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An Analysis of Certain Factors Associated with School Progress
This thesis is an analysis of certain factors associated with school progress of students of the graduating class of the Hillsboro Junior High School for 1940. The study is limited to considering the effect of age, attendance, environment, and economic status on progress during four years that these students attended junior high school.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Tribble, Percy G.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Certain Factors Associated with Teachers' Use of Credit
The purpose of this study is to determine what factors make it necessary for teachers to seek credit, how the credit needs of teachers are now being met, and possible solutions for the problems that exist because of these conditions.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Wooden, Henry A.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Educational Equalization Legislation in Texas
It is the purpose of this study to make the following investigations: (1) to trace briefly the historical background of equalization in the United States; (2) to present briefly a cross-section of the plans of equalization used by representative states in the United States; (3) to analyze the principal legal provisions of the equalization laws of Texas for the purpose of showing the growth and development of the State's equalization policy; and (4) to present a summary, to draw conclusions, and to make certain recommendations in the light of the information derived from the study.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Rogers, D. K.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of the Distribution of the Public School Funds
The purpose of this study is to determine to what extent the present laws for distributing the public school funds meet certain criteria set up for apportioning the public school funds of Texas.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Bentley, Jack C.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of the Interscholastic League Activities in the Elementary Schools of Texas
The purpose of this study is to present an analysis of University Interscholastic League activities in the light of modern objectives and principles and to evaluate the reaction of the elementary school teachers and principals to the League activities as they affect children, teachers, and the community. It will attempt to point out and analyze the objectives and principles for elementary school activities. It is hoped that it will cause elementary school teachers and principals of the state to cooperate in solving the problem of Interscholastic League activities in the elementary schools of Texas.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Webb, Escoe Lamar
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the School News Appearing in Seven Navarro County Newspapers in so far as the News Pertains to Twelve School Districts
The problem in this study is to determine and evaluate the practices of twelve small town schools in Navarro County in giving information about the schools to the people of the communities through the newspapers of the county.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Ross, Clyde H.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Utilization of Community Resources in the Educational Program of Wise County, Texas
The problem forming the basis of this study has to do with an analysis of the degree of utilization of the community resources in the educational programs of the independent school districts of Wise County, Texas, for the purpose of determining how adequately these resources are being utilized by the schools for the enrichment of their curricula to the end that pupils may be released into their respective communities well-prepared to assume the duties and responsibilities of efficient, functioning citizens.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Woodard, John Allen
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Bio-Chemical Comparative Study of the Plankton in Lake Dallas and Pecan Creek
The purpose of this investigation is to compare the dissolved and suspended organic material in Lake Dallas to that coming into the lake through Pecan Creek.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Brooks, Benjy Frances
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 155, Ed. 1 Monday, January 1, 1940
Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 1, 1940
Creator:
Stein, J. M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Certain Ideas of Child-Parent Companionship as Expressed by Second-Grade Pupils in the Sam Houston School, Denton, Texas
This purposes of this study were to discover what the second grade children seemed to consider as desirable companionship between themselves and their parents, and to recognize the apparent needs for parental companionship that seemed to exist among the pupils.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Rogers, Roberta
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Chemical Analysis of the Bottom Deposits of Artificial Lakes with Special Emphasis on Lake Dallas
This study is for the purpose of determining the chemical content of typical artificial reservoir bottom deposits.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Patrick, Paul V.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Citizens' Understanding of the Utilization of Public School Buildings as Community Centers as Interpreted by Eighty-Four Citizens of the District
The problem of this study is to determine the extent to which public school buildings were used as community centers in 1939-40, and the degree to which certain citizens understood this utilization. The study is limited to the county seats in Deputy State Superintendent's District Number Seventeen of Texas, which includes the following counties: Angelina, Cherokee, Shelby, Rusk, Nacogdoches, Sabine, and San Augustine.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Whitmore, C. W.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Analysis of the Twelve-Year Plans in Texas Public Schools
The object of this study is to present a brief, though detailed, account of the various methods used to install and to operate a twelve-year curriculum in the Texas Public Schools that have pioneered in this field.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Roberts, Ollie Oneta
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Environmental Conditions and their Relations to Achievement, Personality, and Intelligence of Fifth Grade Pupils
This study has the purpose to compare the relationships between personality, environment, achievement, and intelligence and discover the effect, if any, of environment upon the personality, achievement, and intelligence of a group of fifth grade pupils.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Clark, J. Frances
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Some Physical, Intellectual, and Personality Factors of Groups Entering the Waco State Home at Different Ages and on Different Dates
The problem in this study is to make a comparison of some physical, intellectual, and personality factors of groups of children entering the Waco State Home at different ages and on different dates.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Romine, Charles
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of the Personality of Town Pupils and School Bus Pupils in the Elementary Grades
The major purpose of the study is to reveal, by means of comparison, the extent to which the Town Group of pupils and the School Bus Group of pupils of the elementary grades (fourth to seventh inclusive) of the Decatur, Texas, Public School are adjusting to the problems and conditions which confront them in the Decatur school and community, and the extent to which they are developing a normal, happy, and socially effective personality.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Crockett, Dixie
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of the Relation of Food, Rest, and Recreation to the Height and Weight of the Children in the Fifth Grade of Winnetka School, Dallas, Texas
This thesis is a record of the results of a study made to obtain information about the relation of food, rest, and recreation to the height and the weight of the children in the fifth grade of Winnetka School, Dallas, Texas. The purpose of the work was three-fold: (1) to gain a better understanding of the nutritive value of foods and thereby put this understanding into practice; (2) to recognize the three essentials of good health: namely, diet, rest, knowledge of health rules; (3) and to create a desire to practice them.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Smith, Jessyee
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of the Socio-Economic Status with the School Status of the Third and Fourth-Grade Pupils of the Jermyn, Texas, Public School
The present study is concerned with the relation of the existent socio-economic family status to the school status of twenty-four third and fourth grade pupils in the Jermyn, Texas public school.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Register, Celeste
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Critical Study of the Auditorium Activities of the White Elementary Schools of Dallas, Texas, to Determine the Educational Value of such Procedures in a Platoon System of Public Schools
The purpose of this survey was to make a critical study of (a) educational philosophies, (b) the place of auditorium activities, (c) the purpose of auditorium activities, and (d) the value of auditorium activities in the whole scheme of educational procedures.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Welch, Elizabeth
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dark Adaptation of Second and Third Grade Children
The purpose of the study is to determine the dark adaptation of second grade children in Denton, Texas.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Rohrer, Lois Young
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Developing and Evaluating a Community Social Science Program for the Seventh Grade
The purpose of this study is to develop and to evaluate a community social science program for the seventh grade. The control group was taught in the traditional method, while the experimental group was taught with the community as the basis of all activities.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Thomas, Lewis C.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Economical and Educational Values of the Banking System in the Public Schools of Dallas, Texas
The purpose of this study was to determine the economic and educational values of a banking program in a public school system. The program as employed in the city schools of Dallas, Texas, has been used as the subject for consideration.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Varnell, Pansy Lena
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation in Soil Moisture in Soil and Water Conservation Practices in Denton, Texas
This investigation has attempted to show that soil and water conservation practices do increase the amount of soil moisture in five of Denton County, Texas soils: Denton clay, Durant clay, San Saba clay, Kirvin fine sandy loam, and Tabor fine sandy loam.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Rylander, Halley G.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Burleson High School, Burleson, Texas
This study is an evaluation of the Burleson Secondary School of Burleson, Texas. Its purpose is to determine how well this school has measured up to the criteria developed by the Cooperative Study of Secondary School Standards.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Stubbs, Bill C.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library