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

Description: 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 o… more
Date: June 1967
Creator: Allred, Raymond Coye, 1930-
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A Comparative Study of Three Groups of Intellectually Superior Students who have Completed Two or More Years of College

Description: The purpose of this study was to compare the activities and achievements in college of a population of three groups of academically able students who participated in a high school honors program. The population consisted of (1) those who completed an honors program, (2) those who dropped out of an honors program, and (3) those who entered an honors program at a time later than the entry of the first two groups. This study was concerned with discovering distinguishing activities and achievement… more
Date: June 1967
Creator: Antoine, Hugh
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The Effectiveness of Two Different Uses of an Autoinstructional Program to Teach the Use of the Air Force Fiscal Account Structure and Codes

Description: The problem of the study was the effectiveness of three techniques to teach the instructional unit, "The Air Force Fiscal Account Structure and Codes." The techniques compared were (1) lecture-demonstration procedure supplemented with the eclectic programed textbook, (2) autoinstructional procedure using only the eclectic programed textbook, and (3) the conventional lecture-demonstration procedure.
Date: June 1967
Creator: Askins, Billy Earl
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The Effect of Early Loss of Father Upon the Personality of Boys and Girls in Late Adolescence

Description: It was the purpose of this study to determine whether the early loss of the father is conducive to injury of personality development of boys and girls, which injury may still be evident in late adolescence, the crucial time in life when educational, vocational and other important decisions are being made.
Date: January 1967
Creator: Baggett, Allen Thomas, 1905-
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The Relationship Between Aggression and Parental Contact in Institutionalized Mentally Retarded Males

Description: The purpose of this study is to determine the possible effect of varying amounts of parental contact on the behavior of the institutionalized child. The effect that is being investigated is overt aggression. Also, the variable of peer support will be studied because of its important role when there is a lack of parental support.
Date: June 1967
Creator: Boggess, Carol
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A Study of Guilt and Anxiety as Related to Certain Psychological and Sociological Variables

Description: The problem of this study was to determine the relationship between guilt and anxiety as well as the relationship of these factors to certain psychological and sociological variables. The variables were sex, ordinal position, marital status, education, religious beliefs, church attendance, happiness of childhood, discipline from parents, happiness now, parental happiness, parental education, and parental occupation.
Date: June 1967
Creator: Bradbury, Beverly Ray
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Teacher Selection Practices in Texas Public Schools

Description: The problem of this study was the identification of practices which, in the opinions of school administrators, practicing teachers, and a jury of experts in the field of school administration, are useful to the selection of teachers for Texas Public Schools. Identifiable practices in this study were categorized into two major areas: informational items and procedural items.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Brooks, Paul Allison
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Ideal Leader Behavior Descriptions of Approved and Sociometrically Chosen Student Leaders

Description: The problem of this study was to investigate the concept of ideal leadership as perceived at three different levels of leadership within the structure of a private military academy. The primary purpose was to determine the relationship between the ideal leader as perceived by the students, the teachers and the military science faculty.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Bryant, George W.
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An Analysis of the Social and Ethnic Attributes of the Characters in Children's Books Which Have Won Awards

Description: The problems under study were the following: 1. To determine the distribution of social and ethnic groups among the characters in books that have been awarded the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, and to analyze the treatment of certain groups. 2. To compare the ethnic distribution of characters in fifteen early Newbery Award books with the ethnic distribution of characters in fifteen recent Newbery Award books. 3. To interpret the findings of this study in the light of the objectives of the elemen… more
Date: August 1967
Creator: Elkins, Hilda Arnold
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The Relationship between Level of Academic Achievement and Teachers' Ratings of Adverse Classroom Behavior Among Institutionalized Mental Retardates

Description: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the behavioral differences between over- and underachieving mental retardates and to provide an effective way of identifying over- and underachieving mental retardates.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Flournoy, Richard Lee
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The Relationship of Certain Socio-Cultural Factors among Junior High School Students to Creativity in Art

Description: The purposes of this study were as follows: 1. To measure selected junior high school students' creativity in art. 2. To determine the relationship between the following factors and the degree and kind of creativeness in art demonstrated by the subjects involved: ethnic group, sex, social class, community size, previous art training, cultural interest in the home and community.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Ford, Eleanor Diane, 1934-
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A Study of Rorschach Intellectual Indicators in Adolescents

Description: There seems to be a need for further exploration in this area for the purpose of clarifying which Rorschach indices are indicators of intelligence. R. W. W%, D%, F+%, A%, H, H%, M, and N have each been selected for statistical analysis on the basis of one or more of these three factors: (1) Rorschach, Klopfer and Kelly, and Beck have stated that the index is an indicator of intelligence, (2) extensive definition of the index implies some relation to intelligence, (3) past literature indicates t… more
Date: August 1967
Creator: Giller, Melvyn Eugene
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A Comparison of Peer Nominations and Other Variables of Student Teaching Effectiveness

Description: The problem of this study was to determine how capable college students are in making choices relevant to each other's success as student teachers when compared with (a) college faculty ratings, (b) the judgments of cooperating teachers, and (c) scores from two objective self-rating scales.
Date: June 1967
Creator: Hall, Charles C.
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Doctoral Programs in Mathematics and Education as Related to Instructional Needs of Junior Colleges and Four Year Colleges

Description: The problem of this study was to analyze doctoral programs in mathematics and education for the preparation of teachers of undergraduate mathematics. The purpose of the study was to determine (1) the need for such programs, (2) the attitude of college and university officials toward them, (3) the composition of present offerings and (4) recommendations to the future course their development should take.
Date: June 1967
Creator: Hamilton, William Wingo
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Student Teacher Expectations of the Leadership Role of the Principal

Description: The purposes of this study were to determine student teacher expectations of the behavior of the principal in two dimensions of leadership as measured by the Ohio State Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ) and the extent to which these expectations were related to sex, race, level of preparation, and the eight personality traits measured by the Gordon Personal Profile (GPP) and the Gordon Personal Inventory (GPI).
Date: August 1967
Creator: Hays, Bob Burk
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A Comparison of Certain Personality Characteristics of Selected Secondary Students in Special English Classes Who Score High on a Standardized Achievement Test with Those Who Score Low

Description: This study was undertaken to determine what differences are found among personality characteristics of superior students, in special English classes, who score high on a standardized achievement test and superior students in the same classes who score low on this test. A second dimension of the study was to determine whether the same personality characteristics are evident among superior students in these classes at the eighth, tenth and twelfth grade levels.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Hittson, Robert J.
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The Relative Effectiveness of Two Methodologies in High School Senior English in the Development of Composition Skills

Description: The problem with which this research is concerned is a comparison of two methodologies in the teaching of high school senior English with regard to their relative effectiveness in developing certain composition skills believed to be important in college academic success. The two methodologies compared in this study are (1) a traditional approach and (2) an experimental approach consistent with certain recommendations of the National Council of Teachers of English.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Hopkins, Kathryn Huggins, 1912-
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Relationships Between Self-Actualization and Sociometric Status for Adolescents

Description: It was the purpose of this present investigation to display the tentative relationships between self-actualization and sociometric status of adolescent school students. In light of the theoretical and related literature presented, the following hypotheses were posited: 1) students who are high sociometrically will evidence higher personal orientation inventory (POI) means than the middle or low groups on more positive POI scales and 2) students who are low or middle sociometrically will evidenc… more
Date: August 1967
Creator: Koym, Kenneth G.
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