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Physical productivity trend of Missouri and Illinois public junior colleges and its relationship with selected institutional attributes, 1968-1972
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
Objectives of the Study: The major purposes of this study were: (1) to find the physical productivity trends in the public junior colleges of Missouri and Illinois during 1968-1972 period; (2) to determine the relationship ...
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 ...
A study of the costs of the Kansas City high schools for the year 1915-1916
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
"The problem of this thesis is the study in detail of the cost of the Kansas City high schools for the year 1915-1916. For convenience, the problem is divided into several studies, as follows: Study A. A comparative study ...
First year reading
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
This thesis will concern itself with first year reading, and it will have the following aims: 1. To examine the subject matter of first year reading in order to see what values the literature presuppose the child capable ...
Cost-effectiveness of job placement activities among selected community colleges
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
Objectives of the Study: The major purposes of this study were: (1) to find the costs and average per student costs for the agricultural business job placement program, (2) to find the benefits for students utilizing the ...
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 ...
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)
PURPOSE: The principal purpose of this study was to determine whether or not selected educational experiences of students from certain vocational agriculture departments tended to be significantly related to the students’ ...
An age-grade census of Missouri rural schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)
It is the problem of this study to make a diagnosis of the educational conditions in the rural schools of Missouri by means of the age-grade census, to compare these conditions with those of other school systems, to determine ...
Comparative rankings of normal school graduates and full course university students in the School of Education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
There has been much difference of opinion as to which group of students ranks higher in university scholarship---those who enter the School of Education as normal school graduates or those who spend full four years on the ...
The teaching of handwriting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 1: The problem of this investigation is to study the uses of diagnosis and corrective measures in the teaching of handwriting.
Heredity and education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1907)
It is evident that there are two important factors in producing a man and making him what he is, one the endowment given him at birth, the other, the environment into which he comes. No one doubts that the natural endowment ...
An experiment in the seventh grade of the Teachers college elementary school, University of Missouri, in the attempt to find a principle which would remedy some of the defects of the present elementary school curriculum
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1908)
This thesis describes an attempt to remedy some of the defects of the modern elementary curriculum. That there were such defects has been felt by the author since he first taught in a rural school. As a result of courses ...
Examining and certificating teachers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)
One of the first laws in the United States on the subject of examining and certificating teachers was passed in Massachusetts in 1826. It stated that the School Committees should ascertain the qualifications of the teachers ...
Economical learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
The great change in our economic life in the last decade has forced its demands for greater skill and more economical methods upon man in every walk of life. These demands have in part been met and satisfied, but much is ...
Cost records and reports for public schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
What is the efficiency of the school system? This is the first question asked when a consideration of the money spent in the past, or what should be spent in the future, on that particular system, is taken up. To determine ...
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 ...
Acquisition of the Hawaiian Islands : a step in the territorial and commercial expansion of the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
During the Middle Ages, the rulers of the countries of Europe were little interested in colonial or commercial expansion. The questions which interested them were those relating to the increase of the royal power or the ...
Tendencies to emphasize practical problems in the teaching of physics in secondary schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1910)
Perhaps no subject in the secondary school curriculum has greater possibilities than the subject of physics. Most of the sciences are more or less dependent upon it. Not a single one can stand alone. Indeed, approximately ...
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 ...
Observation one of the activities in the third grade of the University elementary school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
In various forms Nature-study has become a part of the curriculum of the schools, often holding an equal place with the "Three R's". Frequently the usual studies are too remote from the daily lives of the children to be ...