To Determine Whether or Not the Tarrant County Free Library is Taking Care of the Recreational Reading Interests of the Elementary Pupils in Fourteen Schools of Tarrant County, Texas (open access)

To Determine Whether or Not the Tarrant County Free Library is Taking Care of the Recreational Reading Interests of the Elementary Pupils in Fourteen Schools of Tarrant County, Texas

A study to determine whether the Tarrant County Free Library is meeting the recreational readying needs of elementary school students.
Date: August 1939
Creator: Russ, Catherine
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of High Speed Drill on Speed and Accuracy Development in Beginning Typewriting (open access)

The Effect of High Speed Drill on Speed and Accuracy Development in Beginning Typewriting

This study is an experiment to determine the effectiveness of high-speed drill on speed and accuracy achievement in the first semester of beginning typewriting at the high school level.
Date: May 1963
Creator: Johnson, James Roland, 1921-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Evaluation of a Vocational Guidance Project in the Diamond Hill Senior High School Fort Worth, Texas (open access)

The Evaluation of a Vocational Guidance Project in the Diamond Hill Senior High School Fort Worth, Texas

The purpose here is to evaluate an assigned vocational guidance project in the Diamond Hill Senior High School, Fort Worth, Texas, which was executed in certain English and speech classes.
Date: 1947
Creator: Wyatt, Verna Wilkinson
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Psychological Principles of Learning Used in the Social Studies Curriculum of the Elementary Grades (open access)

An Evaluation of the Psychological Principles of Learning Used in the Social Studies Curriculum of the Elementary Grades

The problem of this study is to establish criteria of psychological factors that should be included in a social studies educational program of the elementary grades to measure the program planned for the social studies of the elementary grades of the Houston, El Paso, Fort Worth, and Amarillo, Texas, public schools.
Date: 1947
Creator: Stucker, Myrtle
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Child of Foreign Parentage (open access)

The Child of Foreign Parentage

It is the purpose of this study to take a group of first, second, and third grade children of foreign parentage who are in a segregated school in Fort Worth, Texas, and a group who are in a non-segregated school and compare them.
Date: 1944
Creator: Gill, Mary Sodd
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Critical Analysis of Arithmetic Achievement in the Intermediate Grades of the Fort Worth, Texas, Elementary Schools (open access)

A Critical Analysis of Arithmetic Achievement in the Intermediate Grades of the Fort Worth, Texas, Elementary Schools

This thesis looks at what the Forth Worth public schools have accomplished with their revised curriculum in arithmetic, and whether such achievement can be demonstrated.
Date: 1943
Creator: Payne, Ralph Chesley
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Effect of Mobility Upon Achievement and Progress in the East Van Zandt School, Fort Worth, Texas (open access)

An Evaluation of the Effect of Mobility Upon Achievement and Progress in the East Van Zandt School, Fort Worth, Texas

The problem of this study is to determine the extent of the mobility of pupil population in the East Van Zandt School, Fort Worth, Texas, and the relationship of this mobility to pupil achievement and progress.
Date: 1943
Creator: Huffaker, Dixie
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Pupil-Teacher Ratings of the Amount of Democracy Practiced in the William James Junior High School, Fort Worth, Texas (open access)

A Comparative Study of Pupil-Teacher Ratings of the Amount of Democracy Practiced in the William James Junior High School, Fort Worth, Texas

This study undertakes to measure by means of a questionnaire the spirit of democracy in the William James Junior High School of Fort Worth, Texas. The problem was the outgrowth of a personal interest in the boys and girls in the public schools of our nation and a feeling that strict application of the principles of democracy to school practices would result in happier school relationships.
Date: 1942
Creator: Mayo, Vera
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Possible Need of an Aircraft Training Program in Fort Worth Vocational Education Program (open access)

An Analysis of the Possible Need of an Aircraft Training Program in Fort Worth Vocational Education Program

