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Service Learning Across The Curriculum, Betty Fowler

All Graduate Projects

The purpose of this study was to develop handbooks that examine the value of service-learning as a legitimate educational practice. Based on an analyses of current literature, this study shows that participation in service-learning projects helps young people develop positive attitudes toward community participation that continue into their adult lives. The rationale and objectives of school-wide service-learning programs are discussed. Some existing community projects involving elementary and secondary students are described. Criteria for the development of service-learning programs are considered.

A Principal's Guide: Assertive Discipline And Honors Level Management; Two Separate Behavioral Management Systems Promoting A Positive School Climate, Ronald E. Gee

All Graduate Projects

This principal's guide presents two separate behavioral management systems used at the middle school level. The two systems are Lee Canter's Assertive Discipline and Budd Churchward's Honors Level Management. Canter's approach is effective in the classroom while Churchward's addresses total school environment. Methods for integration of the systems, materials needed, consequences/rewards, and suggested time lines are presented.

School Ka Sabaq: Literacy In A Girls Primary School In Rural Pakistan, Iffat Farah

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

This paper (which is part of a larger ethnographic study) describes literacy learning practices in the context of a girls' school in rural Pakistan. In this context, school ka sabaq is recognized as involving reading and writing activities, and behavior particular to the institution of the school. A description of the reading and writing activities as well as the division of time and space in the school shows that literacy activities are reflected in and determined by the context of the particular institution within which they are learned and practiced. The author also describes school-community relations and the community's goals …

Ua68/10/1 Dare In Nashville Schools 1988-89, John Faine

WKU Administration Documents

This report summarizes the results of a partial evaluation of the 1988-89 Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) effort implemented in all sixth grades in the Nashville, Tennessee, Metropolitan Public School system by trained instructors from the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department. As documented in the following pages, the evaluation effort had two major components.

1. An evaluation of the program by teachers and principals in all the participating schools.

2. Inner-City Study, an investigation designed to assess the impact of the program in elementary and middle schools that service those students thought to be most at risk to the threat of …

Staying Power : "Leaving School Too Soon" : Report Of The Advisory Committee On Truants, Dropouts And Alternative Programs, Department Of Educational And Cultural Services

Maine Collection

Staying Power : "Leaving School Too Soon" : Report of the Advisory Committee on Truants, Dropouts and Alternative Programs.

Maine.Department of Educational and Cultural Services. Printed Under Appropriation #4201.1111.

January 1987

Contents: Advisory Committee Members / Dedication / Acknowledgements / Contents / Introduction / Summary of Observations and Findings / Agenda for the Advisory Committee / What's Happening in Maine? / Maine Law / Alternatives in Education / Prevention / Recommendations for Action / Appendix / Fig.A - Adult High School Completion State Totals / Fig.B - Maine Secondary Dropouts by Grade & Year / Fig.C - Maine Secondary Dropouts …

Writing Apprehension: Can An Individualized Approach Help?, Elizabeth B. Loftin

Theses and Dissertations

This study was a descriptive investigation of the effects of the Individualized Language Arts (ILA) program חס writing apprehension. Subjects were 152 eighth graders enrolled in a middle school. The subjects were from five language arts classes and were taught writing during the 1986-87 school year by the Individualized Language Art's (ILA) program. The data gathering instrument for this study was the Daly-Miller Test of Writing Apprehension (WAT), administered in August, 1986 as a pretest and again in the spring of 1987 as a posttest. Between the pre and posttests, students were instructed by the ILA, a method of teaching …

A Comparison Of Teacher Creativity And Organized Demeanor As Measured By The Tuckman Teacher Feedback Form, Deborah Joanne Karas

All Graduate Projects

The purpose of this study was to make a comparison of personality variables between four essential dimensions of classroom climate. Creativity, Dynamism, Organized Demeanor, and Warmth and Acceptance were examined, with specific attention given to the relationship between Creativity and Organized Demeanor. The Tuckman Teacher Feedback Form, an instrument designed to measure these variables, was selected and implemented in this study. One hundred and eighteen teachers teaching in grade level positions that ranged from Kindergarten through the twelfth grade, were administered the Tuckman instrument during their annual evaluation period by their building administrators. After computing and comparing mean percentages, it …

