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Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Plans for the meeting in Pella on April 15-16 (1966) are well underway and it looks as if we are going to have as fine a program as we had at Dubuque last year.

Constitution Of The Iowa Science Teachers Section

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

This organization shall be known as the Iowa Science Teachers Section of the Iowa Academy of Science.

Concept Meanings Of Senior Women Students Who Completed Student Teaching At The State College Of Iowa, Jean Wilma Downs

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to explore the concept meanings of senior women students of the State College of Iowa who had completed the student teaching requirement of the Professional Sequence for the Bachelor of Arts Degree--Teaching Program. An attempt was made to ascertain the similarities and differences in the meanings of the concepts held by the students, and to assess the extent to which they had identified with the role of teaching. The subjects consisted of three groups of senior women students, with no teaching experience other than a nine weeks' period of full-time student teaching completed during …

A Comparison Of Beginning Typewriting Student Achievement On Testing Material Of Standardized Difficulty And Testing Material Of Progressive Difficulty, Donald Eugene Clayton

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Through many years of experimentation in the field of skill psychology and in the typewriting classroom, the principle that a skill must develop from the simple to the complex has been widely accepted. In interpreting the significance of this principle, authorities in the field of typewriting appear to have accepted the idea that the copy used in the early learning stage of typewriting should be easy. It, therefore, seems appropriate to challenge the "easy-first" plan in testing. Perhaps, if beginning typewriting students were tested periodically from the first, on more difficult standardized copy, the results would be more helpful in …

The Experimental Use Of The Marianne Frostig Developmental Test Of Visual Perception And The Frostig Program For The Development Of Visual Perception For The Diagnosis And Remediation Of Visual Perceptual Abilities In Young Educable Mentally Retarded Children, Mary Ellen Dreier

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

There has been increasing interest in recent years in finding effective approaches to the education of the retarded child. Remedial programs based upon the diagnosis of specific disabilities of the child with mild mental retardation may serve to remove or decrease some of the obstacles to learning for the child. One of these obstacles may be faulty visual perception. This investigation was based upon the experimental use of a test designed to assess visual perceptual abilities and a program designed to train visual perceptual abilities.

A Comparison Of Measures Of Finger Recognition, William F. Brewer

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The relationship between the Benton tests of finger localization and the Kinsbourne-Warrington tests of finger differentiation and order was investigated. Kinsbourne and Warrington have stated that "finger sense" as tested by their tests and "finger localization" as tested by Benton's tests "cannot be closely compared.'' This hypothesis was tested by giving both tests to 31 mentally retarded subjects. There was a high significant correlation between the two tests. The findings do not support Kinsbourne and Warrington's hypothesis and suggest that it is not necessary to distinguish between "finger sense" and "finger localization.''

Effects Of Verbal Pretraining On Star Discrimeter Performance With Unique Random Shapes As Stimuli, John T. Friar, Harve E. Rawson, Don Lewis

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

With two unique sets of random shapes as stimuli, one set for relevant, the other for irrelevant verbal pretraining, and with specially scaled concrete nouns as verbal responses, an experiment was designed as a possible check on Gibson's hypothesis concerning generalization among stimuli in paired-associates learning. Performance on the Star Discrimeter followed verbal pretraining. The errors made on the Star by one of the experimental groups, compared with the errors made by its control, lent some support for the hypothesis; but additional experimentation is needed.

An Analysis Of The Outcomes Of Special Summer Programs For Secondary Students Of High Ability, Robert E, Yager, Gerald Krockover

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The National Science Foundation has supported special training programs for secondary students of high ability since 1959. This is the report of a study of the outcome of such programs upon the participants. Specific values of the programs were reported to be: 1) renewed interest in the remaining year of high school, 2) development of better study habits, 3) better oriented for college, 4) development of confidence, 5) verification and depending of vocational plans, and 6) general stimulation from a superior academic experience.

Information For Authors

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Group Decision Versus Lecture As A Technique In Changing Attitudes Of Junior High Students, Richard Lee Elliott

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

It is the purpose of this study to (1) determine if educational attitudes of junior high students can be changed through the use of a group decision method and a lecture method by utilizing controversial questions in the area of American history, and (2) compare the effectiveness of a group-decision method and a lecture method in causing a shift in attitude as measured by an opinionnaire scale.

Officers, Iowa Academy Of Science

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Title Page - Front Matter

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Putting Science Back Together: The Teacher's Role, Walter R. Hearn

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The exponential growth of science, with its continuing fragmentation into separate sciences, is familiar to all of us. About 1000 specialties appear on the current list published annually by NSF for use with the National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel.

