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A Sound Plan for Occupational Education and Counseling in a Small High School (open access)

A Sound Plan for Occupational Education and Counseling in a Small High School

In this study, it is the purpose of the writer to formulate a simple, practical, and sound plan for occupational education and counseling which a small high school can introduce without unduly burdening its personnel or budget.
Date: 1949
Creator: Gerron, Jesse Fred
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mental Hygiene and its Relation to Academic Achievement (open access)

Mental Hygiene and its Relation to Academic Achievement

This study was made to determine in what way mental health affects the general achievement of the child or how a child's achievement could affect his mental health; to study the causes for these upsets; and to apply remedial measures if such are advisable.
Date: 1949
Creator: Gray, Nina Claire
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine the Soundness of Procedures to Compensate for Individual Differences in the High School Pupils of Selected Counties in Texas (open access)

A Study to Determine the Soundness of Procedures to Compensate for Individual Differences in the High School Pupils of Selected Counties in Texas

The purpose of this study is to make an analysis of the practices and procedures for meeting individual differences by a group of secondary schools to determine the extent to which they meet accepted criteria in this field.
Date: 1949
Creator: Gray, Sam, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identifiable Factors Which May Cause Delinquency Among Children of Elementary Age in Gainesville, Texas (open access)

Identifiable Factors Which May Cause Delinquency Among Children of Elementary Age in Gainesville, Texas

It is the purpose of this study to determine the identifiable causes of delinquency among children of elementary age in Gainesville and to make proposals for more effective youth services. To do this an analysis will be made of the possible sources and causes of delinquency, a modern educational approach, and the relation between the two.
Date: 1949
Creator: Gudgell, Arie Allen
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Saint Jo Elementary School and some Recommendations for Improvement (open access)

An Evaluation of the Saint Jo Elementary School and some Recommendations for Improvement

The problem in this study is to present as accurately as possible the status of the Saint Jo Elementary School in Saint Jo, Texas, and to suggest recommendations for the improvement of this school.
Date: 1949
Creator: Richey, Jewell Neal
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reasons for the Superior Reading Abilities of Forty Children in the Fifth-Grade Oakhurst School, Fort Worth, Texas (open access)

Reasons for the Superior Reading Abilities of Forty Children in the Fifth-Grade Oakhurst School, Fort Worth, Texas

The purpose of this study is to determine the reasons for the superior reading ability of two groups of twenty children each in the fifth grade of the Oakhurst School, Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: 1949
Creator: Hedgpeth, Lelia Frances
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Group Dynamics (open access)

A Study of Group Dynamics

The study in group dynamics will seek to determine the elements which constitute a group, the methods of group procedure, and the outcomes of the group process. This study seeks to determine how group dynamics can be applied to education.
Date: 1949
Creator: Welch, Mary Stevens
System: The UNT Digital Library
A History of the Newsome Dougherty Memorial High School of Gainesville, Texas (open access)

A History of the Newsome Dougherty Memorial High School of Gainesville, Texas

The purpose of this study is to assemble the leading facts concerning the history of the Newsome Dougherty Memorial High School of Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas.
Date: 1949
Creator: Wilson, Roy P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A History of Land Grants to Texas Railroads 1852 to 1882 (open access)

A History of Land Grants to Texas Railroads 1852 to 1882

This study examines the history of federal land grants given to railroads in Texas upon their admittance to the Union in the "Iron Horse Age" of Texas. Covering the rise of the land grant idea, the first period of special land grants, the period of the first general land grant act, the period of prohibition of land grants, and finally last of the land grant periods,
Date: August 1949
Creator: Ramsey, Volney E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Activity Program Offered at El Centro, Denton's Youth Center (open access)

An Analysis of the Activity Program Offered at El Centro, Denton's Youth Center

"The problem of this thesis is to determine through survey and comparative study the effect of the activity program of Denton's El Centro, the youth center, on the youth of the City of Denton...methods of operation and internal organization of youth centers, the purpose of the centers and the results of some of the activities are outlined. Members of the Denton youth center were interviewed; the information gained from the interviews was recorded on prepared questionnaires. Various types of activities at Denton's youth center are discussed. The study also attempts to reveal by means of tables those activities which are more important to the male youth of Denton. A discussion of the treatment of the youth problem is given with conclusions based upon the principles and practices set forth in the foregoing chapters."-- leaf 2.
Date: August 1949
Creator: Anderson, Douglas Stevens
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Environmental Conditions Upon Study in the First Grade (open access)

The Effect of Environmental Conditions Upon Study in the First Grade

The problem under consideration is to determine the effect of certain prevailing environmental conditions of a distracting nature upon the process of study in the first grade. The conditions selected, those which are common to the schoolroom or home environment, were chewing gum, physical education classes, room confusion, rhythm band, singing, and recorded music. This study attempted to determine to what degree, if any, each of these distracting environmental conditions affect the process of study in the first grade.
Date: August 1949
Creator: Biggerstaff, Lucille
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine a Sound Curriculum for the Junior High School Based on the Psychological, Sociological, and Democratic Needs of Youth (open access)

To Determine a Sound Curriculum for the Junior High School Based on the Psychological, Sociological, and Democratic Needs of Youth

The purpose of this study is to provide a sound curriculum for the junior high school based on the psychological, sociological, and democratic needs of youth. One of several reason given for the establishment of the junior high school was to adjust the curriculum to the needs of youth.
Date: August 1949
Creator: Manire, Charles O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of In-Service Training in Sweetwater Schools, Sweetwater, Texas (open access)

An Evaluation of In-Service Training in Sweetwater Schools, Sweetwater, Texas

The aim of this study was to evaluate the in-service training program in the Sweetwater Public Schools, Sweetwater, Texas from 1945 to 1949; and to show that an in-service training program is a necessity in progressive schools.
Date: August 1949
Creator: Douglas, Joe B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of Vocational Rehabilitation in Texas (open access)

Development of Vocational Rehabilitation in Texas

The purpose of this study has been to trace the development of the program of Vocational Rehabilitation for disabled individuals administered by the State Board for Vocational Education from 1929-1949. It has included a review of the historical background and shown the various rehabilitation services offered. This thesis is an attempt to make a careful study of the establishment, growth and development of vocational rehabilitation in Texas. It is recognized that there are many efforts directed toward vocational rehabilitation in Texas, but this study is to be confined to the development or the State-Federal Program administered by the Texas State Board for Vocational Education. It is further limited to the rehabilitation efforts of the Rehabilitation Division of the State Board for Vocational Education exclusive of the rehabilitation of the blind and the work of the Crippled Children's Division. the rehabilitation or the blind is excluded because it is generally accepted that the problems in connection with the rehabilitation of the blind are peculiar to the blind. The work of the Crippled Children's Division is excluded even though the services rendered by that Division were administered by the Rehabilitation Division until July 1, 1945 because theses have been written tracing the …
Date: August 1949
Creator: Franklin, Walter C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Health Program, to Determine its Adequacy in Meeting the Child's Needs, of the Elementary Schools of Cities the Size of Cleburne, Texas (open access)

An Analysis of the Health Program, to Determine its Adequacy in Meeting the Child's Needs, of the Elementary Schools of Cities the Size of Cleburne, Texas

This study is for the purpose of making a critical analysis of the health program of the white elementary public schools of Cleburne, Texas with implications for other other cities of corresponding size. This analysis is to evaluate the effectiveness of such a health program in light of certain evaluative criteria. It is intended to call attention to the existing facilities for adequate health instruction, the need, if any, for more and better facilities and the need for teacher training in this field.
Date: 1949
Creator: Boggs, Durward
System: The UNT Digital Library