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The Status Of The City Superintendent Of Schools In Kentucky, John Martin May 1947

The Status Of The City Superintendent Of Schools In Kentucky, John Martin

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The present problem is fivefold:

  1. To determine the status of Kentucky city school superintendents with reference to professional training, educational experience and tenure.
  2. To determine the facts regarding the financial support and compensation and economic status of Kentucky city school superintendents.
  3. To determine the social and professional status, as shown by the facts gathered, and the activities in which the superintendents engage.
  4. To determine the status of the city superintendents with reference to their powers and duties granted by the boards of education.
  5. To compare the status of the city superintendents of twelve years ago with that of the present …


A Year's Choral Study For The Small High School, Martha Strawn May 1947

A Year's Choral Study For The Small High School, Martha Strawn

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This investigation is an attempt:

  1. To present the outstanding problems and difficulties which are likely to arise in the process of organizing a mixed chorus in the average small four-year high school, and in directing the chorus during its first year.
  2. To analyze these difficulties and to suggest techniques of treating them, based on the experience and recommendations of authorities in the field of choral conducting, and also based on the writer's personal contacts with the field of choral music as a student and as a director.


Errors In The Marking Of Printed Tests, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Jan 1947

Errors In The Marking Of Printed Tests, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Information Bulletin

The following comments are the result of preliminary analysis of some errors made by a random sample of teachers in marking the test papers of pupils who, in 1946, took part in the testing programme in connection with the Curriculum Survey being conducted by the A.C.E.R.

All schools where children did the tests were asked to select a certain number of papers at random from each grade and forward them to the A.C.E.R. The numbers sent in from each school were roughly proportional to the size of the school. Thus large schools sent in more papers per grade than the …