A Comparative Study of Environmental Conditions and Their Relations to Achievement, Personality, and Intelligence of Seventh Grade Pupils (open access)

A Comparative Study of Environmental Conditions and Their Relations to Achievement, Personality, and Intelligence of Seventh Grade Pupils

The purpose of this study is to give the results of a testing program in the low seventh grade of an urban school wherein intelligence, personality, achievement, and socioeconomic tests were given. The primary purpose of the tests was to determine what influence, if any, the environmental factors played in the individual learning process, but attention was given to other phases of the learning process as well.
Date: August 1947
Creator: Rohde, Hazel S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Work Habits and Personal Traits of a Group of Graduates of the Commercial Department of Sunset High School, Dallas, Texas (open access)

An Evaluation of the Work Habits and Personal Traits of a Group of Graduates of the Commercial Department of Sunset High School, Dallas, Texas

The problem in this study has a three-fold purpose: to evaluate the work performance, as ranked by employers and teachers, of a group of employed graduates of business education of the sunset high School of Dallas, Texas; to evaluate the personality traits demonstrated by the employees on the job in relation to the personality traits demonstrated in school; and to analyze these evaluations to secure suggestions for improving the course of study, including the amount of emphasis which should be placed on the various phases of the instructional program.
Date: August 1947
Creator: Hudson, Frances Merle
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of the Health Education Program of the State Department of Education of Texas (open access)

A Survey of the Health Education Program of the State Department of Education of Texas

The purpose of this study is to make a survey of the work of the State Department of Education of Texas in promoting school health services in the state. In addition, attention is given to the changing aims of education, the development of school health services throughout the nation, the urgent need for reorientation of subject matter, methods of teaching, and need for greater public financing of health education.
Date: August 1947
Creator: Enloe, Minnie Fae
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine Some Democratic Procedures for Planning and Conducting Programs of Supervision (open access)

To Determine Some Democratic Procedures for Planning and Conducting Programs of Supervision

The purpose of the study is twofold: (I) To select procedures based on principles of cooperation implies in American democracy; and (2) To apply these democratic procedures to the supervisory practices in secondary schools.
Date: August 1947
Creator: Scott, Richard Daniel
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine Some Fundamental Principles Basic to an Effective Democratic Organization of Schoolteachers and Administrators (open access)

To Determine Some Fundamental Principles Basic to an Effective Democratic Organization of Schoolteachers and Administrators

The purpose of this study is to analyze and to determine some fundamental principles basic to an effective democratic organization of school teachers and administrators. In so doing, attention will be given to the need for such an organization, to the shortcomings of present organizations, and to the fundamental principles which should underlie any effective organization.
Date: August 1947
Creator: Rhea, Authur F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of the Academic Achievement of Three Hundred and Eighty Athletes and Non-Athletes at North Texas State Teachers College from 1930 to 1938 (open access)

A Comparative Study of the Academic Achievement of Three Hundred and Eighty Athletes and Non-Athletes at North Texas State Teachers College from 1930 to 1938

It is the objective of the writer to compare the grades of the athletes and non-athletes as well as to consider factors other than intelligence to show the difference in Academic Achievement at North Texas State Teachers College between athletes and the average student.
Date: June 1947
Creator: Davis, Harold L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of One Hundred Non-Veteran Freshmen with One Hundred Veteran Freshmen in Scholastic Achievements and Personality Traits During the Fall Semester of 1946 at North Texas State Teachers College (open access)

Comparison of One Hundred Non-Veteran Freshmen with One Hundred Veteran Freshmen in Scholastic Achievements and Personality Traits During the Fall Semester of 1946 at North Texas State Teachers College

"The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is a significant difference between non-veterans and veterans in certain scholastic achievements and personality traits."--1.
Date: June 1947
Creator: Petrash, Johnny J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Administrative Activities of High School and Elementary School Principals with Respect to some Democratic Procedures (open access)

Administrative Activities of High School and Elementary School Principals with Respect to some Democratic Procedures

The purpose of this study is two-fold: (1) to determine democratic procedures as they apply to administrative activities, and (2) to compare the activities of high school principals with those of elementary school principals with respect to democratic procedures.
Date: 1947
Creator: Clayton, Irvin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adult Education: in Retrospect and Prospect (open access)

Adult Education: in Retrospect and Prospect

This thesis shows trends and tendencies in the development of adult education during the twentieth century. The author also proposes a plan for the education of returning G.I.'s.
Date: 1947
Creator: Storey, Lonita
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of Items on a Personality Questionnaire (open access)

Analysis of Items on a Personality Questionnaire

The purpose of this study is to determine which items on a personality rating scale are most valid in describing individuals who have been selected on the basis of social acceptance.
Date: 1947
Creator: Darnall, Erie Marshall
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Scientific Learning in Growing Silkworms (open access)

An Analysis of Scientific Learning in Growing Silkworms

The purpose of this study is to give the results of a science experiment in an elementary grade in raising silkworms. The purpose of the experiment was not to learn the laws and principles of science, but to determine whether the life cycle of the silkworm would create a greater interest in the field of science.
Date: 1947
Creator: Roberts, Odessa Hensley
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
The Analysis of the Reasons for and the Lack of Attendance at the Parent-Teacher Association of the Robert E. Lee School, Denton, Texas (open access)

