Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-67).

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1986. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-339).

Photocopy of typescript. / Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of a ten (10) hour Teacher's Motivational Teaching Model (TMTM) on student teachers' teaching behavior. The sample for this study consisted of 90 elementary education majors at Ball State University involved in a dental health study.Of the 90 students involved in this study, 46 were taught an experimental unit in dental health and 44 were taught a less concentrated unit in dental health. The experimental unit was 10 hours in duration and made application of operant conditioning principles, cognitive dissonance, and group decision making. A special unit in classroom first aid was also taught to remove experimental bias. The Student Teacher Observation Form (a category recording system) was developed to measure the effects of the TMTM on student teachers' teaching behavior. STOP is a four category recording system which lasts three minutes. The categories included in STOF were facts/reasons in dental health instruction, demonstrations in dental health instruction, facts/reasons in first aidinstruction, and demonstration in first aid instruction. The STOP system was taught to the classroom supervisors assigned to the student teachers. The classroom supervisors observed their student teachers for 12 minutes a day for 7 weeks. The 12 minutes of observation time were randomly selected and 6 of the minutes observed daily consisted of science health instruction. The data collected by the classroom supervisors was sent in weekly for analysis.Four major null hypotheses were considered in this study.1.1 There will be no significant difference in the amount of facts/reasons dental health instruction performed by the experimental and control groups.1.2 There will be no significant difference in the amount of demonstration dental health instruction performed by the experimental and control groups.2. There will be no significant difference in the kind of dental health instruction performed by the experimental and control groups.3.1 There will be no significant difference in the utilization of teaching materials between experimental and control groups.3.2 There will be no significant difference in the utilization of consultation services between experimental and control groups.4. There will be no significant differences in the relationship between the utilization of materials and the distance from the source of materials between experimental and control groups.In summary the following conclusions were drawn.1. Student teachers exposed to the TNfiM (experimental group)spent significantly more instruction time on facts/reasons and demonstrations in dental health than student teachers who received the less concentrated instruction (control group).2. Significantly more dental health facts/reasons and demonstration instruction occurred in the science health instructional areas than outside the science-health area.3. Student teachers in the experimental group spent significantly more time on dental health facts/reasons instruction outside the sciencehealth area than the student teachers in the control groups.4. Dental health teaching materials were utilized in similar amounts by experimental and control student teachers.5. Student teachers in the experimental and control groups utilized similar proportions between facts/reasons and demonstration instruction in dental health.6. Student teachers in the experimental groups used more dental health consultation services than students in the control groups.7. No relationship existed between students in the experimental and control groups and the utilization of dental health materials and the distance from the source of the materials.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Includes tables. Sponsor: Herbert Walker. Dissertation Committee: James L. Malfetti. Type B project. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-126).

Thesis (M.S.)--Rowan University, 2006. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Marquette University, 2009. / Marilyn Frenn, Maureen O'Brien, Ardene Brown, Advisors.

M.Comm. / There is a serious need for children to be informed about the negative influence of unhealthy living. Children need to be made aware ofhealthy eating habits, health risks andthebenefits ofexerciseto improvetheirhealth. The impact ofbadeating habits and little exercise needs to be emphasized in order for learners to see the importance of healthy living. The aim of this study is to identify relevant aspects from the related literature and practise, to establish emperically the health-related knowledge and behaviour of senior primary phase school children in the Honeydew area and to offer recommendations for health education for primary school children. This study is explorative ofnature. A academic research was done on the related literature on health and physical health education. Qualitative Data has been collected from three schools in the Honeydew area by means of a self-constructed questionnaire. These schools were selected due to the fact that the researcher teaches at one of the schools, and the other schools were easily accessible to the researcher. Several pilot studies were done to test the validity of the questionnaires. In order for the questionnaire to have been statistically reliable, 102 questionnaires were completed by learners from all three schools. From the data gathered the researcher came to the conclusion that learners in the Honeydew area have a reasonable general knowledge of health and they have a relatively healthy lifestyle. There are however reasons for concern in some areas and these need to be adressed. The high consumption ofeggs, salt, snacks and soft drinks may have a negative effect on the learners' health. The emotional well being of the child may have an influence on the child's eating habits. When children get depressed or bored, they eat simply because they do not have anything else to do and then they often eat chocolates or snacks like crisps. Every school has a tuck shop and even if a parent provided a nutritional lunch box for the child, the child may still buy chocolates and crisps at the tuck shop. Some parents give the learners money to buy lunch and then they buy sweets, instead. The use of alcohol, cigarettes and drugs is definitely bad for the leamer's health. Some learners were involved in unprotected sex, this is matter of serious concern. AIDS is a terrible disease that is increasing drastically daily. It is very important that learners need to be informed about health hazards to ensure a healthy lifestyle for all. Learners need to be informed about drug abuse, alcohol abuse, physical abuse and healthy eating habits to ensure that they can become healthy, contributary and responsible citizens in the future. There is a definite need for a health education programme in schools to ensure that the learners stay healthy and lead healthy lives in the future.

The problem was to determine whether health textbooks include content and material that make them valuable and important tools for a functional health instruction course. The area of this investigation was limited to sixteen health texts designed for use in the seventh and eighth grades. The problem was to determine whether these sixteen selected books have range and adequate coverage for the needs and interests of this age level. Whether they include: teaching aids that enrich the learning experiences, suggested activities of interest to the pupils, up-to-date information, adequate, stimulating, understandable illustrations, supplementary references; and whether the general makeup of the texts were appropriate for seventh and eighth grade pupils. It was the purpose of this study (1) to develop criteria by which health textbooks would be evaluated on content, teaching aids, and format; (2) to evaluate sixteen health textbooks to determine whether content, suggested activities, teaching aids, and the physical features were suitable for health instruction in the seventh and eighth grades; (3) to make a comparative analysis as to which texts were most valuable as tools to learning in the seventh and eighth grades; and (4) to indicate the areas of shortages in the California State Health Series for seventh and eighth grades.

The author has tried to emphasize the importance of the health of the school child and of a good health program in the public school. Realizing that most school administrators have very limited knowledge regarding the establishment of a program of this nature, it has been the purpose of this paper to set up a basic structure that may serve as a guide to the school in building its school health education program. Although this is written specifically for the school at Warrington, Florida, it is felt that this program may be of some benefit to other schools that would like to establish a better health program. / Typescript. / "August, 1950." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 38-39).