A Study Of Olga Smyth, Director, High Valley School: 1934 Graduate Of Bank Street, Deborah Stone

Graduate Student Independent Studies

A study is made of the educator Olga Smyth, 1934 graduate of Bank Street. Examins her particular style of working with children, and what it is based on in her history, education, and personality. The continuity of her work and the consistency of her approach is shown, from her days at Bank Street through the making of "Incitement to Reading" (film by L. J. Stone showing her teaching first graders at the Poughkeepsie Day School in the 1950's) to her work at her own school with children whose emotional and learning problems make it impossible for them to succeed in …

Stephen F Austin State University Journal Of Education Vol. 2 No. 1, Mary Appleberry, Francis Baccigalopi, Camille G. Bell, Duke Brannen, M. J. Cepica, Missy Corley, James Dinucci, Gloria Durr, Carole Dyer, Patsy Hallman, William Heeney, Lynn Luther, David Nelson, Thomas A. Quarles, Kay Rayborn, Sherry Rulfs, Cecilia Thomas

Stephen F. Austin State University Journal of Education

No abstract provided.

Current Writing On Legal Education, Roger C. Cramton, Barbara Marshment

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

The Development Of A Model School Policy Manual For The Morehead, Kentucky Rowan County School System, Karen Johnson Slone

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

An applied project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Education Specialist at Morehead State University by Karen Johnson Slone on April 29, 1981.

Study Of Paired-Learning In The Resource Room In The Aberdeen School District, Jean Doris Fairbairn

All Master's Theses

This paper presents a naturalistic field study employing methodology of participant-observation. The study was designed to initiate, develop and evaluate a program whereby K-6 grad students were observed in a pair-learning situation. The study was specifically focused on the idea of students teaching other students human awareness skills. The program was outlined, the students observed and four hypotheses presented.

A Determination Of Attitudes Toward Instructional Media At Eastern Illinois University, Willis O. Waltman

Masters Theses

No abstract provided by author.

Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 40, No. 2, Wku Alumni Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Quarterly magazine created for WKU alumni. Regular features are Hilltopics, Sports, Alumni Newsgrams and Notes and In Memoriam. This issue includes:

• Graduate School (College) is On Its Way
• Evening Class is Thataway
• The Hilltopper Hundred to the Rescue
• ETV - Keep Watching, It's All in Color
• Student Interns Learn How Government Works
• Significant Statements: The New Year Begins
• Good News for Fishermen: Reservoir Research
• There it Was! Your Homecoming - 1971
• Performing Arts Illuminate the Campus Scene
• Discovery 1 - Uncovering the Kentucky of Antiquity
• Discovery 2 - Reviving the Heritage of Kentucky
• Discovery 3 - The Intercultural Studies Program …

A Study Of The Reading Background And Current Program Practices In Reading Used By Elementary Principals In Washington's Second Class School Districts, Kenneth William Anderson

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study is to determine the degree to which the training and backgrounds possessed by elementary principals affect their actions as leaders of reading instruction with their buildings.

Effects Of The Administrative Internship Program On Selected Post Interns From C.W.S.C. And An Analysis Of Their Training Program, Robert Burdick

All Master's Theses

The purposes of this study were to (1) determine how selected post-interns from Central Washington State College rate the usefulness of their internship experience; (2) determine if size of school has any significant bearing on quantity and quality of administrative experiences; and, (3) determine what successes these post-interns have had in securing administrative positions.

Achievement Study Of Negro Elementary Transfer Students, Peter Andrew Nielsen

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to find out to what extent the transfer program has benefited participating students. The hypothesis was that Negro elementary students participating in the transfer program would make more academic progress by 1968 than would Negro elementary students from the same home schools who did not transfer. All students had to be in grade four in 1966. Students must have taken a standardized achievement test in 1966 and 1968.

An Operational Handbook To Guide The Administrative Intern, Ben E. Farrell

All Master's Theses

The purposes of this study were to (1) investigate the various areas of learning presented to an intern in educational administration, (2) to develop examples of forms and procedures for study guides, and (3) to compile these experiences for presentation of An Operational Handbook to Guide the Administrative Intern. Hopefully the handbook will form a basic bridge between theory and practice.

