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Rorschach Patterns as Related to Sociometric Status (open access)

Rorschach Patterns as Related to Sociometric Status

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between an individual's performance on the Rorschach Ink Blot Test and his degree of social acceptance as revealed by a test of sociometry.
Date: August 1955
Creator: Aber, Walter E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Value of Filmstrips in the Third Grade (open access)

The Value of Filmstrips in the Third Grade

The purpose of this study is to determine the possible influence of the use of filmstrip material upon a group of third-grade pupils as compared with another group of third-grade pupils not using filmstrip materials.
Date: 1950
Creator: Adair, Elva Gaynelle
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Differential Study of Reasons Why Students Drop Out of School as Related to Actual Dropout-preventive Practices of a Metropolitan School District (open access)

A Differential Study of Reasons Why Students Drop Out of School as Related to Actual Dropout-preventive Practices of a Metropolitan School District

The problem of this study was the differentiation of high schools in a metropolitan school district from the standpoint of the measures taken to prevent student dropouts.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Adams, Ambrose Davidson, 1936-
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Pragmatism: its Influence on Certain Modern Trends in Education (open access)

A Study of Pragmatism: its Influence on Certain Modern Trends in Education

It is the purpose of this thesis to show that the pragmatic philosophy is basically responsible for present-day developments in various teaching techniques.
Date: 1941
Creator: Adams, Donald Quincy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Individualized Instruction in the Elementary School (open access)

Individualized Instruction in the Elementary School

The purpose of this study is to investigate the more recent types of instruction. In this investigation, emphasis has been placed on instruction which has grown out of children's interests and needs, and which recognizes the capacities, abilities and potentialities of children.
Date: 1943
Creator: Adams, Juanita Sunshine
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Value of Selected Curiosity Tests for Predicting Academic Achievement in First and Second-Grades (open access)

A Study of the Value of Selected Curiosity Tests for Predicting Academic Achievement in First and Second-Grades

This investigation was concerned with the problem of determining the value of selected curiosity tests for predicting academic achievement in first and second-grades.
Date: August 1970
Creator: Adkisson, Jack
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Formation of Learning Sets on Thee Discrimination Problems by Five- to Six-Year-Olds (open access)

The Formation of Learning Sets on Thee Discrimination Problems by Five- to Six-Year-Olds

The problem was to determine the levels of intellectual capacity necessary at various ages for acquiring rapid and efficient nonspatial discrimination learning sets on problems of increasing complexity.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Ahlers, Shirley Mae, 1931-
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Develop a Desirable Method of Reporting Pupil Progress in the Elementary School (open access)

To Develop a Desirable Method of Reporting Pupil Progress in the Elementary School

The problem is to examine and analyze the methods used for reporting pupil progress in the elementary schools; to give evidence of the significant changes underlying the concepts of educational achievement; and to give consideration to the basic principles involved in order to develop a desirable method.
Date: 1948
Creator: Aikin, Lorene
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine the Common Elements in Ten Newbery Medal Books (1940-1949) (open access)

A Study to Determine the Common Elements in Ten Newbery Medal Books (1940-1949)

The purpose of this study is twofold: first, to determine whether the Newbery Medal Books under consideration meet the commonly accepted requirements of children's literature; and second, if they do not, to determine wherein they differ from acceptable criteria.
Date: 1950
Creator: Akin, Alva-Myrtie
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine a Sound Method of Distributing the Public School Funds in Texas (open access)

To Determine a Sound Method of Distributing the Public School Funds in Texas

It is the purpose of this study to discover and report a sound method of distributing the public school funds of Texas. This investigation will discuss present-day practices in distributing the public school funds, and where advisable will make recommendations to secure more adequate distribution.
Date: 1947
Creator: Alderdice, Joseph Lloyd
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 Study of McKinney's School System with Reference to the Financial Status, the Educational Plant, the Educational Staff and the Pupils (open access)

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
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Preparation and Work of High School Teachers in Collin County (open access)

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
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of Courses of Study for Teaching the Social Studies in the Primary Grades (open access)

An Evaluation of Courses of Study for Teaching the Social Studies in the Primary Grades

The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to read and analyze professional literature to determine criteria for an adequate social-studies program in an elementary grade, and (2) to evaluate a selected number of courses of study of large-city school systems and state departments of education to determine the extent to which they meet criteria.
Date: 1951
Creator: Alford, Katherine Elizabeth Bower
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teacher Judgments as Related to Certain Predictors of Artistic Creativity in Senior High-School Students (open access)