The purpose of this study is to make an analysis of the extent of the airplane industry in the immediate area of Fort Worth, Texas, to determine the need, if any, of adding a course in Airplane Industry to the curriculum of the Technical High School of Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: 1947
Creator: Brooks, William A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Needs of the Northwest Independent School District and the Construction of a Possible Program to Meet those Needs (open access)

An Analysis of the Needs of the Northwest Independent School District and the Construction of a Possible Program to Meet those Needs

The problem in this study was to determine the needs of the people of the Northwest District by a social survey, and then, on the basis of the results of this survey and the exploring of established community programs, to construct a possible program by which these community needs could be partially or completely met.
Date: 1950
Creator: Williams, Shirley Kimbrough
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Work of the Primary Supervisor in Tarrant County (open access)

An Evaluation of the Work of the Primary Supervisor in Tarrant County

The problem of this study is to evaluate the work of the primary supervisor of Tarrant County. The major emphasis has been the development of evaluative criteria from a review of literature in the field of democratic philosophy and modern psychology of education as the principles found in each apply to supervision.
Date: 1951
Creator: Parr, Willie D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Sociometric Ethnological Study (open access)

A Comparative Sociometric Ethnological Study

The purpose of this study is to compare sociometric data obtained from Negro and white pupils in fourth, fifth, and sixth grade public school classrooms in Fort Worth, Texas. An attempt will be made to determine, as nearly as possible with the methods available and other limitations of this study, to what degree socialization is affected by racial factors in groups which are comparable in terms of socio-economic status.
Date: 1951
Creator: McElroy, A. L., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Educational Progress of Under-Age Children (open access)

The Educational Progress of Under-Age Children

The problem of this study was to determine the relationship between chronological age and reading achievement and between chronological age and personality development in school children.
Date: 1949
Creator: Tunnell, Lucile Stallings
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Significance of Classroom Environmental Control in the Azle Elementary School (open access)

The Significance of Classroom Environmental Control in the Azle Elementary School

The objective of this investigation was to make two surveys relating to environmental control in the Azle Elementary School, Azle, Texas. The first survey was designed to furnish a list of favorable and unfavorable factors in classroom environment as they existed in the Azle Elementary School at the close of the school session of 1946-1947, and the second survey , conducted in the same school approximately a year later, was for the purpose of ascertaining what improvements had been made in the interim in order to increase the educative values in the classroom environment of this school.
Date: 1949
Creator: Wood, Roy
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine Factors Associated with Elimination of Students from White Settlement Junior High School (open access)

To Determine Factors Associated with Elimination of Students from White Settlement Junior High School

The purpose of this study is to make an investigation of some factors thought to be associated with the elimination of one hundred pupils from the White Settlement Junior High School near Fort Worth, Texas, over a period of three years.
Date: 1949
Creator: Jolly, Floyd E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the School Program of the White Settlement Junior High School, Tarrant County, Texas (open access)

An Evaluation of the School Program of the White Settlement Junior High School, Tarrant County, Texas

The purpose of this study is two-fold: (1) to formulate criteria for evaluating the activities of a junior high school, and (2) to determine the extent to which the program of the White Settlement Junior High School, Tarrant County, Texas, meets these criteria. In so doing, attention is given to many phases of the school and its program.
Date: 1949
Creator: Jolly, Louise
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Personality and Achievement of Latin-American and Anglo-American Children in the Intermediate Grades of one Elementary School (open access)

A Comparative Study of Personality and Achievement of Latin-American and Anglo-American Children in the Intermediate Grades of one Elementary School

The purpose of this study was to compare the achievement and personality development of Latin-American and Anglo-American school children of similar intelligence in the Washington Height School, Fort Worth, Texas. This was done in order to determine if the Latin-American children had as great a chance of success in school as did the Anglo-American children.
Date: 1950
Creator: Stone, Hazel Mildred
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reasons for the Superior Reading Abilities of Forty Children in the Fifth-Grade Oakhurst School, Fort Worth, Texas (open access)

