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A Comparative Study Of Individualized And Basal Reading Methods In Fourth Grade., Margaret A. Peke

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I. THE PROBLEM

Statement of the problem. There is no controversy over the importance of reading instruction in the modern school curriculum. The ability to read is essential for learning in every field of knowledge. The purpose of this study was to investigate how individual differences could be more effectively provided for in the middle grades by (1) determining an indication of pupil interest, mental maturity, and reading achievement among three fourth grade classrooms, (2) establishing a method of procedure by which individualized instruction could be executed without utilization of the traditional basal reading approach, and (3) making an analytical …

An Analysis Of Doctoral Programs In Educational Administration In A Five-State Region, John Robert Grable

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Educational administration in the United States developed as an extra-duty or part-time assignment. As such an assignment it was seen basically as responsibility someone had to take and that almost any good teacher could take if he would. It was seen as something one did from common sense and learned to do simply from doing it. It was seen as an assignment with little prestige and with an extra stipend. There were a great many such starting places in the many small schools. In the city schools, entry into administration and progress in it developed to a large degree on …

A Study Of The Motivation Of Students Who Completed The Junior Year Of High School, And Who Are Members Of Socially, Economically And Culturally Deprived Areas., Maxwell J. Ihrig

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Project Upward Bound was a program initiated by the Office of Economic Opportunity to wage war on talent waste in our high schools throughout the United States today. The program itself was really a pre-college program for low income youngsters. It was perhaps best summed up in the following quotations from Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, at the 1965 White House Conference on Education: "Millions of youngsters from impoverished backgrounds are caught in a downward spiral of second-rate education, functional illiteracy, delinquency, dependency and despair. How can we halt this tragic waste of human resources? How can we turn it …

A Taxonomic Approach To The Evaluation Of Secondary School English Program., George Hirshfield

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A taxonomy is a classifying device. There are essentially two types of taxonomies. The first is the non-hierarchial one, which is used to keep similar things together. The classification of English textbooks by subject, e.g., literature, spelling, and grammar would be non-hierarchial. The second is the hierarchial one, which is used to classify elements along some continuum. The classification of English literature books according to the relative difficulty of vocabulary would be hierarchial. The latter type can be most useful for viewing the organization of a system of things or activities and is used toward those ends in this study, …

Plans For The Development Of A High School Art Program For Socorro, New Mexico., Eleanor Wolf Oliver

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THE FIELD PROBLEM IS PRESENTED AND ASSESSED

In the spring of 1963, the Socorro High School principal contacted the teacher (an art education major and English minor), who was teaching five sections of sophomore English, about teaching an art class. A conference with the principal established the following ideas:

A Process Model For Educational Change, Its Development And Use As An Evaluative Instrument., Roger L. Harrell

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The Santa Fe Public Schools have recently experienced an educational change. The formal organizational 'structure of the secondary curriculum has been changed from a one-track to a four-track system of comprehensive education. This change received official board approval on March 16, 1965.

Undoubtedly, the local Board of Education was convinced that 0anta Fe needed a four-track organizational structure in its secondary schools. How was the change brought about? Who was involved? Was it planned change? If so, what principles or steps were followed in the change process? These are just a few of the questions which prompted this study.

Some Trends In American Education As Evidenced By An Analysis Of Articles Appearing In School And Society, The Atlantic Monthly And Harper's Magazine For Fifteen Years, 1945 Throught 1959., Agnes Catherine Brebner

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The crises through which the world has passed and the demands for reconstruction to repair the losses caused by World War II, as well as the challenge to democracy, have intensified the recognition of the important part to be played in education. The insights, the skills, and the knowledge that might have enabled citizens to live successfully at the beginning of this century appear to be too inadequate today. Our world has become a complex technological maelstrom of rapid mobility, constant change, and interdependence in which the citizen must acquire certain critical abilities in order to survive. In the past …

The Relationship Of Creativity To Achievement And Other Student Variables., Woodrow G. Mayhon

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From Chapter 1:

The definition of giftedness solely in terms of high IQ has never seemed satisfactory, but in spite of the apparent inadequacy of the IQ metric, the practice during this century has been to regard the intelligence score as representative summary of the full range of primary mental abilities and cognitive

processes that an individual is capable of exhibiting. This practice has been challenged sporadically ever since the inception of mental abilities tests, most often on the grounds that this concept of excellence binds us to a single form of cognitive giftedness, the high IQ

Such a restricted …

An Investigation Into Language-Concept Development Of Primary School Pueblo Indian Children, Joyce Morris

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In 1936, Dr. Lloyd Tireman conducted a study in which he analyzed the reading performance of Spanish-speaking children in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The results of this study showed that these children performed slightly above grade level in the first and second grades, but that they began to drop below grade level in the third grade. This drop continued through the grades until, in the eighth grade, these children were performing two years below grade level. In explaining this later drop in performance, Dr. Tireman suggested as a possible cause:

The strict control of reading vocabulary breaks down in the intermediate …

A Teacher Opinion Study Of Grouping In Classroom Organization., Florian Perea

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Conscientious and devoted teachers have for years been aware of the problem that grouping poses in classroom organization. For years they have known that in order to reach every pupil in their classroom something must be done. Teachers have constantly sought for proficiency of technique and methodology that would enable them to provide more adequately for the needs of school children. They have attended institutions of higher learning where they might obtain the knowledge of the latest explorations in the field. The recommended methodology has changed from one technique to another. Wilhelms and Gibson (1961, pp. 410-411) remind us that …

Nomothetic And Idiographic Dimensions In A State Teacher's Association, John A. Aragon

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The United States is an organizational society. That to an increasing extent we live in and are influenced by the formal organizations of our social system is recognized by students of organizations.2 Large-scale formal voluntary and involuntary organizations which pursue their own objectives in the social order and compete with each other for public support, power, and prestige have become an increasingly important and conspicuous element in our total society.

The Work Values Of Male And Female Urban And Rural High School And Technical Institute Welfare Students In New Mexico, Jack T. Humbert

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There is a familiar America: an America that is commemorated in patriotic speeches, in high school debates and Horatio Alger stories, a country that, in the 1960’s, is the richest and most powerful nation in the world, a country that has 170 million radios, 71 million automobiles, 1,763 daily newspapers, more than 55 million television sets, and which has been described as “affluent” and “abundant.”

The Efficiency Of The Use Of Analogy In Teaching Selected Concepts At The Sixth-Grade Leve, Margaret Smith Greer

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I. THE PROBLEM

Statement of the problem. The purpose of this study was to determine the efficiency of the use of analogy in teaching selected concepts at the sixth-grade level. Fifteen concepts were selected from grade level teaching material, and each was paired with a concept already familiar to the students. The method of teaching the new concept by analogy with the known concept was so structured that specific principles of thinking and learning processes formed the basic framework. The following principles were included: (a) relation of an unfamiliar experience to one already within the cognitive structure, (b) analysis and …

An Experimental Study Of The Measures That Correlate Best With Progress In Beginning Reading, Nell Schroeder Elerick

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Statement of the problem. The purpose of this study was to investigate some of the factors involved in reading achievement. They include: (1) visual discrimination ability, {2) auditory discrimination ability, (3) motorperception maturity, (4) using symbols, (5) ability to use context clues, and (6) a child’s interest in reading, in books, and in symbols before he starts to school.

A Character Study Of Teachers As They Appear In American Fiction In 1900, Carol E. Alalouf

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The advent of the twentieth century brought with it an increased concern about education, curricula, teachers, and the approaches used in the classroom by teachers. A history of American education could be written in terms of "movements" and "emphases." During the course of each movement, its advocates were likely to become over-enthusiastic about some teaching device, method, or technique. Somehow, the impression would be created that they found the answers to all significant educational problems. In recent years, many people have felt that the teacher and his abilities are not enough to impart knowledge to the students. Teaching devices, visual …

Factors Associated With Achievement, Marilyn R. Larsen

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All students, regardless of their intellectual endowment, need to be led to achieve as highly as they are able. As Allport (1955) pointed out, there are upper limits to possibilities of growth, but these limits are movable by breadth of education. Stretching toward the limit and then raising the limit are necessary activities at every level of potential and accomplishment. The individual learner does most of the work involved, but teachers and parents assist. Is there a set of behaviors or traits unique to those children who rise above their supposed limits in school achievement, a pattern of growth into …

The Cuba High School Experimental Program In Nongraded English, Robert J. Smith

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There are two observations about which few people would disagree: that (in modern terminology) individual differences do exist (some people can do things that others cannot do), and that some learnings must be sequential (a child must learn to make noises before he can learn to talk). That individual differences do exist in virtually any area that can be isolated for inspection has been shown in many studies and experiments; that their existence has strong implications in education has also been repeatedly shown.

The Effectiveness Of Follow-Up Procedures For Televised Music Instruction, Vera E. Snyder

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Problem and significance. A conservative estimate shows that there are approximately 121,000 elementary school pupils regularly viewing educational television in New Mexico. Of this number, 66,000 are “enrolled” in science, 7,000 in Spanish, and 48,000 in music. For the KNME-TV program, Music 6, there are an estimated 15,000 sixth-grade students enrolled. For a state with a population of approximately 1,100,000, these are rather impressive figures---particularly since educational television has gained prominence only in the last decade. Researchers attempted to evaluate the effectiveness of this medium have produced hundreds of reports showing “no significant difference” between educational television and ordinary classroom …

A Comparative Study Of Individualized And Basal Reading Methods In First Grade, Zelda Maggart

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Today’s children live in a world of words. From nursery days onward they are in contact with reading in many forms. They face a future filled with a multitude of technological and social problems, each one needing attention and understanding of citizens educated to the highest degree consistent with abilities and interests. Reading is at the center of an effective educational program. While research indicates that children read better today than ever before, reading programs must not be permitted to become static. New ways must be found to improve the teaching of reading.

