Educational Background and Judgment Ability in a Group of 300 Delinquent Boys as Reflected by the Information and Comprehension Subtest of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (open access)

Educational Background and Judgment Ability in a Group of 300 Delinquent Boys as Reflected by the Information and Comprehension Subtest of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children

It was the purpose of this study to attempt to discover if the educational background and judgment ability of juvenile delinquents are markedly impaired, as indicated by the Information and Comprehension subtest scores of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Buresh, Martin C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Differences between High and Low Creative University Students on an Objective Measure of Personality (open access)

Differences between High and Low Creative University Students on an Objective Measure of Personality

This study was conducted to determine if high-creative college students differ from low-creative college students on an objective measure of personality. An additional purpose was to determine if university drama majors are more creative than non-drama majors.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Williams, Jackson D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Clothing Interest and Self-Concept in Female Undergraduate College Students (open access)

The Relationship between Clothing Interest and Self-Concept in Female Undergraduate College Students

This study sought to examine the relationship between the variable of clothing interest and the five self-concept variables or scales. These are defensive positiveness, general maladjustment, psychosis, personality disorder, and neurosis similarity in scale score to a neurotic population.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Dulin, Anthony P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Anxiety, Reported Ability to Swim, and a Perceptual-Motor Skill (open access)

The Relationship of Anxiety, Reported Ability to Swim, and a Perceptual-Motor Skill

The problems relevant to this study are concerned with the effect of specific performance criteria on the MAS. The purpose of this study is to determine if MAS scores are related to the following: (1) a subject's inability to swim, (2) a subject's performance on a pursuit rotor task, (3) the effects of an interaction of these criteria.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Sick, Robert H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Incidental Learning in a Classroom Type Situation (open access)

A Study of Incidental Learning in a Classroom Type Situation

This paper contends that, like children of average intelligence, there is a degree of material that will be learned by the retardate, even if his attention is not directly brought to bear upon that material.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Siegel, Edward M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of Sophisticated Toys in Play-Therapy with Twelve Year Old Children (open access)

The Effectiveness of Sophisticated Toys in Play-Therapy with Twelve Year Old Children

It is the aim of this investigation to compare the use of normally recommended toys, ordinarily used in the play-therapy setting, with more sophisticated, "grown-up" toys, when working with twelve-year-old children.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Klinger, Ronald L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use of the Rorschach Test in Evaluating Intellectual Levels of Functioning Between Normals and Mental Retardates (open access)

The Use of the Rorschach Test in Evaluating Intellectual Levels of Functioning Between Normals and Mental Retardates

The purpose of the present study was to determine the differences in certain Rorschach Test variables obtained from normal, mildly retarded, and moderately retarded boys and girls.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Edwards, Liston G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Changes in Attitudes, Personality, and Effectiveness of Counselor Trainees in Counseling Practicums (open access)

Changes in Attitudes, Personality, and Effectiveness of Counselor Trainees in Counseling Practicums

The purpose of this study was to compare three different approaches to the counselor practicum—-or campus practicum, an off-campus practicum, and a role-playing practicum—-with regard to the changes in attitudes, personality, and effectiveness of counseling behavior of counselor trainees produced by each type of practicum.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Anderson, Sharon Jane
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Course Content of Life, Earth, and Physical Science Programs in Selected Texas Junior High Schools (open access)

The Course Content of Life, Earth, and Physical Science Programs in Selected Texas Junior High Schools

The purpose of the study was to determine the agreement between reported levels of emphasis of course content topics suitable for the junior high school and the optimum level of emphasis as it was recommended by Texas science supervisors and national science education specialists.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Moore, Joe M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Texas Supervisor of Secondary Student Teachers (open access)

A Study of the Texas Supervisor of Secondary Student Teachers

The problem of this study was to determine the status and practices of supervisors of secondary student teachers in Texas colleges and universities and to compare these practices with those practices recommended by national authorities in the field of student teaching.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Barnett, John B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Practices of American History Teachers in Selected Texas Secondary Schools (open access)

A Study of the Practices of American History Teachers in Selected Texas Secondary Schools

The problem of this study was the relationship between practices reported by American history teachers in selected Texas secondary schools and practices recommended by three groups of social studies authorities.
Date: January 1968
Creator: John, Douglas Odell
System: The UNT Digital Library
Predicting Student Teaching Behavior from Needs Profiles by Comparison with Sociometrically Defined Groups (open access)

Predicting Student Teaching Behavior from Needs Profiles by Comparison with Sociometrically Defined Groups

The problem of this study was the prediction of aggressive, submissive, and normal student teaching behavior by the use of needs profiles from sociometrically defined groups of education students. The criteria profiles were constructed using beginning education students, and prediction was made on a student teaching population.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Clary, Eldon Gandy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perceptions of the Actual and Ideal Roles of Public School Superintendents in Texas (open access)

Perceptions of the Actual and Ideal Roles of Public School Superintendents in Texas

The problem of this study was to compare concepts of the actual and ideal roles of school superintendents as they are perceived by school superintendents and by school board presidents.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Sandler, Steven
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Frustration Tolerance Training on Young Institutionalized Retarded Children (open access)

Effects of Frustration Tolerance Training on Young Institutionalized Retarded Children

The major problem investigated was to ascertain the extent to which a training program designed specifically to increase frustration tolerance would reduce selected behavioral problems in institutionalized mentally retarded children. Of lesser importance was the problem of examining the extent to which the prescribed training program had differential effects on brain-injured and non-brain-injured retarded children.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Landrum, Jerry Lynn
System: The UNT Digital Library