The Relationship of Specific Background Factors upon English Usage (open access)

The Relationship of Specific Background Factors upon English Usage

The problem of the present study is to investigate specific background areas of pupils who show average use of English, and of pupils who are recognized as having below-average use of English. The study will attempt to bring out certain tendencies, by the use of standardized tests, which the two groups investigated possess in varying degrees. The aim of the study will be to bring out and evaluate the differentiating background factors as revealed by the results obtained on the standardized tests used in the investigation.
Date: 1949
Creator: Hamilton, Harlan E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Doctoral Programs in Mathematics and Education as Related to Instructional Needs of Junior Colleges and Four Year Colleges (open access)

Doctoral Programs in Mathematics and Education as Related to Instructional Needs of Junior Colleges and Four Year Colleges

The problem of this study was to analyze doctoral programs in mathematics and education for the preparation of teachers of undergraduate mathematics. The purpose of the study was to determine (1) the need for such programs, (2) the attitude of college and university officials toward them, (3) the composition of present offerings and (4) recommendations to the future course their development should take.
Date: June 1967
Creator: Hamilton, William Wingo
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Texas State Program of Aid to Dependent Children, With Special Emphasis Upon Erath County (open access)

The Texas State Program of Aid to Dependent Children, With Special Emphasis Upon Erath County

"The problem of this study is to determine whether or not the financial grants available under the Texas state program of aid to dependent children are adequate to meet the needs of the persons receiving such grants. In accomplishing this objective, it became necessary to make a survey of the Texas state program of aid to dependent children as administered by the Texas State Department of Public Welfare. The basis upon which aid is granted, the amount of grants available, and a study of legislation governing the state program of aid to dependent children will be given prominence in this investigation. Likewise, a somewhat detailed study of twenty families who are recipients, or who have recently been recipients of aid to dependent children, all located in Erath County, Texas, will be presented as typical representations of such families all over the state of Texas who receive grants of aid for dependent children."-- leaf 1.
Date: August 1955
Creator: Spencer, Lela M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Aggressiveness in Two Groups of First Born Children (open access)

Comparison of Aggressiveness in Two Groups of First Born Children

The problem with which this investigation was concerned was to determine whether or not age difference was related to aggressiveness scores of first-born children.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Lee, Bobby J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Effects of Modern Music on Operant Aggression in Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Adolescents (open access)

A Study of the Effects of Modern Music on Operant Aggression in Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Adolescents

This study seeks to answer the question of if there is a relationship between the types of music listened to and the level of aggressiveness, particularly in young people detained in the County Juvenile Home of Dallas, Texas.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Stephenson, Gerald H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of Delinquents and Nondelinquents on the High School Form of the Index of Adjustment and Values (open access)

Performance of Delinquents and Nondelinquents on the High School Form of the Index of Adjustment and Values

This study is an attempt to obtain information on the self-concept and juvenile delinquency.
Date: May 1965
Creator: William, R. Naylor
System: The UNT Digital Library
Integrative Inkblot Perception as a Function of Intelligence of Institutionalized Children (open access)

Integrative Inkblot Perception as a Function of Intelligence of Institutionalized Children

This thesis endeavors to establish the validity of several measurements of intelligence which have been developed from inkblot perception theory.
Date: January 1965
Creator: Dodd, C. Dale
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Incidental Learning in a Classroom Type Situation (open access)

A Study of Incidental Learning in a Classroom Type Situation

This paper contends that, like children of average intelligence, there is a degree of material that will be learned by the retardate, even if his attention is not directly brought to bear upon that material.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Siegel, Edward M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Generality of Cognitive Complexity (open access)

The Generality of Cognitive Complexity

The purpose of the present investigation was to investigate the relationship of cognitive complexity, as measured by a quantitative index of human movement responses, and the number of different constructs in one psychological system.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Rosen, Eugene E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use of the Rorschach Test in Evaluating Intellectual Levels of Functioning Between Normals and Mental Retardates (open access)

The Use of the Rorschach Test in Evaluating Intellectual Levels of Functioning Between Normals and Mental Retardates

The purpose of the present study was to determine the differences in certain Rorschach Test variables obtained from normal, mildly retarded, and moderately retarded boys and girls.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Edwards, Liston G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Pressure and Sex Differences in a Level of Aspiration Experiment with Retardates (open access)

Social Pressure and Sex Differences in a Level of Aspiration Experiment with Retardates

