Browsing Education - Seattle by Issue Date
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A course of study in health education for the mentally deficient boy of high school and junior high school age
(1938)The public schools of the United States have become health conscious. The need for accurate health information has been recognized in nearly all schools at the present time by the inclusion of this subject in the curriculum. ... -
School district reorganization in Polk County, Oregon
(1939)In the United States modern transportation facilities and other social and economic factors are tending to make obsolescent multitudinous small school administrative units. Several of the states have been experimenting ... -
Value, form and content of a small college athletic budget
(1939)Always live within your income even if you have to borrow money to do it. This advice, which the late Francis Bret Harte facetiously gave to mankind, epitomized the general attitude of indifference toward budgeting a quarter ... -
An outline of physical education activities and administrative procedures for making them effective in Bellingham high school
(1940)The author in this Thesis is endeavoring to outline the basic divisions of the physical education work at the Bellingham Senior High School. This school has a population of approximately 1700 students. This outline is done ... -
A survey of the regulations governing the selection of dives for collegiate competition in dual and championship meets from 1924 through 1953 and the opinions of selected experts concerning these regulations
(1953)The purpose of this study was to determine which of the regulations governing the selection of dives from 1924 through 1953 has best provided all divers with an equal opportunity to demonstrate their diving abilities in ... -
The status of basketball coaching in selected elementary schools of King County, Washington, 1962-63
(1963)A study of the status of elementary school basketball coaching in King County is significant in light of the fact that the State Department of Public Instruction disapproves of highly organized interschool competition in ... -
The effects of flexible scheduling on the achievement of male eleventh grade physical education students
(1966)Ordinary people think merely how they spend their time; a man of intellect tries to use it, This concept of proper usage of time is presently a key issue in today's realm of education. School design, methods of teaching, ... -
A history of physical education in the public schools of British Columbia from 1918 to 1967
(1967)History has served many masters. It has been used, for example to teach; whereby the reader learns from the distilled wisdom of the ages. It can also instruct in the form of dogma or as propaganda in order to teach men how ... -
A comparison of the effect of two progressive resistance exercise programs upon the development of strength and muscular endurance
(1967)The concept of physical fitness and conditioning has played a major role in the historical development of the world. The fall of nations has been accompanied by the deterioration of fitness ideals. The knowledge that the ... -
A study to determine the need and practicability of expanding the vocational curriculum, in the secondary schools of the State of Washington
(1967)The problem of this study was to determine the need and practicability of establishing and expanding the vocational curriculum in the secondary schools of the state of Washington. The proposed objectives of this study were: ... -
The Measurement of Teacher Dissatisfaction
(1967-05-15)The purpose of this study was to identify and measure dissatisfaction perceived by teachers. Nine hypotheses were tested to determine: 1) areas in which teachers perceive a lack of congruency between individual need and ... -
The effects of three selected training programs on running speed
(1968)It has long been recognized that the quality of performance in most competitive sports is affected by an individual's running speed. In soccer, the coach looks for the player who combines fundamental skills with the ability ... -
Support of Public Education in Washington State Relative to Equalization of Educational Opportunity
(1968-08-14)This study investigated the variation in educational opportunity in Washington State under certain hypothetical matters of distributing state grants-in-aid such as: 1) When factors in the state school distribution formula ... -
Pre-Decisional Information Processes in Teacher Selection
(1969-09)This study examined the behavior which takes place during pre-decisional information search and processing of written information inputs to the teacher selection process. The assumption underlying the research was that ... -
Charles Peirce's pragmatism and its significance in education
(1971)It may prove somewhat helpful, in the understanding of, Charles Sanders Peirce's writings, to include some brief biographical comment on the man. Peirce was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 10, 1839, the ... -
The ideology of pre-primary school education in Nigeria
(1973)The importance of pre-primary or pre-school education has been recognized ever since Plato. Various research efforts have also shown that this level of education contributes very universally to proper development and full ... -
A program toward prophecy: eighteenth-century influences on the poetry of William Blake
(1974)Even in in his own time, Blake posed a problem for literary criticism. The reactions of his contemporaries make it apparent that Blake was, in their opinion, significantly out of phase with the literary norms of the day, ... -
An approach to diagnosing learning disabilities within a Piagetian framework
(1978)The hypothesis that learning disabled children are delayed in cognitive development and Piagetfs theory of horizontal decalage were tested. Forty-five learning disabled and forty-five non-disabled students, 15 each in the ... -
Matching the syntactic structure of textbook with the oral language proficiency levels of English-as-a-Second Language students
(1983)The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects that matching the syntactic structure of textual material with the English oral language proficiency levels of high school English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) students ...