Adapting a Reading Program to Individual Differences (open access)

Adapting a Reading Program to Individual Differences

The problem of this study was to test the effectiveness of adapting the reading instruction to the level and ability of individuals or small groups of a particular group of second grade children.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Manning, Lucile
System: The UNT Digital Library
American Interests in the Cuban Revolt, 1868-1878 (open access)

American Interests in the Cuban Revolt, 1868-1878

This thesis describes the Cuban revolt of 1868-1878 and the interest it caused in the United States.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Watkins, Holland Dempsey
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Personnel Programs Currently in Use in Selected Texas Banks (open access)

An Analysis of Personnel Programs Currently in Use in Selected Texas Banks

It is the purpose of this study to survey and appraise the personnel programs currently in use in selected Texas banks.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Honea, Arthur A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of the Qualifications of Junior College Business Education Teachers in Texas with the Qualifications Desired by Junior College Presidents (open access)

A Comparison of the Qualifications of Junior College Business Education Teachers in Texas with the Qualifications Desired by Junior College Presidents

The purpose of this investigation was twofold, namely: 1. To determine the personal characteristics and qualifications of the junior college business teachers in Texas; 2. To determine how well these characteristics match the desired qualifications given by college hiring personnel--presidents.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Vail, Harold W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Differences in Social Behavior Between Elementary School Children Who Have Attended Nursery School and Those Who Have Not Attended Nursery School (open access)

Differences in Social Behavior Between Elementary School Children Who Have Attended Nursery School and Those Who Have Not Attended Nursery School

The purpose of this study is to attempt to discover any observable differences in social behavior between elementary school pupils who have attended nursery school and those who have had no nursery school experience.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Angell, Dorothy B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Physical Education Program of Arlington State College with Recommendations for Future Development (open access)

An Evaluation of the Physical Education Program of Arlington State College with Recommendations for Future Development

The problem undertaken in this investigation was that of making an evaluation of the Physical Education Program of Arlington State College with recommendations for future development.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Bearden, Burley
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guidance Work Practices in Class A Schools in Texas (open access)

Guidance Work Practices in Class A Schools in Texas

The objective of this thesis is to determine guidance practices in four-year, Class A High Schools in Texas by: (1) surveying related literature in the field of guidance to determine what the experts consider a good guidance program for secondary schools; (2) means of a survey in the form of a questionnaire, to determine what is actually being done in guidance work in Texas Class A Schools; (3) arriving at a conclusion concerning good guidance work practices for four year, Class A High Schools in Texas.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Copeland, Alva Beach
System: The UNT Digital Library
Implications of Social Class Structure and Developmental Tasks for Teaching Techniques in Home and Family Life Education (open access)

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
The Influence of Certain Factors on the Adjustment of College Students of Social Fundamentals (open access)

The Influence of Certain Factors on the Adjustment of College Students of Social Fundamentals

The purpose of this study is two-fold: (1) to determine whether students of either sex, or of any particular college class or subject matter major, make greater adjustment progress than students of the opposite sex, or of another college class or major field; and (2) to study the influence of these factors on the adjustment of college students of social fundamentals.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Phelps, Isabel Stuart
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interrelation of Personality Measurements (open access)

Interrelation of Personality Measurements

The purpose of this paper is to investigate one method of understanding why man behaves as he does--personality tests.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Pettit, Sophie L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Life in the Early Mining Camps of Colorado (open access)

Life in the Early Mining Camps of Colorado

The story of the advancing American frontier has unending interest. Perhaps one of the most colorful and unusual frontier developments was that of the mining frontier in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. During the years following the discovery of gold in 1858 and the early 1880's occurred an almost unprecedented evolution from a primitive pioneer society to complex industrial development.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Smith, Charles O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Nature of the Group Structure of the Parkland Hospital School of Nursing (open access)

The Nature of the Group Structure of the Parkland Hospital School of Nursing

This study is designed to investigate the nature of the group structure at the Parkland Hospital School of Nursing, Dallas, Texas.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Bear, Martha M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Production Control Systems of Nine Texas Shoe Manufacturers (open access)

Production Control Systems of Nine Texas Shoe Manufacturers

The general production control practices of the shoe industry are basically similar to the production planning of other small businesses in the consumer field. This study will reduce to concrete form the types of production control used by the shoe industry of Texas.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Worley, George Dow
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reciprocal Buying Practices of Selected Manufacturing Firms (open access)

Reciprocal Buying Practices of Selected Manufacturing Firms

The purpose of this study is to determine the manner in which a number of business concerns have dealt with the problem of reciprocity and how they are presently dealing with it.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Kissinger, Norris R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship of some Background Factors to Success of Student Nurses in the Parkland Hospital School of Nursing (open access)