Reasons for the Superior Reading Abilities of Forty Children in the Fifth-Grade Oakhurst School, Fort Worth, Texas

The purpose of this study is to determine the reasons for the superior reading ability of two groups of twenty children each in the fifth grade of the Oakhurst School, Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: 1949
Creator: Hedgpeth, Lelia Frances
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factors Associated with School Relationships (open access)

Factors Associated with School Relationships

The problem of this investigation was to make a rating of the following factors which pertain to boys in three distinct residential districts of the W. C. Stripling Junior High School, Fort Worth, Texas: (1) intelligence quotient, (2) civic attitude, (3) academic achievements, (4) Sunday school attendance, (5) club membership, (6) after-school employment, and (7) the number of broken homes.
Date: 1940
Creator: Conlee, R. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of the Administrator in the High School Guidance Program (open access)

The Role of the Administrator in the High School Guidance Program

This study was proposed to determine to what extent guidance is actually being practiced in the schools selected and to determine a plan for more comprehensive use of guidance. This plan will emphasize the role the administrator should play in the guidance program.
Date: 1948
Creator: Wilson, W. Andrew
System: The UNT Digital Library
Industrial Psychological Testing: A Review of the Controversy and a Comparison of Some Effective Testing Conditions with Some Stated Uses (open access)

Industrial Psychological Testing: A Review of the Controversy and a Comparison of Some Effective Testing Conditions with Some Stated Uses

The problem of this study is to interview some personnel managers that use psychological testing in personnel selection and compare their responses to the recommended use of effective testing as presented by some professional psychologists.
Date: May 1964
Creator: Jones, William Lewis
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of the Appeal in Favorite Comics and Favorite Fiction, as Reported by Ninth-grade Pupils in the James P. Elder Junior High School, Fort Worth, Texas (open access)

A Comparative Study of the Appeal in Favorite Comics and Favorite Fiction, as Reported by Ninth-grade Pupils in the James P. Elder Junior High School, Fort Worth, Texas

The problem of this study is to compare certain elements of appeal in favorite comic books and favorite books of fiction read by 384 ninth-grade pupils in the J. P. Elder Junior High School, Fort Worth, Texas, during a three-months period from November 7, 1949, to February 7, 1950. The purpose of this investigation is to ascertain whether the same elements of appeal are common to both types of reading, and whether they compare favorably with the findings of other investigations reported in literature on the subject.
Date: 1950
Creator: Smith, Mary Blanche
System: The UNT Digital Library
Out-of-School Character-Building Organizations for High-School Boys and Girls (open access)

Out-of-School Character-Building Organizations for High-School Boys and Girls

The purpose of this study of the out-of-school character-building organizations for high-school youth is fourfold: (1) to discover the problems peculiar to adolescents growing up in the disturbed social environment of this country at the present time; (2) to determine the part reputable youth-serving organizations have in quipping young persons for meeting these problem; (3) to investigate a specific situation in an effort to determine the extent to which high-school students take advantage of the services offered by these organizations; and (4) to suggest ways of reaching more of the young people by gaining from them a knowledge of the kind of program they desire.
Date: August 1950
Creator: Butler, Nora
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factors Related to Change of Major by College Students (open access)

Factors Related to Change of Major by College Students

The problem of this study is to discover what factors are associated with change of major in college students. Questions that need to be answered are (1) Is academic success or failure related to change of major? (2) Is mental ability associated with change of major? (3) Is change of interest related to change of major? (4) Are there reasons that are personal and peculiar to the individual that are associated with change of major? (5) Is inadequate occupational information related to change of major? (6) Do social reasons such as a desire for a vocation with greater prestige, increasing interest in being of service to people, or having to conform to the wishes of parents and relatives relate to change of major?
Date: August 1961
Creator: Firkins, Curtis James, 1906-
System: The UNT Digital Library