The Use of Selected Aptitude Test Scores for Predicting Achievement in Modern Foreign Languages at North Texas State University (open access)

The Use of Selected Aptitude Test Scores for Predicting Achievement in Modern Foreign Languages at North Texas State University

The problem of this study was to determine the value of certain selected aptitude test scores for predicting student achievement in Spanish, French, and German at North Texas State University. Particular emphasis was placed on freshmen enrolled in beginning courses.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Akins, Dolores C.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A History of the Speech and Drama Department at North Texas State University as it Relates to General Trends in Speech Education, 1890-1971 (open access)

A History of the Speech and Drama Department at North Texas State University as it Relates to General Trends in Speech Education, 1890-1971

"The purpose of this study is to record an accurate account of this development at North Texas State University and to correlate it to general trends in speech education in the United States. The hypothesis for such a study is that historical comparisons may be beneficial to scholars as indicative of those methods that have met with the greatest success."--2.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Sandel, Mildred J.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The North Texan, Volume 22, Number 4, August 1971 (open access)

The North Texan, Volume 22, Number 4, August 1971

The North Texan includes articles and notes about North Texas State University students, faculty, and alumni activities.
Date: August 1971
Creator: North Texas State University
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Proposed Industrial Arts Program for Langston University (open access)

A Proposed Industrial Arts Program for Langston University

The problem of this study was the development of a proposal for an industrial arts program for Langston University. Particular emphasis was placed upon curriculum changes, faculty improvement, and modification of physical facilities.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Johnson, Raymond Carl
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationships Among Sociometric Status, Prognosis, and Selected Personality Variables of State Hospital Patients (open access)

Relationships Among Sociometric Status, Prognosis, and Selected Personality Variables of State Hospital Patients

This study was designed to investigate the possibility of relationships among sociometric status, prognosis, and selected personality variables of state hospital patients.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Morris, Marvin Leon
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Intensive Remotivation Techniques on Institutionalized Geriatric Mental Patients in a State Mental Hospital (open access)

The Effect of Intensive Remotivation Techniques on Institutionalized Geriatric Mental Patients in a State Mental Hospital

The problem with which this study is concerned is that of ascertaining the effects of intensive Remotivation Techniques on institutionalized geriatric mental patients in terms of their ward behavior, self-concept, and visual-motor perceptions and to compare these with the effects of a similar group experience that does not emphasize patient-staff or patient-patient interactions, and a third group which acts a a control. The investigation is designed to answer or obtain information concerning the following questions: (1) Do institutionalized geriatric mental patients in a state mental hospital manifest measurable changes in terms of their (A) ward behavior as defined as raw scores on the Hospital tment Scale (including interpersonal communication and interpersonal relations; self care and social responsibility; level of participation in ward activities, recreation and work therapy; total score), (B) self-concept as defined as Goodenough raw scores on the Draw-a-Person Test, and (C) awareness of environment as defined as Pascal and Suttell raw scores on the Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test, as a result of experiencing the social and verbal interactions of intensive Remotivation Techniques? (2) Is the Remotivation Technique more effective in producing these changes than a similar group experience that does not emphasize social and verbal interactions?
Date: August 1971
Creator: Bovey, John A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
State-local relations in the criminal justice system (open access)

State-local relations in the criminal justice system

The ACIR Library is composed of publications that study the interactions between different levels of government. This document addresses state-local relations in the criminal justice system.
Date: August 1971
Creator: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Status of Bilingual Education in Texas (open access)

The Status of Bilingual Education in Texas

The status of bilingual education in Texas has been examined in this paper in order to explore the nature of bilingual education and bilingual education programs, to ascertain whether the implementation of bilingual education programs has been successful in Texas, and to determine if there is sufficient justification for the continuation of such programs.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Hodge, Marie Gardner
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agrarian Reform and the Negro Farmer in Texas 1886-1896 (open access)

Agrarian Reform and the Negro Farmer in Texas 1886-1896

The history of the agrarian reform movement in Texas, its origin and its activities, reveals a minimal participation of the Negro. The relationship of the white farmer and the Negro in Texas with regard to agrarian reform demonstrates what they had in common and why the black did not choose to embrace agrarian reform.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Fine, Bernice R.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ground-Water Resources of Chambers and Jefferson Counties, Texas (open access)

Ground-Water Resources of Chambers and Jefferson Counties, Texas

Report on groundwater resources in Chambers and Jefferson Counties, Texas including current and potential sources of groundwater and water quality reports.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Wesselman, J. B. & Aronow, Saul
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Survey of All American History Textbooks Adopted for the Public High Schools of Texas from 1919 to 1970 (open access)

A Survey of All American History Textbooks Adopted for the Public High Schools of Texas from 1919 to 1970

