Mooney, Ross L. "Exploratory Research on Students' Problems." Journal of Educational Research (a forthcoming issue). Briefly describes the check list, outlines in major uses, and lists fourteen basic research problems which are opened for investigation.
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" Discovering Problems of Students in War Time," published under this or similar title in the following journals: Journal of the Florida Educational Association, XX (1943 ), 8-9, 20; Mississippi Educational Advance, XXXIV (1943), 104-105;
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North Dakota Teacher, XXII (1943 ), 7-9; Montana Education, XIX ( 1943), 4, 15, 16; Ohio Schools, XXI (1943), 9, 41 (excerpt); Texas Outlook, XXVII (1943), 31-32. Briefly describes the check list, tells of its major uses, and points out its value in war-time for keeping abreast of the students' increasing personal problems caused by developing war conditions.
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Mooney, Ross L.Problem Check List, College Form. Columbus, Ohio : Bureau of Educational Research, Ohio State University , 1941. Pp. 6. To be used with college students; contains 330 items, thirty in each of eleven areas.
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—. Manual to Accompany the Problem Check List, College Form. Columbus, Ohio: Bureau of Educational Research, Ohio State University, 1942. Pp. iv-101 (mimeographed).
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Experimental edition; Part I treats background, development, and underlying assumptions; Part II outlines procedures for ten major uses of the check list; Part III, fifty-five pages, reports on results to date.
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—. "Personal Problems of Freshman Girls." Journal of Higher Education, XIV (1943), 84-90. Reports a survey of 171 Freshman girls living in dormitories; illustrates kind of results obtained; shows implications for the organization of a personnel program in the dormitories.
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C. High School Form Mooney, Ross L.Problem Check List, High School Form . Columbus, Ohio: Bureau of Education Research, Ohio State University, 1941. Pp. 6. To be used with high-school students, grades nine through twelve; contains 330 items, thirty in each of eleven areas. . Manual to Accompany the Problem Check List, High School Form. Columbus, Ohio: Bureau of Educational Research, Ohio State University , 1943. Pp. vi-95 (mimeographed). Experimental edition; Part I treats background, development, and underlying assumptions; Part II outlines procedures for nine major uses of the check list; Part III, fifty-five pages, reports on results to date. "Surveying High-School Students' Problems by Means of a Problem Check List." Educational Research Bulletin , XXI (1942), 57-69. Reports a survey of 603 students in a high school in North Carolina; illustrates the kind of results obtained and some of the uses to which the data can be put in counseling and curriculum building. Mooney, Ross L. and Hickman , Mildred M. "War Comes to Our Door." Clearing House (a forthcoming issue). Quotes from the writing of 275 Seniors in a large city high school, who, after filling out the check list, wrote about personal problems which had been created by the war.
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Combs, Arthur W. "The Problems of High-School Students in a Typical American Community; A Survey of Major Problems, Trends, and Sex Differences." Masters Thesis, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio: 1941. Pp. 136, manuscript. Provides data on Alliance, Ohio, as a typical community; describes the development of a preliminary check list; includes findings on 1565 cases drawn from grades nine through twelve; discusses findings in terms of the fifty leading items, the twenty-five trailing items, trends in the responses of the four classes, and sex differences; introduces new categories and interprets area and item findings in mental hygiene terms.
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Cowan, Vernon D. "Identifying Pupil Needs, Concerns and Problems as a Basis for Curriculum Revision in Stephens-Lee High School, Asheville, North Carolina." Masters Thesis, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio: 1942. Pp. 53-81, 98-152. Approaches the problem of curriculum revision from a study of educational principles, sociological conditions in Asheville, and results on the problem check list given to 603 students in the high school; Chapter V reports on the check list results by areas and individual items for sex groups, class groups (grades 8, 9, 10, and 11), and sex groups within classes; Appendix A gives full detail of the findings, including a study by age groups.
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Jameson, Augusta. "The High-School Student Speaks." Pp. 82-120, Chapter X, Section 6, Louisiana Educational Survey. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: 1942 (mimeographed). Part of the mental hygiene section of the Louisiana Educational Survey ; reports results by items on 425 eleventh-graders in schools from five selected communities as a sampling of the state; included quotations from students; suggests some of the mental hygiene implications.
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D. Junior High School Form Mooney, Ross L.Problem Check List, Junior High School Form. Columbus, Ohio: Bureau of Educational Research, Ohio State University, 1942. Pp. 6.
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To be used with junior-high-school students, grades seven through nine; contains 210 items, thirty in each of seven areas.
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Arnold, Dwight L. and Mooney, Ross L. "A Students' Problem Check List for Junior High School." Educational Research Bulletin, XXII ( 1943), 42-48.
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Describes the development of a preliminary form of the check list for use at the junior-high-school level; illustrates the kind of results obtained on 286 students in grades seven, eight, and nine from three junior high schools; points out uses and values.
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Outland, Richard W. "Worry—A Common Problem of Elementary School Children." Masters Thesis, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio: 1942. Pp. 127 (manuscript).
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Reports an experiment with an adaptation of the junior-high-school check list for use with grades five and six; the form contains 124 items, arranged m eight categories; includes area and item results on 650 students in grades five and six from three communities; discusses findings by items and derives implications for school practice.
