Technical School Students Research Articles

Job Literacy: The Relationship between School Preparation and Workplace Actuality

THIS STUDY EXAMINED the literacy demands, competencies, and strategies present in the daily reading of students and workers in order to determine the extent to which literacy, as it is encountered in schools, is a preparation for various occupational literacy demands. Subjects included 48 high school juniors, 51 adult technical school students, and 150 workers representing a cross-section of occupations ranging from blue collar to professional/technical. Trained interviewers interviewed and tested subjects at their places of study or work to determine (a) the amount of daily reading; (b) its scope, depth, difficulty, and type; (c) the general and job literacy competence of each subject; and (d) the purposes, strategies, and alternatives to literacy employed by each subject. Results suggested that the students read less often in school than most workers do on the job, that they read less competently, face easier material which they read to less depth, and that the strategies students employ may be less effective than those employed by workers.

Construction Contract Study in Technical Education

Because of the importance of the contract as the medium serving the construction industry, the writer believes that students in professional and technical schools should be taught about the construction contract. Students about to enter the industry should study the contract much more thoroughly, particularly its formation and use as an implement of performance. It seems that, if the student is to be the future formulator and administrator of contracts, this is a subject of as much importance in his formal education as any other subject. In relation to the present day construction industry, it is probably of the greatest impotance. The subject of contract being so broad calls for honest evaluation by the technical educator both as to the extent of the study and also to its specialty. It is suggested here that the study of the construction contract be based on the elemental theory of contract. Extensions of the theory to practical application should become a major field of study within the technical curricula.

Catecholamines and Depression: A Physiological Theory of Depression

MS. KICEY is a graduate of the Lancaster General Hospital School of Nursing, Lancaster, Pa., and received her B.A. in psychology from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster. Her special interest is in physiological psychology. She is an instructor and supervisor of practical nursing students in Lancaster vocational technical schools and is working on her master's in psychology at Villanova University. NE in the brain. This theory of depression had its origin in the Olds and Milner discovery that electrical stimulation of areas in the brain of animals and man can serve as sources of reward(1). Stein has proposed an explanation of how the reward centers and

A study of job expectations and preferences of form III students in victorian technical schools

(1950). A study of job expectations and preferences of form III students in victorian technical schools. Australian Journal of Psychology: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 80-89.

French Magazines for Students in Technical, Vocational or Scientific High Schools

Author's Summary— A list of special‐interest magazines in French for high school students, with comments.)

French Magazines for Students in Technical, Vocational or Scientific High Schools

French Magazines for Students in Technical, Vocational or Scientific High Schools

A. N. Velikoretsky. Introduction to the Care of Surgical Patients and the Doctrine of Bandages. 1928. 174 pp. with 188 figures in text. Price: 1 r. 65 k.

The book was written for students of medical technical schools. It consists of two, almost equal in volume, parts: the first deals with the care of surgical patients, the second is devoted to desmurgy. The second part is weaker than the first. It gives the impression of a compilation in which there is little personal criticism of the author.

Text-book of Cellulose Chemistry: for Students in Technical Schools and Universities as well as for Cellulose Experts

Text-book of Cellulose Chemistry: for Students in Technical Schools and Universities as well as for Cellulose Experts

Textile Chemistry: an Introduction to the Chemistry of the Cotton Industry

MR. COOPER'S book covers a good deal of ground in a brief but clear fashion. It reads more like a note-book than a text-book, but is obviously the work of a number of years of teaching, and should be useful to students in technical schools, for whom it is intended. Besides the elementary chemistry which serves as an introduction, the author discusses its applications to the textile industry, and among other things the natural fibres, the chemistry of coal, oils, industrial waters, sizes, bleaching, dyeing, and mercerising. Those engaged in teaching the subject will find the book useful and helpful. There are a few minor inaccuracies: a “base” need not contain a metal (p. 66); nitric oxide is not absorbed by sulphuric acid (p. 69). The descriptions of experiments are not always adequate, and some of them (as that shown in fig. 119) can scarcely have been tried successfully.

A Text-book of Quantitative Chemical Analysis

THE first edition of this book was published in 1913, and the appearance of the fourth edition less than ten years later shows that it has been found in practice a most useful guide to students. The present volume should provide a sound course of quantitative analysis for students in universities and technical schools. It is very practical, and gives many hints to students which will save the time of teachers. The reduction method with Devarda's alloy might have been given for the estimation of nitrates, instead of the one with reduced iron, which is less satisfactory. In the description of the Lunge nitrometer no mention is made of the important correction for the solubility of nitric oxide in the acid. The directions for the preparation of cupferron reagent on p. 410 will be found useful, as the price charged for this substance is almost prohibitive.