The present study was designed to investigate whether or not retardates' level of aspiration and subsequent performance are significantly affected by the presence and observation of a peer group.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Landrum, Jerry Lynn
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Small Group Development (open access)

A Study of Small Group Development

The problem to be studied here is whether subsequent normative and hierarchical relationships will develop between individuals in a collective social situation, assuming basic goals and structure.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Greenstone, James Lynn
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Ego-Involvement and Anxiety on Learning (open access)

The Effect of Ego-Involvement and Anxiety on Learning

It is the purpose of this study to determine if ego-involvement influences the performance of an individual in a learning situation.
Date: January 1961
Creator: McGinnis, Charles A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Quantitative Assessment of Halo Effect (open access)

The Quantitative Assessment of Halo Effect

It is the purpose of this investigation to quantitatively assess the effect of halo in peer ratings of individuals in the areas of friendship, mental ability, and level of anxiety, by identifying the discrepancy between these ratings and the measurement of these characteristics by standardized tests.
Date: January 1962
Creator: Gilchrist, Walter William
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Ego Strength, Social Participation and Weight Reduction (open access)

The Relationship between Ego Strength, Social Participation and Weight Reduction

The problem of this research may be stated as a study of the relationship between successful weight reduction on the part of people involved in a group program, and the two variables of ego strength and social participation.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Madison, Carol Rindler
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of Sophisticated Toys in Play-Therapy with Twelve Year Old Children (open access)

The Effectiveness of Sophisticated Toys in Play-Therapy with Twelve Year Old Children

It is the aim of this investigation to compare the use of normally recommended toys, ordinarily used in the play-therapy setting, with more sophisticated, "grown-up" toys, when working with twelve-year-old children.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Klinger, Ronald L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Effect of Short-Term Group Counseling on the Self Concept of College Students (open access)

A Study of the Effect of Short-Term Group Counseling on the Self Concept of College Students

The purpose of this thesis is to see if a significant change in the self concept of college students can be brought about through short term group counseling.
Date: August 1969
Creator: O'Dell, George William Thomas
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Feelings of Insecurity on Personality Characteristics of Institutionalized Adolescent Boys (open access)

The Effect of Feelings of Insecurity on Personality Characteristics of Institutionalized Adolescent Boys

This study was an investigation of the relationship between feelings of insecurity of institutionalized delinquent boys and the following personality variables: Ascendancy, Responsibility, Emotional Stability, Sociability, Cautiousness, Original Thinking, Personal Relations, and Vigor.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Kanady, Berlin L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Self Discrepancy to Perceived Problems of Graduate and Undergraduate Students (open access)

The Relationship of Self Discrepancy to Perceived Problems of Graduate and Undergraduate Students

The problem is to determine if there are discrepancies between self-ideal concept which come about through changes in position with respect to group standing, and to what problems specifically that change is related to.
Date: June 1965
Creator: Wierenga, Jon Karl
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Relationship of Anxiety to Social and Personal Adjustment (open access)

A Study of the Relationship of Anxiety to Social and Personal Adjustment

To what extent will college students differing in anxiety level, as determined by their scores on the IPAT Anxiety Scale, differ in personal and social adjustment and certain factors of personal and social adjustment, as measured by the California Test of Personality.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Hudson, Shelby Jay
System: The UNT Digital Library
Personality Traits of Management Students and Business Personnel (open access)

Personality Traits of Management Students and Business Personnel

The purpose of the present study was to determine if there are "cores" of similar personality traits among successful business and industrial managers and senior management students in the School of Business Administration at North Texas State University.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Marth, Donald Rudell
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anxiety in Jailees as Indicated by the Rorschach Test (open access)

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
A Study of Level of Aspiration and its Relationship to Other Personality Variables (open access)

A Study of Level of Aspiration and its Relationship to Other Personality Variables

Previous studies on correlations dealing with level of aspiration have been few and inconclusive. The problem of the present study was to examine the degree of relationship between an individual's level of aspiration and other personality variables as measured by standardized tests.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Newell, James Archie
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Basic Tendencies of Life as Related to Various Vocational Goals (open access)

A Study of the Basic Tendencies of Life as Related to Various Vocational Goals

The present study was concerned with differences between four groups of college students with various vocational goals. The impetus for this study stems from the development of a new instrument designed to scientifically measure the underlying factors of basic goals in life.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Taylor, William Byron
System: The UNT Digital Library