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Professor George M. Maxwell Makes Magic - And Learning Engineering Becomes Fun, Jack Burke

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor of metallurgical and mining engineering teaches materials science both on the campus and around Wisconsin, talking and putting on demonstrations before high school and college students, bankers, businessmen, dentists, doctors, secretaries and others. Give him five minutes or a college semester, and he will try to convert you into a knowledgeable user of materials. His approach starts off with familiar basic processes of chemistry and physics and builds from there.

Piaget And Science Teaching, Frederick P. De Luca

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Piaget's life is as interesting as his theory of intellectual development He was born in France in 1896, published his first article at the age of 11, completed his Ph.D. degree in biology at the age of 21, and subsequently devoted his efforts to study, research and teaching in the psychology of intellectual development. Initially he was interested in exploring the idea that intellectual development resulted from adaptation of the individual to his environment, a concept involving a combination of biology and psychology. As his research progressed, however, he found it necessary to incorporate ideas from the disciplines of formal …

University Of Northern Iowa Fact Book, 1974-1975, 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

Evaluation Of The Specific Learning Disabilities Program At The Floyd Elementary School, Thomas V. Daigle

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

For the school year 1973-1974, thirteen students at Floyd Elementary School were identified as having specific learning disabilities in grades one and two. They became the experimental group for this study. Another sixteen students in another elementary school in the same district at the same grade levels were also identified as having specific learning disabilities. This group did not have the benefit of a specific learning disabilities program in their school. These students comprised the control group for this study. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the specific learning disabilities program at Floyd in developing …

Trap Biases And Weather Parameters Influencing Mosquito Collecting And Activity, Virgil Roy Acuff

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

During the summer of 1972, eighteen species of mosquitoes were collected in Black Hawk Park, Cedar Falls, Iowa, using a New Jersey light trap, a Communicable Disease Center (CDC) miniature light trap baited with dry ice, an unbaited Malaise trap and a biting collection. Collections were made concurrently with the dual purpose of investigating trap biases for various species of mosquitoes captured and analyzing the effects of temperature, rainfall, relative humidity, barometric pressure, light intensity, and moonphase on the flight activity of female Aedes vexans (Meigen). The New Jersey light trap and the CDC miniature light trap baited with dry …

Organ Recital, Ann Guetzlaff Anway

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

No abstract provided.

Germination Ecology Of Five Chihuahuan Desert Winter Annuals, Andreas George Christou

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Seeds of five winter annuals, Eschscholzia mexicana Greene, Eriogonum abertianum Torr. var. abertianum Torr., Eriogonum abertianum Torr. var. ruberrimum Gandoger, Eriogonum rotundifolium Benth., and Eriogonum trichopes Torr., native to the Chihuahuan Desert, were tested for their germination responses relative to constant and fluctuating temperatures, light and dark sensitivity, and innate dormancy. The effects of aqueous leachates from Larrea tridentata (DC.) Cov., on germination and initial hypocotyl growth of the above Eriogonum taxa were also investigated. Eriogonum taxa germinated at constant temperatures ranging from 6° to 20°c, although their optima were at 10° and 13°c. E. trichopes showed highest germination in …

Sports, Sexism, And The Media Specialist, Kathleen Marie Mccrea

Graduate Research Papers

The media specialist who is aware of social change is undoubtedly aware that today sexism pervades most institutions of American society. The discriminatory practices-accorded women and men in jobs, in the churches, in the homes, and in the schools have been well-documented. Living one's life on the basis of one's sex, once traditional, is no longer accepted as the way living must be. American legislative bodies have resultingly passed federal and state laws and have proposed the Equal Rights Amendment--all of which would ban discrimination on the basis of sex in specific and general circumstances.

Picture Books For Creative Thinking: A Bibliography. Educational Service Publication No. 36., Joan Diamond

Faculty Publications

The picture books briefly annotated in this bibliography are intended for use in the primary grades. It is suggested that they be used to augment the creative potential in children in the following ways: by serving as examples of creativity to children; by initiating discussion; and by fostering individual projects for children. The main bibliographic citations are according to an alphabetical list of authors. A title index and addresses of publishers from whom books may be obtained are also included. (LL)

Some Comparative Studies Of Atomic Absorption Of Three Rare-Earth Elements Of [I.E. In] Organic-Aqueous Solutions, David L. Dozark

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The atomic absorption of dysprosium, erbium, and europium in nitrous oxide-acetylene flames was studied, using aqueous solutions, organic solvent-water systems, and 100% organic solutions. Efforts were made to relate the viscosity and concentration of organic solvents to absorption. The effects of organic solvents on chemical and interelement interference were studied. The precision of analysis by atomic absorption using both aqueous and organic solutions was compared with that of EDTA titrations. Enhancement in the absorption showed a linear dependence on the logarithm of the product of viscosity and boiling point of 100% organic solutions of the rare earth acetylacetonates. In alcohol-water …

