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A Comparison of Learner-Centeredness in Teacher Attitudes and Verbal Behavior
The problem of this study was to determine whether teachers' attitudes as revealed by responses to an attitude instrument reflect teachers' classroom behaviors as implied by a behavior record of verbal comments to pupils. This research, in effect, was a check on the predictive validity of the attitude instrument used in the study, the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory.
Date:
August 1960
Creator:
Harder, Nancy Alliene
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine Some Relations Between Changes in Reading Skills and Self-Concepts Accompanying a Remedial Program for Boys with Low Reading Ability and Reasonably Normal Intelligence
The problem of this study was to determine some relations between changes in reading skills and changes in certain selected aspects of self-concept accompanying a remedial-reading program for elementary school boys with low reading ability and reasonably normal intelligence.
Date:
August 1960
Creator:
Seay, Lesten Clare
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Rating Scale for the Measurement of Teacher Readiness for the Role of Administrative Leadership
This study has a twofold purpose. The first is to demonstrate the use of the Forced-Choice Technique in developing a rating scale for the selection of teachers adjudged to be ready to assume responsibility of an administrative nature and a role of leadership. The second is to develop a tentative rating scale for this purpose in the Dallas Independent School District, Dallas, Texas,
Date:
August 1953
Creator:
Hitt, Harold H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Implications of Social Class Structure and Developmental Tasks for Teaching Techniques in Home and Family Life Education
Can home and family life education incorporate sociological findings, psychological procedures, and frames of reference typical of lower and middle classes into educational techniques and content which will assist adolescents to achieve certain developmental tasks more satisfactorily?
Date:
August 1954
Creator:
Evans, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study of some Relationships between Level of Self-Concept, Academic Achievement and Classroom Adjustment
The purpose of this study is two-fold: (1) to evaluate an instrument for measuring the self-concept of middle grade children; and (2) to determine the relationship of a middle-grade child's self-concept to his peer status, his classification by the teacher as a problem in behavior or classroom management, and to his academic achievement.
Date:
August 1953
Creator:
Reeder, Thelma Adams
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Differences in the Extent to which Certain Factors are Associated with the Success of Departments of Vocational Agriculture
The problem of this study is to determine if certain factors which may be associated with quality of programs of work are significantly different in the most successful departments of vocational agriculture in selected areas of Texas from those in the least successful departments in the same areas. A consideration of the following sub-problems is involved in solving the main problem. 1. Evolution of the objectives of vocational education in agriculture. 2. Identification of activities denoting success in departments of vocational agriculture. 3. Selecting the most successful and the least successful departments of vocational agriculture. 4. Determining the relationship of certain factors to the success of departments of vocational agriculture.
Date:
August 1955
Creator:
Shelton, Rodney F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine the Validity of the Uniform-Assessment Assumption Implied in the Use of Certain Measures of Local Taxpaying Ability in Arkansas
This study examines the assumption that property is assessed uniformly from district to district in Arkansas.
Date:
January 1956
Creator:
Garner, Curtis R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Validity of the Texas Economic Index
Since the economic index is one of the two instruments which are so important to the financing of every school district of the state, and since the index is a hypothetical measure, it should be studied at regular intervals. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to re-examine the economic index used in Texas school finance for the purpose of determining its validity.
Date:
January 1956
Creator:
Simpson, Edgar Randell
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Certain School Practices and Dropout Rates of the High Schools of Arkansas
The problem of this study was to determine the relationship between dropout rates of the high schools of Arkansas and certain school practices.
Date:
June 1963
Creator:
Cook, Kenneth Oscar, 1922-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Interrelationship of Secondary Student Teacher's Sociability, Teaching Field, and Method of Instruction
This problem involves an effort to determine the interrelationship of groups of secondary student teachers' sociabilities, first teaching field choice and preference of lecture or group method of instruction.
Date:
May 1963
Creator:
Crosthwait, Charles, 1929-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Predicting Achievement in a Graduate School of Education
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationships between selected criteria and academic achievement in graduate studies leading to certain master's degrees in education at North Texas State University. The major areas in education which were included were Elementary Education, Elementary School Administration and Supervision, Secondary Education, Secondary School Administration and Supervision, and Physical Education. Graduate grade-point average was used as the criterion for academic achievement.
Date:
June 1963
Creator:
Hughes, Billie Edward, 1927-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of Composite Predictors of Reading Success in the First Grade
The problem of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of certain predictors of reading success and to determine which combination of these predictors was most reliable in predicting reading success.
