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Secret Societies In The Secondary Schools Of The United States, Harold E. Chastain

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The problem of secret societies in secondary schools has long been a vexing question to educators in the field of secondary education. Because of this situation high schools have been torn apart, school principals and super- intendents have lost their positions, fraternity boys have been expelled from school, educators and parents have taken their differences to court, and the law-making bodies of nearly half the states in the union have taken it under consideration for legislation. A vast amount of periodical literature has been written on the subject of secret societies and not a few chapters in books dealing with …

The Executive Of The Consolidated Schools In Western Kansas, Alexander Vardaman Anderson

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The purposes of this study are: 1. To determine the extent or scope of the activities performed by the executives of consolidated schools in Western Kansas. 2. To discover the amount of time which those executives devote to each of such activities. 5. To ascertain the personal and professional qualifications of the executives of consolidated schools in Western Kansas. 4. To enumerate the mistakes or failures of the executives of consolidated schools in Western Kansas from the viewpoint of the teachers under supervision. 5. To determine if the administration of consolidated schools might be improved and to suggest remedial measures …

Testing Program In Junior High School History, Winifred Farley

Bachelors’ Theses

A. glance into the history of education reveals changes too numerous and too obvious to mention, in aims, ideals, and purposes. Likewise have changes come, in some cases, imperceptibly -- again, very deliberately in content, method, and extent. One feature that seems rooted in educational antiquity is some type of examination procedure.

Probably the best known, and certainly one to the most elaborate, of the ancient systems of examinations was that maintained by the Chinese, but the Greeks, the Romans, and many other peoples employed them as well. In fact, definite tests of what has been learned have had their …

Survey Of Intelligence Tests, Godfrey F. Schulz

Bachelors’ Theses

The aim of this paper is to give what I consider the most important phases of mental testing. In the first place I shall write of the "History of Intelligence Testing ." In this part of the work I shall show how mental testing grew out of the study of individual differences and also out of the study of human behavior. I also wish to show what the different countries, those of France, Germany, England and the United States, contributed toward the development of mental testing. In the second place I shall show the two different sides of the controversy …

The Forward Pass In Football, Warren H. Kirkham

Bachelors’ Theses

The importance of the forward pass to the game of football can easily be seen by the number of games won each year by its use. It is the purpose of this treatise to point out and discuss the important principles involved in a defensive and offensive passive system. The introductory chapter on the history of the pass is written to give the reader a foundation upon which the following chapters are built and to stress the importance of the forward pass to the modern game.

If there is any real contribution to the game of football in this treatise …

Individual Differences In The Junior High School And How They May Be Provided For, Marie C. Buckley

Bachelors’ Theses

This is a brief account of individual differences found in Junior High Schools,and how they must be provided for.

The Importance Of Play, Laura V. Douglas

Education Student Dissertations

While reading the "Principles of Educational Sociology" by Walter Robinson Smith, the writer was deeply impressed by the statement that "Next to the family group and home life, the play group and play life exert the most vital influence upon the unfolding personality of the child." The writer wondered if it was the absence of play life, as American born children of fair social background experience it, that would in some measure explain the dullness of the Italian-American child of Sicilian and Neapolitan origin, who, as the writer knew him, was so lovable, so anxious and eager to please and …

The Bearing Of Church Membership, Doctrinal Beliefs, Church Attendance And Bible Reading On The Part Of Parents On The Character And Conduct Of Their Children, F. W. Sumner

Graduate Thesis Collection

The problem of this Thesis is to ascertain, if possible, the significance of Church membership, belief in its doctrines, the frequency of Church attendance, and the amount of Bible reading on the part of parents as a factor in influencing and in shaping the character and conduct of their children.

A Digest Of The Provisions For Education In The Forty-Eight State Constitutions, Clifford L. Mulrine

Bachelors’ Theses

The New York State Constitutional Convention Commission established by the laws of 1914 was authorized to collect and compile information for the use of the New York State Constitutional Convention which was to meet in 1915.

