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Grouping Of Commonality Courses, Dan Brobst

Graduate Research Papers

This study is designed to identify contributing variables, for and against, the practice of grouping of commonality courses on a postsecondary level. More specifically, the purpose of this study is:

1. to serve as a study to determine the interest in the grouping of commonality courses.

2. to obtain current opinions from literature concerned with the grouping of commonality courses.

3. to determine attitudes toward the practice of grouping through interview and questionnaires.

4. to determine attitudes toward the practice of grouping from review of related literature.

Uni Schedule Of Classes, Spring 1975, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Schedule of Classes

A listing and schedule of the courses being taught as well as policies and procedures concerning attending classes at the University of Northern Iowa.

Institutionalization: Trauma And Deliverance, Clemens Bartollas

Faculty Work

The question of how one person can most effectively touch the life of another in a positive way is a significant one, especially for those whose mission is to increase the Kingdom of God. Drawing on extensive experience with juvenile delinquents and on his own scholarly research, Clemens Bartollas addresses himself to precisely this problem. In a sociological perspective, he raises a number of fascinating questions about interpersonal relations, and suggests a model for Christian action.

Computer Aided Structural Analysis: The Finite Element Method, Richard T. Ryner

Graduate Research Papers

The design process is a complex and tedious one. Within it, the task of design verification appears to require the lion's share of time, effort, and money involved.

The design formulation activity requires creative people, placed in an environment where they are able to formulate ideas which eventually become the manufactured products of an organization. This task takes up comparatively little of the time and effort of the design cycle. Therefore, it would appear that the greatest savings could be made in the design analysis task. Further, if these savings can be made earlier in the design cycle, in the …

Integrated Circuits, Julio Garcia

Graduate Research Papers

The technology of integrated circuits is_ almost new in Peru, writer's country-. It is being used mainly in black and white television sets and in some audio amplifier equipment. As any new technology, first, it is necessary to be very familiar with it in order to exploit it adequately and get all the benefits from it. The writer feels this lack of knowledge, and wants to take advantage of being here to learn the technology and techniques for using integrated circuits.

The Alumnus, V60n1, February 1975, University Of Northern Iowa Alumni Association

The Alumnus

Inside This Issue:

-- Policy Board for UNI-Dome
-- Relevancy in Education
-- Educational Media Center
-- Buckley Amendment
-- Jane Mauck
-- We Hear From Alumni

Still Photography In Iowa Junior High Schools, Susan Enderson

Graduate Research Papers

How are Iowa junior high and middle school students using still photography in their classes? The purpose of the study was to ascertain quantitatively the extent to which still photography is used by students as (1) an assigned project, (2) an optional method of completing an assigned project, and (3) a special unit designed to have students understand how still photography relates to a content area.

Mit To Study Nonconventional Protein Sources

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

A major study of the world's nonconventional protein resources has been started by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a $185,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

Science, Schooling, And Society: Toward An Integrated Curriculum, Peter B. Dow

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Those of us who have participated in the curriculum movement over the past decade have seen a profound change in the orientation of curriculum makers during this period. In the wave of science-based curriculum projects that followed the launching of Sputnik in 1957 there was little explicit attention given to the social purposes of instruction. The emphasis in those years was on the transmission of knowledge in the most economical form through the identification of central ideas, and on the invention of pedagogical techniques that supported and reinforced the child's natural curiosity and desire to learn. One of the most …

A Selected Bibliography Of Methods And Materials For Teaching Creative Writing, Linda R. Groen

Graduate Research Papers

Creative writing can be seen, then, as an integral part of the curriculum, and the need to investigate it is readily apparent. The nature of the material available on creative writing necessitated that the investigation be handled in a somewhat different manner from that of the usual research project. Although a great deal has been written about creative writing, the emphasis has been on techniques, rationalities, and ideas. Few research studies have been conducted on the need for or design of creative writing programs. For this reason, and from comments made by authors such as Ms. Mueller, the author has …

Team Orientation In The Chemistry Laboratory, David N. West

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The importance of laboratory experience for students is widely accepted by chemistry educators and usually includes the following behavioral objectives: 1. Training in the scientific method. 2. Developing skills with laboratory apparatus. 3. Learning and applying chemical theory. 4. Communicating laboratory results. It is the opinion of this writer that through a team orientation approach to instruction other behavioral objectives can be attained in laboratory situations that are also useful to students pursuing professional careers in chemistry.

