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Desirability of Additional Comanche County School Consolidation
The purpose of this study is to determine whether additional school consolidations in Comanche County will improve the educational opportunities of all students.
Date:
August 1952
Creator:
Helm, Jaye C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Determination of the Relationship between Reading Skills and Personality Development
The purpose of the study is to show that personality adjustments and reading skills have a decided connection in the development of the individual, for with enunciation, pronunciation, and oral interpretation of the printed page come greater confidence, self-expression, and poise.
Date:
August 1952
Creator:
Chapman, Pat
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Determining the Extent to Which Certain Factors are Related to Morale in Church Youth Groups
Many types of groups have been studied by sociometrists but to the time of the present study, church youth groups have not been measured to determine the extent of morale and the conditions or factors that influence the degree of morale. In an effort to provide this information to students of group relations and to religious leaders, this study has been conceived and conducted.
Date:
1951
Creator:
Sellers, Robert Dale
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Developing Personal and Social Growth through Activities Related to Learning to Read
The problem of this study was to determine to what extent personal and social growth could be developed through the use of activities related to reading in one group of sixth-grade students.
Date:
1950
Creator:
Macklin, Nina Moody
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Development of the Motion Picture Program in South Marshall School, Marshall, Texas, and an Evaluation of Motion Pictures in Coordination with Third- and Sixth-Grade Social Studies
The purpose of this study is to show the development of the motion picture program as a teaching aid in South Marshall School, Marshall, Texas, to determine the value of the motion pictures in the social-studies program, with special emphasis upon learning and retention of facts and general information at the third- and sixth-grade levels, and to induce all teachers of the faculty to use the motion picture as a tool for a happier and more meaningful learning experience for boys and girls.
Date:
1950
Creator:
Melton, Grady
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Diagnostic Potential of Subtest Score Variability in the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
This study was concerned with testing two hypotheses frequently made in the interpretation of performance on the Children's Scale. The first hypothesis is that maladjustment is directly related to the amount of scatter and the second stresses that the specificity of maladjustment may be determined by the pattern of successes and failures.
Date:
August 1959
Creator:
Kelly, Richard Clinton
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Differences in Social Behavior Between Elementary School Children Who Have Attended Nursery School and Those Who Have Not Attended Nursery School
The purpose of this study is to attempt to discover any observable differences in social behavior between elementary school pupils who have attended nursery school and those who have had no nursery school experience.
Date:
August 1954
Creator:
Angell, Dorothy B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Differences in the Extent to which Certain Factors are Associated with the Success of Departments of Vocational Agriculture
The problem of this study is to determine if certain factors which may be associated with quality of programs of work are significantly different in the most successful departments of vocational agriculture in selected areas of Texas from those in the least successful departments in the same areas. A consideration of the following sub-problems is involved in solving the main problem. 1. Evolution of the objectives of vocational education in agriculture. 2. Identification of activities denoting success in departments of vocational agriculture. 3. Selecting the most successful and the least successful departments of vocational agriculture. 4. Determining the relationship of certain factors to the success of departments of vocational agriculture.
Date:
August 1955
Creator:
Shelton, Rodney F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Educational Value of the Elementary School Newspaper
The purpose of this study is to determine what educational values, if any, for the student and the elementary school may be derived from the school's sponsoring of a newspaper.
Date:
1950
Creator:
Seely, Robert R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
The Effect of Individual Guidance on Maladjusted Children with Respect to Personality Development and Achievement in Reading
The purpose of the study is to discover the maladjusted children in one first-grade classroom; to diagnose the behavior problems of the pupils by means of the case study procedure; to present methods of remedial treatment to eliminate the maladjustment; to set up a guidance program that will help individual maladjusted children adjust themselves; to provide information that will he useful to teachers in dealing with maladjusted children.
Date:
1950
Creator:
Leith, Beulah Thornton
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Interruptions on the Listening Comprehension of Fourth Grade Children
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of certain interruptions upon fourth-grade pupils' comprehension when listening to the teacher's oral reading of stories. The interruptions made were (1) music being played over the address system (2) announcements being made over the public address system, and (3) pupils entering and leaving the rooms.
Date:
1953
Creator:
Teague, Mary Delle
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Maladjustments of Children on General Academic Achievement in One Section of the Third Grade of Graham Public Schools
This study was made in an effort to find out some of the causes of maladjustment and to determine what effect the maladjustments play in general achievement of school work in a third grade.
