The Relationships Between Certain Personality Variables and Conservative, Moderate, and Liberal Theological Beliefs (open access)

The Relationships Between Certain Personality Variables and Conservative, Moderate, and Liberal Theological Beliefs

The purpose of this study was to determine if seminary students, identified as conservative, moderate, or liberal in theological beliefs, were significantly different on the following personality variables: dogmatism, thinking introversion, theoretical orientation, aestheticism, complexity, autonomy, religious orientation, impulse expression, anxiety level, practical outlook, and personal integration. The instrument used to measure theological beliefs was the "Inventory of Theological Beliefs." Dogmatism was measured by the "Rokeach Dogmatism Scale." All other variables were measured by the Omnibus Personality Inventory.
Date: December 1970
Creator: Oswald, Robert M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Occupation and Administration of Texas, 1865-1870 (open access)

Federal Occupation and Administration of Texas, 1865-1870

The scope of this study is limited to Federal military occupation during the five years from 1865 to 1870. Only the interior counties, where a dense Negro population required the exercise of political and social responsibilities, will be considered in detail. A line from Wise through Bosque, Travis, Wilson, Karnes, and Goliad Counties to the coastal town of Corpus Christi would roughly separate interior from frontier posts.
Date: August 1970
Creator: Shook, Robert W. (Robert Walter)
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Vegetative Analysis of and Distribution of the Grasses of North Central Texas (open access)

A Vegetative Analysis of and Distribution of the Grasses of North Central Texas

Accurate identification is fundamental in any study of grasses by farmers, ranchers, range specialists, ecologists, or students interested in the changes taking place in the grass habitat. Frequently it is convenient, and sometimes it is necessary, to identify the grasses by their vegetative characters. Some are readily recognized at a glance by their habitat and certain characters well known to the experienced observer. In other cases, identification is more difficult; and, perhaps with a few, it is impossible to be certain of the species from vegetative characters. However, this may also be true when the characters of the floral parts alone are considered. The inflorescence, used in most keys and descriptions, is often available only for a short period of time. Identification by the characters of the vegetation can be used throughout the growing season, even if grazing or mowing has removed or prevented the development of the floral parts. There have been other studies of grass identification related to vegetative characters, but they have been local and have not covered North Central Texas. This paper provides a means of identifying grasses by their vegetative characters. It can be used by the scientist, the technician, and the layman interested in …
Date: August 1970
Creator: Smith, David Lawrence, 1932-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Community Leadership and Economic Growth (open access)

Community Leadership and Economic Growth

This study is concerned with discovering relationships between community power structures and economic growth. The economic growth in selected Northeast Texas counties and their major cities is compared with the power structures in each of these communities during the 1944 through 1968 period.
Date: December 1970
Creator: Jones, Hubert Kelly
System: The UNT Digital Library
Argumentation Used in the Sex Education Issue in the Dallas Independent School District (open access)

Argumentation Used in the Sex Education Issue in the Dallas Independent School District

The primary purpose of the study was to identify and describe the arguments used in the sex education controversy in the Dallas Independent School District. The issue was examined as a debate and as a social movement promoted and resisted by community rhetoricians. Arguments were elicited from interviews with rhetoricians on both sides of the issue.
Date: December 1970
Creator: Ingalls, Arthur Bradford
System: The UNT Digital Library
Programs of Work Release in Two Federal Correctional Institutions (open access)

Programs of Work Release in Two Federal Correctional Institutions

The present study has the following purposes: to provide a general description of work release in this country, to provide specific descriptions of the work release programs at two federal institutions, and to relate the descriptions of these programs to societal reactions to crime and theories of criminal etiology and epidemiology.
Date: January 1970
Creator: Dison, Jack E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teaching Standard English as a Second Language at V. L. Williams Elementary School (open access)

Teaching Standard English as a Second Language at V. L. Williams Elementary School