Relationship Of Perception And Production Of /R/ In Three-Year-Old Children, Gloria Schuck Bronsema

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Much of the literature suggests a relationship, still obscure, between the production and perception of speech sounds. Investigators of speech perception have, for the most part, studied children of school age. This study, however, was concerned with the production and perception at one stage of development, i.e., at the threeyear-old level. Specifically, this investigator compared the perception of /r/ and /w/ words. Two groups of three-yearold children, sixteen who said /r/ correctly (called the r/r group}, and sixteen who substituted /w/ for /r/ (called the w/r group} were subjects in this study. The eight boys and eight girls in each …

The Effects Of A Required Physical Fitness Unit On College Women’S Attitudes Toward Physical Fitness, Christine Faust

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Statement of the Problem The problem of this study was to examine the effects of a required core physical fitness unit upon college women's attitudes toward physical fitness. The study compared attitudes before and after the unit, and the post-unit attitude scores were compared to a fitness unit evaluation form used by the Women's Physical Education Department. A sub-problem of the study was to construct and validate an attitude questionnaire to measure attitudes toward physical fitness. Procedure The subjects used in this study were seventy-seven college women enrolled in four sections of the required 39:001 general education activity courses taught …

Clarinet Recital, Steven John Colton

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

No abstract provided.

Jerzy Kosinski’S The Devil Tree: A Work Of Art?, Tom G. Colonnese

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Jerzy Kosinski Is fourth novel, The Devil Tree, is widely regarded as both a technical and imaginative failure. Rather than being an artistic failure, The Devil Tree is in fact a fully mature and variant expression of Kosinski's art. Some of Kosinski's earlier fame was due to a humanistic misreading of his work. But The Devil Tree made it painfully clear that Kosinski 's own ethic-- particularly when concerned with self-realization - was of another order. Interpreted in the full light of his career it can be seen that Kosinski 's The Devil Tree is the logical outcome of both …

Rasgos Del Existencialismo En Novelas Selectas De Unamuno, Paul J. Bamford

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Unamuno, although a member of the so-called Generation of '98 in Spain, outreaches the other members of this group in certain aspects of his works, They were primarily involved with the problems of Spain itself after the Spanish-American War, and Unamuno in his work went beyond this to explore Being; to explore the existence of the individual in its deepest and most far-reaching aspects. Because of this preoccupation with Being, Unamuno can be placed in another group, as diverse as the Generation of '98, that group whom we today call existentialists, Existentialism touches such figures as Kierkegaard, through whom Unamuno …

The Immediate Recall Performance Of Language Deviant Children For Three Kinds Of Verbal Materials, Donna L. De Shaw

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Current research on language deviant children has included studies of two facets of short term memory-span and accuracy. Investigators have found the language deviant have shorter spans, and that they reproduce material with errors. Menyuk (1969) hypothesized that the difficulty lay either "in their short term memory capacity or the perceptual devices used" (p. 155). Weiner (1972) listed a number of possible sources of difficulty in repeating material including the manipulation of verbal symbols. Such manipulation may fit the encoding process of Aaronson's (1967) model of short term memory which includes an "encoding" stage where items are readied for retention …

An Analysis Of Commercial Bank Competition In Iowa, Jerald L. Gaffney

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This study presents an analysis of the competitive process in banking in Iowa. The analysis is accomplished by developing and testing an extension of a statistical model originally introduced by Bernard Shull. This model describes the commercial bank as a multiple-product, price-discriminating firm set in an environment of monopolistic competition. The model is estimated across time using pooled data for the years 1967 through 1971. No previous study on this subject has attempted the use of pooled time series and cross sectional data. Pooling the data necessitates that the explanatory variables be examined as X_ij such that X represents …

A Survey Of A Selected Public Group In The Vinton Community School District With Implications For The Improvement Of Certain Educational Services In The Senior High School, Arnold H. Gaumnitz

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The objectives of this study were (1) to determine what a selected group considered to be the major role of a high school education: (2) to determine some attitudes of this public relative to certain educational services being offered in the Vinton High School; (3) to determine the feelings of the group concerning the need for changing certain educational services in the Vinton High School; and (4) to determine some attitudes of the select group concerning what forces have produced change and the best way to bring about educational change in the Vinton High School.

The principal method used was …

Iowa High School Principals’ Perceptions Of The Innovative Role Of The Secondary School Counselor, Russell Newlin

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This study had three purposes. The first was to describe the perceptions of Iowa high school principals with regard to some innovative counselor functions. The second was to compare the principals' perceptions of the innovative functions with Iowa secondary counselors' own role conceptions. The third purpose was to compare secondary counselors' perceptions of their principals' response with the principals' actual response.