Electronic Data Processing In Small Colleges And Universities., Carl Herbert Ivey

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During its initial development the electronic computer was associated with the areas of research and technology. Moat people thought of the computer almost exclusively as an instrment of the research elite capable of functioning aa a device in scientific research.

A Survey Of The Attitudes Of Biology Teachers In The State Of New Mexico Toward The Biological Sciences Curriculum Study Program, Frizelle La-Gretta Aguilar

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There has been a lot of discussion about the advances in science today and the need for better scientific training at the high school level. During the past decade, there have been research projects developed to up-grade the courses and include more sophisticated materials in the students' biology curriculum at the earlier grade level.

A Study Of The Relationship Between Anxiety And School Achievement, Ervin F. Holle

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The theory that anxiety is an important factor in the school performance of individuals, particularly children, has received increased attention in recent years. The noted psychologist Jersild called attention to the problems:

Fear exists so generally in contemporary life that our time has been called the “age of anxiety.” The present age is probably no more fear-ridden than earlier periods in history; instead, we perhaps recognize the inroads of fear more clearly and acknowledge them more openly than we did in the past.

Sarason and his associates conducted research for several years concerning themselves with the problem of the “relationships …

Textbooks Used In The Elementary Schools Of New Mexico (1846-1964), Mildred Gunn Fitzpatrick

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Textbooks have been highly influential in developing the instructional program in American schools. Next to the teacher, textbooks have had a more significant part in determining what has been taught and how it has been taught than any other single influence (Maxwell, 1921, p.1; Tidwell, 1928, p.1; N.E.A., 1962, p.23; Carpenter, 1963, p.278). Textbooks reflect the trend of current educational thought; therefore, the development of a broad picture of textbook use in New Mexico should provide a better understanding of instructional programs both in pioneer-day and present-day schools systems. A study of textbooks should also provide information about the general …

Persistent Students And Dropouts With Reference To Factors Associated With Early School Withdrawal., Abraham Demetrio Paler

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No abstract provided.

A Survey Of Audio-Visual Practices In The Large Schools In New Hampshire, W. M. Cleveland

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It was the purpose of this survey to find out what towns, cities or school unions in the State of New Hampshire have done with audio-visual aids in their large schools. Its questions attempt to discover to what extent the individual unit has utilized its program of audio-visual aids, giving special attention to personnel responsible for the program and to money spent for these aids, both as a whole and per pupil.

An Experimental Investigation Of Relative Effectiveness Among Three Different Arithmetic Teaching Methods., Jimmie Joe Greathouse

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A substantial body of literature and theory trends during the past decade was aimed at upgrading elementary arithmetic programs. Generally, it advocated that educational improvement could be much greater in the future than it had been in the past if newer instructional processes and newer instructional materials were implemented in elementary school arithmetic programs. The impetus created by this literature is continuing at the present time. Currently, research and pilot projects in elementary school arithmetic instruction, experimental arithmetic curricula, commercial arithmetic textbooks, and university elementary teacher-education programs are cooperatively promoting widespread implementation of meaningful arithmetic teaching approaches and materials.

A Sociometric Investigation Of The Persistency Of Choice In Grade Levels Two Through Six, Dolores Lapointe Linton

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Statement of the problem. There is a general conjecture among elementary school teachers that friendships and social preferences in the lower elementary grade fluctuate considerably, and that they tend to become increasingly more stable in the higher elementary grades, sometimes to the detriment of a well-ordered child society. Statements such as, “the younger ones don’t care with whom they are friendly,” and “Their best friends change every week” express the general feeling of instability and fluctuation in the lower grades. By contrast, many persons teaching in grades four to six feel that there is a tendency toward the development of …

An Observational Study Of Differentiation Of Reinforcement At The Sixth Grade Level, Lariene Moffett Treat

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The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of pupil IQ and sex upon the number of some immediate verbal and nonverbal reinforcements given by the teacher to the students in the regular classroom. Studies have been done which indicate some differentiation on the bases of socio-economic status and behavior. This study determined, by actual classroom observation, what differentiation in reinforcements was found on the bases of (a) pupil IQ, (b) sex of pupils, (c) sex of teachers. The relationship between verbal and nonverbal reinforcements was also investigated.

A Study Of The Relationship Between Reading Disability And Antisocial Behavior., Mildred Tate Riebsomer

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This research is designed to explore the relationship between reading disability and intelligence, antisocial behavior, and social acceptance within the class of selected third grade students at Barcelona Elementary School during the academic year 1961-1962.

An Experimental Study Of The Relationship Between Color Blindness And Reading Achievement In The First Grade, Arleen L. Olson

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The purpose of this study was to investigate and analyze the reading achievement of color blind children at the end of the first-grade in five randomly selected Albuquerque Public Elementary Schools to determine if there are any significant differences in their reading achievement and that of color vision children with similar I.Q. scores and to find if there is a relationship between this defect of vision and reading achievement.