A Sourcebook For The Inexperienced String Teacher, Robert I. Iverson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

It is the purpose of this study to compile and organize information concerning the fundamental physical and mechanical techniques of playing each of the orchestral string instruments, such that with this sourcebook of information, the inexperienced string teacher or converted band man could establish and maintain a successful string program in the public schools of America. It is assumed that the musical concepts concerning interpretation, phrasing, form, theory. and counterpoint are a part of the inexperienced string teacher's background. The writer, due to lack of playing and teaching experience with string instruments, has not endeavored to lay down original string …

A Survey Of In-Service Education Programs In Selected Public Senior High Schools In The State Of Iowa, Donald Henry Henderson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

It was the purpose of this study: (1) to survey the current in- service education programs of selected public senior high schools 1) the State of Iowa, and (2) to make an objective comparison of these school by the size of their student enrollments.

Air Warfare And The Crisis Of Conscience: 1936-1950, Gale E. Christianson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

is a study probing some of the ethical problems involved in the use of weapons of aerial warfare against cities and civilian noncombatants. The method used has been an examination and analysis of the moral reactions of prominent atomic scientists and Christian theologians. Chapter 1 is concerned with the history of air warfare from 1914 to 1940, tracing the uses of the airplane from the time it was first introduced into combat to the time of the United States entry into World War II. Particular attention is given to the Spanish Civil War and to the Italian campaign against Ethiopia. …

The Alumnus, V50n4, December 1965, State College Of Iowa

The Alumnus

Inside This Issue:

-- Hagemann Hall Dedicated
-- Campanile
-- Convocation
-- Library Science Department
-- Sports
-- Homecoming Queen
-- Obituaries
-- The Campus Today
-- News Notes
-- Marriages
-- Deaths
-- Births

State College Of Iowa Schedule Of Classes, Fall 1965, State College Of 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 State College of Iowa.

The Alumnus, V50n3, September 1965, State College Of Iowa

The Alumnus

Inside This Issue:

-- Central Hall Burns
-- Alumni Reunion
-- Alumni Honor President
-- Commencement
-- Marching Band to Chicago
-- Maywood Project
-- Ford Grant
-- Football Predictions
-- Mary Howeth
-- English Department
-- The Campus Today
-- News Notes
-- Marriages
-- Deaths
-- Births

Summer Commencement [Program], August 6, 1965, State College Of Iowa

UNI Commencement Programs

The program of the commencement ceremonies, including a list of institutional leadership, a list of the departments by college, awards given at the ceremonies, and a list of undergraduate and graduate degree candidates.

State College Of Iowa Schedule Of Classes, Summer 1965, State College Of 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 State College of Iowa.

Spring Commencement [Program], June 4, 1965, State College Of Iowa

UNI Commencement Programs

The program of the commencement ceremonies, including a list of institutional leadership, a list of the departments by college, awards given at the ceremonies, and a list of undergraduate and graduate degree candidates.

The Seventy-Seventh Session Of The Iowa Academy Of Science And The Thirty-Third Convention Of The Iowa Junior Academy Of Science, April 23-24, 1965, Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

No abstract provided.

State College Of Iowa Schedule Of Classes, Spring 1965, State College Of 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 State College of Iowa.

The Alumnus, V50n1, February 1965, State College Of Iowa

The Alumnus

Inside This Issue:

-- 1964: A Year of Progress at SCI
-- Grant Teaches, Collects in Iran
-- -64: Golden Year for SCI Athletes
-- New Speech Department Plays Full-Fledged Role
-- We hear from alumni...
-- Births
-- Marriages

Officers And Committees, Iowa Academy Of Science

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Midwest, Volume 9, Number 1, Fall 1965 [Download Entire Issue]

Midwest: A Literary Review

No abstract provided.

Value Patterns In Three Midwest Colleges, John R. Tisdale

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The Allport, Vernon, Lindzey Study of Values reported norms were compared with scores from a sample from three midwest liberal arts colleges. The total college group consisted of 440 Ss, 183 males and 257 females. The individual samples showed both resemblances to and differences from each other and the appropriate sex norms, when they were examined on the basis of the mean values obtained for each of the test's six variables and of the relative rank assigned to each. The composite group showed differences in amounts rather than ranks on the scales. It was concluded that the appropriateness of the …

Psychological Scaling Of Language Development Of Children, Dorothy Sherman, Thomas Shriner, Franklin Silverman

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Certain aspects of the use of psychological rating scale methods for measuring degrees of language development in the speech of children are evaluated. That typed samples from children's speech can be scaled reliably is demonstrated. Comparisons are made among correlation coefficients which were obtained for the purpose of estimating relationships among three measures of language development for the same set of 50 samples of children's language: structural complexity scores obtained by analysis of the samples; scale values of intricacy of language usage obtained by the psychological scaling method of Equal-Appearing Intervals; and mean estimates of age derived from sophisticated observers' …

What Color Is Wise?, James E. Humphrey

Midwest: A Literary Review

No abstract provided.