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A Study Of Oral And Written Reports To Parents At The Elementary And Junior High School Levels, Christopher Frederick Darling Aug 1964

A Study Of Oral And Written Reports To Parents At The Elementary And Junior High School Levels, Christopher Frederick Darling

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It was the purpose of this study to (1) study the types of oral and written communication on the elementary level; (2) study the types of oral and written communication on the junior high level; (3) examine which of these two types have developed the better means of rapport through communication; and (4) develop better means of rapport on the junior high school level of Renton, Washington.

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Basic Cursive Writing: Development Of A Self-Instructional Program, Bobbie Nell Parson Aug 1964

Basic Cursive Writing: Development Of A Self-Instructional Program, Bobbie Nell Parson

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The great majority of self-instructional programs which have been reported are concerned with the learning of cognitive material and/or perceptual skills. This study is concerned with the development and evaluation of a program teaching motor skills relevant to the learning of cursive writing. The accompanying perceptual skills are essentially of the visual and kinesthetic type.

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Teaching General Music Through Harmonic Experience In The Seventh Grade At Ritzville, Washington, Elmer A. Peters Aug 1964

Teaching General Music Through Harmonic Experience In The Seventh Grade At Ritzville, Washington, Elmer A. Peters

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Prior to the school year 1963-64, general music at Ritzville Junior High School was primarily music listening-oriented. There was an obvious need for a more balanced music program that included singing, playing instruments, creativity, listening, and rhythms to provide the students with a broader concept of music. A general music program was sought, therefore, that would offer a balance of the above activities, and one that would create more enthusiasm than was apparent in the previous course of study. The importance of this study will be twofold: to determine whether or not the method of teaching resulted in the students …

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Growth In Geometric Skills Made By Students In Grade Four, Gail Crum Aug 1964

Growth In Geometric Skills Made By Students In Grade Four, Gail Crum

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For the first time in School District Number Seven, Yakima, Washington, a structured geometry course is included in the fourth grade mathematics program. The purpose of this study was to determine the growth in geometric skills made by the students enrolled in this program. It is a study to help determine which learnings fourth graders grasp, which only a few grasp, and, if there are some, none grasp.

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A Survey Of Reading Methods Suitable For Use With Remedial Pupils, Louie W. Cava Aug 1964

A Survey Of Reading Methods Suitable For Use With Remedial Pupils, Louie W. Cava

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This study will research and present a description of methods which may be used with those students who are having difficulty reading via the basal reader and phonetic approaches.

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An Experimental Study Of Fear: Test Of An Alleged Innate Sign Stimulus, Paul Dawson Aug 1964

An Experimental Study Of Fear: Test Of An Alleged Innate Sign Stimulus, Paul Dawson

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The purpose of the present study was to test the Tinbergen hypothesis that specifically shaped sign stimuli innately arouse fear behavior in certain species of birds.

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The Application Of The Additivity Theorem To Subjective Probability, Branton K. Holmberg Aug 1964

The Application Of The Additivity Theorem To Subjective Probability, Branton K. Holmberg

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The purpose of this study is to examine the validity of applying the additivity theorem to subjective estimates of probability. Additivity, as used herein, refers to the process of adding the probability of the occurrence of an event and the probability of the non-occurrence of the same event and arriving at a total of one.

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Palestrina: His Time, His Life And His Music, Wilford W. Whitaker Aug 1964

Palestrina: His Time, His Life And His Music, Wilford W. Whitaker

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To perform the music of Palestrina (and the music of other composers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) a conductor should understand the prevailing style of the music of Palestrina's time.

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Teachers’ Handbook For Sharpstein Elementary School, Clarence R. Rogers Jul 1964

Teachers’ Handbook For Sharpstein Elementary School, Clarence R. Rogers

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New teachers moving into a system will find even the most simple practice a matter on which information must be acquired. Some plan of orientation for these new teachers is essential. By incorporating all the policies in a teachers' handbook, the information will be available for immediate use at any time.

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Inside Baseball, Dell Bethel Jul 1964

Inside Baseball, Dell Bethel

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The purpose of this study is to offer some remedial methods for correcting individual weaknesses or faulty techniques, using specific suggestions of experts in the game of baseball.

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The Role Of The Principal As The Adviser To The High School Student Council, Robert J. Marum Jul 1964

The Role Of The Principal As The Adviser To The High School Student Council, Robert J. Marum

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The purpose of this study was (1) to investigate the means by which a principal can effectively counsel and guide a student council into becoming a democratic and constructive organization dedicated to active and effective student participation in school government; (2) to evaluate the various methods and techniques of leadership one must use in order to promote and encourage sound organization, and to effect a very real laboratory in citizenship and democratic living; and (3) to gather criteria for the improvement of student council leadership.

