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Cost-effectiveness of job placement activities among selected community colleges
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
actitivies is an economically worthwhile investment for agribusiness graduates and for society. The highest level of benefits were received by full users of the job placement service. 2. The total benefit exceeded the social costs of the program. The internal...
The story of the farmer
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
Text from preface: "The purpose of this study is to develop among boys and girls of junior high school age an appreciation of the farmer and the value of his work to society. Many books have been written about the things ...
The principles underlying the selection of a course of study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
The problem of this study is to find the principles that should underlie the selection of the school curriculum. It is not a scientific investigation of the social and psychological facts upon which the course of study ...
Effective cooperation between rural school patrons and the schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)
alone. They must have the assistance and cooperation of the others. The following paper is therefore divided into three sections reflecting these groups. The study is further supplemented with illustrations and with a section on "A Study of Problems...
A study of the relationship between selected educational experiences of vocational agriculture students and their enrolling in a College of Agriculture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1967)
of Agriculture. Neither vocational agriculture students’ participation in area conferences, college faculty speaking at FFA banquets or meetings nor college students’ talking to high school FFA groups was significant when tested against attendance in the College...
Elementary agriculture for city high schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
The experience of teaching Agriculture in the high school for a number of years has impressed upon the writer the need of a more careful selection of material than is indicated by most of the text book in Elementary ...
A comparative benefit-cost study of one-year distributive education and two-year distributive education secondary programs in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
Objectives of the Study: This study was a cost-benefit analysis of the two types of distributive education programs offered in Missouri. The thesis of this study was that with the need for expansion and implementation of ...
The withdrawal of pupils from school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)
This subject has, perhaps, received more attention and less careful study than any other educational problem. The numerous compulsory school attendance laws, both in Europe and America, testify to the consideration this ...
A critical review of the theory of education in Plato's Republic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
Plato, in a sense, outlines two systems of education. He first states and, with a few minor changes, accepts the traditional education of the Greek people. Later he outlines an original system of his own which is to follow ...
The incidental teaching of English composition in the high school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
At the present time, when the efficiency of every department of school work is being questioned, when real improvement is being made in the school as an adequate preparation for life, the question of the value of formal ...