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A Study of Juvenile Delinquency in Montague County, Texas, During 1947-1948 (open access)

A Study of Juvenile Delinquency in Montague County, Texas, During 1947-1948

The problem of this study was to analyze the following five factors related to juvenile delinquency in Montague County, Texas, during 1947 and 1948: first, causes and control of juvenile delinquency; second, personal data about thirty-three juvenile offenders; third, their offenses; fourth, disposition made of the charges by the judge of the juvenile court; and fifth, the present behavior status of the offenders.
Date: August 1949
Creator: Lauderdale, Virginia
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of Experiences Available to Elementary Student Teachers in the State Teachers Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools (open access)

An Evaluation of Experiences Available to Elementary Student Teachers in the State Teachers Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools

The purpose of this investigation is to make a survey study of the activities provided by state teachers colleges for intending teachers in the elementary schools. Those experiences are evaluated by comparison with opinions of authorities and the recommendations of the American Association of Teachers Colleges.
Date: 1949
Creator: Larson, Myrtice Nygaard
System: The UNT Digital Library
Children's Reading Interests as Shown by the Books Checked from the Huey School Library in Wichita Falls, Texas, and the Relation of These Interests to Classroom Work (open access)

Children's Reading Interests as Shown by the Books Checked from the Huey School Library in Wichita Falls, Texas, and the Relation of These Interests to Classroom Work

This study has four main purposes: 1. To determine whether there is a preference for certain types of stories. 2. To find whether boys prefer one type story and girls another. 3. To determine whether the physical make-up or format of the book has any influence on the selection of books. 4. To find how these interests are related to classroom work.
Date: 1949
Creator: Latimer, Elizabeth
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Measurement of Existing Health Conditions in Princeton Public School in Terms of Desirable Conditions for Promoting Health Services (open access)

A Measurement of Existing Health Conditions in Princeton Public School in Terms of Desirable Conditions for Promoting Health Services

The purpose of this study is to determine the status of existing health conditions in Princeton Public School and to set up a recognized desirable health standard for promoting health services.
Date: 1949
Creator: Patterson, Angileen
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Determination of Persistent Life Situations in a Public Relations Program (open access)

The Determination of Persistent Life Situations in a Public Relations Program

In this study the problem may be stated as follows: to determine persistent life situations in a Public Relations Program. The problem involves a survey of school-community-public relations in the areas of family living, recreational living, occupational living and community living as developed in practice and in educational literature; the establishing of sound criteria for such a program; the application of the criteria to the techniques of the program; and the evaluation of the program once it has been established.
Date: 1949
Creator: Poe, Claude D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of Fifteen Fourth-Grade Readers (open access)

An Evaluation of Fifteen Fourth-Grade Readers

The purpose of this study is to set up criteria for judging the mechanical features and the content of fourth-grade readers and to determine if the fifteen fourth-grade readers of this study fit these criteria.
Date: 1949
Creator: Price, Mary Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship Between Intelligence as Determined by the California Test of Mental Maturity and Achievement in the Seventh Grade (open access)

Relationship Between Intelligence as Determined by the California Test of Mental Maturity and Achievement in the Seventh Grade

The problem of this study was to find ways of improving and enriching the curriculum through the use of the intelligence quotients obtained from the California Test of Mental Maturity. To reveal some of the needs of the curriculum and also to reveal the possibilities and limitations of testing for intelligence, statistical relationships between intelligence quotients and academic achievement as measured by both teacher marks and achievement tests were determined.
Date: 1949
Creator: Purvis, L. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of the Requirements for Certification of Public School Administrators in the United States (open access)

A Comparative Study of the Requirements for Certification of Public School Administrators in the United States

The specific purposes of this study may be briefly stated as follows: (1) to determine the present status of administrative certification in the United States; (2) to determine whether the various states have set up requirements which will insure that their public schools shall have administrators who are capable of directing and supervising the educational program; (3) to indicate the degree of uniformity of requirements in the various states; (4) to secure recommendations for the certification of public school administrators from leading educators in the United States; and, on the basis of such data, (5) to make certain recommendations for a sound administrative certification program.
Date: 1949
Creator: Reeve, Charles A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine the Adequacy of the Gilmer-Aikin Law and the Flathman Formula in Determining the Cost of Pupil Transporation in Texas (open access)

To Determine the Adequacy of the Gilmer-Aikin Law and the Flathman Formula in Determining the Cost of Pupil Transporation in Texas

The problem of this study is to determine the adequacy of the Gilmer-Aikin Law and the Flathman Formula in determining the cost of pupil transportation in Texas.
Date: 1949
Creator: Roper, Tyra Jesse
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of Recommended Programs for Fifth Grade Social Studies (open access)

An Evaluation of Recommended Programs for Fifth Grade Social Studies

The purpose of this study is: (1) to determine a criteria for evaluating proposed social studies programs; (2) to review fifth grade bulletins in social studies from five widely separated school systems in the United States, to make an analysis of their aims, methods, and materials, and to determine whether they meet accepted professional standards; (3) to make suggestions for improving the fifth grade social studies as a result of this analysis.
Date: 1949
Creator: Ross, Emma Rebecca
System: The UNT Digital Library
Organization and Administration of a Youth Center (open access)

Organization and Administration of a Youth Center

The purpose of the study is to make an investigation of the need for youth centers, the factors which are necessary for the successful operation of a youth center, and to evaluate the youth center at Denton, Texas, in the light of the information developed in the research.
Date: 1949
Creator: Seely, Arthur J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Vital Program of Conservation Education at Third Grade Level (open access)

