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A Study Of The Processes And Outcomes Of Parental Cooperation Affecting Children’S Reading Ability, Chanelle Anne Keithahn Jan 1969

A Study Of The Processes And Outcomes Of Parental Cooperation Affecting Children’S Reading Ability, Chanelle Anne Keithahn

All Master's Theses

This experiment was devised as a possible means of overcoming reading difficulties in children who come from a low socio-economic and cultural background and, at the same time, involving their parents in the reading instructional program. Weekly sessions, involving informal reading activities, were attended by the parents and their children. Those who participated regularly were used as the experimental group, while those who participated at some of the meetings were used as the control group. The purpose of this study was to compare and contrast the growth of reading skills between matched individuals in an experimental group and a control …

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Periodical Use In Secondary School Libraries In The State Of Washington: A Survey With Recommendations, Lillian C. Canzler Jan 1969

Periodical Use In Secondary School Libraries In The State Of Washington: A Survey With Recommendations, Lillian C. Canzler

All Master's Theses

It was the purpose of this study (1) to assess through a questionnaire-study the use of 213 selected periodicals by faculty and students in high schools in first and second class districts in the State of Washington, and (2) to determine some general values held regarding periodicals.

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No. 72 1968 November Review Nov 1968

No. 72 1968 November Review

International Journal for Business Education

This initiative documents the preservation and digital release of the organization’s historical print archives, representing decades of scholarship in international business education. By converting legacy issues into accessible online formats, the project enhances global access to foundational research, pedagogical innovations, and early thought leadership that shaped the field. The digitized collection provides educators, researchers, and practitioners with a comprehensive record of evolving theories, instructional practices, and international business trends. Making these archival materials publicly available supports continued inquiry, enables longitudinal analysis, and strengthens the discipline’s historical continuity. This effort reflects the organization’s commitment to advancing international business education by ensuring …

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Demonstration, And Development Project For Programs, Materials, Facilities And Educational Technology For Undereducated Adults, John H. Getreu Sep 1968

Demonstration, And Development Project For Programs, Materials, Facilities And Educational Technology For Undereducated Adults, John H. Getreu

Appalachian Adult Basic Education Demonstration Center Archives

A notification of grant award for a project grant titled "Demonstration, and Development Project for Programs, Materials, Facilities and Educational Technology for Undereducated Adults" approved on September 25, 1968.

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Mississippi State University Research / Demonstration Module, E. T. Kohler, R. C. Maxson Sep 1968

Mississippi State University Research / Demonstration Module, E. T. Kohler, R. C. Maxson

Appalachian Adult Basic Education Demonstration Center Archives

A final report on the Mississippi State Module Planning Grant prepared by E. T. Kohler and R. C. Maxson in September of 1968.

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An Empirical Study To Determine The Effect Of A Physical Fitness Program On Academic Achievement And Reading Ability, E. Douglas Garland Aug 1968

An Empirical Study To Determine The Effect Of A Physical Fitness Program On Academic Achievement And Reading Ability, E. Douglas Garland

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to determine the measured effect of a physical fitness program on reading ability and academic achievement among sixth grade boys and girls.

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A Study Of Teacher Awareness Of Interest Factors Contributing To Success In Reading Among Intermediate Grades In Eighteen Elementary Schools In California’S Rio Linda Union School District, Charles Ralph Dykstra Aug 1968

A Study Of Teacher Awareness Of Interest Factors Contributing To Success In Reading Among Intermediate Grades In Eighteen Elementary Schools In California’S Rio Linda Union School District, Charles Ralph Dykstra

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes of classroom teachers concerning factors involved in the development of greater interest in reading among intermediate grade children.

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Adapting The Montessori Approach To Moderately Handicapped Children, Mary E. Croiser Aug 1968

Adapting The Montessori Approach To Moderately Handicapped Children, Mary E. Croiser

All Master's Theses

This paper is meant for the public school special education teacher of moderately handicapped children who has had some teacher training in the Montessori method. It is not the purpose of the paper to prove the Montessori method, but rather to show how some of it could be adapted for use with moderately handicapped children of primary school age.

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A Three-Year Experimental Study Of Two Methods Of Teaching Reading In The Elementary School, Merle Eugene Davis Aug 1968

A Three-Year Experimental Study Of Two Methods Of Teaching Reading In The Elementary School, Merle Eugene Davis

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of a phonetic reading approach, namely that published by the Economy Company, with a traditional basal reading approach upon reading achievement in the primary grades of the Peter G. Schmidt Elementary School, in Tumwater, Washington. A secondary purpose of the study was to compare the effects of the two approaches on spelling achievement in the second and third grades in the Peter G. ·Schmidt Elementary School.

