Posted at the digital library of the University of North Texas.
“A Comparison of Methods in Teaching Shorthand”, Master’s Thesis, by Gladys Pauline Bellows, 1949
The purpose of this problem is to make a comparative study of methods in teaching Gregg shorthand. The problem is to compare the methods of approach, procedures, and techniques used, and to determine what has been accomplished in the way of experiments which have been performed by the different writers.
Here is the page for the table of contents.
Introduction
The Statement of the Problem.
The purpose of this problem is to make a comparative study of methods in teaching Gregg shorthand. These methods were studies:
1. anniversary or manual
2. Frick’s analytical
3. Beers-Scott
4. Skene-Walsh-Lomax
5. Zinman-Strelsin-Weitz
6. Leslies’s functional
7. Barnhart’s direct assocication
8. Brewington-Soutter
9. Munkhoff
10. Odell-Rowe-Stuart
The problem is to compare the methods of approach procedures, and techniques used, and to determine what has been accomplished in the easy of experiments which have been performed by the different writers.
There is also statistical information on when and how often the thesis has been viewed.
This paper looks at those various approaches, which are summed up as direct or as manual, and how effective those approaches are.
Interesting to compare it with the findings of: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED094133.pdf
So fascinating! I wonder where these authors are today– to think there were once people interested enough to write theses about shorthand!
At Oregon State University, there are almost two dozen research papers on Gregg Shorthand.
Here is a master's thesis, which I am enjoying reading, from 1932, by Florence Theresa Scott on:
A study of the psychological laws used in the analytical method of teaching Gregg shorthand
Who knows how many theses and dissertations there are at the many universities?