Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-217). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, November, 2006. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, November, 2006. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.M.)--Bowling Green State University, 2007. / Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 36 p. Includes bibliographical references.

Dissertation (Ed.D.)--University of Toledo, 2009. / Typescript. "Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for The Doctor of Education Degree in Education Leadership and Supervision." Bibliography: leaves 106-121.

The purpose of the study was to analyze the objectives of the first grade program as they appeared in the different subjects in ten state courses of study, in order to find common agreements as to a desirable first grade program.

"First and foremost in the drama of education is the social scene in which it is enacted. The school is in the midst of all the elements of this scene--the soil and climate; the land, the streams, minerals and timber; the people, black and white; their homes, farms, factories, shops and roads; their work and plan; their houses and gardens; their food and clothing; their churches, amusements and folk-ways; their government; their problems of disease and crime; their poverty, their wealth; their vanishing natural resources; their economic uncertainty; their insecurity of position of place; their joys and sorrows; their children and anxieties for the future." Unless the school is viewed in its relationship to these factors in the social situation, no adequate conception of its task can be gained. The relative importance of the school as a directive agency amid such forces of the culture will depend upon the way in which education conceives its function, organizes and executes its program. Certainly the school cannot be indifferent to the world from which its pupils come each morning and to which they return each evening. Because the writer firmly believes in the preceding statements, it was considered essential to secure information regarding the social and economic conditions of the pupils in her first-grade group of the Chipley Elementary Public School so that an improved and enriched school program may be developed based upon the pupils' and the community's needs. / Typescript. / "July, 1949." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts under Plan II." / Advisor: R. L. Goulding, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 39-40).

School maladjustment incidence studies estimate that thirty percent of American school children experience school adaptation problems and that about ten percent need immediate clinical attention. (Glidewell, 1969) Various labels, including school maladjustment, school maladaptation, school dysfunction, soclo-emotional disorders and emotional disturbance have been used more or less interchangeably in current research to refer to this thirty percent of the school population. A leading researcher in the field, Emory L. Cowen, considers children to be "maladapted when they are unable, because of prior history and personal qualities or skill deficiencies, to cope with the educational or behavioral demands that the school environment places on them." (Cowen, 1971a) The development of accurate and economical procedures for the early identification of school maladaptation has become the goal of many mental health specialists and educators. Most often emphasis is placed on the need to make more efficient use of the limited mental health facilities available to the school systems. But in addition to case finding and treatment, Initial prevention of school maladaptatlon has been proposed as a long range goal for educational systems. As Cowen points out, the mental health approach requires that we move away from "near exclusive emphasis on repairing rooted dysfunction in favor of exploring programs designed to prevent disorder." (Cowen, 1973).

This investigation was concerned with the problem of determining the value of selected curiosity tests for predicting academic achievement in first and second-grades.

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