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A Study of Pre-Adolescent Boys Demonstrating Varying Levels of Creativity with Regard to Their Social Adjustment, Peer Acceptance and Academically Related Behavior (open access)

A Study of Pre-Adolescent Boys Demonstrating Varying Levels of Creativity with Regard to Their Social Adjustment, Peer Acceptance and Academically Related Behavior

The present study investigated the social adjustment (deviance), peer acceptance and academically related ability of pre-adolescent creative boys in a unique homogeneous school setting. More specifically, the study attempted to deal with the following questions: 1. What types of social deviance are characteristic of children at varying levels of creativity? 2. Is creativity more evident in children demonstrating certain socially deviant characteristics? 3. How much social acceptance is there of children demonstrating varying levels of social deviance and varying levels of creative ability? 4. What relationships exist "between creativity and intellectual ability, academic achievement and social behavior?
Date: August 1964
Creator: Smith, Robert Houston
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Instrument for Rating and Selecting Successful Life Insurance Agents (open access)

An Instrument for Rating and Selecting Successful Life Insurance Agents

In this study an attempt was made to gain insight into the meaning of personality traits and how they can be arranged to build an instrument to be used for rating and selecting agents to sell life insurance.
Date: May 1964
Creator: Marchant, Zeke Bailey, 1918-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of a Perceptual-Motor Training Program on the Performance of Kindergarten Pupils on Metropolitan Readiness Tests (open access)

The Effects of a Perceptual-Motor Training Program on the Performance of Kindergarten Pupils on Metropolitan Readiness Tests

The problem of this study was to determine the effect of a modified form of Kephart's perceptual-motor training program on the performance of kindergarten pupils on Metropolitan Readiness Tests. This program was made up of certain perceptual-motor activities which were utilized during the regular school play periods.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Rutherford, William L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characteristics of a Negro College Environment and its Relationship to Student Value Systems (open access)

Characteristics of a Negro College Environment and its Relationship to Student Value Systems

The present study was undertaken to determine the relationships between characteristics of a Negro college environment and the value systems of its student body. The study also investigated relationships between a Negro college and non-Negro colleges based upon characteristics of the college environment and value systems of the college population.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Silverman, Pincus, 1921-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teacher Judgments as Related to Certain Predictors of Artistic Creativity in Senior High-School Students (open access)

Teacher Judgments as Related to Certain Predictors of Artistic Creativity in Senior High-School Students

The problem of this study was to ascertain the degree and kind of relation which might exist between a) certain measured indices of general creativity, ingenuity, and artistic judgment, and b) teacher judgments of artistic creativity within a senior high-school art population. One of the major purposes of this study was to identify a test or tests of creativity which might be used with senior high-school students to find those students with artistic potential who either should be counseled into art classes or for whom particular kinds of teaching procedures should be developed.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Alford, Mary Lee, 1912-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Personal and Social Characteristics of Normal American Preadolescents as Revealed in Research Completed since 1950 (open access)

The Personal and Social Characteristics of Normal American Preadolescents as Revealed in Research Completed since 1950

The problem of this study was twofold: first, to determine what personal and social characteristics of normal American preadolescent children are revealed in research studies completed since 1950; and, second, to integrate this research into a pattern from which implications could be drawn for use by persons who work with preadolescents.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Howard, Arthur Eugene, 1928-
System: The UNT Digital Library