Educational Research on Problems of the Primary School 1950–56

Oeser O. A. Emery F. E. Social Structure and Personality in a Rural Community. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1954, 279 pp.

Oeser O.A. Hammond S. B. Social Structure and Personality in a City. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1954, 343 pp.

Keats J. A. A Statistical Theory of Objective Test Scores. Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research, 1951, 48 pp.

Dunn S. S. Teachers' College Testing Project—Interim Report No. 2. Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research, 1957, mimeo.

For a brief summary, see: English and Arithmetic for the Australian Child. Melbourne: Australian Council or Educational Research, 1951, 36 pp.

Courses of Study—Arithmetic—1953. Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research, 1953, 25 pp., mimeo.

The Early Years. Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research, 1957, 16 pp.

See, for example, Educational Guidance Services in State Departments of Education. Sydney: Commonwealth Office of Education. Bulletin No. 14, Revised Edition, 1953, 22 pp., mimeo.

Spongberg V. “The Teaching of Social Studies in New South Wales Public Primary Schools” Wylie, J. “The Teaching of Social Studies”. Theses submitted to the University of Sydney, Department of Education.

Hardie C. D. (Ed.). Science in Australian Primary Schools. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1957, 87 pp.

As reported in various numbers of: Educational Research being undertaken in Australia. 1951–56, Sydney, Commonwealth Office of Education.

Educational Research being undertaken in Australia 1956, pp. 12–13, 52, 58.

Educational Research being undertaken in Australia 1955, p. 5.

Harris T. Y. The Teaching of Nature Study. Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research, 1954, 100 pp.

“Discipline Survey”. Education, Vol. 37, No. 2, February, 1956, pp. 1–2.

See, for example, “Survey of Sizes of classes and temporary accommodation”. Victorian Teachers' Journal, Vol. 39, No. 4, May, 1956, p. 98.

Abstract provided to A.C.E.R.

Educational Research being undertaken in Australia, 1955, p. 52.

Department of Public Instruction, Queensland. Research Findings in Spelling. Bulletin No. 6, 1952, 13 pp. mimeo.

Mathews R. T. “The Teaching of Spelling”. South Australian Teachers' Journal, Vol. 5, No. 10, Nov., 1955, pp. 26–28.

Walker A. P. “Experiment in Pre-Testing of Spelling”. Education (Education Department, Western Australia), Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1953, pp. 44–9.

Kearns A. R. “Spelling Experiment”. The Forum of Education (Teachers' College, Sydney), Vol. 13, No. 1, July, 1954, pp. 17–20.

Moir Mary F. “Incidence of Speech Defect in West Australian Schools”. The Educand, Vol. 1, No. 1, Nov., 1950, pp. 44–8.

See, for example, Pond L. “An Analysis of three Basic Reading Series”. Education (Western Australia), Vol. 3, No. 2, Nov., 1954, pp. 13–18.

The Functional Classification of Child Speech. Australian Council for Educational Research. Information Bulletin No. 30, June, 1953, 18 pp. mimeo.

Socio-Economic Status and English Expression. Australian Council for Educational Research. Information Bulletin No. 33, Dec., 1954, 14 pp. mimeo.

Wyeth E. R. “A Study of Handwriting”. South Australian Teachers' Journal. Vol. 36, No. 10, Nov., 1950, pp. 6–7.

Yandell L. Abstract of thesis “The Teaching of English Grammar”, submitted to University of Melbourne.

Department of Public Instruction, Queensland. An Investigation of Methods of Teaching Reading in Infant Schools. Bulletin No. 9, 1955, 45 pp., mimeo.

Department of Public Instruction, Queensland. Research Findings in Reading. Bulletin No. 10, 1956, 10 pp. mimeo.

Rayson J. H. “The Reading Habits of South Australian Primary School Children and the Place of the School Library”. South Australian Teachers' Journal, Vol. 36, No. 2, March, 1950, pp. 18–22.

Traeger K. T. Abstract of thesis “The Reading Interests and Habits of Grade 7 children in the Upper Murray District of South Australia”, submitted to University of Melbourne, Faculty of Education.

Educational Research being Undertaken in Australia, 1953, p. 3.

Lyle J. “Some Psychological Factors in Reading Retardation”. Australian Journal of Psychology, Vol. 6, No. 2, December, 1954, pp. 191–5.

Department of Public Instruction, Queensland. Research Findings in Arithmetic. Bulletin No. 7, 1953, 10 p., mimeo.

Department of Public Instruction, Queensland. Research Findings on some Fundamental Facts and Processes in Arithmetic. Bulletin No. 3, 1951, 18 pp. mimeo.

Homes E. N. “Automatic Number Responses”. Educational Magazine, (Education Department, Victoria), September, 1953, pp. 370–3.

Cawte F. “An Experiment in Basic Number Work”. Forum of Education, Vol. 6, No. 3, November, 1950, pp. 56–9, and Vol. 7, No. 1, April, 1951, pp. 1–4.

Nay N. R. “Distribution of Learning Time in Arithmetic”. Australian Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 8, August-November, 1952, pp. 31–4.

The Educational Potentialities of Cerebral Palsied Children. (Commonwealth Office of Education). Research Reports Nos. 5 and 9, July, 1950, and November, 1952. The Use of the Nebraska Test of Learning Aptitude in Australia. Research Report No. 7, August, 1951.

Department of Public Instruction, Queensland. Summary of Test Research. Bulletin No. 12, 1956, 22 pp. mimeo.

Educational Research being Undertaken in Australia, 1956, pp. 55–6.

Brown M. S. Alleyne F. Occupational Prospects of Educable Sub-Normals. The Slow-Learning Child, Vol. 3, No. 3, March, 1957, pp. 133–144.

Schonell F. Eleanor . Educating Spastic Children, London. Oliver and Boyd, 1956.

Hall J. A. Abstract of thesis “Reading Comprehension and the Slow Learning Child”, submitted to the University of Melbourne.

Educational Research being Undertaken in Australia, 1955, p. 44.

Smart A. J. “Self Delusion through the Use of Films”. Visual Aids Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, April, 1949, p. 26.

Brown R. D. “Comparison of Relative Effectiveness of Black and White and Colour in Instructional Films”. Visual Aids Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, January, 1949, p. 5.

Queensland Institute for Educational Research. An Experimental Investigation of Method in School Broadcasting, October–November, 1955, 5 pp., mimeo.

McLellan R. P. Abstract of thesis “Broadcasts to Schools in Victoria. The Special Problems of the Rural School”, submitted to the University of Melbourne.