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A Comparative Study Of Handwriting Practices In The Intermediate Grades, Evelyn Elaine Eisenman Aug 1968

A Comparative Study Of Handwriting Practices In The Intermediate Grades, Evelyn Elaine Eisenman

All Master's Theses

The purpose of the study was to show that teachers in the elementary middle grades were providing functional practices in their handwriting instruction as set forth in the literature published since 1960.

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A Study Of The Effects Of Certain Physical Activities On The Progress Of Reading Comprehension, Word Knowledge, And Rate, Neil Allen Cummings Aug 1968

A Study Of The Effects Of Certain Physical Activities On The Progress Of Reading Comprehension, Word Knowledge, And Rate, Neil Allen Cummings

All Master's Theses

It is the purpose of this paper (1) to study the affects of certain physical activities (creeping, crawling, balancing and rhythm) related to the improvement of comprehension, vocabulary, and rate of reading; (2) to compare the amount of progress in reading of the boys to the progress of the girls; and (3) to compare the amount of progress of the high, middle, and low reading groups.

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An In Depth Study Of A Child With Visual Perceptual Problems And An Attempt To Determine The Effectiveness Of Configuration Analysis As Related To Visual Perception, Gail Hintze Aug 1968

An In Depth Study Of A Child With Visual Perceptual Problems And An Attempt To Determine The Effectiveness Of Configuration Analysis As Related To Visual Perception, Gail Hintze

All Master's Theses

It was the purpose of this study to work closely with one child who had been diagnosed as a disabled reader with visual perception problems to determine if the intensive use of visual perceptual training in the use of configuration analysis would improve the subject's reading power.

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A Survey Of Teacher Aides Under Title I Of The Elementary And Secondary Act Of 1965 In The State Of Washington, Richard Lee Evans Aug 1968

A Survey Of Teacher Aides Under Title I Of The Elementary And Secondary Act Of 1965 In The State Of Washington, Richard Lee Evans

All Master's Theses

It was the purpose of this study to survey teacher aides in the state of Washington in an effort to obtain factual information about their background, duties performed, and attitudes toward the teacher aide program.

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A Comparison Of Two Methods Of Teaching Place Value, Bruce Alan Pennington Aug 1968

A Comparison Of Two Methods Of Teaching Place Value, Bruce Alan Pennington

All Master's Theses

It is the purpose of this study to determine how children who have been taught place value of number by number base systems on the fifth grade level achieve on two standardized achievement tests and a teacher-made test as compared to those children who have been taught using several ideas and techniques of the traditional approach.

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A Comparison Of Academic Achievement Between Slow Learning Grouped And Non-Grouped Seventh Grade Students In West Puyallup Junior High School, William George Selig Aug 1968

A Comparison Of Academic Achievement Between Slow Learning Grouped And Non-Grouped Seventh Grade Students In West Puyallup Junior High School, William George Selig

All Master's Theses

It was the purpose of this study (1) to compare the academic achievement of seventh grade slow learning students in the modified learning program with those not in the program; (2) to determine if there is any difference in the academic achievement of the two groups. It was the investigator's hypothesis that there would be no significant difference in achievement due to grouping.

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A Survey Of Teachers’ Attitudes Regarding The Effectiveness Of The Nongraded Elementary School, Merton L. Thornton Aug 1968

A Survey Of Teachers’ Attitudes Regarding The Effectiveness Of The Nongraded Elementary School, Merton L. Thornton

All Master's Theses

It was the purpose of this study to determine teachers' expressed attitudes regarding the effectiveness of the nongraded elementary school in the state of Washington, as revealed through a questionnaire study.

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A Survey Of Small School Districts’ Junior High School Summer Program Offerings, Donald W. Moore Aug 1968

A Survey Of Small School Districts’ Junior High School Summer Program Offerings, Donald W. Moore

All Master's Theses

It was the purpose of this study to obte.in details of summer school programs, including practices which were considered by the districts to be innovative.

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A Survey And Evaluation Of Creative Writing Through The Media Of Individualized Movies In The Seventh Grade, Loy Victor Sutton Aug 1968

A Survey And Evaluation Of Creative Writing Through The Media Of Individualized Movies In The Seventh Grade, Loy Victor Sutton

All Master's Theses

It was the purpose of this study to determine if creative writing could be improved through the motivation of individualized movies as compared to the standard creative writing assignment.

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Comparative Study Of The Effect Of Creative Dramatics On Listening Achievement, Alice L. Setzer Jul 1968

Comparative Study Of The Effect Of Creative Dramatics On Listening Achievement, Alice L. Setzer

All Master's Theses

The researcher, in an attempt to find if there were any differences in listening skills, compared the rate of progress in listening skills of fifth grade students, one group (experimental) participating in a planned program in creative dramatics in addition to the regular school program, with the second group (control) participating in the regular school program.

