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- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc107925/
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc108213/
- Differences in Social Behavior Between Elementary School Children Who Have Attended Nursery School and Those Who Have Not Attended Nursery School
- The purpose of this study is to attempt to discover any observable differences in social behavior between elementary school pupils who have attended nursery school and those who have had no nursery school experience. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc130371/
- Applying Democratic Principles to Social Studies Practices
- The problem is to determine how a philosophy of democracy can be translated into democratic action in teaching social studies in the senior high school. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc53582/
- The Value of Filmstrips in the First Grade of Travis School, Mineral Wells, Texas
- The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of filmstrips upon a group of first-grade pupils as compared to another group of first-grade pupils not using filmstrips. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83503/
- An Analysis of the Public-Relations Practices of One Hundred Texas Public-School Systems
- The purpose of this study has three aspects. These are, (1) to determine what constitutes sound public-relations practices as recommended by recognized authorities in this field; (2) to determine the extent to which certain public-relations practices are employed by one hundred Texas public school systems; and (3) to determine whether the public-relations programs of one hundred Texas public-school systems meet the requirements of a sound public-relations program. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83505/
- A Study to Determine Sound Methods of Teaching High School Geography
- The purpose of this study is to endeavor to formulate a sound method of teaching geography so that it may contribute to intelligent problem solving in our democratic way of life. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc96882/
- The Predictive Value of an English Achievement Test for Grades in Modern Foreign Languages
- This study has as its objectives: (1) the determination of the degree of relationship between achievement in the study of English as measured by a standardized English achievement test and achievement in the study of foreign languages as measured by teacher's grades; (2) the determination of the amount of contribution to such a relationship of the achievement in various functional areas in the study of English as measured by the subtests of the English achievement test. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc108254/
- The Validity of the Bender-Gestalt Test in Making a Diagnostic Conclusion
- This study attempts to validate the hypothesis that six empirically derived signs will differentiate the alcoholic patient from other clinical groups. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc107927/
- Responsibility of the Secondary School for the Social Development of its Students
- The problem in this study is twofold. First, there will be an attempt to determine the values that organizations in the secondary school have for the development of its students. Second, a survey will be made of the four-year accredited high schools in District Five of Texas to determine how and to what extent they are realizing their responsibilities in this respect. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc53596/
- A Comparative Study of Anxiety between Science and Art Majors
- The purpose of this study is to determine the levels of anxiety in college freshmen and seniors from the Departments of Science and Art at North Texas State College by using the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale. It is hoped that the findings uncovered by this study will be of help to others interested in investigating and exploring this area. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc108078/
- Personality Trait Differences between Popular and Unpopular Children
- It is the purpose of this study to contribute some scientific data toward the construction of a more valid rating scale for use in the classroom situation. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc96892/
- Effect of Anxiety on Achievement Test Scores of Children in the Sixth Grade
- The purpose of the present study will be to test the relation between Test Anxiety Scores and Stanford-Achievement Test scores and to determine whether there sill be differences of significant values within the sub-tests on the achievement tests. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc108194/
- A Study to Examine Individual Failure at the Elementary Level in a Small Texas Community, and to Determine, if Possible, the Relative Importance of Emotional Disturbance and Other Factors as Causes of Such Failures
- The purpose of this study was to examine the complete number of failures for the school year, 1948-1949, in the elementary school of a small Texas town in an effort to determine the relative weight of emotional maladjustment and other factors as causes of such failures; and, if possible, to advance suggested remedies for such failures. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83515/
- Rigidity: a Function of Ethnic Attitudes
- The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of segregation on the flexibility of individuals in the Negro and Anglo-American ethnic groups and to investigate the relationship between variations in flexibility and sociometric choices within the peer group. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc130460/
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83517/
- 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? digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc96927/
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc75690/
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc107897/
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc130270/
- The Status of Junior High School Libraries
- The purpose of this study is to analyze and evaluate the library as both a teaching and a service agency in the junior high schools. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc96994/
- A Study of Relationships Between Sociometric Scores and Personality Self-Ratings
