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An Investigation of Some Chemical Products of Central Texas Cedar
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Attendance and Progress Factors in Test Norms
No full textThe main problem of this investigation is to make a critical study of the influence on educational test norms of the important variables of (1) the percentage of scholastics in average daily attendance, or the ratio between the number of scholastics on the census roll and the actual number who are in average daily attendance, and (2) the age-grade status of a school, or the amount of retardation and acceleration.Curriculum and Instructio
The Journey of Pedro de Rivera, 1724-1728
No full textThis paper is partly a summary of and partly a series of selections from a longer study on the subject of the inspection of military posts in New Spain by Pedro de Rivera in the third decade of the eighteenth century. The facts selected from the longer study, for the main parts of this paper, relate to his travels in Texas and in three other provinces of New Spain which were nearest to Texas: namely, New Mexico, Coahuila, and Nuevo Leon. Preceding these facts in an introductory explanation of the origin and the general nature of his entire journey of inspection. The explanation is derived from official papers written in Madrid and the City of Mexico. The description of the selected portions of his journey is based upon, and quoted from, his own diary of that event. This paper was read at the meeting of the Texas State Historical Association in Austin, Texas, on April 24, 1937.Histor
A Comparison of the Use versus Non-Use of Competitive Marking and of formal versus Child-Centered Methods of Teaching in the Field of Public School Art: Conclusions Drawn from a Set of Experimental Units in Art Conducted in the Sixth and Seventh Grades of the Laboratory School of Southwest Texas States Teachers College, San Marcos, Texas
No full textThe main purpose of this study is to draw some conclusions as to the effect of competitive marking on the results of art units taught in the sixth and seventh grade. A supplementary problem of the study is to compare the results of formal and child-centered methods of teaching art in the same grades.Curriculum and Instructio
Getting and Communicating Thought
No full textA tentative endeavor to assist first-semester students in Freshman Composition to attain more easily there putative proficiency-level in the subject, by supplying them with such supplemental materials as they need at this stage--material the average composition text does not supply.Englis
The Rural Schools of Hays County, Texas
No full textThis study of the Rural Schools of Hays County, Texas, does not presume to be a detailed analysis of the rural school system. Only the general features are surveyed and discussed, in no case with a view to unkind criticism, but with the hope that the people of the County may see their schools in their true light, and that some recommendations may be offered which will be constructively helpful. If such be the results, then the writer will feel abundantly rewarded for his efforts.
Almost no attempts have been made to compare the Hays County schools with those of other countries. In fact, the writer has not made a survey of the schools of any other county of the State, but he is of the opinion that the Hays County rural schools are fairly representative of the rural schools of Southwest Texas, and perhaps do not differ essentially from those of the larger part of the State.
An expression of grateful appreciation is hereby extended to all those who have in any way contributed to this study : to the teachers of the common schools who responded so promptly and carefully to the questionnaire sent them; to the superintendents of the three independent districts of the County- Buda, Kyle, and San Marcos- for special data concerning their schools; to Mr. S. W. Henderson for the privilege of using materials from his excellent paper on the Financial History of the Schools of Hays County; to County Superintendent, J. H. Saunders, for the data given in his annual reports and for other information both personal and official; to Professor E. E. Davis of the Department of Extension of the University of Texas for statistical and other data gleaned from his Study of the Rural Schools of Travis County, Texas; and to any others who may have offered suggestions or given advice.Sociolog