Date:
June 1963
Creator:
Nash, Pat Neff, 1922-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Principal's Evaluations of Professional Behavior Characteristics of Secondary School Teachers and These Teachers' Self-Descriptions
The problem of this study was to ascertain the relationship between secondary school principals' evaluation of professional behavior patterns of secondary teachers and these teachers' self-descriptions.
Date:
May 1963
Creator:
Redden, Joseph Eugene, 1918-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Teacher as a Character in American Drama
The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the teacher as represented through characters in successful American commercial drama.
Date:
August 1963
Creator:
Crow, Porter Jackson, 1922-
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
A Measurement of Social Studies Achievement in the Primary Grades
The problem of the study was to develop an instrument to measure achievement in social studies in the primary grades.
Date:
August 1963
Creator:
Henson, Rosa May
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Two Methods of Listening and Reading Training in an Eighth Grade Language Arts Program
The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of two methods of listening and reading instruction when used in the language arts programs at the eighth-grade level as related to listening, reading, study skills, and English achievement. Two groups were studied; one was an experimental group receiving programed material present by the Listen and Read Program and a control group receiving instruction through the regular classroom program.
Date:
August 1963
Creator:
Kraner, Robert Eugene, 1933-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Description, Analysis and Evaluation of Three Approaches to the Teaching of Reading
The problem is to describe, analyze, and evaluate three approaches to the teaching of reading in grades one through six in selected school districts in a California county. The three approaches are 1) the Basic Reading Approach, 2) the Individualized Reading Approach, and 3) the Language Experience Approach to reading.
Date:
August 1963
Creator:
Lane, Kenneth Boyd, 1923-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Personal Characteristics in Secondary School Social Studies Student Teachers as Related to Certain Measures of Potential Teaching Behavior
The purpose of this study was to search for relationships of certain personal characteristics (authoritarianism, philosophy of social education, and instructional preferences) of a representative group of social studies student teachers to measures respectively of a) their classroom behavioral traits, b) their classroom teaching activities, and c) their pupils' classroom behavior.
Date:
August 1963
Creator:
Liu, Shia-Ling, 1922-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Personality Integration and Creativity
This study has two major purposes. The first of these is to formulate a theoretical model which 1) provides an ontological and psychological framework for the concept of creativity, and 2) if non-contradictory empirical data are produced, provides a philosophic and psychological guide to effective action relevant to the development of creative skill. The second major purpose is to formulate and test a problem and hypotheses which would provide some empirical evidence of the explanatory adequacy of the model, and outside the scope of theoretical material, to produce data of general interest to any reader regardless of his theoretical orientation.
Date:
August 1963
Creator:
Luker, William Allen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Some Characteristics of College Freshmen According to Sex and Ethnic Group and the Relationship of these Characteristics to Academic Achievement
The purpose of the present study was to determine if differences exist between selected groups of male and female Anglo-American and Latin-American students with respect to scholastic aptitude as measured by the American College Test, temperament traits as measured by the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey, and beliefs in traditional values as measured by the Inventory of Beliefs.
Date:
August 1963
Creator:
Vaughan, George Ellis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Teacher Judgments as Related to Certain Predictors of Artistic Creativity in Senior High-School Students
The problem of this study was to ascertain the degree and kind of relation which might exist between a) certain measured indices of general creativity, ingenuity, and artistic judgment, and b) teacher judgments of artistic creativity within a senior high-school art population. One of the major purposes of this study was to identify a test or tests of creativity which might be used with senior high-school students to find those students with artistic potential who either should be counseled into art classes or for whom particular kinds of teaching procedures should be developed.
Date:
January 1964
Creator:
Alford, Mary Lee, 1912-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of the Interrelationship of Intelligence, Achievement, and Socio-Economic Status in a Selected Population of High-School Seniors
The problem of this study was to determine the interrelationship of intelligence, socio-economic status, and ten subtest measures of achievement in a selected population of high-school seniors. In addition to the general problem, the specific problems were as follows: 1. To determine the relative independence of dependence of each of the variables in relation to their influence on each of the other variables. 2. To determine the degree of predictive validity with which behavioral regression equations can be used in terms of intelligence, achievement, and socio-economic status.
Date:
January 1964
Creator:
Jordan, Billy H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Analysis of the Results of Two Approaches to Reading Instruction upon Seventh Grade Students
This study was concerned with making a comparative analysis of reading skills development resulting from two different approaches to reading instruction at the seventh-grade level. The two approaches were: (a) instruction emphasizing specifically the reading skills, Approach A, and (b) instruction using the regular classroom activities approach, Approach B.
Date:
January 1964
Creator:
Martin, Lois Estelle, 1914-
System:
The UNT Digital Library