Relationship of some Background Factors to Success of Student Nurses in the Parkland Hospital School of Nursing

Factors other than academic ones are important in the selection of the members of any profession, and in nursing it could quite well be that those non-academic elements are rather weighted in determining the success or failure of student nurses because of the very nature of their work. This thesis will look at academic as well as other factors that may influence the success of student nurses.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Uglow, Mary L.
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
Statesman from Texas, Roger Q. Mills (open access)

Statesman from Texas, Roger Q. Mills

This is a biography of Roger Quarles Mills and his contributions to Texas history.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Purifoy, Russell Albritton, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Subject Matter and Class Section as Factors in the Development of Personality Traits in College Students of Social Fundamentals (open access)

Subject Matter and Class Section as Factors in the Development of Personality Traits in College Students of Social Fundamentals

The purpose of the present study is to determine whether subject matter and the class section are factors in the development of certain personality traits in college students of social fundamentals. Specifically, the purposes are: (1) to determine whether subject matter field and class section are factors in the development of personality traits referred to as objectivity, agreeableness, and co-operativeness; and (2) to determine which subject matter fields and class sections are responsible for group differences.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Wood, Joyce McKeever
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of the Graduates of Technical High School, Fort Worth, Texas, from 1942-1952 to Determine the Effectiveness of the Training Program (open access)

A Survey of the Graduates of Technical High School, Fort Worth, Texas, from 1942-1952 to Determine the Effectiveness of the Training Program

The purpose of this study was to make a survey of the graduates of Technical High School of Fort Worth, Texas, for a period of ten years, from 1942 to 1952, to determine the effectiveness of the preparation they received in helping the graduates to choose a vocation and acquire the basic skills and attitudes that helped them in obtaining a position and to continue as successful workers.
Date: August 1954
Creator: McAbee, Robert M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of the Qualifications, Duties, and Problems of the Business Manager in the Public School Business Office (open access)

A Survey of the Qualifications, Duties, and Problems of the Business Manager in the Public School Business Office

The problem of this study is to survey the business manager system in public schools in accordance with the accepted standards and common practices regarding the preparation necessary for a person interested in becoming a business manager. Specifically, forty-six of the average school districts in Texas are evaluated by means of data received in a questionnaire in order to determine the requirements these schools set up for a business manager.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Cook, Jimmie F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Toy Preference of Pre-School Children (open access)

Toy Preference of Pre-School Children

The purpose of this study is to determine toy preference of pre-school-age children as a guide for parents and for homemaking students in the selection of toys.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Wattner, Pauline Miller
System: The UNT Digital Library
Workmen's Compensation Claims Administration in Texas (open access)

Workmen's Compensation Claims Administration in Texas

This study is devoted to a detailed survey of the claims administrative machinery of the State of Texas workman's compensation program.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Kinnaird, Donald Lewis
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Correspondence-improvement Program at Great American Reserve Insurance Company Dallas, Texas (open access)

An Analysis of the Correspondence-improvement Program at Great American Reserve Insurance Company Dallas, Texas

A preliminary purpose of this study in the area of business communications was that of determining the status of correspondence improvement in stock life insurance companies in Dallas. However, the major purpose, which stemmed from the preliminary one, was to study intensively the approach used in Great American.
Date: June 1954
Creator: Brock, Luther A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of Instructional Aids Available for Use in Teaching Automobile Mechanics and the Development of Additional Instructional Aids Suitable for Use in Teaching Automobile Mechanics in Industrial Arts at the Secondary Level (open access)

An Evaluation of Instructional Aids Available for Use in Teaching Automobile Mechanics and the Development of Additional Instructional Aids Suitable for Use in Teaching Automobile Mechanics in Industrial Arts at the Secondary Level

The purposes of this study are sixfold. They are as follows: 1. To study the various recommended courses of study for automobile mechanics and to ascertain the units of learning that are most commonly taught. 2. To obtain the various instructional aids that are available from the automotive industry to industrial arts teachers for use in teaching automobile mechanics at the secondary school level. 3. To develop suitable criteria for use in evaluating those instructional aids that are available. 4. To evaluate the instructional aids available in order to determine their probable effectiveness and practicability in teaching automobile mechanics. 5. To determine if there are instructional aids that can be developed and used by the instructor that are not available from commercial sources. 6. If there are instructional aids that can be developed but which are not available, one of the purposes of this study is to prepare plans and specifications for the construction of such aids.
Date: June 1954
Creator: Belknap, Alfred Rudy
System: The UNT Digital Library