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A Study of the Effect of Heterogeneous Grouping as Opposed to Homogeneous Grouping for Language Development of Severely Retarded Students
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of heterogeneous grouping and homogeneous grouping in the language development of severely retarded students. A further purpose was to determine how beneficial either of the grouping procedures would be for this level of student.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Burbank, Erwin Russell
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Educational Background and Judgment Ability in a Group of 300 Delinquent Boys as Reflected by the Information and Comprehension Subtest of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
It was the purpose of this study to attempt to discover if the educational background and judgment ability of juvenile delinquents are markedly impaired, as indicated by the Information and Comprehension subtest scores of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children.
Date:
January 1968
Creator:
Buresh, Martin C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Certain Personality Attributes to the Verbal Behavior of Selected Student Teachers in the Secondary School Classroom
The relationship of certain personality attributes to the verbal behavior of selected student teachers in the secondary school classroom.
Date:
January 1967
Creator:
Burge, Everett Waddell
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Conflict in Children Related to the Number of Choice Alternatives
The purposes of the present study are to attempt to discover if there is a predictable relationship between conflict and an increase in the number of choice alternatives, to specifically determine if this hypothesized relationship exists in a predictable order in children, to endeavor to show that this hypothesized relationship is such that generalization of application to a natural environment is credible, and to attempt to discover if there are sex differences that may influence this relationship.
Date:
June 1968
Creator:
Burleson, Billy D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Big Spring, Texas, Elementary Schools
The problem of study is a critical evaluation of the Big Spring, Texas, Elementary Schools using The Handbook for Self-appraisal and Improvement of Elementary Schools published in September, 1945, under the direction of Edgar Ellen Wilson, Director of Elementary Education in Texas. The parts in this evaluation under consideration are the children, the teacher, and the program of school life, eliminating the other headings under which a school may be placed.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Burnam, Ruth Arnold
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Actual Stature to Height of Human Figure Drawings
One purpose of this study was to determine of the actual physical dimensions of an individual are related to the dimensions of his human figure drawings. The specific physical dimension used in this study is that of stature of height. Another purpose of this study was to determine if college males majoring in Physical Education might be superior to college males majoring in Industrial Arts in terms of their clarity of body image.
Date:
January 1969
Creator:
Burnett, Donald E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Effectiveness of Programmed Vocabulary Instruction in an Undergraduate Collegiate Business Communications Course
This study evaluates the effectiveness of programed vocabulary instruction in an undergraduate collegiate business communications course. In making its evaluation, the study tests the hypothesis that a class using such instruction would improve over a class without formal vocabulary study. The three areas of proficiency measured are written communication, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.
Date:
August 1972
Creator:
Burnett, Mary Joyce
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Personality Adjustment and Achievement of Slow Learning Children
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between certain personality characteristics and achievement of slow learning children.
Date:
May 1969
Creator:
Burnside, Elisabeth Claire
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Symbolic Language Transfer in the Autistic Child
The problem of this study is to see if there is more symbolic language transfer by autistic children in an untrained matching situation if there has been previous training on similar matching situations. The purposes of the study are twofold. The first is to see if subjects will make a motor sign response untrained to an object if the word for the object has been trained to the motor sign response and to see if they will make a motor sign response untrained to a word for an object if they have been trained to make the response to the object named. The second is to see, if transfer occurs, whether the order presentations of object and word are a factor.
Date:
August 1976
Creator:
Busbee, Mary Cheryl
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Experimental Study to Ascertain the Amount of Achievement Made in Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, and Social Studies by the Use of Audio-Visual Aids
The present study is an attempt to obtain, from two groups of students, useful facts with which to evaluate the most effective method of presenting educational materials to junior-high-school students. The study is an attempt to measure and evaluate the achievement made in social studies, reading comprehension, and vocabulary in 1949 and 1950. The following questions form the basis for the present study: What method is best for the purpose of presenting materials to a class? Which method helps to solve the problem of the student most effectively? By which method is greater achievement made? If the two methods prove of equal value, then how much achievement may be attributed to the use of each method?
Date:
1951
Creator:
Bushnell, Mildred Searcy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Out-of-School Character-Building Organizations for High-School Boys and Girls
The purpose of this study of the out-of-school character-building organizations for high-school youth is fourfold: (1) to discover the problems peculiar to adolescents growing up in the disturbed social environment of this country at the present time; (2) to determine the part reputable youth-serving organizations have in quipping young persons for meeting these problem; (3) to investigate a specific situation in an effort to determine the extent to which high-school students take advantage of the services offered by these organizations; and (4) to suggest ways of reaching more of the young people by gaining from them a knowledge of the kind of program they desire.
Date:
August 1950
Creator:
Butler, Nora
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Growth and Trends of the Social Studies Curriculum in the Schools of Texas from 1886 to 1948
The purpose of the present investigation is to make a study of the growth and trends of the social studies curriculum in the schools of Texas from pioneer days up to the present time, 1948.