For some time, teaching Standard English has been a problem of major proportion at Versia L. Williams Elementary School, Fort Worth, Texas. Even casual observation shows that pupils do not grasp much of the classroom English teaching, nor do they transfer that which they do learn to other school work or daily use. The instructional program in English at the Williams Elementary School, therefore, must be supplemented to the extent that the pupils may be given the kinds of experiences in the classroom that will ultimately result in their learning Standard English in a manner that will enable them to relate the "book talk" to their own idiolects, which according to Giddings (2) everyone has. They bring to school a well-established set of habits which they will continue to use in spite of the classroom instruction, because they hold on to the teaching of their first teachers--their mothers.
Date: January 1970
Creator: Gray, Marvinette C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Degree of Structure of Paradigm and Reinforcement on Awareness and Verbal Operant Conditioning of Hospitalized Children (open access)

The Effects of Degree of Structure of Paradigm and Reinforcement on Awareness and Verbal Operant Conditioning of Hospitalized Children

The present experiment is designed to test certain hypotheses made concerning the nature of conditioning in a verbal operant paradigm, and the relationship of such conditioning with awareness of contingencies.
Date: January 1970
Creator: Maxwell, Judith M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Terrestrial Vertebrates of Fannin County, Texas (open access)

Terrestrial Vertebrates of Fannin County, Texas

The purposes of this thesis were (1) to provide some knowledge of the herptiles and mammals of this area, (2) to clarify the distribution of many of these animals in this section of Texas, and (3) to provide additional ecological information about the area.
Date: January 1970
Creator: McCuller, Ronald E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Knowledge and Skills Required of Welders in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area (open access)

A Study of the Knowledge and Skills Required of Welders in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area

This study was designed to identify the knowledge and skills that welders employed in certain areas of manufacturing and fabrication in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Metropolitan Area should possess.
Date: January 1970
Creator: Slaughter, Franklin D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Achievement and Term Grades of Beginning Drafting Students in College Relating to Their High School Drawing Instruction (open access)

A Study of Achievement and Term Grades of Beginning Drafting Students in College Relating to Their High School Drawing Instruction

This study was to ascertain what relationship exists between the semester grades earned by students enrolled in the beginning drafting course at North Texas State University and the number of years of mechanical drawing that the student had in high school.
Date: January 1970
Creator: Stotts, Richard L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Ecological Survey of the Reptiles and Amphibians of Wise county, Texas (open access)

An Ecological Survey of the Reptiles and Amphibians of Wise county, Texas

The purpose of this study was to record the relationships between the reptiles and amphibians of Wise County and the ecological subdivisions of the area. Wise County was chosen because of the heterogenity of the area and because of its proximity to other counties which have been previously and similarly studied.
Date: January 1970
Creator: Welch, Donald A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Individual, Social, and Seasonal Behavior of the Thirteen-Lined Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus tridecemlineatus) (open access)

Individual, Social, and Seasonal Behavior of the Thirteen-Lined Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus tridecemlineatus)

The purpose of this study is to provide a qualitative, detailed description of individual and social behavior in a free-living population of thirteen-lined ground squirrels. Behavioral differences in relation to various periods of the annual cycle are also evaluated.
Date: January 1970
Creator: Wistrand, Harry E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Relationship between Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children Scores and Koppitz's Human Figure Drawing Test Scores for Mentally Retarded Children (open access)

A Study of the Relationship between Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children Scores and Koppitz's Human Figure Drawing Test Scores for Mentally Retarded Children

The purpose of the present study was to determine whether Koppitz's developmental scoring techniques of mental maturity are applicable to mentally retarded children ages 5 to 12.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Childers, John H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Results of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities and Certain Other Tests Used in Evaluating Children with Learning Disabilities (open access)

A Comparison of Results of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities and Certain Other Tests Used in Evaluating Children with Learning Disabilities

The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, including its subtests and total test scores, can be used reliably as predictors of achievement on other tests used in the diagnosis of language disorders in children.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Garvin, Susanne B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Selection, Use, and Maintenance of the Modalities of Physical Therapy by Selected Professional Athletic Trainers in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area (open access)

