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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 Jul 1949

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 Jul 1949

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 …


An Analysis Of Vocabulary Variables At The College Level, Betty Ann Allen Apr 1949

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 …


An Investigation Into The Relationship Between Racial Prejudice And Personality, Donald Edward Williams Jan 1949

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

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


A Study Of The Effects Of A Coloured Episcotister On Brightness Matches With Grays, Lillian-Frances Bowden Jan 1949

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

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


A Study Of The Factors Associated With The Adjustment Of One Hundred Delinquent Girls, Mabelle Hathaway Brooks Jan 1949

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

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


The Relationship Between Scores On A Battery Of Nursing Tests And Scholastic Achievement At The End Of The Pre-Clinical Period, Patrick Fitzmaurice Jan 1949

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

No abstract provided.


The Effect Of Practice With Digits Upon The Span Of Retention In Children, Kathleen E. O'Brien Jan 1949

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

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


An Experimental Study Of Related Processes In Span Of Attention And In Perception, Jesse Ralph Pearson Jan 1949

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

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


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 Jan 1949

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

No abstract provided.


Relationship Of School Background To Reading Ability Of One Hundred Disabled Readers, Mary Loretta Nolan Jan 1949

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

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


An Evaluation Study Of The Rehabilitation Service In Virginia, Mabel Leigh Rooke Jan 1949

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 …