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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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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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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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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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Correlates of Adult Sociometric Perception of Residential Groups of Emotionally Disturbed Children

Description: The purpose of the present study is to determine whether adult supervisors of children's groups who accurately perceive the interpersonal structure of their groups are more able managers of their groups than are those adults who inaccurately judge the group's interpersonal structure.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Taylor, Paul W.
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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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The Diagnostic Potentials of the Hewson Ratios and the Kahn Intelligence Test in Assessing Organic Brain Damage

Description: The purpose of this thesis is to explore the diagnostic potential of Hewson's ratios in evaluating the performance of selected subjects on the Wechsler scales, the Kahn Intelligence Test: Experimental Form was administered and analyzed in an attempt to develop some meaningful method of utilizing this test in diagnosis of brain disorders.
Date: June 1967
Creator: Latham, Larry L.
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The Effects of a Structured and Nonpermissive Play Therapy Program on a Group of Profoundly and Severly Retarded Children

Description: The primary problem of this thesis is to determine the effect of a modified, structured, and basically non-permissive play therapy program upon the intellectual, social, and behavioral level of a group of profoundly and severely retarded children.
Date: June 1967
Creator: Pullock, Barry Douglas
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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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Differences in Perception of the College Advisory Program in Schools of Education from the Perspective of Students with Different Personality Patterns and from the Perspective of Faculty Advisors

Description: The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the students' perception of the College Advisory Program and its relation to his personality patterns. A secondary purpose was to investigate the Faculty Advisors' perception of the College Advisory Program. An additional outgrowth of the study was an attempt to obtain descriptive data for improving or altering existing Advisory Programs.
Date: January 1967
Creator: Liston, Walter
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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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An Analysis of the Motivational Content of Current Basal Reader Stories

Description: The problem was to compare the motivational elements of basal reader stories of the past with those of the present. The purpose of the problem were 1) to determine the motivational content as represented by thema found in current basal reader stories and 2) to find differences, if any, between motivational content basal reader stories and findings of previous research.
Date: January 1967
Creator: Myers, Howell Lewis, 1922-
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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 Comparison of the Academic Achievement of Head Start Pupils with Non-Head Start Pupils

Description: The problem of this study was to determine the difference in academic achievement between disadvantaged pupils who attended a Head Start program and those who did not when that difference was measured by a selected instrument. The groups used for the comparison were (1) Head Start, disadvantaged; (2) non-Head Start, disadvantaged without kindergarten experiences; (3) non-Head Start, advantaged with kindergarten experiences; and (4) non-Head Start, advantaged without kindergarten experiences.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Lewis, Eva Pearl, 1923-
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An Analysis of Interpersonal Group Structures and Personality Profiles of Team Members Representing Two Categories of Junior College Basketball Teams

Description: The present study was an attempt to provide data which would serve as a basis for distinguishing between group patterns of winning and losing basketball teams, in terms of personality profiles and interpersonal group structures.
Date: August 1967
Creator: McLemore, Matthew Hunter, 1933-
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An Analysis of Perceptions of the Tasks of Male Physical Educators in Secondary Schools as Held by Three Groups of Physical Educators

Description: The purpose of this study was to analyze perceptions of the tasks of male physical educators in the performance of their jobs in secondary schools as held by the following three groups of physical educators: 1. a panel of authorities whose writings and leadership activities help to establish the theoretical bases for this field; 2. the administrative leaders of Texas' college and university programs for the preparation of physical education teachers; and 3. a representative group of physical ed… more
Date: August 1967
Creator: Maroney, Robert Eugene
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