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The Role Of The School Psychologist As Perceived By Elementary Principals And By School Psychologists, Joan Holliday Smith

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The problem that was considered in the study was whether the role of the school psychologist was perceived differently by elementary principals and school psychologists.

A questionnaire was developed which had two slightly differing forms, one for principals and one for psychologists. The items on the questionnaire sought to assess the opinions of both groups concerning: who is and who should be responsible for selected tasks, the effectiveness of psychological services and several aspects of authority. The questionnaires were sent to a randomly selected group of elementary principals (200) and all of the school psychologists in Iowa (170). Useable returns …

An Analysis Of Data And Records Of Two Selected Groups Of Students In The Context Of The Admissions Program At The University Of Northern Iowa, Jack Lloyd Wielenga

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This study was undertaken to compare the level of academic success of two groups of students as they were affected by admission policies and practices at the University of Northern Iowa. Students in both groups ranked in the lower half of their respective graduating classes. Students in Group I were denied admission, and students in Group II were admitted to the fall semester 1964.

High school counselors and college registrars at 232 schools were asked to provide transcripts of records and/or completed reporting forms for each of the 185 students in Group 1 who had previously attended their institutions. This …

Paradise Regained: An Intellectual Drama Of The Nature Of Being And Freedom, Michael Biehl

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The major problem confronting a student of Paradise Regained is to relate theology, philosophy, and drama. Critics, in the main, have either oversimplified the issues, or have given lopsided interpretations of the poem, emphasizing one aspect to the detriment of others of significance. Consequently, as noted in the Introduction, our study examines Paradise Regained's central theological and philosophical equation of Being and Freedom. Furthermore, our mode of approach is a running commentary and analysis to help us trace the poem's developing intellectual drama. Book I sets the stage for the conflict of ideas. During the first council with his cohorts, …

Proposed Guidelines For An Iowa Local High School Chapter Of The Distributive Education Clubs Of America, Weldon Else

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

It was the purpose of this study to secure, analyze, and present information that may be used by distributive education advisors to improve total chapter achievements. Since distributive education teacher-coordinators possess such information, this study sought to determine by means of questionnaires (1) the procedures and techniques used by local chapters of DECA, and (2) the opinions of local teacher-coordinators concerning DECA activities and recommendations for change based on their own experiences.

Video Tape Versus Live Demonstration In Yeast Bread Preparation, Ruth Martin Fisher

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The primary purpose of the study was to determine whether video tape demonstrations can be used effectively in teaching basic yeast bread knowledge and laboratory preparation activities that require accuracy and skill in obtaining a standard yeast bread product. The population of the study consisted of thirty-eight Home Economics II students in the Cedar Falls High School. Two classes, comparable in intelligence quotient range, mean, and standard deviation, were selected to serve as the experimental and control groups for the study. The experimental group was composed of eighteen students and the control group was composed of twenty-four students. Yeast bread …

A Program Of Music For Alto Saxophone, George Edwin Foy

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

A Program of Alto Saxophone Music was performed in the auditorium of the Music Hall May 1, 1972 at 8:15 P.M., University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa. The program consisted of music selected from the Baroque, Romantic, and Contemporary Periods using transcriptions and original compositions for the saxophone. A tape recording of this recital is retained in the office of the music department. The original recording was taped on Ampex equipment in the auditorium recording booth and copied by two Sony 350 tape decks. The tape is recorded on four track stereo at 7½ i.p.s. on track #1 and …

Social Alienation As A Factor In College Attrition, Julienne Kay Friday

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to view the phenomenon of attrition from a sociological perspective utilizing the concept of "social alienation" as a predisposing factor in college attrition. The names of 136 students who withdrew prior to, or at the end of, the first semester of their freshman year for the academic years 1969-70, 1970-71, and 1971-72 were secured from the Data Processing Office of the University of Northern Iowa. This list of names was compared with an available listing of all part-time students enrolled at the University. Twenty-seven who were listed as being part-time students were omitted from …

The Concept Of Salvation In The Fiction Of Flannery O’Connor, Janet Grant

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The thesis for which this serves as an abstract consists of a critical investigation of the concept of salvation as seen in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor. To the casual reader, O'Connor's stories provide entertainment, but on more careful perusal, the reader perceives a certain pattern in each story which points to the attainment of salvation. O'Connor is a Catholic writer who enjoys a universal appeal because of the concepts with which she deals . The desire for salvation is not limited to any one religion; rather, the concept of a spiritual existence after death is espoused by many religions. …

Selected Choral Literature For The High School Chamber Choir: With Specific Reference To The Style And Performance Practice Of Renaissance Choral Music, Alan J. Hagen

