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A Typewriting Experiment To Compare Class Performances On Straight Copy Three-Minute Writings Relative To Accuracy And Speed Following Three Selected Conditioning Drills., Norman William Thies

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Analytical Comparison Of The Relative Word-Combination Frequencies Of Business Correspondence With Phrase Frequencies Of Selected Shorthand Textbooks. (Volumes I And Ii)., Devern Jay Perry

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Proposed Extension Program In Family Life Education For Indonesia Union College, Margaret Penhallurick Aaen

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Indonesia, potentially one of the richest and most powerful of the emerging nations, could profit by an active program in family-life education such as has proved beneficial in other parts of the world. This is especially true in the rural areas. It is the purpose or this paper to explore possibilities for and to develop an extension program in home improvement, sanitation, child care, and nutrition which could be set up at Indonesia Union College, located in a typical rural area of Java. This paper will form the basis for a handbook for Home Economies teachers and extension workers. It …

Teachers In The Peace Corps: From Rote To Reason, Peace Corps (U.S.)

Other Documents

“Since 1961, a new kind of teacher has staffed classrooms throughout the developing world: He (or she) is a college or university graduate with a baccalaureate degree in science or humanities.

“Before Peace Corps training, he had never taught a class or planned to spend two years of his life teaching. After three months of Peace Corps preparation, he serves as a full-fledged faculty member in an overseas primary or secondary school. If he holds a graduate degree, he may teach at the college or university level.

“The new teacher is the backbone of the Peace Corps' biggest business — …

To Speak As Equals: Language Training In The Peace Corps 1961-68, Allan M. Kulakow, Peace Corps (U.S.)

Other Documents

This short publication is about how language instruction in the Peace Corps evolved from 1961 through to 1968. According to the document, "language instruction in the first few Peace Corps training programs was limited to about one hundred hours. The average achievement was low and inability to speak the host countries' languages well was a major problem.

"Volunteers today receive a minimum of three hundred hours of language training in the standard twelve-week training program. The language training component in some programs has gone as high as five hundred and fifty hours. The quality of this intensive audio-lingual language instruction …

Peace Corps Factbook & Directory, Peace Corps (U.S.)

Peace Corps Factbooks and Directories

This document is a combination factbook and directory about the Peace Corps in 1968. This document begins with an explanation of what the Peace Corps is, what is expected of volunteers, and what the application and training processes look like. The document then goes on to a directory covering the possible jobs, programs, and duties a volunteer may encounter in the four regions - Africa, Latin America, North Africa/Near East/South Asia, and East Asia/Pacific - of Peace Corps services. These listings, subject to change, were accurate up through the summer of 1969. After this directory of programs, there is information …

Report On Product Safety: Household Goods

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Structure And Design Of Typewritten Business Letters: An Analysis Of Selected Variables., Kenneth Duane Mukomela

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Lds Coordinator Program, Carl J. Olsen Jr.

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis was to study the effectiveness of the coordinator in the LDS Seminary in carrying out his responsibilities. Special emphasis was placed upon the coordinator's influence over the teachers placed under his jurisdiction.

The Educational Uses Of The World: Experiential Learning And The Peace Corps, Phillips Ruopp

Other Documents

This is a paper written by Phillips Ruopp, who from "1963 to 1967 he served as the first dean of the College of the Virgin Islands, where he worked with the Virgin Islands Peace Corps Training Center in developing methods of cross-cultural community involvement training" and afterwards was the Director of the Peace Corps' Division of Institutional Relations. -- [p.2]

In this paper Ruopp discusses education through experiences and so in the frame of global community and service. He puts forth the argument "that there are uses of the 'world' for purposes which are educational, but in neither an amorphous …

The Peace Corps' School Partnership Program: From School To School, Peace Corps (U.S.)

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"The purpose of this Handbook is to pinpoint some of the questions now being asked most frequently by American school groups or organizations that are considering how, when, and to what extent they might participate [in the School-to-School Program]. The following answers are based upon experience gained through projects underway in the developing world and upon the best judgment of the Peace Corps." -- [p.2]

A Study To Measure The Value Of Videotape Replays For Self-Evaluation By Teacher-Trainees Prior To Their Student Teaching Experience, John Edwin Bieber

All Master's Theses

A study to determine if teacher-trainees who view a videotape replay of themselves practicing specific teaching skills prior to receiving an analysis of their lesson will score significantly higher on a specially designed rating instrument than trainees who practice the same skills but receive no videotape-replay and must rely on their ability to recall a mental image as they receive an analysis of their lesson.

Effects Of Cubism On American Painting Since 1914, Carl W. Brodin

All Master's Theses

The problem will consist of establishing the beliefs, theories, and methodology of the Cubist movement as formulated by the members of a Parisian group of artists known as Le Groupe du Bateau-Lavoir. The next step will be to attempt to discover these factors in representative paintings produced in America subsequent to 1914. The final step will be to show the extent of the influences by reproducing selected American paintings, quoting current writers, and drawing conclusions.

Methods Of Communicating With And Relating To The Parents Of Migrant Children, Marian I. Hines

All Master's Theses

It is the purpose of this study to (1) determine the present status of efforts, techniques, and materials used by school personnel to communicate with parents of migrant and culturally deprived or disadvantaged children, and (2) identify ways and methods of improving the presently used efforts, techniques, and materials.

