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The Effects of Skill-Builder Controlled Reader Training in Facilitating Skill Development in College Typewriting
The problem of the study was to determine the effects of student use of Skill-Builder Controlled Reader training in facilitating skill development in beginning and intermediate typewriting classes at the college level.
Date:
August 1962
Creator:
Johnson, Margaret Higgins, 1920-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Relative Effectiveness of Controlled Reading versus Regular Classroom Instruction in Rate and Comprehension with Selected Eighth Grade Students
The problem of the study was to determine whether a controlled program of reading instruction at the eighth grade level produces superior and retained improvement in rate and comprehension as compared with the usual classroom procedure.
Date:
August 1964
Creator:
Malone, James Franklin, 1925-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Anxiety in Jailees as Indicated by the Rorschach Test
This study concerns an evaluation of anxiety levels in jailees awaiting trial in a county jail. Detecting anxiety which had been overtly controlled, and apparently hidden called for the use of a projective technique. Such an instrument would have the additional advantage of minimizing the effect of the observer upon the observed.
Date:
August 1960
Creator:
Haddan, Eugene E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Professional Terms for a Special Education Teacher
The problem of this study is to compile a list of professional terms, with their definitions, and a bibliography of reading material for the beginning teacher in special education.
Date:
1950
Creator:
Blount, Vena Sloan
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Anxiety on the Short-term Memory Proficiency of College Students
Based on the review of literature, it has been demonstrated that anxiety has some detrimental effects on the short-term memory functions of the college student. In order to improve the experimental methodology, the present study combined Type I and Type II studies of short-term memory as a function of anxiety. The two were combined so that the major criticisms in each study were controlled.
Date:
June 1969
Creator:
Payne, Terry D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
History of the Development of the Junior Colleges in Texas
In the main there are three questions to be answered in this investigation: First, what are the motives that have controlled the growth and development of the junior colleges in Texas? Second, what are the leading events in this development? Third, what is the present state of development of the junior college movement in Texas? A survey of the existing junior college situation in Texas is presented in the first chapter, while a more detailed history of development is outlined in the later chapters.
Date:
August 1936
Creator:
Barnard, Hilliard
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Significance of Classroom Environmental Control in the Azle Elementary School
The objective of this investigation was to make two surveys relating to environmental control in the Azle Elementary School, Azle, Texas. The first survey was designed to furnish a list of favorable and unfavorable factors in classroom environment as they existed in the Azle Elementary School at the close of the school session of 1946-1947, and the second survey , conducted in the same school approximately a year later, was for the purpose of ascertaining what improvements had been made in the interim in order to increase the educative values in the classroom environment of this school.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Wood, Roy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Development of Auditory Discrimination in Third-Grade Students by Use of Tape-Recorded Materials
This study was designed to determine whether or not auditory discrimination could be improved in a group of third-grade students by the use of a tape-recorded program of auditory exercises. Of additional interest was the effect that the program of auditory exercises would have upon the work recognition skills and the spelling skills of the third-grade students involved.
Date:
August 1965
Creator:
Evans, Jackie Merion, 1932-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Personality Variables of Students in Two Contrasted Colleges
The nature of the problem to be dealt with in this present study involves the religious personality. Specifically, it involves the question as to the personality similarities and differences of students from a religious college and students from a state college.
Date:
May 1964
Creator:
Ruble, Richard Lee
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Special Programs on Mean Gains in Reading
This study was designed to determine the effect upon reading achievement of students who choose an elective course in either life science, creative writing, or accelerated reading in lieu of regular reading classes.
Date:
August 1963
Creator:
Best, Bill Arnold
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of the Effects of Four Micro-teaching Environments on Fourth-grade Pupils' Coping Behavior and Verbal Response
The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of four micro-teaching environments on fourth-grade pupils' coping behavior and verbal response and to determine if one micro-teaching environment is more appropriate than another.
Date:
August 1970
Creator:
Waldrop, Carrie Sybil
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Two Approaches to Reading Instruction upon the Oral Language Development of First Grade Pupils
The problem of this study was to compare the relative gains made in the development of oral language skills in two groups of first grade pupils when two different approaches to beginning reading instruction were used. The two approaches were: (a) the language experience approach, Approach A, and (b) the traditional basal reader approach, Approach B. The six aspects of oral language development considered were: extent of verbalization, spoken vocabulary, expressions of tentativeness, use of structural patterns, colorful and vivid expressions, and use of mazes.
