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A Survey Of Opinions Of Selected Principals Concerning Preparation, Characteristics, And Competencies Desirable For Principals For Junior High And Middle Schools, John Lee Bobroff

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The great majority of the principals who work in junior high and middle schools have not experienced a professional preparation intended specifically for principals of these grades. It would seem reasonable that the principals for the junior high and middle schools should be prepared in programs specifically designed for principals of these grades, programs that are distinct and different from either the traditional elemen­tary school or senior high school type of preparation. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the perceptions of junior high and middle school principals concerning what they felt to be important in the preparation of …

Evaluation Of The Science Education Program For Perspective Secondary Science Teachers At The University Of New Mexico., Dixie James Jones

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

This investigation was a case study for the purpose of comparing the science education program for prospective secondary teachers at The University of New Mexico with selected guidelines established by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC) and published by the AAAS in a 1971 pamphlet entitled Guidelines and Standards for the Education of Secondary School Teachers of Science and Mathematics. The guidelines dealt with student competencies in 1) understanding of science, 2) the processes of science, 3) the history of science, 4) the metric …

A Study Of The Relationship Of The Ninth-Grade Civics Course To The Political Knowledge And Attitudes Of Anglo-American And Spanish-American Students, Helen Wright Esterly

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The study examined significant differences between political knowledge, political interest, citizen role, and civic tolerance scores of civics and non-civics ninth-grade students in relation to two ethnic groups (Anglo-American and Spanish-American) and four categorical groups (sex, socio-economic status, achievement level, and language spoken in the home). The purpose of the study was to see if a relationship existed between the ninth-grade civics course and student political knowledge and attitude scores, and to see if a differential relationship existed between the civics course and the political knowledge and attitude scores of the subpopulation of Spanish-American students.

Procedure. Pre-test and post-test questionnaires …

A Readability Evaluation Of Selected Intermediate Grade Social Studies Topics From Eight Encyclopedias, Mary Hardwick Dohrman

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Statement of Problem

The purpose of the study was (1) to investigate the readability of seventy-five intermediate grade social studies topic-articles from eight sets of encyclopedias (1971 editions) with two readability techniques, and (2) to determine the suitability of individual encyclopedia articles for intermediate grade use from the resultant predicted readability scores.

Procedures

Twenty-five topics from each of the intermediate grades four, five, and six, were randomly selected from indexes of five intermediate social studies textbook series. A total of 600 topic-articles were evaluated from the eight "Best Quality" encyclopedias recommended by the American Library Association. A total of 1,200 …

Student Development And The Challenge Of Student Personnel, A President's Perspective, Milo A. Rediger

Milo Rediger Writings & Addresses

No abstract provided.

The Spanish Syntax Of The Pre-School Spanish American: The Case Of New Mexican Five-Year Old Children, MaríA Estela Brisk

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Recent studies of the acquisition of syntax have revealed that it is not fully developed by the time a child enters first grade. In preparing and implementing bilingual programs for Spanish speaking children, then, it is of interest to know at what level of development the Spanish syntax of these children is. This study tries to determine the level of development of a rural and an urban group of five year old Spanish-American children from New Mexico. A surface syntactic analysis as well as a review of interference, dialectal, and developmental features of the speech of these children constitutes the …

Some Ethical Problems In Research On Human Subjects., F. Jaime Arellano-Galdames

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Manipulation of human subjects in social scientific research entails some ethical conflicts that scientists must consider along with the technical problems in designing their studies, Such conflicts in a way become aggravated when the investigations --usually experiments-- are conducted in educational settings, In this connection, the present study concerns itself with four main topics: (1) relationships between research and ethics: (2) problems with manipulation of human subjects, (3) need for and problems with the principle of informed con­sent, and (4) issues surrounding the use of experimental deception.

Chancellorship, Milo A. Rediger

Milo Rediger Writings & Addresses

No abstract provided.

A Survey Of The Recommendations Of Selected Teachers For The Preparation Of Teachers For Junior High And Middle Schools., Jeanne Buress Hubert

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of the study was to survey teachers currently employed in junior high or middle schools to determine their recommendations regarding the undergraduate and graduate education of teachers who wish to teach in the middle grades, and to develop a model program derived from their recommendations, as well as the recommendations of principals and authorities in the field.

Opening Dinner, Milo A. Rediger

Milo Rediger Writings & Addresses

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Between Psycholinguistic Abilities And Reading And Arithmetic Achievement Of Second Grade Children., Frances Bybee

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The problem was to explore an avenue whereby reading and arithmetic disabilities of children with average or above average intelligence might be met within the context of the public school setting.

