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An Experimental Study In The Use Of The Differential Aptitude Test To Assign Sehome High School Students To Various English Tracks, Elizabeth Mae Strand

All Master's Theses

This paper presents the use of an expectancy table, based on a pilot study using the DAT Sentence Subtest and Middle School Grade Point Average, to place students in the various English tracks at Sehome High School. Sixty students were placed in accordance with the English grade predictions of the expectancy tables and sixty were placed in accordance with middle school teacher-counselor recommendations. Significantly more students were placed correctly when the expectancy tables were used.

Recommendations include the administration of the DAT early enough in the eight grade year to make the results useful in English placement upon entry into …

A Comparison Of Selected Language Skills Of Urban And Rural Fourth-Grade White Boys Of Lower Socioeconomic Status, Claudia H. Aaron

Teaching & Learning Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

The Effects Of Transformational Grammar Instruction Upon The Sentence Structure Of Ninth Grade Students, Stanley Herbert Ross

Teaching & Learning Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

The Relationship Of Final Grade Achievement In Seventh Grade English And Social Studies With A Reading Achievement Test, Judith Mitchell Knox

Teaching & Learning Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

Slow Learners In High School English, Gwendolyn Jordan

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Survey Of Research Literature And A Proposed Revision And Extension Of The High School Freshman Language Arts Program, Ellen Anne Johnson

Graduate Student Research Papers

It was the purpose of this study to propose, in light of recent research, a revised and extended language arts program for high school freshmen with particular attention to (1) improved articulation and sequence; (2) suggested ideas for procedures and creativity; (3) inclusion of more specific and detailed content; (4) incorporation of some of the recent trends in methods, materials, and content; and (5) an attempt to avoid duplication and reiteration.

Appraising The Needs Of A Ninth Grade Reading Class, Wilena Barker Heald

Graduate Student Research Papers

Many students who enter high school at Milton-Freewater, Oregon, are unable to do satisfactory work because they can not read. This situation, although common in secondary schools in the United States, must be improved. At the present time the student whose reading ability is two to six years below his grade level is being placed in a reading class.The purpose of this paper was (1) to survey the general principles of good diagnosis, (2) to determine the criteria for selecting suitable tests, and (3) to suggest suitable tools for appraisal to be used by the classroom teacher.

A Catalogue Of Books For Australian Secondary Schools, Macmillan And Company

Information Management

This catalogue contains a list of books recommended to be used secondary schools for various subjects including religious knowledge, English, French, geography, history, civics, mathematics, science, handicraft, art and music.

Some Current Problems In English Education, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Information Bulletin 1945-1951

On the question of organisition at the secondary level Australia, as a whole has not given evidence of any very clear-cut policy. The common practice is to provide separate academic and technical schools in the capital cities and large country towns with certain intermediate types of school which may have a bias in one direction and may act primarily: as “feeders” to schools giving more advanced courses. Except in Tasmania the “modern school” has not emerged very explicitly. In many of the smaller country centres, however, we find dual or multi-purpose schools. It is not easy to say whether these …

The Status Of Foreign Languages In West Virginia High Schools, Florence Smith

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study is to ascertain the status of foreign languages in West Virginia secondary schools for the past eighteen years, as to (1) pupil enrollment by classes, sex, subjects, and years offered and (2) teacher preparation, experience, tenure, salary, and teaching load.

The Teaching Of Latin In High School, M. Speranda Vogelsang

Bachelors’ Theses

The aim of this thesis is to give the young teacher of Latin a brief survey of the aims and values of Latin, as well as of the material to be taught in each of the four years. It also contains useful classroom activities.

The English Classification Tests Administered By The University Of Nebraska: An Analysis, Glenn Orville Kelley

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

First paragraph of the General Summary

This study has been based upon the analysis of the Nebraska Classification Test in English (Form V) administered to 5,183 pupils graduated from 346 Nebraska high schools in 1934. Usable supplementary data have been supplied by 153 of these high schools, but in some portions of the study data for the remaining high schools have been available from other sources. The tests were examined as to content and reliability, and were compared with published tests used for purposes of placement by other collegiate institutions. Two thousand test papers were carefully analyzed to determine types …

The Status Of Latin In Kentucky, Mary Wells

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The general purpose of this study is to investigate the status of the study of Latin in Kentucky. It is in detail a study to ascertain

1. whether Latin is an elective or required subject;
2. what per cent of high school students are studying Latin;
3. preparation of Latin teachers;
4. where Latin is elective how the enrollment in this subject compares with that of other subjects.

Oral And Written Composition In The Upper Grades: A Thesis, Anna R. Sullivan

Bachelors’ Theses

There are several reasons why our pupils have not learned 1 to talk well: 1. There has not been enough of oral language work, as a separate and distinct training, in the elementary school. 2. Oral work has not been utilized as much as it ought to be as an aid, and a preparation for, written work. A child who is to be taught to write well, must first be taught to talk well. 3. The other school subjects have not been utilized as effectively as they might be to develop power in oral composition. 4. The school has constantly …