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A Comprehensive Study Of First Graders With Kindergarten Experience And With No Prior Formal School Experience., Reeta Cockrell Brummer

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was to determine if there were significant differences in first grade students who had attended kindergarten and those who had had no prior formal school training.

The hypotheses in the study were that there is no significant difference in the areas of (1) achievement, (2) adjustment to school, (3) sociometric choices, (4) readiness for first grade, and (5) mental ability between first grade stu­dents selected for this study who have had kindergarten expe­rience and those who have had no prior formal school training.

Teachers were asked to rank their students in the fall and again …

An Evaluation Of The Informal Reading Inventory In A Fifth Grade Classroom, Laura Lee Sharp

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Problem. This study was designed to evaluate the use of the informal reading inventory in a fifth grade classroom of 29 students in the Northeast Heights of Albuquerque. The emphasis of the study was placed on finding the instructional reading levels of the children. The informal reading inventory the Nelson Reading Test, and teacher grouping were used in an effort to determine the instructional reading levels of the children and then a comparison made of the three means of evaluation.

Procedure. Each child in the class was given an informal reading inventory which determined oral and silent independent, instructional, and …

A Comparison Of The Results Of The Informal Reading Inventory With The Teacher Assigned Reading Level, The Cloze Procedure Level And The Rate Of Reading., Diane Bluestein Brown

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The informal reading inventory was explored in conjunction with: (1) the teacher assigned reading level, (2) the cloze procedure to evaluate comprehension, and (3) the rate of silent and oral reading. Sixty children in grades two through six were given the informal reading inventory to determine their independent, instructional, and frustration levels. The children were also given written cloze tests on the basis of their school assigned grade level to evaluate their independent, instructional, and frustration levels. During the oral and silent reading selections of the informal reading inventory, the children were timed, and their rate of reading was determined …

Basic Types Of Vocational Identity: A Synthesis Of Values And Vocational Aspirations Of College Students, Edward Bruce Potter

Special Education ETDs

The basic proposition that systematic associations exist between vocational aspirations and vocational values was amply supported by this investigation. Fundamental dimensions, syntheses of various of these associations, were found to describe and to differentiate between basic types of vocational identity. A model, also formulated as a synthesis of several findings, revealed a generalized pattern of relationships among vocational fields.

The focus of this study was upon the utilization of vocational values variables in the description of differing types of vocational identity. The values variables employed several life satisfaction source items, religious preferences, and a set of items dealing with the …

The Effect Of Combinations Of Mental Practice And Physical Practice On The Performance Of A Motor Skill., Ronald Milton Schaefer

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

The purpose of this study was to compare combinations of physical and mental practice methods in learning a motor skill. An experiment was conducted at the University of New Mexico to test the hypothesis that combinations of mental and physical practice would be just as affective learning methods as would the use of total physical practice. Thirty-nine male university students, selected from physical education activity classes, were put into one of four groups by a method of random selection. The four groups used in the experiment were: control, physical, and two combination groups. The two combination groups practiced the motor …

An Investigation Of The Relationship Of Three Variables To The Acquisition Of Avoidant Behavior Through Imitation, Robert Paul Rost Ii

Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs

A 2 x 2 x 3 design was employed to investigate the influence of three variables on the acquisition of avoidant behavior through imitation. The three variables were sex of the model (male and female), sex of the subject (male and female), and the prestige attributed to the model (high, low, or no).

Subjects for the study were 46 members of the nursery school and kindergarten at the University of New Mexico. Models were college students who were selected for their ability and willingness to be quite demonstrative.

The experimental room consisted of a corridor 15 feet long and 4 …

Visual And Stereognostic Perception Of Mentally Retarded Adolescents, Patricia Moehrig Mershon

Special Education ETDs

The Problem

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of sensory modality training on institutionalized mentally re­tarded adolescents. The primary investigation concerned the effect on retardates of sensory modality training with an op­portunity for learning when compared to the effect on a compa­rable group given the same training with no opportunity for learning. The secondary investigation was the comparison of responses of three groups on the criterion task; one group having been trained with a tactual modality, one with a visual modality and one with combined tactual and visual modality. The sample included an equal number of …

An Energy Expenditure Comparison Between Treadmill And Track Running, Peter John Maud

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

This research was undertaken in order to examine the relationship between the energy cost of running on the treadmill with running on the track at the same speed, for the same length of time and at the same grade. The running speed was 7.5 miles per hour, the grade zero and the duration of the run five minutes. The data used for the comparison between the two methods of running were collected over the last thirty seconds of the run. The two measures used in the comparison were oxygen uptake and heart rate, A. special apparatus was constructed for the …

A Survey-Analysis Of Study-Skills Presented In The Teacher's Manuals Of 3 Primary Basal Readers., Lois J. Pride

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

This survey identified study-skill tasks for the primary grades, and investigated three basal reading series to determine provisions made in the teacher’s guides for teaching the skills. An analysis was made to determine: 1.) At what grade level do the various teacher’s guides introduce the skills?; and 2.) With what frequency do the guides reinforce and expand the various skills? An instrument was developed with identified and described each study-skill task appropriate for the primary grades. The study-skills were divided into the broad areas of location of information; organization of information; and following directions leading to the location and organization …

An Experiment In Critical Thinking Instruction At Sixth Grade Level, Dorothy Louise Macnevin

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

To test the hypothesis that critical thinking skills and attitudes could be improved through instruction, 61 subjects were given a series of tests before and after instruction in open-mindedness, distinguishing fact from opinion, and drawing accurate conclusions from given information. No control group was used. Instruction involved the use of charts, a flannel board, stories, pencil and paper activities, and films. The "t" test revealed differences between all pre and post-test means to be significant at the one percent level of confidence. Of the variables considered, I.Q., Reading Ability, Parental Occupation, and Sex, the first two were most influential although …

Some Educational Implications Derived From A Comparison Of Adult Spoken And Written Vocabularies, W. Wendell Phillips

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

A comparative study was made of two vocabulary lists, one made up of the English words most frequently used in adult speech and the other made up of the most frequently used English words uses in adult writing within selected groups in the United States. The study was based on A Spoken Word Count by Lyle V. Jones and Joseph M. Wepman and A Basic Writing Vocabulary, 10,000 Words Most Commonly Used in Writing by Ernest Horn. The first 1,000 words of the Jones and Wepman frequency study were compared with a list of 1,000 words derived from the 1926 …

A Study Of The Relationship Between Anxiety And Achievement, Keiko Lendenmann

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Anxiety interferes with the learning processes and it affects performance in test situations. Yet in today’s test-conscious society, achievement and IQ tests are being used increasingly to evaluate the student, without benefit of information on his anxiety level. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of anxiety on achievement.

The sample population was drawn from the fourth, fifth, and sixth graders of an elementary school in the suburbs of a medium-sized city in the Southwest.

The Lorge Thorndike, Level 3 (Form A) was used to obtain the IQ scores. The Science Research Associated, Type B, (Firms C …