A Study of Behavior Analysis in a Secondary School (open access)

A Study of Behavior Analysis in a Secondary School

The purpose of this investigation is to study a given secondary school with which the investigator is familiar in order to determine as objectively as possible what conditions, relationships, and experiences are exercising unwholesome influences on the youngster's actions, and to determine how the school can provide opportunities for developing social behavior that will make an integrated personality.
Date: 1948
Creator: Geer, Blanche Newby
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Develop a Desirable Method of Reporting Pupil Progress in the Elementary School (open access)

To Develop a Desirable Method of Reporting Pupil Progress in the Elementary School

The problem is to examine and analyze the methods used for reporting pupil progress in the elementary schools; to give evidence of the significant changes underlying the concepts of educational achievement; and to give consideration to the basic principles involved in order to develop a desirable method.
Date: 1948
Creator: Aikin, Lorene
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rigidity: a Function of Ethnic Attitudes (open access)

Rigidity: a Function of Ethnic Attitudes

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of segregation on the flexibility of individuals in the Negro and Anglo-American ethnic groups and to investigate the relationship between variations in flexibility and sociometric choices within the peer group.
Date: August 1961
Creator: Bullion, D. I.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A History of the Newsome Dougherty Memorial High School of Gainesville, Texas (open access)

A History of the Newsome Dougherty Memorial High School of Gainesville, Texas

The purpose of this study is to assemble the leading facts concerning the history of the Newsome Dougherty Memorial High School of Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas.
Date: 1949
Creator: Wilson, Roy P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
How Educational Aims Have Been Set Up and Achieved (open access)

How Educational Aims Have Been Set Up and Achieved

The purpose of this study is to make a survey of the aims of education and the ways in which they have been achieved. Special attention is given to the influences which have been influential in producing changes in these aims, and to the modifications which have been made.
Date: 1946
Creator: Michels, Otto K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Relationship between Manifest Rigidity and Ethnocentric Attitude (open access)

A Study of the Relationship between Manifest Rigidity and Ethnocentric Attitude

This investigation was designed to add to and clarify, somewhat, the results of previous studies concerning the relationship between rigidity and ethnocentrism. A manifest rigidity scale, based on theory, was utilized to clarify existing confusion over what constitutes rigidity.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Krapfl, Jon E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Significant Differences between American Education and that of Mexico (open access)

Some Significant Differences between American Education and that of Mexico

This thesis compares the educational systems of the United States and of Mexico from their beginnings, and especially notes the progress that Mexico has made since 1920.
Date: 1945
Creator: Williams, Narbon B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Philosophy of the Activity Movement (open access)

The Philosophy of the Activity Movement

The problem of this research is to analyze the philosophy of the activity movement in the United States from a sociological point of view. Specifically, the purpose of the study is to discover whether or not the activity movement grew out of the social conditions of the times and was designed to meet the staggering problems of social development and reconstruction in America.
Date: 1941
Creator: Glover, Lila Elizabeth
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Workshop for Teachers (open access)

The Workshop for Teachers

The problem of this study is concerned with the history, trends, and evaluation of the summer workshop movement for teachers in the United States. In addition, a study was made of the Child Development Workshop conducted on the campus of the North Texas State Teachers College, Denton, Texas, during the summer of 1942.
Date: 1943
Creator: Sparks, Izetta
System: The UNT Digital Library
Need and Proposed Course of Study in First-Aid Recommended for Texas Junior High Schools (open access)

Need and Proposed Course of Study in First-Aid Recommended for Texas Junior High Schools

The purpose of this study is to show the need for placing the teaching of accident prevention and first-aid into the curricula of all public schools of the State of Texas on a compulsory basis and to prescribe definite criteria for the work.
Date: 1947
Creator: Davis, Wallace T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Humanism:  Its Application to Religion, Literature, and Social Reform (open access)

Humanism: Its Application to Religion, Literature, and Social Reform

It is the purpose of this study to make an examination of critical comment on humanistic philosophy, and, thereby, get a response that will answer some of the questions which arise in the minds of those who are made conscious of intellectual wonder or curiosity within themselves.
Date: 1943
Creator: Nobles, Mary Elizabeth
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Appraisal of the Practice of Homemaking in the Dallas Junior High Schools (open access)

The Appraisal of the Practice of Homemaking in the Dallas Junior High Schools

The problem in this study is to make the appraisal of the practice of homemaking in the Dallas junior high schools.
Date: 1943
Creator: Enderby, Lillian
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Influence of Sunday School Attendance on Behavior in the Elementary Grades of North Texas Demonstration School (open access)

The Influence of Sunday School Attendance on Behavior in the Elementary Grades of North Texas Demonstration School

The problem of this study is to determine the influence that Sunday school attendance has on behavior of children now enrolled in the elementary grades of North Texas State College Demonstration School of Denton, Texas.
Date: August 1950
Creator: Neely, Lucile Balthrop
System: The UNT Digital Library
Out-of-School Character-Building Organizations for High-School Boys and Girls (open access)

