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A Comparative Study Of The Graded And Ungraded Elementary Schools., Sondra L. Cohn

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The purpose of this study was to determine if there were significant differences in the scholastic achievements of children trained in an ungraded elementary school and those trained in a graded elementary school.

Children attending the only ungraded school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1966 were tested after attending that school for three consecutive years, and again after five years. A neighboring graded elementary school was used for comparison in the experimental grouping. Another pair of neighboring graded schools was utilized as a control group. The total sample tested was 140 students.

The hypotheses of the study were that significant …

An Experimental Study Of The Effects Of Hearing Deficiencies On Reading Ability, Wayne Robert Weimer

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Purpose of the study: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of hearing deficiencies on reading achievement. The study also investigated and analyzed the significance of giving special consideration to the teaching methods when teaching those children who have hearing impairments. A further consideration of the study was to investigate teacher perception of children with hearing defects through a comparison of teacher listings of suspected cases and audiometer sweep test identification.

Procedure: In September, 1968, teachers were asked to list children suspected as being hard-of-hearing. Fifty-seven hard-of-hearing children and 372 normal hearing children from a total of …

An Experimental Study On The Effect Of Highly-Directed Versus Non-Directed Homework Assignments On Student Achievement, John Robert Micklich

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The study was conducted at Northern Arizona University during the fall semester of 1968. It involved a total of six instructors, all full time members of the mathematics faculty, and 304 students; 203 in 6 classes of general mathematics and 101 in 61 classes of college algebra.

The directed homework classes received assignments that were taken up at the next class meeting, graded, scored, re­corded, and returned. The non-directed classes received the same assignments, but the homework was not taken up. There were lectures and discussion in both groups prior to assign­ing homework and after it was turned in. …

The Effect Of Studying The Structure Of Concepts And Cognitive-Emphasis Social Studies Units On Selected Cognitive Processes Of Fifth-Grade Children, Margaret Smith Greer

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The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of two types of treatments which were designed to increase the efficiency of the cognitive functions, Discrimination, Inference, and Generalization and to decrease the tendency to be Overcautious or to Overgeneralize in processing given data. The Concept Structure Study Program was planned to provide an understanding of the meaning elements and the arrangement of elements which together comprise the structure of concepts at varying levels of complexity. The Cognitive-Emphasis Social Studies Units were designed to facilitate the formation of simple-to-complex concepts by differentiation of relevant from irrelevant data, grouping of …

A Procedure To Discriminate Between Successful And Unsuccessful Pressure Groups Which Have An Interest In Education, Thomas John Gustafson

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A pilot study was designed to determine whether a procedure could be developed to predict if a pressure group will be effective in its attempt to influence educational policy. The eight variables tested were: 1) the critical situation, 2) the leadership of the group, 3) the prestige of the group in the community, 4) the control of the group over economic goods, 5) the channels of communication with local, state, and/or national officials, 6) shared attitudes of the group with the community, 7) the solidarity of the group, and 8) the strategy of the group to implement the change. A …

Sex-Role Identification And Achievement, Ronald Edwin Hull

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The purpose of the research was to test empirically the assertion that children at the preadolescent stage of development would evidence greater social-psychological reward and a higher level of achievement in school under the direction of male teachers than female teachers. An additional concern was to determine with whom boys and girls identify. More specifically, the study was designed to focus on three areas of human interaction: (1) Students' identification with their teachers, (2) Students' identification with others in primary relationships and with other role models, and (3) Students' self-concept in terms of masculinity­femininity traits. Forty-seven male and forty-eight female …

Impact Of Walker Air Force Base On The Community And Public Schools Of Roswell, New Mexico, 1942-1967., Arnold Wood Brown

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The purpose of the study was to determine the effects of Federal defense posture and activities of the military installation, Walker Air Force Base, upon the community of Roswell, New Mexico, including its public schools. The twenty-five year relationship between base and community was investigated using the chronological case study method

The Relationship Of Acculturation, Achievement, And Alienation Among Spanish American Sixth Grade Students, Ignacio Ruben Cordova

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The problem of this study was to determine what relationships existed between acculturation, achievement, teacher expectations and the alienation of Spanish American students.

