A Survey of the Activities of the High School Students and Adults in the Community Bounded by the School District of Springtown, Texas, to Determine the Economic, Physical, Religious, and Social Standards of the Community (open access)

A Survey of the Activities of the High School Students and Adults in the Community Bounded by the School District of Springtown, Texas, to Determine the Economic, Physical, Religious, and Social Standards of the Community

"...This interest developed into a four-fold problem: (1) to discover and report the history of the Springtown Independent School District, (2) to show the growth of this school district (3) to discover and report the activities in which the adults and high school students of this community participate and those in which they would like to take part; and (4) to determine the religious, social, and economic standards of the community."
Date: August 1939
Creator: Zeretzke, Albert
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ethical Knowledge of Counselors: A Survey of the Membership of the Texas Association for Counseling and Development (open access)

Ethical Knowledge of Counselors: A Survey of the Membership of the Texas Association for Counseling and Development

This study was designed to measure ten demographic membership variables of the Texas Association for Counseling and Development (TACD) and the respective relationships of those variables to ethical knowledge. It was also an effort to conduct a global study of the most recent revision (1988) of the AACD Ethical Standards and to find the relative knowledge of these standards by a random sample of 357 counselors in one state counseling organization.
Date: August 1992
Creator: Zibert, Jack (Jack Charles)
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Opinion Study of Language and Characteristics for a Model of Student Follow-Up Procedures in Texas Public Community Junior Colleges (open access)

An Opinion Study of Language and Characteristics for a Model of Student Follow-Up Procedures in Texas Public Community Junior Colleges

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is the design of a model for student follow-up procedures. This model is based on an analysis of the opinions of community junior college experts on the language and characteristics of a student follow-up system. This study has a twofold purpose. The first is to determine a consensus from the responses of experts on public community junior colleges regarding the important definitions, terminology, and characteristics of a student follow-up system. The second is to develop a model that can be implemented for student follow-up investigations.
Date: May 1981
Creator: Zielinski, Joseph
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Critical Evaluation of the Arkadelphia Adult Education Project in Boston, Bowie County, Texas (open access)

A Critical Evaluation of the Arkadelphia Adult Education Project in Boston, Bowie County, Texas

This thesis discusses the formation of the Arkadelphia adult education project in Boston, Bowie County, Texas, and assesses its usefulness in the realm of adult education.
Date: 1941
Creator: Zihlman, Adelia Darter
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of a Spiritual Calling to Motivation, Locus of Control, Burnout and Longevity in Teaching (open access)

The Relationship of a Spiritual Calling to Motivation, Locus of Control, Burnout and Longevity in Teaching

In this study, six research questions were addressed: (1) Does a teacher who has a spiritual calling have a different motivation (self, interaction, task) to his/her work than a teacher who does not have a spiritual calling? (2) Does a teacher who feels a spiritual calling have a different locus of control (internal, external) than a teacher who does not have a spiritual calling? (3) Does a teacher who has a spiritual calling have a different degree of burnout (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, personal accomplishment) than a teacher who does not have a spiritual calling? (4) Does a teacher who has a spiritual calling have a different sense of voluntary commitment in the longevity of his/her work experience than a teacher who does not have a spiritual calling? (5) Is there a different concentration of teachers who have a spiritual calling in public or parochial schools? (6) Does the public or religious school affiliation make a difference in research questions #1 through #4? A Teacher Motivation Inventory was compiled using The Orientation Inventory by Bass, Rotter's Internal/External Locus of Control, Maslach Burnout Inventory by Maslach, Jackson, and Schwab, a Researcher-made Spiritual Calling Inventory, and longevity questions. Tukey HSD post hoc comparisons …
Date: December 1994
Creator: Zimmer, Katrina R. Nottingham (Katrina Rene Nottingham)
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Compilation of the Legal Duties and Liabilities of the Texas Athletic Coach for School Injuries (open access)