Out-of-School Character-Building Organizations for High-School Boys and Girls

The purpose of this study of the out-of-school character-building organizations for high-school youth is fourfold: (1) to discover the problems peculiar to adolescents growing up in the disturbed social environment of this country at the present time; (2) to determine the part reputable youth-serving organizations have in quipping young persons for meeting these problem; (3) to investigate a specific situation in an effort to determine the extent to which high-school students take advantage of the services offered by these organizations; and (4) to suggest ways of reaching more of the young people by gaining from them a knowledge of the kind of program they desire.
Date: August 1950
Creator: Butler, Nora
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Some of the Variables as Related to Peer Acceptance at the State Training School for Girls, Gainesville, Texas (open access)

A Study of Some of the Variables as Related to Peer Acceptance at the State Training School for Girls, Gainesville, Texas

The problem of this study is to (1) determine the amount of peer acceptance existing among a group of delinquent girls committed to the Texas State Training School for Girls and (2) to determine the relationships between peer acceptance and some other variables.
Date: June 1950
Creator: Weber, Louis C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship Between Mental Ability and Reading Achievement (open access)

The Relationship Between Mental Ability and Reading Achievement

The purpose of this study is to determine, by actual classroom experiment, the relationship between mental ability and reading achievement; and to ascertain the best methods of increasing reading ability. A secondary purpose in connection with this study was the critical evaluation of a testing program.
Date: 1945
Creator: Primm, Jewel van Landingham
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Life, Work, and Imprint of Elisabet Ney (open access)

The Life, Work, and Imprint of Elisabet Ney

This thesis discusses the life and influence of sculptor Elisabet Ney.
Date: 1941
Creator: Bailey, Joe Harden
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine a Sound, Positive Disciplinary Policy (open access)

A Study to Determine a Sound, Positive Disciplinary Policy

This is a study to determine a sound, positive disciplinary policy for secondary schools.
Date: 1953
Creator: Lee, Robert E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Relationships Between Socio-Economic Status, Popularity, Achievement, and Personality in the Fifth Grade of the Sanger Public School, Sanger, Texas (open access)

A Study of Relationships Between Socio-Economic Status, Popularity, Achievement, and Personality in the Fifth Grade of the Sanger Public School, Sanger, Texas

The purpose which guided the writer in the conducting of this study was a desire to determine the existence of any relationships which might be perceptible among such traits and considerations as socio-economic status, popularity at school, general scholastic achievement, and traits of personality as they were found in a group of fifth-grade pupils enrolled in the public school of Sanger, Texas.
Date: 1945
Creator: Gentle, Mary Cathlene
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inter-American Cooperation through United States Programs for Cultural Understanding (open access)

Inter-American Cooperation through United States Programs for Cultural Understanding

The purpose of this thesis is to examine and discuss the efforts and arrangements made by the United States to promote cultural understanding in the American hemisphere.
Date: 1946
Creator: Pierce, Alfred C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of the Teacher in the Health Service Program of the Elementary Schools of Dallas, Texas (open access)

The Role of the Teacher in the Health Service Program of the Elementary Schools of Dallas, Texas

It was the purpose of this study, first, to determine how and to what extent a teacher can be instrumental in improving the health status of the Dallas elementary school child, and second, to ascertain the importance of a teacher's evaluation of physical aspects from the standpoint of their effect on the mental, social, and emotional well-being of the school child.
Date: 1947
Creator: Williams, Beatrice Mabry
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing Personal and Social Growth through Activities Related to Learning to Read (open access)

Developing Personal and Social Growth through Activities Related to Learning to Read

The problem of this study was to determine to what extent personal and social growth could be developed through the use of activities related to reading in one group of sixth-grade students.
Date: 1950
Creator: Macklin, Nina Moody
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine a Sound Program for the Effective Instruction and Social Integration of Latin-American Pupils in the Secondary Schools of Texas (open access)

A Study to Determine a Sound Program for the Effective Instruction and Social Integration of Latin-American Pupils in the Secondary Schools of Texas

"The purpose of this study was to formulate a recommended program to aid in the social integration of Latin-American and Anglo-American children in the secondary schools of Texas. In preparation for the development of this suggested plan, some of the more serious problems involved in the education of Latin-American children in schools designed primarily for the instruction of Anglo-American pupils were studied in available literature, and a set of psychological, sociological, and democratic criteria was formulated to serve as sound principles upon which to base the suggest program."--Leaf 1.
Date: August 1952
Creator: Davenport, Ane J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advantages in the Social Studies to be Derived from the Texas Centennial by Children of Junior High School Level (open access)

Advantages in the Social Studies to be Derived from the Texas Centennial by Children of Junior High School Level

The predominant theme utilized by the Texas Centennial is the historical background Texas, which encompasses a hundred years of independence and four centuries of progress. This study aims to select and classify those buildings in the Texas Centennial Exposition containing exhibits possessing educational significance for junior high school social studies students.
Date: August 1936
Creator: Martin, Anna Y.
System: The UNT Digital Library