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Teacher Preparation Needed For Those Planning To Teach The "Culturally Different" In Grades 5 Through 9 As Perceived By Teachers Presently Teaching The "Culturally Different.", Colleen Hennessey

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This study was designed to obtain and analyze the perceptions of teachers of children who are culturally different regarding the curriculum necessary to prepare students to teach children who are culturally different. The teachers were at the time of the study, teaching in grades 5 through 9 in schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, Houston, Texas, and Dallas, Texas, designated as schools for children who were culturally different. Information concerning programs of teacher preparation was secured through the use of a questionnaire. Three hundred twenty-four questionnaires were usable for analysis.

Tabulation of the data from the questionnaire indicated the following inter-related …

A Field Study To Effect Changes In Academic Achievement Levels Of Underachieving Seventh-Grade Students, Raymond J. Gargiulo

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STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The purpose of this study was to improve the academic performance of underachieving seventh-grade students. Specific focus of the study was on improving reading achievement by using within-class instructional grouping to accommodate the range of achievement in the classroom and by matching various instructional materials to the learners' levels of reading (hereafter referred to as the open classroom concept). The study was also design to evaluated associated improvement in arithmetic and social studies skills, as well as the degree of school satisfaction demonstrated by students in the open classroom environment. Another factor measured by the study …

Family Income, Voting Behavior, And Financial Referendums:Educational Finance And Politics In Albuquerque, 1968-1969., Richard V. Hatley

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This study (1) described and analyzed the relationship between family income and voting behavior in four 1968-1969 public school financial referendums in Albuquerque, New Mexico, (2) investigated ether variables which might be related to voter responses in such elections, and (3) developed a method for studying school election voting behavior.

Retraining Efforts And Labor Force Status: Differential Effects Of Selected Demographic Variables, John Terry Abrahamson

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The Manpower Development and Training Act (M.D.T.A.) is the largest and one of the oldest of the federal manpower programs. This study is of the M.D.T.A. experience in one state during a one and one-half year period. The sample was limited to those who completed institutional type training programs. Data used were collected in the normal process of program operation and included characteristics of trainees, individual trainee termination information and the post-training report one year after completion of training. The problem was to create sets of relationships, of both theoretical and practical significance, between pre-training characteristics of trainees and post-training …

An Analysis Of Administrator And Student Leader Views Of Student Discontent And Solutions On One University Campus., Harold Peter Menninger

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The purpose of this investigation was to analyze problems of and solutions to student discontent as viewed by university administrators and student leaders. In addition, the responsibilities, future, and roles of these two groups were investigated, along with questions about the involvement of faculty and students in protest issues and their value positions. Talcott Parsons' theoretical framework, which includes the concept of functional imperatives, was used to achieve deeper interpretation of the results. Several hypotheses derived from Parsons' theory were set forth and tested.

Data were collected on the respondents' personal backgrounds, on reactions to stud��nt discontent and its solutions, …

A Need Assessment And Proposed Curriculum For Low Socio-Economic Elementary School Children., Mary Ann Jenkins Brewster

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This study was concerned with the problems of curriculum in disadvantaged areas. The purposes were to evaluate present curricula and also to discover the relationship of teacher training and teacher attitude to the major problems in low socio-economic areas.

Three third grade classes of various percentages of ethnic and racial groups were used. All schools were located in deprived areas.

Class One had 64.3 per cent Black, 25 per cent Spanish surnamed, 3.5 per cent Indian, and 7.2 per cent Anglo students. Class Two's percentages were 80 per cent Spanish surnamed, 8 per cent Black, 8 per cent Anglo, and …

Problem Solving Abilities And Psychomotor Skills Of Navajo Indians, Spanish Americans And Anglos In Junior High School, Rajabather Jayagopal

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The Problem

The purpose of this study was to investigate the problem solving abilities of Navajo Indians, Spanish Americans and Anglos in two schools of Albuquerque, using WISC performance subtests as criterion measures and including the five psychomotor skills, perception, visual set, emotional set, physical set and fine motor acts as predictor variables at intra- and inter-ethnic levels.

