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Promotion & Non-Promotion In The Louisville Elementary Schools, E. W. Belcher

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

To promote or not to promote has long been a question in the minds of both administrators and teachers; however, the segregated problem of promotion and non-promotion did not receive much attention until about fifteen years ago. In the past decade and a half much time and careful, thoughtful study have been devoted to this problem by leading educators.

Acer 1935-1936 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

The report of the Executive Officer discusses the Council’s relationship with the Carnegie Corporation, the problem of future support, Support from Teachers' Unions, visitors’ grants, plans for the New Education Fellowship Conference, the Conference on education in Pacific countries held at Honolulu in July, 1936, the Committee on Secondary Education, standardization of tests and the work of the Library Group. The report includes updates from each of the state institutes for educational research, and lists the Members of Council, 1935-1936 and the publications of the Council.

Psychological Tests And College Success, George Helm

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study is to determine the predictive value of the psychological examination when applied to college grades, with the motive of establishing standards by which students may be guided in their selection of college work.

Acer 1934-1935 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

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.

Acer 1933-1934 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

The Use Of Standardized Tests In The School Room, Esther E. Heyer

Bachelors’ Theses

The giving of standardized mental and educational tests has occupied a conspicuous place in the professional literature of the past few years. Ten years ago testing was almost unknown in the public schools except to discover those who were mentally defective for placement in "Special Classes". Schools in practically all large towns and in many small ones and also in country district are now making extensive use of test results. Being a movement which deals with a problem so intangible as the measurement of intelligence, it is often misinterpreted and misunderstood, thereby often seriously affecting the life of a child. …

Acer 1932-1933 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Remedial Work In The Three Types Of Percentage Examples, Martha Robbins

Bachelors’ Theses

The Special Reviewing Committee, with Mr. Leo J. Brueckner as Chairman, says in a statement in the Appendix of the Twenty-ninth Yearbook that: "Arithmetic should make a vital contribution to the intelligent consideration of various aspects of business, consumption, production, government, and social relationships which lend themselves to quantitative study and analysis. The real meaning of profit and loss, the responsibilities and difficulties of the retailer and the wholesaler, the relationships of home and business establishments are part of the field of arithmetic..... In no subject is there the opportunity to teach the pupils the considerations that should underlie the …

Acer 1931-1932 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Primary Education By Correspondence: Being An Account Of The Methods And Achievements Of The Australian Correspondence Schools In Instructing Children Living In Isolated Areas, Kenneth Stewart Cunningham

Student learning processes

An account of the methods and achievements of the Australian correspondence schools in instructing children living in isolated areas. It seems that Australia can claim to be the first country to have shown in a systematic way, and on a large scale, that it is possible to provide by correspondence a complete elementary education for children who have never been to school. Cunningham reviews the conditions giving rise to correspondence instruction, the growth and scope of the Correspondence Schools, curricula and methods, attainments and progress of pupils.

Acer 1930-1931 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Individual Education: Being An Account Of An Experiment In Operation At The Thebarton Technical High School, South Australia, Charles Fenner, A.G. Paull

Australian Educational Studies

The experiment which is dealt With in this paper arose out of a stimulating discussion regarding the "Dalton Plan," which took place in the Education Section at the Perth meeting of the Association in 1926. The experiment at the Thebarton Technical High School was put into operation from the beginning of 1927, and a preliminary account was read at the Hobart meeting in 1928. That account was published in abstract in Volume XIX of the Proceedings of the Association, and in full as Bulletin No. 2 of the South Australian Education Department (S.A. Education Gazette, 1928, pp. 148-150 and 182-184). …

Institutional Management And Home Economist, George H. Black

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

We are on the threshold of a new technique in education for adults as well as for little children. The chief feature of the new technique, as opposed to the old and now conventional type, is that it is based upon participation while the old depends chiefly upon rationalization.

Project Teaching Of Manual Training, Henry J. Whitney

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

Recent numbers of this magazine and other good publications have emphasized the necessity that manual training teachers have a well recognized theory back of their work, and further, that the value of the work of any teacher is in direct ratio to the clearness with which this theory is comprehended and followed in practice. A project is any activity purposed by an individual and by him carried through. Project teaching of manual training is the most difficult kind of teaching, but withall the most fruitful, for it furnishes the opportunity to develop those qualities of manhood that our democratic society …

Lindenwood: Home Of An Education Made To Be Used, Paul Patton Faris

University Documents

An article describing the type of education received by students at Lindenwood College.

A Review Of The Pedagogical Studies In The Teaching Of Spelling, Mary A. Grupe

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

Despite the fact that a few far-seeing men have, from the early years of the eighteenth century, inveighed against the dominance of spelling and the "cruel drudgery" it entailed upon the learner, the subject remained an independent discipline far into the nineteenth century. To be able to spell was the criterion whereby to judge the educated man and so ingrained did this become in the popular mind that even to this day our grandfathers, nay our fathers, dubiously shake their heads because spelling no longer occupies a conspicuous place on the schoolroom program and because, as they insist, the rising …

The Scope And Results Of Mothers' Classes, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

In this outline, Harrison discusses motherhood in relation to Mother's classes. She describes the scope and aim of the classes to be the rationalization of the "unconscious nurturing element".

Reprinted from the proceedings of the National Education Association, 1903.

Long-Term Outcomes Of Low-Achieving Third Grade Readers, Emily Jordan, Sarah C. Mckenzie, Gary W. Ritter

Arkansas Education Reports

Research shows that students who demonstrate low reading achievement in 3rd grade have trouble catching back up to grade level and being successful in school, compared to their peers who demonstrate early proficiency (Fiester 2010; Hernandez 2011; Juel 1988). This report seeks to investigate what happens to Arkansas public school students who demonstrate low achievement in reading in 3rd grade. Reading scores from three cohorts of students are followed from 3rd grade until high school, beginning with data from the 2008-09 school year and continuing through 2016-17.