"The purpose of this study is to identify geography as a general education subject, to determine the type of geography which best serves the objectives of general education and to determine the general education value of the present geography courses in the Florida junior colleges. An analysis will be made of the present geography programs in the Florida public junior colleges to determine their orientation. This analysis will be concerned with the development of geography in the curriculum rather than with methods of instruction. A study of the catalogs of the various institutions plus information gathered through questionnaires constitute the main basis of analysis. Taking into consideration the objectives of general education, the objectives of the junior colleges, and the objectives of geography, the writer hopes to offer suggestions and recommendations which will make a useful contribution to the concurrent achievement of these objectives in Florida"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August, 1958." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science." / Advisor: Harry Brubaker, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 36-38).

Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries

No description available.

Call number: LD2668 .P7 1973 S73

Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries

The problem of the study was to determine the nature and extent of differences of selected characteristics of students enrolled in occupationally oriented curriculums and students enrolling in baccalaureate oriented curriculums at Thornton Community College in Harvey, Illinois, for the fall of the 1969-1970 school year.To obtain measures relative to selected characteristics of students, The ACT Guidance Profile: Two Year College Edition and the SRA Junior Colleqe Placement Battery were administered to 106 prospective occupational students and 194 prospective baccalaureate students who participated in orientation activities during May and June of 1969. The ACT Guidance Profile provided data relative to student interests, self-reported potentials, self-reported competencies, self-estimates of abilities, and satisfaction with field of study. From the SRA Junior Colleqe Placement Battery, measures of intelligence and aptitude relative to English, reading, and mathematics were obtained for each subject. The high school class rank of each participant was obtained from admission records. The curriculum in which each subject enrolled was determined from registration data.Seven hypotheses were developed for the study. To test the hypotheses, the mean scores of variables obtained group were statistically compared with the male baccalaureate group. Similarly, the mean scores of the variables tested of the female occupational group were statistically compared with the characteristics of the female baccalaureate group.The Spearman Rank order technique was applied to "actual" interest profiles obtained from the test instruments and "ideal" obtained from occupational choices. The t-test of significance was applied to the resulting mean coefficients of correlations of interest profile congruency, and the mean scores obtained for all other variables included.Findinqs and ConclusionsIt can be generalized that there is a great deal of similarity between and among male students selecting occupationally oriented curriculums and male students selecting baccalaureate oriented curriculums as well as female students selecting the two separately identifiable instructional programs. Baccalaureate oriented students, however, generally scored higher on tests of academic ability, experienced a higher level of success relative to academic pursuits in high school, reported a greater involvement in and competency relative to selected activities associated with the types of experiences encountered in academic from responses to the instruments of the male occupational pursuits, and possessed higher self-estimates of abilities in a number of traits essential to academic success. The distinctions between female baccalaureate students and female occupational students was not as great as the differences between the males of the two groups.The baccalaureate oriented and occupational oriented male groups reflected comparable patterns of relationship between measured interests and stated occupational choice. Although the two groups of females also indicated comparable patterns of relationship between interests and occupational choice, the interests of the female groups correlated with occupational choice at a higher level than did the interests of the two groups of males. The four subgroups of the study expressed satisfaction with educational plans.

"The purpose of this study was to determine expressed interest of high school seniors in Polk County in a Home Economics curriculum at Polk Community College. Florida rapidly expanded its post-high school educational programs in the 1950's and 1960's. In 1950, there were three state universities in Florida with a combined enrollment of approximately 20,000 students; presently, there are nine state universities with a combined enrollment that exceeds 92,000 students"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August, 1975." / "Submitted to the Department of Home Economics Education in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science." / Advisor: Agnes F. Ridley, Professor Directing Research Problem. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-64).

The problem of this study was to develop a proposal for the teaching of poetry for the purposes of contributing to the student's understanding and enjoyment. Surveys and summaries were made of scholarly writings on the junior college student, existential theories of education, and theories of poetry. A bibliography was constructed for each subject from resources of the North Texas State University library. Conclusions from each survey were derived from the selected resources and used to prepare the proposal for instruction of poetry.

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of determining the status of communications programs for the terminal technical-vocational student in the public junior colleges of the United States.

No description available.