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Relationship between Progress of Retarded Subjects in an Experimental Program and Selected Individual Characteristics

Description: The general purpose of the present study was to ascertain if particular characteristics of mentally retarded children are associated with progress in terms of intellectual and social competence traits after inclusion in an experimental therapeutic program such as the Foster Grandparent Project.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Minner, Dan G.
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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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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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The Relationship of Responses to Geometric Designs to Inferiority Feelings and Certain Personality Variables

Description: The present investigation was initiated in order to determine the relationship of responses to geometric designs to inferiority feelings and certain personality variables. The major problem was divided into the following sub-problems: 1. What is the relationship of responses to geometric designs to selected clinical scales on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory? (MMPI). 2. What is the relationship of responses to geometric designs to selected personality variables on the Edwards Per… more
Date: January 1967
Creator: Martin, John Daniel
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The Relationship of Student Teachers' Manifest Psychological Needs to Interpersonal Perception and Students' Self-Concepts

Description: The basic purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship of secondary school student teachers' manifest psychological needs and the accuracy of interpersonal perception and the self-concepts of students. In seeking a solution to the problem, the following subproblems were investigated: 1. The relationship of student teacher manifest psychological needs and the accuracy with which the student teacher perceived the attitudes of his students. 2. The relationship of the accuracy with whic… more
Date: August 1967
Creator: Payne, Milton R.
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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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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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A Review of the Legal Status of the Secondary Boycott in the United States

Description: The secondary boycott issue has been present in the history of the American labor movement throughout the twentieth century. It has, consequently, been subjected to many of the same changes in policy by Congress, interpretation by the courts, and attitude of the public as have strikes and picketing. Secondary boycotts, however, have been handicapped much more than the other instruments of union power in as much as they have usually been treated as though they were less legitimate. This thesis w… more
Date: August 1967
Creator: Parish, W. Alton
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The Role of Governor Price Daniel as a Legislative Leader

Description: List of tables -- Chapter I. Price Daniel: a biographical sketch -- Chapter II. Governor Daniel and the fifty-fifth Texas legislature -- Chapter III. Governor Daniel and the fifty-sixth Texas legislature -- Chapter IV. Governor Daniel and the fifty-seventh Texas legislature -- Chapter V. Techniques used by Governor Price Daniel in Exercising legislative leadership-- Bibliography.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Green, James Ray
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La Sátira en las Novelas de Ramón Pérez de Ayala

Description: This thesis has as its purpose to make a study of the satirical vein that is revealed in the novels of RamĂłn PĂ©rez de Ayala. It will be the goal to discover in these works the human habits and weaknesses that receive the censure of the author and to determine the means by which the novelist expresses his disapproval.
Date: January 1967
Creator: Cortez, Emiliano Carlos
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Selected Concepts from the Philosophy of Paul Tillich and their Implications for Education in American Society with Major Emphasis on the Interaction of Teachers and Pupils

Description: The purpose of this study was to relate Paul Tillich's concepts of love, power, and justice to teacher-pupil interaction. Three categories were used to indicate the relationship: (1) the formation of the self-concept of teachers and of pupils, (2) the teacher-pupil relationship, and (3) the learning process.
Date: June 1967
Creator: Pratt, Gerald B.
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Selective Reinforcement of Infant Vocalizations

Description: Through observation of young children much has been learned regarding elementary word acquisition and ordering, sentence formulation, and expansion of verbal experience; but little research regarding what precedes "the word" has been done. The present study was concerned with that period in infancy prior to communicative speech production. The purpose of the present study was to answer the question: Can one selectively reinforce a particular babble?
Date: August 1967
Creator: Zepeda, Ruth Gill
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Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's Treatment of Women in Four Social Plays

Description: The purpose of this thesis is to survey Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's treatment and development of the leading women in four of his most highly regarded "social" plays. Their texts will be analyzed carefully in order to arrive at answers to the following questions: What problems do these women confront and how do they attempt to solve them? What are the factors which determine their success or failure? Are their failures due to inherent flaws in character or outside influences? To what extent do the… more
Date: August 1967
Creator: Bailey, Don B.
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Size Effect in the Electrical Conductivity of Bismuth

Description: If a physical dimension of a metallic specimen is comparable with, or smaller than, the mean free path of the conduction electrons, then the observed electrical conductivity will be less than that of a conventional bulk sample. This phenomenon is called a size effect, and is the result of electron scattering from the specimen surfaces. In the present investigation, measurements were made on electropolished monocrystalline specimens ranging from matchbox geometry to thick-film geometry in order … more
Date: August 1967
Creator: Vaughn, Bobby J.
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