- There is at present no way to tell what the correlations between personality self-rating scores and sociometric scores. One might suppose, as a rule of thumb, that such a correlation would be higher than .50 in most groups. This relationship, between sociometric scores and scores on personality self-rating scales, is the subject under investigation in the present study. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83463/
- The Status of the Part-time Elementary School Principal in Texas
- It is proposed in this study (1) to make a brief survey of educational thought describing the functioning of elementary part-time principals in some selected administrative activities; (2) to analyze some pertinent features of the administrative organization and the part-time principal's schedule of work in the elementary schools selected for this study. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc96997/
- A Study on the Stability of Self-concept
- There are two major purposes of this study. First, it will attempt to ascertain whether self-concept, as measured by a self-concept scale, will fluctuate significantly due to a recent ego inflating or deflating experience, and if so, how lasting and in what areas are the effects. Secondly, it will note whether or not the low self-concept individual is more susceptible to changes in self-concept due to these environmental changes than the high self-concept individual. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc108255/
- A Study to Determine some Means of Strengthening the Already Established Program of Home and Family Life Education with Adults in the Dallas Independent Schools
- The purpose of this study is to determine some means of strengthening the already established program of Home and Family Life Education with adults in the Dallas Independent Schools, Dallas, Texas. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83524/
- A Study of the Reliability and Validity of a Sociometric Scale on the Elementary School Level
- This problem developed in a class dealing with sociometry. The class created a new sociometric scale and gave it to several groups of children. The need for statistical information on the reliability and the validity of the scale became apparent, but was beyond the scope of the course. In order that future classes, or other groups, could feel free to use this scale, and could rely on the results obtained from it, this study was made. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83359/
- The Wife and Family Finance
- The problem for this study consists of determining what a wife should know about family finances in order to share the burden of family living with her husband and for protection against the probability she may be left with all the responsibilities and decisions. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83528/
- A Comparative Study of the Arithmetical Achievement Made by Boys and Girls of the Seventh Grade of Ozona Junior High School, Ozona Texas
- The primary purpose of the study was to determine, scientifically, if there is any significant difference between the ability of boys in the seventh grade and the ability of girls in the same grade to retain arithmetical ideas, facts, and processes. A second purpose was to investigate the causes of differences that were found to exist. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc107900/
- To Determine the Effect of Certain Environmental Conditions upon Study
- The problem under consideration is to determine the effect of certain environmental conditions upon the process of studying. This study attempts to answer the question, How much effect, positive or negative, will various environmental conditions have upon study? digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc53659/
- A Study of Teaching Supply Procurement Practices in Twenty Three Representative School Districts in Texas
- The problem of this study is to survey the purchasing practices of a group of representative school districts and to determine the extent to which these practices follow the recommendations presented by authorities on school supplies procurement. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc108185/
- Change in Group Responsibility in the Second Grade as a Result of Concerted Effort
- The problem under consideration is to determine the changes in group responsibility in a second grade as a result of concerted effort. The concerted efforts made in this experiment were telling, reading, and dramatizing stories, poems, and songs of responsibility; discussing of stories, poems, songs, and filmstrips of responsibility; the assigning of definite classroom responsibility; and the assigning of definite study responsibility. This study attempts to answer the question, how much change, positive or negative, will occur in group responsibility as a result of the above-mentioned efforts? digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83530/
- Evaluating the Use of Comics in Teaching Fundamentals in Sixth Grade Arithmetic
- The problem under consideration attempts to answer the question: Will an original comic cartoon story used in classroom study of sixth grade arithmetic influence the amount of learning as much as the use of the ordinary text book? digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83361/
- A Sound Visual Education Program for a Small High School
- The problem of this investigation has but one objective. The writer will attempt to determine a sound visual education program for a small high school. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83532/
- A Study to Determine some Sound Procedures for Organizing the Community School Curriculum
- The purpose of this study is to provide some sound procedures for the organization of the school and the community. Most educations today appear to be in agreement upon the fact that the school and the community should be organized. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83535/
- An Evaluation of Role Playing as a Method in Religious Education
- This study serves two aims: (1) to evaluate the results of role playing on relevant criteria, and (2) to evaluate these same results from the standpoint of a particular frame of reference, namely that of religious education. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc108115/
- An Evaluation of the Creative Art Activities of the First Four Grades of the Bowie Elementary Schools, Bowie, Texas
- The purpose of this study is to evaluate the creative arts program of the first four grades in the Bowie Public Schools to determine the extent to which it meets, or fails to meet, criteria developed for a creative arts program in a democratic form of education. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc130325/