Teacher Judgments as Related to Certain Predictors of Artistic Creativity in Senior High-School Students

The problem of this study was to ascertain the degree and kind of relation which might exist between a) certain measured indices of general creativity, ingenuity, and artistic judgment, and b) teacher judgments of artistic creativity within a senior high-school art population. One of the major purposes of this study was to identify a test or tests of creativity which might be used with senior high-school students to find those students with artistic potential who either should be counseled into art classes or for whom particular kinds of teaching procedures should be developed.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Alford, Mary Lee, 1912-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Adequacy of the School Transportation Systems of Montague County, Texas (open access)

The Adequacy of the School Transportation Systems of Montague County, Texas

In this study an attempt is made to determine the adequacy of the school transportation systems of Montague County, Texas.
Date: 1950
Creator: Allen, Bill N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine the Sound Administrative Steps in the Organization of a Community School (open access)

A Study to Determine the Sound Administrative Steps in the Organization of a Community School

The purpose of this study is to determine the sound steps or procedures for the administrator to follow in organizing a community school. It will attempt to show ways of utilizing to the fullest possible extent the resources of the community.
Date: 1949
Creator: Allen, Clifford D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teacher Characteristics Which are Most Liked and Disliked by College Students (open access)

Teacher Characteristics Which are Most Liked and Disliked by College Students

The study presented in this paper is an effort to determine qualities considered significant by students in their teachers' behavior and methods, and, moreover, to assess the degree of importance which students assign these qualities.
Date: 1957
Creator: Allen, Mary Ann McLain
System: The UNT Digital Library
Differences in Personality Characteristics among Two Groups of Art Majors Varying in Creativity and a Control Group (open access)

Differences in Personality Characteristics among Two Groups of Art Majors Varying in Creativity and a Control Group

The present study is somewhat exploratory in nature in that it is interested in determining some of the factors which correlate with creativity. The study will limit itself to investigating the factors measured by Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire as they relate to creativity among high and low Creative art majors and non-art majors. To this end, it is hypothesized that a difference will be found among the mean scores of the three groups for at least thirteen of the sixteen factors.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Allred, Raymond Coye, 1930-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between the Interaction of Two Anxiety Variables and Creative Production (open access)

The Relationship between the Interaction of Two Anxiety Variables and Creative Production

It is evident that educators and industrial psychologists alike recognize the effect that situational climate may have upon creative production. The present study will, hopefully, contribute some useful information leading to a better definition of the relationship between anxiety and creative production, which will lead in time to suggestions regarding the essential conditions of an optimum creative climate. The exploration of some of the aspects involved in situational climates is the point of departure for the present study.
Date: June 1967
Creator: Allred, Raymond Coye, 1930-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Structured and Non-Structiured Stimuli for Art Production to Selected Personality Factors (open access)

The Relationship of Structured and Non-Structiured Stimuli for Art Production to Selected Personality Factors

The problem of this study was to determine whether there was any relationship between selected personality variables and art production with structured and non-structured stimuli.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Allumbaugh, James
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Atypical Child and His Status in the Educational Practices of Texas (open access)

A Study of the Atypical Child and His Status in the Educational Practices of Texas

The purpose of the study is to study child differentiations in their relation to educational growth; to emphasize a greater need, on the part of today's teachers, for constant study of the atypical child in order to determine his developmental needs; to emphasize the importance and desirability of utilizing the talents of the highly endowed pupil; to consider current educational practices in their relation to the added capabilities of superior children; and to emphasize the importance of developing whatever desirable social qualities the mentally retarded child may possess.
Date: 1948
Creator: Althaus, Nellie
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of an Adequate Finance System for Extracurricular Activities (open access)

An Evaluation of an Adequate Finance System for Extracurricular Activities

It is the purpose of this study to discover and report educationally sound practices of activity financing and administration, with special emphasis placed on accounting. This investigation will attempt to disclose present-day common practices in financing the activities and accounting in regard to activity finances, and where advisable to make recommendations to secure more adequate procedures.
Date: 1941
Creator: Alvis, James C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Dominance-Feeling in College Women (open access)

A Study of Dominance-Feeling in College Women

The purposes of this study are as follows: 1. To measure, compare, and evaluate the level of self-esteem of college women in two colleges. 2. To show the relationship of certain background factors to dominance-feeling in college women.
Date: 1946
Creator: Anderson, Dan L.
System: The UNT Digital Library