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The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest
This text gives an overview of the places and resources in Texas with an emphasis on the locations where the railroads run through the state. Indexes start on page 220.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Texas & Pacific Railway
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
History of McKinney and Collin County
This pamphlet gives an overview of the history of Collin County including important people, agricultural geography, and economic aspects.
Date:
May 1, 1924
Creator:
Wilson, Walter B.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Preparation and Work of High School Teachers in Collin County
"The aim of this study is to examine some of the factors and conditions underlying the preparation and work of the high school teachers in Collin County for the year 1936-1937 only. In finding and tabulating the existing factors and conditions, it is hoped that this will be of help in making improvements in the present schedule for the training of high school teachers."--leaf 2
Date:
August 1937
Creator:
Alexander, Mabel Parker
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study of McKinney's School System with Reference to the Financial Status, the Educational Plant, the Educational Staff and the Pupils
"The purpose of this study is to determine the present status of the McKinney school system in regard to the financial ability, the school plant, the teaching staff, and the pupils by making a profound comparison with general practices and statndards set up by accepted authorities and offering constructive criticism and recommendations that are needed, as obviously shown by comparison."--leaf 2
Date:
August 1937
Creator:
Alexander, Arlin Albert
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Methods of County Financing in Relation to County Government in Texas
This study aims to show the relation of the methods of county financing in Texas to the present form of county government. It argues that the present form of county government in Texas is antiquated and inadequate to meet the requirements of efficient administration of county financing.
Date:
1939
Creator:
Yoakum, Gladys A.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Proposed Plan for Administering Special Education in the Allen Independent School
The purpose of this study is to set up, by reading, observing, and discussing the different phases of Special Education, a proposed plan for administering a more adequate educational program for the exceptional children of the Allen Public School.
Date:
1947
Creator:
Moseley, Wendell H.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Proposed Plan to Improve the Present System of Administering Special Education for Exceptional Children on a County-Wide Basis in Collin County
This problem sets forth a proposal whereby the children who are classified in one of the categories for Special Education for "exceptional children", in Collin County Texas, may receive the most benefits from a program that is administered on a county-wide basis.
Date:
1947
Creator:
Haralson, G. C.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Responsibility of the Secondary School for the Social Development of its Students
The problem in this study is twofold. First, there will be an attempt to determine the values that organizations in the secondary school have for the development of its students. Second, a survey will be made of the four-year accredited high schools in District Five of Texas to determine how and to what extent they are realizing their responsibilities in this respect.
Date:
1947
Creator:
Baxter, Billie Otella
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Vegetation of the Austin Chalk Formation of Collin County, Texas
This study had for its aim the collection, identification, and listing of the spermatophytes growing upon the Austin Chalk formation of Collin County, Texas.
Date:
1947
Creator:
Reese, Roy
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Critical Study of the Programs of Boys' Clubs Sponsored by Organizations in McKinney, Denton, and Dallas, Texas to Determine their Significance in an Over All Guidance Program
The eightfold purpose of this study was: 1. to evaluate the programs of boys' clubs sponsored by organizations in McKinney, Denton, and Dallas, Texas; 2. to obtain and study the aims and objectives of the programs of each club; 3. to obtain and study the aims and objectives of the active membership of the clubs; 4. to evaluate the programs in the light of an over-all guidance program; 5. to determine the different activities and their significance of mental, physical, emotional, economical, social, and moral phases of life; 6. to determine the social and economic status of the membership of the clubs; 7. to discover in which clubs there is a definite need for future professional preparation of adult leaders; 8. to discover the carry-over value of adolescent training through clubs into adult life.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Drain, Maxie, A.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Electricity in Rural Areas of North Texas
"This study shows three things: (1) a precedent for the expenditure of public funds to teach electricity in our public high schools has already been established by the school system in the larger school systems of Texas, (2) the rural families living on electrified farms in the North Texas area want instruction of this type given to the boys and girls in their communities, and (3) both the rural people and the professional people of the North Texas area believe that instruction dealing with the use of electricity and electrical equipment had spread until by 1935 more than twenty-one million homes, about eighty percent of the total in America at that time, were electrified, only eleven American farms out of every 100 had central-station electricity. More than five million American farms lacked electric service. "--leaf 50.
