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| Title | Author | Subject | Description | Date | ||
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| 1 |  | "Every least thing": reading Cormac McCarthy's literary ecologies for a practice of thinking ethics | Call, Christy | Agency; Cormac McCarthy; eco-pedagogy; ethics; network theory; ontology | Cormac McCarthy's novel The Crossing presents an ecocentric cosmology that diverges radically from the traditional anthropocentric model, which centralizes the primacy of humans. McCarthy's vision of "joinery" reformats the place of humanity to a position of equality with "every least thing." My fo... | 2015 |
| 2 |  | "No one know": untold narratives of Southeast Asian American student success | Coquemont, Kathryn Kay | Educational leadership; Asian American studies; Educational administration | This study explores how Southeast Asian American college students experience success in college despite systemic and institutional barriers. The underrepresentation of Southeast Asian American perspectives in higher education research has created a deficit in understanding this population's experien... | 2018 |
| 3 |  | "Nobody can give from an empty vessel": a qualitative study on self-care for women activists in counseling psychology | McCadden, Elizabeth P. | Activism; counseling psychology; qualitative research; self-care; social justice; women | Women psychologists have conducted social justice work since the beginning of psychology, when women were denied access to education. The efforts of first- and second-generation women psychologists paved the way for present day women in counseling psychology. Today's female psychologists and graduat... | 2016 |
| 4 |  | "On-task in a box": a validation study examining an evidence-based package intervention for increasing rates of on-task behavior and academic performance | King, Brian Scott | Education; academic performance; evidence; on-task behavior; package intervention | On-Task in a Box is an evidence based intervention system designed to increase a student's rates of on-task behavior and academic achievement. The primary interventions that are used in the program include self-monitoring and video modeling. The program also includes motivation systems for keeping s... | 2013 |
| 5 |  | "Superheroes in the resource room": a study examining implemention of the superhero social skills program by a resource teacher with students with externalizing behavior problems | Springer, Benjamin James | Educational psychology; special education; clinical psychology | The current study evaluated the effectiveness of the Superhero Social Skills program in increasing the social engagement skills and decreasing the aggressive behavior of students with externalizing behavior problems as implemented by a resource teacher. There have been no empirical evaluations of th... | 2012 |
| 6 |  | "Superheroes social skills": an initial study examining an evidence-based program for elementary-aged students with autism spectrum disorders in a school setting | Block, Heidi Marie | Autism spectrum disorders; Generalization; Peer-mediated; Self-management; Social skills; Video-modeling | The current study evaluated the effectiveness of a multimedia social skills program in increasing the social engagement skills of 4 elementary-aged students with an autism spectrum disorder. The Superheroes Social Skills for Children with Autism program incorporates several evidence-based practices ... | 2012-05 |
| 7 |  | "That's my experience": negotiating what it means to be "Indian" in a school counseling program | Searle, Kristin Anne | American Indian; education; school counseling | Schooling for American Indians developed differently than it did for other groups in the United States. This difference is largely the result of the unique relationship between American Indians and the U.S. government and the ways in which government policies and practices were carried out. Thus, ... | 2016 |
| 8 |  | "What if they fill this position with a man?": a feminist exploration of women outdoor leaders in higher education | Roger, Elizabeth Bond | Gender studies; Recreation; Womens studies | The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of women outdoor leaders in higher education. While outdoor education provides many positive learning outcomes for students, it is a field in which women and people of color are underrepresented, particularly in leadership roles. T... | 2018 |
| 9 |  | "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 |
| 10 |  | "You have no life other than that, so you better like what you're doing": a feminist phenomenology of women in undergraduate engineering majors | Mcdonald, Lori K. | engineering; undergraduate; women | The purpose of this study was to describe the perceptions and experiences of female undergraduate engineering students who either switched their majors or stayed in engineering to graduate. Historically women are underrepresented in undergraduate engineering majors despite deliberate recruitment an... | 2016 |
| 11 |  | A case study of community cultural wealth among "mountain west" chicana/o college students | Valdez, Trina Marisa | Chicana and Chicano; Community cultural wealth; Critical race theory; Cultural capital; Cultural wealth; Latina/o critical race theory | The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify some of the cultural wealth and resources that Chicano/Latino college students, families, and communities hold and share. By using Latino critical race theory (LatCrit) to conceptualize cultural wealth, it was possible to focus this study on an ... | 2015-05 |
| 12 |  | 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 |
| 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 |  | 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 |
| 15 |  | 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 |
| 16 |  | A comparison of two schools with additional training in evidence-based practices to two schools without added training: effects, student outcomes, and teacher perceptions of skills and practices | Belnap, Benjamin Bruce | ABC-UBI; Evidence-based practices; positive behavior support; response to intervention; school climate; school psychology | Through providing support with training, coaching, and funding, Utah‘s Academic, Behavior & Coaching Initiative (ABC-UBI) program strives to assist schools with the implementation of evidence-based practices for both positive behavior support as well as academic instruction. As an increasing numbe... | 2011-08 |
| 17 |  | A critical case study of peer mediation at an alternative high school | Fetzer, Marcy | Alternative; Conflict; Education; Mediation; Negotiation; Peer | At the crossroad of peer mediation and alternative education, discursive and structural tensions emerge. Through critical discourse analysis of student discourse at one alternative school, the examination of the practice of peer mediation within the context of alternative schooling is centralized. S... | 2014-05 |
| 18 |  | 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 |
| 19 |  | A forced choice method for evaluating instruction in higher education | St. Andre, Mark Edward | educational evaluation; educational psychology; higher education | Student evaluations of teaching (SET) in higher education are ubiquitous. Many SETs utilize Likert-type scales and data from these evaluations are frequently used as data points in the retention, promotion, and tenure reviews of instructors. This makes them a high impact activity. Research has revea... | 2017 |
| 20 |  | A genealogy of Utah 's H.B. 144 (2002): understanding policy text malleability and interrogating racist nativism and legality blindness in policy enactment | Castrellon, Liliana Estella | Education policy; Higher education; Hispanic American studies; Educational leadership | Immigration and education policies between state and federal levels often push students into a cyclical web of contradictions that replicate systemic injustices and leave many students in a conundrum of uncertainty to their access and continued eligibility to attend higher education. Drawing from Cr... | 2019 |
| 21 |  | 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 |
| 22 |  | A history of the education of the Ute Indians, 1847-1905. | Reid, Leslie Wayne | Ute Indians; Education | The purpose of this study is to record the events in the development of Ute Indian education in Utah between the years 1847 and 1905. What the Mormon Church and the federal government contributed in this respect through educational contributions at different times especially between the years 1847 a... | 1972 |
| 23 |  | 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 |
| 24 |  | A longitudinal assessment of therapist multicultural competence process and outcome | Pace, Brian T. | Counseling psychology | Therapist multicultural competence (MCC) has been utilized as a tool to reduce prevalent health disparities. Numerous MCC theories have been developed and the American Psychological Association has adopted MCC guidelines aimed to infuse multicultural initiatives into psychology training programs. Ov... | 2018 |
| 25 |  | 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 |