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Children's Choices In Catholic Poetry, Mary Florence Downing

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Diagnostic And Remedial Procedures In Computational Skills And Reasoning Processes In Arithmetic, R. Fullerton

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Selection And Professional Training Of Teachers : A Study Based Upon Questionnaire Returns From Selected Teachers And School Administrators In California, As Collected By The State Department Of Education, Peter G. Jacobs

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This paper is concerned with the professional preparation of teachers and seek to set forth and evaluate the ideas which teachers in the field think would improve the chances of success for the teachers now in training. Obviously, the person to realize the advantages and disadvantages if the preparation which he has had. It is apparent also, that our present system of educating teachers is out of step with present day needs in some respects.

A small number of responses were received from the elementary group and therefore the conclusions which will be set forth in this article are predicated …

Projects, Devices And Activities For Teaching Of Social Science In The Junior High School, Virginia Meline

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Projects, devices and activities for teaching of social science in the junior high schoolhas been compiled with the expectation that it will prove to "be truly a help to teachers in providing suitable material to help them in planning activity work in Social Science. If it is true that the writer has an abundant faith in the activity program, it is also true that she recognizes its limitations.

The material comprising this Thesis is the direct result of a number of years' experience on the part of the writer as a teacher of Social Science in a public Junior …

A Comparative Study Of Textbooks In Citizenship For High School, Trellie Albert James

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The problem of this thesis is to make a comparative study of textbooks to be used in citizenship classes in high schools. It consists of two parts: first, the establishment of a measuring scale to be used for selecting the texts and, second, the comparison of the texts.

The Administration Of The Finances Of Extra-Curricular Activities In High Schools Of North Central Kansas, Martin H. Isaacson

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

School administrators and the public in general are realizing the important place that extra-curricular activities have in the modern high school. Witness for example the large number of discussions and the many articles written on various phases of this subject. A steadily growing appreciation of their value as a means of training pupils in the practical arts of citizenship is among the factors which account for this conviction. It is natural for the high school boy or girl to be interested in the organization and management of extra-curricular activities. Under such conditions there is splendid opportunity for developing desirable character …

Mathematical Operations Used In Ordinary Occupations And Suggestions For Incorporating Them In High-School Mathematics, W. R. Binns

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to determine the type problems in algebra, geometry, and general mathematics that are most frequently used by high school graduates. The applicability of these mathematical operations to ordinary problems of daily life is to be decided by means of a survey among high school graduates who have had courses in algebra and geometry. An enumeration and analysis of the type problems that are most used by these graduates will give a much better conception of what should be taught in a general mathematics course. This investigation proposes to apply the criterion of usability in …

Education And The State Superintendent Of Public Instruction In Kansas, Mary Marcella Landwehr

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

One of the most important and common features of the school systems of the several states is the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction. This study seeks to show the conditions pertaining to the office and particularly to present these conditions as reflected by current legislation in Kansas.

The Value Of Platform Art To A College Student, Jeanette Dobrinski

Bachelors’ Theses

Our colleges have not yet placed platform art on the basis that it deserves. Too often it is regard d as an art with little or no practi­cal value, and where only "talented" pupils specialize in the subject.

It is the hope of the writer that this thesis may be instrumental in correcting this misconception by showing that platform art is a vital part or education and worthy of study.

Trends In Subjects Offered And Pupil Registration In Those Subjects In New Mexico High Schools, J. Roy Storms

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

In order to make the analysis of the period selected for study, data were collected which would furnish answers to the following questions:

1. What subjects were being offered?
2. What subject fields led in registration?
3. What subjects showed a gain in registration?
4. What subjects showed a loss in registration?
5. How many schools offered the different subjects?
6. Which subjects showed a gain in the number of schools offering?
7. Which subjects showed a loss in the number of schools offering?

This study is limited to the offerings of one hundred forty high schools of New Mexico for the school years of 1932-1933 to …

The Assembly Period, Marion Mclean Reddeman

Bachelors’ Theses

Going back to the early schools of the United States, we find that the only source of education was the formal classroom exercise. However, in comparing this situation with that of the present day, we now see a field of the so-called extra curricular activities. The regularly required book lessons, while they still have their importance, are inadequate in themselves in helping a youth build a firm social, physical, and spiritual foundation. One of the most significant developments for this phase of education is the school assembly period.

