A Study of the Relationship between the Running Broad Jump and the Standing Broad Jump and of the Validity of the Three Trial Method (open access)

A Study of the Relationship between the Running Broad Jump and the Standing Broad Jump and of the Validity of the Three Trial Method

The investigation proposes a comparative study to determine whether or not there is a relationship between the running broad jump and the standing broad jump based upon the results of the performances of two hundred and seventy girls enrolled in Jefferson Junior High School, Abilene, Texas, and to determine whether or not one of the three allowed performances consistently results in the greatest distance.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Sneed, Clara Janis
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Relationship between Aggressiveness and Wrestling Success of Men Students in Beginning Wrestling at North Texas State University (open access)

A Study of the Relationship between Aggressiveness and Wrestling Success of Men Students in Beginning Wrestling at North Texas State University

This was a study of the relationship between aggressiveness and wrestling success of men students enrolled for the first time in beginning wrestling in physical education classes at North Texas State University.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Wheeler, Charles M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Feelings of Insecurity on Personality Characteristics of Institutionalized Adolescent Boys (open access)

The Effect of Feelings of Insecurity on Personality Characteristics of Institutionalized Adolescent Boys

This study was an investigation of the relationship between feelings of insecurity of institutionalized delinquent boys and the following personality variables: Ascendancy, Responsibility, Emotional Stability, Sociability, Cautiousness, Original Thinking, Personal Relations, and Vigor.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Kanady, Berlin L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Relationship between Manifest Rigidity and Ethnocentric Attitude (open access)

A Study of the Relationship between Manifest Rigidity and Ethnocentric Attitude

This investigation was designed to add to and clarify, somewhat, the results of previous studies concerning the relationship between rigidity and ethnocentrism. A manifest rigidity scale, based on theory, was utilized to clarify existing confusion over what constitutes rigidity.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Krapfl, Jon E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Aggressiveness in Two Groups of First Born Children (open access)

Comparison of Aggressiveness in Two Groups of First Born Children

The problem with which this investigation was concerned was to determine whether or not age difference was related to aggressiveness scores of first-born children.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Lee, Bobby J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of the Standards Set by the Texas Education Agency for Certification of Teachers in Physical Education for Senior High School with Those of the Accrediting Agencies in the Other States of the Southern District of the American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (open access)

A Comparative Study of the Standards Set by the Texas Education Agency for Certification of Teachers in Physical Education for Senior High School with Those of the Accrediting Agencies in the Other States of the Southern District of the American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation

The following are the purposes of the study: 1. To obtain a basis for evaluation of certification of physical education teachers. 2. To compare certification standards of Texas with those of the other southern states. 3. To develop a better understanding of the standards set by the Texas Education Agency for physical education. 4. To gain a better understanding of the standards recommended by the American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Lindsey, Robert Curry
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Case Study of Union Organizing Strategies (open access)

A Case Study of Union Organizing Strategies

The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of a union organizational campaign among a group of women garment workers. The union that conducted the organizing drive was the International Ladies' Garment Worker's Union. The employees involved in the campaign were employed by the Russell-Newman Manufacturing Company in the North Texas community of Denton.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Oliver, John H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use of Audio-Visual Aids in the Conduct of Interscholastic Athletics for Boys in AA High Schools of Texas (open access)

The Use of Audio-Visual Aids in the Conduct of Interscholastic Athletics for Boys in AA High Schools of Texas

The purpose of this study was to make an investigation of the use of audio-visual aids in the conduct of interscholastic athletics for boys in AA High Schools in Texas.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Slaughter, Daniel, C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship of Self-Concept to Creativity (open access)

Relationship of Self-Concept to Creativity

The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to investigate the relationship between creativity and self-concept in grade school children, and (2) to discover if creative children see themselves as having traits that past studies have indicated are characteristic of creative individuals.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Smith, Brenda Dell
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Rigidity of Regional Boundaries as Found in Mental Retardates (open access)

A Study of the Rigidity of Regional Boundaries as Found in Mental Retardates

Previous studies on retardates with rigidity of boundaries phenomena have not been concerned with the presence of brain injury. The primary objective of this experiment was to ascertain the degree of difference in rigidity between brain injured and non-brain injured retardates.
Date: January 1965
Creator: Williams, Regnal Allen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Head Size Perception in Normal and Mentally Retarded Children (open access)

Head Size Perception in Normal and Mentally Retarded Children

The present study was designed to obtain evidence as to whether the distorted images drawn by mentally retarded subjects are possibly due to perceptual variables, to the lower level of motor coordination they experience, or to an interaction of both.
Date: June 1965
Creator: Jones, Randel R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Descriptive Study of First Admissions to a Private Psychiatric Hospital, 1940 and 1960 (open access)

A Descriptive Study of First Admissions to a Private Psychiatric Hospital, 1940 and 1960

This study compares selected social characteristics of first admissions to a private psychiatric hospital in the calendar years 1940 and 1960 with the white populations of Texas and Dallas County. In addition, this study compares selected background characteristics of first admissions to determine what, if any, change occurred in these characteristics between 1940 and 1960.
Date: May 1965
Creator: Kelsey, Martha J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship of Mental Ability Levels to Reversal of Learning Sets by the Retarded (open access)

Relationship of Mental Ability Levels to Reversal of Learning Sets by the Retarded

