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Administering the Use of Instructional Space in Texas State-Supported Colleges and Universities (open access)

Administering the Use of Instructional Space in Texas State-Supported Colleges and Universities

The problem of this study is to determine the administrative practices for securing the optimum use of instructional space in colleges. This necessitates the development of an instrument to evaluate these practices.
Date: August 1957
Creator: Craig, Robert E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Music Activities on the Total Adjustment of a Third Grade Group (open access)

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
Certain Effects of Aesthetic Development upon First-grade Pupils in the Travis School of Mineral Wells, Texas. (open access)

Certain Effects of Aesthetic Development upon First-grade Pupils in the Travis School of Mineral Wells, Texas.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether emphasis on aesthetic development appeared to foster educational growth and desirable behavior development to a greater degree than did participation in a traditional-type program.
Date: August 1952
Creator: Holmes, Grace Porter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adapting a Reading Program to Individual Differences (open access)

Adapting a Reading Program to Individual Differences

The problem of this study was to test the effectiveness of adapting the reading instruction to the level and ability of individuals or small groups of a particular group of second grade children.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Manning, Lucile
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interrelation of Personality Measurements (open access)

Interrelation of Personality Measurements

The purpose of this paper is to investigate one method of understanding why man behaves as he does--personality tests.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Pettit, Sophie L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship of some Background Factors to Success of Student Nurses in the Parkland Hospital School of Nursing (open access)

Relationship of some Background Factors to Success of Student Nurses in the Parkland Hospital School of Nursing

Factors other than academic ones are important in the selection of the members of any profession, and in nursing it could quite well be that those non-academic elements are rather weighted in determining the success or failure of student nurses because of the very nature of their work. This thesis will look at academic as well as other factors that may influence the success of student nurses.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Uglow, Mary 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
The Purpose and Techniques of Supervisory Evaluation of Instruction with Particular Reference to Secondary Mathematics (open access)

The Purpose and Techniques of Supervisory Evaluation of Instruction with Particular Reference to Secondary Mathematics

The purpose of this study is to investigate the purposes and techniques of supervisory evaluation of instruction with particular reference to secondary mathematics.
Date: August 1958
Creator: Rollins, James Hendrix
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of General Growth in Reading, when Taught by Three Different Specific Methods (open access)

Comparison of General Growth in Reading, when Taught by Three Different Specific Methods

The problem of this study is to determine by testing and observation which of three specific procedures for the improvement of general reading ability was the most effective when used with groups of sixth-grade children in the Bowie Elementary Schools.
Date: August 1952
Creator: Clark, Pearl Roberts
System: The UNT Digital Library
Desirability of Additional Comanche County School Consolidation (open access)

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
Differences in Social Behavior Between Elementary School Children Who Have Attended Nursery School and Those Who Have Not Attended Nursery School (open access)

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
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
The Use of Music Activities with Retarded Latin-American Children (open access)

The Use of Music Activities with Retarded Latin-American Children

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the use of certain music activities in meeting some of the needs peculiar to a group of older, retarded Latin-American children. It is an effort to determine whether certain music activities may or may not help to give Latin-American children a more satisfying school experience and better equip them to live in the Anglo-American society of which they have become a part.
Date: August 1952
Creator: Nelson, Gwendolyn
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Aims, Methods, and Accomplishments of Certain Teacher Organizations (open access)

An Evaluation of the Aims, Methods, and Accomplishments of Certain Teacher Organizations

The purpose of this study is (1) to determine the fundamental differences in the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association and (2) to evaluate these organizations in terms of criteria basic to the organization of any group. It is hoped that a microscopic analysis and evaluation of these two teacher organizations, representing both union and non-union groups, will cast some beneficial light upon weaknesses and strong points of both groups and result in recommendations which will be of benefit in the work of individual teachers as well as to the organizations.
Date: August 1952
Creator: Reddy, Richard G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of Remedial Reading Procedures (open access)

