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A Guidance Program for North Texas State University Undergraduate Students Preparing for a Career in Medical Illustration (open access)

A Guidance Program for North Texas State University Undergraduate Students Preparing for a Career in Medical Illustration

There are seven schools in the United States and Canada that offer a training program for students qualified in art and the biological sciences to meet the visual communication requirements in medical education and research. A survey of each of these schools in relation to the medical illustration curriculum of North Texas State University will give a broader picture of the educational requirements, nature of work, qualifications of the candidate, and the outlines of the curricula in this field. From this survey a guidance program will be determined to prepare toe undergraduate student for admission to medical school. This investigation of each training program will provide a better understanding of the variances of the medical schools which have departments of art as applied to medicine.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Ezell, Robert Floyd
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Architectural Trends in Fort Worth, Texas (open access)

A Study of the Architectural Trends in Fort Worth, Texas

The purpose of this study was to determine the trends that are developing in the architecture of the civic, commercial, and religious buildings in Fort Worth, Texas. This will be shown by an analysis of what the author considers to be the best examples of buildings constructed in Fort Worth during the past ten years.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Curtsinger, J. Dallas.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Certain Creative Dramatics Techniques as Applied in the Second Grade Classroom of the North Texas State University Laboratory School (open access)

A Study of Certain Creative Dramatics Techniques as Applied in the Second Grade Classroom of the North Texas State University Laboratory School

"It is the purpose of this thesis to employ some of the basic methods currently in practice in the teaching of creative dramatics, in a second grade class of the North Texas State University Laboratory School in Denton, Texas, and to record the results."--2.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Wise, Nancy Susan
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of the K D Proneness Scale in the Identification and Detection of Juvenile Delinquency (open access)

The Effectiveness of the K D Proneness Scale in the Identification and Detection of Juvenile Delinquency

The present investigation was focused on the problem of identification and detection of Juvenile delinquency. The purpose of the study was to determine if Juvenile delinquents whose first offenses were runaway or auto theft differ significantly from non-delinquents of a church group. The two delinquent groups were examined to determine if a significant difference existed.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Davis, John Horace
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Performance and Levels of Aspiration of High and Low Anxious Males and Females (open access)

A Comparison of Performance and Levels of Aspiration of High and Low Anxious Males and Females

The present study was concerned with the relationship between level of aspiration and anxiety. Level of aspiration is a term used for goal setting behavior. In other words, if a person sets his goals high it is said that he has a high level of aspiration. Anxiety, for the purpose of the present study is assumed to possess drive properties. Theoretically, at least, a highly anxious person has a high drive level. This assumption may be warranted in terms of physiological unrest--causing an effort toward equilibrium or homeostasis; or it can be defended psychologically as the need to achieve or the need to prove one's abilities to himself. However, the present paper was not concerned directly with the current controversy of anxiety as a drive mechanism. Rather it was the general purpose of the study to determine whether or not highly anxious college students set their goals higher, in response to previous experimental success or failure experiences than low anxious students. To be more specific the purpose was to determine whether or not highly anxious subjects differ significantly from low anxious subjects with respect to responses on a level of aspiration task. The particular response measures or scores investigated on …
Date: August 1964
Creator: Cotten, Larry L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Delinquents and Nondelinquents Using the IES Test (open access)

A Comparison of Delinquents and Nondelinquents Using the IES Test

Many of the causes for delinquency are known, but more investigation is needed in the prediction of future delinquent behavior. It was in this area of delinquency that this study was concerned. The problem was to compare scores made on the IES Test by a group of nondelinquent males with those made by a group of delinquent males to determine if the IES Test would discriminate between these two groups.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Mangold, Kenneth M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Movement for Trinity River Development (open access)

The Movement for Trinity River Development

This thesis analyzes the movement for Trinity River improvement and describes the methods used to promote the project.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Davis, Edwin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preparation of the Weatherford, Texas, Elementary Teacher to Teach Art in the Self-Contained Classroom (open access)

Preparation of the Weatherford, Texas, Elementary Teacher to Teach Art in the Self-Contained Classroom

This paper is concerned with the preparation needed by the elementary classroom teacher to teach art in the self-contained classroom and with improving the program of art education in the elementary schools of the Weatherford Independent School District of Weatherford, Texas.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Law, Frances B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Level of Aspiration and its Relationship to Other Personality Variables (open access)

A Study of Level of Aspiration and its Relationship to Other Personality Variables

Previous studies on correlations dealing with level of aspiration have been few and inconclusive. The problem of the present study was to examine the degree of relationship between an individual's level of aspiration and other personality variables as measured by standardized tests.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Newell, James Archie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Paper as a Visual and Tactile Organizational Material for Use on Schoolroom Bulletin Boards (open access)

Paper as a Visual and Tactile Organizational Material for Use on Schoolroom Bulletin Boards

The purpose of this thesis is to show the useful characteristics of a wide variety of papers as applied to the preparation of a tactile and visual organization on a number of wallboards. It is hoped the wide variety of papers and techniques used will be inspirational to other teachers when creatively planning their own designs using paper as their art medium.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Rodgers, Alice Louise
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Status of Coaches of Boys' Interscholastic Basketball in Class A Senior High Schools in Texas (open access)

The Status of Coaches of Boys' Interscholastic Basketball in Class A Senior High Schools in Texas

This was a study of the status of coaches of boys' interscholastic basketball in class A senior high schools in Texas.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Bettes, Lawrence Edgare
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of the Financing of Church Building Programs (open access)

Analysis of the Financing of Church Building Programs

This study was an analysis of current financing of building programs of selected Protestant churches in the State of Texas.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Daniels, Paul R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of Ministerial Speech Training in Meeting the Speech Needs of Ministers in the Fort Worth-Dallas Area (open access)

