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
A Study of the Senior High School Student Councils in the State of Texas (open access)

A Study of the Senior High School Student Councils in the State of Texas

The purposes of this study were to determine the current practices, as reported by the sponsors, of the senior high school student councils in the state of Texas and to compare these practices with those recommended by national student council specialists. A subsidiary purpose was to give direction for future district and state workshops.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Scheer, Glenna Jean
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
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
A Study to Develop a Curriculum in Industrial Destructive Testing Procedures for Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metals at the University Level (open access)

A Study to Develop a Curriculum in Industrial Destructive Testing Procedures for Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metals at the University Level

The problem of this study was to develop a curriculum based on present destructive testing procedures used in industry dealing with the mechanical properties of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, and to organize the curriculum at the university level.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Geary, Michael Robert
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
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
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
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 17, 1971 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 17, 1971

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 17, 1971
Creator: Wisch, J. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 18, 1971 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 18, 1971

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 18, 1971
Creator: Wisch, J. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 1971 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 1971

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 22, 1971
Creator: Wisch, J. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The History of Speech and Drama Education in the Dallas Public Schools (1884-1970) (open access)

The History of Speech and Drama Education in the Dallas Public Schools (1884-1970)

The problem of this study was the writing of a comprehensive history of speech and drama education in the Dallas Public Schools from 188^-1970. This necessitated the recording of the facts, events, and circumstances which have determined the condition and progress of speech and drama education in the Dallas Public Schools during this period of time.
Date: December 1971
Creator: Rumbley, Rose-Mary, 1922-
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
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 Perceptual Training on School Readiness Skills (open access)

The Effect of Perceptual Training on School Readiness Skills

This study sought to determine if visual perceptual training could be effectively used to improve the school readiness skills of kindergarten children.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Coffman, John E.
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
Effects of Desensitization, Rogerian Therapy, and Modeling on Stage-Fright (open access)

Effects of Desensitization, Rogerian Therapy, and Modeling on Stage-Fright

Since fear of public speaking has been considered a good example of anxiety and an example that is correlated with behavioral and cognitive measures of anxiety levels, a study of Rogerian therapy, desensitization, and modeling techniques in reducing this anxiety seemed appropriate.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Alston, Herbert L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dogmatism in Adults and Correlates of Early Parent-Child Relationships (open access)

Dogmatism in Adults and Correlates of Early Parent-Child Relationships

The results suggest that children's perceptions of parental child-rearing behavior are related to their tendencies to be dogmatic in their beliefs, and apparently perceptions of parents as loving has reinforcing properties for the child that may lead to the uncritical acceptance of the belief system of the parents.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Cole, Troy H.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Immediate Effect of Classroom Integration on the Academic Progress, Self-Concept, and Racial Attitudes of Elementary White Students (open access)

The Immediate Effect of Classroom Integration on the Academic Progress, Self-Concept, and Racial Attitudes of Elementary White Students

The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the differences and changes in integrated and segregated white students' self-concepts, racial attitudes, and academic achievements.
Date: December 1971
Creator: Cypert, Kenneth Eugene
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