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Future Farmers and Non-Classified Students in Pottawatomie County High Schools

Description: This study has been made for the purpose of determining what relationships exist between 4-H Club membership and Future Farmers of America Club membership and the grades, extra-curricular activities, and the future education, which includes specifically college training and post-graduate work done in high schools.
Date: 1946
Creator: Johnson, W. Wallace
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A Study of the Democratic Approach to the Problem of Educating for Life in a Changing World

Description: The purpose of this study is to investigate the need for a democratic approach to the problem of educating for life in a changing world and to show, too, how this approach can be made through a democratic administration, a democratic curriculum, and democratic methods.
Date: 1946
Creator: McAlister, Elbert W.
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A Proposed Correlated Health, Physical, and Safety Education Program for Boys in Texas High Schools with Enrollment of Not More Than Two Hundred Fifty Students

Description: The purpose of this study is an attempt to briefly set up a plan of organization and to suggest a flexible program of activities designed to meet the needs of many of the smaller schools of our state in arranging a practical correlated health, physical, and safety education program for high school boys.
Date: 1946
Creator: Malone, H. F.
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To Determine the Need for Teacher Tenure in Texas

Description: The purpose of this study is to determine the need for teacher tenure in Texas. In order to determine this need, it will be necessary to investigate not only the need for tenure in the teaching profession, but also the advantages and disadvantages of tenure, the standards necessary for adequate tenure legislation, and the tenure situation as it exists in the public schools of Texas today.
Date: 1946
Creator: Martin, Wesley
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The Effects of Two Types of Teaching Reading Upon Reading Progress, Social Maturity Progress, and Arithmetic Reasoning and Computation

Description: The problem of this thesis is to evaluate the progress in general reading efficiency of a group of children taught by the socialized group plan, as compared to a group of children taught by the traditional reading plan and to determine whether the socialized group plan aids in the development of certain other general attributes, such as arithmetic reasoning, arithmetic computation, and social maturity growth.
Date: 1942
Creator: Mathis, Floye
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A Comparative Study of Pupil-Teacher Ratings of the Amount of Democracy Practiced in the William James Junior High School, Fort Worth, Texas

Description: This study undertakes to measure by means of a questionnaire the spirit of democracy in the William James Junior High School of Fort Worth, Texas. The problem was the outgrowth of a personal interest in the boys and girls in the public schools of our nation and a feeling that strict application of the principles of democracy to school practices would result in happier school relationships.
Date: 1942
Creator: Mayo, Vera
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The Effect of the Mental Hygiene of the Adult on the Mental Hygiene of the Child in This Emergency

Description: The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship which the thought patterns of parents have upon the ideas of the children in the present national and world emergency. Attention is also given to the background study of the present conflict, the attitudes that should prevail, and the stress that should be placed upon democracy.
Date: 1942
Creator: Miller, Ethel Lee
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Comparative Studies in Geography -- Textbook and Free Materials Versus Textbook and Library Supplements

Description: The problem involved in this study was to carry on an experiment of two methods of teaching eighth-grade geography and to compare the two. Briefly stated, the problem of this thesis was to determine the value of the use of free materials as compared with library supplements.
Date: 1942
Creator: Kelsay, Laura E.
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An Evaluation of the Uses Made of the Radio in the Seventh Grade of the Schools of Hill County

Description: It is the purpose of this study to make an investigation of the uses made of the radio in the seventh grade in the schools in Hill County, in an endeavor to make available to administrators and teachers the possibilities of radio as an educational medium, and also to suggest additional techniques of utilization.
Date: 1942
Creator: Kirkbride, Martha Frances Cargile
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Comparison of First-Hand and Vicarious Experiences in Promoting Reading Readiness

Description: The purpose of this study is to compare first-hand and vicarious experiences as means of developing those factors or traits of reading readiness that may be improved through training. More specifically, it is an attempt to measure the amount of readiness gained through the two types of experiences by two groups of first-grade children in the San Angelo Public Schools.
Date: 1942
Creator: Looney, Betty Odell
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The Challenge to the Operation of the Philosophy of Laissez-Faire

Description: The problem of this study is to make an appraisal of laissez-faire, and its aims, methods, and accomplishments in its rise to pinnacle heights, its philosophy, and finally its decline in the maelstrom of society demanding more security, today, than ever before, in our standards of economy and living.
Date: 1946
Creator: Haseltine, May Marian
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The Effects of Different Instructional Procedures in Teaching Junior High School Mathematics on Types and Amount of Learning

Description: The problem under consideration attempts to answer the question, Will different methods of teaching the solution of problems in finding areas and perimeters of plane surfaces produce different results; and if so, how great is the difference?
Date: 1946
Creator: Newsom, Clarence A.
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The Meanings of Education as Reflected in the Traditional School of Thought and in the Modern Progressive Movement

Description: The purpose of this problem is to make a comparative study of the philosophy of the formal discipline concept of the traditional school of thought and the modern progressive movement in order to determine their relative contributions to our present educational system.
Date: 1946
Creator: Overall, Fannie Bland
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Evaluation of Materials now Available for Teaching Spanish-Speaking Children to Speak and Read English

Description: The purpose of this study is to discover and evaluate materials available to teachers attempting to solve the problems of teaching Spanish-speaking children to read English, and to make some suggestions as to the effective ways of selecting materials to be used in a locality where Spanish-speaking children attend the public schools.
Date: 1947
Creator: Read, Jennie Mae
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An Analysis of the Possible Need of an Aircraft Training Program in Fort Worth Vocational Education Program

Description: The purpose of this study is to make an analysis of the extent of the airplane industry in the immediate area of Fort Worth, Texas, to determine the need, if any, of adding a course in Airplane Industry to the curriculum of the Technical High School of Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: 1947
Creator: Brooks, William A.
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A Study to Determine the Curriculum Changes Needed, If Any, to Provide a Standard Vocational High School for the Waco State Home, Waco, Texas

Description: The purpose of the study is to make a survey of criteria for a general high school vocational program, to evaluate the vocational program of the Waco State Home High School in this respect, and to make recommendations, where thought necessary, for needed changes in the curriculum.
Date: 1942
Creator: Reed, Walter L.
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A Comparative Study of Trends in Reporting Pupils' School Progress as Evidenced by Recommendations of Educators and as Described by Fifty-Six Adults Engaged in the Teaching Profession

Description: The problem of this study is to evaluate methods of reporting pupils' school progress to parents and to discover trends in reporting which are revealed in educational literature and school practice.
Date: 1946
Creator: Davis, Kirvin Kade
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An Evaluation and Analysis of Teachers' Codes of Ethics

Description: The problem of this thesis was to study the codes of thirteen other states and, in addition, the codes of Texas and the National Education Association, were selected because of the realization that a very small per cent of the teaching profession knows of the existence of such codes and a still smaller per cent knows anything at all of the content of the codes.
Date: 1946
Creator: Enlow, Nannie Holland
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