Through the teaching of homemaking education for the past four years the investigator became interested in reasons, especially these reasons given by the girls themselves, as to why some girls elect homemaking education in high school and why others do not. Apparently this question has been of interest to others es e number of studies have been made dealing with this subject. However, no such study has been made in this area of Virginia. The purposes of this study were to determine why girls elected homemaking education and why they did not, the effect of academic requirements on the election or non-election of the course and to determine recommendations which might result in a larger proportion of students electing homemaking courses. / Master of Science

M.S.

The supervisory staff for vocational home economics education in Virginia includes a State and Assistant State Supervisor and twelve district supervisors. Nine of the district supervisors are white and three are Negro. The State Supervisor provides overall leadership for the program and handles all administrative matters relating to budgets and reports. The Assistant State Supervisor is State Advisor for the Future Homemakers’ organization and works with local school divisions on plans and equipment for new and remodeled departments. She also assists the State Supervisor in giving leadership to the program. Approximately one-half of the district supervisor’s time is available for assistance to vocational home economics teachers in Virginia. It is the responsibility of the district supervisors to work directly with teachers in determining the nature of programs needed, in planning and developing programs, and in evaluating results. They also work closely with local administrators in the various school divisions on ways of facilitating and improving the program concerned. In addition to the supervision of the teaching programs, the district supervisors have overall responsibility for the school lunch programs operating in their respective districts. No attempt has been made in this study to evaluate the effectiveness of district supervision of the school lunch program. During the 1950-1951 school term there were 306 white secondary high schools which employed 482 vocational home economics teachers and 90 Negro secondary high schools in which 124 Negro vocational home economics teachers were employed. Much planning is continuously being carried on by the supervisory staff in an effort to help home economics teachers to make their programs as effective as possible. The extent of the assistance received by vocational home economics teachers from their district supervisors has long been of concern to those responsible for guiding the program. However, there has been no organized study of supervisory assistance given to home economics teachers in Virginia. The investigator proposed to make a study of this nature in the hope that it would prove helpful in finding more and better ways in which the supervisor could assist home economics teachers with their instructional problems. / Master of Science

Master of Science

This study compared two groups of college home economics and science students in order to establish whether or not previous experience influences ability. One group received high school education in the two areas and the other did not.

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1959 H47

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1965 D96 / Master of Science

The question as to whether to teach personality development as a separate unit or to include it as an integral part of the total homemaking program became a problem which required careful investigation. It became the purpose of this study, therefore, to determine whether more measurable growth in personality is achieved by teaching a special unit in personality than by including such subject matter as an integral part of the homemaking program.

It is the purpose of this study to compare the effectiveness of the film method with the pupil-teacher discussion method for summarizing certain food units.

The purpose of the present study is to compare two forms of home project reports and to determine the preferred form.