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The Relationship between Employment Compensation and District Value Systems in Texas Public School Districts (open access)

The Relationship between Employment Compensation and District Value Systems in Texas Public School Districts

This study was conducted to determine what the relationship is between the employee compensation/benefit programs in Texas public school districts and the basic values and beliefs that are important to the success of the districts.
Date: August 1992
Creator: Parker, Thomas M. (Thomas Michael), 1943-
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
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)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alternative Funding Models for Financing Construction of Public School Facilities and Debt Retirement (open access)

Alternative Funding Models for Financing Construction of Public School Facilities and Debt Retirement

The main purpose of this study was to examine the various finance models that are presently being used to finance facilities and to provide information for the Texas legislature, the Texas Education Agency, and local school districts concerning facilities funding models that might be used in Texas. Based on the information gathered and analyzed, several conclusions are drawn and recommendations regarding state funding of capital projects in the State of Texas are made. The model recommended for Texas is one that provides for an equalized grant and includes formulas for the distribution of state money.
Date: December 1992
Creator: Rambo, Jack (Jack Howard)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Site-based Management : A Study of the Changing Role of the Central Office in Decentralization (open access)

Site-based Management : A Study of the Changing Role of the Central Office in Decentralization

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of restructuring associated with site-based management and the change in roles of central office personnel. The study also attempted to determine if districts had a plan with definitions of responsibility and accountability in place. The study included relationships between the decentralization process of site-based management and central office personnel's perception of job satisfaction.
Date: August 1992
Creator: McCown, Gloria J. (Gloria Jean)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Association between Attitudes toward Computers and Understanding of Ethical Issues Affecting Their Use (open access)

The Association between Attitudes toward Computers and Understanding of Ethical Issues Affecting Their Use

This study examines the association between the attitudes of students toward computers and their knowledge of the ethical uses of computers. The focus for this research was undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences (Department of Computer Science), Business and Education at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas.
Date: May 1992
Creator: Gottleber, Timothy Theodore
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 45, Number 5, January 1992 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 45, Number 5, January 1992

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: January 1992
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 45, Number 9, May 1992 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 45, Number 9, May 1992

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: May 1992
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Association Between Attributional Styles and Academic Performance of Students in a Program of Religious Studies (open access)

The Association Between Attributional Styles and Academic Performance of Students in a Program of Religious Studies

The problem addressed in this study was to determine if a significant association exists between attributions and academic achievement among students in a program of religious training at a Bible college. The research was designed to ascertain if optimistic attributions are more frequently associated with students in programs of religious education than with students in a public state-supported university environment. No significant correlation was found between optimistic explanatory styles and the academic achievement of Bible college students. A significant positive difference was found to exist between the explanatory styles of students at The Criswell College and students at the University of North Texas. Students in religious courses of study tended toward attributions for negative events that were external, unstable, and specific. The University of North Texas students tended toward attributions for negative events that were internal, stable, and global.
Date: May 1992
Creator: Ward, Charles W.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identification of College Freshmen According to Scholastic and Persistence Potential (open access)

Identification of College Freshmen According to Scholastic and Persistence Potential

This study was designed to develop a procedure for the identification of freshman students at risk in the academic and social integration process at Texas Christian University. The data for the study were collected from the Student Information Form (SIF) and student records system at Texas Christian University. The data included demographic, attitudinal, educational background and one-year persistence indicators (retain and drop) as well as one-year cumulative grade point averages for the fall 1990 entering freshman class.
Date: December 1992
Creator: Adams, William F. (William Franklin)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Control, Commitment, and Challenge: Relationships to Stress, Illness, and Gender (open access)

Control, Commitment, and Challenge: Relationships to Stress, Illness, and Gender

Male and female college students were administered scales assessing their daily hassles, negative life events, control, commitment, challenge, psychological symptomatology, psychological distress, and physical symptomatology. Stepwise multiple regression analyses showed that control, commitment, and challenge act in an additive (rather than multiplicative) manner in relation to psychological and physical outcome measures.
Date: May 1992
Creator: Embry, Judy K.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 46, Number 4, December 1992 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 46, Number 4, December 1992

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: December 1992
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 45, Number 8, April 1992 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 45, Number 8, April 1992

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: April 1992
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 45, Number 6, February 1992 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 45, Number 6, February 1992

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: February 1992
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 46, Number 1, September 1992 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 46, Number 1, September 1992

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: September 1992
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 46, Number 3, November 1992 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 46, Number 3, November 1992

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: November 1992
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 45, Number 7, March 1992 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 45, Number 7, March 1992

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: March 1992
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 46, Number 2, October 1992 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 46, Number 2, October 1992

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: October 1992
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regional Assessment of Water Quality: Trinity River Basin (open access)