Date:
1950
Creator:
Rubenkoenig, Eunice Ethel
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Music Activities on the Total Adjustment of a Third Grade Group
The purpose of this work is not to justify the teaching of music in the public schools; that has been done by the authorities to the extent that music in some form is in the curriculum of the majority of American public schools today. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of certain music activities on the total adjustment of a group of third grade children and to show possible advantages of the teaching of music as a part of the regular teacher's load.
Date:
August 1950
Creator:
Sweat, Flossie Jenkins
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effect that Socio-Economic Status has upon the Intelligence and Achievement of 120 Fourth-Grade Pupils
The purpose of this study is to determine the effect that socio-economic status has upon the intelligence and achievement of 120 fourth-grade pupils. Ninety of the fourth-grade pupils were enrolled in the Denison Elementary Schools, Denison, Texas, and thirty of the fourth-grade pupils were enrolled in an independent school, one mile outside the Denison city limits.
Date:
August 1950
Creator:
Porter, Goldie Dillingham
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Effective Way of Teaching Mass Remedial Reading in the Intermediate Grades
The major purpose of this study was to determine the causes for reading difficulties of a group of fifth-grade children. On this study much emphasis was placed on selecting, preparing and applying appropriate remedial measures, and to ascertain the character and the amount of improvement in reading. In this particular study much emphasis was placed on the various methods used in teaching mass remedial reading.
Date:
1950
Creator:
Sauls, Dorothy Murphy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of Certain Recommended Remedial and Diagnostic Procedures in Reading with a Particular Group, the Fifth Grade
It is the purpose of this experiment to discover and report the effectiveness of applying a standardized diagnosis followed by recommended remedial procedures to a fifth grade reading group.
Date:
1950
Creator:
Aubrey, Addie F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Effectiveness of the Undergraduate Curriculum in Teacher Education in Developing Desired Teaching Competencies
The purpose of this study is to identify and evaluate the competencies that a person who desires to teach should possess in order to be an effective classroom teacher. Identification of these competencies will be made from evidence obtained through a consensus of student's opinions, these opinions to be solicited from students currently enrolled in courses required for a major in elementary education, and from the consensus of faculty members who ware currently teaching these courses.
Date:
August 1959
Creator:
Turkett, Arlie Keith
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of a Democratic Program on the First-Grade Children, Houston School, Mineral Wells, Texas
The problem in this study is two-fold: (1) to determine the effects of a democratic curriculum upon the educational growth of first-grade children; and (2) to show that, through living the democratic life, the first-grade children developed behavior patterns that fitted them to live more wholesome lives.
Date:
1950
Creator:
Dyer, Laura Lilly
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of a Private Endowment on a Rural Public School
The purpose of this study is to present the history of the Alla rural public school, the only privately endowed public school in Texas, in order to show the part that adequate finances have played in its development and service to its community.
Date:
1950
Creator:
Cline, Iva Lee
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Memory Alteration in Schizophrenic Patients Treated with Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy
The problem of this investigation is twofold. First, to demonstrate the effects of the variation of convulsive-nonconvulsive electroshock treatment used in this study in relation to memory alteration in schizophrenia as measured by the Wechsler Memory Scale. Second, to determine those aspects of memory that are the most affected, and those that are the least affected by this form of treatment.
Date:
August 1957
Creator:
Redding, Kaye George
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Mid-Morning Lunch and Afternoon Rest on the First and Second Grade Students in the Ponder, Texas Elementary School
It is the purpose of this study to determine the effects of mid-morning lunch and afternoon rest on the general health, personality and academic advancement of the first and second grade students in the Ponder, Texas, Elementary School.
Date:
1950
Creator:
Davis, Opal
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Specific Health Factors on Interpersonal Relations in a Nursery School Group
The problem in general is to investigate whether or not there is a relationship between certain specific health factors in the individual preschool child and his personal relationships with other children.
Date:
1950
Creator:
Shepherd, Dorothy Wright
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Evaluating Textual Material for Developmental Tasks
The problem of this study is to demonstrate a method of evaluating situations in textual materials that may assist pre-adolescent children in achieving certain developmental tasks. The problem involves the analysis of fifty stories taken from five state-adopted readers on the sixth-grade level, as well as the development of criteria for making such an analysis.
Date:
August 1953
Creator:
Donze, Lena Maserang
System:
The UNT Digital Library