A Vital Program of Conservation Education at Third Grade Level

The purpose of this study is to determine a basis on which to develop a conservation education program applicable to third grade children and to recommend a program that has been evaluated by that stated criteria.
Date: 1949
Creator: Shockley, Charlie Brandt
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Possibilities of the Use of Visual Aids in Social Studies in the Intermediate Grades in the Denton Public Schools (open access)

The Possibilities of the Use of Visual Aids in Social Studies in the Intermediate Grades in the Denton Public Schools

The purpose of this study is to determine the possibilities of visual aids as an aid to the learning process in the social studies of the intermediate grades of the Denton public schools, with particular emphasis on the moving picture films and film strips available for use as visual aids in the social studies subjects.
Date: 1949
Creator: Sauls, Olga Borth
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine the Sound Administrative Steps in the Organization of a Community School (open access)

A Study to Determine the Sound Administrative Steps in the Organization of a Community School

The purpose of this study is to determine the sound steps or procedures for the administrator to follow in organizing a community school. It will attempt to show ways of utilizing to the fullest possible extent the resources of the community.
Date: 1949
Creator: Allen, Clifford D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Methods of Reporting Child Progess to Parents (open access)

A Comparative Study of Methods of Reporting Child Progess to Parents

The problem involved in this study is to determine the progress in the last decade of a representative number of elementary schools of Texas in their methods of reporting child growth to parents.
Date: 1949
Creator: Boswell, Orgle M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine a Sound Treatment of Intercultural Differences in the Public Schools (open access)

A Study to Determine a Sound Treatment of Intercultural Differences in the Public Schools

It is the purpose of this study to determine a sound treatment of intercultural differences. The study has as its fundamental thesis the belief that the race and cultural conflicts that are serious threats to the well-being of individuals, of communities, and of the American nation as a whole can be lessened and, in certain instances, eliminated by a carefully planned educational program.
Date: 1949
Creator: Bresenhan, Maurice Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine the Soundness of the Gilmer-Aikin Plan of Financing the Public Schools of Montague County, Texas (open access)

A Study to Determine the Soundness of the Gilmer-Aikin Plan of Financing the Public Schools of Montague County, Texas

The problem of this thesis is to examine the Gilmer-Aikin plan as it will affect the Montague County, Texas, schools in order to ascertain whether present inequities, if any, will be corrected, and to present additional remedial proposals if needed.
Date: 1949
Creator: Browning, Leslie L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Casual-Factor-Removal as a Technique of Combating Juvenile Delinquency in the Cleburne Public Schools (open access)

Casual-Factor-Removal as a Technique of Combating Juvenile Delinquency in the Cleburne Public Schools

The purpose of this study is two-fold: (1) to determine the casual factors of delinquency which are the responsibility of the school, and (2) to discover possible procedures for combating delinquency, so far as it is immediately possible, in the Cleburne Public School System.
Date: 1949
Creator: Spikes, Pauline
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relation of Mental Hygiene to the Reading Achievement of the First-Grade Child (open access)

The Relation of Mental Hygiene to the Reading Achievement of the First-Grade Child

The purpose of the study is to determine what degree of relationship exists between factors of mental hygiene and of reading achievement of the first-grade child.
Date: 1949
Creator: Sprinkle, Mary Thomas
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine the Adequacy of the Physical Education, Health, and Recreation Facilties of the Schools of Kaufman County, Texas (open access)

To Determine the Adequacy of the Physical Education, Health, and Recreation Facilties of the Schools of Kaufman County, Texas

The purpose of this study is to determine how adequately the schools of Kaufman County are conforming to certain standards in physical education, health, and recreation.
Date: 1949
Creator: Stanford, William Y.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine the Extent to Which the Community Served by South Junior High School of Waco, Texas, is Meeting the Recreational Needs of its Girls (open access)

A Study to Determine the Extent to Which the Community Served by South Junior High School of Waco, Texas, is Meeting the Recreational Needs of its Girls

The purpose of this research is to make a study of the recreation program for girls served by the South Junior High School in Waco, Texas, to determine the extent to which the community meets the recreational needs of these girls.
Date: 1949
Creator: Stevens, Irene Gresham
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine the Extent to Which the Community Served by South Junior High School of Waco, Texas, is Meeting the Recreational Needs of its Boys (open access)

A Study to Determine the Extent to Which the Community Served by South Junior High School of Waco, Texas, is Meeting the Recreational Needs of its Boys

The purpose of this study is to make an investigation of the extent to which the community served by the South Junior High School of Waco, Texas, meets the recreational needs of its boys.
Date: 1949
Creator: Stevens, Marvin Alexander
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Influence of a Summer Round Up Program on the Progress of First-Grade Children (open access)

The Influence of a Summer Round Up Program on the Progress of First-Grade Children

The purpose of this study is to determine the extent, if any, to which the Summer Round Up Program, as planned and executed by the North Elementary School of Odessa, Texas, helped the first-grade children adjust to school life.
Date: 1949
Creator: Stewart, Bessie Ames
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Kindergarten and Non-Kindergarten Children in the First Grade (open access)

A Comparative Study of Kindergarten and Non-Kindergarten Children in the First Grade

The problem of this investigation is to make a comparative study of first-grade children to determine, if possible, whether the child who attends kindergarten has any advantages over one who does not attend.
Date: 1949
Creator: Syler, Rachel Lu
System: The UNT Digital Library