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Reading Interests Of Seventh Grade Students, Winifred Line

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this investigation was (1) to survey the reading interests of eighty-three seventh grade students of both sexes at Jefferson Junior High School, Albuquerque, New Mexico; (2) to show the degree to which different levels of intelligence in the survey group produced differences in reading interests; and (3) to determine whether literature in the texts used by students in the survey group satisfies these interests.

An Analysis Of The California Achievement Test Scores Given To The Sixth-Grade Pupils In The White Schools Of Saint Mary Parish, Louisiana, Melba Lee Gibbons

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

This study was an analysis of the California Achievement Test Scores given to the sixth grade pupils in the white public schools of Saint Mary Parish, Louisiana, in April, 1962, to determine the significant difference in the achievements measured with the following factors: (1) Sex, (2) Foreign language background, (3) Family Income, (4) Education of parents.

Improvement Of Oral English In The First Grade In The Santo Domingo School, Ramona Rhon

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was (1) to aid in developing oral language patterns essential for better understandings of some common concepts in English; (2) to provide seven field trips from rural to urban communities for stimulating first-hand experiences; (3) to couple these trips with an extensive use of related audio-visual materials for immediate reinforcement learning; (4) to originate oral dialogue in English for classroom practices before and after each excursion; and (5) to test the significance of the gains made in use of English.

A Handbook Of Suggestions For Building School Library Collections; A Report Of Procedures And Plans For The Sandia Base School, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Miyoshi Ikeda

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purposes of this study were (1) to present a descriptive study of how an elementary school organized a centralized library, and (2) to formulate long-range plans to meet the quantitative standards set up by the State Board of Education, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the American Library Association.

Interaction Analysis In The Classroom, Charles Richard Hedman

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was to investigate the applicability of the technique of interaction analysis to a secondary classroom situation and to compare the teachers' claimed philosophies and the observed practices of secondary school teachers.

"Development Of Ability To Think" As A Purpose Of American Education: A Philosophical And Scientific Analysis, Charles Albert Glatt Sr.

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

One outstanding characterization of public education in the United States is the lack of consensus about the central or primary purpose for even having an educational system. Due to the decentralized nature of American public education, there is no national agency with power to control, to direct, or to supervise the policies which guide the work of the many schools.

The Relationship Of Certain Selected Variables To First Grade Achievement, Carl Walker

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Educators have long been aware of the need for adequate predictors of school achievement for first grade pupils. Moreover, there is growing interest in the screening of school beginners, both as a means of determining their readiness for learning and as a way of identifying early those children with potential difficulties so that they can be given required attention at a time when it will be most beneficial.

A Comparative Study Of The Understanding Which Bilingual Students Have Of The Multiple Meanings Of English Words, Stephen Grant Hess

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the understanding which certain bilingual students have of the different meanings of some words in the English language in comparison to the understanding which Anglos have.

Schools And The Ghost Towns Of New Mexico, Mary Ann Kinsey

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Statement of the problem. It is the purpose of this study to make a historical investigation of the schools and the host towns of New Mexico. It is proposed that:

1. The schools were an important factor in the ghost towns of New Mexico.
2. The contributions of the schools in the ghost towns of New Mexico were extensive and significant.
3. The schools reflected life in the ghost towns of New Mexico.
4. The schools affected life in the ghost towns of New Mexico.

A Functional-Recognition Experiment In Spelling To Determine Extent Of Use And Mastery, James W. Hughes

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study is to determine if there is any significant difference in spelling achievement on a fifth-grade level between an experimental group using a functional-recognition approach to weekly spelling lists for a period of four weeks, as compared with a control group which does not apply the functional-recognition approach, but which has equal time for study and writing.

A Comparison Of Role Perceptions Of Selected University Presidents And Their Reference Groups, Fern D. Stout

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The university presidents, as chief administrators of a complex institution, must deal with a variety of problems: buildings, money, organization, legal provisions, educational programs, and people. Campbell points out that school administration also deals with the values, beliefs, and feelings of people. Unfortunately, there is little assistance from research upon which the presidents can rely in dealing with the human elements involved in university administration, and to a large extent people are the crucial elements in administration. People within the university structure, and outside, have varying and often conflicting expectations of how the university presidents should act. The presidents themselves …

A Comparative Analysis Of State Handbooks For The Administration Of Secondary Schools, Sister M. Ann Cotta