Remarks To Student Personnel Assistants, Milo A. Rediger

Milo Rediger Writings & Addresses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Relationships Between Teacher Classroom Behavior And Concurrent Student Interest In Classroom Activities, Earl Mcgrath Douglas

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Although it is widely conceded among educators that the problem of student interest and involvement in ongoing classroom activities is a crucial one, it has received little attention from researchers. This study was initiated to investigate the extent of student interest displayed in ongoing classroom activities, and to determine whether student interest may be related to certain kinds of behavior exhibited by their teachers. Five elementary classrooms were observed for one full school day. The behavior of the teacher and that of nine students, selected at random, was recorded in each classroom. The students observed were divided into groups of …

The Meanings And The Distribution Of The Perfect In Present-Day American English Writing, Betty Lou Dubois

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

A search of the relevant literature and of textbooks of English for speakers of other languages fails to turn up a theory of the English perfect which is both comprehensive and fully explanatory. The author hypothesizes that the meaning common to all forms of the perfect of American English, which includes those forms traditionally called the present perfect tense, the past perfect tense, and the perfect of the infinitive, the gerund, and the present participle is priority to a point of reference. The perfect situates the action or state conveyed by the lexical verb in a period of time which …

Non-Professional And Professional Variables, Political Orientation, And Faculty Support For The Critic Function As Primary For The University., Basharat Ali

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was threefold: (1) to describe and analyze the relationship between non-professional and professional variables and political liberalism; (2) to describe and analyze the relationship between non-professional and professional variables and faculty support for the critic function; and (3) to describe and analyze the relationship between political liberalism und faculty support for the critic function.

A questionnaire was developed to test the variables of the study. This questionnaire was mailed to twenty-five percent, or one hundred ninety faculty members, randomly selected from the University of New Mexico Bulletin for 1971-72. About twelve percent, or eighty-eight faculty …

An Investigation Of The Self-Concept And Values Of Selected Spanish-American Male College Students Enrolled In The University Of New Mexico, Nils Sigfred Carlson Jr.

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was to investigate dimensions of self-concept and values of Spanish-American male college students. The population consisted of male students with Spanish-American surnames enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences, and in the Bachelor of University Studies Program, at the University of New Mexico. The instruments used to conduct the investigation were the Tennessee Self Concept Scale, the Allport-Vernon-Lindzey Study of Values, and a questionnaire prepared by the researcher. It was imperative to use volunteers in this study because or the use of the Tennessee Self Concept Scale and the Allport­Vernon-Lindzey Study of Values. Professional …

Some Aspects Of Navajo Orthography, Wayne Stanley Holm

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Navajo has been written, in various forms, for more than a century, but practical orthographies have been available for less than fifty years.

Navajo literacy programs have been conducted in the past by various interest groups, but the current effort differs from its predecessors in that it has the support of a growing number of young Navajo educators. Vowel length, tone, ar1id nasality are phonemic in Navajo. The current practical orthography makes use of doubled vowels to mark length, an acute accent to mark high tone, and a cedilla or "nasal hook" to mark nasality. The orthography makes it fairly …

Teacher Effectiveness Training With Prestudent Teachers In Language Arts., Mollie B. Bailey

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of Teacher Effectiveness Training (a human relations program developed by Thomas Gordon) on the attitudes of pre-student teachers in language arts as measured by scored on the Minnesota teacher Attitude Inventory (MTAI), Rokeach Dogmatism Scale (RDS). Teaching Situation Recreation Test (TSRT), and Public Opinion Questionnaire E (E Scale).

The population for the study consisted of 29 pre-student teachers with language arts majors or minors, enrolled in the course Secondary Education 361 during the fall semester, 1971, at the University of New Mexico. These students planned to practice teach during the …

The Relationship Of Ethnicity And Socio-Economic Status To Student Perceptions Of School Bureaucracy., Thomas Henry Cloyd

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The central concern of this study was to investigate and analyze student perceptions of the school bureaucracy. The findings indicated a relationship between the student characteristics of age, sex, ethnicity, socio-economic status, and total effectiveness, and student perceptions of school bureaucracy. It was also found that students perceive the school more bureaucratically than did a panel of judges’ rating the same school.

Students in nine schools (three elementary, three junior high, and three senior high) in the Albuquerque Public School District served as subjects in this study. The schools were stratified according to the socio-economic status of the school population. …

A Study Of The Relationship Between Teacher Perceptions And Bicultural/Bilingual Affective Interaction In The Classroom, Augustine García

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The Problem

Many school districts and teacher education institutions are initiating bicultural/bilingual teacher inservice training programs. Generally, these programs include two kinds of objectives. The first are "orienting" objectives, such as the development of cultural awareness and Spanish proficiency, to be achieved during the instructional period. Secondly, "performance" objectives are those which are assumed to be reached in the classroom, as a result of the achievement of the "orienting" objectives. This assumption has yet to be investigated.

Statement of the problem. The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether there was a relationship between teacher perceptions of the …

An Inquiry Into The Feasibility Of An All-Year School In Glenview, Illinois, Henry A. Hamann

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

No Abstract Provided.

