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Relationship between Social Service Interests and Temperament Traits of Home Economics Education Majors (open access)

Relationship between Social Service Interests and Temperament Traits of Home Economics Education Majors

The purpose of this thesis is to determine whether a relationship exists between the social service score of the Kuder Preference Record of home economics education majors and their Guilford Martin Temperament Trait scores.
Date: May 1955
Creator: O'Rear, Anita Pemberton
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determined Energy Value of Dormitory Meals (open access)

Determined Energy Value of Dormitory Meals

This thesis examines the caloric values of meals served in a college dormitory.
Date: August 1956
Creator: Robinson, Mary
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Background Variables of Negro High School Youth in the Texas Cooperative Youth Study (open access)

An Analysis of the Background Variables of Negro High School Youth in the Texas Cooperative Youth Study

The purpose of the Texas Cooperative Youth Study was to gather basic data on the problems and interests of youth from youth themselves, their teachers, and their parents in the stages of early, middle, and late adolescence. The study was made to determine interests, attitudes, and concerns of youth in relation to home and family life; to determine whether homemaking education in the school takes into account these concerns and attitudes; and to find out whether interest in homemaking education is related to selected background and sociological variables.
Date: August 1958
Creator: Scott, Lottie Ed
System: The UNT Digital Library
Implications of Leadership Roles for Learning (open access)

Implications of Leadership Roles for Learning

This study was conducted in an effort to determine whether or not the degree of growth in practical skills, personal and social development, and knowledge of subject matter content which an adolescent demonstrates is significantly related to the assumption of leadership roles in the classroom.
Date: August 1961
Creator: Priddy, Mary Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relation of Selected Background Variables of Negro Girls of Metropolitan High Schools to their Curriculum Interests in Foods (open access)

The Relation of Selected Background Variables of Negro Girls of Metropolitan High Schools to their Curriculum Interests in Foods

It is the purpose of the present study to add to the growing source of information, so valuable to curriculum makers, by studying the relationship of certain background variables to the Negro girl's curriculum in foods. The background variables included in this study are age, siblings, residence, father's occupation, and mother's education.
Date: January 1962
Creator: Chatmon, Bettie C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contributions of a Social Fundamentals Course to the Adjustment Progress of College Students (open access)

Contributions of a Social Fundamentals Course to the Adjustment Progress of College Students

The purpose of this study is determine whether increased knowledge of social conduct is accompanied by the personal and social adjustment of freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors; then to compare the adjustment progress of the college groups.
Date: August 1952
Creator: Gresham, Ena McWilliams
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of Films in Summarizing Food Units for Homemaking Classes (open access)

The Effectiveness of Films in Summarizing Food Units for Homemaking Classes

It is the purpose of this study to compare the effectiveness of the film method with the pupil-teacher discussion method for summarizing certain food units.
Date: August 1952
Creator: Maughan, Marie A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Factors in the Development of Personality Traits in College Students Enrolled in Social Fundamentals Classes (open access)

Some Factors in the Development of Personality Traits in College Students Enrolled in Social Fundamentals Classes

Working with students in social fundamentals classes in which social comprehension has been found to influence the development of these traits, this study attempts to determine whether sex, college classification and subject-matter are factors in the development of objectivity, agreeableness, and cooperativeness.
Date: August 1954
Creator: James, Emily Watson
System: The UNT Digital Library
A One-Year Study of Job Stability in the Lunchrooms of the Dallas Independent School District (open access)

A One-Year Study of Job Stability in the Lunchrooms of the Dallas Independent School District

The present study was undertaken to investigate some of the factors influencing job stability among the women employees of the Dallas Independent School District's lunchrooms.
Date: August 1961
Creator: Gibson, Joan Nowlin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationships Between the Differential Aptitude Test and Achievement Scores of Home Economics Education Majors (open access)

Relationships Between the Differential Aptitude Test and Achievement Scores of Home Economics Education Majors

It is the purpose of this study to contribute to the information essential to sound guidance by determining whether the aptitudes of college students in Home Economics, as measured by the Differential Aptitude Test, are reflected in the actual achievement grades of these students.
Date: June 1955
Creator: Fuqua, Anna Lou
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Two Types of Home Project Report Forms (open access)

A Comparison of Two Types of Home Project Report Forms

The purpose of the present study is to compare two forms of home project reports and to determine the preferred form.
Date: August 1952
Creator: Moore, Marian Buell
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Protein Content of Nursery School Lunches and "Second" Servings when a Multi-Purpose Food is Used as a Substitute or as a Supplement (open access)

The Protein Content of Nursery School Lunches and "Second" Servings when a Multi-Purpose Food is Used as a Substitute or as a Supplement

This thesis examines the protein content of nursery school lunches and "second" servings when a multi-purpose food is used as a substitute or as a supplement.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Cox, Maeona
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Antioxidant Ascorbic Acid upon the Ascorbic Acid Content of Certain Frozen Fruits (open access)

The Effect of Antioxidant Ascorbic Acid upon the Ascorbic Acid Content of Certain Frozen Fruits