A Compilation of the Legal Duties and Liabilities of the Texas Athletic Coach for School Injuries

The purpose of this study is to compile a concise and non-technical report of the Texas statutes and court decisions concerning school injuries.
Date: 1950
Creator: Zimmerman, Luther L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Young Children's Attitudes Regarding Ethnicity and Disability (open access)

Young Children's Attitudes Regarding Ethnicity and Disability

The purpose of this study was to examine the social perceptions of young children with disabilities and young children of color. Further, an attempt was made to determine whether differential rates of acceptance were experienced by either group, or by the group of children who were of color and also had a disability within integrated classrooms. Young children (age 5.0 through 6.11) were studied in intact groups (N=120) from child care centers in the Texas counties of Denton and Dallas. Three measures of social perceptions were implemented: (a) a forced choice (multiple alternative) technique using dolls of a variety of ethnicities and ability statuses in which children must select dolls they feel represent a list of positive and negative attributes; (b) social distance theory as measured by children's artwork; (c) a sociometric rating. The results of this study showed significant areas (p< 05) of stereotype and bias in the perceptions of young children toward ethnicity, disability and gender. Implications for further research into the efficacy of multicultural and anti-bias education programs is recommended.
Date: December 1996
Creator: Zionts, Laura T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Public School District Legal Costs and Preventive Law Practices (open access)

Texas Public School District Legal Costs and Preventive Law Practices

The purpose of this study was to compare the legal costs of Texas public school districts during the school years 1980-81, 1981-82, and 1982-83 with the preventive law practices utilized by those districts. A survey was made of Texas superintendents' knowledge of school law. The data were contrasted with legal costs and the preventive law practices of the district. Two survey instruments were developed, and the case study approach was utilized. A survey was sent to the 1,101 Texas public school superintendents. The twenty-five item instrument was designed to solicit information regarding the amount of money spent by districts and the types of preventive law practices that school districts use to reduce legal costs. A legal awareness questionnaire was developed and administered to 72 of the 542 superintendents who responded to the first survey instrument. Three school districts were selected to be case study sites. The data from the instruments were analyzed to determine if a relationship existed between a district's legal costs and its preventive law practices, a district's legal costs and the superintendent's knowledge of school law, and a superintendent's knowledge of school law and the district's preventive law practices. The major conclusions of the study were as …
Date: December 1986
Creator: Zollars, Mary Catherine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Faculty Participation in the Decision-Making Process in Small Private Black Colleges of Texas (open access)

Faculty Participation in the Decision-Making Process in Small Private Black Colleges of Texas

The problem with which this study is concerned is determining the degree of faculty participation in the decision-making process within six small private black colleges in Texas. The decision areas investigated are faculty personnel (which includes appointments, promotions, tenure, and merit pay increases), curriculum, and administration. Respondents to this study include 189 administrators and faculty members from six small private black colleges in Texas. A continuum designed by a task force of the American Association of Higher Education (1967), which is composed of administrative dominance, administrative primacy, shared authority, faculty primacy, and faculty dominance, was used in the survey. Data from responses are presented by number, percentage, and mean.
Date: May 1983
Creator: vanBolden, Vernon
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Christopher Carrington notes] (open access)

[Christopher Carrington notes]

Notes from PHd. Candidate in Sociology, Christopher Carrington, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His dissertation topic is about gay and lesbian families' life and how they interact with their families during Thanksgiving.
Date: 1994
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Notes, June 24, 1932] (open access)

[Notes, June 24, 1932]

Notes dated June 24, 1932, with "J. S. Dodge, Sayles, M/L lien" written at the top. The text mentions a sale, mortgages, and possible damages.
Date: June 24, 1932
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Request to Leave Laredo from Maria Josefa] (open access)

[Request to Leave Laredo from Maria Josefa]

Request to leave Laredo from Maria Josefa to José Ramón Díaz de Bustamente. The document is heavily stained and has frayed edges along the top right corner.
Date: 1810?
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History