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The decade of the 1960's witnessed a growing interest in choral chamber music. This became increasingly apparent in clinics and conventions across the country which devoted considerable attention to chamber choir literature, style , and performance practice. This trend was further manifested through informative articles, which appeared in music periodicals with growing regularity late in the decade, concerning the chamber choir and inherent problems. Choral chamber music took on added significance in Iowa in 1968 when the Iowa High School Music Association introduced chamber choir competition into the state music contest series. This action prompted numerous questions regarding the definition …

A Comparison Of Students Enrolled In A Four Year Home Economics In Business, Clothing And Textiles Program With Students Enrolled In A Two Year Fashion Merchandising Program, Dorothy Lee Clausen

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This exploratory study was conducted to survey and compare students who chose a four year university oriented textiles and clothing in business program and students who chose a two year vocationally oriented fashion merchandising program. Comparisons were made between the two samples in selected demographic information: family and educational backgrounds, personal orientation to a fashion retailing career, and personal professional goals. Comparisons were also made in students' knowledge of current fashion awareness, interest in clothing, and values assigned to clothing. Participants for this study were from a state university and a state area school. Twenty-eight junior and senior majors in …

Only With The Heart -- A Consideration Of Love In The Novels Of John Steinbeck, Dorthy S. Cummings

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The consistency with which John Steinbeck evaluated his characters by revealing the nature of their commitments indicates the importance of love as a motivational and thematic force in his work. In every novel that he wrote from 1933 to 1961, the characters were defined by the extent to which they loved and were loved. They were enlarged by belonging to and being responsible for the thing they loved. They were diminished by rejection or failure in love. Love, in the Steinbeck novels, included a wide variety of commitments that shared, in addition to a common function in the lives of …

Biosystematic Evidence For Hybridization Between Lysimachia Quadriflora Sims And Lysimachia Hybrida Michaux (Primulaceae), Michael Owen Dillon

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Putative hybrids between Lysimachia guadriflora and L. hybrida were discovered in a marsh in Dickinson County in northwest Iowa. No previous reports of interspecific hybridization between these species were found in the literature. Ecological barriers usually separate the parental species; however, at this population, disturbances by grazing animals and yearly fluctuations in the water level allow them to exist sympatrically. The parental species have concurrent flowering periods, similar floral morphology and pigmentation, and are pollinated by non-specific pollinators. The disturbances also provide a wide range of microhabitats intermediate to those of the parents. Thus, hybridization has resulted because of the …

William Faulkner: Innocence, Idiots, And A Moral Order For Yoknapatawpha, Joseph Scott Drips

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi includes characters and situations that are often described as unexpected, abnormal, and even grotesque. Isaac Snopes of The Hamlet, Benjy Compson of The Sound and the Fury, and Jim Bond of Absalom, Absalom! represent three of the most extreme character portrayals found within the works of William Faulkner. They are described as idiots. This paper views these idiots as a continued development of a character type. To complete this study the idiots are described: (1) through the theme of innocence, (2) as a part of the moral order depicted in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, and (3) …

Methodological Processes In A Sociolinguistic Problem, James C. Day

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The scope of this paper is methodological. It is concerned with the procedures involved in collecting data within the guidelines of a sociolinguistic framework. The data have been collected and are contained in tapes which are on file in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at the University of Northern Iowa. The study was designed to be generational in the sense that parent and child form a generation. Black children and their parents were contacted for their willingness to cooperate in the study. The purposes and procedures to be used were explained to them and they then indicated whether …

A Study Of The Variable Of Black Dialect As It Affects The Performance Of Black Children On A Speech-Sound Discrimination Test, Adeline Cheryl Alderson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The present study investigated the variable of Black Dialect as it affected performance of a black population on a standardized speech-sound discrimination test. Forty-four black preschool children ranging in age from four years, one month through five years, one month served as subjects. Test tapes used for presentation of the test were the Standard English test tape included in the speech-sound discrimination test pack and a Black Dialect test tape recorded by a lay talker. The subjects were randomly divided into two groups: Group I subjects received the speech-sound discrimination test in Standard English on Trial 1 and in Black …

A Comparison Of The Effectiveness Of Worksheets And Manipulative Games Used In Seventh-Grade Mathematics As Methods Of Drill On The Four Basic Operations With Whole Numbers And Fractions, Richard Lee Capps

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This study was conducted in the fall of 1971 at Nell McGowen Junior High School, Knoxville, Iowa. The subjects of the study were 146 seventh-grade mathematics students. The students were ability grouped by the principal. No attempt was made to keep a constant sex ratio. The problem of this study was the comparison of two methods of drill on the four basic operations with whole numbers and fractions. The methods were games and worksheets. An analysis of covariance design was used to analyze the data. Achievement and attitude pre-test scores were covariates. Achievement and attitude post-test scores were dependent variables. …

Family Size, Intelligence, And Patterns Of Achievement In Preschool Children, H. Jane Reppas

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of membership in a large or small family to the patterns of achievement as revealed by the results of the subtests of the Iowa Test of Preschool Development (ITPD). Of interest also was the study of the relationship of membership in subgroups based on both race and family size to patterns of achievement.