An Activity Program In The First Grade, Claudine Liberato

Bachelors’ Theses

A truly educated person will be capable of adjustment to a changing world, and things are changing. Our times are changing as times never changed before and these changes make new demands on education. Our education must greatly change itself in order to meet the new situation. The individual will. realize that he must not only be ready to live under a new social order, but help to bring it about. He will exemplify the highest type of living himself and place great stress on the appreciation of fine human lives wherever they may be found.

Building A Course Of Study In Primary Science For The Shorewood Public Schools, Edna J. Duhn

Bachelors’ Theses

The task of developing a course of study in primary science which would fit the particular needs of the Shorewood public schools was begun in the fall of 1933. A representative committee of primary teachers was formed and called the Primary Science Committee. This committee worked in conjunction with the Curriculum Coordinator, Miss Marjorie Pratt, and was assisted by all of the primary and kindergarten teachers in the Shorewood system.

A Study Of Vocational Opportunities In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Robert A. Anderson

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It is the purpose of the study (1) to give an appreciation of the extent of vocational opportunities existing in the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico; (2) to supply valuable occupational information to students and counselors; (3) to suggest possible school re-organization or adjustment; and (4) to develop a pattern or set of techniques which interested persons may utilize or find advantageous when engaging in a similar study of some other city or community.

Evidences Of Need For Speech Training For Activities Outside The Classroom By Teachers Of New Mexico, Eva Becker White

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

From the foregoing discussion of the shifting emphases of the teacher's work, of his logical place as leader in establishing a proper understanding and sympathetic interest in the new educational program, of the role he must assume in the improvement of thought through a closer relationship between education and society, of his obligation to help mankind make proper adjustments to the realities of contemporary life, and of the apparent importance of good speech and voice in the accomplishment of these manifold duties, the conclusion has been drawn that the community speech activities and speech needs of teachers are important and …

The Status Of Athletic Coaches And Coaching In Secondary Schools Of The New Mexico Athletic Association, Frank Merril Wilson

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study is to present an analysis of the status of interscholastic athletic coaches of the New Mexico athletic association for the school year 1935-1936. The factors to be considered are: (1) the age, marital status, and residence in New Mexico of athletic coaches; (2) the training and athletic participation of coaches; (3) the total years of experience including tenure in present position of athletic coaches; (4) the salaries received by athletic coaches; (5) the duties of athletic coaches; (6) the attitude of athletic coaches toward coaching; (7) school conditions affecting athletic coaches and coaching.

The Organization And Activities Of The New Mexico Educational Association, Julian W. Caton

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of the following study is to portray the historical setting of the New Mexico Educational Association, analyze its functions and objectives, and survey the organization, plans and activities by which the association is attempting to achieve these functions and objectives.

A Study Of The Administration And Organization Of The High School Band In Western Kansas, Paul H. Andree

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

This study is a scientific investigation to determine the educational values of band instruction as a part of the curriculum as well as the accepted methods of procedure, organization and administration of the high school band in Western Kansas. It is obvious that in such an extensive survey as this, it is necessary that the factors involved be limited to certain particular phases of the problem. For this reason and since the greatest outward appearance of advance in the band movement has been made in the past decade in Western Kansas the present survey will present the situation as found …

History Of The Development Of Education In The Community Of Hays, Kansas, Kathryn Elizabeth Mclain

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The History and Development of Education in the community of Hays should be valuable, not alone to chronicle, and thereby preserve events, which were vital in the life of the community, but also to reveal the tendency in rural education. It should help us to a greater appreciation of the long strides taken by our educational organism of Western Kansas from the first little one-room school of the frontier Fort to our wonderful facilities of the present.