Situations And Language: A Sociolinguistic Investigation, Rosalie Maggio Donofrio

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Statement of Problem

The purpose of this research is to begin to refute the deficit approach to the verbal abilities of poor children. It is the investigator's contention that data collected on poor children's verbal abilities was done in incorrect social situations. Current research indicates that language development is innate. Evidence now indicates, also, that "disadvantaged" children will be non-verbal and/or nonsensical in situations they see as threatening, while in non-threatening situations they display an adequate verbal ability. It is the object of this research to vary socio­linguistic variables, and create symmetrical and asymmetrical situations, in order to test the …

A Writing Seminar For Speakers Of Black English, Patricia Ann Geuder

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Statement of the Problem

The problem was to incorporate the findings of sociolinguistic research in Black English into a writing seminar for lower socio-economic Black students entering an institution of higher learning. This seminar was to be linguistically and pedagogically sound, efficiently structured, and motivationally effective with the result that the written dialect of Standard English would be comprehended and produced during the first term of each student's entry into the institution. The purpose of the study was to investigate the efficacy of the use of contrastive analysis methodology as a means of reducing both the kinds and numbers of …

Multicultural Curriculum Training With Pre-Student Teachers In Language Arts., Martha Weidman Hubble

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Despite serious attempts to increase the educational success of minority groups, culturally diverse learners continue to fail to acquire the educational skills that allow for comforts afforded the majority culture. With stress on developing native and English language skills, important cultural aspects of minority groups' heritages have not been the primary concern. This study relates to two problems in multicultural education1 (1) the inability of teachers to relate to and understand. the culturally diverse learner, and (2) the dearth of teaching materials based on the minority group members' cultural heritages.

Randomly selected from 29 secondary education pre-student teachers in language …

Attitudes Toward Bilingual Education: A Study Of Parents With Children In Selected Bilingual Programs, Lorraine P. GutiéRrez

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The purpose of this study was to investigate attitudes of parents, whose children were in bilingual programs, toward bilingual education. The study also sought to find if differences existed between income groups in attitudes related to sex, age, mobility, and education.

PROCEDURE

Two hundred and twenty persons (or 110 pairs of parents) whose children were in bilingual programs in ten schools in the Albuquerque Public School System comprised the sample. They were divided into two socioeconomic groups based on occupation, lower-middle and upper-lower, and subdivided by sex, age, mobility and education. A sixty-three item questionnaire was …

Anomie, Aspirations, And Delinquency: Implications For Education, John R. Schuster

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The problem of this study is how can youth who have accepted deviant behavior as a pattern be identified. This study investigates relationships among anomie, aspirations, delinquency, and educational achievement, and it theorizes that students who are not anomic, hold high aspirations, and achieve normally in school will not exhibit deviant behavior as a pattern. The antithesis of the theoretical statement is also proposed.

A Comparative Study Of The Relationship Of Self Concept To Achievement In Navajo And Anglo Children., Ronald L. Oldham

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

This study was undertaken to develop an empirical basis for the comparison of Anglo and Navajo children in the relationship of their self concept to their academic achievement. There is much research dealing with the way Anglo children view themselves in their interaction with family, friends and the school program. It was felt that additional research was warranted to enable educators to compare more accurately the attitudes of ethnic groups in these areas and better understand the impact of the total school program on academic achievement.

A Study Of The Operation, Philosophy, Methodology And History Of Freedom High School, An Alternative School., Donald G. Bruckner

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this effort was (1) to study the purpose and operation of Freedom High School, (2) to ascertain its philosophical base and compare it with prevalent theories of education, (3) to analyze the performance of its teachers and students, (4) to experience the Freedom High experiment personally by teaching at the school, (5) to address its implications for secondary education in the future, and (6) to comment and recommend future directions for the school.

The Role Of Business Practicum As An Educational Experience., Justin Frederick Baer

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Business Practicum, for the purpose of this study, was defined as a self-directed learning experience that provided an opportunity for the participants to assume major responsibilities for a full range or office experiences in a real situation by utilizing the resources of the school.

The purpose of this study was to examine Business Practicum in terms of the reactions of the participants and to analyze and evaluate the results.

Three groups of business education graduates were utilized in the study. From the class of 1969, the total group of business education graduates was used--these graduates did not experience Business Practicum. …

A Study Of Selling Competencies And Their Priorities For Inclusion In The Distributive Education Curriculum., Teddy B. Palmore

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Statement of Problem. The purpose of this study was two fold: (1) to analyze those competencies needed for selling which should be included in a distributive education curriculum and (2) to ascertain what relationships may exist between the perceptions of the student-learners, employers, and distributive education teacher-coordinators in regard to the instructional content which is believed necessary to be taught in distributive education programs.

Procedure. Q-sort decks containing 75 competencies of Knowledges and Understandings, Skills, and Attitudes which are needed in sales-related occupations were sorted by distributive education teacher-coordinators, student-learners, and employers into the following categories: (1) Quite Impor­tant, (2) …