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Virtual Manipulatives In The Classroom And Resulting Articles And Lesson Plans, Cheryl Juliana

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Upon coming across mathematical manipulatives generated and produced by Utah State University, as a math teacher, I conducted a classroom teaching experiment in three pre-algebra classes with students of various achievement levels. After teaching the entire year using no manipulatives in the classroom, I tested my students with a general, end-of-year, core criterion, or cumulative test. Their scores were noted. The students in the study group were then given opportunities to try several manipulatives offered on the "National Library of Virtual Manipulatives," both as a class, and alone, and then retested. The following paper gives the parameters of the study, …

Significance Of Occupational Information In The Junior High School Guidance Program, Asael Wayne Blanchard

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

The purpose of this report is to determine what should be done by counselors to facilitate students in making future plans and appropriate goals, to determine if it is known what should be included in an occupational guidance program for junior high schools, and to set up guidelines for developing such a program.

The objective will be to search through present literature to determine what is known about junior high school vocational guidance programs in terms of content, objectives, procedures, feasibility, and success. This material will then be analyzed and used in setting up guidelines for counselors' and administrators' use …

A Proposed Plan For A General Business Course At Sunset Utah Junior High School For Ninth-Grade Students, Renae G. Bodily

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

According to Maze, "A society that guarantees the social and political freedom of its members, through democratic means, and which extends this freedom into the realm of economics, may be expected to place a heavy responsibility upon its members to protect these freedoms through the exercise of sound choices among alternative means to desired ends." The educational means by which the individual learns of these alternatives must be provided.