The purpose of this study was to determine whether the transfer of training would affect the achievement and retention scores of subjects learning selected tennis and badminton skills. This study was intended to establish the most beneficial teaching progression for tennis and badminton skills.

Play is considered to be important for the development of young children in that it provides a means to expand their interests, promote engagement and learning, and increase social interactions. Children with autism, however, display deficits in play skills, such as lack of pretend play and rigid or stereotyped manners of play. Research suggests supported play techniques, such as reciprocal imitation training, play expansions, and scaffolding increase play skills in children diagnosed with autism. The current study evaluated the effects of a training package to teach staff members supported play techniques to six young children diagnosed with autism. The study employed a concurrent multiple baseline design across two preschool classrooms. The results suggest that the training package successfully increased staff member use of the supported play techniques and child and staff engagement. The training, however, did not have consistent effects on child social engagement (proximity, attending, and initiating) or on the types of child play (simple manipulation, advanced manipulation, and pretend play). Staff member responses to the post-intervention satisfaction and feedback survey were positive and the results are discussed in the context of the observation procedures and directions for future studies.

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Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University / The purpose of this study is to discover the needs of second grade children in a town which is suburban, residential and near a metropolitan area. The analysis of the needs will be made in reference to the basal reader. Children coming to the second grade bring a wide variety of experiences. The home, the community, the first grade, and in some cases, the nursery school and the kindergarten have provided experiences for the child. At the second grade level, I many children are doing independent reading which they have never been able to do before. Some children come from homes where they have had opportunity for innumerable experiences, others from environments where experiences have been limited. If a teacher knows a child's specific strengths and weaknesses, she can direct his work in the light of his ability as well as his experiential background, and thus build up his feeling of security and success. Therefore, this study is an attempt to discover the experience background of 208 children in the second grade through vocabulary using a diagnostic picture test for the New York Play Books Second Reader, We Grow Up, published by the Macmillan Company, 1939.

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Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University / This thesis has been developed to help set up criteria to evaluate the writLen language area of an elementary school. The criteria consist of specific statements indicating desirable conditions and procedures in the written language area of the elementary school program. Such statements should furnish a means for teachers to examine and evaluate the effectiveness of their own work.

The study is centered on the current ineffectiveness of career development planning within MTN SA.