A History of the Kilgore College (open access)

A History of the Kilgore College

"This is a history of the Kilgore College, Kilgore, Texas, a junior college for Kilgore and the oil belt. The data concerning the history of this very young publicly owned junior college has been secured through personal interviews with its originators, its administrators past and present, Kilgore newspapers, college catalogs, college annuals, and educational references, public laws and board minutes...The material dealing with the history of this college has been organized to cover the following topics: origin of the college, three periods of material development, internal growth of the college, and summary, conclusions and recommendations." -- leaves 2-3
Date: August 1948
Creator: Bradford, Q. L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Administration of the Guidance Program for Secondary Schools (open access)

The Administration of the Guidance Program for Secondary Schools

An attempt will be made to answer these questions: (1) Why is a guidance program necessary? (2) What steps are being taken to accomplish the objectives set forth? (3) What is considered the best method of instituting a guidance program? In answering these questions a study of the guidance programs in a few of the leading cities and states of the United States has been taken into consideration. The best possible method or combination of methods will be recommended. This method will be compared with the program of guidance now in operation in the Waco High School, Waco, Texas.
Date: January 1948
Creator: Hillyer, Martha B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Classroom Environmental Control in Smith County (open access)

Classroom Environmental Control in Smith County

The purpose of this study is to attempt to show the development, growth, and some of the outstanding accomplishments with methods used in developing the environmental control in Smith County school rooms since October, 1946.
Date: 1948
Creator: Rosson, Mattie Lowe
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study between the Achievement Test Results and Teacher Ratings Assigned Boys and Those Received by Girls of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grades in the Stonewall Jackson School, Denton, Texas (open access)

A Comparative Study between the Achievement Test Results and Teacher Ratings Assigned Boys and Those Received by Girls of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grades in the Stonewall Jackson School, Denton, Texas

It is the purpose of the writer to discover if there is any significant difference between the teacher ratings of boys and girls with equated intelligence quotients. And if such differences are found to exist, an attempt will be made to determine to what extent they prevail.
Date: 1948
Creator: McPherson, Pat Clark
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effectiveness of the American Junior Red Cross (open access)

Effectiveness of the American Junior Red Cross

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the American Junior Red Cross. Special emphasis was given to the development, benefits, and services of Dallas County Chapter of the American Junior Red Cross.
Date: 1948
Creator: Maffett, Callie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluating the Use of Comics in Teaching Fundamentals in Sixth Grade Arithmetic (open access)

Evaluating the Use of Comics in Teaching Fundamentals in Sixth Grade Arithmetic

The problem under consideration attempts to answer the question: Will an original comic cartoon story used in classroom study of sixth grade arithmetic influence the amount of learning as much as the use of the ordinary text book?
Date: 1948
Creator: Davis, Arvil E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of a Need and Organization of Guidance in the Sanger Public School (open access)

Evaluation of a Need and Organization of Guidance in the Sanger Public School

The problem involved in this investigation is to determine and evaluate the need of a functional guidance program within the Sanger, Texas, Public School, and to effect an organization which will adequately meet the needs of the students, both individually and collectively.
Date: 1948
Creator: Habern, Reo C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Growth and Trends of the Social Studies Curriculum in the Schools of Texas from 1886 to 1948 (open access)

The Growth and Trends of the Social Studies Curriculum in the Schools of Texas from 1886 to 1948

The purpose of the present investigation is to make a study of the growth and trends of the social studies curriculum in the schools of Texas from pioneer days up to the present time, 1948.
Date: 1948
Creator: Cade, Albert Guy
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Hearing to School Achievement (open access)

The Relationship of Hearing to School Achievement

The problem of this study is to determine the relationship of hearing to school achievement. More specifically, the problem is to compare the hard-of-hearing child with the normal hearing child of approximately the same intelligence quotient and similar home background in their academic progress in the elementary school to determine the educational loss due to this specific defect.
Date: 1948
Creator: Skelton, Zenobia
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Reliability and Validity of a Sociometric Scale on the Elementary School Level (open access)

A Study of the Reliability and Validity of a Sociometric Scale on the Elementary School Level

This problem developed in a class dealing with sociometry. The class created a new sociometric scale and gave it to several groups of children. The need for statistical information on the reliability and the validity of the scale became apparent, but was beyond the scope of the course. In order that future classes, or other groups, could feel free to use this scale, and could rely on the results obtained from it, this study was made.
Date: 1948
Creator: Cox, John Arlington, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Value of Motion Pictures in Coordination with Sixth-Grade Social Studies (open access)

Value of Motion Pictures in Coordination with Sixth-Grade Social Studies

The problem undertaken in this survey was to determine the value of motion pictures in the social-studies program of the elementary school, with special emphasis upon the learning and retention of facts and general information related to the social studies at the sixth-grade level.
Date: 1948
Creator: Gibson, Margaret Lucile
System: The UNT Digital Library