An Evaluation of Ministerial Speech Training in Meeting the Speech Needs of Ministers in the Fort Worth-Dallas Area

This study attempts to determine whether available ministerial speech training meets the current speech needs of active Protestant ministers by asking: 1. In the opinions of ministers, how comprehensive was their speech training? 2. In active ministers' opinions, what are the current speech needs of ministers? 3. According to the information obtained from school catalogs and the speech departments of the schools from which the ministers graduated, what speech training is available at these institutions? 4. According to a comparison of the speech needs (given by ministers) with the available speech training (indicated by the schools): A. Does the available speech training meet the current speech needs? B. If not, what recommendations are needed?
Date: August 1964
Creator: Evridge, Dorothy J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Physical Education Programs of Negro Elementary Schools of Texas (open access)

A Study of Physical Education Programs of Negro Elementary Schools of Texas

The study is an evaluation of the physical education programs of ninety-one elementary Negro schools of Texas. The following purposes were established for the study: 1) to obtain information concerning the administration, conduct, and scope of physical education programs in Negro elementary schools of Texas; 2) to evaluate the physical education programs of selected Negro elementary schools of Texas on the basis of criteria such as Texas Education Association and documentary sources; and 3) to make recommendations for future development of the physical education programs in the Negro elementary schools of Texas.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Holmes, Charles Murphy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship of Personality Traits of Students in the Same Major Field of Study and of Students in Different Major Fields of Study (open access)

Relationship of Personality Traits of Students in the Same Major Field of Study and of Students in Different Major Fields of Study

The purpose of this study is to investigate the similarity in personality traits among students in the same major field of study and the difference in personality traits between students in different fields of major study. Investigation will also be made of the relationship between vocational interests of the subjects and their major fields of study.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Robbins, Wm. Callaway
System: The UNT Digital Library
Levels of Psychological Health Related to the Cattell Sixteen Personality Factor Test (open access)

Levels of Psychological Health Related to the Cattell Sixteen Personality Factor Test

The purpose of the present study is to develop an operationally defined standard of psychological health which will be proposed as: 1) one of the goals of psychotherapy; 2) a device for aiding in the evaluation of psychotherapy, and 3) a tool for screening those individuals in the general population who are in need of counseling in order to maintain their mental health.
Date: June 1964
Creator: Bonney, Lewis A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Industrial Psychological Testing: A Review of the Controversy and a Comparison of Some Effective Testing Conditions with Some Stated Uses (open access)

Industrial Psychological Testing: A Review of the Controversy and a Comparison of Some Effective Testing Conditions with Some Stated Uses

The problem of this study is to interview some personnel managers that use psychological testing in personnel selection and compare their responses to the recommended use of effective testing as presented by some professional psychologists.
Date: May 1964
Creator: Jones, William Lewis
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine the Aptitude and Interest Profiles of Industrial Arts Majors (open access)

A Study to Determine the Aptitude and Interest Profiles of Industrial Arts Majors

This study was undertaken to determine the aptitude and interest profiles of industrial arts majors as derived from certain standardized tests administered to freshmen entering North Texas State University, Denton, Texas, from 1955 through 1959.
Date: May 1964
Creator: Reid, Vernon D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intra-test Scatter on the Shipley-Hartford Abstraction Scale and Its Relationship to Schizophrenia (open access)

Intra-test Scatter on the Shipley-Hartford Abstraction Scale and Its Relationship to Schizophrenia

The present study will be concerned with the reliability of the Shipley-Hartford Abstraction Scale as an instrument for diagnosis of schizophrenia and personality disorders.
Date: May 1964
Creator: Rogers, Thomas Darwyn
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Personality Variables of Students in Two Contrasted Colleges (open access)

A Comparative Study of Personality Variables of Students in Two Contrasted Colleges

The nature of the problem to be dealt with in this present study involves the religious personality. Specifically, it involves the question as to the personality similarities and differences of students from a religious college and students from a state college.
Date: May 1964
Creator: Ruble, Richard Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Restricted Analysis of the Relationship between Property Tax Assessments and Electric Utility Earnings in Denton (open access)

A Restricted Analysis of the Relationship between Property Tax Assessments and Electric Utility Earnings in Denton

The primary purpose of this study will be to compare the equitableness of utility earnings as a source of municipal revenue when compared to that of property taxes.
Date: May 1964
Creator: Rudd, Edwin Derle
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expectations and Attitudes of a Group of Older Persons towards Institutional Living (open access)

Expectations and Attitudes of a Group of Older Persons towards Institutional Living

The study reported in this thesis attempted to determine some of the effects of institutional living on a group of elderly people. The study endeavored to discover whether any changes took place between the expectations of the persons planning to enter a home for the aged and the opinions of the same persons after they had lived in the home.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Murdock, John A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Relationship of Scores Made on the American College Test and Academic Grades Made by Pre-Engineering and Industrial Arts Students (open access)

A Study of the Relationship of Scores Made on the American College Test and Academic Grades Made by Pre-Engineering and Industrial Arts Students

This was a study of the relationship between scores made on the American College Test and academic grades made by pre-engineering and industrial arts students to determine the reliability of American College Test scores when used for counseling and predicting academic grades.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Pressly, Ronald N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of the Cuisenaire Method of Teaching Arithmetic with a Conventional Method (open access)

A Comparison of the Cuisenaire Method of Teaching Arithmetic with a Conventional Method

The problem of this investigation was to determine the effectiveness of the Cuisenaire method of teaching arithmetic to fourth graders, as compared with a traditional conventional method. Furthermore, a secondary aspect of the problem was to compare performances of the experimental and control groups when classified according to sex.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Steiner, Kelly Everett
System: The UNT Digital Library