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Some Creative Processes Involved In An Original Children’S Play, Tarry L. Lindquist Jun 1964

Some Creative Processes Involved In An Original Children’S Play, Tarry L. Lindquist

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The purpose was to provide the writer with an opportunity to write, produce and evaluate the creative processes involved in an original children's play. It provided insights into writing, directing, producing an original script, and to children's plays in general.

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A Survey Of Opinions Of First-Year Teachers From Central Washington State College And Their Principals Regarding Induction And In-Service Training, Alfred Edwin Kluth Jun 1964

A Survey Of Opinions Of First-Year Teachers From Central Washington State College And Their Principals Regarding Induction And In-Service Training, Alfred Edwin Kluth

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The purpose of this study was (1) to determine what type of help was needed and received by first-year teachers in the Washington public schools who are Central Washington State College graduates and (2) to survey opinions of administrators and first-year teachers regarding strengths and weaknesses of induction and in-service programs for these teachers in the State of Washington.

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Off To A Good Start: An Educational Film Depicting The Orientation Of Teachers, John Bert Liboky Jun 1964

Off To A Good Start: An Educational Film Depicting The Orientation Of Teachers, John Bert Liboky

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The purpose of this study is to produce a film that would inform a beginning teacher of areas that he might become familiar with before the start of the school year. The writer believes that a film could do this in a more relaxed and less time consuming manner than practices now being used.

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A Study To Determine The Impact Of Team Teaching On Pupil Achievement In A Fourth Grade Classroom, Morag M. Liboky Jun 1964

A Study To Determine The Impact Of Team Teaching On Pupil Achievement In A Fourth Grade Classroom, Morag M. Liboky

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This study is undertaken in order to determine whether fourth grade children, taught in a school horizontally organized for team teaching, will achieve as well as, or better than, fourth grade children taught in a school horizontally organized on a self-contained classroom basis.

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An Enumeration Of Historical Accounts Selected To Facilitate The Teaching Of Key Historical Concepts, Juanita Colobong Sarandi Jan 1964

An Enumeration Of Historical Accounts Selected To Facilitate The Teaching Of Key Historical Concepts, Juanita Colobong Sarandi

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The purpose of this study is to (1) ascertain from the literature a number of key core values basic to an understanding of American democracy and (2) to enumerate various counts from United States History, which could be used with elementary school pupils to develop an understanding of these core values.

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A Study Of The Implementation Of The Generalization In Resource Conservation Curriculum, Jule Oliver Crabtree Aug 1963

A Study Of The Implementation Of The Generalization In Resource Conservation Curriculum, Jule Oliver Crabtree

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This study utilized the generalization as a tool to provide greater increments to learning throughout the social studies curriculum. It has been specifically related to a study of human and natural resource conservation.

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An Evaluation Of Instructional Materials For Use In Teaching Electronics, H. Allen Shockley Aug 1963

An Evaluation Of Instructional Materials For Use In Teaching Electronics, H. Allen Shockley

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Through this study the writer will attempt to: (1) evaluate selected instructional materials for teaching electronics that are available through the facilities of Central Washington State College, University of Washington, and Washington State University; (2) develop a list of those materials worthy of use in teaching electronics in grades seven through twelve; and (3) make recommendations for improvements in this area.

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A Musical Approach To The Teaching And Performance Of Percussion, John Frederick Mowad Aug 1963

A Musical Approach To The Teaching And Performance Of Percussion, John Frederick Mowad

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It is the purpose of this study (1) to aid the teacher of instrumental music in developing a musical approach to the teaching of snare drum using a recommended “like-grip” for holding all sticks and mallets (2) to provide the teacher of instrumental music with selected published methods and materials for developing musicianship; (3) to provide the instrumental music teacher with teaching techniques covering selected and most commonly use percussion instruments.

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A Composite Representational Study Of Masks Using Visual, Verbal, And Written Impressions, Nick E. Mason Jan 1963

A Composite Representational Study Of Masks Using Visual, Verbal, And Written Impressions, Nick E. Mason

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It was the purpose of this study: (1) to use masks as a means of motivation for the students to develop their fundamental needs for expression, for creation, for identification and for release; (2) to furnish information as basic knowledge to be used in projects of mask-making; and (3) to take pictures, to select and to organize the slide series.

