The Current Status of High School Mathematics Programs in North Central Texas as Related to Selected Factors (open access)

The Current Status of High School Mathematics Programs in North Central Texas as Related to Selected Factors

The problem of this study was to investigate and compare the current status of mathematics programs in large, medium, and small high schools in North Central Texas in relation to selected factors.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Miller, Edward J. (Edward Jeremiah)
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Texas State Teacher's Association in Meeting the Welfare Needs of Public School Teachers in the Areas of Tenure and Retirement (open access)

An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Texas State Teacher's Association in Meeting the Welfare Needs of Public School Teachers in the Areas of Tenure and Retirement

The primary purpose of this study is to review the actions of the Texas State Teacher's Association as an organization in support of the needs of Texas teachers for adequate tenure and retirement, and to evaluate their effectiveness in securing these needs.
Date: August 1970
Creator: Harvey, Rowland C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Effectiveness of Four Instructional Techniques of Teaching ARC Welding at the University Level (open access)

A Study of the Effectiveness of Four Instructional Techniques of Teaching ARC Welding at the University Level

The problem was to study the effectiveness of four instructional techniques of teaching arc welding at the university level.
Date: January 1970
Creator: Chrisman, Joseph P., 1934-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Occupation and Administration of Texas, 1865-1870 (open access)

Federal Occupation and Administration of Texas, 1865-1870

The scope of this study is limited to Federal military occupation during the five years from 1865 to 1870. Only the interior counties, where a dense Negro population required the exercise of political and social responsibilities, will be considered in detail. A line from Wise through Bosque, Travis, Wilson, Karnes, and Goliad Counties to the coastal town of Corpus Christi would roughly separate interior from frontier posts.
Date: August 1970
Creator: Shook, Robert W. (Robert Walter)
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Industrial Arts Woodworking Housing and Equipment Facilities in Texas (open access)

A Study of Industrial Arts Woodworking Housing and Equipment Facilities in Texas

This is a study comparing the existing industrial arts housing and equipment facilities in the state of Texas with: first, housing standards within ad tentative Texas Education Agency publication entitled A Guide for Planning Industrial Arts Facilities; and second, apparent equipment needs for implementing the programs described in Texas Education Agency Bulletin 615, Principles and Standards for Accrediting Elementary and Secondary Schools and Description of Approved Courses Grades 7-12.
Date: August 1970
Creator: Mabry, Steve N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of an Education Service Center Curriculum Study on Teacher Participant Attitudes (open access)

The Effects of an Education Service Center Curriculum Study on Teacher Participant Attitudes

The purposes of this study were threefold: (1) to test the assumption that a curriculum study produces change in a school faculty in conservatism-radicalism, in anxiety, in leadership behavior, and in attitude toward the curriculum study; (2) to investigate the relationships between effects of a curriculum study on conservatism-radicalism, anxiety, leadership behavior, attitude toward the curriculum study and age, sex, and years of teaching experience of the teachers; and (3) to create a model from which replications can be made by Texas Education Service Centers.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Ivey, Ellis
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tutoring as a Way of Aiding the Underachiever (open access)

Tutoring as a Way of Aiding the Underachiever

The study called for the identification of a group of underachievers at the eleventh and tenth grade levels.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Read, Betty M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mobil Oil Corporation : Evolution of Its Corporate Identity (open access)

Mobil Oil Corporation : Evolution of Its Corporate Identity

The purpose of this thesis is to explain this evolution of Mobil's corporate identity, and to determine the effect of the 1911 dissolution decree on it.
Date: August 1970
Creator: Robnett, Fenton Wayne
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Influence of the Instructor's Written Comments upon Student Test Performance in the College Classroom (open access)

The Influence of the Instructor's Written Comments upon Student Test Performance in the College Classroom

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of determining the influence of instructors' written comments on the test performances of students in selected college subjects. The students were from one university and one junior college. The written comments were designed to be positive in nature and to encourage better future test performances by students. The comments were made in regard to the letter grades received by the students and were placed only on major (as defined by each instructor) objective tests.
Date: December 1970
Creator: Mapel, Seldon Barclay
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use of a Sentence Completion Survey as a Prognistic Indicator of Response to Marriage Counseling (open access)

The Use of a Sentence Completion Survey as a Prognistic Indicator of Response to Marriage Counseling

The purpose of the present study was to explore the usefulness of an objectively scored self-rating sentence completion test in the development of objective prognostic statements regarding marital counseling.
Date: May 1970
Creator: Huwieler, Robert W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southern Protestantism in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor (open access)

Southern Protestantism in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor

The main body of the thesis concerns itself with the beliefs and characteristics of Southern Protestantism as they appear in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor.
Date: January 1970
Creator: Matchette, William Arthur
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Two Approaches to Teaching Engineering Drafting (open access)

A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Two Approaches to Teaching Engineering Drafting

The problem of the study was a comparison of the relative effectiveness of two approaches to the teaching of engineering drafting.
Date: August 1970
Creator: Walker, Joe Wayne
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of the Note-test System of Teaching Basic College Chemistry on Student Achievement, Attitude, and Critical Thinking Ability (open access)

