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A Survey Of Sixth Grade Students' Reactions To Selected Situations Involving Certain Elements Of Civil Rights, Robert Neldon Hanson
A Survey Of Sixth Grade Students' Reactions To Selected Situations Involving Certain Elements Of Civil Rights, Robert Neldon Hanson
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this study was to determine :
1. What actions sixth grade children think should be taken in situations that contain certain elements of civil rights.
2. The reasons given by the sixth grade children for choosing these actions.
A measuring instrument was constructed from 14 court cases containing certain elements of civil rights. These court cases were then rewritten so that sixth grade students could comprehend the vocabulary and situations described. Statements for students responses were developed from the case itself, newspapers, and magazine articles.
Two sixth grade classes and one fifth grade class served as a …