Procedures

The study was divided into the following parts: (1) review of the pertinent literature, (2) design of the study outlining selection of subjects, selection and application of test instruments and compilation and treatment of data, (3) presentation, analysis and interpretation of …

La Fortalecita:A Study Of Low-Income (Urban) Mexican Americans And The Implications For Education., Richard Werner Arndt

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The purpose of this study was to examine the life-style coIIU:1on to La Fortalecita, a low-income Mexican-American community comprising approximately 300 inhabitants and located within an urban population center exceeding 300,000, and to discuss certain educational implica­tions arising from the findings.

An Investigation Of Occupational Values Held By A Group Of Rural Northern New Mexico Senior High School Students, Bill Leslie Johnson

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The general objective of this research was to make certain predictions concerning occupational values from the cultural values of the three major ethnic groups represented in northern New Mexico—Anglo, Spanish-American, and Indian. A corollary to this main purpose was an investigation of the effect of maturation and sex upon occupational values. The research problem, then, centered upon analyzing differences in patterns of occupational values among various categories of individuals.

A Comparative Study Of Middle Schools And Junior High Schools In New York State., Edward L. Davis

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This study was undertaken to determine to what extent the middle school, in actual practice, is doing a better job of meeting the needs of young adolescents than its predecessor, the junior high school.

Thirty-five middle schools and thirty-five junior high schools were paired in terms of school population, soci-economic conditions, and geographical location.

Letters and questionnaires were sent out to principals of schools included in this study. The study was explained to these administrators and the need was stressed for the return of all questionnaires for the completion of the study.

The summary of the findings indicated some differences …

Dictation Procedures And Related Practices In Offices In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Hazel Powell

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The problem.

The purpose of this study was to determine and to analyze the procedures and related practices that characterize office dictation as it is given in representative offices in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Procedure.

Interviews held with forty dictators of office dicta­tion and the forty persons who transcribed their dictation yielded cur­rent data concerning dictation procedures. Organizations represented were distributors of goods and services, educational institutions, gov­ernment, manufacturing businesses, military establishments; and- service organizations. One-half of the dictators were asked to dictate three or four items each to be tape-recorded as a supplement to the interviews.

Findings and conclusions.

Findings …

The Influence Of Leadership In The Growth Of Positive Self-Concept, Orval David Hughes

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The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of the establishment of a para-military program in a large comprehensive high school. Specifically, the study compared two educational programs operating within the same school; one, the traditional program with objectives oriented to intellectual achievement, the other, a para-military program with objectives oriented to developing qualities of citizenship through experiences in leadership. The study attempted to discover how leadership experiences influenced the growth of positive self-concept. The experiment followed a non-randomized pre-test - post-test design with the experimental group composed of students of the para­military program (a Naval Junior ROTC), …

The Relationships Between The Illinois Test Of Psycholinguistic Abilities, Reading Performance, And Iq Of Third-Grade Children., Miyoshi Ikeda

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The clinical model of reading as a communication process provided a theoretical basis for this study. This exploratory research was carried out to investigate the relationships between the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, Revised Edition, reading perform2nce, and IQ of children in regular third-grade classrooms.

The Use Of I/T/A In A Special Summer Remedial Reading Program, Dianne Mair Sego

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Purpose of the study: The purpose of this study was to determine the efficiency of the use of the Initial Teaching Alphabet as a remedial reading teaching technique. Six children who failed to learn a basic sight vocabulary from their respective basal text reading programs in the first or second year of school were chosen as participants.

Procedure: In May, 1967, he pupils were tested with the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children to determine the intelligence quotients of each child. All of the boys received a score which placed them within the lower limits of the average rang of intelligence. …

The Effects Of Type Of Reinforcer On Several Lower-Class Cultural Groups., Irene D. Hassett

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Seventy-two is (half males, half females) from each of four lower-class cultural groups, i.e., Anglo, Black, Spanish-American, and Navaho, were randomly assig ed to four reward conditions: money, candy, personal-praise, and performance-directed-praise. Each S was given a 10-minute marble dropping task, in which the third minute was designated as the baseline. D ring minutes four through ten, two response measures were derived for each S: rate of response, and a reinforcer effectiveness score. Data on both of these measures were subjected to an analysis of variance. One female graduate student in psychology tested all of the Ss. The following hypothesis …

Technological In-Migration And Curricular Change: Educational Politics In Albuquerque, 1945-1965, William M. Hales Jr.