The Analysis of the Reasons for and the Lack of Attendance at the Parent-Teacher Association of the Robert E. Lee School, Denton, Texas

The problem of this study is to analyze the reasons for attendance and lack of attendance at Parent-Teacher Association meetings of sixty selected parents of the Parent-Teacher Association in the Robert E. Lee School, Denton, Texas.
Date: 1947
Creator: Lowe, Mary Elizabeth
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of the Social and Academic Status of Private Pre-school and Public School Children in the Second Year of a Dallas Elementary School (open access)

A Comparative Study of the Social and Academic Status of Private Pre-school and Public School Children in the Second Year of a Dallas Elementary School

This study will endeavor to make a comparative study of seventeen children in the second grade in an elementary school in Dallas that attended private schools and omitted the first year of the public school, and seventeen children that are in the second grade after completing the first grade in the public school. The purpose of the study in comparing the social and academic status of the two groups is to determine if the non-scholastic child after a year of private school is able to adjust and accomplish an academic and social status on the level of the second year of the public school as compared with children of school age that have been through the first year and are now in their second year.
Date: 1947
Creator: Aldredge, Ruby
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Changes in the Offerings of Secondary Schools in Texas and Louisiana since 1920 (open access)

A Comparison of Changes in the Offerings of Secondary Schools in Texas and Louisiana since 1920

The purpose of this study is to make a comparison of the curriculum changes made in the secondary schools of Texas and Louisiana since 1920, and to determine if these changes conform to changes in accepted educational aims.
Date: 1947
Creator: Phillips, Orville L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Gainesville Junior High School with the Accepted Standards for Junior High School Outline (open access)

A Comparison of Gainesville Junior High School with the Accepted Standards for Junior High School Outline

The purpose of this study is to make an evaluation of Gainesville Junior High School to determine the extent to which it meets criteria for this type of school. The different phases of the school evaluated were: plant and equipment, library, course of study, techniques of teaching, and extra-curricular activities.
Date: 1947
Creator: Moore, Walter Travis
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of the Socio-Economic Status with the School Status of the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth-Grade Pupils of the Montague, Texas, Public Schools (open access)

A Comparison of the Socio-Economic Status with the School Status of the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth-Grade Pupils of the Montague, Texas, Public Schools

The purpose of this study is a comparison of the socio-economic status with the school status of the seventh, eighth, and ninth-grade pupils of the Montague, Texas, public schools. In this study the socio-economic status is interpreted as meaning the position that the individual, or family, occupies with reference to average standards based on the home status indexes.
Date: 1947
Creator: Hodge, Robert Bee
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing a Course of Study for Eighth-Grade Social Science in the Plainview Junior High School, Plainview, Texas (open access)

Developing a Course of Study for Eighth-Grade Social Science in the Plainview Junior High School, Plainview, Texas

The purpose of this study is to determine the nature of a curriculum for use in the eighth-grade social science classes of the Plainview Junior High School, Plainview, Texas.
Date: 1947
Creator: Flowers, Lucile
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development and Introduction of a Sound Guidance Program (open access)

Development and Introduction of a Sound Guidance Program

The purpose of the study is to analyze and evaluate the soundness of a guidance program in its introduction and development in a secondary school.
Date: 1947
Creator: Lasater, Ira Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
Domination and Persuasion as Means of Social Control in a Boy Scout Organization (open access)

Domination and Persuasion as Means of Social Control in a Boy Scout Organization

The problem of this study is to determine the extent to which domination and persuasion are employed as methods of social control in fifteen Boy Scout troops in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Date: 1947
Creator: Shaw, Euline
System: The UNT Digital Library
Educational Opportunities in the West Independent School District and the Surrounding Common School Districts could be Improved through Consolidation (open access)

Educational Opportunities in the West Independent School District and the Surrounding Common School Districts could be Improved through Consolidation

The purpose of this study is to determine the extent of educational inequalities existing in the West Independent School District and the eight surrounding rural school districts, and to suggest changes that might improve educational opportunities for all children involved.
Date: 1947
Creator: Kennedy, G. D.
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 Audio-Visual Instruction in Low-First Grade Reading (open access)

An Evaluation of Audio-Visual Instruction in Low-First Grade Reading

The problem of this investigation was two fold: first, to obtain information on available auditory and visual aids adaptable to teaching reading on the low-first-grade level; and second, to determine the progress in general reading efficiency of three groups of beginning readers who were taught by three different methods.
Date: 1947
Creator: Keith, Flora Fay
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Materials now Available for Teaching Spanish-Speaking Children to Speak and Read English (open access)

Evaluation of Materials now Available for Teaching Spanish-Speaking Children to Speak and Read English

The purpose of this study is to discover and evaluate materials available to teachers attempting to solve the problems of teaching Spanish-speaking children to read English, and to make some suggestions as to the effective ways of selecting materials to be used in a locality where Spanish-speaking children attend the public schools.
Date: 1947
Creator: Read, Jennie Mae
System: The UNT Digital Library