Date:
1948
Creator:
Cade, Albert Guy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Analysis of the Development of High School Library Standards and Certain Associated Factors
The purpose of this study is to make a comparative analysis of the development of high school library standards since 1918 by taking into consideration the factors of rapid growth of high school enrollments, modifications of the basic philosophy of education, and the development of secondary school libraries.
Date:
1956
Creator:
Callaway, Ruthie Lee
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Relationships between Eight Situational Factors and High and Low Scores on the Leadership Behavior Dimensions of Instructional Supervisors
The problem of this study was to determine whether there is a significant relationship between certain situational factors and high and low scores on the leadership behavior dimensions of industrial supervisors. The behavior dimensions studies were the two dimensions of Consideration and Initiating Structure, as measured by the instrument used in the study.
Date:
June 1961
Creator:
Campbell, Ona Lee, 1908-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of a Self-Instructional Approach to Teaching a College French Diction Course for Vocal Music Students
The primary purpose of the study was to test a self-instructional approach to teaching a college French diction course to determine if it would equal or surpass in effectiveness a course taught by a traditional approach. The study sought to provide a partial solution to the problems of the increasing student-teacher ration in colleges, and of the individualization of teaching students who have various learning rates and backgrounds.
Date:
May 1969
Creator:
Capps, Verl L. (Verl Lindel)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Three Conditions of Reinforcement on the Performance of Three Learning Tasks by Hospitalized Chronic Schizophrenics
This study is concerned with determining the relationship among functional educational level of groups, three types of reinforcement, and length of the study and with their resulting effects on schizophrenic performance.
Date:
January 1970
Creator:
Carley, John Wesley
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Epinephrine and Nor-epinephrine on Approach-avoidance Behavior
It was the purpose of the present study to compare the effect of intraperitoneal injections of the following drugs on a conditioned approach-avoidance response in mice. These drugs were epinephrine and nor-epinephrine.
Date:
June 1966
Creator:
Carley, John Wesley, III
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Anxieties of White and Negro Elementary and Secondary Student Teachers in Biracial Participation
The purposes of this study were to determine the extent to which anxieties are created among student teachers by assigning Negro or white student teachers to cooperating teachers of the opposite race, and to analyze the implications of the anxiety on white and Negro student teachers for teacher education institutions interested in the optimum adjustment of student teachers.
Date:
January 1970
Creator:
Carter, Vertie Lee
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Investigation into Attitudes toward Death and Attempted Suicide
It was the purpose of this investigation to add to the scientific knowledge of death and suicide and to present an exploratory investigation into the possibility of developing an attitudinal technique or scale of measuring responsiveness toward death, which has to do with how a person responds to his own death and the "death-instincts."
Date:
January 1968
Creator:
Cash, Larry M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Draw-A-Person Technique as a Measure of Sexual Conflict
Since much of the existing research which points to the low validity of the Draw-a-Person technique has used differentiation of diagnostic categories as a criterion, this study will be restricted to a consideration of the Draw-a-Person technique as a means for discriminating between a group of individuals who manifest conflicts in the area of sexual adjustment and a control group which does not show these conflicts in any appreciable amount.
Date:
January 1968
Creator:
Caspary, Arthur Courtney
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of an In-Service Program Utilizing Bloom's Taxonomy on Teachers' Self-Concepts, Cognitive Level of Test Construction, and Attitudes of Students
The problem of this study was to investigate the effect of an in-service program utilizing Benjamin S. Bloom (Ed.) and others' Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook I: Cognitive Domain (Bloom's Taxonomy) on (1) the self-concept of experienced secondary English teachers and social studies teachers, (2) the cognitive level of test items on teacher-made examinations, and (3) the attitude changes toward school subjects as rated b students.
Date:
May 1972
Creator:
Castleman, John Lavoid
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of A Programmed Study Skills Unit to the Academic Achievement of a Selected Group of Eigth Grade Students
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of a programmed study skills unit to the academic achievement of a selected group of eighth grade students.
Date:
August 1965
Creator:
Chapel, Dewey E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Determination of the Relationship between Reading Skills and Personality Development
The purpose of the study is to show that personality adjustments and reading skills have a decided connection in the development of the individual, for with enunciation, pronunciation, and oral interpretation of the printed page come greater confidence, self-expression, and poise.
Date:
August 1952
Creator:
Chapman, Pat
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Certain Factors of Late and Regular Registrants
The purpose of the study is to determine if significant differences and relationships exist between students who enrolled late and those who enrolled on time at Tarleton State College between the years 1955-1962 inclusive. The study involves comparing the records of 325 freshman and sophomore students who registered late with those of 325 matched freshman and sophomore students who enrolled on time.
Date:
May 1964
Creator:
Chilton, Bradley Stuart, 1927-
System:
The UNT Digital Library