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Racial Differences In Intellegence Between Whites And Negroes Of Similar Social And Economic Status In Saline And Graham Counties, William F. Kluge

Master's Theses

It is the purpose of this paper to discover whether or not the intelligence of the Negro is equal to that of the whites when the two groups are placed on an equal social and economic status.

The Cowan Adolescent Adjustment Analyzer Used As An Instrument For The Evaluation Of Academic Functional Efficiency., Wilbert J. Mueller

Master's Theses

The development of The Cowan Adolescent Adjustment Analyzer, an Instrument of Clinical Psychology, was the product of more than twenty-five years of study by its original author, the late Dr. Edwina Abbott Cowan. This study is a further contribution to needed research to enhance an already accepted instrument of clinic al psychology. The area of major emphasis in the present study is academic functional efficiency. To this has been added, however, some significant data relating to the comparison of the Analyzer s cores to I. Q. scores and a comparison of the score s of students in early adolescence with …

A Study Of The Comparison Of Interests Of Social Science Majors With The Interests Of Other Adults As Measured By The Kuder Preference Record, James E. Comer Jr.

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

This study was undertaken to compare the interests of social science majors with the interests of other adults based on data gathered from a survey of male students of Kansas State Teachers College, Pittsburg, Kansas. A differentiation between preferences of social science majors and those of the general population was made using Fisher's discriminant function.

A group of 121 social science majors were tested by means of a special mailing form (Form C) of the Ruder Preference Record. Sixty-two valid returns were used in this study.

The mean raw scores of the Social Science Majors tended to show a pattern …

A Study Of The 1947 American Council On Education Psychological Examination And Its Usefulness In Predicting The Grades Of Utah State Agricultural College Freshmen, Russell B. Bateson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Prediction of future performance is attempted in almost every field of endeavor. The accuracy varies in different lines of study, and perhaps none is as subject to variability as those attempted with human beings as subjects.

When an attempt is made to ascertain in advance the performance of college students in their schoolwork, a multiplicity of complicating problems are introduced. Whereas intelligence can be fairly well isolated, it is difficult to control or even enumerated all the other factors that come into the problem of predicting grades from scores received on an intelligence examination. Among the factors that are difficult …

An Analysis Of Vocabulary Variables At The College Level, Betty Ann Allen

Master's Theses

The strength and growth of vocabulary is one or the decisive factors in successful college work. Educators find it helpful to evaluate not only the general vocabulary ability of the college student, but also the more specialized directions which the development of the student 's vocabulary may take.

The author's interest in this problem grew out of the results obtained with fresh­men in the Westhampton College orientation program in September 1948. In working up the data from 119 freshmen 's scores on the Michigan Vocabulary Profile Test, results were such as to arouse interest in analysis of freshmen performance on …

Perseveration And The Rate Of Recovery After The Psychogalvanic Response, Charles August Weisgerber

Dissertations

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An Investigation Into The Relationship Between Racial Prejudice And Personality, Donald Edward Williams

Master's Theses

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A Study Of The Effects Of A Coloured Episcotister On Brightness Matches With Grays, Lillian-Frances Bowden

Master's Theses

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A Study Of The Factors Associated With The Adjustment Of One Hundred Delinquent Girls, Mabelle Hathaway Brooks

Master's Theses

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The Relationship Between Scores On A Battery Of Nursing Tests And Scholastic Achievement At The End Of The Pre-Clinical Period, Patrick Fitzmaurice

Master's Theses

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The Effect Of Practice With Digits Upon The Span Of Retention In Children, Kathleen E. O'Brien

Master's Theses

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An Experimental Study Of Related Processes In Span Of Attention And In Perception, Jesse Ralph Pearson

Master's Theses

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A Study Of Standards Of Assistance Of The Cook County Bureau Of Public Welfare, Public Assistance Division, The City Of Chicago Welfare Department And Selected Townships, Richard Joseph Cummings

Master's Theses

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Relationship Of School Background To Reading Ability Of One Hundred Disabled Readers, Mary Loretta Nolan

Master's Theses

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An Evaluation Study Of The Rehabilitation Service In Virginia, Mabel Leigh Rooke

Master's Theses

Since 1920 the Commonwealth 0£ Virginia bas had an organized Civilian Vocational Rehabilitation Program, having enacted the legislation creating the Service. a few weeks prior to the passage of the Federal Act in June of that year. A national consciousness of tho crippled and disabled had been awakened following World War I which culminated in the Veteran Rehabilitation Act. This was, actually, the forerunner of all later legislation meeting the popular demand tor a program available to all citizens, and which now reaches into all of the forty-eight states and the District of Columbia as well.as Alaska, Puerto Rico, and …

A Study Of Veterans Readmitted To Nichols Veterans Administration Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky From February 1, 1949 Through March 5, 1949 Emphasizing Those Factors Contributing To Their Return., Elizabeth Ann Copeland, Ann Rose Disalvo, Sarah Miller Mccormack, Lucille Amiotte Polmeteer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Examination Of The Underlying Trends In Village And Rural Recreation With Application In The Three Oaks School District, Alfred Pfliger

Masters Theses

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Analysis Of Stresses In A Three Span Continuous Concrete Beam Bridge, G K. Leptien

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

While still attempting to decide on a topic for a thesis study, the author was asked, "How far from the up- ports of a continuous-bean reinforced-concrete bridge should the reinforcing for negative moment extend into the spany." It was a simple question, and the reason for it being asked was that a particular structure, the one shown in the frontispiece, had developed transverse cracks in the surface of the deck structure a distance of three and a half feet from the center of both interior supports. (See the plan view in figure 6, Appendix.) The cracks were by no means …

A Demographic Comparison Of Plantation And Nonplantation Counties In The Cotton Belt., Joseph Sloan Vandiver

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

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A Proposed Study Of Verbal Employment References., Bernard M. Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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