The Analysis and Some of the Factors Associated with High School Transfers in Hill County (open access)

The Analysis and Some of the Factors Associated with High School Transfers in Hill County

The purpose of this study is to make a survey of the thirteen accredited high schools in Hill County to determine some of the factors associated with high school transfers in Hill County, and their results.
Date: August 1938
Creator: Ballew, Harvey Conway
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Traditional Report Cards Upon the Grading of students of South Park Elementary School, Beaumont, Texas (open access)

The Effects of Traditional Report Cards Upon the Grading of students of South Park Elementary School, Beaumont, Texas

In this study, the writer has attempted to judge the effects of different types of report cards upon the accuracy of the teachers' grades of South Park Elementary School. The data used in this study, is located in Beaumont, Texas.
Date: August 1938
Creator: Hackler, Vivien
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Animal Study of Low-cost Texas Diets in Supporting Reproduction, Lactation, and Iodine Needs (open access)

An Animal Study of Low-cost Texas Diets in Supporting Reproduction, Lactation, and Iodine Needs

A study of low-cost Texas diets to support reproduction, lactation, and iodine needs in animals.
Date: 1942
Creator: Hicks, Gladys
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Suggested Sequence for Using Six Primers Adopted by the State of Texas, Based on the Number of Common Word-Meanings (open access)

A Suggested Sequence for Using Six Primers Adopted by the State of Texas, Based on the Number of Common Word-Meanings

The present study is an analysis of six primers adopted for use in the public schools of Texas with the idea of comparing word-meanings used in the six books in order to find out possible sequences for the use of the books.
Date: 1942
Creator: Hildreth, Rosana Bucher
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Critical Analysis of a Method of Understanding Children (open access)

A Critical Analysis of a Method of Understanding Children

This study was undertaken in order to improve the human relations in the classroom.
Date: 1946
Creator: Minick, Winnie Mallow
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Effect of Group Guidance Classes on the Attitudes and Personal Adjustments of Sophomore High School Girls (open access)

A Study of the Effect of Group Guidance Classes on the Attitudes and Personal Adjustments of Sophomore High School Girls

The purpose of this study is (1) to develop criteria by statistical methods which will show the extent of gain in personality development through a specific guidance program, and (2) to show by comparison the differences in the scores of instructed groups and those of uninstructed groups.
Date: 1946
Creator: Hatcher, Eva Hortence
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing a Reading Readiness Program in Douglas School, Tyler, Texas (open access)

Developing a Reading Readiness Program in Douglas School, Tyler, Texas

The purpose of this study is to develop a readiness program which will be an aid in eliminating many failures in reading and to help the children be happy while learning to read.
Date: 1946
Creator: Henley, Bertha Roser
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Proposed Correlated Health, Physical, and Safety Education Program for Boys in Texas High Schools with Enrollment of Not More Than Two Hundred Fifty Students (open access)

A Proposed Correlated Health, Physical, and Safety Education Program for Boys in Texas High Schools with Enrollment of Not More Than Two Hundred Fifty Students

The purpose of this study is an attempt to briefly set up a plan of organization and to suggest a flexible program of activities designed to meet the needs of many of the smaller schools of our state in arranging a practical correlated health, physical, and safety education program for high school boys.
Date: 1946
Creator: Malone, H. F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine the Need for Teacher Tenure in Texas (open access)

To Determine the Need for Teacher Tenure in Texas

The purpose of this study is to determine the need for teacher tenure in Texas. In order to determine this need, it will be necessary to investigate not only the need for tenure in the teaching profession, but also the advantages and disadvantages of tenure, the standards necessary for adequate tenure legislation, and the tenure situation as it exists in the public schools of Texas today.
Date: 1946
Creator: Martin, Wesley
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Two Types of Teaching Reading Upon Reading Progress, Social Maturity Progress, and Arithmetic Reasoning and Computation (open access)

The Effects of Two Types of Teaching Reading Upon Reading Progress, Social Maturity Progress, and Arithmetic Reasoning and Computation

The problem of this thesis is to evaluate the progress in general reading efficiency of a group of children taught by the socialized group plan, as compared to a group of children taught by the traditional reading plan and to determine whether the socialized group plan aids in the development of certain other general attributes, such as arithmetic reasoning, arithmetic computation, and social maturity growth.
Date: 1942
Creator: Mathis, Floye
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Two Methods Used in the Teaching of Arithmetic in the Seventh Grade (open access)

A Comparative Study of Two Methods Used in the Teaching of Arithmetic in the Seventh Grade

This comparative study of methods used in teaching arithmetic was carried out in the La Vega Public School, McLennan County, Texas, during the 1941-1942 school term.
Date: 1942
Creator: Maury, Mary Elizabeth
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Pupil-Teacher Ratings of the Amount of Democracy Practiced in the William James Junior High School, Fort Worth, Texas (open access)

A Comparative Study of Pupil-Teacher Ratings of the Amount of Democracy Practiced in the William James Junior High School, Fort Worth, Texas

