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National Board For Professional Teaching Standards Certification And Teacher Self-Efficacy, Lynn A. Hines

Dissertations

Due to No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and state-level mandates, an economic and moral imperative requires educators today to not only accommodate differences in learning rates and allow extra time for students to experience success, teachers must foster in students the belief that success is within their reach if they keep trying. These new expectations for student learning are clashing with old conceptions of teaching and outmoded approaches and structures for teacher practices. Given the new mission of schools, finding strong models of professional development is imperative. The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is a promising model. Self-efficacy, …

Motivation For High School Students To Read:Differences Among Student Perceptions And Differences Between Student And Teacher Perceptions, Angela Dawn Gunter

Dissertations

Many high school teachers are unaware of, or mistaken about, specific strategies and practices that actually motivate their students to read, and that what motivates one group of students may not motivate another. Although content-area instructors may not have been trained in teaching reading strategy and may feel as though teaching reading is not their job, it is an expectation that could largely be met by the implementation of motivational strategies.

This exploratory study utilized the expectancy theory of motivation and wasconducted to determine which strategies and practices would be most motivational for high school students to read. In a …

Ua100/2/1 Training School & College High Administration, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by administrators of the school. Records include accreditation reports, attendance data, curriculum guides, textbook reports, letterhead, student teacher evaluations and commencement programs.

An Evaluation Of The 1990-1991 Hart County Preschool Program, Rhonda Bowman

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In the 1990-91 school year. Kentucky's public schools received a mandate to begin a preschool program to aid children who were at risk of school failure. Children to be served were three-and four-year-olds qualifying for free lunch or having handicaps.

This study is an evaluation of the preschool program in Hart County Kentucky. Two concerns were identified. These concerns were: (1) identifying teacher and parental perceptions of the program and (2) measuring student academic gains. The results of the evaluation indicate that teachers and parents have a positive attitude about the preschool program. Students participating in the program showed greater …

Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - H Topics, Lowell Harrison

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Notecards created by Lowell Harrison while researching his book Western Kentucky University. The cards transcribed are for 108 topics beginning with H ranging from Hail Storm to Hundred Club.

Individualized Science Instruction In The Middle Schools & Junior High Schools In Kentucky, Rita Byars

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A study was made of the individualized science instruction in the middle schools and junior high schools of Kentucky. The status of the programs was investigated by an information survey. The instrument sought answers as to the size of the schools, organization of the schools, kinds of science taught and the frequency of use of individualized science approaches. Methods of financing and the administering plans, the objectives of the plans, and the strategies implemented to achieve these were parts of the study. Questions designed to elicit details about the requirements of an individualized program included the increase in laboratory activity …

Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 48, No. 5, Wku Alumni Relations

WKU Archives Records

Quarterly magazine created for WKU alumni. Regular features are Hilltopics, Sports, Alumni Newsgrams and Notes and In Memoriam. This issue includes:

• Armstrong, Don. Free Enterprise and Free People
• Bennett, Jo. Bye-Bye Blackbirds
• Given, Ed. Hilltopper Basketball Pre-Season Practice
• Martray, Carl. The Teacher Corps and Discipline Strategy
• Rich, Gene. The Teacher Corps and the Reading Specialists
• Nye, Ken. Cooperative Education
• Snodgrass, Jim. One of the Answers Solar Energy
• McConnell, Winnie. Water Resources for Teachers
• Engineering Technology Programs Reaccredited
• Bennett, Jo & Jim Highland. Restoring Ft. Williams
• Orendorf, Jo. Robert Ogden: Rest Easy
• Great American Pastimes: Homecoming
• Talisman & College Heights Herald …

A Position Paper Of Environmental Education For Nelson County, Geneva B. Hunt

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The results of a survey, concerning environmental education taken of the educators of the Nelson County School System, indicated a need for environmental education workshops and classes.

The status of environmental education in the nation and in Kentucky were studied and compared. A research was done of the status of environmental education in Nelson County, and implications were drawn for implementing environmental education in the Nelson County School System.

A tentative program for implementing environmental education in the Nelson Country schools was given, and a bibliography of resources and materials to be used in said program was included.

