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Head Start And School Readiness, Robert Bruce Turner
Head Start And School Readiness, Robert Bruce Turner
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The effect of compensatory education was studied as it influences school readiness in preschool children. The research was conducted in the Logan and Providence areas of Cache County, Utah, with 44 children who had completed the kindergarten year of school. Twenty-two of the children had participated in the compensatory educational experience of Head Start prior to their kindergarten experience. It was found that there was not a significant difference between the Head Start children and their neighbors in terms of their performance on the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts. Therefore, in terms of school preparedness, the Head Start children seem …
Effects Of An Instructional Program On Concept Attainment Of Middle-Class Pre-Kindergarten Children, Joan Spencer Ross
Effects Of An Instructional Program On Concept Attainment Of Middle-Class Pre-Kindergarten Children, Joan Spencer Ross
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The objective of this study was to determine if a highly structured instructional program, as a supplement to a more traditional pre-school program would have an effect on the concept attainment of pre-school children. Two groups of eighteen pre-school children, enrolled in the Child Development Laboratory at Utah State University comprised the study sample.
The eighteen children in the experimental group received the instructional program, in addition to the Child Development Laboratory school experience. Standardized pre and post tests were administered to both the experimental and control groups. A standardized test, The Boehm Test of Basic Concepts, was utilized.
An …
Marriage Role Expectations And Religiosity, Gilbert Craig Orme
Marriage Role Expectations And Religiosity, Gilbert Craig Orme
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this paper was to determine the effect, if any, of religiosity on marriage role expectations. During the past years, the young person's marriage role expectations have been undergoing a gradual change from traditional type roles to more equalitarian-partnership type roles, Religiosity has been found to have a differing effect on the values of people. It was hypothesized that the more religious a person was, the more traditional he would be in his marriage role expectations. Religiosity was determined using a questionnaire developed by Faulkner and De Jong, Marriage role expectations were determined by using an instrument developed …
Attitudes Of High School And College Females Toward Family Life And Children, Pauline Nelson
Attitudes Of High School And College Females Toward Family Life And Children, Pauline Nelson
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate the degree of similarity or differences between the attitudes of high school and college females toward family life and children.
Data for this study were collected by administering a standardized questionnaire with 35 items to both groups of students. The students' responses were evaluated and each question analyzed separately.
The findings of this study indicate that the responses of the college sample were more realistic than for the high school sample. Also the high school sample appeared to have more glamorous expectations of marriage than did the college sample.
Children's Perceptions Of The Nurse, Nancy Adams Coulter
Children's Perceptions Of The Nurse, Nancy Adams Coulter
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this study is to assess children's perceptions of the nurse as they are related to children's age, the amount of contact children have had with nurses and children's sex.
An oral picture test, consisting of 10 photographs, was administered to 45 children in the Edith Bowen Elementary School at Utah State University. The children were interviewed about their perceptions of the nurses in each photograph and their responses were rated as being positive, negative or neutral.
The findings of this study indicate that although significant differences exist in children's perceptions of the nurse in terms of positive, …