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A study of the contributions of Major Albert Sobey to American industrial cooperative education

Description: This study concerns the contributions of Major Albert Sobey and his educational leadership during the development of the engineering cooperative education program that became the foundation for the General Motors Institute in Flint, Michigan. This study also examines Albert Sobey's contributions to the emergence of industrial cooperative education in America over the past seventy years.
Date: May 1990
Creator: Altland, John T. (John Thomas)
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Effectiveness of microcounseling as a supervisory model for teaching interviewing skills

Description: This study dealt with the problem of training selected basic interviewing skills to beginning counselors. The purposes of this investigation were 1) to assess the effectiveness of microcounseling for training the skills of open-ended questioning and verbal minimal encouraging; 2) to assess the influence of microcounseling on counselor verbal participation; 3) to determine whether training in these skills via the microcounseling model will generalize to the actual counseling setting and be maint… more
Date: August 1976
Creator: Arnold, Bill R.
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Effectiveness of microcounseling procedures in the training of play therapists

Description: The thrust of this study was to adapt the microcounseling paradigm to the skills utilized in play therapy. The basic problem was to teach prepracticum master's level counseling students three skills necessary to successful play therapy: limit setting, reflection of behavior statements, and reflection of feeling statements.
Date: August 1976
Creator: Arnold, J. Steven
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The Effectiveness of Selected Case-Finding Approaches in Locating Handicapped Individuals Residing in Areas with Specified Demographic Characteristics

Description: The problem of this study was the examination of selected case-finding approaches for locating handicapped individuals. It was designed to (1) determine the rank order of effectiveness of selected case-finding approaches, within specific census tracts, in locating handicapped individuals aged three to to twenty-one years inclusive, (2) to project the most effective case-finding approach within census tract areas with specified factors of mean income, median education level, and primary home la… more
Date: May 1977
Creator: Atkinson, Catherine N.
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The principle of "sankofa" in elementary music instruction in southern Ghana: selected school personnel's views of and their role in its implementation

Description: The study ascertained elementary school teachers' and supervisors' views about their role in the implementation of Sankofa (Go back and retrieve) in school music. Sankofa mandates the integration of distinctive Ghanian traditional values and practices with Western educational concepts in the school curriculum. In music, it calls for the fusion of multi-ethnic musics of Ghana with Western musical concepts in public school music instruction. Some concerns expressed by Ghanian music educators rega… more
Date: May 1991
Creator: Attah, Joe K. (Joe Kofi)
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A study of the acceptance of the community education philosophy by selected school board presidents in the State of Texas

Description: The problem of the study was to determine if differences exist, and if so to what extent, in the perceptions of school board presidents in selected Texas school districts with and without community education programs with respect to six basic components of community education programs commonly identified by experts in the field.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Avard, Bonnie J.
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Colonel Earl D. Irons: his Role in the History of Music Education in the Southwest to 1958

Description: The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between the professional activities of Col. Earl D. Irons and the overall development of bands in the Southwest. The need for the study was determined after researching the related literature, which revealed gaps in the historical record of instrumental music education, and in particular a dearth of biographical studies dealing with music educators in band field.
Date: May 1982
Creator: Barrow, Gary Wayne
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A study in self-scheduling of high school students as opposed to computer scheduling

Description: The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of determining success of selection of classes and satisfaction or dissatisfaction with self-scheduling as opposed to computer scheduling. A survey is made of 468 randomly selected high school students from four high schools in a large metropolitan school district.
Date: December 1975
Creator: Bingham, Walter W.
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A comparison of the effects of two mathematics programs upon selected fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade remedial mathematics students

Description: The problem with which this investigation was concerned is that of determining whether remedial mathematics students who receive individualized attention in small groups with many special materials would gain more knowledge in the areas of computation, concepts, problem solving, and total composite mathematics than would remedial mathematics students taught as sub-groups of regular mathematics classes.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Blankenship, William Lee
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A comparative study and model of the certification requirements for vocational office education teacher-coordinators in the United States