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is the contextual changes which have occurred in American history textbooks adopted for use in the public high schools of the state of Texas from 1919 to 1970. The purpose of the study is to trace the development of high school American history textbooks by analyzing the following five areas: verbal aids, graphic aids, subject content, three areas of historiography, and the prefaces.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Durham, Kenneth Reuben
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The H-SU Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 1, Ed. 1, Friday, August 27, 1971 (open access)

The H-SU Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 1, Ed. 1, Friday, August 27, 1971

Weekly student newspaper from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date: August 27, 1971
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Bonham Herald (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 19, 1971 (open access)

The Bonham Herald (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 19, 1971

Weekly newspaper from Bonham, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 19, 1971
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 12, 1971 (open access)

The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 12, 1971

Weekly newspaper from Big Lake, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 12, 1971
Creator: Werst, J. L., Jr. & Werst, Mrs. J. L., Jr.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Descriptive Analysis of Selected Attitudes, Interests, and Personality Characteristics of Mature College Women (open access)

A Descriptive Analysis of Selected Attitudes, Interests, and Personality Characteristics of Mature College Women

The problem of this study was to describe, by use of a questionnaire and selected testing instruments, mature college women enrolled in undergraduate curricula at a state supported university in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. Factors of marital status, major fields of study, children, employment patterns age, part time and full time enrollment, family attitudes, regarding continuing education, and membership in ethnic groups were included in this study.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Page, Mary Jean
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Group Counseling Upon Selected Personality and Behavioral Variables in Delinquent Adolescents (open access)

The Effect of Group Counseling Upon Selected Personality and Behavioral Variables in Delinquent Adolescents

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of group counseling upon personality and behavior changes in delinquent girls confined in a state training school in Texas.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Williams, Mary Janet
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of a Contingency Management Approach in Teaching an Introductory Psychology Course (open access)

An Evaluation of a Contingency Management Approach in Teaching an Introductory Psychology Course

The problem of this study was to compare the effect of a contingency management approach with that of a lecture approach in an introductory psychology course.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Mount, George Ray
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Philosophy for Two-year Occupational Programs in Public Junior College Curricula (open access)

A Philosophy for Two-year Occupational Programs in Public Junior College Curricula

The problem of this study is the development of a philosophy for two-year occupational programs in public junior college business curricula.
Date: August 1971
Creator: McClung, William Sterling
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mexico in the United Nations (open access)

Mexico in the United Nations

The purpose of this investigation is to look at the international organization from the point of view of a small, non-military nation to discover if and how it may be useful to such a nation in carrying out its foreign policy objectives in a bi-polar, nuclear world.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Barron, Stephanie L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Two Instruments for Diagnosing Marital Difficulties (open access)

A Comparison of Two Instruments for Diagnosing Marital Difficulties

An attempt was made to further establish the validity of the Polyfactor Test of Marital Difficulties, a relatively new, yet potentially valuable sentence completion, self-rating marital difficulties test. . Another test, the Marital Adjustment Inventory was also used for comparison purposes.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Williams, Cynthia A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Analysis of Social Alienation in Upper Elementary Student's Receiving Reading Instruction in Five Types of Environmental Settings (open access)

A Comparative Analysis of Social Alienation in Upper Elementary Student's Receiving Reading Instruction in Five Types of Environmental Settings

The problem of this study was to compare the social alienation of upper elementary students receiving reading instruction in five types of environmental settings.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Robinson, Frances Olvis
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Nature and Extent of the Guidance and Counseling Function of Industrial Arts Teachers (open access)

A Study of the Nature and Extent of the Guidance and Counseling Function of Industrial Arts Teachers

This study was conducted to find the nature and extent of the guidance and counseling function of selected Texas public school industrial arts teachers, the methods and procedures employed by those teachers in the guidance function, and the opinions of counselors concerning guidance that is being carried out in industrial arts programs.
Date: August 1971
Creator: McLaren, Robert R.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Attitudes Toward Individualization of Instruction and Beliefs Concerning Experimentalism Before and After Elementary Student Teaching (open access)

A Study of Attitudes Toward Individualization of Instruction and Beliefs Concerning Experimentalism Before and After Elementary Student Teaching

The problem of this study was to determine what changes, if any, take place in student teachers' attitudes toward individualization of instruction and any changes in their philosophical beliefs concerning Experimentalism, during, or as a result of the student teaching experience.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Harlan, William James
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of the Importance of Selected Characteristics of Elementary Teachers as Perceived by Student Teachers and Supervising Teachers (open access)

A Comparative Study of the Importance of Selected Characteristics of Elementary Teachers as Perceived by Student Teachers and Supervising Teachers

This research had three main purposes. The first was to determine some of the major characteristics of elementary teachers. Second was to see how student teachers and supervising teachers perceive the importance of certain characteristics of elementary teachers. The third was to discover what changes result in the perceptions of student teachers as to the importance of these characteristics after completing student teaching.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Wellington, Charles Edward
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library