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It is the purpose of this study (1) to compare the administrative handbooks for secondary schools developed in state departments of education to ascertain the policies and practices that a majority of the states prescribe for their secondary schools in certain major areas of administration; (2) to analyze the handbook for secondary schools of the State of New Mexico to determine the extent to which policies and practices in New Mexico conform or do not conform to the policies and practices followed by most of the states; and (3) to develop recommendations for revision of the New Mexico handbook in …

The Reading Achievement Of Eleventh And Twelfth Grade Indian Students And A Survey Of Curricular Changes Indicated For The Improved Teaching Of Reading In The Public High Schools Of New Mexico, Irving D. Townsend

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The indigenous natives of the Western Hemisphere known as Amerinds, are endowed with numerous Mongolian characteristics indicating the racial stock from which they have derived. Today, those Amerinds residing in North America are known as American Indians, whose numbers total well over 400,000 in the United States. Of this total there are some 110. 000 living in the Southwest of which over 45,000 reside in New Mexico. This Indian population broadly includes a portion of the Navajo Tribe, which constitutes the greater percentage of the total, the Apaches, and the numerous groups of Pueblo Indians. There were undoubtedly earlier probes …

The Application Of The Meaning Theory To The Teaching Of Arithmetic In Selected Third Grade Classes Of Indian Children In The Public Schools Of New Mexico, Hitoshi Ikeda

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purposes of this study were (1) to initiate in selected third grade classes in New Mexico, a planned program of arithmetic instruction based on the meaningful approach to the teaching of arithmetic; (2) to determine the effectiveness of the program in terms of children's achievement in arithmetic; and (3) to determine the attitude of pupils and teachers toward the program of instruction.

An Experimental Study Of The Effect Of Teaching English Grammar From The Traditional And Structural Approaches, Bobbie Carlene Anthony Walker

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It was the purpose of this study to conduct an experiment in a junior high school classroom situation to compare, through pre-testing and post-testing, the achievement of a group of ninth grade students taught English grammar from a traditional approach, the achievement of a group of ninth grade students taught English grammar from the structural approach, and the achievement of a group of ninth grade students taught literature in English class with no specific instruction in grammar, with the evaluation to be limited to measurement to gains or losses in the ability of students to (1) recognize specific types of …

How Exceptional Children Function In Regular Classrooms, Kathryn Stephenson Talley

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Statement of the problem: This study attempts to determine the degree of efficiency with which exceptional children function in regular classrooms and the extent of their social acceptance.

Importance of the study: Because it is necessary for a large percentage of exceptional children to be educated in the regular classrooms of the public school system, it is important to obtain information concerning the achievement such children make in this situation and the degree of social acceptance they are able to win in the peer group.

Delimitation of the problem: This study is concerned with teacher-selected exceptional children from twenty-one sixth-grade …

An Experimental Laboratory Approach To The Teaching Of Botany In The Secondary Schools, Robert F. Miller

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It was the purpose of this study: (1) to evaluate new techniques that utilize an experimental laboratory approach in the teaching of botany, and (2) to develop a laboratory manual based on the results of the experimentation emphasizing basic plant physiological concepts that can be easily used by high school sophomores.

An Experiment In Second-Language Instruction Of Beginning Indian Children In New Mexican Public Schools, Leroy Condie

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It was the purpose of this study to determine whether, and to what degree, the quality of instruction of non-English-speaking beginning Indian children could be improved by the (1) elaboration of the curriculum of selected beginning classrooms to provide wider learning experiences for the children, and (2) acquainting the teachers of these classrooms with aids, skills, and techniques judged to be effective in teaching oral English to Indian children and in promoting readiness for reading.

The study, as is seen, was in actuality an experiment in curriculum building and teacher education focused upon a specific instructional problem, namely: teaching a …

An Analysis Of The Allocation Of State Support To Pupil Transportation In New Mexico, Lloyd Laverne Cockrell

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The origin and development of pupil transportation in the United States has been influenced by social, economic, and technological factors. In an interdependent way, these factors have directed and controlled the evolution of pupil transportation. The reason for transporting pupils to school are rooted in the elements of our rural culture and in the social, economic, and technological forces acting upon it. The American farmer, by living on the land he tilled, helped to introduce forms of rural social structure which made pupil transportation inevitable. The needs of early rural people were met by the establishment of social organizations such …

The Development Of Certification Practices In New Mexico And The Study Of The Relationship Between These Practices And Improved Educational Levels In The State, John A. Barrett

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It was the purpose of this study: (1) to trace the historical development, through various levels, of the certification of professional educational personnel in New Mexico; (2) to note the extent to which the schools of the state had reached or exceeded state-prescribed standards for their educational personnel from 1912 to 1958; and (3) to use widely accepted factors which may indicate whether improved educational levels in the state had accompanied higher certification requirements. Factors which were used as indicators are the following:

Number of new eighth grade graduates as a percentage of the population.