The sample used in this study consisted of 480 Spanish American sixth grade students and their teachers. For purposes of analysis the sample was divided into urban middle class, urban lower class, and rural students. Four sets of data were collected for the student sample. This data included (1) acculturation measures (a composite and seven subtest measures); (2) alienation measures (a composite and four subtest measures); (3) a composite achievement measure; and (4) a socio-economic status index. …

Organizational Change And The Change Agent: A Participant-Observer Study, Ernest Mark Hanson Jr.

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When the federal government's War on Poverty began, it was based on the assumption that economically depressed urban and rural areas could be stimulated into economic activity through the massive use of federal funds. After sufficient time had passed for trends to develop, it was evident that the funds were going into urban areas at the expense of rural areas. This unequal usage of funds existed even though the same types of organizations which could use federal funds were present in both urban and rural areas. A Presidential Task Force selected Sandoval County, New Mexico, as one of three counties …

A Comprehensive Study Of First Graders With Kindergarten Experience And With No Prior Formal School Experience., Reeta Cockrell Brummer

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The purpose of this study was to determine if there were significant differences in first grade students who had attended kindergarten and those who had had no prior formal school training.

The hypotheses in the study were that there is no significant difference in the areas of (1) achievement, (2) adjustment to school, (3) sociometric choices, (4) readiness for first grade, and (5) mental ability between first grade stu­dents selected for this study who have had kindergarten expe­rience and those who have had no prior formal school training.

Teachers were asked to rank their students in the fall and again …

An Analysis Of Employment Factors Relevant To Selected Spanish-American Office Employees In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Dawn Marie Hendrix

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This study was to (1) determine the entry job requirements for typists, stenographers, secretaries, and office clerks, and the interviewing procedures by selected business firms in Albuquerque, New Mexico (2) study the qualities and abilities of selected Spanish-American office employees who graduated from Albuquerque High School.

Personal interviews were conducted with personnel managers or other supervisors with fifteen business firms in Albuquerque, New Mexico, chosen and classified as small, medium, and large-sized firms by the number of office personnel employed.

Personal interviews were also conducted with thirty Spanish-American office employees chosen systematically by three from a list of one hundred …

A Comparative Investigation Of The Reading Achievement Of Non-English Speaking Children, Kathleen M. Timmins

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The study was designed to determine the reading achievement of children for whom English is a second language. The children involved in the study were from two distinct groups of non-English speaking children, those from Spanish-speaking families and those from Navajo families. The children were tested at the end of second grade by standardized reading achievement tests designed to measure reading vocabulary and comprehension. The study was based on the question, "Is there any difference in the reading achievement at the end of second grade for non-English speaking children who have been taught to read through a reading program based …

A Report Of Supervised Recreational Reading Program., Mildred Sanders Hillyer

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In order to ascertain the breadth of knowledge children have of children's literature and mythology, Legant designed a pre and posttest for these two areas. Forty-two students of two fifth grade classes at Sierra Vista Elementary School, Grants, New Mexico, were used for this study. The purpose of this study was to (1) report student knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology and children's literature as measured by Legant's tests; (2) to report student achievement measured by the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, Reading Comprehension, (reading); (3) to compare student gains indicated on the two forms of these tests to …

An Evaluation Of The Informal Reading Inventory In A Fifth Grade Classroom, Laura Lee Sharp

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Problem. This study was designed to evaluate the use of the informal reading inventory in a fifth grade classroom of 29 students in the Northeast Heights of Albuquerque. The emphasis of the study was placed on finding the instructional reading levels of the children. The informal reading inventory the Nelson Reading Test, and teacher grouping were used in an effort to determine the instructional reading levels of the children and then a comparison made of the three means of evaluation.