An Evaluation of Remedial Reading Procedures

The problem of this study is to demonstrate the effectiveness of certain recommended procedures in the improvement of reading skills in a sixth-grade class in the Lewisville Elementary School, Lewisville, Texas.
Date: August 1952
Creator: Young, Vera Castleberry
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Critical Evaluation of the Course for General Mathematics in Meeting the Needs of Youth as Revealed by Several Courses of Study and the Adopted Textbooks for Texas Schools (open access)

A Critical Evaluation of the Course for General Mathematics in Meeting the Needs of Youth as Revealed by Several Courses of Study and the Adopted Textbooks for Texas Schools

This study is an attempt to determine how a course in general mathematics can satisfy some of the needs of youth. The purpose of this study is to find out how the course in general mathematics can be made to contribute effectively to pupil growth, and how well the present course is contributing to pupil growth.
Date: August 1952
Creator: Armstrong, John H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine a Sound Program of Pre-Service Education for Teachers for Life Adjustment Schools (open access)

A Study to Determine a Sound Program of Pre-Service Education for Teachers for Life Adjustment Schools

This is a study to determine a sound method of pre-service education for teachers of life adjustment schools. For many years some of the leading educations have seen the need to revise the public schools to improve the quality of living in a democratic society. With the assumption that this change is necessary in order to quip the individuals with the tools for making adjustments to existing and impending life situations, a new type of teacher may be required. For the improvement of teachers and leaders, the schools, colleges, and departments of education must assume major responsibilities, for through them will come practically all of the teachers and administrators who will have a part in determining the course of education.
Date: August 1950
Creator: Kearns, James Kell
System: The UNT Digital Library
What Changes in the Decatur Elementary School Curriculum should be Made to Meet the Needs of the Maladjusted Child (open access)

What Changes in the Decatur Elementary School Curriculum should be Made to Meet the Needs of the Maladjusted Child

The problem of this thesis is to study the types, causes, and effects of maladjustments found in analyzing certain pupils of the sixth grade. Also the problem seeks to determine why the present curriculum is not meeting the needs of these maladjusted children of the Decatur Elementary School.
Date: August 1950
Creator: Morris, Eval, P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Creative Art Activities of the First Four Grades of the Bowie Elementary Schools, Bowie, Texas (open access)

An Evaluation of the Creative Art Activities of the First Four Grades of the Bowie Elementary Schools, Bowie, Texas

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the creative arts program of the first four grades in the Bowie Public Schools to determine the extent to which it meets, or fails to meet, criteria developed for a creative arts program in a democratic form of education.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Dickey, Ruby Callaway
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluating Textual Material for Developmental Tasks (open access)

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
The Influence of Sunday School Attendance on Behavior in the Elementary Grades of North Texas Demonstration School (open access)

The Influence of Sunday School Attendance on Behavior in the Elementary Grades of North Texas Demonstration School

The problem of this study is to determine the influence that Sunday school attendance has on behavior of children now enrolled in the elementary grades of North Texas State College Demonstration School of Denton, Texas.
Date: August 1950
Creator: Neely, Lucile Balthrop
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine a Sound Occupational Counseling Program as a Phase of Business Teaching (open access)

A Study to Determine a Sound Occupational Counseling Program as a Phase of Business Teaching

This study had as its sole purpose the outlining of sound procedures for the business teacher to follow in occupational counseling.
Date: August 1950
Creator: Ogle, La Verne Zuber
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine to What Extent the Students and Recent Alumni of Robstown High School Think the School is Meeting the Imperative Needs of Youth (open access)

A Study to Determine to What Extent the Students and Recent Alumni of Robstown High School Think the School is Meeting the Imperative Needs of Youth

The problem set forth is a study to determine to what extent the students and recent alumni of Robstown High School think the school is meeting the imperative needs of youth.
Date: August 1950
Creator: Outlaw, James Brannon
System: The UNT Digital Library