Laboratory Exercises in Applied Chemistry for Students in Technical Schools and Universities

THE long title of this book is somewhat misleading; “Technical Chemical Analysis” would have been much more appropriate. The explanations of industrial processes which are interspersed are clear and concise, but some of the methods differ from those in common use in this country. No mention is made of the important ammonia oxidation process in describing the fixation of nitrogen. The exercises cover a, wide field, including water, fuels, alkali industry, fertilisers, metals and ores, oils, fats and waxes, soap, glycerin, and lubricants. The translation appears to have been carefully done, and the book may be recommended to senior students who intend to follow industrial chemistry.

Oils, Fats, and Fuels

A VERY elementary account of the subject suitable for students in technical schools and classes will be found in this book. The chemistry of the materials and processes are not dealt with, formulae and equations being purposely omitted. There is no index. On p. 128 the composition of “modern coal gas” is given as containing only 8 per cent, of carbon monoxide and 3-5 of “oxygen, nitrogen, etc.” This must refer to genuine coal gas and not to the “modern ” variety. No mention of fat hardening is made.

A Text-book of Geology

GEOLOGY, being such a many-sided science, is especially handicapped in regard to textbooks. It is provided with a library of books dealing with its various subdivisions and aspects, but the provision of an up-to-date manual which deals with the whole range of the subject in about a thousand pages, and of the standard required by students in higher technical schools and by those taking geology as a secondary subject in universities, is a perennial difficulty. Specialisation in geology has gone so far that it is becoming impossible for any one author to deal with the whole science in the detail required in such a work. The new text-book of geology by Profs. Pirsson and Schuchert, with chapters by Profs. Barrell and Lull and Dr. Ulrich, show the effort to overcome this difficulty by joint authorship. That method has its own drawbacks, for it is very difficult thus to secure that unity of view and uniformity of standard which are indispensable in an educational text-book. A Text-book of Geology. By Prof. L. V. Pirsson Prof. C. Schuchert. Part i., Physical Geology. By Prof. L. V. Pirsson. Pp. vii + 444. Price 10s. net. Part ii., Historical Geology. By Prof. C. Schuchert. Pp. vi + 405-1026. Price 12s. net. (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1915.)

The Geometry of the Screw Propeller

THIS is a small book presenting “a simple exposition of the geometrical principles connected with the screw propeller, and illustrating the various ways in which these may be applied to obtain a correct delineation of the propeller on paper, in the drawing office, and in the foundry.” It is intended principally for the use of engineering students in technical schools, but is likely to prove useful in other directions, since it contains a clear and admirably illustrated account of the geometry of screw propellers.

Songs of All the Colleges, Including Many New Songs.

Comment is often made on the fact that there is less college spirit among students in technical and professional schools than among those in colleges of liberal arts. This no doubt helps to cause the lack of<i>esprit de corps</i>among the profession. College spirit will be a stimulant to united action by the profession, and one of the great incentives to college spirit is college song. We commend this book to our many student readers and to the members of alumni associations. It is well gotten up and the songs are well selected to represent the whole college world.

Practical Mechanics: an Elementary Manual for the Use of Students in Science and Technical Schools and Classes

THIS book is really a handbook for students who make those quantitative experiments in a mechanical laboratory which are now part of the Applied Mechanics Course of the Science and Art Department. The laboratory system of teaching this subject has passed through all its trials, and has taken its rightful place, not merely in evening science schools, but in the engineering classes of the most pretentious technical institutions in every part of the world. It seems to us that this little book will prove to be a useful guide to teachers. A good teacher will arrange his own methods; he will probably design much of his own apparatus, and he will write out with his own hands the instructions to students using the apparatus, giving up this most important part of his work to no lieutenant, however clever and ingenious. He will, in fact, arrange his apparatus to suit his students and the character of the rest of his teaching. Even he, however, must welcome a description of the apparatus and its uses which have suggested themselves to such an experienced teacher as Mr. Wells. Practical Mechanics: an Elementary Manual for the Use of Students in Science and Technical Schools and Classes. By Sidney H. Wells Pp. xii + 220. (London: Methuen and Co., 1898.)

Engineer Draughtsmen's Work

STUDENTS in technical schools will find in this book a number of valuable hints on the use of mathematical instruments and the work of drawing-offices. The information is very elementary, but its character is such that it will train young draughtsmen to be accurate and methodical in their work.