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A Critical Evaluation of the Arkadelphia Adult Education Project in Boston, Bowie County, Texas (open access)

A Critical Evaluation of the Arkadelphia Adult Education Project in Boston, Bowie County, Texas

This thesis discusses the formation of the Arkadelphia adult education project in Boston, Bowie County, Texas, and assesses its usefulness in the realm of adult education.
Date: 1941
Creator: Zihlman, Adelia Darter
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Pragmatism: its Influence on Certain Modern Trends in Education (open access)

A Study of Pragmatism: its Influence on Certain Modern Trends in Education

It is the purpose of this thesis to show that the pragmatic philosophy is basically responsible for present-day developments in various teaching techniques.
Date: 1941
Creator: Adams, Donald Quincy
System: The UNT Digital Library
The History of the Growth and Development of the Health Education and Health Service Program in the Tyler Public Schools, 1931-1943 (open access)

The History of the Growth and Development of the Health Education and Health Service Program in the Tyler Public Schools, 1931-1943

The purpose of this paper is an attempt to show the development, growth, and some of the outstanding accomplishments with methods used in control of communicable diseases in Tyler's School Health Program from 1931-1944.
Date: 1944
Creator: Holt, Alma Erwin
System: The UNT Digital Library
A History of the Allen Military Academy (open access)

A History of the Allen Military Academy

The purpose of this thesis is to preserve in an interesting, narrative form the facts connected with the founding and establishment of Allen Military Academy.
Date: 1944
Creator: Williams, Erlene Oneal
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Absolutism : Plato as an Absolutist and His Influence on Modern Education (open access)

A Study of Absolutism : Plato as an Absolutist and His Influence on Modern Education

This thesis is a study of Plato as an absolutist and his influence on modern education.
Date: 1945
Creator: Blackwell, Lizzie Lena
System: The UNT Digital Library
The History of Acadia Baptist Academy (open access)

The History of Acadia Baptist Academy

The purpose of this study is to give a brief history of Acadia Baptist Academy, giving some facts essential to the development, and to evaluate the curriculum of the Academy.
Date: 1945
Creator: Boyett, Evelyn S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Function of Dramatization in the Elementary School (open access)

The Function of Dramatization in the Elementary School

The purpose of this study is to make an investigation into the studies made and judgment expressed concerning the function of dramatization in the elementary school.
Date: 1945
Creator: Chapel, Hazel Hester
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Program of Films for Teaching in the Primary Grades of the Louisiana Public Schools (open access)

A Program of Films for Teaching in the Primary Grades of the Louisiana Public Schools

The purpose of this study is to provide a compiled list of Louisiana primary motion pictures and their locations for the Louisiana primary teachers.
Date: 1945
Creator: Field, Thelma L.
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
Analysis of Content and Methods of Teaching Poetry to Children (open access)

Analysis of Content and Methods of Teaching Poetry to Children

The purpose of this study is to analyze the history and development of children's poetry, and to present helpful suggestions in subject matter and activities for teaching poetry to children.
Date: 1945
Creator: Hardeman, Eula Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
A History of Credit Unions in the United States (open access)

A History of Credit Unions in the United States

The purpose of this thesis is to present a history of the founding, operation, and growth of the credit union movement in the United States, with special emphasis placed on the benefits and services such an organization can render to the thousands and thousands of employees who are classed in the realm of small or moderate income brackets.
Date: 1945
Creator: Hester, Henry Beason
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine the Status, Methods of Conducting, Functions, and Desirability of Literary Activities in the Programs of Secondary Schools of Central West-Texas (open access)

To Determine the Status, Methods of Conducting, Functions, and Desirability of Literary Activities in the Programs of Secondary Schools of Central West-Texas

This study was made for the purpose of determining the status and methods of conducting non-athletic extra-curricular activities in the secondary schools of Central West-Texas with the hope that the findings may prove valuable to school boards and administrators in setting up standards for evaluating their activity programs.
Date: 1945
Creator: James, Thomas McCurry
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Elementary Science Programs in Leading Schools of Texas and Other Southern States as Compared with the Course of Study from the Thirty-First Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (open access)

A Study of the Elementary Science Programs in Leading Schools of Texas and Other Southern States as Compared with the Course of Study from the Thirty-First Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education

The problem, to make a study of the elementary science programs in leading schools of Texas and other Southern states as compared with the course of study from the Thirty-first Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, was chosen as a result of the realization that elementary science has not been given the place in the curriculum that it should have.
Date: 1945
Creator: Kindred, Josie V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Laws Governing the Acquisition, Construction, and Use of School Property in Texas (open access)

A Study of the Laws Governing the Acquisition, Construction, and Use of School Property in Texas

The primary purpose of this study is to gather and organize facts that will be beneficial to those who have the responsibility of directing the affairs of the community in the interest of public education. Superintendents of schools and boards of education will secure a better solution to their problems by studying the laws and the interpretations of law given by the courts. This study has been made in order that this information might be made more available to the interest of school people.
Date: 1945
Creator: Massey, Gabe Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Is There an Answer to the Current Lack of a Satisfying Philosophy Among the American People? (open access)

Is There an Answer to the Current Lack of a Satisfying Philosophy Among the American People?

