Comparison of the Effectiveness of Modern and Traditional Methods of Teaching the Social Studies in the Eighth Grade
Date: 1949
Creator: Matzinger, John Dewitt
Description: The problem of this study was to determine, if possible, whether any significant difference in achievement existed when eighth-grade social studies were taught by two distinct methods, namely, the traditional and the progressive.
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A Comparison of the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Scales of Psychiatric and Non-Psychiatric Registered Nurses for Use in Personnel Selection
Date: August 1964
Creator: O'Brien, John Jude
Description: The problem of this study was to determine if psychiatric registered nurses differ significantly in certain personality and temperament trait characteristics from non-psychiatric registered nurses. The characteristics investigated were scores make on the individual scales of the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey.
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A Comparison of Two Theological Student Groups in Relation to Theological Views, Rigidity and Political-economic Conservatism
Date: January 1963
Creator: Oswald, Robert M.
Description: The present investigation was designed to explore the relationship between authoritarianism, rigidity, political-economic conservatism and theological beliefs of two groups of students representing two nationally known theological seminaries. One seminary is noted for its conservative theological standing, the other for its liberal position.
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Constancy of Sociometric Scores and their Relation to Other Psychological Variables
Date: 1951
Creator: Wilson, Lela Dowdy
Description: The problem under consideration in this study is to determine the constancy of sociometric scores in their relationship to the constancy of scores of some measures of achievement within a group of thirty-seven children enrolled in an elementary school of McKinney, Texas.
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Contributions of Educational Therapy to the Veteran Patients in the Veterans Administration Hospitals
Date: 1950
Creator: Helfrich, Dora Miller
Description: It is the purpose of this study to bring together the history of the development of educational therapy as one of the phases of Physical Medicine Rehabilitation Service for disabled war veterans in Veterans' Hospitals, the aims of the educational therapy, its functions, and the therapeutic values to the patients while they are hospitalized and following discharge from the hospital.
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The Determination of the Relationship between Reading Skills and Personality Development
Date: August 1952
Creator: Chapman, Pat
Description: 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.
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Developing Personal and Social Growth through Activities Related to Learning to Read
Date: 1950
Creator: Macklin, Nina Moody
Description: The problem of this study was to determine to what extent personal and social growth could be developed through the use of activities related to reading in one group of sixth-grade students.
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Development and Evaluation of Teacher Retirement Systems in the United States
Date: 1947
Creator: Robertson, Martha Fairfax
Description: The purpose of this study is to collect, organize, and present information pertaining to the development of teacher retirement systems in the United States, with special emphasis upon the benefits and services such systems can render to the thousands and thousands of teachers who have given their lives to the cause of teaching the youth of America.
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The Diagnostic Potential of Subtest Score Variability in the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
Date: August 1959
Creator: Kelly, Richard Clinton
Description: This study was concerned with testing two hypotheses frequently made in the interpretation of performance on the Children's Scale. The first hypothesis is that maladjustment is directly related to the amount of scatter and the second stresses that the specificity of maladjustment may be determined by the pattern of successes and failures.
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Differences in Personality Characteristics among Two Groups of Art Majors Varying in Creativity and a Control Group
Date: August 1963
Creator: Allred, Raymond Coye, 1930-
Description: 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.
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