- Analysis of Age-Grade and other Indices of Pupil Progress in the Primary Grades
- The problem set forth in this study is to determine the causes of delay in school progress in the Bowie, Texas, elementary schools, and in which grade or grades the delay occurs. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83537/
- Evaluating Textual Material for Developmental Tasks
- The problem of this study is to demonstrate a method of evaluating situations in textual materials that may assist pre-adolescent children in achieving certain developmental tasks. The problem involves the analysis of fifty stories taken from five state-adopted readers on the sixth-grade level, as well as the development of criteria for making such an analysis. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc130326/
- Grouping First Graders in Gainesville Schools
- The purpose of this study is an attempt to define the needs in the primary grades in Gainesville, to find the most successful criteria used for grouping children upon their entrance into the first grade, and to find the best plan for primary grades in Gainesville schools. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83481/
- A Study of the Interaction between Pupils and Student Teachers and Ratings of Teaching Effectiveness
- There are three purposes of this study: (1) to determine the degree of interaction between pupils and student teachers and teaching effectiveness as rated by pupils; (2) to determine the significance of difference of pupil ratings between those who express "more" and those who express "less interest" in the course taught by the student teacher whom they were asked to rate; and (3) to study other variables such as sex, age, and achievement in order to show how they relate to pupil and student teacher interaction. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc130354/
- Comparison of a Traditional and an Integrated Program of Instruction in an Elementary School
- The purpose of this study is to determine if elementary school children progress faster in academic or tool subjects when taught through interest units in an integrated curriculum or when taught the separate subjects by a traditional method. Reading, spelling, and handwriting are used as illustrative subjects in the sixth grade with reading only in the second grade. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83482/
- Reading with a Purpose to Improve Comprehension
- The problem of this study was to demonstrate the possible effects that reading with a definite purpose has upon the improvement of comprehension in reading. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97005/
- Reading Readiness as Related to the Mental, Physical, Personal, and Social Factors of a Group of Low First-Grade Pupils of Plano Elementary School, Plano, Texas during the First Five Months of 1949-1950
- This study was selected to determine the relation of reading readiness to the mental, physical, personal, and social factors of a group of low first-grade pupils of the Plano Elementary School, Plano, Texas during the first five months of the school year 1949-1950. This study involves consideration of (1) mental readiness, (2) physical readiness, and (3) personal and social readiness as factors of child development. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83696/
- The Use of Auditory and Visual Aids in Eighty Public Schools of Texas
- The problem of this investigation was two-fold: first, to obtain general information on auditory and visual aids and their apparent values in the schoolroom; and second, to find out to what extent these aids were used in eighty representative schools of Texas during 1945-1946. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc53679/
- A Study of Sick Leave Practices of Texas Independent School Districts
- The problem of this study is threefold: (1) to determine whether the sick leave policies and practices differ significantly between school districts of different sizes; (2) to determine whether there is significant relationship between the number of days of sick leave allowed and the number of days taken by teachers; and (3) to determine whether significant trends in sick leave policies and practices can be detected between the years 1957 and 1960. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc130462/
- Self-Rationalization and Two Aspects of the Self-Concept: The Social Self and the Private Self
- The purpose of this study is two-fold: (1) to investigate the relationship between self-rationalization and self-concept, and (2) to investigate the relationship between two different types of self-concept, the private self or what a person thinks about himself and the social self or what a person thinks other people in his psychological group think about him. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc108226/
- A Study of Pupil Failures as they Exist in the Senior High School of Stamford, Texas
- The purpose of this study was threefold: (1) to determine the degree of pupil failure as it exists in the Senior High School, Stamford, Texas; (2) to consider the extent to which the "basic factors" of failure contribute to pupil failure in this school; and (3) to submit suggestions as to how pupil failure may be reduced to a minimum in the Stamford Senior High School. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc53681/
- The Relationship Between Academic Achievement, I. Q. and Social Maturity in Mentally Retarded Children in an Institutional Setting
- This study is an attempt to ascertain if there is a relationship between academic achievement, I. Q. and social maturity in mentally retarded children in an institutional setting. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc108197/
- A Study of Repression and its Relationship to Optimism/Pessimism as Measured by a Subjective and Objective Measuring Instrument
- The purpose of this study is to investigate the phenomenon of repression and to study its relationship to optimism/pessimism as measured by a subjective and an objective measuring instrument. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc108198/
- Value of Motion Pictures in Coordination with Sixth-Grade Social Studies
- The problem undertaken in this survey was to determine the value of motion pictures in the social-studies program of the elementary school, with special emphasis upon the learning and retention of facts and general information related to the social studies at the sixth-grade level. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83362/