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The Nature of the Group Structure of the Parkland Hospital School of Nursing (open access)

The Nature of the Group Structure of the Parkland Hospital School of Nursing

This study is designed to investigate the nature of the group structure at the Parkland Hospital School of Nursing, Dallas, Texas.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Bear, Martha M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preadolescent Developmental Tasks in Recent Fiction (open access)

Preadolescent Developmental Tasks in Recent Fiction

The problem of this study is to determine if there are fictional books usable by teachers in helping preadolescent boys solve their problems of adjustment. The problem involves the analyses of twenty-five fiction books taken from those books listed by Virginia Bryson Blair in her study, "Directed Reading through the Library for Improving the Social Adjustment of Older Children."
Date: August 1954
Creator: Franklin, Joseph M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Experimental Investigation of the Relationship Between Perception of Parental Acceptance and Social Acceptability of Adolescents (open access)

An Experimental Investigation of the Relationship Between Perception of Parental Acceptance and Social Acceptability of Adolescents

The purpose of this study is twofold. One is that of developing an instrument for determining a child's concept of how he is thought of by his mother and his father; in other words, a method of measuring parental acceptance as it is perceived by the child, himself. The development of this instrument will be discussed in Chapter IV. The second purpose of this study is that of determining whether or not there is any significant relationship between the child's perception of parental acceptance and the social acceptability of the child, as measured by a sociometric instrument.
Date: 1955
Creator: Throp, Thomas Richard
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Establish Some Guiding Principles for Public School Administrators to Use in Off-campus Student-teaching Programs (open access)

A Study to Establish Some Guiding Principles for Public School Administrators to Use in Off-campus Student-teaching Programs

This study is directed to the establishment of some principles to serve as guides for public school administrators and college authorities in conducting off-campus student-teaching programs.
Date: May 1955
Creator: Latham, James L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rorschach Patterns as Related to Sociometric Status (open access)

Rorschach Patterns as Related to Sociometric Status

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between an individual's performance on the Rorschach Ink Blot Test and his degree of social acceptance as revealed by a test of sociometry.
Date: August 1955
Creator: Aber, Walter E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Selection Practices in a Selected Number of Secondary and Junior High School Libraries (open access)

Book Selection Practices in a Selected Number of Secondary and Junior High School Libraries

The purposes of this study are to make an investigation of practices used in a number of selected schools in selecting library materials for the school libraries and to evaluate these practices against criteria developed from a study of recommended standards and practices in the fields of library science and education.
Date: 1956
Creator: Blair, Leta Earline
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Follow-Up Study of Seventy-Nine Maladjusted Boys who Received Treatment at Camp Woodland Springs, Dallas, Texas (open access)

A Follow-Up Study of Seventy-Nine Maladjusted Boys who Received Treatment at Camp Woodland Springs, Dallas, Texas

This research problem concerns a follow-up study of seventy-nine boys who have undergone extensive therapy and supervised training in group-living over an extended period of time at Camp Woodland Springs, Dallas, Texas. The problem under consideration is one of determining the operating efficiency of this institution in its main purpose of rehabilitating boys who have generally lacked the social and personal skills necessary to satisfactory adjustment in their respective environments.
Date: 1956
Creator: Breining, Wilbur Clarence, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Nature of Individual Differences and Ways of Taking Care of Them, With Emphasis Upon Arithmetic in the Higher Grades at the Elementary Level (open access)

The Nature of Individual Differences and Ways of Taking Care of Them, With Emphasis Upon Arithmetic in the Higher Grades at the Elementary Level

The over-all purpose of this study is to determine the ways in which children differ from one another as related to the instructional program in the school, to point out ways of taking care of individual differences in the learning situations in the classroom, and to apply these principles to the teaching and learning of arithmetic in the higher grades at the elementary level.
Date: 1956
Creator: Henderson, Anne Porter
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relative Social Development of Children with Pre-school Background as Opposed to Those who Lack Such Experiences (open access)

The Relative Social Development of Children with Pre-school Background as Opposed to Those who Lack Such Experiences

This study, as stated in Chapter I, is designed for the purpose of determining the relationship between an individual's degree of social acceptance and social adjustment in the classroom and the presence or absence of pre-school training.
Date: 1957
Creator: Nicholson, Ertie Lou
System: The UNT Digital Library
What Relationship Exists Between the Populations of Church Congregations and Their Maximum Efficiency? (open access)

What Relationship Exists Between the Populations of Church Congregations and Their Maximum Efficiency?

The present study was calculated to determine whether or not a congregation with a good percentage increase in membership from a specific date in 1956 to a corresponding date in 1957 would also experience any percentage increase in attendance of members and visitors at the Sunday morning worship services. Likewise, would such a congregation have a large percentage of its assembly in attendance at its Bible classes and at its midweek services?
Date: 1957
Creator: Burton, Jimmy Grey
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Personality Traits Between Orphanage and Non-orphanage Children (open access)

A Comparison of Personality Traits Between Orphanage and Non-orphanage Children

To detect possible adjustment problems and in attempting to identify the areas of maladjustment from which a child may be suffering, the writer administered the California Test of Personality; a test of personality measurement and observation taken from a subjective frame of reference.
Date: 1958
Creator: Biggerstaff, Edwin Levi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Rorschach Factors as Related to Sociometric Status in a Second Grade (open access)

Some Rorschach Factors as Related to Sociometric Status in a Second Grade

The purpose of this study was to determine if the W%, F%, H, P, and Experience Balance on the Rorschach were related to sociometric status in the second grade.
Date: 1958
Creator: Haynes, Jack Read
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey to Determine Current Practices and Procedures in Counseling in Residential Treatment Centers for Emotionally Disturbed Children (open access)

A Survey to Determine Current Practices and Procedures in Counseling in Residential Treatment Centers for Emotionally Disturbed Children

Since this is a survey to determine the current practices and procedures of counseling in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children, the problem of this study may be stated as follows: (1) to review related literature in the field of counseling and guidance in order to determine the best educational thought as to what constitutes a good counseling program; (2) by means of a survey in the form of a questionnaire, to determine what is actually being done in counseling work in established residential treatment centers for disturbed children; (3) to determine, from information received, good counseling work practices for treating emotionally disturbed children.
Date: 1958
Creator: Blair, William B.
System: The UNT Digital Library