The Selection, Use, and Maintenance of the Modalities of Physical Therapy by Selected Professional Athletic Trainers in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area

The study involved a survey of the selection, use, and maintenance of modalities of physical therapy by selected professional athletic trainers of high school, college, and professional athletic teams in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Gibbins, Douglas W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Three Physical Education Activites on Selected Physical Fitness Components (open access)

The Effects of Three Physical Education Activites on Selected Physical Fitness Components

This study was designed to investigate the relative effects of selected physical education activities upon four components of physical well-being of college men. This study was intended to determine if changes occur in endurance, flexibility, balance, and agility by groups participating in either apparatus gymnastics, wrestling or swimming.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Hampton, Gary Wade
System: The UNT Digital Library
Delinquent Behavior in White and Negro Student Populations (open access)

Delinquent Behavior in White and Negro Student Populations

The purpose of this study is to add to the knowledge of juvenile delinquency in our society as it may be discerned through reports by those who have committed delinquent, but in most cases unadjudicated, acts. This study further seeks to add a dimension to the body of knowledge already gained through self-report techniques by discovering whether there are any important differences to be observed in comparing surveys of limited Negro and white populations.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Hunter, Charles Alvin
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Knowledge and Skills Required of Machinists in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area (open access)

A Study of the Knowledge and Skills Required of Machinists in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area

The objective of this study is to determine what knowledge and skills are being required of machinists currently employed in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and to what extent these may be incorporated and taught in industrial arts machine metalworking courses.
Date: May 1970
Creator: Mosby, Larry E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Incongruency, Dogmatism, and Social Desirability in College Students (open access)

The Relationship between Incongruency, Dogmatism, and Social Desirability in College Students

The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a relationship between the concepts of incongruency, dogmatism, and social desirability. It was assumed that high scores of social desirability would be related to low incongruity scores while high dogmatism scores would be related to high incongruity scores. The relationship between social desirability scores and dogmatism scores was also investigated.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Robertson, Floyd V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Attitude Change as a Function of Parent Group Participation (open access)

Attitude Change as a Function of Parent Group Participation

The purpose of this study is to provide a measurement of selected parental attitudes and an evaluation of the effectiveness of Parent Groups as instruments for promoting attitude changes in a positive direction.
Date: May 1970
Creator: Standifer, John T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Guide to the Teaching of Negro Literature in High School (open access)

A Guide to the Teaching of Negro Literature in High School

This paper will be a survey of the major American Negro writers from pre-Civil War days to the present time. Background information concerning each major period will be given, along with information about each author and comments about the selections which are appropriate for classroom discussion. Teachers will also be given suggestions for presenting the material to class, as well as suggested questions and assignments. In conclusion, it will be shown how the literature presented can be fused into the eleventh grade course of study for the Fort Worth Public Schools.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Tucker, Rose Warren
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Texas State Teacher's Association in Meeting the Welfare Needs of Public School Teachers in the Areas of Tenure and Retirement (open access)

An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Texas State Teacher's Association in Meeting the Welfare Needs of Public School Teachers in the Areas of Tenure and Retirement

The primary purpose of this study is to review the actions of the Texas State Teacher's Association as an organization in support of the needs of Texas teachers for adequate tenure and retirement, and to evaluate their effectiveness in securing these needs.
Date: August 1970
Creator: Harvey, Rowland C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Two Methods of Prophylactic Hand Care for Junior High Girls Performing Uneven Bar Skills (open access)

A Comparison of Two Methods of Prophylactic Hand Care for Junior High Girls Performing Uneven Bar Skills

The performance of Uneven Parallel Bar skills by junior high girls is hindered by blister formation on the hands. The problem was to investigate certain measures relative to their value in blister prevention.
Date: December 1970
Creator: Cowan, Robert A.
System: The UNT Digital Library