The Unit Method Of Teaching General Science In High Schools, M. Maxentia

Bachelors’ Theses

During the past quarter of a century, while the demand for teaching science in high schools was increasing, there has been a constant experimentation going on. This experimentation was carried on, not only by the heads of the science and educational departments of our colleges and universities, the superintendents, and principals of high schools, but also by the teachers themselves. It has been a question of what to teach in general science and how to teach it so that the pupil would get the best knowledge of the subject and acquire the ability of proper application of this knowledge in …

The Schools Of Palestine, Sarah Margoles

Bachelors’ Theses

To humanity Palestine is a country of peculiar interest as the Holy Land of three different faiths, cultural backgrounds, languages and history. Each is trying to develop and foster its own national aspirations in terms of its own peculiar racial life, its ow religious traditions and its own culture as far as it is able in view of the changes that are taking place in Palestine in recent times.

Objectives Of Reading, Veronica M. Mortell

Bachelors’ Theses

Reading is the most important subject of the entire school curriculum. Every one needs to read with some facility, for it has been chiefly through the agency of reading that man has entered into the possession of the best thought and experience of all the generations which have preceded him. These constitute for him his intellectual and social heritage.

Adapting Instruction To The Needs Of A First Grade, Genevieve Y. Younge

Bachelors’ Theses

Fortunately for the young child as well as for society we have evidences of the growing appreciation of the educational possibilities of early childhood. This is manifested in the opportunities provided by universities for the training of teachers of childhood. Teachers College, John Hopkins, Yale, Harvard and the universities of Iowa and Columbia offer research courses in this particular study.

In 1905 a conscious attempt was made to work out a technique of teaching built upon a new conception of the teacher as a guide rather than as a dictator, but few were interested, so the attempt was not revived …

The Mentally Deficient Child And The Public School, Nellie M. Freeman

Bachelors’ Theses

The history of the mentally deficient child dates back to ancient times. The subject is one which has been recognized for many hundred of years but little constructive work in the educational field has been done in this country or other countries until the latter part of the nineteenth and twentieth century.

Project Method Of Teaching Geography, Lillian Manteufel

Bachelors’ Theses

"Geography teaching is in a confused condition at the present time". This sentence of a well known geographer expresses the same idea that I felt about my own teaching of geography. Many teachers feel the same way. How do you teach geography? Do you have the pupils recite by topics or do they solve problems? Do the pupils make up their own problems? Do you motivate your geography lessons? How do you socialize a geography lesson? Does every child participate? Are the children interested in the assignment? Do the children study or do they come to class unprepared? I do …

The Gifted Child, Mabel E. Mclaughlin

Bachelors’ Theses

Within the last few years the problem of the education of the "gifted" child has taken on an aspect of very great importance. Numerous investigations have demonstrated the fact that children of the same chronological age exhibit differences of five years or more in mental age, and that even though they may have had the same number of years of schooling, they will be found scattered through several grades in a typical school.

Reading Objectives In The Junior High School, Loretto J. Clarke

Bachelors’ Theses

Reading has been recognized as one of the vital organs of education since the days of "the three R's." As a tool it has thrived in spite of poor teaching; but reading as an art has been reserved for the favored few. During the past decade or two, great strides have been made, together with faltering steps, toward new and greater goals. Bigger and broader aims have, in the entire educational scheme, roused educators to study reading methods and endeavor to bring this vitally important subject under the x-ray to discover just what are the needs of the modern reading …

Moral Development In The Public Schools, Adele M. Andreucetti

Bachelors’ Theses

My purpose in writing this thesis is to acquaint myself with the literature written on the subject of moral training and to endeavor to ascertain the possibility of its adaption to my own field of action, the public school.

Objectives To Be Obtained And Methods In Devices To Be Used In Teaching Geography In The Grammar Grades, Clara Jane Erb

Bachelors’ Theses

Geography is concerned with the discovery and interpretation of the relations between the physical environment and life forms.

