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Future Farmers and Non-Classified Students in Pottawatomie County High Schools (open access)

Future Farmers and Non-Classified Students in Pottawatomie County High Schools

This study has been made for the purpose of determining what relationships exist between 4-H Club membership and Future Farmers of America Club membership and the grades, extra-curricular activities, and the future education, which includes specifically college training and post-graduate work done in high schools.
Date: 1946
Creator: Johnson, W. Wallace
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Democratic Approach to the Problem of Educating for Life in a Changing World (open access)

A Study of the Democratic Approach to the Problem of Educating for Life in a Changing World

The purpose of this study is to investigate the need for a democratic approach to the problem of educating for life in a changing world and to show, too, how this approach can be made through a democratic administration, a democratic curriculum, and democratic methods.
Date: 1946
Creator: McAlister, Elbert W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Proposed Correlated Health, Physical, and Safety Education Program for Boys in Texas High Schools with Enrollment of Not More Than Two Hundred Fifty Students (open access)

A Proposed Correlated Health, Physical, and Safety Education Program for Boys in Texas High Schools with Enrollment of Not More Than Two Hundred Fifty Students

The purpose of this study is an attempt to briefly set up a plan of organization and to suggest a flexible program of activities designed to meet the needs of many of the smaller schools of our state in arranging a practical correlated health, physical, and safety education program for high school boys.
Date: 1946
Creator: Malone, H. F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine the Need for Teacher Tenure in Texas (open access)

To Determine the Need for Teacher Tenure in Texas

The purpose of this study is to determine the need for teacher tenure in Texas. In order to determine this need, it will be necessary to investigate not only the need for tenure in the teaching profession, but also the advantages and disadvantages of tenure, the standards necessary for adequate tenure legislation, and the tenure situation as it exists in the public schools of Texas today.
Date: 1946
Creator: Martin, Wesley
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Two Types of Teaching Reading Upon Reading Progress, Social Maturity Progress, and Arithmetic Reasoning and Computation (open access)

The Effects of Two Types of Teaching Reading Upon Reading Progress, Social Maturity Progress, and Arithmetic Reasoning and Computation

The problem of this thesis is to evaluate the progress in general reading efficiency of a group of children taught by the socialized group plan, as compared to a group of children taught by the traditional reading plan and to determine whether the socialized group plan aids in the development of certain other general attributes, such as arithmetic reasoning, arithmetic computation, and social maturity growth.
Date: 1942
Creator: Mathis, Floye
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Two Methods Used in the Teaching of Arithmetic in the Seventh Grade (open access)

A Comparative Study of Two Methods Used in the Teaching of Arithmetic in the Seventh Grade

This comparative study of methods used in teaching arithmetic was carried out in the La Vega Public School, McLennan County, Texas, during the 1941-1942 school term.
Date: 1942
Creator: Maury, Mary Elizabeth
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
The Effect of the Mental Hygiene of the Adult on the Mental Hygiene of the Child in This Emergency (open access)

The Effect of the Mental Hygiene of the Adult on the Mental Hygiene of the Child in This Emergency

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship which the thought patterns of parents have upon the ideas of the children in the present national and world emergency. Attention is also given to the background study of the present conflict, the attitudes that should prevail, and the stress that should be placed upon democracy.
Date: 1942
Creator: Miller, Ethel Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparative Studies in Geography -- Textbook and Free Materials Versus Textbook and Library Supplements (open access)

Comparative Studies in Geography -- Textbook and Free Materials Versus Textbook and Library Supplements

The problem involved in this study was to carry on an experiment of two methods of teaching eighth-grade geography and to compare the two. Briefly stated, the problem of this thesis was to determine the value of the use of free materials as compared with library supplements.
Date: 1942
Creator: Kelsay, Laura E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Uses Made of the Radio in the Seventh Grade of the Schools of Hill County (open access)

An Evaluation of the Uses Made of the Radio in the Seventh Grade of the Schools of Hill County

It is the purpose of this study to make an investigation of the uses made of the radio in the seventh grade in the schools in Hill County, in an endeavor to make available to administrators and teachers the possibilities of radio as an educational medium, and also to suggest additional techniques of utilization.
Date: 1942
Creator: Kirkbride, Martha Frances Cargile
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of First-Hand and Vicarious Experiences in Promoting Reading Readiness (open access)

Comparison of First-Hand and Vicarious Experiences in Promoting Reading Readiness