Date:
January 1966
Creator:
Giles, Douglas Elbert, 1932-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Influence of Configuration and Letter Sequence on Recognition Thresholds of Words
The purpose of this study is to attempt to determine what influence configuration and/or letter sequence have on the recognition thresholds of words. It is felt that low configuration and/or rare letter sequences will result in lower recognition thresholds, while high configuration and/or common letter sequence will result in higher recognition thresholds when stimulus words are presented to subjects by means of a tachistoscope.
Date:
January 1962
Creator:
Stewart, James C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Procedures Used in Overcoming Negative Attitudes Toward School Music
The purpose of this study is to determine some probable effects of certain procedures in overcoming negative attitudes toward school music and to show the possibilities of locating and eliminating some of the factors associated with children's difficulties in music.
Date:
1951
Creator:
Faires, Edith W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Appraisal of the Poor Quality of Reading of the Work-Silent Type Done by One Hundred Seventy-Seven Upper Classmen at the North Texas State Teachers College
"During the first term of the 1938 summer session at the North Texas State Teachers College, under the auspices of the reading laboratory, the Nelson-Denny Silent Reading Test was administered to students enrolled in four sections of a course in the psychology of teaching reading in the grades...For this purpose, this endeavor to analyze the existing condition has been made in order to assist in at least some small measure any future steps in alleviating this deplorable state."--1-2.
Date:
August 1940
Creator:
Ratchford, Mary Dorothy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Use of Mechanical Pacers in Teaching Intermediate and Advanced College Typewriting
The problem of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the use of a mechanical pacing device in improving the typewriting skills of students in intermediate and advanced typewriting classes at the college level.
Date:
August 1966
Creator:
McAnally, Emmett Oresta, 1925-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Selected Factors Related to the Grade-level Preference of Elementary Student Teachers
The problem of this study was to determine the relationship between selected factors and the grade-level preference of elementary student teachers. The factors studied were self-concept, academic achievement, commitment to teaching, and personality traits.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Hailey, Willie Lee
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Interrelationship of Sociempathic Ability, Self Concept, Sociometric Status and Teaching Effectiveness of Student Teachers
The major problem to be investigated consists of four phases: 1) the investigation of the relationship of sociempathic ability to self concept, sociometric status, mental ability, student teaching, and teaching effectiveness of elementary and secondary student teachers, and the relationship between sociometric status and self concept; 2) an investigation of the relationship of self concept and sociometric status to the teaching effectiveness of elementary and secondary student teachers; 3) a comparison of elementary and secondary student teachers on the strength of the relationships mentioned above, and on mean scores in self concept, sociempathic ability and mental ability; and 4) an investigation to determine if differences in self concept ratings exist among subject major groups of secondary student teachers, and to determine if there are differences between the sexes with regard to sociempathic ability.
Date:
January 1963
Creator:
Biggerstaff, Edwin Levi
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Short Duration High Speed Drill on Speed, Accuracy and Production Development in the First Year of Typewriting
The problem of this study was to determine the effect of short-duration high-speed drill on speed, accuracy and production rate development in the first year of typewriting.
Date:
August 1967
Creator:
Gades, Robert E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Relationships between Patient Motivation for Physical Rehabilitiation and Subscales on the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule
This study was concerned with the relationship between patient motivation for treatment in three of the various therapy sections of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service of the Veterans Administration General Medical and Surgical Hospital, Long Beach, California, and needs as measured by the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule. Of the six therapies under the direction of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service consideration was given to the following: Occupational Therapy (OT), Physical Therapy (PT), and Corrective Therapy (CT)
Date:
August 1963
Creator:
Gilbert, Algie Stephen, 1925-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Impulsive Behavior in Children as a Function of Parental Attitudes toward Child-Rearing Practices
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between child-oriented parental attitudes and resulting child behavior.
Date:
June 1962
Creator:
Keizer, Louis E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Demonstrated Internal-External Reward Excectancies as a Variable in Group Counseling
The problem was the relationship of responses of individuals with demonstrated differences in internal-external reward characteristics and directive, client-centered group counseling techniques.
Date:
May 1968
Creator:
Lamb, Donald Wayne
System:
The UNT Digital Library
To Determine the Effect of Lighting on Child Growth
The purpose of this study is to make a report on the lighting experiment as it was carried on in the John N. Reagan School and to present the findings of a number of tests that were given the children in this school and in another comparative school in the same system where no lighting modifications were made.
Date:
1946
Creator:
Combs, B. G.
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
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