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Statement of problem. While the migration of the rural poor to the urban ghetto is an important and much-discussed demographic movement which has challenged the adaptiveness of the American public school, a less-noticed migration, spawned by the rapidly expanding technology, has been occurring. Defense industries, particularly those related to space exploration and atomic energy have developed new sites for expansion. This expansion has brought with it a steady flow of scientists and technicians into the new localities, placing great stress on local institutions, including the schools. This study investigated the impact of a large in-migration of scientists and technicians on …

A Comparison Of The Attitudes Of Rural And Urban New Mexico Educators Toward Negotiations, Sanctions, Traditionalism, And Progressivism In Education, William H. Phillips

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The Problem:

Collective negotiations and sanctions are two of the most salient issues confronting education today. The purpose of this study was to identify, measure, describe, and compare the attitudes of New Mexico teachers and principals, both rural and urban, toward the basic issues of collective negotiations and sanctions. In addition, this study compared New Mexico teachers and principals on traditional-progressive attitudes toward education.

A Factor Analysis Of The Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test Across Four Ethnic Groups, William Robert Merz

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A study was conducted to examine the factor structure of the Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test (DAP) item responses across four ethnic groups. The Man Scale of the test was used: 1338 Anglo, Black, Mexican American, and Yucca Indian first grade boys and girls were included. The children were 6, 7, and 8 years old. Californian Achievement Test (CAT) performance was included in the investigation.

Age and sex variables were correlated with Goodenough-Harris item responses and CAT subscores. Correlation matrices were reduced by principal components analysis with orthogonal rotation to simple structure.

Similar factor structures were obtained across the four ethnic groups. …

An Investigation Of The Relationships Between Organizational Climates Of Schools And Teacher Leadership Dimensions, Willie Sanchez

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The importance of this study rests upon its contributions to the study of the effects of system characteristics upon teacher effectiveness. Organizational climates of schools have a pervasive influence over the behaviors of teachers, and, in turn, upon pupils. The organizational climates of schools have been studied and their ideal profiles have been plotted. The effects of teachers' behaviors upon pupils have also had extensive consideration. However, the effects of the characteristics of the whole school upon intermediate and primary participants have not been studied. In particular, no studies have been done on the effects of the climate of the …

An Investigation Of The Relationship Between Visual Perceptual Abilities And Reading Achievement, Dale L. Melada

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It has long been recognized that reading problems may be of multiple causation. Some research studies have shown that certain visual perceptual abilities are related to success in early school learning and in beginning reading, but present tests commonly used do not point out strengths, weaknesses, or individual differences in visual perception among "normal children." The high percentage of children with reading disabilities, and children, boys especially, whose reading is not commensurate with their abilities warrants the need for the study presented. The purpose of the study was two-fold. Its first intention was to evaluate two visual perceptual tests, the …

A Study Of The Effect Of A Public School Attendence Counselor Upon Attendence And Achievement For A Group Of Navajo Elementary School Students Grades 4-6, John Pinto

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Statement of the Problem

It was the purpose of this study to investigate the effect of a public school attendance counselor on (1) school attendance and (2) school achievement for a group of Navajo elementary school children grades 4-6. Two null hypotheses were set up to be tested:

1. There are no significant differences in attendance between those schools with an attendance counselor and those schools without an attendance counselor.

2. There are no significant differences in school achievement between those schools with an attendance counselor and those schools without an attendance counselor.

Procedure

The sample consisted of a total …

An Analysis Of The Formal Political Process Affecting Major Education Bills In The New Mexico State Legislature, 1969., Maurice Edward Mailton

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The process of educational policy making has received increased attention as sharper criticism has been directed at educational policy both from within and outside the educational profession. Although there is a long history of research on policy making in education, much of the recent work has grown out of the emphasis by political scientists on leadership and decision-making at the community level. New Mexico is no exception. With one recent exception, little research is now available on policy making in New Mexico education.

An Analysis Of The Effect Of The Informal Political Process Upon Three Education Bills, New Mexico State Legislature, 1969, H. Fred Pomeroy

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This study investigated the informal political process operative within one state legislature, the 1969 New Mexico State Legislature, in relation to three education bills. A conceptual framework by Lewis A. Froman, Jr. proposed the following questions within which the study was framed: (1) Who are the leaders in the political process? (2) What are the leader's resources (values, beliefs and attitudes)? (3) What is the intensity of the leader's attitudes? (4) What decision-making systems are used?