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A Study Of Grading Art Work Concerning Secondary Art Instructors In The State Of Washington, Darwin Dean Evans Jul 1968

A Study Of Grading Art Work Concerning Secondary Art Instructors In The State Of Washington, Darwin Dean Evans

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study is to assess in a controlled manner the extent of concurrence among secondary art instructors in the State of Washington with respect to the grading of certain art work produced by juniors in a secondary school.

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A Comparative Study Of A Linguistic And A Traditional Approach To Spelling, Dale Henry Sayler Jul 1968

A Comparative Study Of A Linguistic And A Traditional Approach To Spelling, Dale Henry Sayler

All Master's Theses

It was the purpose of this study to compare a modern linguistics method in spelling instruction to a previously used traditional method to answer the question: Is the linguistic method more effective than the traditional method in teaching spelling?

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What Makes A Good Kindergarten?, Shirley Jean Riel Jul 1968

What Makes A Good Kindergarten?, Shirley Jean Riel

All Master's Theses

The problem is to find what constitutes a positive kindergarten program; and the purpose of this study is to analyze the value of kindergarten as a necessary part of every school program.

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Towns County Adult Basic Education Recruitment Research Program, Towns County Board Of Education Jun 1968

Towns County Adult Basic Education Recruitment Research Program, Towns County Board Of Education

Appalachian Adult Basic Education Demonstration Center Archives

An application from the Towns County, Georgia Board of Education seeking assistance in developing a Adult Basic Education Recruitment Research Program submitted on June 28, 1968.

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The Relationship Of The Institutionalized Juvenile Delinquent’S Self-Concept To Reading Achievement And Iq, Donald L. Lorentsen Jun 1968

The Relationship Of The Institutionalized Juvenile Delinquent’S Self-Concept To Reading Achievement And Iq, Donald L. Lorentsen

All Master's Theses

The literature has suggested that delinquents are characterized by a reading disability and a negative self-concept. The problem was to determine if there was a significant correlation between the measured self- concept and reading achievement, self-concept and IQ, and reading achievement and IQ of Institutionalized Juvenile Delinquents. A secondary purpose of the study was to determine if there was a significant difference between the self-concept of the present sample and the self-concept of the standardization sample used in the Piers-Harris Self-Concept Scale.

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An Investigation Of The Inter-Relationship Of Library Aptitudes And Library Skills Instruction At Central Avenue School, Tacoma, Washington, Dorothy Louise Sturdivant Jun 1968

An Investigation Of The Inter-Relationship Of Library Aptitudes And Library Skills Instruction At Central Avenue School, Tacoma, Washington, Dorothy Louise Sturdivant

All Master's Theses

It was the purpose of this study to determine the influence of systematic library skills instruction on the library aptitude of growing children in their use of school library facilities and on the scope of their recreational reading, by means of an instrument designed to measure application of skills.

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Project To Establish An Adult Learning Center At Parkersburg, West Virginia, J. C. Dulaney May 1968

Project To Establish An Adult Learning Center At Parkersburg, West Virginia, J. C. Dulaney

Appalachian Adult Basic Education Demonstration Center Archives

A report on the project to establish an Adult Learning Center at Parkersburg, West Virginia submitted by J. C. Dulaney in May of 1968.

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No. 71 1968 April Review Apr 1968

No. 71 1968 April Review

International Journal for Business Education

This initiative documents the preservation and digital release of the organization’s historical print archives, representing decades of scholarship in international business education. By converting legacy issues into accessible online formats, the project enhances global access to foundational research, pedagogical innovations, and early thought leadership that shaped the field. The digitized collection provides educators, researchers, and practitioners with a comprehensive record of evolving theories, instructional practices, and international business trends. Making these archival materials publicly available supports continued inquiry, enables longitudinal analysis, and strengthens the discipline’s historical continuity. This effort reflects the organization’s commitment to advancing international business education by ensuring …

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Special Experimental Demonstration Project In Adult Basic Education, Morehead State University Mar 1968

Special Experimental Demonstration Project In Adult Basic Education, Morehead State University

Appalachian Adult Basic Education Demonstration Center Archives

Grant application to develope a demonstration center to improve adult basic education in the Appalachian Region at Morehead State University submitted in March of 1968.

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An Investigation Of The Pre-Planning Phases Of The Vale School Team Teaching Program, Conrad W. Lautensleger Mar 1968

An Investigation Of The Pre-Planning Phases Of The Vale School Team Teaching Program, Conrad W. Lautensleger

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study is to investigate the nature and sequence of the preliminary planning accomplished prior to the actual initiation of the Vale Elementary School team teaching program. This paper will not attempt to establish a relationship between improved instruction and elementary team teaching.

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1968-1970 Adult Basic Education - Mississippi Module, Appalachian Adult Education Center Jan 1968

1968-1970 Adult Basic Education - Mississippi Module, Appalachian Adult Education Center

Appalachian Adult Basic Education Demonstration Center Archives

1968 to 1970 Adult Basic Education teaching program Mississippi Module.

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