The Evolution Of Ethical Codes In The Teaching Profession In The United States, Daniel Frederick Klemm

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

This investigation includes not only the development of the codes of ethics adopted by the state teachers’ associations, but the codes which have been adopted by local associations of teachers as well . The impetus gained from the formulation and adoption of local codes of ethics and their enforcement carried the movement onward and finally resulted in the adoption of similar codes by state teachers’ associations for state-wide application. Examples of local codes are Batavia, Illinois; Boise, Idaho; and Sedalia, Missouri. Parenthetically it may be said, however, that, since the advent of the state codes as well as the national …

Potentialities Of The Maladjusted Child, Claire Alice Mulholland

Bachelors’ Theses

Changes in education today are changes in emphasis rather than changes in scope. The emphasis points to the child as the learner rather than to the subject matter to be learned. Consequently, we are becoming more concerned with guiding individuals than in attempting merely to educate the masses.

Educational Trends: A Study In Educational Trends Affecting School Development In Kansas From The Beginning Of Statehood To The Present Time, Lawrence Sayler

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

It shall be the purpose of this study to determine trends in Supreme Court decisions affecting public education in Kansas. An attempt will be made to determine guiding principles that have guided the Supreme Court in their opinions on cases that have had an important bearing on the progress of education in the state of Kansas. If it is true that the Supreme Court has been liberal in its interpretation of laws as passed by our legislature then it may be said that the Supreme Court has been an aid to the progress of education in the State of Kansas. …

A Problem In Correlation By Progressive Digiting, June Louise Keen

Bachelors’ Theses

In this thesis there has been set forth a problem in Educati6nal Statitics. With every statistical problem an important feature is the method used. In order to carry out extensive investigations, an efficient method is necessary.

The Development Of The Public Schools In New Mexico Between 1848 And 1900, Thomas J. Mayfield Jr.

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The conditions of New Mexico and its time of annexation to the United States were different from most other territories that had been added. The population was composed almost entirely of Spanish descent and Indians. Their customs and ideas of church and state differed completely from those of the American subjects. The climatic and geographic conditions of the territory caused the living conditions to be entirely different. The problem in this study is to show how these conditions affected the educational development and how many obstacles were overcome in establishing a system of public schools. The legal status of the …

A Study Of The Success Of The Graduates Of Ten Classes Of The Louisville Male High School In The First Two Years In The College Of Liberal Arts Of The University Of Louisville., James E. Green

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Activity Program Versus The Traditional Method Of Instruction At The Second Grade Level., Ruth Marie Martin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Home Room Aid And Its Sponsor In The Junior High School, Eva E. Meline

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

"problems In human engineering will receive, during the coming years, the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the more material forms of engineering." Thomas A. Edison. "The advisement and guidance of the pupil's self-adjustment constitutes the whole of True Education; for education takes place within the child." philip W. L. Cox. For the past twenty years the junior high schools of the United States have developed at a rapid rate, one of the alms being to discover the individual characteristics of pupils and to provide a more adequate education for each particular child in whatever grade …

The Test-Study Versus The Study-Test Method In The Teaching Of Spelling In Grades V And Vi, Rose H. Thompson

Graduate Thesis Collection

This thesis is an outgrowth of an attempt to improve the spelling ability of the pupils of Grades V and VI in School Number 56, Indianapolis, Indiana.  It was the hope that the results of the experiment would be of such a nature as to render specific help in the palnning of a spelling program for those grades.  Every effort has been made to keep the discussion concrete and definite.

The Relationship Between The Home Environment And Certain Phases Of Achievement, Maude M. Meriwether

Graduate Thesis Collection

This study is the outgrowth of the writer's conviction that the home environment has a great deal to do with the lack of progress among the retarded pupils and the rapid achievement of our better students. After visiting the homes of what are often termed, "the problem cases," we usually return with the feeling that with such home conditions, it is a great wonder that the pupils progress as well as they do.

The Elementary School Library And How It Functions In Indiana, Helen Estelle Fullenwider

Graduate Thesis Collection

The elementary school library is still in the pioneer stage of development in the schools of Indiana. In truth, there are few elementary school libraries in the state in the correct definition of the words. Nevertheless some type of library service, although inadequate, is available to every school and pupil in the state. It is the purpose of this study to review the history of library service to children and to ascertain what the present types of library service to children are, and to give some information relative to the library programs that are followed by certain elementary schools in …