Today, postsecondary programs for hearing impaired students in the United States are growing at a rapid pace and more and more educational opportunities are becoming available. Most postsecondary programs incorporate a preparatory program which concen . . .

This is a study involving 18 hearing impaired school administrators for the purpose of gathering information about their backgrounds and to determine what job - related environmental factors influence their roles as School Administrators. Specifically . . .

The Inventory Control System as outlined in this paper is an effort to provide information and guidelines that may help a community college administration establish an equipment inventory system. The methods presented have been developed from concepts . . .

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) reported in 1976 that 87 to 93% of all college students drink alcohol. "Alcohol Drinking" is widely accepted today as the most popular "pastime" on college campuses. According to Burguess . . .

The purpose of this project was to show how a classroom teacher could make use of the school or community library in devising an instructional unit for use in an individualized reading program. Review of the literature was undertaken to determine what . . .

The Board of Trustees of the Selma (California) Unified School District in September of 1973 authorized a Community Congress on Education. The Community Congress was constituted to involve a broad cross section of the people of the Selma area. Invitat . . .

The importance of a positive self concept and the relationship between self concept and academic success is being widely discussed in the field of education. The idea of implementing programs that will foster positive self concepts into the yearly . . .

This descriptive study was centered around t-unit analysis of the oral language of 18 first-grade children and representative samples of written language from selected state adopted reading textbooks. The syntactic patterns studied were the structural . . .

"Teachers struck in Minneapolis, Minn., Muskogee, Okla. , and Butte, Mont., as Los Angeles teachers voted over- whelmingly to quit their classrooms This quotation is the first sentence of an article in the April 20, 1970, U, S. News and World . . .

INTRODUCTION. It is generally recognized that parents play a vital role in the educational, social, and emotional development of their children. Dr. E. R. Pinckney, author of Mirror of Your Mind, states that children seem to be learning more outside t . . .

A questionnaire was administered to 131 teachers in sixteen elementary schools and six junior high and high schools in the Ventura Unified School District to determine whether instructional materials selected for individualized reading instruction wer . . .

The major problem of this study was to investigate the relation between two methods of teaching mathematics (a manipulative materials approach and a traditional approach) and attitudes of elementary school children toward mathematics. The relation bet . . .

"The force of science has always, in modern times, been a major factor shaping social and cultural patterns (Roberts, 1967, p. 247)." The current level of scientific technology enables considerable power over matter and multiplies the conveniences or . . .

This paper deals with vocational rehabilitation services for the congenitally deaf-blind as opposed to the adventitiously deaf-blind. The reason for this is because the congenitally deaf-blind are more severely disabled and have not been adequately se . . .

In Japan, the attitudes of the government toward Japanese Sign Language separates in two directions. The Ministry of Health and Welfare regards Japanese Sign Language as a means of implementation and a function to the deaf, while the Ministry of Educa . . .

It is the purpose of this project to (1) review the literature related to parent education and parent participation in the local elementary school; (2) establish a working criteria for training parents as aides; and (3) set-up an orientation program i . . .

This project proposes a method to teach percent to general mathematics students by materials that do not rely upon memorization of formulas but show the relationship among ratio, proportion, and percent, Although the word percent has been a part of st . . .

The assumption of every Jewish educational enterprise, by definition, is that in some way it is contributing to the Jewish maturation of its members; that, as a product of its efforts, Jewish loyalties will be fostered and the historical-civilizationa . . .

The following paper contains three major sections concerning the life and philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It is designed to offer the reader a brief but illustrative explanation of: (1) Rousseau's life, (2) Rousseau's social philosophy, and (3) R . . .

The purpose of this project was to develop a set of bilingual materials to help the Mexican American child acquire competence in understanding and reading English and Spanish. The justification for the development of such materials lies in a rationale . . .

The objective of this thesis is to analyze the prevailing concepts regarding ritual, setting forth suggestions which may help form a more adequate understanding of ritual and its underlying symbolism. Under the impetus of Piaget, Bruner, and others, h . . .

A need for improved communication between the director of secondary education and secondary reading teachers in Ventura county and inservice education which could be provided for them resulted in this study. A questionnaire was mailed to 57 reading te . . .

Both students and teachers need to know of the occupations wherein a knowledge of foreign languages is advantageous. This project offers guidelines to both audiences as they seek to learn about specialized and non-specialized uses of foreign languages . . .

This paper discusses the past and present plight of persons who rightly or wrongly are diagnosed and labeled as being deaf with additional handicaps. It is indicated that a process evolves from this labeling. The labeling induces certain stigmatizatio . . .

The main focus of study in this paper was the actual use and practice of games in the teaching of kindergarten children. One way to assess the practical use of games is an analysis of the actual use in kindergarten programs of games as a method of . . .