The purpose of this study is to determine the reduced and dehydroascorbic acid of certain frozen fruits prepared with and without ascorbic acid as an antioxidant.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Crow, Lucy Stuart
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Influence of Social Comprehension on the Adjustment of College Students (open access)

The Influence of Social Comprehension on the Adjustment of College Students

The purpose of this investigation is to extend the study of the influence of social comprehension on the adjustment of college students by (1) determining the adjustment progress of students in the social fundamentals classes, and (2) comparing the adjustment progress of men and women in these home economics classes with the progress of men and women in other subject-matter fields.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Randolph, Vannie Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Calcium, Phosphorus, and Magnesium Content of Nursery School Lunches (open access)

The Calcium, Phosphorus, and Magnesium Content of Nursery School Lunches

The purpose of the present study is to determine the calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium content of the composite food, mid-morning fruit juice, fluid milk, and "seconds" of nursery school lunches.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Spence, Betty Daniels
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relative Effectiveness of Two Methods of Teaching Personal Development to Homemaking Girls (open access)

Relative Effectiveness of Two Methods of Teaching Personal Development to Homemaking Girls

The question as to whether to teach personality development as a separate unit or to include it as an integral part of the total homemaking program became a problem which required careful investigation. It became the purpose of this study, therefore, to determine whether more measurable growth in personality is achieved by teaching a special unit in personality than by including such subject matter as an integral part of the homemaking program.
Date: 1950
Creator: Fagg, Carmen Bernice
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use of Weight and Height in Calculating Lean Body Mass Indexes of Young College Women (open access)

The Use of Weight and Height in Calculating Lean Body Mass Indexes of Young College Women

Since no lean body mass (LBM) index was available for women, the purpose of the present study was to use the formula of Behnke et al. in the calculation of an LBM Index for women.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Hartman, Billye Reynolds
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Home Experience Phase of the Vocational Homemaking Program in Saint Jo High School (open access)

A Study of the Home Experience Phase of the Vocational Homemaking Program in Saint Jo High School

There seemed to be an urgent need for the improvement of attitudes toward home experiences from the viewpoints of both homemaking teachers and homemaking pupils. Also, there appeared to be a need for the improvement of procedures used in planning, reporting, and evaluating home experiences. Because of these needs this study was made during the 1961-1962 school year in the Saint Jo High School, Saint Jo, Texas.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Phillips, Gloria Jones
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of the Calculated Creatinine Coefficients of Young College Women (open access)

A Comparison of the Calculated Creatinine Coefficients of Young College Women

The purpose of the present study is to compare the calculated creatinine coefficients of young college women based on lean body mass weight with those based on actual body weight.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Straughn, Dorothy M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Adolescents' Concepts of Their Relationship with Their Families (open access)

A Study of Adolescents' Concepts of Their Relationship with Their Families

This study was conducted in an effort to examine: (1) adolescents' concepts of their relationships with their families, (2) possible correlations between adolescents' percentile ranks indicated in family relationships with a limited number of other factors which appear to be associated with personal and social adjustment, and (3) any significant differences in responses of adolescent girls enrolled in homemaking education and those not currently enrolled in homemaking.
Date: August 1962
Creator: Williams, Rubye L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Predicting the Success of Homemaking Teachers from Interest and Personality Scores (open access)

Predicting the Success of Homemaking Teachers from Interest and Personality Scores

This thesis attempts to predict the success of homemaking teachers from interest and personality scores.
Date: 1956
Creator: Wilson, Patsy Taylor
System: The UNT Digital Library
Background Variables Affecting the Clothing Interests of High School Girls in Metropolitan Groups (open access)

Background Variables Affecting the Clothing Interests of High School Girls in Metropolitan Groups

Using the data collected in the CYS (5), it is the purpose of the present study to show the relationships of certain background variables to the clothing interests of high school girls in metropolitan groups. Specifically, it proposes to answer the question, does the student's age, the number of siblings, the father's education, or the father's occupation influence these interests?
Date: 1958
Creator: Boswell, Mary Middleton
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Influence of the Concerns of Metropolitan Negro High School Girls on their Curriculum Interest in Money Management (open access)

The Influence of the Concerns of Metropolitan Negro High School Girls on their Curriculum Interest in Money Management

The purpose of the present study is to determine whether or not the metropolitan Negro girl's concerns and attitudes are factors in her interest in curriculum items of money management. The concerns and attitudes include authoritarian discipline, family tensions, resentment to family life style, financial troubles, family problems, self inadequacy, personal adjustment, and resentment to dependency.
Date: 1958
Creator: Haynes, Ethel Britt
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Influence of Sociological Variables on Personal, Family, and Community Relationships Curriculum Interests of High School Negro Girls in Medium Communities (open access)

A Study of the Influence of Sociological Variables on Personal, Family, and Community Relationships Curriculum Interests of High School Negro Girls in Medium Communities

It is the purpose of this study to investigate the influence of age, siblings, family structure, religious beliefs, mother's occupation, father's occupation, homemaking courses taken, status of parents, number of rooms in home, and students' work hours after school on the Negro girl's interest in curriculum items on personal, family and community relationships.
Date: 1958
Creator: Hunt, Louvenia Bell
System: The UNT Digital Library