Building A Curriculum For The Rineyville School, H. L. Perkins

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

I shall approach this study, both from a survey of the vocation that the students have followed when out of school, and by what they have recommended to be offered in high school. By listing the subjects most needed when out in life, and also a list of the subjects that they would take, should they have their high school days to go over again, should help us to determine just what curriculum to offer.

A Study Of The Ability Of Kentucky High School Districts To Fulfill The Requirements Of The Health & Physical Education Code, William Solley

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This investigation is intended to determine just how effective the compulsory Health and Physical Education Code, which is to go into force in every high school in the state of Kentucky at the beginning of the 1948-49 school year, will be, and to discover the actual conditions of these schools in regard to establishing or maintaining a program that will fulfill the requirements of the Code.

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Archives Records

Minutes of the WKU faculty meetings for 1938.

Present Practices & Methods Of Supervising Student Teachers In Industrial Arts, Walter Nalbach

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The problem is threefold:

1. To determine the present practices of the programs in which student teaching is done.
2. To analyze significant variations and to show important central tendencies in the technique of supervision of student teachers.
3. To ascertain a means of evaluating student teaching in industrial arts.

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Archives Records

Minutes of the WKU faculty meetings for 1936.

Remedial Measures Suggested By A Diagnosis Of The Eighth Grade Tests In Warren County Schools, Carl Chaney

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

It is the prime motive of this study to present an unbiased picture of the achievement of eighth grade pupils in the public schools of Warren County, Kentucky, for the years 1934 and 1935 and to recommend remedial measures for teaching in these schools. The data used have been treated with a strict regard for statistical procedure so that no prejudice on the part of the writer might influence the results.

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Archives Records

Minutes of the WKU faculty meetings for 1935.

The Efficiency Of Laboratory Work In Geography, Fred Edwards

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Great sums of money are expended annually for the upkeep and equipment of laboratories that are used only for teaching, and yet there is little in the way of experimental data to indicate whether the expenditure of time or money is justified.

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Archives Records

Minutes of the WKU faculty meetings for 1934.

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Archives Records

Minutes of the WKU faculty meetings for 1933.

Subject Combinations Of Kentucky High School Teachers, Clarence Emrick

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Even though very good courses have been worked out for the numerous colleges of the state of Kentucky, there still remains a problem unanswered by the teacher-training institutions of the State. This problem is: What shall the prospective teacher be prepared to teach? and the question for the prospective teacher is: In what fields shall I prepare to teach?

In order that the objective of this study - the ability to give more intelligent guidance from the standpoint of the teacher-training institutions and the ability to make the proper selection of subjects from the standpoint of the prospective teacher - …

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Archives Records

Minutes of the WKU faculty meetings for 1932.

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Archives Records

Minutes of the WKU faculty meetings for 1931.

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Archives Records

Minutes of the WKU faculty meetings for 1930.

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Archives Records

Minutes of the WKU faculty meetings for 1929.

Ua3/1/1 Departmental Reports, Wku President's Office - Cherry

WKU Archives Records

Reports by various WKU department heads to the president:

• Canon, E.H. Graduates 1924-1929
• Johnson, Lowe. Training School
• Pearce, W.M. Extension Department
• Diddle, E.A. & Carl Anderson. Health Education & Athletics
• Seward, R.H. College Heights Foundation
• Craig, W.J. Personnel Department [Placement Services]
• Yates, Charleen. Library
• Burton, A.C. Rural Demonstration School & Rural Education
• Smith, L.T. Industrial Arts Department
• College Heights Post Office
• College Heights Herald
• Bookstore
• Art Museum
• Kentucky Museum
• Three Hundred Thousand Dollar Campaign
• Taylor, Charles. Agriculture
• Strahm, Franz. Music
• Home Economics
• ROTC
• Hill, Will. All Star & Lecture Program & Publicity
• Woodward, R.C. Grounds
• Hines, J. Porter. Mechanical Department …

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Archives Records

Minutes of the WKU faculty meetings for 1928.

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Archives Records

Minutes of the WKU faculty meetings for 1927.

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Archives Records

Minutes of the WKU faculty meetings for 1926.

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Archives Records

Minutes of the WKU faculty meetings for 1925.

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Archives Records

Minutes of the WKU faculty meetings for 1924.

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Archives Records

Minutes of the WKU faculty meetings for 1923.