Analysis and Evaluation of the Role of Elementary School Supervisors in Selected Texas Public Schools (open access)

Analysis and Evaluation of the Role of Elementary School Supervisors in Selected Texas Public Schools

In the analysis and evaluation of the role of the elementary school supervisor, the purpose was (1) to investigate relationships which might exist between certain personal and professional background characteristics of elementary school supervisors and the activities in which they engaged, (2) to determine the activities in which elementary school supervisors engaged, (3) to determine emphasis placed upon those activities in which elementary school supervisors engaged, and (4) to evaluate those activities in which elementary school supervisors engaged.
Date: June 1963
Creator: Todd, Cyrus Edwin, 1911-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between College Environmental Press and Freshman Attrition at Southern Methodist University (open access)

The Relationship between College Environmental Press and Freshman Attrition at Southern Methodist University

The general purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between college environmental press variables and the attrition characteristics of college freshmen at Southern Methodist University.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Conner, John Douglas, 1927-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Clothing Interest and Self-Concept in Female Undergraduate College Students (open access)

The Relationship between Clothing Interest and Self-Concept in Female Undergraduate College Students

This study sought to examine the relationship between the variable of clothing interest and the five self-concept variables or scales. These are defensive positiveness, general maladjustment, psychosis, personality disorder, and neurosis similarity in scale score to a neurotic population.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Dulin, Anthony P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Motor Activity Level in Response to Musical Stimuli as Found in Mental Retardates (open access)

A Study of Motor Activity Level in Response to Musical Stimuli as Found in Mental Retardates

The purpose of this study is to investigate, empirically, the response of the severely mentally retarded to different types of music, tonic and sedative, as well as responses during "quiet" periods.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Holloway, JoAnn
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Ego Strength, Social Participation and Weight Reduction (open access)

The Relationship between Ego Strength, Social Participation and Weight Reduction

The problem of this research may be stated as a study of the relationship between successful weight reduction on the part of people involved in a group program, and the two variables of ego strength and social participation.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Madison, Carol Rindler
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Performance on the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test and Perceptual Ability and Motor Skill in a Non-Clinical Group (open access)

The Relationship between Performance on the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test and Perceptual Ability and Motor Skill in a Non-Clinical Group

The purposes of the present study are to try to establish whether perception and motor skill are determinant factors of performance on the Bender-Gestalt Test and to investigate the degree of relationship and importance of each factor on the B-G-T.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Moazami, Manoutchehr
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Incidental Learning in a Classroom Type Situation (open access)

A Study of Incidental Learning in a Classroom Type Situation

This paper contends that, like children of average intelligence, there is a degree of material that will be learned by the retardate, even if his attention is not directly brought to bear upon that material.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Siegel, Edward M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Human Personal Space: A Descriptive Study (open access)

Human Personal Space: A Descriptive Study

This is an inquiry into human personal space at a basic descriptive level. Its purpose is to observe some of the characteristics of personal space configurations as measured by a projective technique and to see how certain conditions may effect them.
Date: June 1969
Creator: Renegar, Larry Allen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Head Size Perception in Normal and Mentally Retarded Children (open access)

Head Size Perception in Normal and Mentally Retarded Children

The present study was designed to obtain evidence as to whether the distorted images drawn by mentally retarded subjects are possibly due to perceptual variables, to the lower level of motor coordination they experience, or to an interaction of both.
Date: June 1965
Creator: Jones, Randel R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship of Mental Ability Levels to Reversal of Learning Sets by the Retarded (open access)

Relationship of Mental Ability Levels to Reversal of Learning Sets by the Retarded

Using postulations formulated by Harlow, very few investigators have experimented with discriminative learning in relation to various levels of human mental abilities to the pattern of forming a set. The present study was designed to investigate the effects of different levels of mental abilities on the formation of these sets, using mental retardates, and analyzing the formation of these sets and the abilities of these retardates to shift dimension of cues by reversing the response conditions.
Date: June 1965
Creator: McDaniel, Willard Vearl
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Self Discrepancy to Perceived Problems of Graduate and Undergraduate Students (open access)

The Relationship of Self Discrepancy to Perceived Problems of Graduate and Undergraduate Students

The problem is to determine if there are discrepancies between self-ideal concept which come about through changes in position with respect to group standing, and to what problems specifically that change is related to.
Date: June 1965
Creator: Wierenga, Jon Karl
System: The UNT Digital Library
Impulsive Behavior in Children as a Function of Parental Attitudes toward Child-Rearing Practices (open access)

Impulsive Behavior in Children as a Function of Parental Attitudes toward Child-Rearing Practices

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between child-oriented parental attitudes and resulting child behavior.
Date: June 1962
Creator: Keizer, Louis E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sex-Role Identification as a Determinant of Choice on the Bonney-Fessenden Sociograph (open access)

Sex-Role Identification as a Determinant of Choice on the Bonney-Fessenden Sociograph

It is the purpose of this study to utilize three psychometric measures in order to quantitatively assess the group of subjects on the basis of the trait heterosexuality, as measured by the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule, and in turn make predictions on the basis of these data as to choices made on the Bonney-Fessenden Sociograph.
Date: June 1961
Creator: Robertson, John R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Anxiety on Achievement Test Scores of Children in the Sixth Grade (open access)

