This study was based on the assumption that urban
black students hold more positive attitudes and opinions
toward teachers, school, and education than urban white
students. The black students were from schools with a
high concentration of lower-to-middle-class students and
the white students were from schools with a high concentration...
The focus of this study was to identify persistent
problems in the developmental history of the American
Department of Defense dependents schools in Okinawa, Japan.
The period of time covered was from 1946 through 1978.
The study includes historical descriptions of curriculum
development, obtaining and maintaining school facilities,
and the...
The major purpose of the study was to develop a resource
guide for use at the late junior or early senior high school
level to be used with boys and girls, integrating the subjects
of homemaking and industrial arts. To plan this guide, the
writer:
1. Surveyed the industrial arts...
The purpose of this study was to locate and analyze experimental
studies of teacher training that tested elements of Bandura's
social learning theory. Bandura's theory emphasizes the role of
modeling in the acquisition of new modes of interpersonal behavior,
and it also provides for the integration of practice and feedback...
The purpose of the study was to analyze the effects of teaching
elementary and secondary students the Gallagher Topic Classification
System as a technique for constructing and analyzing questions.
The subjects for the study were the students of three groups of
randomly selected teachers from Coos and Douglas Counties of...
Introduction. The study was conducted in response to a need
for systematic analysis of the practice of granting academic credits
for prior off-campus learning. It was stimulated by a commitment
to the goal of facilitating student development and an interest in the
theory that such development can be enhanced through...
The purpose of this study was to test two assumptions. They
are that factors in a child's background correlate with the notion of
conservation and that additional mathematical instruction will result
in a higher level of maturity of the notion of conservation as well as
increased achievement in mathematical skills....
In an effort to determine empirical cost functions for municipal
water supplies in the United States, the writer found it necessary to
specify an acceptable mathematical form to represent the cost equation.
A preliminary search yielded no theoretically consistent expression
adaptable to the problem.
The primary concern in the studstimay...