The History of Education of Wise County (open access)

The History of Education of Wise County

The purpose of this study was to collect, organize, and present information pertaining to the development of the educational system of Wise County, Texas. While there has been much interest in the collecting of material and information that relates to the early history, as well as much knowledge of the historical development, data concerning the educational progress of the county have been neglected by historians. It is important that this neglect be remedied. Since the history of education is of a professional nature, the collection, the preservation, and the interpretation of the historical information may be considered the special duty of the persons who are in some way connected with the educational system
Date: August 1940
Creator: Barker, Wiliam Franklin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of the Distribution of the Public School Funds (open access)

Analysis of the Distribution of the Public School Funds

The purpose of this study is to determine to what extent the present laws for distributing the public school funds meet certain criteria set up for apportioning the public school funds of Texas.
Date: 1940
Creator: Bentley, Jack C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine Changes Necessary to Cause the Texas Public School Band Program to Conform to Certain Accepted Standards (open access)

A Study to Determine Changes Necessary to Cause the Texas Public School Band Program to Conform to Certain Accepted Standards

The purpose of this study was to determine changes necessary to cause Texas public school band programs to conform to a recommended standard.
Date: August 1940
Creator: Bush, Guy E. (Guy Earl)
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Environmental Conditions and their Relations to Achievement, Personality, and Intelligence of Fifth Grade Pupils (open access)

A Comparative Study of Environmental Conditions and their Relations to Achievement, Personality, and Intelligence of Fifth Grade Pupils

This study has the purpose to compare the relationships between personality, environment, achievement, and intelligence and discover the effect, if any, of environment upon the personality, achievement, and intelligence of a group of fifth grade pupils.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, J. Frances
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the New Boston Secondary School (open access)

An Evaluation of the New Boston Secondary School

The purpose of this study is to determine the weak points and the strong point of the secondary school in New Boston, Texas, and to offer suggestions for improvement.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clay, William G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factors Associated with School Relationships (open access)

Factors Associated with School Relationships

The problem of this investigation was to make a rating of the following factors which pertain to boys in three distinct residential districts of the W. C. Stripling Junior High School, Fort Worth, Texas: (1) intelligence quotient, (2) civic attitude, (3) academic achievements, (4) Sunday school attendance, (5) club membership, (6) after-school employment, and (7) the number of broken homes.
Date: 1940
Creator: Conlee, R. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Value of the Critical Angle Board in Diagnosing Handedness (open access)

The Value of the Critical Angle Board in Diagnosing Handedness

The present study addresses some of the problems in human handedness studies by noting the manual choices of one hundred twenty elementary pupils in the first through fifth grades. It discusses the value of the Van Riper critical angle board, the correlation indices of handedness based upon different types of activities, and the divergence with respect to degree and pattern of hand preference in the children.
Date: 1940
Creator: Cooper, William E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Experimental Course in Elementary Science for the Intermediate Grades (open access)

An Experimental Course in Elementary Science for the Intermediate Grades

It is the purpose of this thesis to show as nearly as possible how a course in elementary science was worked out and carried on to meet the interests and needs of the pupils in a small rural school.
Date: 1940
Creator: Copeland, Robert H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Educational Qualifications and Functions of the Business Managers in the School Systems of Texas with a Scholastic Population of One Thousand or More (open access)

An Evaluation of the Educational Qualifications and Functions of the Business Managers in the School Systems of Texas with a Scholastic Population of One Thousand or More

The purpose of this study is to examine the educational qualifications and functions of the business managers in the school systems of Texas with a scholastic population of one thousand or more. This study attempts to determine from the findings what the business managers' duties should be and the needed qualifications, educational and otherwise, for performing these duties.
Date: 1940
Creator: Corse, Chancy H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of the Personality of Town Pupils and School Bus Pupils in the Elementary Grades (open access)

A Comparative Study of the Personality of Town Pupils and School Bus Pupils in the Elementary Grades

