of air, aspects …

Driver Education In Tennessee Public Schools: An Appraisal Of Administration, Instruction And Personnel, Earl W. Henry

Doctoral Dissertations

Since primitive travel caused few traffic problems, simple, unwritten rules of the road remained sufficient for many centuries. It is interesting to note, however, that in 396 B.C. the Romans felt compelled to write traffic laws for the city of Rome. One of these early ordinances written in 205 B.C. state that women were forbidden to drive vehicles within the city of Rome. During the rule of Julius Caesar congested traffic conditions necessitated a regulation that vehicles could not enter the city during business hours and in 50 B.C. a Roman law was passed against "trucking."

Traffic regulations changed little …

Typal Sets And Syndromes Of Administrative Behavior, Robert B. Smawley

Doctoral Dissertations

One marked shift in appraisal programs during the past few years has been directed towards assessing performance on the job rather than on the personal characteristics of those being rated. Despite the trend, however, there remains a seemingly innate proclivity among raters to project their views of ratees to encompass not only what is observed, but also the etiology and mode of behavior.

An Analysis And Evaluation Of Industrial Arts Teacher Education Programs And Teacher Personnel Needs In South Carolina, Alfred Franklin Newton

Doctoral Dissertations

(From the Introduction)

The problem of this study was to evaluate the industrial arts teacher education programs in South Carolina colleges in terms of the industrial arts teacher personnel needs of public high schools in the state and the criteria accepted by the American Council on Industrial Arts Teacher Education.

An Analysis And Synthesis Of Theory Constructs In Educational Administration, Arliss L. Roaden

Doctoral Dissertations

(From the Introduction)

The foregoing was a brief review of accelerated interest and concern for intensive study in the field of educational administration, especially in the realm of administrative theory. The purpose of this study was to offer a logical explanation of the process of theory construction in educational administration so that wide differences of opinion regarding administrative theory may be reduced. These controversial issues tend to hamper united efforts for improvement of the profession.

The Effectiveness Of Internal Communication In Selected School Systems In East Tennessee, Ralph Martin Peters

Doctoral Dissertations

Introduction: The superintendents of several public school systems in East Tennessee met during the summer of 1959 to form an organization for the purpose of improving public schools through cooperative study and research. This organization was named "Public Schools for Cooperative Research" and soon came to be known as "PSCR." For a number of years such an organization had been the topic of many informal discussions in which superintendents visualized its possibilities and potentialities. Staff members of the Department of Educational Administration and Supervision in the University of Tennessee's college of Education also expressed a keen interest in this type …

A Study Of The In-Service Education Program In The Knoxville City Schools, Lacy Edward Harville

Doctoral Dissertations

Introduction: One of the most challenging problems confronting educators today is that of fostering continuous professional growth. School systems throughout the country are wanting to know more about new methods and techniques of improving their in-service education programs.

The growth and development of in-service education in the United States is complicated by the influence of various factors contributing to the gradual structuring of the total educational program, of which the promotion of professional growth on the part of teachers has been only a small part. The growth and development of in-service education is further complicated by the fact that its …

Role Playing As A Means Of Selecting Administrators, Charles Warren Hartsell

Doctoral Dissertations

Introduction: In view of the constant search for competent administrators on all levels of school administration, there is a need for defining the personal and operational characteristics which will indicate to an employer how a person will react in a given set of circumstances, particularly those which are related to the specific position involved. For example, how would a principal go about dealing with a parent whose child has been suspended from school for disciplinary reasons? How can we know, beforehand, whether an individual will be a good or a poor administrator? Industry has developed time and motion studies for …

Survey Of Changes In Function Of The College-Controlled Laboratory School From 1948 To 1958, Lawrence Howard Nuzum

Doctoral Dissertations

The trend toward more practical and functional education for both elementary-school and secondary-school children and their teachers has produced renewed attention to the function of the college-controlled laboratory school. As defined by Caswell, this institution is

. . . a school largely or entirely under the control of the college, located on or near the college campus, organized for the specific purpose of preparing teachers, with staff and facilities designed to serve this purpose.

The use of the laboratory school in present-day teacher education is not understood or accepted by many educators or lay people. In many places its present …

An Evaluation Of Certain Areas Of Physical Education Service Programs Of Selected White And Negro Colleges In Tennessee, John Ralph Puckett

Doctoral Dissertations

During World War II inadequacies in physical education programs in the United States were clearly revealed. A study of the physical fitness of men in the Army Air Force disclosed that almost one-half of the inductees were in poor or very poor condition. The Army and Navy testing programs also revealed that a large percentage of inductees was in poor physical condition. These test results did not include the numerous persons who were rejected from military service for various reasons.

Most of the men displayed poor performance in basic motor skills such as jumping, falling and lifting. It was also …

The Student Population In The Institutions Of Higher Education In The Southern Appalachian Region, 1933-1958, T. Madison Byar

Doctoral Dissertations

This study was directed toward matters pertaining to the student population in the colleges of the Southern Appalachian Region from 1933 to 1958 and was developed principally around the limits of change marked by those two years.