The purpose of this study is to compare first-hand and vicarious experiences as means of developing those factors or traits of reading readiness that may be improved through training. More specifically, it is an attempt to measure the amount of readiness gained through the two types of experiences by two groups of first-grade children in the San Angelo Public Schools.
Date: 1942
Creator: Looney, Betty Odell
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of some Possible Organizations for the Schools of Wise County, Texas (open access)

An Analysis of some Possible Organizations for the Schools of Wise County, Texas

This problem is to determine what form of organization has most advantages for the schools of Wise County, Texas.
Date: 1946
Creator: George, Cecil Bennett
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Challenge to the Operation of the Philosophy of Laissez-Faire (open access)

The Challenge to the Operation of the Philosophy of Laissez-Faire

The problem of this study is to make an appraisal of laissez-faire, and its aims, methods, and accomplishments in its rise to pinnacle heights, its philosophy, and finally its decline in the maelstrom of society demanding more security, today, than ever before, in our standards of economy and living.
Date: 1946
Creator: Haseltine, May Marian
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Different Instructional Procedures in Teaching Junior High School Mathematics on Types and Amount of Learning (open access)

The Effects of Different Instructional Procedures in Teaching Junior High School Mathematics on Types and Amount of Learning

The problem under consideration attempts to answer the question, Will different methods of teaching the solution of problems in finding areas and perimeters of plane surfaces produce different results; and if so, how great is the difference?
Date: 1946
Creator: Newsom, Clarence A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Hindrances to the Functioning of Democracy in American Society (open access)

Some Hindrances to the Functioning of Democracy in American Society

It is the purpose of this study to discover and define certain hindrances to the functioning of democracy in American society.
Date: 1946
Creator: Oliver, Clydene
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Meanings of Education as Reflected in the Traditional School of Thought and in the Modern Progressive Movement (open access)

The Meanings of Education as Reflected in the Traditional School of Thought and in the Modern Progressive Movement

The purpose of this problem is to make a comparative study of the philosophy of the formal discipline concept of the traditional school of thought and the modern progressive movement in order to determine their relative contributions to our present educational system.
Date: 1946
Creator: Overall, Fannie Bland
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
Interesting the Disinterested School Child through Arts and Crafts (open access)

Interesting the Disinterested School Child through Arts and Crafts

The problem is to determine why fifteen lower grade pupils were absent from school so many times during the previous year and to ascertain whether the pupils' attendance records could be improved in the present year through arts and crafts.
Date: 1947
Creator: Lindsey, Vera Grace
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
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
A Study to Determine the Curriculum Changes Needed, If Any, to Provide a Standard Vocational High School for the Waco State Home, Waco, Texas (open access)

A Study to Determine the Curriculum Changes Needed, If Any, to Provide a Standard Vocational High School for the Waco State Home, Waco, Texas

The purpose of the study is to make a survey of criteria for a general high school vocational program, to evaluate the vocational program of the Waco State Home High School in this respect, and to make recommendations, where thought necessary, for needed changes in the curriculum.
Date: 1942
Creator: Reed, Walter L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Study of Some Factors Related to Mutual Friendship on the High School Level (open access)

Study of Some Factors Related to Mutual Friendship on the High School Level

This study has been made for the purpose of determining the similarities and dissimilarities in certain factors related to mutual friendships.
Date: 1945
Creator: Averitt, Lois Jane
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Trends in Reporting Pupils' School Progress as Evidenced by Recommendations of Educators and as Described by Fifty-Six Adults Engaged in the Teaching Profession (open access)

A Comparative Study of Trends in Reporting Pupils' School Progress as Evidenced by Recommendations of Educators and as Described by Fifty-Six Adults Engaged in the Teaching Profession

The problem of this study is to evaluate methods of reporting pupils' school progress to parents and to discover trends in reporting which are revealed in educational literature and school practice.
Date: 1946
Creator: Davis, Kirvin Kade
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation and Analysis of Teachers' Codes of Ethics (open access)

An Evaluation and Analysis of Teachers' Codes of Ethics

The problem of this thesis was to study the codes of thirteen other states and, in addition, the codes of Texas and the National Education Association, were selected because of the realization that a very small per cent of the teaching profession knows of the existence of such codes and a still smaller per cent knows anything at all of the content of the codes.
Date: 1946
Creator: Enlow, Nannie Holland
System: The UNT Digital Library