A Guidance Program for North Texas State University Undergraduate Students Preparing for a Career in Medical Illustration (open access)

A Guidance Program for North Texas State University Undergraduate Students Preparing for a Career in Medical Illustration

There are seven schools in the United States and Canada that offer a training program for students qualified in art and the biological sciences to meet the visual communication requirements in medical education and research. A survey of each of these schools in relation to the medical illustration curriculum of North Texas State University will give a broader picture of the educational requirements, nature of work, qualifications of the candidate, and the outlines of the curricula in this field. From this survey a guidance program will be determined to prepare toe undergraduate student for admission to medical school. This investigation of each training program will provide a better understanding of the variances of the medical schools which have departments of art as applied to medicine.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Ezell, Robert Floyd
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship of Personality Traits of Students in the Same Major Field of Study and of Students in Different Major Fields of Study (open access)

Relationship of Personality Traits of Students in the Same Major Field of Study and of Students in Different Major Fields of Study

The purpose of this study is to investigate the similarity in personality traits among students in the same major field of study and the difference in personality traits between students in different fields of major study. Investigation will also be made of the relationship between vocational interests of the subjects and their major fields of study.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Robbins, Wm. Callaway
System: The UNT Digital Library
Levels of Psychological Health Related to the Cattell Sixteen Personality Factor Test (open access)

Levels of Psychological Health Related to the Cattell Sixteen Personality Factor Test

The purpose of the present study is to develop an operationally defined standard of psychological health which will be proposed as: 1) one of the goals of psychotherapy; 2) a device for aiding in the evaluation of psychotherapy, and 3) a tool for screening those individuals in the general population who are in need of counseling in order to maintain their mental health.
Date: June 1964
Creator: Bonney, Lewis A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine the Aptitude and Interest Profiles of Industrial Arts Majors (open access)

A Study to Determine the Aptitude and Interest Profiles of Industrial Arts Majors

This study was undertaken to determine the aptitude and interest profiles of industrial arts majors as derived from certain standardized tests administered to freshmen entering North Texas State University, Denton, Texas, from 1955 through 1959.
Date: May 1964
Creator: Reid, Vernon D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Restricted Analysis of the Relationship between Property Tax Assessments and Electric Utility Earnings in Denton (open access)

A Restricted Analysis of the Relationship between Property Tax Assessments and Electric Utility Earnings in Denton

The primary purpose of this study will be to compare the equitableness of utility earnings as a source of municipal revenue when compared to that of property taxes.
Date: May 1964
Creator: Rudd, Edwin Derle
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Relationship of Scores Made on the American College Test and Academic Grades Made by Pre-Engineering and Industrial Arts Students (open access)

A Study of the Relationship of Scores Made on the American College Test and Academic Grades Made by Pre-Engineering and Industrial Arts Students

This was a study of the relationship between scores made on the American College Test and academic grades made by pre-engineering and industrial arts students to determine the reliability of American College Test scores when used for counseling and predicting academic grades.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Pressly, Ronald N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Motivational Differences between High and Low Normal Groups (open access)

Motivational Differences between High and Low Normal Groups

The need for a concise definition of the normal, healthy personality prompted a study of high normal and low normal students enrolled at North Texas State University. Such a definition would facilitate the activities of several areas of applied psychology--psychotherapy, quantification of objective means of rating the general health of an individual's personality, the development of criteria against which to measure the success of mental health clinic programs.
Date: August 1964
Creator: White, Patricia Carol
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Predictive Value of an English Achievement Test for Grades in Modern Foreign Languages (open access)

The Predictive Value of an English Achievement Test for Grades in Modern Foreign Languages

This study has as its objectives: (1) the determination of the degree of relationship between achievement in the study of English as measured by a standardized English achievement test and achievement in the study of foreign languages as measured by teacher's grades; (2) the determination of the amount of contribution to such a relationship of the achievement in various functional areas in the study of English as measured by the subtests of the English achievement test.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Barnard, William Kenneth
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Level of Aspiration and its Relationship to Other Personality Variables (open access)

A Study of Level of Aspiration and its Relationship to Other Personality Variables

Previous studies on correlations dealing with level of aspiration have been few and inconclusive. The problem of the present study was to examine the degree of relationship between an individual's level of aspiration and other personality variables as measured by standardized tests.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Newell, James Archie
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Certain Creative Dramatics Techniques as Applied in the Second Grade Classroom of the North Texas State University Laboratory School (open access)

A Study of Certain Creative Dramatics Techniques as Applied in the Second Grade Classroom of the North Texas State University Laboratory School

"It is the purpose of this thesis to employ some of the basic methods currently in practice in the teaching of creative dramatics, in a second grade class of the North Texas State University Laboratory School in Denton, Texas, and to record the results."--2.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Wise, Nancy Susan
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Performance and Levels of Aspiration of High and Low Anxious Males and Females (open access)

A Comparison of Performance and Levels of Aspiration of High and Low Anxious Males and Females

The present study was concerned with the relationship between level of aspiration and anxiety. Level of aspiration is a term used for goal setting behavior. In other words, if a person sets his goals high it is said that he has a high level of aspiration. Anxiety, for the purpose of the present study is assumed to possess drive properties. Theoretically, at least, a highly anxious person has a high drive level. This assumption may be warranted in terms of physiological unrest--causing an effort toward equilibrium or homeostasis; or it can be defended psychologically as the need to achieve or the need to prove one's abilities to himself. However, the present paper was not concerned directly with the current controversy of anxiety as a drive mechanism. Rather it was the general purpose of the study to determine whether or not highly anxious college students set their goals higher, in response to previous experimental success or failure experiences than low anxious students. To be more specific the purpose was to determine whether or not highly anxious subjects differ significantly from low anxious subjects with respect to responses on a level of aspiration task. The particular response measures or scores investigated on …
Date: August 1964
Creator: Cotten, Larry L.
System: The UNT Digital Library