This study will seek to show that what appears to be the cause of a lack of a satisfying philosophy among the American people, as evidenced by restless, disintegrating behavior of individuals, is in reality the effect of such a lack.
Date: 1945
Creator: Stovall, Edith Edwards
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Place of Office Practice in the High School (open access)

The Place of Office Practice in the High School

A study to determine if the commercial department is providing business men with adequate training.
Date: 1941
Creator: Conlee, Rosser Elaine
System: The UNT Digital Library
The School Kitchen as a Value to the Educational Program (open access)

The School Kitchen as a Value to the Educational Program

The problem involved in this thesis is to examine the organization, administration, and equipment of the school kitchens, and point out certain educational values derived from such a project.
Date: 1941
Creator: Cooper, Douglas Wear
System: The UNT Digital Library
How Sociability can be Developed in the Elementary School (open access)

How Sociability can be Developed in the Elementary School

The purpose of this study was to determine whether boys and girls who were not accepted by the group could be developed and trained to such an extent that they would become acceptable. Secondarily, the purpose was to discover what types of classroom and extra-curricular activities were desirable and beneficial in a program of social development for fifth-grade pupils.
Date: 1941
Creator: Hollingsworth, Lila
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing and Evaluating a Course in Crafts in a Small School (open access)

Developing and Evaluating a Course in Crafts in a Small School

The purpose of this study is to find and evaluate a course in crafts in a small rural school with the hope that it may be of some value to teachers in rural districts, and that it may help provide a more general education for the rural school child.
Date: 1941
Creator: Kee, Jim W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Evaluation and Analysis in Terms of National Defense of the National Youth Administration, the National Defense Training Program, and the State Teachers Colleges' Industrial Arts Program (open access)

A Comparative Evaluation and Analysis in Terms of National Defense of the National Youth Administration, the National Defense Training Program, and the State Teachers Colleges' Industrial Arts Program

The objectives of this study are: first, to draw conclusions in regard to the extent the National Youth Administration, the National Defense Training Program, and the Industrial Arts departments of the Texas State Teachers Colleges are making "trainees" of the first two programs and graduates and students of the last division more employable in the several industries that make up our national defense manufacturing mechanism; second, to show by the presentation of the college programs whether or not the colleges are presenting the courses of industrial arts which are most needed by youth in this time of crisis and national defense preparation.
Date: 1941
Creator: Martin, Robert Owen
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Contribution of a Given Educational System to the Defense of Democracy (open access)

An Analysis of the Contribution of a Given Educational System to the Defense of Democracy

The purpose of this study is four-fold: (1) to present through an analysis of life needs the nature and source of a curriculum best adapted to democracy; (2) to present fairly some of the reasons why a curriculum must be founded on democracy if democracy survives the dangerous forces that threaten to obliterate its very existence; (3) to make an unprejudiced analysis of the regular situation now existing in Oklahoma schools at the present time to find whether her schools are meeting this challenge to democracy; and (4) to offer from the comparison of the summaries of these data recommendations whereby all schools may have a curriculum "rooted in the life of its people"--a program that contributes to democracy and permanent national defense.
Date: 1941
Creator: Maxwell, Maude Napier
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Analysis of the Affiliated Courses Offered in Texas High Schools (open access)

A Comparative Analysis of the Affiliated Courses Offered in Texas High Schools

The problem of this thesis is to determine what affiliated courses are most frequently offered to the students who attend the regular four year high schools in Texas, and to determine the relationship of the subjects taught to the scholastic population of the school.
Date: 1941
Creator: Merrick, James Estes
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Construction of a Dependable Instrument of Measurement in the Field of Social Sensitivity (open access)

The Construction of a Dependable Instrument of Measurement in the Field of Social Sensitivity

The problem of this study is an attempt to construct a dependable instrument of measurement in the field of social sensitivity. An endeavor will be made to make this instrument sensitive enough to give some degree of precision and reliability to its results. Other attempted methods of measurement applied to this quantity have given results only in scattered generalities.
Date: 1941
Creator: Middleton, Charles E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Rural Community-School Program (open access)

A Rural Community-School Program

The problem of this study is to determine the type of program needed for a rural community school based on the needs of the children, the youth, and the adults, and on the available facilities.
Date: 1941
Creator: Miller, William J.
System: The UNT Digital Library