A Comparative Study of Dallas Employment Requisites for Stenographers and Secretarial Qualifications of Students at Forest Avenue High School (open access)

A Comparative Study of Dallas Employment Requisites for Stenographers and Secretarial Qualifications of Students at Forest Avenue High School

The problem in this study has a three-fold purpose: to learn the likenesses and differences of the small and large business offices of Dallas, Texas, in regard to their employment requirements for the beginning stenographer; to determine to what extent the average Dallas high school graduate shows the characteristics that are requisite for secretarial success; and to evaluate the learnings of secretarial students in Forest Avenue High School, Dallas, Texas, in view of these findings.
Date: 1946
Creator: Fetterman, Ruth Evelyn
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of the Social and Academic Status of Private Pre-school and Public School Children in the Second Year of a Dallas Elementary School (open access)

A Comparative Study of the Social and Academic Status of Private Pre-school and Public School Children in the Second Year of a Dallas Elementary School

This study will endeavor to make a comparative study of seventeen children in the second grade in an elementary school in Dallas that attended private schools and omitted the first year of the public school, and seventeen children that are in the second grade after completing the first grade in the public school. The purpose of the study in comparing the social and academic status of the two groups is to determine if the non-scholastic child after a year of private school is able to adjust and accomplish an academic and social status on the level of the second year of the public school as compared with children of school age that have been through the first year and are now in their second year.
Date: 1947
Creator: Aldredge, Ruby
System: The UNT Digital Library
A History of the Crozier Technical High School of Dallas, Texas (open access)

A History of the Crozier Technical High School of Dallas, Texas

The purpose of this thesis is to present a history of the establishment and growth of the Crozier Technical High School in Dallas, Texas, with special emphasis placed upon technical phases of the school curriculum and the concrete outcomes in terms of actual results ascertained from the graduates.
Date: 1943
Creator: Hayes, Elmore Onslow
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Problem of Juvenile Delinquency in Dallas and the Educational Program as a Medium of Attack (open access)

The Problem of Juvenile Delinquency in Dallas and the Educational Program as a Medium of Attack

It is the purpose of this study to determine to what extent the present educational program in Dallas, Texas, is meeting the problem of juvenile delinquency. To determine this, an analysis will be made of the types of conduct deviations of juveniles, of modern educational psychology, and the relation between these two things.
Date: 1947
Creator: Hill, Irvin
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey and Critical Analysis of the Pre-Primers Taught in the Dallas County Schools (open access)

A Survey and Critical Analysis of the Pre-Primers Taught in the Dallas County Schools

The purpose of the study was to get the essential information about the pre-primers that were taught in the Dallas County Schools, and to take a representative group and evaluate them as to the merits of the books for classroom use.
Date: 1948
Creator: Jefferies, Evie
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Appraisal of the Practice of Homemaking in the Dallas Junior High Schools (open access)

The Appraisal of the Practice of Homemaking in the Dallas Junior High Schools

The problem in this study is to make the appraisal of the practice of homemaking in the Dallas junior high schools.
Date: 1943
Creator: Enderby, Lillian
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Suggested City-Excursion Program for Social Studies in the Junior High Schools of Dallas, Texas, with Emphasis on Functional Citizenship (open access)

A Suggested City-Excursion Program for Social Studies in the Junior High Schools of Dallas, Texas, with Emphasis on Functional Citizenship

The purpose of the investigation was two fold: first, to analyze the school excursion as a teaching and learning aid; and second, to develop a suggested school-excursion program for the social studies in the junior high schools of Dallas, base upon the findings and evaluations reported by educational observers and by experienced users of excursions.
Date: 1948
Creator: Crawford, Ethel Gertrude
System: The UNT Digital Library
A History of the Dallas Public Evening Schools (open access)

A History of the Dallas Public Evening Schools

The purpose of this study is to collect and to preserve existing data and information concerning the history and growth of the Dallas Public Evening Schools. The study will show how Dallas has been interested in the promotion and extension of education at all levels of learning, whether the learner is of the age to attend public school or has reached the age of eighty or more.
Date: 1947
Creator: Wells, Zada
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Educational Value of the Comics (open access)

The Educational Value of the Comics

This study is made to determine any educational values to be derived from the use of the comics. The problem shall be to show (1) what those values are, (2) how they shall be attained, and (3) which comics are best suited to aid in the attainment of those values, as shown by the data to be assembled.
Date: 1948
Creator: Barton, Lillie V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship Between Delinquency and the Home in Lisbon School, Dallas, Texas (open access)

The Relationship Between Delinquency and the Home in Lisbon School, Dallas, Texas

The question arises, how are the homes in the Lisbon School District contributing to delinquency? The answer to this question is the problem for this study.
Date: 1948
Creator: Kendrick, Searcy Laura
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of a Method of Making Sixth Grade Arithmetic Meaningful (open access)

An Evaluation of a Method of Making Sixth Grade Arithmetic Meaningful

The problem of this study is to analyze and evaluate methods of making sixth grade arithmetic meaningful. In the accomplishment of the purpose, the writer made an intensive investigation into teaching methods of arithmetic as set forth by writers from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day, with special interest centered upon the place of the teacher in the development and utilization of meaningful situations.
Date: 1948
Creator: McKinnon, Bobbie Sue Moore
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Personality to Accident-Prone and Accident-Free Pupils in the North Dallas High School (open access)

The Relationship of Personality to Accident-Prone and Accident-Free Pupils in the North Dallas High School

It is the purpose of this study to determine the relationship between personality and accident-proneness in a group of pupils in the North Dallas High School.
Date: 1949
Creator: Thompson, Billye Faye
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Functional Rhythm Activity Program of Thomas A. Edison School (open access)