Description: The problem of this study was the development of a model for the certification requirements for vocational office education teacher coordinators in the United States. The data for this study were obtained from library research, documents provided by the state directors of vocational education and state departments of education, 62 questionnaires returned from randomly selected businesses and office education educators, and 735 questionnaires returned from randomly selected employed vocational o… more
Date: May 1973
Creator: Bounds, Joan Karen Johnston
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Computerized Voice Recognition and Environmental Control with a Person who is Severely Physically Involved and Profoundly Mentally Retarded

Description: The problem of this study was to conduct a systematic application and evaluation of the appropriateness of a computerized voice control system with a subject having the severe multihandicaps of profound mental retardation, quadriplegia, and limited communication skills. This research was an effort to establish if a computer could compensate for some of the physical limitations of the subject.
Date: May 1985
Creator: Brown, Carrie Costello
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A system of selection and human resource development for small retailers of apparel and accessories

Description: The problem with which this study is concerned is that of constructing a system of selection and human resource development for small retailers of apparel and accessories. The study has a twofold purpose. The first is to determine the extent to which organized selection and training practices exist in small apparel and accessory retailing establishments, and the general attitude which small retailers of apparel and accessories express toward the value of selection and training functions. The se… more
Date: May 1973
Creator: Burr, Patricia LeMay
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Using computers and student-oriented software to enhance teacher knowledge of mathematics and acceptance of computers in instruction

Description: The problem with which this study is concerned is the possibility of increasing mathematical problem-solving knowledge of elementary school teachers and the acceptance of computers in instruction through the use of computers and student-oriented computer software.
Date: May 1991
Creator: Canaday, Kathlyn Y. (Kathlyn Yvonne)
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A proposed physical education program for the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade boys in the two elementary schools of Arlington, Texas

Description: The problem of this study was to formulate a proposed physical education program for the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade boys in the two elementary schools of Arlington, Texas. The plan will be based upon accepted educational purposes and sound physical education concepts.
Date: August 1946
Creator: Chrisman, Doyle E.
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Natural Resources in Texas--an Undeveloped Source of Taxation

Description: The specific aim of this study is to show the significance of the natural resources of Texas and their potential possibilities as an adequate source of income for the State. Linked in with this discussion and underlying it is the thesis that adequate taxation of the natural resources will not only provide sufficient income for the State's needs but also conserve and utilize these resources.
Date: August 1937
Creator: Conway, Gayle Mixon
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Perceptions of the coordination process of cooperative vocational education programs as viewed by instructor-coordinators and administrators in Texas community colleges and sponsoring employers in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex

Description: The primary motivation for conducting this study was the apparent conflict between Texas Education Agency guidelines for a vocational cooperative education program and the realities of actual program operation. In the program the mid-management student receives instruction, through a cooperative arrangement between the college and employers, in both academic courses and related vocational instruction.
Date: December 1979
Creator: Cox, J. O.
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An Art Curriculum Guide for the Junior High Catholic School System of the Dallas Diocese

Description: This study is about the development of a curriculum guide which projects flexibility, continuity, sequential framework, and to a certain extent, uniformity, around which each teacher may build an art program that will best meet the students' needs. Areas pertinent to developing the curriculum guide are presented in light of literature in this field. The guide may be used to facilitate the teaching of art in recognizing and understanding artistic development that is essential in bringing to frui… more
Date: May 1983
Creator: Da Silva, Geraldine
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The effects of a systematic inservice training program for counselors upon the verbal interaction process and other selected outcome variables during the initial phase of counseling

Description: There were two major problems posed by this study: (1) the effects of a systematic inservice training program for counselors, and (2) the relationship between the type of verbal behavior used by the counselor and client movement.
Date: December 1975
Creator: Dever, Elneita L.
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