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| Title | Author | Subject | Description | Date | ||
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| 1 |  | Wicked problems: a narrative inquiry of white women faculty and their aspirations for antiracist feminism at a predominately white institution | Kramer, Ashley Marie Seitz | antiracism; faculty; feminism; higher education; intersectionality; white women | Antiracism and feminism are interrelated projects, and this research concerns the complex roles that White women play in their histories, development, advocacy, and fissures, specifically in the academy-a unique, contradictory place. This dissertation documents my co-inquiries with eight of my Sugar... | 2020 |
| 2 |  | "You are not who you said you were when you were hired!": an autoethnographical account of a student affairs professional's trans* becoming | Medina-Martinez, C. Kai | Higher education; Social work; Educational administration; LGBTQ studies; Higher education administration | Following the format of autoethnographic vignettes, this study describes the experience of a student affairs educator as they navigate their trans* becoming while working on a university campus. While many higher education institutions include gender identity and gender in their nondiscrimination po... | 2019 |
| 3 |  | 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 |
| 4 |  | 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 |
| 5 |  | 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 |
| 6 |  | 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 |
| 7 |  | 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 |
| 8 |  | 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 | |
| 9 |  | 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 |
| 10 |  | 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 |
| 11 |  | 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 |
| 12 |  | The relationship of professors' personality characteristics to grading behaviors | Snibbe, Homa Mahmoudi | The purpose of the present research was to study two selected groups of professors and determine whether or not their expressed attitudes, liberal or conservative, toward grading behaviors was a reflection of general personality characteristic, sometimes described as authoritarian versus nonauthorit... | 1970 | |
| 13 |  | Mexican-American secondary students : Salt Lake City school district | Byrne, David Ronald | This study aimed at beginning the development of a useful and substantive body of information pertaining to the community of MexicanAmerican students in Salt Lake City, school district. It aimed specifically toward finding a truthful dropout rate, making comparisons between Mexican-American dropouts... | 1971 | |
| 14 |  | 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 |
| 15 |  | Biographical predictors of the educationally disadvantaged veteran's use of G. I. Bill training benefits | France, Ronald Boyd | Background Much concern is being expressed over the status of the Vietnam veteran. His inability to find work and his overall dissatisfaction with his status is, through the mass media, receiving much attention. Of this group the non-high school graduate veteran is placed at an especial disadvantage... | 1971 | |
| 16 |  | Adaptive theory - educational implications and an exemplary earth science curriculum | Scott, Kay Vernon Parkinson | Education; philosophy earth sciences; study and teaching (secondary) | In ·this study, a general theory of adaptation based on statistical graphics was proposed for the purpose of providing perspective in complex situations. The educational implications of the theory suggested an adaptive curriculum design that would embrace most existing educational models To exe... | 1975 |
| 17 |  | An application of transactional analysis to a model of teaching | Davis, Kathryn Ann Wadsworth | Teaching; educational innovations; transactional analysis | It was the purpose of this study to explore the properties and parameters of an application of Transactional Analysis to teaching. The study was conducted in three parts. The first part dealt with a research of selected literary materials in Transactional Analysis for a set of basic principles chara... | 1975 |
| 18 |  | 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 | |
| 19 |  | A study of the organization and communication aspects of research administration departments in American Universities | Larsen, Perry Thomas | Universities and colleges; United States research; United State | The task undertaken in this study was to investigate and examine the organizational structures and the communication aspects of research administration offices in American universities with the hope of deriving an effective organization and communication format model of a research administration off... | 1972 |
| 20 |  | 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 |
| 21 |  | History of the efforts to coordinate higher education in Utah | Hair, Mary Jane Stewart | This historical study identified the efforts made that led to the coordination of higher education in Utah, culminating in the passage of the Higher Education Act of 1969, the creation of the State Board of Higher Education and the appointment of Dr. G. Home r Durham as the first Commissioner of Hig... | 1974 | |
| 22 |  | 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 |
| 23 |  | Community college students' perception(s) of the community college and the associate's degree | Nguyen, Tammy | associate's degree; community college; student perception | Millions of students enroll in community colleges each year because of their open enrollment, lower cost of tuition, and flexible class schedules. Once enrolled at a community college, many community college students aspire to transfer their credits to a 4-year institution. One way to transfer credi... | 2021 |
| 24 |  | The professional education association movement and Utah : an interpretive history | Rees, Willard Dale | This study is largely an examination of the rhetoric of the opponents and proponents of unionism. Statements are analyzed in the attempt to determine whether the motives of the arguing parties have been other than strictly educational. While the issue has centered around the meaning of professionali... | 1977 | |
| 25 |  | The American College for girls, Cairo, Egypt: its history and influence on egyptian women a study of selected graduates | Sproul, Christine | American college for girls (Cairo, Egypt); presbyterian church; missions Women; egypt; social conditions | This dissertation examines the history of American College for Girls (ACG) in Cairo, Egypt. Founded by the American Presbyterian Mission in 1909, this school played a unique role in the history of women's education in Egypt. The school was established to educate the daughters of "the landowning, pro... | 1982 |