Date:
January 1949
Creator:
Greathouse, Charles Simmons
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of Practices and Procedures of Book Reporting in Secondary School English Classes
The purpose of the study is to make an investigation into the practices and procedures recommended and employed in making book reports in the public schools. The aim is to determine also what methods are most recommended and what practices are followed in secondary school English classes. Special attention is given to the book reporting program in the Frisco High School. Attention is given to the needs for creating a taste for good reading, the ability to interpret what is read, and to the values accruing to the intelligent reader. The reports of reading, as given by a class of secondary pupils, are analyzed to determine the methods most advisable for creating these interests and abilities.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Floyd, Roberta L.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Measurement of Existing Health Conditions in Princeton Public School in Terms of Desirable Conditions for Promoting Health Services
The purpose of this study is to determine the status of existing health conditions in Princeton Public School and to set up a recognized desirable health standard for promoting health services.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Patterson, Angileen
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Relationship Between Sociometric Data and Standardized Measurements
The purpose of this study is to compare the social adjustment of a group with its mental maturity, and also to compare various sociometric techniques with each other.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Miller, Mary Kerby
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
To Construct and Execute a Program of Selected Rhythmic Activities for the Elementary Grades of Frisco Public Schools, Frisco, Texas
The purposes of the study were: 1. to prepare and execute a course of study in rhythms for the elementary grades of the Frisco Public Schools; 2. to study the needs and interests of the student of the elementary grades of the Frisco Public Schools using the principles of physiology, biology, sociology, psychology, and education as a base for the study.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Drain, Mildred G.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Organization and Development of Consumer Cooperatives in Plano, Texas
The writer proposes in this study to make a survey of the organization and development of consumer cooperatives in Plano, Texas. Various phases of the development and present status of the consumer cooperatives are to be dealt with including history of organization, financial growth, operating procedure, management, benefits to the community, comparison with Rochdale Principles, and the reasons for the success of the cooperatives in the Plano community.
Date:
August 1949
Creator:
Marshall, Vada G.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
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
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of a Twelve Months Homemaking Program
It is the purpose of this study to evaluate certain aspects of growth in the pupils of Wylie High School who participated in the twelve months homemaking program during the period of time extending from September 1, 1948, until September 1, 1949.
Date:
1950
Creator:
Evans, Mary Elizabeth
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Reading Readiness as Related to the Mental, Physical, Personal, and Social Factors of a Group of Low First-Grade Pupils of Plano Elementary School, Plano, Texas during the First Five Months of 1949-1950
This study was selected to determine the relation of reading readiness to the mental, physical, personal, and social factors of a group of low first-grade pupils of the Plano Elementary School, Plano, Texas during the first five months of the school year 1949-1950. This study involves consideration of (1) mental readiness, (2) physical readiness, and (3) personal and social readiness as factors of child development.
Date:
1950
Creator:
Evans, Tommie
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Reading-Readiness Program in the Elementary Schools of Collin County to Determine the Extent to Which it is Planned to Meet Present Educational Theory
The purpose of this study is to make an investigation of the reading readiness program of the elementary schools in Collin County, Texas, to determine whether the program is planned in accord with modern theories of education, or administered in the traditional manner of considering the subject.
Date:
1950
Creator:
Bothwell, Tommie Jean Dobie
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine Factors Associated with Reading Difficulties, Remedial Procedure and Results of Remedial Instruction for Twenty Second-Grade Pupils of the Elementary School, Plano, Texas
This study is an attempt to show the extent of and the probable causes for reading difficulties, to give remedial procedure, and to record results for twenty second-grade pupils of the Elementary School, Plano, Texas. An intensive study of the twenty children was made with emphasis upon the improvement of reading ability. This study deals primarily with the investigate of factors in the creation of reading disabilities.
Date:
1950
Creator:
Williams, Eurilla Green
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of the Cost of Operating the Rural High Schools of Collin County Before and After Gilmer-Aikin Legislation
Inasmuch as it has been assumed by the people of the State of Texas that the cost of operating the public school systems has risen since the Gilmer-Aikin Bills have gone into effect, the purpose of this study is to determine just what cost items have increased and to what extent. There are many cost items to be considered in the operation of a public school, and they have varied from year to year since the beginning of public school operation. This study attempts to determine those increased cost items in rural high schools which can be contributed directly to the passage of the Gilmer-Aikin Bills.
Date:
August 1950
Creator:
Pinkerton, Woodrow W.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Traditional and Experience Methods of Teaching Percentage in Seventh-Grade Arithmetic
The purpose of this investigation is to make a comparative study of compiled data obtained from the results of three standardized tests that were given to six classes of pupils enrolled in seventh-grade arithmetic and to determine, within the limits established for this study, the relative effectiveness of each of the two teaching methods employed: traditional and experience.
Date:
1951
Creator:
Burrus, Aleta H.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Constancy of Sociometric Scores and their Relation to Other Psychological Variables
The problem under consideration in this study is to determine the constancy of sociometric scores in their relationship to the constancy of scores of some measures of achievement within a group of thirty-seven children enrolled in an elementary school of McKinney, Texas.
Date:
1951
Creator:
Wilson, Lela Dowdy
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library