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| Title | Author | Subject | Description | Date | ||
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| 1 |  | A comparison of attitudes of parents and students toward sex education as taught at Highland High School | Hardcastle, Hal Gene | Highland High School (Salt Lake City, Utah); Sex instruction | It was the purpose of this study to discover and contrast the attitudes of teenagers and adults on various aspects of sex education as taught in the public schools of Salt Lake City, Utah. Both groups were compared, utilizing a fifteen-item questionnaire which was distributed through the Social Stud... | 1970 |
| 2 |  | A comparison of good and poor readers among full-blood Ute Indian children on factors relating to the home and school | Bailey, John F., Jr., 1938- | Ute children--Education (Early childhood); Ute Indians--Education | This study is intended to compare a group of good readers and a group of poor readers among the full-blood Ute Indian children in 1964 on school and home variables for the purpose of determining if statistically significant relationships exist. | 1965-06 |
| 3 |  | A comparison of the performance of Ute Indian and White children on verbal and non-verbal tests | Shults, Elsie S. | Ute Children - Intelligence testing; Children - Intelligence testing | As the American Indian has been crowded out of the thousands of acres required by his primitive methods of wresting a living from the earth, 1 t has gradually become apparent even to the Indian that he must adapt to the white man's culture or be gradually extinguished. Trends of the last several dec... | 1960 |
| 4 |  | A follow-up study of the Utah School of Alcohol studies | Wardle, Rela | Alcoholism; Utah | The Utah School of Alcohol Studies was organized in 1951 to present scientific up-to-date, unbiased information about alcohol consumption and alcoholism from leading clinics and laboratories of the United States. Over the years those who participated have been assisted in ways of applying new in... | 1963 |
| 5 |  | A study in correlations between discriminative abilities, hard opposites and class standing | Miner, Paul | Intelligence tests | In the study of the transfer of training or formal discipline; and in the attempt to standardize a series of mental and physical tests for the determining of the general intelligence of individuals, practically all the tests used have brought out the importance of the sensory discriminative ability ... | 1916 |
| 6 |  | A study of the Utilization of training services provided to female rehabilitants | Asay, Gerald Joseph | Vocational rehabilitation | The purpose of the study was to examine the utilization of training female rehailitants recived as part of their rehabilitation programs. A compartison of female rehabilitants was done on types of training, reasons for training selection, cost of rehabilitation and length of time spent on rehabilita... | 1969 |
| 7 |  | Acceptability of parent-child aggression in relation to child abuse potential and attitudes toward children | Harmon, Nancy | Child abuse, psychological aspects; Aggressiveness; Mother and child | The current study investigated the association between the acceptability of parentchild aggression, as demonstrated in a new analog measure, and self-reported support for spanking and mothers' child abuse potential. The connection between the analog of acceptability of parent-child aggression and at... | 2008-05 |
| 8 |  | Active versus passive inhibition of activated information in long-term and working memory | Corgiat, Damon | Educational psychology | The focus of this research was to investigate the possible existence of an indirect inhibitory mechanism working on activated yet unattended information in long-term memory (LTM). There exists evidence in the cognition and memory literature, specifically the retrieval-induced forgetting and negativ... | 2014-05 |
| 9 |  | Aging and lesbian relationships: strengths, challenges, and late-life concerns | Merrill, Tiffany Jo | Lesbians | Empirical efforts have slowly begun to explore the ways in which lesbian-identified women experience the many facets of aging. However, most research either conflates the experiences of lesbians and gay men or fails to distinguish between the experiences of single and coupled lesbians. This study... | 2009-11-20 |
| 10 |  | An evaluation of various admissions procedures and the 1970 Ford Foundation Program in relation to the Mexican American and the American Indian student at the University of Utah | Martinez, Steven Sandoval | University of Utah -- Students Ford Foundation Mexican Americans -- Education Indians of North America -- Education | A crisis for colleges and universities in America today is that of meeting the educational needs of various ethnic minorities. The University of Utah has recognized the need to implement educational programs and to reassess admissions procedures in regard to minority students. In the summer of 1970,... | 1971 |
| 11 |  | An evaluative study - teaching three and four-year olds in a structured education program : by Barbara Erickson Andersen. | Andersen, Barbara Erickson | Granite School District (Utah) Education; Preschool | This study was designed to determine at what age children should be taught academic material formally, in a structured school program and to give Granite School District the information on which it can confidently base future decisions about early childhood and kindergarten programs in advance of th... | 1971 |
| 12 |  | An historical review of the rehabilitation program in Utah | Ebert, Carl Eugene | Vocational rehabilitation; Utah; history | The purpose of the study was to present a history of the rehabilitation program in Utah. It covers the national law that authorized federal-state participation in rehabilitation along with national laws modifying the program. The State Acceptance Act along with amendments is included. The study cont... | 1975 |
| 13 |  | Benchmarking dialectical behavior therapy for male veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder: a pilot study | Averill, Lynnette Astrid | Dialectical behavior therapy; Post-traumatic stress disorder | This pilot study examined the application and effectiveness of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) as a treatment for male combat veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Participants (n=8) were recruited from the Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System (VASLCHCS) after seeking... | 2008-07 |