The major purpose of the study is to reveal, by means of comparison, the extent to which the Town Group of pupils and the School Bus Group of pupils of the elementary grades (fourth to seventh inclusive) of the Decatur, Texas, Public School are adjusting to the problems and conditions which confront them in the Decatur school and community, and the extent to which they are developing a normal, happy, and socially effective personality.
Date: 1940
Creator: Crockett, Dixie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Predicting Degree of Achievement in Industrial Subjects by the Use of Stenquist Mechanical Aptitude Tests (open access)

Predicting Degree of Achievement in Industrial Subjects by the Use of Stenquist Mechanical Aptitude Tests

The aim of the writer in giving the Stenquist Mechanical Aptitude Test as a basis for this study was to try to find a reliable method of selecting the boys to be admitted to the shop classes in vocational and technical high schools.
Date: 1940
Creator: Davis, Wallace Earl
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some of the Effects That the Development of Oil in Young County Has Had on the Educational Program of the County (open access)

Some of the Effects That the Development of Oil in Young County Has Had on the Educational Program of the County

"The problem in this study is to determine some of the effects that oil development in Young County has had on the educational program of the county. Some significant effects on the valuations for school purposes, bond rates, maintenance rates, salaries of the teachers in the common and independent schools, per capita cost of instruction, rural aid, enrollment per teacher, and total enrollment in the schools of Young County will be investigated. For comparative purposes, a study of the independent and common schools of Denton County was made for the years 1918 to 1939 inclusive."-- leaf 1.
Date: August 1940
Creator: Emanuel, James R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
How the Social Needs of the Fourth and Fifth Grade Boys in the Public Schools of Denton, Texas, Are Being Met Through Their Hobbies (open access)

How the Social Needs of the Fourth and Fifth Grade Boys in the Public Schools of Denton, Texas, Are Being Met Through Their Hobbies

"The problem of this study is to determine whether the hobbies of the fourth and fifth grade boys of the public schools in Denton, Texas, are contributing to their social needs. It is believed that the intangible attributes of living, which can be mearsured neither by rule nor square, make for the well-rounded, happy, social, individual, whether he be adult or child. The degree to which an individual is adjusted socially ranges from the completely anti-social type to the fully-integrated type. The reasons for this gradation are numerous. They include the influence of the home, the school, and the playmates, as well as other factors in the general environment of the child. The purpose of this investigation is to discover whether the hobbies of the boys under consideration are potential and actual forces for integration and socialization."--leaf 1.
Date: August 1940
Creator: Hamilton, Lucy Anise
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Tolar Elementary School, Tolar, Texas (open access)

An Evaluation of the Tolar Elementary School, Tolar, Texas

The purpose of this study is to determine the weak points and the strong points of the Tolar Elementary School, and to offer suggestions for improvement where needed.
Date: 1940
Creator: Jones, Louis B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluating the Provisions Made for Slow Learning Children in Iowa Park Elementary Schools (open access)

Evaluating the Provisions Made for Slow Learning Children in Iowa Park Elementary Schools

The purpose of the study is to classify the retarded children from the viewpoint of selection for special education to determine the probable percentage of slow-learning children in the elementary school, and to evaluate the provisions made for the retarded group.
Date: August 1940
Creator: Kidwell, Rose Ethyle
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relation Between the Sociability of Parents and the Social Success of their Children in School (open access)

The Relation Between the Sociability of Parents and the Social Success of their Children in School

The purpose of this study is to determine what relation, if any, exists between the social interests and participation of parents and the social success of their children in elementary school. An additional purpose is to determine the relationship between occupational status of parents and social success of children.
Date: 1940
Creator: Patrick, Flora LaRue
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Development of Criteria for Evaluating Education Methods Courses in North Texas State Teachers College from 1920 to 1940 (open access)

The Development of Criteria for Evaluating Education Methods Courses in North Texas State Teachers College from 1920 to 1940

