A Study of Industrial Education Graduates and Non-Graduates of Texas Southern University with Implications for Curriculum Revision (open access)

A Study of Industrial Education Graduates and Non-Graduates of Texas Southern University with Implications for Curriculum Revision

The problem was a study of the School of Technology graduates and non-graduates of Texas Southern University with implications for curriculum revision.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Robinson, Clarence L. (Clarence Leslie), 1937-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of the Regional Education Service Centers on the Public School Superintendency in Texas (open access)

The Impact of the Regional Education Service Centers on the Public School Superintendency in Texas

The problem of this study was to determine the impact of the Regional Education Service Centers on the public school superintendency in Texas and the desired future development of the centers.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Watson, Forrest E., 1935-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of the Texas Cooperative Student Teaching Program, 1970-72 (open access)

The Impact of the Texas Cooperative Student Teaching Program, 1970-72

The problem of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of the cooperative agreement section of Senate Bill 8 and its impact on the student teaching program in Texas. The purposes of the study are (1) to analyze the data available from the Texas Education Agency concerning the cooperatively developed in-service improvement program for supervising teachers, (2) to survey the public school personnel charged with the responsibility of developing and implementing section three of Senate Bill 8 in order to determine the effectiveness of this bill, and (3) to interview college personnel who are involved in developing and implementing section three of Senate Bill 8.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Greer, Charles David
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Attitudes Held by Superintendents and Principals toward Career Education in Texas (open access)

A Study of Attitudes Held by Superintendents and Principals toward Career Education in Texas

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is to identify attitudes held by superintendents and principals in Texas public schools toward career education. Particular attention is given to the nature of career education and the development of career education from the management structure point of view. The emphasis of this study is determining what would be desirable in the planning and establishing of new directions and structures for career education in Texas public schools.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Harrison, Denist (Denist Dewain), 1944-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of the Principal in Open Plan Elementary Schools in Texas as Perceived by the Principals of theses Schools (open access)

The Role of the Principal in Open Plan Elementary Schools in Texas as Perceived by the Principals of theses Schools

The problem of this study was to analyze the role of the principal in open plan elementary schools in Texas. The analysis was limited to the principals' perception of their role in these schools.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Wakeland, Justin
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Development of a Rating Scale for Use by Texas School Board Members to Evaluate a Superintendent's Performance (open access)

The Development of a Rating Scale for Use by Texas School Board Members to Evaluate a Superintendent's Performance

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of developing a scale for rating a public school superintendent in Texas in terms of his adherence to selected characteristics of administrative leadership. A secondary problem is to verify the hypothesis that very few schools in Texas, if any, use a rating scale to evaluate the performance of the superintendent. The purpose of this study will be to identify a set of administrative leadership characteristics which are accepted by members of Boards of Trustees, professors of educational leadership, and superintendents.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Craighead, Carl H., 1934-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Most Important Educational Problems Affecting the Growth of Elementary Schools of Texas, 1972 (open access)

The Most Important Educational Problems Affecting the Growth of Elementary Schools of Texas, 1972

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is the identification of conditions, situations, and events that are important problems faced in the public elementary schools of Texas. Problems are categorized into sixteen areas: finance, desegregation and busing, school organization, school personnel, preschool and kindergarten, instructional improvement, reporting systems, pupil behavior, curriculum, in-service staff training, humanizing the schools, public relations, minority groups, migrant children, special education, and recent trends. The purpose of the study is to determine perceived importance of problems and to establish priorities of current issues from information obtained from education leaders of elementary schools.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Nicholson, Sara Carolyn, 1922-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of an Achievement Motivation Program on the Self-Concepts of Selected Ninth-Grade Students Representing Three Ethnic Groups (open access)

The Effects of an Achievement Motivation Program on the Self-Concepts of Selected Ninth-Grade Students Representing Three Ethnic Groups

The problem with which this investigation was concerned was that of determining the effects that an achievement motivation program had on changing the self-concepts and academic achievement among ninth-grade students in a triethnically mixed junior high school. The subjects for this study were ninth-grade students from a large southwestern city. The experimental program was conducted in a junior high school composed of Anglo, Mexican-American, and Negro students of approximately 30 per cent, 40 per cent, and 30 per cent ratios, respectively. The comparison school was an adjoining area with approximately the same ethnic mixture. In measuring changes in self-concept, the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale was used. Teacher-assigned grades converted to numerical equivalents were used in measuring changes in academic achievement. All hypotheses were tested at the .05 level of confidence by using two by three analysis of covariance. All data were entered on computer cards, using computer services of North Texas State University.
Date: December 1972
Creator: Allen, John G., 1925-
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Economic Understanding and Values of High School Seniors in a Large Metropolitan School District (open access)

An Analysis of Economic Understanding and Values of High School Seniors in a Large Metropolitan School District

The problem of this study was to analyze the economic understanding and values of high school seniors in a large metropolitan school district. To attack the problem, three purposes were formulated. The first purpose was to determine if students enrolled in a one-semester, elective course in economics differed significantly in terms of economic understanding from students enrolled in a comparable non-economic social studies course. Another purpose was to determine if an already existing value orientation had some effect on a change in economic understanding. The final purpose was to see if a change in a particular value orientation was related to a change in economic understanding.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Holland ,Thomas C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relative Effectiveness of Two Methodologies in the Development of Composition Skills in College Freshman English (open access)

The Relative Effectiveness of Two Methodologies in the Development of Composition Skills in College Freshman English

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of determining the relative effectiveness of the Christensen Rhetoric Program and of a traditional write-revise approach in freshman English composition classes.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Hazen, Carl Leon
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Arnspiger Value-Oriented Rationale and General Education for Student Self-Understanding and Continuous Self-Development (open access)

The Arnspiger Value-Oriented Rationale and General Education for Student Self-Understanding and Continuous Self-Development

The problem of this study was to describe a conceptual design for general education with interdisciplinary qualities leading to student self-understanding and continuous self-development. This study emerged out of the need to gain some insight into the causes of decline and/or abandonment of general education programs during periods of social disorganization, and to determine whether a relationship.exists between mounting social problems and the more intense kinds of problems experienced by college-age youth during these periods.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Preas, Mary Elizabeth Foster
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of a Structured Mathematics Program with Culturally Deprived Kindergarten Children (open access)

The Effectiveness of a Structured Mathematics Program with Culturally Deprived Kindergarten Children

This study is limited to the mathematics performance of two intact groups of culturally deprived kindergarten students, mostly blacks, with a few whites and Mexican-Americans, who were enrolled at Robert E. Lee Elementary School (Denton, Texas) for the entire school year of 1970-1971. The purposes of the study are to compare the effectiveness of two methods of teaching mathematics to culturally disadvantaged children and to check for interaction of treatments when these children are classified by sex.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Fairman, Billie Jack
System: The UNT Digital Library
Levels of Questioning Used by Student Teachers and its Effect on Pupil Achievement and Critical Thinking Ability (open access)

Levels of Questioning Used by Student Teachers and its Effect on Pupil Achievement and Critical Thinking Ability

The purposes of this study were: 1. To determine the effect of levels of questioning used on secondary public school students in social studies, as measured by (a) their achievement scores, and (b) their critical thinking ability; 2. To determine the effect of feedback to student teachers on their patterns of asking convergent and divergent questions, as measured by coding frequencies of each type on an Observation Schedule and Record form? 3. To draw conclusions from the findings--and develop implications concerning levels of questioning used by teachers and the use of feedback from college supervisors to student teachers.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Beseda, Charles Garrett, 1929-
System: The UNT Digital Library