Procedure. Each child in the class was given an informal reading inventory which determined oral and silent independent, instructional, and …

A Comparison Of The Results Of The Informal Reading Inventory With The Teacher Assigned Reading Level, The Cloze Procedure Level And The Rate Of Reading., Diane Bluestein Brown

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The informal reading inventory was explored in conjunction with: (1) the teacher assigned reading level, (2) the cloze procedure to evaluate comprehension, and (3) the rate of silent and oral reading. Sixty children in grades two through six were given the informal reading inventory to determine their independent, instructional, and frustration levels. The children were also given written cloze tests on the basis of their school assigned grade level to evaluate their independent, instructional, and frustration levels. During the oral and silent reading selections of the informal reading inventory, the children were timed, and their rate of reading was determined …

Pupil Growth As A Function Of Teacher Flexibility, Student Independence, And Student Conformance, Stanley James Hipwood

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Using a sample of 394 student subjects and six teachers, the author sought to prove the hypothesis that highly independent students would achieve a higher degree of pupil growth in mathematics mastery than would highly conforming students when both groups were under the teaching influence of high flexibility teachers. The California Psychological Inventory (CPI) by Harrison G. Gough was the test instrument selected to test student independence (Achievement via Independence Scale -- A_i), and teacher flexibility (Flexibility Scale -- F_x). Pupil growth in mathematics was determined by a pretest- posttest application of the Quantitative Thinking section …

A Study Of The Government Of India (Depse) Experimental Projects Programme, Haribhai Gulabbhai Desai

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The Directorate of Extension Programmes for Secondary Education (DEPSE) gives financial assistance to schools for conducting experiments in education to try out and to evaluate new practices intended to bring about innovations in classroom instruction, administrative practices, and organizational set-up. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the objectives of the experimental projects programme. The aspects included in the study were: variety of projects in various areas, extent of experimentation in different regions of India, turnover of participating schools, types and sizes of schools involved, qualifications of teachers conducting projects, nature of budget approved by the DEPSE, the effect …

A Survey-Analysis Of Study-Skills Presented In The Teacher's Manuals Of 3 Primary Basal Readers., Lois J. Pride

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This survey identified study-skill tasks for the primary grades, and investigated three basal reading series to determine provisions made in the teacher’s guides for teaching the skills. An analysis was made to determine: 1.) At what grade level do the various teacher’s guides introduce the skills?; and 2.) With what frequency do the guides reinforce and expand the various skills? An instrument was developed with identified and described each study-skill task appropriate for the primary grades. The study-skills were divided into the broad areas of location of information; organization of information; and following directions leading to the location and organization …

An Experiment In Critical Thinking Instruction At Sixth Grade Level, Dorothy Louise Macnevin

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To test the hypothesis that critical thinking skills and attitudes could be improved through instruction, 61 subjects were given a series of tests before and after instruction in open-mindedness, distinguishing fact from opinion, and drawing accurate conclusions from given information. No control group was used. Instruction involved the use of charts, a flannel board, stories, pencil and paper activities, and films. The "t" test revealed differences between all pre and post-test means to be significant at the one percent level of confidence. Of the variables considered, I.Q., Reading Ability, Parental Occupation, and Sex, the first two were most influential although …

Some Educational Implications Derived From A Comparison Of Adult Spoken And Written Vocabularies, W. Wendell Phillips

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A comparative study was made of two vocabulary lists, one made up of the English words most frequently used in adult speech and the other made up of the most frequently used English words uses in adult writing within selected groups in the United States. The study was based on A Spoken Word Count by Lyle V. Jones and Joseph M. Wepman and A Basic Writing Vocabulary, 10,000 Words Most Commonly Used in Writing by Ernest Horn. The first 1,000 words of the Jones and Wepman frequency study were compared with a list of 1,000 words derived from the 1926 …

A Study Of The Relationship Between Anxiety And Achievement, Keiko Lendenmann

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Anxiety interferes with the learning processes and it affects performance in test situations. Yet in today’s test-conscious society, achievement and IQ tests are being used increasingly to evaluate the student, without benefit of information on his anxiety level. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of anxiety on achievement.

The sample population was drawn from the fourth, fifth, and sixth graders of an elementary school in the suburbs of a medium-sized city in the Southwest.