Regional Assessment of Water Quality: Trinity River Basin

The purpose of this study is "to identify significant issues affecting water quality" within the Trinity River watershed, located in the eastern half of Texas, "and to provide sufficient information for the Commission, river authorities, and other local government bodies to take appropriate corrective action necessary to maintain and improve the quality of [the] state's water resources" (p. [1]).
Date: October 1992
Creator: Alan Plummer and Associates, Inc.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Business Communication Needs and Problems of Women in Entry-Level, Middle, and Upper Management Positions in Texas (open access)

A Study of the Business Communication Needs and Problems of Women in Entry-Level, Middle, and Upper Management Positions in Texas

The purpose of this study was to determine the business communication needs and problems of women in entry-level, middle, and upper management positions in Texas. A questionnaire was completed by sixty-eight female managers (twenty-one entry-level; forty middle; and seven upper). Female managers were asked to indicate the frequency of use and the importance of fourteen types of written and seven types of oral business communication, the importance of twenty-seven skills or knowledge, and the frequency with which they consider thirty-two skills or knowledge as problem areas. Data were also collected for the same number of male managers and were used to further interpret and complement the data on female managers. Results for female managers as a total group and male managers as a total group were evaluated by performing chi-square tests.
Date: August 1992
Creator: Alexander, Carol Jennings
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Business Partnerships in Higher Education (open access)

An Analysis of Business Partnerships in Higher Education

The major purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the business and higher education partnership program in one Texas community college. Secondary purposes were to describe and analyze (a) the premise of business and higher education partnerships; (b) the planning, organization, and administrative structure in a selected community college; (c) the educational benefits received by both businesses and their employees who are involved in cooperative partnerships in general and at this community college; (d) the future challenges and opportunities for partnerships at other levels of American higher education; and (e) the needed research to evaluate business and higher education partnerships. The five chapters comprising the study include an introduction, a review of literature, the methods and procedures, a presentation and analysis of data, and the summary, conclusions, interpretation, and recommendations of the study.
Date: August 1992
Creator: Gerlach, Jeanne Marcum, 1946-
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atmospheric Visibility Assessment for Urban Areas Using Photographic Slides and Optical Densitometry (open access)

Atmospheric Visibility Assessment for Urban Areas Using Photographic Slides and Optical Densitometry

The factors involved in calculating Standard Visual Range (SVR) are discussed, and a comparison is made between the visibility reported by airport observers and the photographic slide/ optical densitometer method of calculating SVR. Using slides of Houston, Texas, from the fall and winter of 1988-89, it was found that the altitude at which the contrast measurements are made significantly affects the SVR. Also an index for predicting high and low humidity was developed using the blue/red ratio of the log exposure of the sky, and sun/shade target condition.
Date: May 1992
Creator: Jacob, Mary Katherine
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
On Viewing Press Releases of the Texas State AFL-CIO as Rhetorical Genre (open access)

On Viewing Press Releases of the Texas State AFL-CIO as Rhetorical Genre

Previous scholarship on labor rhetoric has concentrated on the impact of declining union membership and contemporary activist strategies on the part of unions. The press release is a common form of communication that organized labor employs in order to reach its publics. This study explores the press releases of the Texas State AFL-CIO to determine to what extent this level of labor discourse meets the criteria of a rhetorical genre. This study employs the methodology for generic criticism laid out by Foss for identifying genres. The study concludes that a genre of labor rhetoric exists and that the genre was used extensively to promote the Texas State AFL-CIO as a socially-conscious and politically motivated organization.
Date: May 1992
Creator: Welborn, Ronny D.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rorschach Assessment of Object Relations Development in Sexually Abused Children (open access)

Rorschach Assessment of Object Relations Development in Sexually Abused Children

Sexual abuse of children has profound negative effects on psychological development. This study examined the effects of sexual abuse on object relations functioning by using the Mutuality of Autonomy Scale (MAS, Urist, 1977) to score Rorschach protocols of 63 abused children and 60 non-abused clinical controls. The hypothesis that abused children would have less developed object relations than their non-abused counterparts was not supported. Neither was the hypothesis that children who experienced greater severity of sexual abuse would exhibit more malevolent object relations. The hypothesis that mean and modal MAS scores would be highly intercorrelated and interchangeable as research variables was supported. Comparisons of this sample to a normative sample are discussed.
Date: December 1992
Creator: Isler, Diane E. (Diane Evelyn)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Representations of Women in The Dallas Morning News During the Feminist Movement (open access)

Representations of Women in The Dallas Morning News During the Feminist Movement

Content analysis of The Dallas Morning News focuses on sources, bylines, photographs, and main characters to determine the quantity and quality of portrayals of women. The study included front pages and main local news pages during one week each from 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990. Change was charted by year for both sexes. In 1950, few representations of women were included and many were stereotypical. Some stereotyping persisted in 1990, and men outnumbered women more than 3 to 1 as story sources, nearly 3 to 1 in front-page bylines, more than 2 to 1 in photographs, and more than 2 to 1 as main characters. Women still lag behind men, despite feminists' efforts to improve coverage.
Date: August 1992
Creator: Lambiase, Jacqueline
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library