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The Effect of Certain Materials on Intelligence and Achievement (open access)

The Effect of Certain Materials on Intelligence and Achievement

The problem in this experiment is to try to determine if the use of certain materials during the first semester of the first school year of a group of children will cause the intelligence quotients and achievements of these children to improve.
Date: 1950
Creator: Simons, Berta Stephens
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of Social Guidance in Junior High School Home Rooms (open access)

An Evaluation of Social Guidance in Junior High School Home Rooms

The purposes of this study are: (1) to make an investigation of the home-room programs of the junior high schools in Wichita Falls, Texas, to discover what social guidance, if any, is offered to students; (2) to set up criteria for evaluating a social guidance program in a junior high school; and (3) to evaluate the social guidance programs of the home rooms in the junior high schools in Wichita Falls, Texas, in terms of the criteria set up for evaluation.
Date: 1950
Creator: Bell, Lois C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Influences That Audio-Visual Aids Have upon the Progress of Children in the Fifth-Grade Social Studies (open access)

The Influences That Audio-Visual Aids Have upon the Progress of Children in the Fifth-Grade Social Studies

The problem undertaken in this investigation is to determine the value of using audio-visual aids in the fifth-grade social studies program of the Austin Elementary School, Wichita Falls, Texas.
Date: 1950
Creator: Avis, Burch M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Interests and Activities of the Seventh Grade, Huey School, Wichita Falls, Texas (open access)

The Interests and Activities of the Seventh Grade, Huey School, Wichita Falls, Texas

Interest is a guiding force in helping an individual to realize the pattern he is making through his day by day experiences. All children have not had the same experiences. They may or may not be interested in the same activity. It has been said that behavior is caused. If behavior is caused, then, to know the interests of children may be very valuable in diverting or guiding their activities which are desirable to help them better fit themselves to the society in which they live. Thus, the problem of this thesis is to discover the interests and activities of a seventh-grade group of boys and girls attending Huey School, Wichita Falls, Texas.
Date: 1950
Creator: Griffith, R. Francis
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relation of the Teaching of Checking in Arithmetic to Accuracy in Several Phases of School Work (open access)

The Relation of the Teaching of Checking in Arithmetic to Accuracy in Several Phases of School Work

The problem for this study is to determine whether or not teaching children to check arithmetic problems contributes to accuracy (1) in problem solving, (2) in forming the habit of checking, and (3) in several other phases of school work.
Date: 1951
Creator: Pickard, Vera Maye
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship Between Intelligence and Personality of Sixty-two Sixth-Grade Pupils (open access)

The Relationship Between Intelligence and Personality of Sixty-two Sixth-Grade Pupils

The problem is to determine to what extent there is a relationship between a child's personality and his intelligence. As a basis for such a comparison, a study was made of sixty-two sixth-grade pupils in the Benjamin Franklin School in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Date: 1951
Creator: Davis, Opal Frances
System: The UNT Digital Library