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A Study Of The Public School System Of Monroe County, William Goad

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The specific aims of the study are:

1. To survey the schools in Monroe County - the one-room rural schools, the two-teacher schools and the consolidated schools.
2. To show the percentage of attendance and percentage of failure in different schools and the cost per pupil attending.
3. To show the relation between teachers qualifications and teachers pay.
4. To study the transportation system; figuring the cost per pupil per mile.
5. To make general recommendations based on data obtained.

A Plan Of Supervision For Todd County Elementary Schools, Thelma Lyon

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The problem presented in "A Plan of Supervision for Todd County Elementary Schools" deals primarily with an attempt:

1. To present a plan of supervision.
2. To ascertain a means of evaluating supervision.

School Transportation In Barren County, Kentucky, Giles Williams

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study is to trace the development of school transportation in Barren County both educationally and financially in order to explain the present facing the school system and to seek possible solutions to these problems.

A Comparative Study Of Barren County Schools 1938-1950, David Montgomery

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study shows that the school census is dropping rapidly in rural areas. It must be remembered that with the introduction of more labor saving farm machinery and the consolidation of small farms that the end is not in sight.

A greater percentage of children are enrolled in our schools. The percentage of attendance is higher and will continue to slowly improve. As consolidation of small schools progresses, school plants and physical equipment will improve.

Over one-half of the children in average daily attendance are transported. Percentage of enrollment and percentage of attendance are much better in the transported group. …

Study Of Non-Enrollment & Absences In Kentucky, Mitchell Davis

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

During the school year 1944-45, the Division of Census and. Attendance of the Kentucky State Department of Education attempted to find the answer to two very important and timely questions concerning school enrollment and attendance in the state. These two questions were first, 'Why do children fail to enroll in school?" and second, 'Why do children fail to attend regularly after they do enroll?"

Survey forms were prepared and sent to all of the 257 school districts in the state, calling for the number of census children by age, grade, sex and race not enrolled in school and why they …

Accreditation Of Public Schools, Clarence Hodges

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The problems of this thesis are three-fold:

1. To familiarize administrators and citizens with the problems and needs of accreditation to the extent that these problems become axiomatic,
2. To determine who does the accreditation and how comprehensively is it done,
3. To revise the present state form used for accreditation of Kentucky schools by comparison with other state-accrediting forms.

A Comparative Study Of Industrial Arts In The United States, Clyde Pool

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

It is the purpose of this study to determine to what extent industrial arts has been developed as a part of the educational program in the United States.

An Analysis Of Classification Tests At Western Kentucky State College, Hal Gilmore

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

It is the purpose of this study to present the results of an investigation of these entrance tests, which were given under the auspices of the Registrar's Office and the Education Department to freshmen who entered school at Western Kentucky State College in September 1948.

The problem set up is of a three-fold nature, namely:

1. To determine the value, if any, of the entrance examinations as predictive agents for college success.
2. To study the weaknesses exhibited by students on the arithmetic achievement test.
3. To suggest remedial measures for the weaknesses revealed by the arithmetic test.

A Study Of Veterans Enrolled Under Public Laws 16 & 346 At Western Kentucky State College, John Mercer

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The problem arising from the study of the veteran may be considered under the following phases:

1. To consider the grades, load, and total enrollment of veterans.
2. To recognize the attempts that have been made to provide an educational program suitable to both the school and veteran and to note its shortcomings.
3. To state the conclusions and recommendations from the study.

Reorganization Of Spencer County, Kentucky School System, C. L. Francis

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

To study present school system of Spencer County and to devise a plan of reorganization of present system in order to provide a well rounded educational opportunity for the boys and girls of Spencer County, Kentucky. The consideration of this problem are:

1. Comparison of teacher qualifications in the types of schools.
2. Computation of enrollment, average daily attendance of the various types of schools.
3. Determination cost per pupil and total cost of operation of present school system and reorganized school system as salary of teacher, maintenance, transportation and needed buildings.
4. Provision for free transportation of all high school pupils.

A Course Of Study For Plane Geometry, Robert Sherfey

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study involves the following divisions:

1. To build a course of study in plane geometry consisting of six units developed.
2. To suggest some ways of evaluating a course of study.

The Status Of Industrial Arts In Mississippi, Francis Matthews

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study was to find out: the number and kinds of schools in which industrial arts is being taught; what industrial arts subjects are being taught in the approved high schools; the amount of teaching time given by each teacher to the subject; the number of teachers and scholastic preparation of each; the school from which each teacher got his training; his age and salary; the teaching experience of the teachers; and as far as possible, the progress of industrial arts.

Educational Achievement Of Seventh & Eighth Grade Pupils In Warren County Kentucky, Edward Matthews

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study is to make a comparison of the achievement in reading and arithmetic of seventh and eighth grade pupils in the one, two and three-room schools and in the consolidated schools of Warren County, Kentucky.

The Status Of The City Superintendent Of Schools In Kentucky, John Martin

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The present problem is fivefold:

1. To determine the status of Kentucky city school superintendents with reference to professional training, educational experience and tenure.
2. To determine the facts regarding the financial support and compensation and economic status of Kentucky city school superintendents.
3. To determine the social and professional status, as shown by the facts gathered, and the activities in which the superintendents engage.
4. To determine the status of the city superintendents with reference to their powers and duties granted by the boards of education.
5. To compare the status of the city superintendents of twelve years ago with that of the present …

A Year's Choral Study For The Small High School, Martha Strawn

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This investigation is an attempt:

1. To present the outstanding problems and difficulties which are likely to arise in the process of organizing a mixed chorus in the average small four-year high school, and in directing the chorus during its first year.
2. To analyze these difficulties and to suggest techniques of treating them, based on the experience and recommendations of authorities in the field of choral conducting, and also based on the writer's personal contacts with the field of choral music as a student and as a director.

