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A study in sentence structure
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
The present study is a report of the results of the attempted correction of eighteen types of grammatical errors through the "incidental method" of teaching composition. This method as opposed to the "Formal Method" is ...
Black alumni of the University of Missouri-Columbia : financial support as the mirror of attitudes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2001)
This study examined the attitudes toward the University of Missouri-Columbia of a sample of its Black alumni and whether their attitudes were reflected in their donor status. The Black Alumni Survey was used to assess the ...
The relationship of emic model derived resiliency attributes to ninth grade student total core subject courses passed in an urban high school as viewed through the RDYM
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The variables positively supporting urban student matriculation through high school remain unclear as one moves from one context to another. Furthermore, attributes that positively influence urban ninth grade student ...
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 ...
Practical problems depending upon principles of geometry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1910)
One of the recent questions in education deals with the efficiency of our secondary schools. The question is of vital importance to all classes of educators, but to no class is it more pertinent than to the High School ...
Philosophy of Horace
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
In a treatise on the philosophy of Horace it is necessary to discuss the following problems: 1) What did Horace know of the different philosophical systems? 2) To what extent do the works of Horace contain references to ...
History of the academy in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1910)
The demand for the academy in Missouri was the same as the demand for it in any other western state - a popular demand for secondary education. This demand was along several lines; first it was to inculcate special forms ...
An experimental study of methods of teaching high school German
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1910)
The purpose of this paper is to report some experimental work done in the University High School on the methods used and the results obtained in the first year's work in German. Since the methods used in this work are ...
Historical data in the study of present-day problems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
Anyone who has read, in educational literature of recent years, the endless discussions as to what is the proper plan of studying history in the high school, or what is the chief aim of the study, whether history should ...
Investigation in the teaching of elementary mathematics from the standpoint of choice and arrangement of subject matter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)
To one engaged in the teaching profession, or even to a laymen who has come into contact with the educational system of the present time, it is scarcely necessary to present evidences of dissatisfaction regarding the results ...
The importance of problems in the teaching of American history in high schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1909)
No invention, no conformity to a new mode of living, was ever brought about by an individual or community except to meet some definite need. Some obstacle, some difficulty, arose which had to be overcome. For example, the ...
A study of the Ebbinghaus conjectural method
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
While the need for persistent drill is clearly recognized in the elementary and secondary schools, when the student enters college it is supposed that he is prepared to at once assume responsibility for his studies, a ...
Natural interests of adolescents
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)
The purpose of this investigation was to discover as far as possible, in the limited time available, the capacities of the adolescent mind with special reference to the lines of work represented in the typical high school ...
Some considerations in the teaching of mediaeval and modern history in high schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1908)
This paper is an attempt to show what is considered by the writer to be the function of Mediaeval and Modern History at the Teachers College High School, to find out what method this function can best be realized, to show ...
The function of literature in secondary education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1909)
No subject in the curriculum of the secondary school receives more attention than does literature. This was true in the days when it was to be found only in a foreign tongue and before complexity of interests had given a ...
Field work in high school geography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1910)
In order to make objective teaching the keynote in geography, field work must be its foundation. Field work, properly conducted, will develop a feeling of self-reliance in the pupil. In using text books as a mine from which ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mental tests of school children
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
The gradation and classification of pupils, the nature of the curriculum and methods of teaching, have long been vital questions for educators. The mental measuring rods for classification and promotion which have been ...