A Study Of What An Elementary Principal Should Know About The First Grade Reading Program, James Edward Devine

All Master's Theses

Since most formal reading instruction begins in the first grade, it was the purpose of this study to provide elementary principals with information on certain phases of the first grade reading program. Those phases seen as important to this study include basic methods, skills, materials, and evaluation procedures used in teaching reading.

An Analysis Of Junior High School Performances Of Students Admitted Early And Late In The Ellensburg Public Schools, Clark Atkins Smith

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to analyze the outcomes of the early admission practice of the Ellensburg Public Schools during the period 1956 through 1959 as it related to public school students whose birthdates occurred after September 10 and before February 1. These outcomes were studied in relation to a limited number of factors assumed to be significant in measuring the educational development and school progress of students. Screening procedures were related to these results. Junior high school performances of students originally admitted to kindergarten or the first grade after reaching normal minimum-age requirements were compared with those of …

An Analysis Of Achievement Test Scores For Three Groups Of Lakeview High School Students, Joseph E. Schwalb

Masters Theses

No abstract provided by author.

Flexible Scheduling, Stanley R. Schmick

Graduate Student Research Papers

The purpose of this study is to show that we are recognizing and learning ways to cope with the problem; namely: how to return the use of time, space, numbers, and content to those who need it--the teachers and their students--in even the larger schools that symbolize so well our concept of education for all youth. We are also learning how to cope with an equally important additional problem; how to treat a pupil as an individual even though he is one in a great mass of students. Solving these two problems constitutes the exciting challenge of our day. During …

Enrichment And Reorganization Of The Kellogg School Library, Kenneth Adkins

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

For several decades it had been recognized that the American school had been changing from a classical school with a select student body and a narrow curriculum, into a large public school with varying abilities, interests and offerings. It had been recognized that the need for children's literature had become more acute than ever before. Kellogg School is structuring and carrying out a long-range plan for a better education for boys and girls, had established a philosophy of teaching and learning and had set out general and specific goals. In order that the teaching and learning be congenial with the …

A Report Of An Adult Education Program In Modern Mathematics, Gerald D. Murry

Graduate Student Research Papers

The problem was to establish a method, or methods, of informing the people of the community about the aims and purposes of the modified mRthem:1tics program which was being used in the Puyallup Junior High School.

Adequacy Of Preparation Felt By Those Who Obtained Degrees In Administration And Supervision At Central Washington College Of Education, Marjorie Irene Bradford Mathers

All Master's Theses

This study tried to determine the degree to which students who earned their master’s degree between the years 1957 and 1960 felt prepared for an administrative position.

Establishing An Integrated Instructional Materials Service, Elsie Eggebroten Tompkins

All Master's Theses

This study attempted to discover if Washington school administrators believed it would be helpful to integrate library, textbook, and audio-visual materials into one instructional materials service. The three aspects of the problem to be explored were (1) the feasibility of the proposed service in actual schools in Washington, (2) the qualifications thought necessary for the director of such an integrated service, and (3) the degree to which our schools already approached an integrated instructional materials service.

What Should Our Students Know And Understand About The Communist System?, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Powell Speeches

Notes for panel program, "What Should Our Students Know and Understand About the Communist System?", National School Boards Association Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.

A Proposed School System For Metcalfe County, Kentucky, Thomas Butler

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study is to propose for Metcalfe County a school system that will come nearer meeting the standards of a good educational system than the one now in use. It is by no means expected that this proposed system will be perfect and the writer fully realizes that oftentimes a scheme on paper will not work out so well when actually put into practice. However, being acquainted with the amount of money available, the geographic and economic conditions, and the roads of the county it is the best that can be done under existing circumstances.

A Study To Determine The Sources Of Friction Between Parents And The Yakima Public Schools, Clifford Albert Erickson

All Master's Theses

The purposes of this study are threefold: 1. To study recorded individual complaints directed at a Class A public school system during the period of one full year. 2. To identify the source of these misunderstandings and possibly the reasons for their occurrence. 3. To suggest some common methods of dealing with parents and the public at large in an effort to eliminate the criticisms.

The Responsibility Of Schools For Meeting The Leisure Time Needs Of The Community, Gerald M. Hanft

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this paper was to determine the extent to which authorities in the fields of recreation and education consider the leisure time needs of the community as a responsibility of schools. The author has also attempted to show what changes must take place in educational patterns if schools are to meet these leisure time needs.