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| Title | Author | Subject | Description | Date | ||
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| 1 |  | A mental survey of a training school | Christensen, Ione | children; intelligence testing; Utah | In 1917-18, a small class of senior psychology students at the University of Utah made a detailed study of the Terman scale for measuring general intelligence. | 1919 |
| 2 |  | The history of educational administration in Salt Lake City 1890-1901 | Lingwall, Karl Edward | school management and organization; Utah; Salt Lake City; history | This work was a history of the organization and decisions of the Board of Education of Salt Lake City and its administrational staff. The study covered the years from 1890 to 1901, which was the time of the administration of the first two superintendents. The organization of the Board of Education w... | 1967 |
| 3 |  | The life and educational contributions of John Andreas Widtsoe | Parkinson, Raymond Bramwell | Rorschach test music; psychological aspects | At the graveyard ceremony on the death of his father, young John A. Widtsoe in childish appreciation, pledged to continue his father's work. | 1955 |
| 4 |  | An appraisal of life adjustment education practices in selected secondary schools of the deep South | Murray, William Dewey | education; secondary; Southern States; curricula | During the first half of the twentieth century an attempt was made to universalize secondary education in the United States. | 1953 |
| 5 |  | The granite school district summer science program - an extension of the classroom | Holm, Vernon Rohlfing | granite school district (Utah) science; study and teaching | It was the purpose of this study to present a detailed discussion of three years' experience in implementing, developing, and conducting an outdoor summer science program. The specific objectives of this study were to: 1. Discuss the philosophy and origin of the program. 2. Present the organization ... | 1967 |
| 6 |  | The platoon school in Utah | Ord, John E. | At the turn or the twentieth century a movement toward departmentalization in the elementary school began to take form. The platoon school a highly departmentalized for of organization, was originated in 1900. Regarding the platoon school's origin Otto states: | 1949 | |
| 7 |  | A History of elementary school teacher training in Utah, 1850-1900 | Sharp, Emma | Elementary school teachers; Training of; Utah; History | Statement of Problem. The purpose of the study is to trace the history of Elementary School Teacher Training in Utah, from 1850-1900. Limitations of the Problem. The study is limited to the organizations effected, the policies adopted, the courses offered, and the certificates issued by the public a... | 1941 |
| 8 |  | A study of vocational education in the United States, Utah and Taiwan | Lu, Kuang Tien | vocational education; United States | I. THE PROBLEM The purpose of this research was to study the vocational education in the United states, Utah, and Taiwan with respect to its past development and present practices, the current needs for vocational education in Taiwan of and making suggestions for vocational education programs in Tai... | 1967 |
| 9 |  | The influence of an intensive pre-school educational experience on the intellectual functioning of Ute Indian children | Griffiths, Kenneth Albert | Ute Indian tribe; Ute children | The Problem Research data accumulated by staff members of the Bureau of Indian Services, Counseling Center, and Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Utah indicated that the Ute Indian children were retarded in academic achievement. Average performance by Ute children on standard... | 1967 |
| 10 |  | Case studies of selected Spanish-American junior and senior high school students from Lark, Utah | Nelson, Bill Jacob | children with social disabilities; education; Utah Mexican students; Utah bilingualism | I. THE PROBLEM The problem was to question ten selected Spanish-speaking children and their parents to determine possible areas in the Lark Elementary School curriculum which could be revised to more adequately meet the needs of the children who have Spanish-speaking parents. II. THE METHOD The inve... | 1969 |
| 11 |  | Practice and reinforcement as training factors in creative performance | Williams, Frank E. | Professional educators were challenged by the problem of introducing creative activities in the school curriculum over forty years ago. Recently this movement has witnessed a revival in educational thinking but with a functional emphasis upon the development of creative ideas for utilitarian purpose... | 1965 | |
| 12 |  | 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 |
| 13 |  | 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 |
| 14 |  | Problems of American college students in learning arabic: a diagnostic study of reading errors, remedial instruction and a proposed method of teaching | Hanna, Sami Ayad | Arabic language; study and teaching (Higher); United States | Teaching Arabic in the United ·States is relatively new. The Studies on the Near and Middle East in the United States before World War II were primarily focused on biblical studies. Most of these studies were in theological seminaries out of which grew' what is called departments of Semitic languag... | 1964 |
| 15 |  | Externally-facilitated teacher regulated learning in the context of network-based tutors: the role of prompts | Udy, Laurel Ann | This paper examines the effectiveness of content-driven prompts optimized over time in facilitating preservice teachers' self-regulated learning with network-based tutors. The optimization problem consists of finding the best content from all feasible content alluded to in the learning environment t... | 2019 | |
| 16 |  | A Comparative Study of Stewart Junior High School graduates and conventional Junior High School graduates on the High School level | Allen, James Bird Jr. | William M. Stewart School University of Utah; Normal Training School Junior high school students; Utah; Salt Lake City Academic achievement | For many years educators have experimented with teaching methods and curriculum patterns in an effort to improve education. Numerous studies have been made in areas of education with the hope of finding better teaching procedures. This study compared the graduates of a combined elementary and junior... | 1957 |
| 17 |  | A history of the William Stewart School, 1891-1940 | Davis, Frances Gilroy | Normal Training School; Teachers colleges; Utah | It is the purpose of this study to present the history of the William M. Stewart School and its predecessor the Normal Training School of the University of Utah from 1891 to 1940. This record presents a study of the aims, practices, and accomplishments of the Normal Training School of the Universi... | 1940 |
| 18 |  | 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 | |
| 19 |  | 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 |
| 20 |  | Relationships between dominance and territorial behavior: a field study in a youth rehabilitation setting | Sundstrom, Eric Dale | Problem. This study investigated relationships between dominance status in a group and use of the physical enironment. On the basis of research on dominance and territoriality, it was hypothesized that (a doinance relations and territorial behavior in a group remain stable; (b low doinant Ss show hi... | 1972 | |
| 21 |  | 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 |
| 22 |  | 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 | |
| 23 |  | Art teaching in the junior and senior high schools of Utah | Larsen, Bent Franklin | Art; study and teaching (Secondary); Utah | Evaluation of School Subjects There is a growing tendency to evaluate every part of the curriculum rather carefully and to give a prominent place to those subjects only which contribute most to the needs of good citizenship. Since a program of greater economy in education is being demanded it should... | 1922 |
| 24 |  | The social problems of the Chinese in Salt Lake County | Conley, Angela Chan | Twenty one Chinese households were selected from the Salt Lake City Telephone Directory. Data was Collected through personal interviews, using an interview questionnaire designed by the investigator. The average Chinese household is larger than the average household in the State of Utah and of the ... | 1973 | |
| 25 |  | Examining sensory experience rating effects during reading using eye movements | Preziosi, Melissa A. | Educational psychology | Previous research suggests that words with higher Sensory Experience Ratings (SER) are associated with faster processing speeds. The goal of the current research was to determine if such SER effects are observed in more naturalistic reading contexts and, if they are, when in the time course of proce... | 2018 |