Reorganization Of Russell County's Schools, Luther Wilson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study is to deal with some undesirable conditions which could be corrected. Why should two small high schools exist with only seven miles separating them? Why should classes composed of fewer than ten students be taught, when the same students could be taught in larger groups, through consolidation without inconvenience to anyone? Why should 173 adolescents of Russell County eligible for high school not attend school? Why should teachers of two high schools in Russell County work in overcrowded buildings when they could work under better conditions. These are some of the problems which confront the …

The Reorganization Of Hopkins County Schools, John Adams

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Purpose of the study - Educators and lay citizens alike, in the main, want the schools to extend their services so as to meet all the educational needs of the youth. Surveys of the schools in the Hopkins County District in recent years have convincingly revealed that these services are not being rendered. At the suggestion of the Hopkins County School Superintendent H.W. Wilkey, and others this study is being made.

This is an intensive study of the schools of Hopkins County as they exist today, with suggestions for a plan of reorganization to bring them to the point of …

Abstract Of Masters' Theses At Western Prior To 1946, Thomas Link

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this compilation has been to put the complete works of those Master of Arts graduates into one bound volume in a summarized form. These summarized statements are sometimes extractions from the prefaces, introductions or conclusions of the theses. They are in most instances quotations of purpose or conclusion. Only a few are summarized completely by annotated statements of the problem involved.

A Study Of Pupil Rating In The Field Of Industrial Arts, Ralph Lewis

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Rating in its many forms and phases seems to be recognized as an integral part of standard classroom procedure. Industrial arts is one of the fields in which there is a great need for the application of the best known principles and procedures in educational measurement. Industrial arts teachers and supervisors need reliable measuring instruments and methods in order to give better educational guidance, to evaluate personality traits, to motivate learning, to study the effectiveness of teaching materials and methods, and to measure pupil progress more accurately through the establishment of more definite standards of performance and through the diagnosis …

Unit Procedure Versus The Traditional Procedure In Teaching Social Science, Uberto Price

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The problem is to determine which is more effective in teaching social science, the unit procedure or the traditional procedure, the assign-study-recite-test.

A Study Of The Public School System Of Nelson County, Earl Huber

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Only seven years more than one hundred years ago, 1838, Kentucky’s public school system was established. Few Kentuckians conceived of a state-wide public school system. Many of the citizens were conservative and inclined to look upon a scheme of public education with doubt and disfavor; they were accustomed to the traditional plan of private education. In Nelson County, as in the rest of Kentucky, the early sponsors of public education were confronted with the problem of building sentiment for such a public service. Their task was one of establishing schools. Their chief goal was one of providing a school service, …

The Mcguffey Readers, Louise Lively

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The textbook, an important factor in public school education, is nowhere so wonderfully developed as in the United States. It occupies a more important position in our educational system than it does in the systems of many foreign countries. In fact, most of the teaching in our schools today revolves around the textbook - the cause of much criticism by many writers. They deplore the fact that both our teachers and pupils are dependent on textbooks.

A Study Of The Effect Of Growth In Reading Achievement Upon The Total Personality Of The Child, Lillie Nix

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of reading achievement as measured by a standardized test of reading, upon the total personality of the child, as measured by a standardized test of personality.

An Experiment In Teaching Sight Reading By Shaped Notes, Coralie Runyon

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study is to make an attempt to apply in the elementary grades of the public schools the principle of shaped notes with the purpose of fostering sight reading.

A Course Of Study In Beginning Shorthand, Kathryn Mcfarlane

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The problem involves the following divisions:

1. To build a course of study in shorthand with all the units developed
2. To suggest means of evaluation of the course of study

An Analysis Of Basal Preprimers In Terms Of Factors Determining Their Difficulty, Virginia Brunson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of the study is twofold:

I. To make a comparative analysis of recently published preprimerrs from the standpoint of:

A. Relation of the content of the picture to the content of the printed text.

B. Style of writing

C. Elements of interst

D. Vocabulary burden

II. To evaluate the difficulty and relative merit of the preprimers analyzed.

An Improved Program For The Equalization Of Educational Opportunity In Kentucky, Hubert Wilkey

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The one purpose of this study has been to produce a program for the improvement of Kentucky's effort to equalize the opportunities for education throughout the commonwealth. As a means of accomplishing this purpose investigations have been the following:

1. Other state plans for meeting this problem of equalization.
2. Kentucky's present plan and the inequalities that still exist.
3. The factors that must be considered in an equalization program for Kentucky.

An Experimental Study Of Leisure Reading In The Eighth Grade, Georgia Mcelwain

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The problem of the study was: To test the effect of free reading in the eighth grade, having materials provided with a range of difficulties suited to the differences in ability of the pupils.

Mechanical Drill & Meaningful Drill In Arithmetic For The Primary Grades, Mary Schell

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis has been written to emphasize the differences in two methods of teaching arithmetic - mechanical drill and meaningful drill - and attempts to present a psychologically and theoretically sound proposal for instruction in number skills in the primary grades of the elementary school.

Present Practices & Methods Of Supervising Student Teachers In Industrial Arts, Walter Nalbach

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The problem is threefold:

1. To determine the present practices of the programs in which student teaching is done.
2. To analyze significant variations and to show important central tendencies in the technique of supervision of student teachers.
3. To ascertain a means of evaluating student teaching in industrial arts.