The Effect of the Note-test System of Teaching Basic College Chemistry on Student Achievement, Attitude, and Critical Thinking Ability

The problem of this study was to determine the relative effectiveness of the note-test system and the traditional lecture system of teaching basic college chemistry.
Date: December 1970
Creator: Collier, Donald Davis
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Results of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities and Certain Other Tests Used in Evaluating Children with Learning Disabilities (open access)

A Comparison of Results of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities and Certain Other Tests Used in Evaluating Children with Learning Disabilities

The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, including its subtests and total test scores, can be used reliably as predictors of achievement on other tests used in the diagnosis of language disorders in children.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Garvin, Susanne B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Rate of Compression and Mode of Presentation on the Comprehension of a Recorded Communication to Junior College Students of Varying Aptitudes (open access)

Effect of Rate of Compression and Mode of Presentation on the Comprehension of a Recorded Communication to Junior College Students of Varying Aptitudes

The problem of this study was to assess the desirability and practicality of utilizing compressed speech as an instructional technique within a junior college setting.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Parker, Clement Cordell, 1940-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anxieties of White and Negro Elementary and Secondary Student Teachers in Biracial Participation (open access)

Anxieties of White and Negro Elementary and Secondary Student Teachers in Biracial Participation

The purposes of this study were to determine the extent to which anxieties are created among student teachers by assigning Negro or white student teachers to cooperating teachers of the opposite race, and to analyze the implications of the anxiety on white and Negro student teachers for teacher education institutions interested in the optimum adjustment of student teachers.
Date: January 1970
Creator: Carter, Vertie Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Three Experimental Presentations on the Acquisition of Vocabulary by Graduate Students (open access)

The Effects of Three Experimental Presentations on the Acquisition of Vocabulary by Graduate Students

The first purpose of this study was to ascertain the gains in vocabulary of three selected groups of graduate students presented material by different methods: audio, visual, and audio-visual. The second purpose of this study was to determine whether these gains were maintained after a lapse of time of four weeks.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Brumbach, Virginia Whitcomb
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of the Verification Sales of a Self-rating Sentence Completion Method for Evaluating Marital Difficulties and the MMPI Validity Scales (open access)

Comparison of the Verification Sales of a Self-rating Sentence Completion Method for Evaluating Marital Difficulties and the MMPI Validity Scales

This study is a comparison of the verification sales of a self-rating sentence completion method for evaluating marital difficulties and the MMPI validity scales.
Date: August 1970
Creator: Young, Dwight Lamon
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Early Changes in Selected Personality Components of Students in an Institutional Home  and School (open access)

A Study of Early Changes in Selected Personality Components of Students in an Institutional Home and School

The problem of this study was to specify personality changes of children during their first five months of residence in an institutional home and school, as measured by the California Test of Personality.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Stewart, James H. (James Henry), 1935-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Language Achievement of Fifth, Eigth, and Eleventh-Grade Students as Determined by an Analysis of Written Compositions (open access)

Language Achievement of Fifth, Eigth, and Eleventh-Grade Students as Determined by an Analysis of Written Compositions

The purpose set for this study was to define tentative standards of achievement through the analysis of compositions written by fifth, eighth, and eleventh-grade students in terms of quantity and quality.
Date: August 1970
Creator: Bryant, Ysleta Laverne
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Violence to the Ability, Achievement, and Adjustment of Sixth-Grade Children (open access)

The Relationship of Violence to the Ability, Achievement, and Adjustment of Sixth-Grade Children

The purpose of this research was to compare the scores on the variables of ability, achievement, and adjustment in an effort to locate areas wherein the children who perceive and project verbally a high amount of violence are significantly different from children who perceive and project a low amount of violence.
Date: August 1970
Creator: Garrish, Eunice
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between the Level of Dogmatism of Supervising Teachers and Student Teachers and the Amount of Change in Attitude of the Student Teachers (open access)

The Relationship between the Level of Dogmatism of Supervising Teachers and Student Teachers and the Amount of Change in Attitude of the Student Teachers

This research sought to determine if a significant relationship existed between various levels of dogmatism of supervising teachers and student teachers and the degree of change in attitude of the student teachers during student teaching.
Date: December 1970
Creator: Oswald, Jolene
System: The UNT Digital Library
Small Group Counseling Compared with Freshman Orientation Classes in Reducing Attrition of Freshman Junior College Students (open access)

Small Group Counseling Compared with Freshman Orientation Classes in Reducing Attrition of Freshman Junior College Students

The problem of this study was to determine the effectiveness of small group counseling in reducing the attrition rate and in altering the adjustment and values of freshmen in a community junior college.
Date: January 1970
Creator: Locke, Charles Kenneth
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Training in Interaction Analysis on Teachers' Interpersonal Behavior (open access)

The Effects of Training in Interaction Analysis on Teachers' Interpersonal Behavior

The specific purposes investigated were to ascertain the effect of training in interaction analysis upon the levels of 1. accurate empathy in teachers, 2. nonpossissive warmth in teachers, 3. genuineness in teachers, and 4. an analysis of the relationship between interaction analysis and the interpersonal behavior of the classroom teacher in view of its implications in teacher education.
Date: August 1970
Creator: Buckner, John Wordy
System: The UNT Digital Library