A Functional Rhythm Activity Program of Thomas A. Edison School

The purpose of a rhythm activity program in the Thomas A. Edison School is to achieve the following: 1. The building within each child a better coordination of mind and body. 2. The satisfying of each child with a knowledge that he has the ability of achievement. 3. A healthful, happy, and social relationship between the sexes. 4. For the pupil the realization of the pure joy and exhilaration of living. 5. Poise and self confidence within the child. 6. The carrying over of this program into other closely related classes such as, playground, art, auditorium, and music. 7. An ambition within each pupil to make his community life more desirable.
Date: 1948
Creator: Herzinger, Faye Poe
System: The UNT Digital Library
Administrative Problems Involved in Promoting the Building Programs of Dallas County (open access)

Administrative Problems Involved in Promoting the Building Programs of Dallas County

If the future citizens of tomorrow are to be educated, they must have, for one thing, at least, buildings in which to supply their needs adequately. This study is made with the realization that the physical plant does not make a good school, but with the idea that it does help a great deal.
Date: 1948
Creator: Douglas, Erwin D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Carrollton Elementary School, Carrollton, Texas (open access)

An Evaluation of the Carrollton Elementary School, Carrollton, Texas

The purpose of this study was to determine the present status of the Carrollton Elementary School, Carrollton, Texas. Further study was directed toward notations of major needs and next steps for improvement.
Date: 1949
Creator: Kent, E. L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of the Growth and Development of Extra-Curricular Activities in Woodrow Wilson High School 1929-1949 (open access)

A Survey of the Growth and Development of Extra-Curricular Activities in Woodrow Wilson High School 1929-1949

This study of the extra-curricular activities of the Woodrow Wilson High School of Dallas, Texas, was made to determine who and why each of the activities developed, the life span of each, the percentage of the student body enrolled in the various groups, and the value of each extra-curricular activity from the viewpoint of the teachers, of the students, and of authorities in the field.
Date: 1949
Creator: Cooper, Edith Roberts
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship of Children's Attitudes toward Some Social Problems and Personality Adjustment (open access)

Relationship of Children's Attitudes toward Some Social Problems and Personality Adjustment

The problem chosen for investigation was to attempt to determine the relationship of children's attitude toward some social problems and their personality adjustment.
Date: 1949
Creator: Darnall, Julia Josephine
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Evaluation of Four Dallas Elementary School Libraries (open access)

The Evaluation of Four Dallas Elementary School Libraries

This study was undertaken in an attempt to discover the adequacy of the libraries when they were measured by certain established criteria. The ultimate purpose is to improve the weaknesses which might be found and to improve the services of the libraries in question.
Date: 1950
Creator: Herndon, Evelyn
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Sociometric Study of Peer Acceptance Between Mixed Groups of Latin and Anglo-American School Children on the Pre-Adolescent Level (open access)

A Sociometric Study of Peer Acceptance Between Mixed Groups of Latin and Anglo-American School Children on the Pre-Adolescent Level

It is the purpose of this study to aid in determining to what extent Anglo and Latin-American school children on the preadolescent level accept one another in terms of mutual friendship choices, and to find evidence relating to the optimum racial proportion for the purpose of future classroom ethnic distributions.
Date: 1950
Creator: Holloway, Harold D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Value of Filmstrips in the Third Grade (open access)

The Value of Filmstrips in the Third Grade

The purpose of this study is to determine the possible influence of the use of filmstrip material upon a group of third-grade pupils as compared with another group of third-grade pupils not using filmstrip materials.
Date: 1950
Creator: Adair, Elva Gaynelle
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Peer Acceptance in a Heterogeneous Socio-Economic Population (open access)

A Study of Peer Acceptance in a Heterogeneous Socio-Economic Population

The primary purpose of this study was to determine the effect of socio-economic levels on the sociability of pupils of the Hillcrest High School in Dallas, Texas.
Date: 1949
Creator: Flocke, Otto Robert
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of an Evolving Curriculum in the Dallas Elementary Schools (open access)

An Evaluation of an Evolving Curriculum in the Dallas Elementary Schools

The problem of this study is a critical evaluation of some of the objectives and practices in the development of an evolving curriculum in the Dallas Elementary Schools. The criteria are based on the implications found in the study of the ideals of a democracy and the psychology of human growth and learning.
Date: 1950
Creator: George, Cora Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Exploration of the Possible Use of the Sociometric Test in Studying Residents of Homes for the Aged (open access)

An Exploration of the Possible Use of the Sociometric Test in Studying Residents of Homes for the Aged

It is proposed in this thesis to explore the possible use of the Sociometric test as a measure of the personal social factor in old age. It is further proposed to gather sociometric data by administering a sociometric test to the residents of two homes for aged persons in Dallas County, Texas, and to illustrate by sociograms and tables the uses for which such data might be of value in research designed to investigate the personal social factor in old age.
Date: 1950
Creator: Secker, Martin D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Discover how the Development of an Integrating Personality is Influenced by Defective Speech and to Offer Therapeutic Measures for the Children in the Oran M. Roberts School, Dallas, Texas (open access)

A Study to Discover how the Development of an Integrating Personality is Influenced by Defective Speech and to Offer Therapeutic Measures for the Children in the Oran M. Roberts School, Dallas, Texas

This study has been designed to discover how the development of an integrating personality is influenced by defective speech; to ascertain whether or not personal growth is promoted by the correction of said defects, and to discover therapeutic measures if such are warranted.
Date: 1950
Creator: Sigler, Maurice Rector
System: The UNT Digital Library