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 Predictive Validities, as Measured by Multiple Correlation, of Two Batteries Using Academic Achievement as Criterion (open access)

The Predictive Validities, as Measured by Multiple Correlation, of Two Batteries Using Academic Achievement as Criterion

The problem of this study was to determine the predictive validity, as measured by multiple R, of two batteries given to beginning college students using various achievement criteria.
Date: June 1967
Creator: Barnett, Thomas Marvin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conflict in Children Related to the Number of Choice Alternatives (open access)

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
The Effects of Diphenylhydantoin on Maze Performance (open access)

The Effects of Diphenylhydantoin on Maze Performance

Making the assumption that diphenylhydantoin has a lowering or cancelling effect on excess electricity in the brain, it is the purpose of this study to determine the effect of diphenylhydantoin in a stressful learning situation.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Dudley, Harold Kenneth
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
Fear of Death as Related to a Positive Future Time Perspective and Self-Esteem (open access)

Fear of Death as Related to a Positive Future Time Perspective and Self-Esteem

The problem with which this investigation was concerned was to determine whether or not fear of death was related to positive future time perspective and self-esteem.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Gerson, Raymond 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
Reversal and Nonreversal Shifts in Concept Learning in Three Levels of Retardates (open access)

Reversal and Nonreversal Shifts in Concept Learning in Three Levels of Retardates

The primary objective of this experiment is to investigate the transition from single unit to mediation control in retardates and to compare their responses with those made by nursery, kindergarten and grammar school children. By utilizing three MA levels of retarded subjects, this transition point may be more specifically demonstrated.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Scurlock, Cheryl Faye
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
Some Differences in Reactions to Soothing and Exciting Music (open access)

Some Differences in Reactions to Soothing and Exciting Music

This study is concerned with the measurable physiological changes in human beings in the presence of musical stimuli.
Date: June 1969
Creator: House, William John
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Anxiety on the Short-term Memory Proficiency of College Students (open access)

The Effects of Anxiety on the Short-term Memory Proficiency of College Students

Based on the review of literature, it has been demonstrated that anxiety has some detrimental effects on the short-term memory functions of the college student. In order to improve the experimental methodology, the present study combined Type I and Type II studies of short-term memory as a function of anxiety. The two were combined so that the major criticisms in each study were controlled.
Date: June 1969
Creator: Payne, Terry D.
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
A Comparison of Negro and White Responses to the Rorschach Ink Blots (open access)

A Comparison of Negro and White Responses to the Rorschach Ink Blots

The purpose of this study is to compare Negro and white responses to the Rorschach.
Date: June 1965
Creator: Corrin, Denny D.
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
Analysis and Computer Programming of Duncan's New Multiple Range Test (open access)

Analysis and Computer Programming of Duncan's New Multiple Range Test

The primary purpose of this paper is to analyze and evaluate a relatively recently proposed statistic, "Duncan's New Multiple Range Test," for use when the researcher's plans call for a test of significance between three or more group means.
Date: June 1965
Creator: Wheeler, Walter
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
A Comparison on Certain Rorschach Indices between Successful and Unsuccessful Students (open access)

A Comparison on Certain Rorschach Indices between Successful and Unsuccessful Students

It was the purpose of this study to determine the relationship between a subject's performance as revealed by intellectual indices of the Rorschach, his intellectual ability as revealed by the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, and academic success or failure in the form of promotion or nonpromotion.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Kendrick, Sherrill Robertson
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
Leadership Concepts of Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Students (open access)

Leadership Concepts of Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Students

The purpose of this study is to determine the concepts held by college students in the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps concerning leadership. An attempt will be made to indicate the relative importance of these concepts of leadership as determined by the college students. Also, the opinions of the different classes--freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors concerning these concepts will be obtained.
Date: June 1955
Creator: Gleason, Dale Harvey, 1921-
System: The UNT Digital Library