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Developing and Administering a Nonmetropolitan Teachers Education Program in Northeastern Thailand (open access)

Developing and Administering a Nonmetropolitan Teachers Education Program in Northeastern Thailand

The primary purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy of the rural teachers preparation program in specific curriculum components, field experience and training, and preparation. A secondary purpose is to determine the need for these components and a limited evaluation of other delivery systems for rural teaching in eight nonmetropolitan teachers colleges in Northeast Thailand. The questionnaire of the Rural Education Association (REA) developed by Barbara Jean Jones was employed to collect data from a random sampling of 352 teachers college instructors and administrators and randomly selected 352 elementary school teachers and administrators. Analysis of data from 508 respondents, were analyzed by using the descriptive statistic and t-test, revealed that: (a) the REA model components were available and are essential for teachers preparation program at Thai teachers colleges in the Northeast, (b) public relations and educational technology including computer literacy components should be developed to meet the public need, (c) teachers college faculty members should receive special training for preparing students to teach in a rural environment, (d) teachers colleges should provide a teacher training site in the provinces, (e) teaching in a rural and an urban environment are significantly different, and (f) there is a need for …
Date: December 1989
Creator: Naowarath Yamsaengsung
System: The UNT Digital Library
Student Performance of a Library-Related Task (open access)

Student Performance of a Library-Related Task

The high school research paper is a task which consumes instructional time, requires considerable student effort, and places a high demand on school library resources. Little research has been conducted on how students accomplish this task. Academic task research indicates that in classrooms, tasks are defined by students in terms of (a) the nature of the products the teacher will accept and (b) the operations allowed and the resources available. Here the product is the research paper; the resources available include those found in the school library. The purpose of this study was to determine what strategies students use to perform the library-related task.
Date: May 1986
Creator: Haskell, Loretta Murray
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hardware Ergonomic Considerations in Middle School Classroom Computer and Video Display Terminal Installations (open access)

Hardware Ergonomic Considerations in Middle School Classroom Computer and Video Display Terminal Installations

The purpose of this study was to determine the extent specific ergonomic factor implementations in computer and video display terminal (VDT) installations for student use in middle school classrooms. The data interpretations using existing furniture without modification or adaptation. Of all the seating observed, 75% of the seating met standards for middle school students. Keyboards and video display screens had been placed on existing tables and were all higher than ergonomically desirable for middle school students or adults.
Date: August 1992
Creator: Brown, Martin Reid
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Development of Nature Study in the Primary Grades Through an Analysis of Available Printed Material (open access)

The Development of Nature Study in the Primary Grades Through an Analysis of Available Printed Material

This thesis is the result of an examination of the biological and physical science information content included in late nineteenth and early twentieth century elementary school readers and textbooks.
Date: August 1939
Creator: Coldwell, Lillian
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Animal Study of Low-cost Texas Diets in Supporting Reproduction, Lactation, and Iodine Needs (open access)

An Animal Study of Low-cost Texas Diets in Supporting Reproduction, Lactation, and Iodine Needs

A study of low-cost Texas diets to support reproduction, lactation, and iodine needs in animals.
Date: 1942
Creator: Hicks, Gladys
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Suggested Sequence for Using Six Primers Adopted by the State of Texas, Based on the Number of Common Word-Meanings (open access)

A Suggested Sequence for Using Six Primers Adopted by the State of Texas, Based on the Number of Common Word-Meanings

The present study is an analysis of six primers adopted for use in the public schools of Texas with the idea of comparing word-meanings used in the six books in order to find out possible sequences for the use of the books.
Date: 1942
Creator: Hildreth, Rosana Bucher
System: The UNT Digital Library
How the Trend Toward Centralization Has Affected the Schools in Van Zandt County (open access)

How the Trend Toward Centralization Has Affected the Schools in Van Zandt County

The problem of this study was to determine some of the effects of the centralization movement on the schools of Van Zandt County.
Date: 1941
Creator: Riley, Andrew J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Functions of Natural Science in the Curriculum of a Primary Group in Travis School, Mineral Wells, Texas (open access)

The Functions of Natural Science in the Curriculum of a Primary Group in Travis School, Mineral Wells, Texas

The problem in this study is to determine the worth of natural science as an incentive to the learning of the retarded pupils in the group, and as a means of orienting the new pupils in the group.
Date: 1942
Creator: Robinson, Birdie Viola
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Relation Between School and Out-of-School Life of a Group of National Youth Administration Girls (open access)

A Study of the Relation Between School and Out-of-School Life of a Group of National Youth Administration Girls

The purpose of this study is to determine the relation between school and after-school life of a group of fifty National Youth Administration girls located in a N.Y.A. Resident Center at Anson, Texas.
Date: 1942
Creator: Robinson, Emma
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recent Trends in the Field of Individual Guidance (open access)

Recent Trends in the Field of Individual Guidance

A study to investigate recent trends in guidance programs in schools for youth.
Date: 1942
Creator: Rogers, Viola Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of Activities That Effect Better Parent-Teacher Cooperation in Relation to Child Development and Welfare (open access)

An Evaluation of Activities That Effect Better Parent-Teacher Cooperation in Relation to Child Development and Welfare

To evaluate activities that effect better parent-teacher cooperation in relation to child development and welfare is the purpose of this study. The five types of activities about which information was desired included personal conferences, communication, parent-teacher association, visitation, and parental education.
Date: 1942
Creator: Schleinat, Annie Patterson
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the San Saba Elementary School, San Saba, Texas (open access)

