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An Evaluation of an Adequate Finance System for Extracurricular Activities

Description: It is the purpose of this study to discover and report educationally sound practices of activity financing and administration, with special emphasis placed on accounting. This investigation will attempt to disclose present-day common practices in financing the activities and accounting in regard to activity finances, and where advisable to make recommendations to secure more adequate procedures.
Date: 1941
Creator: Alvis, James C.
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The School Kitchen as a Value to the Educational Program

Description: The problem involved in this thesis is to examine the organization, administration, and equipment of the school kitchens, and point out certain educational values derived from such a project.
Date: 1941
Creator: Cooper, Douglas Wear
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How Sociability can be Developed in the Elementary School

Description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether boys and girls who were not accepted by the group could be developed and trained to such an extent that they would become acceptable. Secondarily, the purpose was to discover what types of classroom and extra-curricular activities were desirable and beneficial in a program of social development for fifth-grade pupils.
Date: 1941
Creator: Hollingsworth, Lila
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Developing and Evaluating a Course in Crafts in a Small School

Description: The purpose of this study is to find and evaluate a course in crafts in a small rural school with the hope that it may be of some value to teachers in rural districts, and that it may help provide a more general education for the rural school child.
Date: 1941
Creator: Kee, Jim W.
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A Comparative Evaluation and Analysis in Terms of National Defense of the National Youth Administration, the National Defense Training Program, and the State Teachers Colleges' Industrial Arts Program

Description: The objectives of this study are: first, to draw conclusions in regard to the extent the National Youth Administration, the National Defense Training Program, and the Industrial Arts departments of the Texas State Teachers Colleges are making "trainees" of the first two programs and graduates and students of the last division more employable in the several industries that make up our national defense manufacturing mechanism; second, to show by the presentation of the college programs whether or… more
Date: 1941
Creator: Martin, Robert Owen
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An Analysis of the Contribution of a Given Educational System to the Defense of Democracy

Description: The purpose of this study is four-fold: (1) to present through an analysis of life needs the nature and source of a curriculum best adapted to democracy; (2) to present fairly some of the reasons why a curriculum must be founded on democracy if democracy survives the dangerous forces that threaten to obliterate its very existence; (3) to make an unprejudiced analysis of the regular situation now existing in Oklahoma schools at the present time to find whether her schools are meeting this challe… more
Date: 1941
Creator: Maxwell, Maude Napier
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A Comparative Analysis of the Affiliated Courses Offered in Texas High Schools

Description: The problem of this thesis is to determine what affiliated courses are most frequently offered to the students who attend the regular four year high schools in Texas, and to determine the relationship of the subjects taught to the scholastic population of the school.
Date: 1941
Creator: Merrick, James Estes
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The Construction of a Dependable Instrument of Measurement in the Field of Social Sensitivity

Description: The problem of this study is an attempt to construct a dependable instrument of measurement in the field of social sensitivity. An endeavor will be made to make this instrument sensitive enough to give some degree of precision and reliability to its results. Other attempted methods of measurement applied to this quantity have given results only in scattered generalities.
Date: 1941
Creator: Middleton, Charles E.
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A Rural Community-School Program

Description: The problem of this study is to determine the type of program needed for a rural community school based on the needs of the children, the youth, and the adults, and on the available facilities.
Date: 1941
Creator: Miller, William J.
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Appraisal of an Elementary School Club Program

Description: The purpose of this study is to appraise the club program as carried out in South Waco, attempting to determine the value of the program in an elementary school.
Date: 1941
Creator: Morris, Lurline
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An Evaluation of the Common Schools of Hardeman County, Texas

Description: The problem set forth for this study is to evaluate the common schools of Hardeman County, Texas. The purpose of this study is to determine the weak points and the strong points of the schools, and to offer suggestions for improvement.
Date: 1941
Creator: Sweatmon, Marvin M.
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A Critical Analysis of Pre-Primers, Primers, and First Readers of Ten Series of Books Published Since 1938

Description: The problem of this thesis is to make a critical analysis of pre-primers, primers, and first readers of ten series of books published since 1938. Examination of books will be made from the standpoint of unusual interest to children, teachability, psychological, and educational soundness of their construction in promoting growth of the individual pupil and his ultimate good as a person and as a member of a social group.
Date: 1941
Creator: Tacker, Floy Alberta
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An Evaluation of the Henrietta High School, Henrietta, Texas

Description: This study is an evaluation of the Henrietta High School of Henrietta, Texas. Its purpose is to measure this school by comparing it to the two hundred try-out schools which were used by the Cooperative Study of Secondary School Standards in setting up their criteria for determining the characteristics of a good secondary school.
Date: 1941
Creator: Pope, Rogers R.
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A Study of Certain Interests of Boys and Girls between the Ages of Twelve and Sixteen Years in a Typical West Texas County such as Stonewall County

Description: A personality questionnaire was given to the pupils of the four rural consolidated high schools of Stonewall County for the purpose of finding out, in so far as this was possible, the chief interests of each student between the ages of twelve and sixteen years. A series of questions concerning religious, social, recreational, and vocational interest was given to the students within this age group.
Date: 1941
Creator: Powell, H. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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