Ten major lobbyists cooperated the research by providing data pertinent to Froman's categorical questions. The data were collected from pre-legislative session interviews and interviews …

A Study Of Centralized Libraries In Public Elementary Schools In New Mexico, Thelma Jean Kelley

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The purpose of this study was to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the present library programs in the elementary public school libraries of New Mexico and to make recommendations for improvement based upon the national standards established by the American Association of School Libraries (1960). In November, 1965, 470 questionnaires with a cover letter were mailed to the 470 school principals in elementary schools of New Mexico. The percentage of return was 34.2. Of those responding, only 83 schools reported centralized libraries. These 83 returns were considered the usable questionnaires for the study. Schools were classified by size according …

A Survey Of The Attitudes Of Prospective And Experienced Secondary School Teachers Toward The Junior High School, Jeanne Burress Hubert

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The prospects for the future of the junior high or middle school movement are only as bright as the outlook for securing sufficient qualified and willing teachers. The need is clear. The junior highs and middle schools of our nation need more and better teachers—teachers by choice and by education prepared to work with pre-and young adolescents. The recruitment and preparation of such teachers is seriously hindered by 60 years of neglect, suppression and degradation forced upon the junior high and its teachers. The actual discriminatory practices of salary differences, qualification or ability differences, which forced the junior high to …

A Follow-Up Study Of Secondary Education Graduates Of 1962 And 1966, Eve C. Iacoletti

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A 24-item questionnaire was sent to 123 graduates of the University of New Mexico’s Department of Secondary Education from the classes of 1962 and 1966 exclusive of graduates of specified departments such as industrial education and business education. The majority of the questionnaire items were for descriptive data collecting; five items sought evaluations of one kind or another while a final item sought open-end responses. The return rate was 86 per cent with 105 of the graduates responding. Data handling was accomplished by means of computer tabulation and multiple sorts on a mechanical sorting machine. The open-end question was hand-tabulated …

The Relationship Between Self-Concept, Intellectual Ability, Achievement, And Manifest Anxiety Among Select Groups Of Spanish-Surname Migrant Students In New Mexico., Geneva B. Gillman

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Nowhere in the world today, nor in time past, can an educational system be found which is charged with greater responsibilities than the American schools. Commager emphasized this idea when he stated that, "no other people ever demanded so much of education as have the American people. None other is served so well by its school and education." (Thayer, 1960). Even though the American schools are considered to have been better than those in most other areas of the world, the alarmingly high percentage of dropouts, as well as the increasing crime rate across our land, has caused educators to …

A Comparative Validity Study Of Readability Formulas, Joanne Erwin Edelman

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The purpose of this study was to determine the comparative validity of seven readability formulas and revisions of three of these formulas. The formulas employed were the following: the Lorge, the Yoakam, the Flesch reading ease, the Dale-Chall, the Farr-Jenkins-Paterson, the Tribe, the Fry readability graph, and the Powers-Sumner-Kearl revisions of the Flesch reading ease, the Dale-Chall, and the Farr-Jenk1ns­Paterson formulas. The hypotheses tested in the study were that there were no significant differences (1) among readability scores predicted by the original formulas; (2) between each revised formula and its original version; (3) among the readability formulas and revisions of …

An Experimental Study Of The Impact Of Typewriting On Language Arts Skills Among Students In Elementary School, Jeanne Popejoy Smith

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It was the purpose of the study to compare test data collected from students before and after touch typewriting was taught to a group of 36 first grade students and 50 third grade students, and to determine whether the test data contained statistically pertinent evidence which would indicate that for elementary school students, learning to touch typewrite could effect their learning in the language arts skills. Four groups, one experimental and one control group from each grade, were given an intelligence test at the beginning of the study, and a reading test and a specially constructed test on spelling, punctuation, …

Leadership Behavior Of Department Chairmen In Selected State Institutions Of Higher Education, Glenn Burnett Schroeder

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The Getzels and Cuba social systems model was used to develop hypotheses for obtaining knowledge concerning: (1) the "real'' leadership behavior of chairmen as described by themselves and faculty, (2) the "ideal" leadership behavior of chairmen as described by deans, themselves, and faculty, and (3) responsibility, authority, and delegation behaviors reported by deans and chairmen. Normative data about the selection. administrative role, tenure, leadership training, and experience of incumbent chairmen were also gathered.