An Evaluation of the San Saba Elementary School, San Saba, Texas

The purpose of this study was to make a critical evaluation of the San Saba Elementary School, San Saba, Texas. The strong and weak points of the school were considered, and suggestions were made for improvements where they are needed.
Date: 1940
Creator: Smith, Clell Rice
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of Data Used in Introducing Radio in the School (open access)

Analysis of Data Used in Introducing Radio in the School

The purpose of this study is to determine what writers in the field consider essential information for a school administrator to have in inaugurating radio in the school.
Date: 1940
Creator: Smith, Eula
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Theory, Method, and Content of Latin in the Public Schools from 1900 to 1940 (open access)

An Evaluation of the Theory, Method, and Content of Latin in the Public Schools from 1900 to 1940

The purpose of this study is to make a survey of the changes that have been made in teaching Latin from 1900 to 1940. Such a survey, it is felt, may present the matter in a more forceful light and call attention anew to some of the inherent values of Latin not found in any other subject.
Date: 1940
Creator: Spencer, Anne
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Burleson High School, Burleson, Texas (open access)

An Evaluation of the Burleson High School, Burleson, Texas

This study is an evaluation of the Burleson Secondary School of Burleson, Texas. Its purpose is to determine how well this school has measured up to the criteria developed by the Cooperative Study of Secondary School Standards.
Date: 1940
Creator: Stubbs, Bill C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Newbery Medal Books (open access)

An Evaluation of the Newbery Medal Books

The writer's purpose in this study has been to make a thorough investigation of the Newbery Medal books to determine if they represent the best literature suitable for children's reading that has been published since 1922, and to investigate carefully the group as a whole to see if the books possess those rare qualities and characteristics which, deservedly, would set them apart from the ordinary type of books usually designated as suitable for children's reading.
Date: 1947
Creator: Lewis, Katherine
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Plan for Improving the Health, Physical Education, and Intramural Program for Boys in West Columbia High School (open access)

A Plan for Improving the Health, Physical Education, and Intramural Program for Boys in West Columbia High School

The purpose of this study is to develop plans for a program in health education, physical education and intramural sports for boys in the West Columbia High School, West Columbia, Texas.
Date: 1947
Creator: Long, Lewis B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Analysis of the Reasons for and the Lack of Attendance at the Parent-Teacher Association of the Robert E. Lee School, Denton, Texas (open access)

The Analysis of the Reasons for and the Lack of Attendance at the Parent-Teacher Association of the Robert E. Lee School, Denton, Texas

The problem of this study is to analyze the reasons for attendance and lack of attendance at Parent-Teacher Association meetings of sixty selected parents of the Parent-Teacher Association in the Robert E. Lee School, Denton, Texas.
Date: 1947
Creator: Lowe, Mary Elizabeth
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine Some Principles of a Counseling Program Which Applies the Principles of Democratic Supervision (open access)

To Determine Some Principles of a Counseling Program Which Applies the Principles of Democratic Supervision

The purpose of this study is to determine some principles of a counseling program which applies the principles of democratic supervision. The major emphasis has been given to an analysis of such a program in the light of accepted principles of democratic supervision.
Date: 1948
Creator: Campbell, Ona L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing an In-Service Training Program in Audio-Visual Aids (open access)

Developing an In-Service Training Program in Audio-Visual Aids

The purpose of this study is to develop an in-service training program for the teachers of the Sherman Elementary Schools in the use of audio-visual aids and materials as a means toward effective child growth and development.
Date: 1948
Creator: Carpenter, Walter Harold
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Show the Relations of Peer Acceptance and Teacher Ratings with Sunday School Attendance and Church Affiliation (open access)

A Study to Show the Relations of Peer Acceptance and Teacher Ratings with Sunday School Attendance and Church Affiliation

The purpose of this study is to show the results of an investigation into the relations of Sunday school attendance with peer acceptance and teacher ratings.
Date: 1948
Creator: Caves, Jack W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Statistical Analysis of Thirty-Three Sociometrically Measured Groups (open access)

A Statistical Analysis of Thirty-Three Sociometrically Measured Groups

If the classroom teacher is to help her pupils in the cultivation of social abilities, she must have tools at her command. She must have not only instruments of measurement, but also proven methods of training and therapy. It is with the former that this thesis is concerned.
Date: 1948
Creator: Christal, Raymond Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the University Interscholastic League Aims and Activities in the Conference B Elementary Schools of Johnson County Texas, for the Year 1947-1948 (open access)

An Evaluation of the University Interscholastic League Aims and Activities in the Conference B Elementary Schools of Johnson County Texas, for the Year 1947-1948

The problem is to study the aims of the University Interscholastic League of Texas and evaluate them in the light of the aims of education as set up by authorities in the fields of education and to study the present method of conducting the League activities in Johnson County and evaluate the activities in the light of the aims of education and the data obtained from superintendents in the Conference B schools of Johnson County.
Date: 1948
Creator: Clark, Chlocelia Tunnell
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Influence of Economic, Social, and Physical Factors upon Normal Development of Pupils in Two Wichita Falls Elementary Schools (open access)

The Influence of Economic, Social, and Physical Factors upon Normal Development of Pupils in Two Wichita Falls Elementary Schools

Children who learn best are physically, mentally, and emotionally adequate. In conjunction with this fact, this study attempts to show the relation that exists between the children from uncomfortable, unsatisfactory environments and those with comfortable, satisfactory environments.
Date: 1948
Creator: Cowan, Charlie Weldon
System: The UNT Digital Library