Effect of Anxiety on Achievement Test Scores of Children in the Sixth Grade

The purpose of the present study will be to test the relation between Test Anxiety Scores and Stanford-Achievement Test scores and to determine whether there sill be differences of significant values within the sub-tests on the achievement tests.
Date: June 1963
Creator: Booth, Dorothy J. (Dorothy Johnson)
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Group Membership upon Birth Order Differences in Anxiety and Affiliation (open access)

The Effects of Group Membership upon Birth Order Differences in Anxiety and Affiliation

The present study has a twofold purpose. First, it will attempt to ascertain whether ordinal position remains an effective discriminator of affiliative need and level of anxiety within the selective confines of a strong social organization, a college sorority; or whether the selective criterion of membership in the strong social organization tends to suppress the differences in affiliative need and level of anxiety between the ordinal positions. Secondly, it will attempt to further explore the relationship between affiliation and dependency.
Date: June 1963
Creator: Kennelly, Kevin Joseph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Psychological Sex and Sociometric Nomination (open access)

Psychological Sex and Sociometric Nomination

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of the psychological sex role of a person making sociometric nominations to the psychological sex role of such persons nominated. It was hypothesized that similar psychological and biological sexed persons would choose each other as friends and that similar psychological but opposite biological sexed persons would reject each other as non-friends.
Date: June 1959
Creator: Holcomb, Ernest Eugene
System: The UNT Digital Library
Signs of Paranoid Schizophrenic Behavior on the Bender-Gestalt Test (open access)

Signs of Paranoid Schizophrenic Behavior on the Bender-Gestalt Test

The problem of this study was to isolate a constellation of "signs" or items of behavior of individuals on the Bender-Gestalt test and to determine if these signs will discriminate significantly between one patient category, paranoid schizophrenia, and three other major diagnostic categories.
Date: June 1959
Creator: Price, Joseph Wayne
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Rorsach as an Indicator of Intelligence in Seventh-Grade Children (open access)

The Rorsach as an Indicator of Intelligence in Seventh-Grade Children

This study was undertaken in the belief that a greater relationship would be revealed between the Rorschach and intelligence test scores if the factors in the Rorschach which have been found in the past to be related to intelligence could be compared as a whole with scores obtained on mental tests. The purpose of this study was to determine whether it could be demonstrated that a higher degree of relationship does exist between several of the Rorschach factors, considered as a whole, and intelligence as revealed by the California Test of Mental Maturity.
Date: June 1959
Creator: Wolf, Martin G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Experimental Study of Critial Thinking in Student-Centered Teaching (open access)

An Experimental Study of Critial Thinking in Student-Centered Teaching

The problem of this study was to determine the effectiveness of student-centered teaching in producing significant changes in certain critical thinking abilities among selected freshmen students at North Texas State College.
Date: June 1961
Creator: Graham, Daniel W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine the Adequacy of Texas Public School Transportation Service and Support Under the Foundation Program Act (open access)

A Study to Determine the Adequacy of Texas Public School Transportation Service and Support Under the Foundation Program Act

The problem of this study was to evaluate the quality of service and the adequacy of financial support by the State of the Texas public school transportation system and to indicate what improvements, if any, are needed in order to met ideal standards.
Date: June 1961
Creator: McGregor, Alfred Louis
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Field Follow-Up Study of Beginning Elementary Teachers (open access)

A Field Follow-Up Study of Beginning Elementary Teachers

The present study was made to determine the relationship between the level of teaching effectiveness of beginning elementary teachers and three individual characteristics of prospective teachers. A secondary purpose was an attempt to improve the service rendered by the School of Education at North Texas State College, Denton, Texas, in the selection and guidance of students who indicate a desire to enter the program for preparing elementary teachers.
Date: June 1961
Creator: Tate, James Oliver, 1929-
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Junior Executive Training Programs in Department Stores in Texas (open access)

An Analysis of Junior Executive Training Programs in Department Stores in Texas

The problem was to determine the significance of various relationships between job-performance ratings and selected factors associated with the college curricula of junior executive trainees. Job-performance ratings were made by personnel directors and immediate supervisors of college graduates enrolled as participants in junior executive training programs in department stores in Texas.
Date: June 1960
Creator: Ermert, Gene Oliver
System: The UNT Digital Library
Predicting Achievement in a Graduate School of Education (open access)

Predicting Achievement in a Graduate School of Education

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationships between selected criteria and academic achievement in graduate studies leading to certain master's degrees in education at North Texas State University. The major areas in education which were included were Elementary Education, Elementary School Administration and Supervision, Secondary Education, Secondary School Administration and Supervision, and Physical Education. Graduate grade-point average was used as the criterion for academic achievement.
Date: June 1963
Creator: Hughes, Billie Edward, 1927-
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Certain Factors Associated with Financing Capital Outlay for Texas Public Schools (open access)

An Analysis of Certain Factors Associated with Financing Capital Outlay for Texas Public Schools

The problem of this study is to determine the desirable characteristics of a sound program for financing Texas public school buildings--commensurate with need and with an equitable relation between state and local effort.
Date: June 1956
Creator: Herndon, Allen James
System: The UNT Digital Library