"The purpose of this study is to present a philosophical exegesis of the five general types of method which have characterized methods courses from years 1920 to 1940 in the North Texas State Teachers College."--1.
Date: August 1940
Creator: Phillips, Irma Adelle
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Appraisal of the Poor Quality of Reading of the Work-Silent Type Done by One Hundred Seventy-Seven Upper Classmen at the North Texas State Teachers College (open access)

An Appraisal of the Poor Quality of Reading of the Work-Silent Type Done by One Hundred Seventy-Seven Upper Classmen at the North Texas State Teachers College

"During the first term of the 1938 summer session at the North Texas State Teachers College, under the auspices of the reading laboratory, the Nelson-Denny Silent Reading Test was administered to students enrolled in four sections of a course in the psychology of teaching reading in the grades...For this purpose, this endeavor to analyze the existing condition has been made in order to assist in at least some small measure any future steps in alleviating this deplorable state."--1-2.
Date: August 1940
Creator: Ratchford, Mary Dorothy
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine the Relative Value of Gains in Civic Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes in Community Civics as Compared with Those in Traditional Eighth-Grade History (open access)

A Study to Determine the Relative Value of Gains in Civic Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes in Community Civics as Compared with Those in Traditional Eighth-Grade History

The problem reported in this thesis was one whose purpose was to determine, if possible, the relative value of gains in civic knowledge, skills, and attitudes growing out of a course in eighth-grade community civics as compared with those derived from a course in traditional eighth-grade history. An interesting phase of the study was the tabulation of losses in civic knowledge, skills, and attitudes and an attempt on the part of the writer to account for them. Chiefly, however, the study concerns itself with progress in social and civic thinking on the part of eighth-grade pupils.
Date: 1940
Creator: Ray, Mabel Burks
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of the Socio-Economic Status with the School Status of the Third and Fourth-Grade Pupils of the Jermyn, Texas, Public School (open access)

A Comparison of the Socio-Economic Status with the School Status of the Third and Fourth-Grade Pupils of the Jermyn, Texas, Public School

The present study is concerned with the relation of the existent socio-economic family status to the school status of twenty-four third and fourth grade pupils in the Jermyn, Texas public school.
Date: 1940
Creator: Register, Celeste
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factors and Techniques Involved in Teacher Selection in Texas (open access)

Factors and Techniques Involved in Teacher Selection in Texas

Since one of the most important responsibilities of school administrators is the selection and appointment of teachers, this study was made to attempt to determine what factors most affect teacher selection in Texas and what techniques are employed in making these selections.
Date: 1940
Creator: Roberts, James Brodie
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Analysis of the Twelve-Year Plans in Texas Public Schools (open access)

A Comparative Analysis of the Twelve-Year Plans in Texas Public Schools

The object of this study is to present a brief, though detailed, account of the various methods used to install and to operate a twelve-year curriculum in the Texas Public Schools that have pioneered in this field.
Date: 1940
Creator: Roberts, Ollie Oneta
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Develop and to Evaluate a Functional Home Room Program for Citizenship Training (open access)

To Develop and to Evaluate a Functional Home Room Program for Citizenship Training

The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate a functional home room citizenship program; to determine the changes to be made in one school year in the civic attitudes of a given group through an especially arranged curriculum.
Date: 1940
Creator: Robinson, Edra
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Educational Equalization Legislation in Texas (open access)

An Analysis of Educational Equalization Legislation in Texas

It is the purpose of this study to make the following investigations: (1) to trace briefly the historical background of equalization in the United States; (2) to present briefly a cross-section of the plans of equalization used by representative states in the United States; (3) to analyze the principal legal provisions of the equalization laws of Texas for the purpose of showing the growth and development of the State's equalization policy; and (4) to present a summary, to draw conclusions, and to make certain recommendations in the light of the information derived from the study.
Date: 1940
Creator: Rogers, D. K.
System: The UNT Digital Library