Using postulations formulated by Harlow, very few investigators have experimented with discriminative learning in relation to various levels of human mental abilities to the pattern of forming a set. The present study was designed to investigate the effects of different levels of mental abilities on the formation of these sets, using mental retardates, and analyzing the formation of these sets and the abilities of these retardates to shift dimension of cues by reversing the response conditions.
Date: June 1965
Creator: McDaniel, Willard Vearl
System: The UNT Digital Library
Consumer Protection in Texas (open access)

Consumer Protection in Texas

In the study, as a whole, the purpose is to present the major laws for consumer protection in Texas in the existing economy and determine the extent to which they meet consumer protection standards and where they fail to meet such standards.
Date: May 1965
Creator: Mangum, James N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Self Discrepancy to Perceived Problems of Graduate and Undergraduate Students (open access)

The Relationship of Self Discrepancy to Perceived Problems of Graduate and Undergraduate Students

The problem is to determine if there are discrepancies between self-ideal concept which come about through changes in position with respect to group standing, and to what problems specifically that change is related to.
Date: June 1965
Creator: Wierenga, Jon Karl
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Determination of the Number of Trials for a Valid Measure of Two Selected Skills (open access)

A Determination of the Number of Trials for a Valid Measure of Two Selected Skills

A study was made to determine the number of trials required for a valid measure of skill of seventh grade girls for the softball throw for distance and for the standing broad jump at MacArthur Junior High School in Beaumont, TX.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Fergason, Wanda D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Functioning of Immediate Verbal Feedback in Paired Associative Learning with Normals and Retardates (open access)

The Functioning of Immediate Verbal Feedback in Paired Associative Learning with Normals and Retardates

The central purpose of this study is to ascertain the function of immediate verbal feedback after each response on learning a paired associative task with normal and retarded subjects.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Ferrara, Joseph William
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Restricted, Remedial, and Adapted Programs of Physical Education for Boys in Selected Public High Schools in Texas (open access)

A Study of the Restricted, Remedial, and Adapted Programs of Physical Education for Boys in Selected Public High Schools in Texas

This study sought to answer the question: Are public high schools in Texas providing for the physically handicapped students? This was a descriptive study of the restricted, remedial, and adapted programs of physical education for boys in selected public high schools in Texas.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Hardaway, Robert Newton
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Recommendations of the Members of the North Texas Industrial Arts Association Relative to the Industrial Arts Programs of Eight State-Supported Institutions of Higher Learning (open access)

A Study of the Recommendations of the Members of the North Texas Industrial Arts Association Relative to the Industrial Arts Programs of Eight State-Supported Institutions of Higher Learning

The purpose of this thesis is two-fold: first, to study the current requirements for the baccalaureate degree in industrial arts in eight state-supported institutions; and second, to compare the recommendations of the members of the North Texas Industrial Arts Association with the existing programs in industrial arts in the state-supported institutions to determine what should constitute an adequate program for the prospective teacher in industrial arts.
Date: January 1965
Creator: Sebastian, Jimmy W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Rise and Decline of Jefferson, Texas (open access)

The Rise and Decline of Jefferson, Texas

This thesis examines the history of Jefferson, Marion County, Texas, and its cycle of prosperity and decline.
Date: January 1965
Creator: Cooner, Ben C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Delinquents and Non-Delinquents on a Delinquency Proneness Test (open access)

Comparison of Delinquents and Non-Delinquents on a Delinquency Proneness Test

The purpose of the present study was to develop further a semistructured nonverbal projective test to measure juvenile delinquency proneness. The goal in developing this test was to have a measure which would be free of the many limitations found in existing tests and scales of this nature.
Date: January 1965
Creator: Morgan, Joseph K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creative Stitchery in the Art Program of the Dallas Independent School District (open access)

Creative Stitchery in the Art Program of the Dallas Independent School District

The purpose of this study is to determine to what extent creative stitchery is used in the art program of the Dallas Independent School District, when it is found to be most valuable, and what limitations it is found to have.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Reeves, Wilma Carol
System: The UNT Digital Library
Use of the Reve Eveille Dirige (Guided Daydream) for Selection of Vocation and College Major (open access)

Use of the Reve Eveille Dirige (Guided Daydream) for Selection of Vocation and College Major

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the guided daydream technique as a method for selection of a vocation and major area of study by college students seeking vocational counseling. Choices made by each student were rated by three judges relative to their degree of correspondence with the results of a specific battery of vocational tests which that student had taken. The ratings of these students' choices were compared with similar ratings made by the same judges on a control group of students who had also made choices of vocation and college major but had not participated in the guided daydream session.
Date: January 1965
Creator: Patrick, Jerry Heard, 1933-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characteristics of High School Girls which May Lead to Early Marriage (open access)

Characteristics of High School Girls which May Lead to Early Marriage

The problem of this study was to isolate some of the characteristics of tenth-grade girls which may lead to early marriage. The characteristics studied were: sibling rank, influence of a broken home, parents* education and occupations, mental ability, aptitude, scholastic achievement, study habits and attitudes, and personal problems identified by the subjects. A further problem of the study was the effectiveness of each of the characteristics in predicting the marriage of high school girls.
Date: January 1965
Creator: Weaver, Hazel Stewart, 1960-
System: The UNT Digital Library