| 14 |  | Can multimedia pretraining promote deep learning with interactive technologies? | Ferrara, Lisa Ann | Educational technology; Geometry | This study explored how educational technology can help students learn and retain information. Specifically, it addressed whether multimedia pretraining can encourage deep learning with intelligent tutors. Students were pretrained on two geometry theorems and then practiced problem solving in the... | 2009-06-17 |
| 15 |  | The case conference: an evaluative study | Nielson, Scott Kay Jr. | The main problem was to determine if the case conference hold by the Utah State Division of Rehabilitation Services (DRS) to evaluate welfare referrals was an effective diagnostic and prescriptive tool. (Phase I) Two secondary problems were also investigated: (1) to determine the characteristics of ... | 1971 | |
| 16 |  | Categorizing content in digital resources for education: developing a rubric to represent the selection and use of online materials | Crockett, Ashley Anne | digital libraries; digital resources; analysis of digital materials in resources for education | The objectives of this current research were to test the reliability of the ADMIRE rubric and to evaluate whether it can be used as a tool to gain insight into what types of digital library resources teachers' select for classroom use. Additionally, this research was conducted to explore the types o... | 2019 |
| 17 |  | Centerfold syndrome: exploring the constructs of heterosexual male sexual self-schemas | Elder, William B | heterosexual men | This research made use of the schema framework of traditional male sexuality outlined by Brooks, including five central aspects of male heterosexuality referred to as "The Centerfold Syndrome," namely, voyeurism, objectification, the need for validation, trophyism, and the fear of true intimacy. Usi... | 2010-05 |
| 18 |  | Development of a positive aging strategy training protocol: a feasability study | Mansour, Emma Louise | Previous studies have identified one strategy (forgiveness) as efficacious for enhancing subjective well-being. Despite the interest in forgiveness and its relationship with physical and psychological health, training in forgiveness as a positive aging strategy has yet to be examined as contributin... | 2011-05 | |
| 19 |  | Discipline attributions and association with psychological functioning of children | Bradford, Melissa Ann | Corporal punishment of children, Utah,Salt Lake County; Mother and child, Utah, Salt Lake County;Child mental health, Utah, Salt Lake County | Use of physical discipline techniques can lead to harmful outcomes, not only physically, but also emotionally. Harsh discipline has been linked to internalizing disorders such as depression, hopelessness, anxiety, and shame. This study explored the attributions held by mothers and their children ... | 2008-08 |
| 20 |  | The effect of priming, integration of material, and mode of presentation on performance and self-efficacy | Greenberg, Kevin Isaac | The cognitive-based approaches of priming and integrating material were studied to examine their influence on performance and self-efficacy. Study 1 (N = 122) attempted to replicate the 1998 study, "The relation between perception and behavior, or how to win a game of trivial pursuit" by Dijksterhui... | 2018 | |
| 21 |  | Effectiveness and acceptability of a bully prevention program with and without video supplements | Belnap, Benjamin Bruce | Bullying in schools | With a growing number of children affected by bullying and an increased public awareness of the issue in recent years, bullying prevention programs are becoming more widespread in school settings. Student involvement in multimedia and technology is also increasingly widespread. Therefore, the questi... | 2009-05 |
| 22 |  | Effects of explanation to self and others with mental model diagrams during science learning | Summers, Kelly Renee | Diagrams; Explanation; Mental Models; Self-Explanation; Educational psychology; Science education | This study examined the use of diagram representations (correct or correct and incorrect models) when combined with self-explanation or explaining to another in a learning environment. Thirty-five learners with low prior knowledge were assigned to one of four conditions: self-explain with a correct ... | 2015-08 |
| 23 |  | The Effects of methylphenidate on the learning of paired associates by hyperactive children. | Swindler, Charles M. | Methylphenidate; Placebos Randomized Controlled Trials; Child | The stimulant drug methylphenidate was administered in a double-blind placebo controlled study to clinically predetermined stimulant responsive hyperactive children. Using a paired associated learning task the paired associate learning rates of 12 drugged hyperactive children were compared to the p... | 1980-08 |
| 24 |  | The effects of spatial organization and student generation during self-regulated, online learning with domain overviews | Steven, Corey | Concept maps; Conceptual relationships; Constructivism; Deep learning; Online learning; Spatial organization; Instructional Design; Educational technology | Concept maps have been shown to have positive effects for students on recall. This is because, among other things, they are designed to show learners the relationships between concepts in a visuospatial way. However, it remains to be seen how concept maps affect deeper forms of learning, or whether ... | 2014-08 |
| 25 |  | The effects of the taped-problems time-delay intervention to teach sight words using an Ipod | Pummel, Mary Beth Lindsay | Intervention; iPod; Reading; Sight words; Taped-problems; Time-delay; Educational psychology; Literacy; Reading instruction; Educational technology | The current study is an extension of the research literature using time-delay taped-words intervention to teach sight words. An iPod Touch delivered the time-delay taped-words intervention to second grade students who had been identified as at risk for reading difficulties. This study utilized a res... | 2011-11 |