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A Study Of The New Sodia Program In Elementary Teacher Education At Utah State University, Larry D. Klein
A Study Of The New Sodia Program In Elementary Teacher Education At Utah State University, Larry D. Klein
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This study was designed to compare elementary teacher preparation programs at Utah State University as a basis for evaluation of the SODIA program. SODIA is the acronym for a new elementary teacher preparation program initiated in the Fall of 1972 which was designed to be field centered and competency based.
The population of the study consisted of 104 elementary student teachers enrolled in student teaching during Fall and Winter Quarters of the 1973-74 academic year. There were four groups identified by the type of preparation program they had experienced. The groups were SODIA (the new program for preparing elementary teachers), …