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Use of the Reve Eveille Dirige (Guided Daydream) for Selection of Vocation and College Major

Description: The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the guided daydream technique as a method for selection of a vocation and major area of study by college students seeking vocational counseling. Choices made by each student were rated by three judges relative to their degree of correspondence with the results of a specific battery of vocational tests which that student had taken. The ratings of these students' choices were compared with similar ratings made by the same judges on a… more
Date: January 1965
Creator: Patrick, Jerry Heard, 1933-
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Attitudinal and Behavioral Changes in a Dental Hygiene Program and their Relationship Following Fear-Arousing Communications

Description: The problem of the study was the effect of fear-arousing communications upon junior high school students' cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses within the context of a dental hygiene program. Analysis of the data revealed that the personal performance scores, were initially, significantly (p <= .05) different for the recommendations and low-fear groups. They had cleaner teeth. The recommendations elicited the most positive change, and this extended for a longer period of time. There we… more
Date: December 1977
Creator: Bell, Charles E., 1936-
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Reaping the Seeds of Leadership: Evaluating a Proposed Model of Lifespan Leadership Development

Description: Though research suggests that several factors are related to the onset of leadership, few researchers have endeavored to determine how these factors may interact to bring about early leadership development. A descriptive discriminant analysis was conducted to test the validity of early factors cited by Murphy and Johnson; namely, lower scores on measures of temperamental negative affect, higher scores of temperamental extraversion, effortful control, orienting sensitivity, authoritative parenti… more
Date: August 2019
Creator: Mitchell, Mary E.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Reading and Mathematics Growth Patterns of High-Achieving Students: An Investigation of School-Year and Summer Trends

Description: Rambo-Hernandez and McCoach's analysis into the longitudinal growth of high-achieving students offered two conclusions about the reading growth of high achieving students: high-achieving students lose less ground in reading during the summer, but they exhibit less growth over the school year. This study will seek to replicate the reading results of the Rambo-Hernandez and McCoach's study and include an analysis of mathematics growth with initially high-achieving, third grade students in both th… more
Date: December 2022
Creator: Hurst, Lucas Thor
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Relationship between the Big Five and Creative Self-Beliefs in Undergraduates in Terms of College Enrollment and Major

Description: Supporting creativity in undergraduate education is important for the future development of society. To do this, an understanding of undergraduate characteristics is needed. A systematic literature review of the relationship between the Big Five personality factors and little-c creativity in undergraduates identified 19 studies. The creativity assessments within these investigations represented several conceptions of the construct with domain-general, self-reported measures of Person as most… more
Date: May 2020
Creator: Soles, Kathryn L.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Birth Order and Divergent Thinking: A Meta-Analysis

Description: This article is a meta-analysis examining the association of birth order and divergent thinking (DT). The main purpose was to examine how ordinal position (only, first, middle, or last-born) is related to creativity. Results showed that first-borns had higher DT scores than later-born children.
Date: April 20, 2021
Creator: Abdulla Alabbasi, Ahmed M.; Tadik, Harun; Acar, Selcuk & Runco, Mark A.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Community-viable Family-school Partnership Intervention for Children with Social communication Deficits in Early Childhood Education

Description: Data management plan for the grant, "Community-viable Family-school Partnership Intervention for Children with Social communication Deficits in Early Childhood Education." Early Childhood Education settings provide a natural and unique access point for addressing children’s unmet needs and barriers to care. The current research uses an established implementation science framework to adapt and implement an evidence-based Family-School Partnership Intervention (FPSI) to prevent developmental dela… more
Date: 2023-08-01/2025-04-30
Creator: Siller, Michael
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Mothering while Brown: Latina Borderland Mothers' Experiences of Epistemic Injustice

Description: Anti-immigrant rhetoric undermines Latinx parents' epistemic legitimacy as producers of valued parental knowledge, irrespective of immigrant status. Little is known about the epistemic harm to Latina mothers who must negotiate their maternal scripts against the backdrop of a parenting discourse steeped in deficit thinking. This study used testimonio to explore the experiences of Latina mothers of young children living in the borderlands of South Texas via a Chicana/Latina feminist epistemologic… more
Date: December 2019
Creator: Verdin, Azucena
Partner: UNT Libraries
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A Study of the Modern Philosophy and Modern Psychology of Education

Description: The purpose of this study is three-fold: 1. To make a study of modern philosophy and modern psychology of education. 2. To show by comparison how well the Gainesville elementary schools comply in a modern philosophy and a modern psychology of education. 3. To make recommendations for changes that could be made for the improvement of the Gainesville elementary school system.
Date: 1947
Creator: Clements, Bess
Partner: UNT Libraries
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An Evaluation of Integrated Teaching

Description: The purpose of this study is to examine integration in such a manner as to determine its true meaning, to analyze critically its ability to meet the challenge and produce the goals which society and the teacher have set up, and to conclude whether the utilization of integration, as conceived by the writer, will develop the child's capacity of self-expression, encourage critical thinking, develop individual aptitudes, and help him make wholesome adjustments to the group.
Date: 1943
Creator: Kilpatrick, Jewell
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Reporting the Performance of Confidence Intervals in Statistical Simulation Studies: A Systematic Literature Review