A Study Of The Benefits Received And The Problems Encountered By Students Using The Student Audiovisual Production Laboratory At Central Washington State College, Otis R. Hollar

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study is to investigate the Student Production Services provided by the Audiovisual Library to the students of Central Washington State College, with a view toward determining the benefits received and the problems encountered by the students in producing instructional media required for their college activities. The hypothesis of the study is as follows: Students using the Student Audiovisual Production Laboratory at Central Washington State College are not experiencing any major difficulties in producing the materials to meet their needs.

Performance Criteria For The Elementary School Principal In Curriculum Development, Harry H. Haney Jr.

All Master's Theses

It was the purpose of this study to (1) examine current literature in the fields of curriculum development and elementary school administration to determine the role of the elementary school principal in curriculum development, (2) interpret this role into performance criteria, and (3) draw attention to areas of curriculum development in Washington State in which the elementary school principals should exert more leadership.

Components In A Comprehensive And Integrated Sex Education Program For The Kindergarten, Joyce Lucile Johnson

All Master's Theses

It was the purpose of the study (1) to survey available resource material in sex education adaptable to the five-year-old level; (2) to design and test a method of integrating a program of meaningful sex education into the kindergarten curriculum; and (3) to provide reference to available resource material for teachers and parents so that there may be a home-school-child triangle of learning.

A Comparison Of Self-Concept Scores Before And After Three Months Job Corps Experience, Alan I. Marshlain

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study is to determine if a significantly more positive self-concept is developed after approximately three months of Job Corps experiences.

A Comparison Of The Moral Judgements Of Negro And Caucasian Children, Thomas Edward Mowry

All Master's Theses

This study was designed to investigate two areas: (1) What similarities or differences exist between Negro and Caucasian children in their moral judgments; and (2) What similarities or differences exist between the moral judgments of American children and the Swiss children used by Piaget in his research.

The Basis Of Angolan Nationalism, Albert V. Vandenberg

All Master's Theses

Portugal has the largest empire remaining in Africa. Portugal's history there dates to the Columbian period, and its government boasts that a colonial philosophy different from the other colonial powers in Africa is at work. The Portuguese speak of a "civilizing mission," "cultural assimilation," and the "Lusitanization of its colonies. The determination of Portugal to see its policies through and the determination of Angolan nationalists to exact independence and freedom from the Portuguese warrant an investigation of the current revolution and the basis of Angolan nationalism.

Claude H. Van Tyne And The National Security League 1914-1920, James David Wilkes

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

No abstract provided.

The Identification Of Concepts, Concept Clusters, Objectives, And Suggested Organizational Patterns For The Teaching Of American History At Mount Si High School, M. Dale Leavitt

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to assist in the evaluation of the social studies by identifying concepts, concept clusters, and objectives. Suggestions for scheduling and grouping consistent with instructional objectives and which may be used as models for planning and organizing for the teaching of American History at Mount Si High School are presented.

A Study Assessing Changes Occurring In Kindergarten Children At Central School, Hoquiam, Washington, During The School Year 1967-1968 In Terms Of Readiness And Academic Growth, Elizabeth Pinkley Morris

All Master's Theses

A group of fifty-one kindergarten children (23 boys and 28 girls) from Central School in Hoquiam, Washington, were studied for the purpose of evaluating changes occurring during the school year in terms of readiness and academic growth. A series of tests were given in October and November as an inventory of the child's background of skills and readiness in the fall, and the tests were repeated in May to measure any change occurring during the school year.

A Study Of Office Machines Knowledge And Skills Needed For Initial Employment In Chehalis And Centralia, Washington, Clare Walter Johnson

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to determine the amount of office machines knowledge and skills needed for initial employment in Chehalis and Centralia. An allied problem was to discover what office machines were being used, and the length of training period on each office machine as specified by businessmen in Chehalis and Centralia.

The Use Of Higher Level Questions For Diagnosis Of Existing And Evaluation Of Developing Attitudes In Elementary Social Studies., Clark Duane Tufte

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study To Determine The Effect Of Picture Interpretation On The Achievement Of Culturally Deprived Second Grade Pupils, Jane Henriksen Smith

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study is to determine whether second grade children from a low socio-economic area, taught with the use of flat pictures and the interpretation of such pictures to build vicarious experiences in the social studies program in correlation with other subject areas, will achieve as well as, or better than, second grade children from the same economic area who will be taught without such an abundant use of flat pictures.

Clifton Ellis Byrd, Educator., Patsy K. Barber

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Changes In Openness Of Student-Teachers During The Student-Teaching Experience., Conrad Richard Kinard

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

The Utility Of Phonic Generalizations In Their Application To The Historyand Geography Vocabularies In Certain Specified Textbooks Adopted For Grades Four, Five, And Six., Jesse Joe Parker

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

Transformational Grammar And Problems Of Syntactic Ambiguity In English, Shirlie Jeanette Verley

All Master's Theses

The main purposes of this paper have been (1) to examine the various structural ambiguities in English, (2) to see what the traditional approach has been regarding ambiguities, (3) to apply transformational processes and explanations whenever possible, and (4) to give some specific methods for removing ambiguities from written English.