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Experiment Station Record, Volume 58, January-June, 1928

Description: Volume provides abstracts of agricultural experiments conducted during the year. Also includes statistics, convention reports, bulletins, bibliographies and listings for Spanish edition publications from the Porto Rico Station. Name and subject indexes start on page 901.
Date: 1928
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experiment Station Record, Volume 60, January-June, 1929

Description: Volume provides abstracts of agricultural experiments conducted during the year. Also includes statistics, convention reports, bulletins, bibliographies and listings for Spanish edition publications from the Porto Rico Station. Name and subject indexes start on page 901.
Date: 1929
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Study on the Stability of Self-concept

Description: 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.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Collman, Robert Bernard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
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Some Effects of Learning the Causes of Behavior upon Certain Personal and Social Attitudes of Pre-Adolescent Children

Description: The problem of the present study is to determine what changes will take place in certain personal and social attitudes of pre-adolescent children at the fourth- and fifth-grade levels as a result of their "having learned about the factors that underlie behavior" through a mental hygiene program utilizing "causally" oriented materials at their own level of interest and understanding.
Date: May 1964
Creator: Griggs, Joseph Wright
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An Analysis of the Mathematics Necessary for a Course in Research Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Description: This study attempted to determine the specific mathematics necessary to a student in a beginning course in behavioral science research statistics. To determine the most desirable form for a review of mathematics prior to a research statistics course,, it was first necessary to determine the following: (1) the specific overall content of such a course, (2) the specific mathematics topics of such a course, and (3) the specific mathematics operations utilized in such a course. The study consisted … more
Date: December 1972
Creator: Peterson, Daniel Ray
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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George I. Sanchez: Don Quixote of the Southwest

Description: This historical study examines the career of George I. Sanchez, New Mexican educator, who led many political and educational battles in New Mexico and Texas to improve educational opportunities for Spanish-speaking children. Archival materials from the State Records' Center of New Mexico, the papers of Senator Bronson M. Cutting, the Rockefeller Foundation Archives, the papers of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Sanchez's private papers, unpublished materials at the University of Texas in Austi… more
Date: December 1976
Creator: Leff, Gladys R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
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Impact of a Death Laboratory on Self-Concept, Generalized Anxiety and Death Anxiety

Description: The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of a death education laboratory approach on the participants. Measures of death anxiety, general anxiety, and self-concept were thought to be of particular importance and thus were used as dependent variables. The study was designed to obtain measures of the variables through appropriate testing administered immediately following participation in a death lab and one month after participation in the 16-hour death lab. This design was selected be… more
Date: August 1978
Creator: Thomas, Bruce M.
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The effects of organizational climate and leadership behavior on teacher job satisfaction in selected schools

Description: The study proposed to determine the relationship of the teachers' perception of the organizational climate of the school as measured by the Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire (Halpin) and leader behavior as measures by the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (Halpin) with teacher job satisfaction as measured by the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire.
Date: December 1979
Creator: Craig, Larry V.
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Factors Associated with Job Satisfaction of Nursing Educators in Middle Management Positions

Description: This study is concerned with identifying the factors which produce job satisfaction and which are clearly associated with job characteristics as perceived by the nursing educators who serve in middle management positions. Following are purposes of this study: 1. To identify the actual and ideal job characteristics that are factors associated with job satisfaction, as perceived by nursing educators in middle management positions; 2. To determine the interrelationships among the job satisfaction … more
Date: May 1982
Creator: Brewer, Marlene Harrop
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Residential State High School for Mathematically Talented Youths? A Qualified "Yes."

Description: Article by Julian C. Stanley recommending the establishment of residential high school for gifted and talented youths. Information about his program at Johns Hopkins University, the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youths, is included, as is Stanley's curriculum vitae.
Date: 1987~
Creator: Stanley, Julian C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science
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Healthy Children: Investing in the Future

Description: This OTA assessment addresses the effectiveness and costs of selected strategies for promoting and maintaining the health of children and to identify strategies whose implementation could substantially improve children’s health or lower health care costs.
Date: February 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[RE: Report on Directors Affinity Group Meeting, Chatanooga]

Description: A memo from Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to the Institute Directors. The memo is in regards to a draft report on the Directors' Affinity Group Meeting in Chattanooga. David requests they review and let him know if its represented accurately.
Date: March 8, 1990
Creator: Davis, Donald Jack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Cerebral Laterality and Leadership Assessment

Description: The major purpose of this study was to determine whether a relationship exists between cerebral laterality dominance and leadership behavior and traits. An additional purpose was to determine whether a relationship exists between cerebral laterality dominance and gender, ethnicity, and educational position.
Date: December 1991
Creator: Horn, Barry L. (Barry Lee)
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Theoretical Constructs of Jazz Improvisation Performance

Description: The purpose of this study was to develop and test systematically a theoretical model that delineated the constructs and subsumed variables of jazz improvisation performance. The specific research questions were; what specific performance variables are related to single line jazz solo improvisation performance? and; what is the most cogent groupings of variables into underlying constructs which characterize single line jazz solo improvisation performances for all performers, student performers, … more
Date: December 1991
Creator: Tumlinson, Charles D. (Charles David)
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Child care : the need for federal-state-local coordination

Description: The ACIR Library is composed of publications that study the interactions between different levels of government. This document addresses child care and the need for federal-state-local coordination.
Date: March 1994
Creator: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Dissociation: Normal or Abnormal?

Description: Abstract: Recent articles have addressed the question of whether or not the out-of-body experience reported by many people near death is a form of dissociative behavior. If so, is it related to other mental or emotional pathologies or is it a normal protective response to stress? This paper explores the history of dissociation and related terms, uncovering a multiplicity of uses and connotations. New orientations in physics and the rise of the New Science in the form of Chaos Theory allow a … more
Date: Spring 1996
Creator: Spencer, Marlene
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
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Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 14, Number 3, Spring 1996

Description: Quarterly journal publishing papers related to near-death experiences, including research reports; theoretical or conceptual statements; expressions of a scientific, philosophic, religious, or historical perspective on the study of near-death experiences; cross-cultural studies; individual case histories; and personal accounts of experiences or related phenomena.
Date: Spring 1996
Creator: Greyson, Bruce
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Development of a Discouragement Scale for Adults with Normative Data for Gay Males

Description: According to Alfred Adler, founder of Individual Psychology, a feeling of inferiority is in some degree common to all people. People who are unable to overcome these inferiority feelings by striving for cooperation may become discouraged. Although there are three scales to measure social interest, no scales measuring discouragement for adults was found. Additionally, Adler held basic assumptions regarding homosexuality, and the findings suggest that the assumptions should be reexamined. The pur… more
Date: December 1996
Creator: Chernin, Jeffrey N.
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The Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education

Description: This issue of the Journal for Vocational Special Needs focuses on the aging process and its effects on society and the workforce. Aging is the one experience that we all have in common. Individuals are expected to live longer in the future. Many will undoubtedly work beyond the traditional retirement age. This means that the composition of workers will be a blend of people, both young and old.
Date: 1998
Creator: Allen, Jeff M.; Sarkees-Wircenski, Michelle & West, Lynda L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: UNT College of Information
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