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A Survey Of Elementary School Libraries Of Puyallup, Washington, John R. Anderson Aug 1962

A Survey Of Elementary School Libraries Of Puyallup, Washington, John R. Anderson

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In keeping with the expressed views that libraries must be useful and used, it was determined that a survey of existing libraries in the elementary schools of a particular district would serve to illustrate any shortcomings and advantages of their present organization.

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A Survey Of University Engineering Departments In The State Of Washington To Determine Engineering Drawing Requirements For High Schools, James E. Brousseau Aug 1962

A Survey Of University Engineering Departments In The State Of Washington To Determine Engineering Drawing Requirements For High Schools, James E. Brousseau

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It was the purpose of this study to determine (1) whether a course in engineering drawing designed to parallel part of the first year engineering college drawing requirement could be taught in the high schools in the state of Washington and (2) how much time should be allocated in each of the various areas of such an engineering drawing course.

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A Touch In Time: An Educational Film Depicting The Major Activities Of The School Health Nurse In A Modern Elementary School, Mary Catherine Rodgers Aug 1962

A Touch In Time: An Educational Film Depicting The Major Activities Of The School Health Nurse In A Modern Elementary School, Mary Catherine Rodgers

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This study was undertaken to show how to plan and produce a film appropriate for informing lay citizens, parents, prospective teachers and nurses, educators, and public health personnel about the role of the school health nurse in the educational program of a modern elementary school.

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A Study Of The Effects Of Self-Evaluation Ratings In Terms Of Effort And Conduct By Homogeneously Grouped Seventh Grade Students, Horace R. Nichols Aug 1962

A Study Of The Effects Of Self-Evaluation Ratings In Terms Of Effort And Conduct By Homogeneously Grouped Seventh Grade Students, Horace R. Nichols

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This study was limited to the problem of determining if a student’s effort and conduct will improve if he is given the opportunity to self-evaluate these phases of his education.

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A Proposed Plan For Developing Purposeful Communications Between School And Home For The Wenatchee Elementary Schools, Kenneth P. Shamberger Jul 1962

A Proposed Plan For Developing Purposeful Communications Between School And Home For The Wenatchee Elementary Schools, Kenneth P. Shamberger

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The problem was to study the area of communication between school and home (1) to ascertain the importance of school-home communications; (2) to help devise a way of providing better education for the children in the Wenatchee schools through a sound program of school-home communications; and (3) to create for the Wenatchee School District elementary schools an effective communication program between the schools and the homes.

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Effects Of Diet And Exercise On Body Weight And Girth Measurement, Anne Coulston Jul 1962

Effects Of Diet And Exercise On Body Weight And Girth Measurement, Anne Coulston

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It was the intent of this project to determine whether a program of diet and exercise would have any effect upon body weight and girth measurements.

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A Study Of The Training Of Secondary Biology Teachers In Negros, Philippines, Reme Soriano Agustin Jan 1962

A Study Of The Training Of Secondary Biology Teachers In Negros, Philippines, Reme Soriano Agustin

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To aid in the training of secondary biology teachers in Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental, Philippines, specific data regarding the academic and professional preparation of biology teachers were obtained. In addition, the respondents supplied opinions regarding the improvement of the undergraduate and graduate program for biology teachers.

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A Comparative Study Of Two Methods Of Teaching Reading, Alan R. Bergstrom Aug 1961

A Comparative Study Of Two Methods Of Teaching Reading, Alan R. Bergstrom

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One purpose of this study was to compare a reading program taught using a basic reading text, supplemental books, and teacher motivation to a reading program designed as an independent, developmental, multi-level program that utilizes graphic and ego motivation. Another purpose was to find out if pupils in the program will show a significantly greater gain in reading achievement than do pupils in the other.

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Uses And General Educational Benefits Of A Student Newspaper In The Elementary School, H. Roger Salisbury Aug 1961

Uses And General Educational Benefits Of A Student Newspaper In The Elementary School, H. Roger Salisbury

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The purpose of this study was (1) to determine the utilization, supplementation, and general educational benefits derived from the student published newspapers of a selected group of elementary schools in the state of Washington; (2) to examine the position that the student publication now holds in the elementary curriculum; and (3) to determine the number of those selected elementary schools that have had and/or now have a pupil published newspaper.

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An Experiment With A Technical Unit For Teaching Fiction In The High School, Allen R. Goodell Aug 1961

An Experiment With A Technical Unit For Teaching Fiction In The High School, Allen R. Goodell

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This unit will attempt to provide both new and experienced teachers with a practical, easily administered guide for the effective teaching of short stories.

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