Career Information Needs Of Jr.-Sr. High School Media Centers, Norma Dee Hassman

Graduate Research Papers

Because of Iowa's increased interest in career education in the schools, it is the responsibility of the media specialist to have available in the media center material on various careers of interest to the students.

Characterization In The Beany Malone Series, Cean Elizabeth Mcclenathan

Graduate Research Papers

This study showed that Lenora Mattingly Weber did not change the personalities of her characters over the twenty-six years. The characters had the same basic character traits in all of the fourteen novels in the Beany Malone series. Mrs. Weber included more minority characters in her later novels. The characters were stereotyped by their sexual roles throughout the fourteen novels.

A Behavioral Framework For Justification Of Co-Curricular Speech Programs And Activities, Douglas M. Trank

Iowa Journal of Communication

The majority of debate and forensic coaches in Iowa along with the rest of the nation have always been faced with a variety of internal and external problems that pose definite threats to the scope and existence of their programs. These have often been problems that force us to constantly re-evaluate, revise, and rebuild our respective co-curricular programs. Although most of the articles in our journals have been primarily concerned with the plight of our forensic programs at the college level, forensic programs in our secondary schools are faced with many of the same problems. Recent educational trends in such …

A Survey Of Classical Rhetoric From Hermogenes To Bernard, Matthew C. Morrison

Iowa Journal of Communication

At the time of Quintilian's death in c. 97 the Graeco-Latin culture of the Roman Empire still thirsted for the intellectual and artistic traditions of its great past, "but the stream was running low, and its current was becoming progressively more feeble." A century of stagnation came close on the heels of Quintilian's passing, and following it a sharp decline. Literature suffered at the hands of showy ''Asianism," and of the arts only architecture produced anything of timeless quality. Science and philosophy lingered a little longer, but, before the accession of Diocletian in 284 A.D., they too had wilted before …

A Speech To Entertain - A Significant But Little Taught Speech Form, James C. Skaine

Iowa Journal of Communication

For years I have believed the speech to entertain to be an important type of speech. Throughout my teaching career, I have taught the speech to entertain as one of the three major speech purposes; to inform and to persuade being the other two. For most of those years I have felt that this speech purpose was much misunderstood and therefore seldom taught by colleagues at the college level. Support for this belief was supplied recently by Gibson, Kline and Gruner in their survey of the first course in speech at American colleges and universities.¹ Their results indicate that …

Proposed Media Center Services To Chiricahua Apache Elementary School Students, Kathleen Cole

Graduate Research Papers

This paper is intended to serve as a preliminary study for the formation of an elementary school media center designed to serve Chiricahua Apache children. At present time the Chiricahua do not have a home reservation. A lawsuit has been filed to regain their reservation in the southeas.t corner of Arizona which was terminated by executive order in 1877, The Chiricahua people are scattered, with some making their homes on the Mescalero Reservation in New Mexico, the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona, and at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma.. The majority of the group lives in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico. …

Learning Stations: One Method Of Individualization, Douglas Harrenstein

Graduate Research Papers

This research paper will attempt to answer the question: Learning stations: How do they work? Because of the current emphasis on individualization, learning stations offer one way of approaching individualization. The concept of learning stations hinges on the premise that the teacher can make better learning opportunities for more individual types.

An Annotated Bibliography Of Books For Use In Young Adult Death Education Programs, Mary Frances Loretta Berger

Graduate Research Papers

No abstract provided.

University Of Northern Iowa Fact Book, 1975-1976, University Of Northern Iowa

University of Northern Iowa Fact Book

Contents:

--Type of Institution
--Accreditation
--Location and Size of Campus
--Athletic and Physical Education Facilities --President
--Fall Enrollment Through the Years
--Number of Buildings
--Appropriations
--Valuation of Instructional Equipment
--Tuition and Fees
--Board and Room
--Administrative Organization
--University Employees
--Number of Graduates
--Officers of Administrative Divisions
--Officers of Academic Divisions
--Types of Education Offered
--Special Services
--Instructional Buildings
--Administrative & Plant Facilities
--Student Housing and Food Services
--Married Student Housing
--Miscellaneous & Other Buildings
--Index

