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A Study of the Architectural Trends in Fort Worth, Texas
The purpose of this study was to determine the trends that are developing in the architecture of the civic, commercial, and religious buildings in Fort Worth, Texas. This will be shown by an analysis of what the author considers to be the best examples of buildings constructed in Fort Worth during the past ten years.
Date:
January 1964
Creator:
Curtsinger, J. Dallas.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Firo-B Scale with Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients
Concerning the present study, if in the test result of psychotic patients there is some distortion of reality concepts, as is generally expected, then their scores on any personality scale should vary considerably from norms established on the same test by "normal" subjects.
Date:
January 1961
Creator:
Ladd, Lawrence J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of a Masking Noise Upon the Performance of a Simple Motor Task Comparing Brain-Injured and Non-Brain-Injured Children
Two questions can be posed for study: 1) Will the effect of auditory masking provided by a clinical noise significantly affect the performance of hearing children on the Knox Cube Test? 2) Are there significant differences among brain-injured, mentally, retarded, and "normal" children in ability to adjust to auditory masking in the performance of the Knox Cube Test?
Date:
August 1967
Creator:
Moss, Barbara A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Success-Striving and Failure-Avoidant Aspiration Patterns of Institutionalized Mental Retardates
The design of this experiment was developed to investigate the presence of success-striving and failure-avoidant motivational patterns in the level of aspiration behavior of retarded subjects. The primary objective of this study is to show that success-strivers are present in mentally retarded groups, even if in the minority.
Date:
January 1968
Creator:
Middleton, Charles B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Verbal Reinforcement on the Behavior of Mild and Moderate Institutionalized Mentally Retarded Children
The present study is an effort to investigate some of the pertinent implications, principles, and postulates revealed by learning theorists, specifically McCandless, using mentally retarded children as subjects.
Date:
August 1969
Creator:
Wheat, Darryl G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Some Interrelationships between Self-acceptance, Acceptance of Others, Predicted Acceptability to Others, and Actual Acceptance by Others
The purpose of the present study is fourfold: (1) to investigate the predicted relationships between self-acceptance and acceptance of others, (2) to investigate self-acceptance, acceptance of others, and their interrelationship with acceptance by others, (3) to investigate the patterns of interrelationship between self-acceptance, acceptance of others, actual acceptability to others, and predicted acceptability to others, and (4) to investigate an hypothesized curvilinear relationship between self-acceptance and acceptance of others.
Date:
August 1963
Creator:
Pleune, John Russell
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Predictive Value of an English Achievement Test for Grades in Modern Foreign Languages
This study has as its objectives: (1) the determination of the degree of relationship between achievement in the study of English as measured by a standardized English achievement test and achievement in the study of foreign languages as measured by teacher's grades; (2) the determination of the amount of contribution to such a relationship of the achievement in various functional areas in the study of English as measured by the subtests of the English achievement test.
Date:
January 1964
Creator:
Barnard, William Kenneth
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Level of Aspiration and its Relationship to Other Personality Variables
Previous studies on correlations dealing with level of aspiration have been few and inconclusive. The problem of the present study was to examine the degree of relationship between an individual's level of aspiration and other personality variables as measured by standardized tests.
Date:
August 1964
Creator:
Newell, James Archie
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Relationships between Level of Aspiration and Psychological Needs at the College Level
The concept of level of aspiration bears directly on goal setting behavior; it is a convenient and important variable in understanding human motivation in a variety of situations. Thus it was the purpose of this study to investigate the relationships between levels of aspiration and the psychological needs of achievement, dominance, autonomy, change, and aggression.
Date:
January 1966
Creator:
Skelton, Sanford Kent
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Verbal Praise and Reproof on the Level of Aspiration of Institutionalized Mental Defectives
The study to be reported was designed to investigate the effects of verbal praise and reproof, from persons in authority, on the LOA and subsequent performance of institutionalized defectives.
Date:
January 1964
Creator:
Kelley, George L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Group Dimension Measurement in a Southern Baptist Church
The purpose of this study is to get some concrete evidence that group principles can be applied to church groups in an effective manner. The more immediate purpose is to improve the relations in the individual classes so that they will have a feeling of belongingness, relatedness, or close affiliation. It is the purpose of this experiment to help these individuals find the fulfillment of their personal needs that can be supplied in the Sunday School class.
Date:
January 1962
Creator:
Patterson, Nelton Duward
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of the Readiness and Achievement of First Grade Students in a Culturally Disadvantaged Area
It is the purpose of this study to compare the readiness and achievement of older and younger first grade students. Other purposes of the study involved a comparison of girls and boys in the first grade as to their readiness and achievement.