With the tightening of the job market it is becoming increasingly apparent that prospective employees must become diversified in order to qualify within selected job areas to provide increased opportunities for employment. One specific job area wh . . .

Communication is the greatest problem of the deaf and significantly hearing-impaired. Deaf and hearing-impaired persons feel that many services and benefits that governmental agencies offer are not accessible to the deaf and hearing-impaired because o . . .

The purpose of this paper is to provide a guide to be used by non- English-speaking parents of deaf children who are educated in schools that conduct classes in English, The lack of a set of guidelines for �now English-speaking parents of deaf childre . . .

This paper attempts to demonstrate by reviewing the history of and the periodical literature on deaf-blindness in the United States, the need for a journal for professionals working with persons who are deaf-blind. The review was conducted by research . . .

[Purpose of Study] This research was conducted to investigate a statement made by John R. Bormuth. He indicates that when the student regards material as too easy for him, he exhibits avoidance behaviors claiming that the materials are "childish" and . . .

Improvement of what goes on in the classroom has been the eternal goal of teacher training institutions and inservice programs for teachers working in the classroom. The Stull Bill and all its implications for goal setting, writing the objectives, . . .

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of two different teaching methodologies on the sight vocabulary and reading comprehension of first grade children. The subjects in the experimental group learned sight vocabulary through the use o . . .

As I near the completion of my formal education, I would certainly be a fool if I did not arrive at a theoretical basis from which I can put into practice what my education has helped me learn. This principle applies to all areas of counseling which I . . .

This study was undertaken to determine the validity of the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) for the prediction of success or failure while on probation. The subjects for this study consisted of 32 male adult probationers in San Francisco Count . . .

The assumption is generally made that through re-staffing of teachers, re-grcuping of children and utilization of a variety of teaching techniques, there will result an improvement in pupil achievement, professional performance, and attitudes of b . . .

Before an educator can teach any subject successfully he must have some theory as to how his students learn. This theory can be developed from a study of the psychologies of learning that are applicable in education. After carefully considering th . . .

The process of bringing work and laborer together goes back in man's history beyond the records of civiliza- tion. The first large-scale "employment" of people was probably through the institution of slavery. The first source of labor supply . . .

The assumption is generally made that through re-staffing of teachers, re-grcuping of children and utilization of a variety of teaching techniques, there will result an improvement in pupil achievement, professional performance, and attitudes of b . . .

The assumption is generally made that through re-staffing of teachers, re-grcuping of children and utilization of a variety of teaching techniques, there will result an improvement in pupil achievement, professional performance, and attitudes of b . . .

In recent years mankind has been involved in major social problems. In the United States involvement with social problems has existed within persons and within groups, and between persons and between groups. The energies of our populace, whether m . . .

A few years ago a college degree was the key to a wide variety of career positions. Today, it is not uncommon to hear of the glutted job market in fields such as teaching, social welfare and engineering. Students are looking for positions which wi . . .

Since the early 1950's much research has been carried on relative to creativity demonstrated by human subjects. The work of" many behavioral scientists has opened new avenues of thinking regarding the make-up of human intelligence. J. Paul Guilfor . . .

There are various ideas concerning what role guidance should play within the school organisation. One point of view* which stresses the individual in his uniqueness, is concerned with helping youth develop self-concepts involving realistic self-und . . .

During the years until World War II public school education retained many of the moral and spiritual teachings which were found in the earlier private schools. There was much leniency toward prayer and Bible reading in the classroom, as well as towa . . .

Since 2007, the California State University (CSU) system has partaken in two initiatives in the past: Access to Success and the Graduation Initiative 2015. These initiatives laid the foundation for the most recent initiative, the Graduation Initiati . . .

On September 1, 1924, F. J. Lee, General Overseer of the Church of God,"'" wrote: "In making up the program for the Assembly, I thought it would be well to have something concerning the young people . . . This is what Charles W. Conn, a former Gen . . .

Mexican Americans are a segment of the rural poor. These low income people face uniquely complex problems. Often they do not speak English; their children are virtually un- touched by existing school programs; their lack of job skills and the incr . . .

The question of how best to provide an environment which enhances the probability of a superior education for children in the schools has plagued educational leaders for decades. Governing boards and their administrative agents have long pondered . . .

Project Follow-Through is a federally-funded five year effort to sustain and supplement in the early grades the gains made by low-income children who have had a full year's experience in a Head Start or Preschool program. In Fresno, California, th . . .

This multiple case study examined the mentoring supports provided to induction candidate teachers during their first four-month Induction Learning Plan (ILP) Cycle of New Teacher Induction. Although studies (e.g., Darling-Hammond, 2002, 2016; Richte . . .