Program Analysis Study Of Selected Freshmen Student At Appalachian State Teachers College, Louis Leroy Rogers

Doctoral Dissertations

Introduction: College dropouts represent an alarming waste of competent manpower. Personal problems of students may be a factor in the dropout situation, and may merit the attention of college staffs. College administrators are realizing that the American student is not the same as a college student of a century ago. The present day college student is an entirely different type, living in a changing and different world. The former concept of the purpose of higher education is not suitable. It emphasized the training of mental faculties. The newer concept of education is concerned with the whole individual.

Behavioral Patterns Of Selected Superintendents During The Process Of Public School Desegregation, Sam Harris Ingram

Doctoral Dissertations

Recommendations: The general conclusions of this study suggest that a great deal more attention should be given to the effect the actions of public school superintendents have upon the success or lack of success of desegregation. It is also believed that more research should be directed toward the factors which seem to have a definite effect upon the superintendent's action during the process of public school desegregation. Perhaps more intensive research in a single school system, where this is possible, would shed additional light upon the action of the superintendent and the causes of this action. The behavioral patterns which …

A Study Of The Holding Power Of The Elizabethton Community Schools, Samuel P. Hyder

Doctoral Dissertations

Purpose of the Study: Because of the serious problem revealed by available statistics, the writer was urged to study the problem of school withdrawals from Elizabethton High School and its fourteen feeder schools in Carter County, Tennessee. It was hoped that the results of such a study would reveal some possibilities of increasing the holding power of these schools, and that the schools could then help more youth reach their potential or optimum development. Concern about the problem of high school withdrawal has been prevalent for some time, but little or no anxiety has been expressed for the problem of …

Changes In The Characteristics Of Master's Students In Educational Administration, Helen Stratton Powers

Doctoral Dissertations

In 1951 the Department of Educational Administration and Supervision of the University of Tennessee in cooperation with the Southern States Cooperative Program in Educational Administration (succeeded in 1956 by the Associated Programs in Educational Administration) initiated a research project designed to improve the preparation program of the Department and to provide a basis for improving the selection of students. The research staff at the University of Tennessee has largely centered its activities around an attempt to define the characteristics needed for effective educational administration.

A Theoretical Basis For Industrial Arts In The Public Schools, Darrell Dewitt Simons

Doctoral Dissertations

Summary: The purpose of this study was to reduce some of the confusion that appeared to exist in the areas of industrial arts. It was believed that some of the confusion may be contributed to traditional forces, but many of the difficulties stem from confusion within the more basic elements surrounding the nature of man and the nature of society. If an understanding can be conveyed within this realm, much of the existing confusion could be eliminated.

The elements that seem to be more pertinent to the nature of man and education were discussed in Chapter III. Man and his …

A Study Of Local Sources Of Support Of Local Governmental Agencies In Twenty-Three Selected Tennessee Counties, William Bascom Stradley

Doctoral Dissertations

The Problem: The common uplifting, integrating force of public schools, educational opportunities for all who are desirous can capable, is at least a partial fulfillment of the American dream of freedom.

From the first individually hired tutor in Virginia, and the first community-church sponsored school in the Plymouth Colony to the present time, there have been Americans who have believed in and demanded public schools. Local community responsibility for support of and the desire for local control of education were early recognized in New England and spread across the Midwest to the West Coast as the country was settled. Class …

Trends In Public School Adult Education, Funson Edwards

Doctoral Dissertations

Introduction: Adult education, which in recent years has attracted the attention of millions, may be found in every geographic region of the country. Adult education programs exist in various forms and have been operated in numerous financial patterns.

Adult education as treated in this study, however, concerns only adult educational activities in the public schools. More specifically, the study concerns the trends in public school adult education on the secondary level.

A Study Of The Factors Involved In The Development And Establishment Of Merit Rating Programs In Public School Systems, James L. Keeney

Doctoral Dissertations

With the increasing shortage of teachers and pressures for more competent teachers, the question of more pay to attract trained personnel appears greatest upon the horizon. The mere mention of better pay seems to attract the attention of persons who offer panaceas for the teacher shortage problem. The best known plans are loosely catalogued under the general heading of merit rating.

A Study In The Use Of Psychological Tests In Determining Effectiveness And Ineffectiveness Among Practicing School Administrators, Michael Yates Nunnery

Doctoral Dissertations

Introduction: In 1952 the Department of Educational Administration and Supervision of the University of Tennessee undertook a cooperative research project with the Southern States Cooperative Program in Educational Administration (since 1952 the name of the organization has been changed to Associated Programs in Educational Administration). Generally speaking, the central aim of the project was, and is, the improvement of educational leadership in the Southern States Region. To be more specific, the aims of the project at the University of Tennessee are probably best stated in terms of its original purposes.

A Study Of Physical Plants And Their Utilization In Tennessee State-Supported Institutions Of Higher Education, William Elmer Raper

Doctoral Dissertations

(From The Problem)

The purpose of this study was to determine the status and utilization of the physical facilities of Tennessee state-supported institutions of higher education and to advance recommendations for improving these facilities and their utilization.

Patterns Of Behavioral Characteristics Exhibited By School Administrators, Harold Wayne Gentry

Doctoral Dissertations

Statement of the Problem: The problem in this study was to attempt to identify patterns of behavioral characteristics of selected effective and ineffective practicing school administrators. The study in part attempts to answer the following question: Do selected effective practicing school administrators exhibit patterns of behavioral characteristics which tend to differentiate them from selected ineffective practicing school administrators? The data utilized were provided by selected school administrators through utilization of the Tennessee Rating Guide.