The Development Of Archeology In Iowa: An Overview, Duane C. Anderson

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

This paper traces the development of archeology in Iowa through three distinct periods. Workers during the period of Pioneer Investigations, 1870-1920, were preoccupied with the problem of the identity of the "Mound Builders." Through their activities they stimulated public awareness and interest and fostered the growth of scientific investigations. During the Keyes-Orr Period, 1921- 1950, Charles R. Keyes and his associates, working through the Iowa Archeological Survey, amassed a sizable amount of data and named various archeological cultures across the state. By the close of the Keyes-Orr Period, archeology emerged as a respected, disciplined and important pursuit in Iowa. The …

A Study Of The Classification Systems For Curriculum Laboratories, Maxine M. Wegner

Graduate Research Papers

The State of Iowa, through a bill reorganizing the intermediate county education systems into fifteen intermediate area education agencies providing special education, media, and auxiliary services, has mandated that the media division shall provide a professional library and curriculum laboratory for the area that it serves.

The area media center is not a new concept in Iowa as there are presently sixteen such centers in the state

that provide a variety of services to the schools in their area with a few centers providing curriculum laboratories for the teachers in their area. These sixteen centers 4 became a part of …

A Slide-Tape Orientation To The Nevada High School Instructional Materials Center, Russell B. Carlson

Graduate Research Papers

This slide-tape presentation will show the incoming sophomore high school students the location of major areas and indexes of the Nevada High School Instructional Materials Center. Since there is an extensive library skills unit taught in both the upper elementary and junior high schools, the students are familiar with the use of the indexes in the I.M.C. The slide-tape series will be used in the sophomore communications classes as an introduction to the I.M.C. and will be followed by an assignment using materials located in the I.M.C. In addition to the slide-tape series, each student will be furnished with a …

Identification Of Tasks In Photo-Offset Lithography Occupations, University Of Northern Iowa

Faculty Publications

The research project was designed to provide data pertaining to performance tasks in specific occupations in various areas of vocational/technical education. The data presented in the document is intended to be used to develop appropriate objectives and curricular content to assist in the preparation of individuals entering the specific photo-offset lithography occupations of layout man; paste-up man; lithographic cameraman; stripper; platemaker; and offset pressman. To discover the tasks and functions required for these job categories; a list of graphic arts industries in Iowa was developed; graphic arts personnel in three cities were interviewed and; from that information; the major instruments …

Boys Will Be Boys Or How They Are Portrayed In Children’S Books, Nancy Volmer

Graduate Research Papers

For this research the author was concerned with the portrayal of males in literature; more specifically, the characterization of boys in children's books. The researcher wanted to find out if boys are represented realistically and if the characteristics of boys in fiction have changed over time. The books selected were fiction and the reading level ranged from fourth to sixth grade. The main character of each book was a male figure of approximately ten years of age. There were two time periods from which the books were selected. One grouping was from 1959-1963 and the other from 1970-1974. Other books …

Measurement And Comparison Of The Competency: Commitment To The Professions Of Home Economics And Education Among Sophomore And Senior Vocational Home Economics Students, Helen Brown Burris

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This exploratory study was conducted as a part of a national project to provide valid and reliable means of assessment for Home Economics Competency Based Education Programs. It was initiated from an interest in developing an instrument to assess the attainment of the specified suggested competency that the participant will demonstrate a commitment to the professions of home economics and education. Development of the Measure of CHEE {Commitment to Home Economics and Education) accomplished the objective of identifying the criteria for commitment and the construction of an instrument which would be a valid and reliable measure of presence of commitment. …

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Iowa Journal of Communication

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Iowa Journal of Communication

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Iowa Communication Journal, Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 1975 [Download Entire Issue]

Iowa Journal of Communication

No abstract provided.

Debater-Critic Communication, Robert Kemp

Iowa Journal of Communication

This paper will examine the response of intercollegiate debaters to a survey mailed fifteen days after the District IV tournament had concluded. Thirty-six debaters participated in the tournament. An initial and a follow-up mailing resulted in responses from 24 of the participants. Each student was asked to answer individually, rather than to give team answers to each of the 18 questions. Since some of the questions had a fairly similar intent, only those that seemed unique and that related to the student interest in examining the interaction process between themselves and the three critics were examined.