The Lorge Thorndike, Level 3 (Form A) was used to obtain the IQ scores. The Science Research Associated, Type B, (Firms C …

Operationally Defined Constructs To Describe Student Social Behavior., Don Brent Croft

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Achievement, personality, and interest tests are widely used in the schools. Some of the tests that are often employed include the Strong Vocational Interest Blank, the Kuder Preference Record, the Otis Quick-Scoring Mental Ability Tests, and the MMPI. These tests have proven useful in assessing individual differences, and in providing the basis for decisions by educators in respect to student grade placement, achievement standing, counseling services, and vocational training. However, social behavior is another important facet of a student's performance. The social behavior of a student is, of course, associated with a student's performance in school. Ways to objectively and …

An Experiment To Improve Reading And Spelling Through A Correlated Social Studies Program With Emphasis On English As A Second Language For Bilingual Underachievers Of Low Socio-Economic Background, Geraldine W. Wilcox

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The history of education is replete with accounts of efforts by sensitive teachers and administrators to cope with the great range of individual differences. Approaches have included individual projects, tutoring on a one-to-one basis, programmed learning, team teaching, core and block programs, and a variety of organizational plans such as crossgrade grouping, continuous progress, non-graded classrooms, and multi-age classes. Organization and materials can only provide the environment and arrangements which enable a teacher to try to meet the educational needs of all the pupils in the class. What a teacher is and does remains the crucial variable as to which …

A Comparison Of Two Methods Of Typewriting Numbers And Symbols, Veronica E. Bender

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From Chapter 1:

There has been a large increase in number typewriting In the last decade and a half. The demand for statistical typists and other clerical positions involving the typewriting of numbers is greater than ever before. In modern business offices specialized typists are hired to prepare statis­tical reports, billings, payrolls, bookkeeping machine reports, IBM programs and general reports. There has also been an Increased use of numbers in ordinary business correspondence.

An Analysis Of Study Skills Taught By Intermediate Basal Readers, Richard D. Van Dongen

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An important skill area of the complex reading process is that of study skills. Differences of opinion exist regarding what these skills are and how important they are in the development of the reading process. They are seen to be necessary for reading in content field subjects, and instruction is provided in the basal reading program for their development.

An Inquiry Into The Effects Of Goals In The Motivation Of Adult Students In The New Mexico Adult Basic Education Program, Thomas Manuel Trujillo

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Adult basic education has only in recent years become an integral part of the total educational picture in New Mexico. Since 1964, federal funds under Title II, Part B of the Economic Opportunity Act, and more recently under Title III, Public Law 89-750 in the Amendments of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, have been procured for the teaching of adults. Because of its relative newness no studies have been made in New Mexico which have identified the goals and motivations of the adult students who are participating in this program.

An Analysis Of Differences Among Cultural Groups In Readiness For The Social Studies Program In The Fourth Grade, Carmen Lobato Tapia

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In recent years there has been considerable research done concerning teaching the social studies at all grade levels. Much of the research has been done in the curriculum area, the subject matter content to be taught, interests of children in the social studies and the sequence of units to be taught. However this writer found no literature that discussed the area of readiness for the social studies subject matter at any grade level.

The Relationship Of Anxiety, Intelligence And Reading Achievement, Margaret R. Fry

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Educators have become more and more concerned with the emotional area in the lives of children. M special interest has been that of anxiety and its relationship to learning. Various scales have been developed to measure anxiety in children. Several investigators, such as Wrightman, Cox, Feather, Lunneborg, and Pachecho have made significant studies which show that anxiety or fear correlates negatively with achievement. Further, Phillips, Hindsman and Jennings,

Feldhusenand Klausmeier, Cauble, and others have shown that anxiety or fear and intelligence are negatively correlated. Grooms and Endler and Maltzman, Eisman, and Morrisett found contradictory results in that high anxiety did …

An Experimental Spelling Program In Third Grade., Elizabeth U. Mixon

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Problem. This study was undertaken to discover if spelling would be improved if the words to be learned were based on some other area of the curriculum and were a natural outgrowth of the activities in that area, rather than an arbitrary list taken from the spelling workbook currently in use in the Albuquerque Public Schools.

An Investigation Of Albuquerque's Married Elementary Teachers Who Have Dropped Out Of Teaching Because Of Pregnancy, Ada Crawford Gorton

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I. THE PR0BLEM

Statement of the problem. It was the purpose of this study (1) to discover why elementary teachers 1vho have resigned from the Albuquerque Schools because of pregnancy have not returned to teaching; (2) to ascertain if fact ions existing within the school community or forces within the school system were influential considerations in the decisions of teachers who have not returned to teaching.