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Mapping The Literature Of Dental Hygiene: An Update, Carol L. Watwood, Terry Dean

DLPS Faculty Publications

Objective: This study updates Haaland’s 1999 dental hygiene mapping study. By identifying core journals and estimating database coverage, it characterizes changes in dental hygiene research and aids librarians in collection development and user education.

Method: Cited references from a three-year (2015–2017) sample of core dental hygiene journals were collected, categorized into five formats, and analyzed by format and publication year according to Bradford’s Law of Scattering. CINAHL Complete, MEDLINE, and EMBASE were surveyed to determine the indexing coverage of cited journals.

Results: The number of cited journal titles increased from 389 in 1999 to 1,675 in 2018. Core Zone 1 …

Technology, Professional Development, And Student Achievement: Using The Tell Survey In A Study Of Low Socioeconomic Schools In Kentucky, Holly Mcleod Ross

Dissertations

In order to compare the accessibility, need, and extent of professional development, technology, and its relationship to low socioeconomic (SES) schools and achievement, data were accessed from the Kentucky Department of Education, Division of School and Community Nutrition Qualifying Data Report to identify schools with a greater than 50% free and reduced lunch rate. Data also came from the TELL Kentucky survey instrument results specific to questions related to professional development and technology. Kentucky Performance Rating for Educational Progress (KPREP) school rankings were also utilized to determine the highest and lowest ranked schools among those with greater than 50% free …

Ua1c4/7 Student Groups & Association Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of student groups and associations not otherwise listed.

Ua66/1/1 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Dean's Office Publications, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Publications created by the office of the Dean of Ogden College of Science & Engineering.

2019-2020 Catalog, Wku Graduate Catalog

Graduate School

Graduate School catalog regarding admissions, curriculum and policies.

Ua3/4/9 President's Office-Downing Scrapbooks, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Scrapbooks created during Dero Downing's tenure as president of WKU.

Ua66/1/3 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Dean's Office Events, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created for events by the office of the Dean of Ogden College of Science & Engineering.

Ua66/1/2 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Dean's Office Administration, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the administration of the office of the Dean of Ogden College of Science & Engineering.

Ua3/8/4 President's Office-Meredith Board Of Regents, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Board of Regents records created by and for the Thomas Meredith administration. Consists of sub-subseries:

1. Committees
2. Correspondence
3. Meetings
4. Subjects

Ua56/3/3 Institutional Research Reports File Sacs Reports, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

SACS reports are conducted every ten years by the Southern Association of Colleges & Schools. Institutional data is collected, organized from all colleges and departments at WKU and then analyzed by the department of Institutional Research.

Ua3/5/1 President's Office-Minton Correspondence/Subject File, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Unprocessed correspondence files created by the President's Office during John Minton's administration. John Minton served as acting president from January to July 1979. Occasionally files created under his administration are found in the Zacharias papers. They are designated as such in the collection inventories.

This series also includes correspondence files created by Minton while serving in other administrative positions at Western Kentucky University between 1966 and 1986.

Ua66/14/3 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Nursing Publications, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Publications created by and about Nursing.

Ua66/4 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Allied Health, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Department of Allied Health.

Files are organized into the following subseries:

1. Administration
2. Publications