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A Study to Determine the Validity of the Uniform-Assessment Assumption Implied in the Use of Certain Measures of Local Taxpaying Ability in Arkansas (open access)

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 (open access)

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
An Analysis of Certain Factors Associated with Financing Capital Outlay for Texas Public Schools (open access)

An Analysis of Certain Factors Associated with Financing Capital Outlay for Texas Public Schools

The problem of this study is to determine the desirable characteristics of a sound program for financing Texas public school buildings--commensurate with need and with an equitable relation between state and local effort.
Date: June 1956
Creator: Herndon, Allen James
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine a Sound Pattern of Teacher Education for Teachers for Modern Public Schools of a Democracy (open access)

A Study to Determine a Sound Pattern of Teacher Education for Teachers for Modern Public Schools of a Democracy

The problem is to develop a sound pattern of teacher education that will produce teachers capable of functioning adequately in modern public schools of a democracy.
Date: August 1956
Creator: Kearns, James Kell
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selected Factors of Group Interaction and their Relation with Leadership Performance (open access)

Selected Factors of Group Interaction and their Relation with Leadership Performance

The purpose of this study lies in its attempt to contribute to the understanding of leadership in small groups of boys in a conceptual framework that considers leadership as a dynamic interacting process rather than the summation of individual traits.
Date: August 1956
Creator: Lanning, Frank W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stability of Interest of College Students (open access)

Stability of Interest of College Students

The problem of this study is to determine the stability of interest of male and female students at the various age levels in the School of Education of North Texas State Collage, Denton, Texas. To be more specific, the problem is to determine the relationship of age, sex, or both upon stability of interest.
Date: August 1956
Creator: Pollan, William D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Considerations in Selecting, Developing, and Validating Laboratory Experience Units in General Biology for Prospective Elementary School Teachers (open access)

Considerations in Selecting, Developing, and Validating Laboratory Experience Units in General Biology for Prospective Elementary School Teachers

The primary purpose of this study was to develop the considerations and techniques for the selection, development, and validation of laboratory experience units in general biology for prospective elementary school teachers. The completed laboratory experience unites developed in this study may serve as resources of activities for college instructors who teach general biology to undergraduate majors in elementary education. For purposes of this study the laboratory experience unites were centered about those principles of general biology which an elementary school teacher should understand in order to teach about plants and animals.
Date: August 1956
Creator: Syrocki, Boleslaus John, 1912-
System: The UNT Digital Library
A History of Howard Payne College with Emphasis on the Life and Administration of Thomas H. Taylor (open access)

A History of Howard Payne College with Emphasis on the Life and Administration of Thomas H. Taylor

Unpublished dissertation on the history of Howard Payne College and events leading up to its creation, and Thomas H. Taylor.
Date: 1956
Creator: Hinton, William Harwood
System: The Portal to Texas History