The literature indicated that the major determinant of the counselor's role and function in the school, other than the counselor himself, was the principal. It was suggested that there was high agreement by principals and counselors on the actual …

Knowledge And Attitudes Pertaining To Sex Education Courses : A Survey Of A Selected Group Of High School Students, Rebecca Sue Barrionuevo

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to investigate high school students' knowledge and attitudes pertaining to sex education courses. Specifically, the following questions were posed relative to the student's sex and his/her sex education background (in school):

1. How accurately will senior high school students match a given list of eleven sex topics with their respective standard definitions as stated in The Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior? 2. Given a list of sex topics and a second list of possible sources of information, what "first" sources of sex information will most frequently be identified by senior high school students? 3. To …

The Study Of The Transfer Of Learning Between Fine And Gross Motor Skill After Practice On Similar Mirror Reversal Tasks, Roberta A. Klugman

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to investigate the transfer of learning between fine and gross motor skill after practice on similar mirror reversal tasks. Transfer of learning would seem to imply that the learning of either type of skill, fine or gross, may facilitate the learning of the other. This study utilized a quasi-experimental, pre-post, three group design, Subjects were male and female volunteers from junior and senior high schools in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Sixty subjects were used in the analysis of the data with twenty-one in each experimental group and eighteen in the control group. Analysis of covariance …

The Development And Testing Of Audio-Visual-Tutorial Materials As One Method To Assist In The Teaching Of Basic Accounting Principles And Concepts At Marshalltown Community College, Lyle R. Niemeyer

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purposes of this study were: (1) to develop Audio-Visual-Tutorial (AVT) materials to supplement the teaching of Accounting I at the community college level and (2) to compare the results obtained in an experimental group using two units of AVT materials with a control group attending regular lecture sessions.

The AVT slide and tape presentation was developed during the spring and summer of 1971. These materials were tried out with students enrolled in Accounting I at Marshalltown Community College during the fall semester of 1971 and by students enrolled in Accounting I at the University of Northern Iowa the summer …

The Alumnus, V58n4, December 1973, University Of Northern Iowa Alumni Association

The Alumnus

Inside This Issue:

-- An Unusual Work of Art
-- A Lending Service for Teachers
-- Don't Let Fate Pick Your Career
-- We Hear From Alumni

Explosive Metal Forming, Braulio Antonio Tovar

Graduate Research Papers

This study will be concerned with investigating the development of equipment and instructional materials to teach a unit of explosive metal forming in a high school Industrial Arts class. The study will be specifically concerned with: (1) dies and dies blanks for explosive forming, (2) physical phenomena such as velocity, pressure forces, etc., generated in the explosion, (3) technical and laboratory activity content regarding explosion forming, and (4) to prepare a final written report.

Uni Schedule Of Classes, Fall 1973, 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.

Northern Iowa 1973 Football, University Of Northern Iowa

Athletics Media Guides

Contents:

--'72 Results, '73 Schedule --1
--Coaching Staff --2-3
--Season Outlook --4
--Panther Portraits --5-10
--Opponents --11
--Roster, Pronunciations --12-13
--1972 Statistics --14
--1972 Recap --15
--UNI Personnel, Information --16-17
--Athletic Administration --18
--Where are They Now? --19
--School, Conference Records --20-24
--Composite Schedule --Back Cover

A Study Of Students' Attitudes Towards Free Magazine: Final Report, University Of Northern Iowa

History of Education Book Gallery

In November, 1972, the Social Research Center (hereinafter referred to as the Center) received a request from the University of Northern Iowa Board of Student Publications (hereinafter referred to as the Board) to conduct a survey of University of Northern Iowa students (hereinafter referred to as students) in order to assess their opinions of Free Magazine (hereinafter referred to as the Magazine).

The Magazine was to be published twice a year and distributed free of charge to the students.

The purpose of the survey was twofold. First, to evaluate student opinion regarding the various articles, fiction, poetry, and art work …

Uni Political Science Newsletter, V2n1, [Fall 1973], University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Political Science.

Political Science Newsletter

Contents:

--- Political Science Club Activities
--- New Publications by Dr. Vajpeyi
--- New Course in Internship Program
--- Year of Cancellation for Krogmann
--- New Department Member: Jerry L. Bonham
--- Week in Washington Scheduled for Spring
--- Revenue Sharing Symposium
--- FCC Commissioner Speaks on Campus
--- State Department Team Visits UNI
--- International Relations Club Activities
--- Attendance at Conventions by Department
--- The Lessons of Vietnam
--- Consortium for the Social Studies
--- Evening Courses This Fall
--- Graduate Students
--- Alumni News
--- Political Science Departmental Faculty 1973-74

The Alumnus, V58n3, September 1973, University Of Northern Iowa Alumni Association

The Alumnus

Inside This Issue:

-- Achievement Awards
-- Alumni-Faculty Reunion
-- We Hear From Alumni
-- UNI Today

Summer Commencement [Program], August 3, 1973, University Of Northern 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.