Description: Researchers and publishing guidelines recommend reporting confidence intervals (CIs) not just along with null hypothesis significance testing (NHST), but for many other statistics such as effect sizes and reliability coefficients. Although CI and standard errors (SEs) are closely related, examining standard errors alone in simulation studies is not adequate because we do not always know if a standard error is small enough. Overly small SEs may lead to increased probability of Type-I error and C… more
Date: August 2019
Creator: Kabakci, Maside
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Flipping Scripts: Mentoring for Secondary Readers

Description: Researchers have reported that a variety of socio-cultural interventions can be used to increase positive attitudes toward reading for secondary students. A socially constructed reading intervention could add learning growth for a reluctant reading population. This study examines whether secondary students experience a measurable increase in positive attitudes toward reading after engaging in modeling and mentoring sessions with a much younger student and whether there is a perceivable differen… more
Date: August 2021
Creator: Cross, Terry
Partner: UNT Libraries

Exploring Turkish American Fathers: Father Involvement, Father's Perception of Maternal Gatekeeping, Competence, and Conservatism

Description: There has been an increase in the fatherhood studies with minority groups in the United States in the past decades; however, these studies rarely included Turkish American fathers. To the best of the authors knowledge, current study was the first to explore father involvement in relation to fathers' perception of mothers' gate-keeping, fathers' competence as a parent, and their cultural stance as related to conservatism among a sample of Turkish American fathers with children between the ages o… more
Date: May 2021
Creator: Soyer, Gonca Feyza
Partner: UNT Libraries

Sleeping in a Creative Dream-Land: A Duo of Meta-Analyses on Sleep, Dream-Recall, and Creativity

Description: This duo of meta-analyses explored relationships between creativity and sleep quality [Study 1], and creativity and dream recall [Study 2]. Studies on these topics noted personality influences in both creativity and sleep quality, as well as dream recall. Studies also identified potential connections between creativity, sleep, and dreaming by investigating the stage of sleep from which creative thinking could emerge. Twenty studies were eligible to code and analyze in Study 1 and 16 in Study 2.… more
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Date: May 2023
Creator: Murphy, Leah K.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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A Study of Creativity and Education

Description: This investigation is concerned with the identification of creative students in the classroom. One purpose of the study is a search of the literature to determine the emphasis given to creativity in education today. A second is to determine if a measure of creativity given to a group of students would reveal a discrimination between the students. The measure of creativity used in this study was the Christensen-Guilford Fluency Tests. The sample group for the study included fifty-two male and fi… more
Date: May 1974
Creator: Cook, Ellen L. Goldston
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Influence of Quiet Eye Self-Training on Internal Processes and Performance Outcomes

Description: Use and effectiveness of the quiet eye (QE) technique has been a topic of interest in sport, exercise, and performance psychology. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of QE self-training on college students' internal processes associated with performing a novel task. Specifically, college students' internal processes were examined to understand how QE self-training influenced performance on a novel aiming task. College students (N = 106; M = 21.84 ± 1.79) voluntar… more
Date: December 2021
Creator: Casey, Taylor BreAnn
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Mothers' Parenting Stress in Chinese Immigrant Families: The Role of Fathers' Involvement and Social Support

Description: This study investigated the association between Chinese immigrant mothers' reports of parenting stress and two sources of parenting support: fathers' support and social support. Five independent-samples t-tests were first computed to examine whether there were discrepancies between Chinese immigrant mothers' and fathers' perceptions of fathers' involvement across five domains of fathers' involvement in early child care: (1) fathers' warmth and attunement; (2) control and process responsibility;… more
Date: August 2020
Creator: Zhang, Xun
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Self-Reported Feelings of Shame and Fear of Failure among High Ability Undergraduates

Description: Understanding how emotions influence motivation among students is critical to the talent development process. Research shows that certain emotions elicit an approach motive while other emotions elicit an avoidance motive. This study explored emotional disposition and fear of failure among undergraduates enrolled in honors college (n = 63) compared to undergraduates enrolled in regular college courses (n = 296). Results suggest that dispositional shame is positively correlated with fear of failu… more
Date: May 2020
Creator: Nyikos, Tara
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Project Communicate

Description: Data management plan for the grant, "Project Communicate." The purpose of Project Communicate is to professionally prepare 27 special education teachers and 10 speech-language pathologists, including scholars from ethnically and racially diverse backgrounds, to be highly-qualified to demonstrate skills in promoting high expectations to improve student outcomes, providing individualized evidence-based practices for students with autism spectrum disorder, and providing culturally and linguistical… more
Date: 2022-09-01/2027-08-31
Creator: Boesch, Miriam C.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Educational Psychology, Special Education, and Human Development and Family Science Academic Program Review

Description: This report summarizes an evaluation of the UNT Libraries' Educational Psychology, Special Education, and Human Development and Family Science-related resources and materials to determine if the collection is adequately serving patron needs. It was generated as part of the UNT Libraries’ contributions to the university’s Academic Program Reviews, which are conducted by the Accreditation office in the Division of Planning. The UNT Libraries’ Collection Assessment Department evaluated collections… more
Date: July 28, 2023
Creator: Harker, Karen
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Effects of Participant Motivation on the Effectiveness of Video Modeling

Description: Video modeling interventions have been mostly effective for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in teaching social communication skills. However, differences in the effectiveness of these interventions have been noted. Participant motivation was suggested as one of the factors that can influence the effectiveness of video modeling. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of participant motivation on video modeling for teaching social communication skills to individu… more
Date: August 2019
Creator: Hur, Sang
Partner: UNT Libraries
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