Number of new high school …

The Indian Child's Status In New Mexico's Public Elementary School Science Programs, Carol M. Charles

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

In the year 1950, public laws 815 and 874 were formally added to the federal statutes through action by the Congress of the United States. This legislation provided federal funds to public schools under conditions which enabled and encouraged their integration of Indian students. Overall, such integration was advantageous to Indian groups. Since the 1920's the conviction that Indians learned better in the public schools, where there was increased contact with the majority culture, had been growing. Recent research, involving Indian students from mission schools, federal schools, and public schools, supported this conviction. The transfer of students from Bureau of …

An Investigation Into The Bilingual Child's Comprehension Of Antonyms, Christine Glass Dudding

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was to determine the Indian or Spanish-American bilingual child's proficiency in the comprehension of antonyms of the English language. The method employed was (1) to devise a test which will give the child an opportunity to indicate his use of antonyms and his ability to recognize common pairs of opposites. These test items are arranged in an order of increasing difficultly, but are kept well within the range of fourth grade reading ability; (2) to direct the administration of this antonym test to a selected sample of fourth grade Anglo children in the Albuquerque Public …

An Investigation Of Bilingualism And Achievement In Reading In The Fourth Grade Of The Parochial School System In The Archdiocese Of Santa Fe, 1957-1958., Albert Schneider

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It was the first purpose of this study to investigate a considerable group of elementary school pupils with the intention of determining the measurable growth in reading ability during a seven-month period of instruction. The second purpose of this study was to determine whether or not a significant difference existed in the amount of reading growth between the unilinguals of the sampling and the bilinguals. The third purpose of the study was to identify specific areas of weakness in reading and either to make appropriate recommendations for their corrections or to point out the area of indicated research.

Post-Service Career Planning For Military Personnel Interested In Education, Maxwell J. Ihrig

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was to compile information (1) on the need for additional qualified personnel in the profession of education; (2) on the relatively untapped manpower of retire military personnel; (3) to become acquainted with the advantages and disadvantages of second careers in education; (4) on existing programs in schools of higher education designed to prepare persons from other areas of endeavor for a career in teaching; and (5) to develop an approach from this study for counseling military personnel nearing retirement and retired for a post-service career in education.

An Evaluation Of Distributive Education Programs In The Albuquerque Public Schools, Jack W. Goodner

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It was the purpose of this study to evaluate the distributive education programs in the Albuquerque Public Schools as a basis for future planning.

An Analysis Of Heterogenous And Achievement Grouping Among An Experimental Group Of Ninety Students In The Los Alamos, New Mexico, Schools, Gene Howard Ebinger

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

This study is based on the hypothesis that children make greatest individual progress under a system of achievement grouping. Such a plan is not to be confused with ability grouping. When children are grouped according to their achievement, it is possible, and even likely, for a child of low average ability to be in the same group with children of great ability because he is achieving at a high rate.

Teacher Expectations Of The Elementary School Principal In Interpersonal Relations, William P. Johnston

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was to analyze the nature of the behaviors of the elementary school principal resulting from interaction with the teaching staff and to determine which behaviors led to more satisfactory relations.

A Proposed System Of Public School Financial Accounting For New Mexico, Lamoine Langston

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was three-fold: (1) to analyze New Mexico school financial accounting practices on the basis of sound principles, (2) to present a system of accounting for New Mexico schools in accord with sound accounting principles, including necessary legal changes to implement the new system, and (3) to suggest procedures necessary for the present New Mexico school accounting practices to be in agreement with sound principles of school financial accounting.

Some Difficulties Which Indian Children Encounter With Idioms In Reading, Maurine Dunn Yandell

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was to determine the efficiency of ethnic group children in the use of English idiomatic expressions as found in standard reading texts in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. The procedure followed was: (1) To prepare a multiple-choice test of idioms used in readers in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades in the elementary schools; (2) To administer this idioms test to a selected sample of sixth grade Anglo children to establish percentile ranks as norms for comparison purposes for all sixth graders in Gallup-McKinley County schools; (3) To compare the performance of sixth grade …

Individual Differences With Implications For Grouping, George Baca

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was to analyze the differences in child development in selected areas and to show the inter-relationships between these areas.