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
The Incidence of Colon Bacteria on the Hands of North Texas State Teachers College Students (open access)

The Incidence of Colon Bacteria on the Hands of North Texas State Teachers College Students

This investigation has for its aim the determination, in a measure, of the degree of personal sanitation existent among students at North Texas State Teachers College, Denton, Texas.
Date: 1946
Creator: Hooper, Eugene
System: The UNT Digital Library
Occupational Opportunities for the Woman College Graduate in Specialized Business Fields (open access)

Occupational Opportunities for the Woman College Graduate in Specialized Business Fields

The purpose of this study is to make a survey of the opportunities in the business world for the woman college graduate. Attention has been given to the general status of women workers, the training given by colleges in business administration, and the opportunities for the employment and advancement in the business world.
Date: 1946
Creator: Long, Ruth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing Range Condition Classes for the North Grand Prairie of Texas (open access)

Developing Range Condition Classes for the North Grand Prairie of Texas

This paper deals with a study of the ranch lands in Cooke, Wise, Denton, and Montague Counties, which are located in the North Grand Prairie of Texas.
Date: 1946
Creator: McConnell, Mack
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
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
Composition and Distribution of the Vegetation in Farm Pastures in Denton County, Texas (open access)

Composition and Distribution of the Vegetation in Farm Pastures in Denton County, Texas

This investigation has for its aim the determination and the evaluation of the vegetational composition in certain farm pastures in Denton County, Texas.
Date: 1946
Creator: Parker, Robert S.
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
Giving Non-English Speaking Germans and Japanese a Basic Speaking Ability in English Through Using Only English in the Classroom (open access)

Giving Non-English Speaking Germans and Japanese a Basic Speaking Ability in English Through Using Only English in the Classroom

The problem of this thesis is giving non-English speaking Germans and Japanese a basic speaking ability in English through using only English in the classroom.
Date: 1946
Creator: Parks, Hugh A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Intelligence Quotients and Achievement Scores and Marks in Social Studies, Arithmetic, Physical Education, Elementary Science, and Language Arts in the Sixth Grade of Wolflin School, Amarillo (open access)

A Comparative Study of Intelligence Quotients and Achievement Scores and Marks in Social Studies, Arithmetic, Physical Education, Elementary Science, and Language Arts in the Sixth Grade of Wolflin School, Amarillo

As a sixth grade teacher in Wolfin School, Amarillo, Texas the writer is interested in determining to what extent academic success my be predicted by the use of intelligence tests.
Date: 1946
Creator: Peters, Ruby Gray
System: The UNT Digital Library
Art as a Tool in a Fifth-Grade Guidance Program (open access)

Art as a Tool in a Fifth-Grade Guidance Program

The purpose of this thesis was to determine a way by which the school could best serve all the children in the capacity of guidance. A program was needed which would enrich the lives of children of widely varying social and financial levels, chronological ages, mental ages, personalities, talents, and other inherent traits or tendencies.
Date: 1946
Creator: Collins, Winny
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Quantitative and Qualitative Bacterial Analysis of Pecan Creek (open access)

A Quantitative and Qualitative Bacterial Analysis of Pecan Creek

Since Pecan Creek receives sewage wastes from an obviously inadequate disposal system, it seemed possible that it could receive pathogenic bacteria. The fact that these might be present in numbers sufficient to cause epidemics, provided the proper natural vectors were present, stimulated an interest in and the pursuance of this study.
Date: 1946
Creator: Cook, Vernice
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Position-Classification Plan in the Public Service Contrasted with Position-Classification in a State Institution of Higher Learning (open access)

A Position-Classification Plan in the Public Service Contrasted with Position-Classification in a State Institution of Higher Learning

This thesis discusses the similarities and differences between position classifications in public service and a state institution of higher learning.
Date: 1946
Creator: Crow, Herman L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Preparation of Stones of Walker County, Texas for Use as Sets in Jewelry (open access)

The Preparation of Stones of Walker County, Texas for Use as Sets in Jewelry

Since the East Texas area has many minerals in the categories which yield semiprecious stones of commercial value--jasper, wood agate, wood opal, and silicified stone, the author undertook this study to determine: (1) the extent which these minerals could be utilized as sources for gems; (2) the equipment necessary for cutting and polishing the stones; and (3) the techniques for finishing the gems.
Date: 1946
Creator: Pledger, Leon Monroe
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Experimental Investigation of the Relation Between the Percentage of Possible Gain in Reading Comprehension and Academic Success in Major Fields of Study (open access)

An Experimental Investigation of the Relation Between the Percentage of Possible Gain in Reading Comprehension and Academic Success in Major Fields of Study

Determination of gains made in reading comprehension and the relationship of these gains to the academic success of 545 college freshmen of North Texas State Teachers College is the main consideration of this study.
Date: 1946
Creator: Porter, Thomas Warner
System: The UNT Digital Library
Personality Trait Differences Between Popular and Unpopular High School Students (open access)

Personality Trait Differences Between Popular and Unpopular High School Students

The following study was undertaken to discover some of the ways in which high school students who are popular differ from those who are not so popular.
Date: 1946
Creator: Roe, Wilder A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seasonal Food Habits of Five Species of Texas Centrarchids (open access)

Seasonal Food Habits of Five Species of Texas Centrarchids

This study is one phase of a research program designed to provide basic information which can be used in the management of East Texas Lakes.
Date: 1946
Creator: Sherman, Robert C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Fees Charged in Texas High Schools for Commercial Courses (open access)

A Study of the Fees Charged in Texas High Schools for Commercial Courses

The purpose of this thesis is to study the relationship of the fee system for certain business subjects in Texas high schools to certain principles of free public school education as provided for Texas public schools.
Date: 1946
Creator: Tompkins, Jno. Erwin, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the History and Educational Development of the Schools in Ellis County, Texas, to 1945 (open access)

A Study of the History and Educational Development of the Schools in Ellis County, Texas, to 1945

The purpose of this study is to determine to what extent Ellis County, Texas, has kept its educational program abreast of the development of the community and thereby has met the educational needs of the children in this section of the state.
Date: 1946
Creator: Wilkerson, Mattie Vail
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reading Interests of Students of Newsome Dougherty Memorial High School, Gainesville, Texas, in the School Year 1944-1945 (open access)

Reading Interests of Students of Newsome Dougherty Memorial High School, Gainesville, Texas, in the School Year 1944-1945

The purpose of this thesis is to determine and summarize the various facts concerning the reading interests and library habits of the second, third, and fourth year students enrolled in the Newsome Dougherty Memorial High School of Gainesville, Texas, for the school year of 1944-1945 as revealed through data collected by questionnaires and from library records.
Date: 1946
Creator: Young, Martha Ruth
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Friendships in Senior High School (open access)

A Study of Friendships in Senior High School

One of the problems in human relationships is to determine what factors enter into friendship. One method of investigating this is to study traits as compared between reciprocal and unreciprocal friendships. This present study is an effort to make contributions towards this problem.
Date: 1946
Creator: Younger, Yucola
System: The UNT Digital Library