Date:
August 1963
Creator:
Lang, Harold Wendell
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Motivational Differences between High and Low Normal Groups
The need for a concise definition of the normal, healthy personality prompted a study of high normal and low normal students enrolled at North Texas State University. Such a definition would facilitate the activities of several areas of applied psychology--psychotherapy, quantification of objective means of rating the general health of an individual's personality, the development of criteria against which to measure the success of mental health clinic programs.
Date:
August 1964
Creator:
White, Patricia Carol
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Social Pressure and Sex Differences in a Level of Aspiration Experiment with Retardates
The present study was designed to investigate whether or not retardates' level of aspiration and subsequent performance are significantly affected by the presence and observation of a peer group.
Date:
August 1963
Creator:
Landrum, Jerry Lynn
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Delinquents and Nondelinquents Using the IES Test
Many of the causes for delinquency are known, but more investigation is needed in the prediction of future delinquent behavior. It was in this area of delinquency that this study was concerned. The problem was to compare scores made on the IES Test by a group of nondelinquent males with those made by a group of delinquent males to determine if the IES Test would discriminate between these two groups.
Date:
August 1964
Creator:
Mangold, Kenneth M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study on the Stability of Self-concept
There are two major purposes of this study. First, it will attempt to ascertain whether self-concept, as measured by a self-concept scale, will fluctuate significantly due to a recent ego inflating or deflating experience, and if so, how lasting and in what areas are the effects. Secondly, it will note whether or not the low self-concept individual is more susceptible to changes in self-concept due to these environmental changes than the high self-concept individual.
Date:
January 1964
Creator:
Collman, Robert Bernard
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Industrial Psychological Testing: A Review of the Controversy and a Comparison of Some Effective Testing Conditions with Some Stated Uses
The problem of this study is to interview some personnel managers that use psychological testing in personnel selection and compare their responses to the recommended use of effective testing as presented by some professional psychologists.
Date:
May 1964
Creator:
Jones, William Lewis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Effects of a Split Semester on Personal and Social Adjustment of Adolescents
The purpose of this study is to measure and compare the degree of personal and social adjustment which high school girls exhibited during a "split semester" and a "continuous semester."
Date:
August 1960
Creator:
Black, Verlin Harmon
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Senior High School Government Courses in the Public Schools of Texas
To provide a better understanding of civil government as taught in the public senior high schools of Texas, this study investigates the scope of subject matter now included in the course, the method of presentation of the students, and suggests possible improvement toward solution.
Date:
June 1962
Creator:
Holman, Dorothy Jane Riggs
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Concurrent Validity of the AC Test of Creative Ability in a College Situation
The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it is to obtain further evidence of the concurrent validity of the AC Test of Creative Ability. Further, and more specifically, it is concerned with the generalization of previously indicated validity of the AC Test to a college situation.
Date:
August 1963
Creator:
Baxter, Patricia James
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Relationships of Sociometric Inconsistencies with Negativism in a Child Care Institution
Since there has been an abundance of research concerning high and low social status and little on inconsistents, the present study intends to shed some understanding of this group by comparing their feelings and attitudes to the highs and lows. Four principle areas are emphasized: family relationships, attitude toward sex, interpersonal relationships and self concept, with sub-areas lending added data.
Date:
August 1962
Creator:
Hutton, Jerry B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Organization, Administration and Effectiveness of the Library Bookbindery at North Texas State University
"This is a study to determine the effectiveness of the organization, administration, and implementation of the bookbindery at North Texas State University Library..."--1.
Date:
January 1969
Creator:
Smith, Gene D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Knowledge and Skills Required of Draftsmen in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area
This study was designed to identify the knowledge and skills that draftsmen employed in the greater Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas metropolitan area should posses. This study was conducted to identify the following as related to draftsmen in the Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas area: What kind of education and experience is required to prospective draftsmen? What are the general duties of draftsmen? How much emphasis is placed upon knowledge of and skill in the use of drafting equipment? How important are the basic concepts and principles of drafting usually taught in drafting courses? What methods are used to reproduce drawings?
Date:
June 1968
Creator:
Craghead, Jane E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Identify Industrial Arts Skills and Understandings Needed by Graduates of Pampa High School Seeking Employment in Gray County, Texas
"The study sought to answer the following questions: 1. What skills and understandings may be acquired in industrial arts courses as described in Principles and Standards for Accrediting Elementary and Secondary Schools that might be helpful to youth seeking employment in the Pampa area? 2. What is the current industrial arts program in the Pampa Independent School district? 3. What skills and understandings receive the greatest emphasis in the Pampa industrial arts program? 4. What skills and understandings associated with industrial arts do Gray County employers recommend as being helpful in the performance of jobs for which terminal students might be considered? 5. What are the employment opportunities in Gray County for Pampa Independent School District terminal students?" --p. 4
Date:
August 1965
Creator:
Mackey, William K.
System:
The UNT Digital Library