This study undertakes to measure by means of a questionnaire the spirit of democracy in the William James Junior High School of Fort Worth, Texas. The problem was the outgrowth of a personal interest in the boys and girls in the public schools of our nation and a feeling that strict application of the principles of democracy to school practices would result in happier school relationships.
Date: 1942
Creator: Mayo, Vera
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparative Studies in Geography -- Textbook and Free Materials Versus Textbook and Library Supplements (open access)

Comparative Studies in Geography -- Textbook and Free Materials Versus Textbook and Library Supplements

The problem involved in this study was to carry on an experiment of two methods of teaching eighth-grade geography and to compare the two. Briefly stated, the problem of this thesis was to determine the value of the use of free materials as compared with library supplements.
Date: 1942
Creator: Kelsay, Laura E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Uses Made of the Radio in the Seventh Grade of the Schools of Hill County (open access)

An Evaluation of the Uses Made of the Radio in the Seventh Grade of the Schools of Hill County

It is the purpose of this study to make an investigation of the uses made of the radio in the seventh grade in the schools in Hill County, in an endeavor to make available to administrators and teachers the possibilities of radio as an educational medium, and also to suggest additional techniques of utilization.
Date: 1942
Creator: Kirkbride, Martha Frances Cargile
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of First-Hand and Vicarious Experiences in Promoting Reading Readiness (open access)

Comparison of First-Hand and Vicarious Experiences in Promoting Reading Readiness

The purpose of this study is to compare first-hand and vicarious experiences as means of developing those factors or traits of reading readiness that may be improved through training. More specifically, it is an attempt to measure the amount of readiness gained through the two types of experiences by two groups of first-grade children in the San Angelo Public Schools.
Date: 1942
Creator: Looney, Betty Odell
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of some Possible Organizations for the Schools of Wise County, Texas (open access)

An Analysis of some Possible Organizations for the Schools of Wise County, Texas

This problem is to determine what form of organization has most advantages for the schools of Wise County, Texas.
Date: 1946
Creator: George, Cecil Bennett
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Changes in the Offerings of Secondary Schools in Texas and Louisiana since 1920 (open access)

A Comparison of Changes in the Offerings of Secondary Schools in Texas and Louisiana since 1920

The purpose of this study is to make a comparison of the curriculum changes made in the secondary schools of Texas and Louisiana since 1920, and to determine if these changes conform to changes in accepted educational aims.
Date: 1947
Creator: Phillips, Orville L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interesting the Disinterested School Child through Arts and Crafts (open access)

Interesting the Disinterested School Child through Arts and Crafts

The problem is to determine why fifteen lower grade pupils were absent from school so many times during the previous year and to ascertain whether the pupils' attendance records could be improved in the present year through arts and crafts.
Date: 1947
Creator: Lindsey, Vera Grace
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Possible Need of an Aircraft Training Program in Fort Worth Vocational Education Program (open access)

An Analysis of the Possible Need of an Aircraft Training Program in Fort Worth Vocational Education Program

The purpose of this study is to make an analysis of the extent of the airplane industry in the immediate area of Fort Worth, Texas, to determine the need, if any, of adding a course in Airplane Industry to the curriculum of the Technical High School of Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: 1947
Creator: Brooks, William A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine the Curriculum Changes Needed, If Any, to Provide a Standard Vocational High School for the Waco State Home, Waco, Texas (open access)

A Study to Determine the Curriculum Changes Needed, If Any, to Provide a Standard Vocational High School for the Waco State Home, Waco, Texas

The purpose of the study is to make a survey of criteria for a general high school vocational program, to evaluate the vocational program of the Waco State Home High School in this respect, and to make recommendations, where thought necessary, for needed changes in the curriculum.
Date: 1942
Creator: Reed, Walter L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Study of Some Factors Related to Mutual Friendship on the High School Level (open access)

Study of Some Factors Related to Mutual Friendship on the High School Level

This study has been made for the purpose of determining the similarities and dissimilarities in certain factors related to mutual friendships.
Date: 1945
Creator: Averitt, Lois Jane
System: The UNT Digital Library
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
An Evaluation of an Organizational Plan for the Intermediate School of Edinburg, Texas (open access)

An Evaluation of an Organizational Plan for the Intermediate School of Edinburg, Texas

The problem of this thesis is to determine what implications a democratic society and the biological explanation of growth and learning make to an educational program and to measure the program planned for the Intermediate School of Edinburg, Texas, by these implications.
Date: 1942
Creator: Newsom, Herman A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determining the Necessary Changes in Administration Program to Reduce Any Existing Inconsistencies Between Theory and Practice in Typical Rural High Schools in Texas (open access)

Determining the Necessary Changes in Administration Program to Reduce Any Existing Inconsistencies Between Theory and Practice in Typical Rural High Schools in Texas

A study to determine if the administrators of most rural high schools in Texas are putting their theory into practice, and if not, what changes are to be made in the administration of typical rural high schools of Texas in order that theory and practice may be brought closer together.
Date: 1942
Creator: Phillips, L. O.
System: The UNT Digital Library