New Mexico School Laws, E.L. Enloe

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

In this thesis I have arranged the laws under the departments of statutory, constitutional, institutional and organic laws. After each department will be found an index arranged topically and analytically. The laws governing the state educational institutions are separately arranged and carefully indexed. I have also appended and indexed supreme court opinions upon all litigated matters of school law.

Survey Of Domestic Needs In Electricity, Charles J. Thompson

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study is twofold; (1) to discover what information has been found useful regarding electricity and the construction of the many common electrical appliances that are found today in the majority of homes; (2) to determine what items would probably be most valuable in a course in electricity. A check list technique was used in this study to obtain information from boys, girls, and parents concerning the knowledge of electricity which they had found useful. The data were secured from four hundred eighty nine unselected individuals.

Play In Education, Lena Loveland

Bachelors’ Theses

The activities to which children and adults spontaneously turn in their leisure are becoming increasingly significant features of present day life. The present standard of living has resulted not only in greater material comfort and more leisure for the wealthy, but it has made possible a diffusion of the gains of civilization providing greater material comfort and greater leisure for the masses.

Simple Sets For High School Play Production, Michael P. Kinsella

Bachelors’ Theses

Oftentimes in High Schools, there arises a need for information on various stage settings and their uses. The purpose of this thesis is to make a study of such settings and discuss their practicality. A study of this type should prove invaluable to one interested in scenic designment and actual play production.

The Teaching Of History Through The Problem Method, J. Florence Lewandowski

Bachelors’ Theses

In the Milwaukee Public Schools the course or study to be followed in the Sixth Grade History from the Tentative Outline, 1929-1930, is as follows:

1. "The Middle Ages and what we have learned from them.
2. Crusades and Commerce.
3. The discovery of the Western World.
4. Rival powers in Europe and America."

The book especially recommended is the Course with Type Studies, Grade VI. While the book is very helpful and full of suggestions, the best results cannot be obtained unless the teacher works out some system by which an orderly procedure can be accomplished. Unless the teacher has an adequate background, …

Discipline As A Moral Issue In The Elementary School, Jeanette M. Whalen

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to point out how discipline is still a big problem for the inexperienced teacher, and that as a moral issue it is also a perplexing problem confronting the experienced teacher. In the first chapter it shows that a good understanding of psychology is necessary to approach the problem of discipline and that the teacher must have the qualities necessary to make her a leader and an inspiration to those in her charge. In the following chapters the method of instilling good morals and producing healthy moral characters is brought out by means of co-ordination …

Technic Of Supervision, Inez Halsted

Bachelors’ Theses

Supervision is a subject of vital importance to every superintendent of schools, since its chief function is the training of teachers. There has never been a time in the history of the schools of America, when teachers so much needed to be awake to the changing social needs and to have a workable understanding of the increasing knowledge of how children learn and of child psychology as they do today. Parent-Teacher organizations everywhere are discussing children's problems in a most scientific manner; Study groups are a part of every College Women's Club. Communities are outdoing each other in improving the …

The Creative Writing Of Poetry In The California Secondary Schools, Wesley Mills Pugh

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Creation was once a prerogative of the gods. For ages the magic word "genius" served as a harrier to isolate from the common man that one in whom burned the spark of constructive originality. In the past we have never considered the possibility of his being one of the teeming throng who Invade our classrooms daily; or having given way to such an absurdity, we have hastily dismissed the Idea, feeling that, if he were, his presence would surely be announced by the choir invisible or some other divine agency.

Of recent years we have experienced a change of opinion. …

A Comparative Study Of Inferior And Superior Pupils On The Junior High School Level, Mary James O'Shea

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Diagnostic And Remedial Reading In The Intermediate Grades, Alice Margaret Torphy

Bachelors’ Theses

The scientific study of reading problems began in the laboratories of Europe about the middle of the nineteenth century. The motive for these studies was the interest in the psychological processes involved in reading. Prior to 1900 most of the investigations were made in Germany and France. Since that date scientific interest in reading has increased so rapidly in this country that the United States now surpasses all other countries in productive work in this field.

The Optimal Grade Placement Of Thirty-Two New Testament Stories, Mary Agnes Garvey

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.