The subjects of the study were eighty black and white preschool children. There were twenty children in each subgroup small black family, large black family, small white family, and large white family). The subgroups were similar in …

The Alumnus, V56n4, December 1971, University Of Northern Iowa Alumni Association

The Alumnus

Inside This Issue:

-- Lavern M. Miller
-- Mona Van Duyn
-- Physical Education Complex
-- Dr. James G. Martin
-- Sports
-- Environmentalism
-- News Notes

Van Duyn Vs. Ginsberg, Alumnus, December 1971

Noteworthy People of UNI Documents

Mona Van Duyn graduated from Iowa State Teachers College (ISTC) in 1942 with three majors: English, Speech, and French. More importantly, she began to take herself seriously as a poet at ISTC. She often made the three-mile walk west of Cedar Falls to visit poet James Hearst. After college, and a Master's Degree from the University of Iowa, Van Duyn went on to teach at the University of Louisville, and Washington University in St. Louis. She has won every major U.S. poetry prize, including the National Book Award and the Pulitzer. UNI awarded her an Honorary Doctor of Literature Degree …

Uni Grad Wins Poetry Award, Alumnus, December 1971

Noteworthy People of UNI Documents

Mona Van Duyn graduated from Iowa State Teachers College (ISTC) in 1942 with three majors: English, Speech, and French. More importantly, she began to take herself seriously as a poet at ISTC. She often made the three-mile walk west of Cedar Falls to visit poet James Hearst. After college, and a Master's Degree from the University of Iowa, Van Duyn went on to teach at the University of Louisville, and Washington University in St. Louis. She has won every major U.S. poetry prize, including the National Book Award and the Pulitzer. UNI awarded her an Honorary Doctor of Literature Degree …

The Ias Bulletin, V5n6, November 1971, Iowa Academy Of Science

IAS Bulletin

In this issue:

--- Officers, Directors, and Section Chairmen, 1971-72
--- An Open Letter from the President to the Members of the Iowa Academy of Science
--- Manuscripts for the Proceedings Invited
--- News from the Fall Directors' Meeting
--- Plans for 1972 Spring Meeting Shaping Up
--- Call for Papers for the 1972 Spring Meeting
--- Archeology Section Now Anthropology Section
--- What Ever Became of the Articulation Effort?
--- Future Meetings of the Academy
--- Geology Monograph Widely Distributed
--- New Officers of ISTS
--- Special Summer Study Opportunity Available
--- Do-It-Yourself Kit for Activists
--- 56% of …

Uni Schedule Of Classes, Fall 1971, 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.

1971 Uni Quarterly, V3n1 [Fall 1971], University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Yearbooks

The student yearbook of the University of Northern Iowa.

1970-71 Wrestling, University Of Northern Iowa

Athletics Media Guides

Contents:

--1970-71 Wrestling Schedule
--1969-70 Results
--A Look At The Coach: Patten Philosophy Pays off
--Pre-Season: Look From Second To Where?
--The 1970-71 Panther Look
--UNl's National Wrestling Champions
--All-Time UNI Leaders
--All-Time Wrestling Results
--UNI Wresting Roster

1970-71 Basketball, University Of Northern Iowa

Athletics Media Guides

Contents:

--1970-71 Basketball Schedule
--Head Basketball Coach Wesley "Zeke" Hogeland
--The Outlook Can Young UNI Cagers Overcome
--Inconsistency Tag?
--Tagging the Panthers
--North Central Conference Records
--UNI Basketball Records
--All-Time Basketball Results
--All-Time Scoring Leaders
--UNI Basketball Roster

1971 Football Guide, University Of Northern Iowa

Athletics Media Guides

Contents:

--General --1-2
--The staff --3-7
--The outlook --8-9
--Where they are --10
--The squad --11-22
--The opponents --23-32
--The records --33-40

The Ias Bulletin, V5n5, September 1971, Iowa Academy Of Science

IAS Bulletin

In this issue:

--- Officers, Directors, and Section Chairmen, 1971-72
--- Proceedings Progress
--- Business Manager for Proceedings Appointed
--- Submit Manuscripts for Proceedings at Any Time
--- Iowa Science Teachers Journal Will Have Limited Distribution
--- Staff Changes at Drake Involve Academy "Activists"
--- Status of the Iowa State Preserves Advisory Board Uncertain
--- Darling Foundation Issues Catalog of Conversation Education Facilities
--- Are you a Member of AAAS?
--- AAAS Research Grants Awarded
--- AAAS Governance Changes Being Proposed
--- Guide to Upper Iowa River Published By George Knudson of Luther College
--- AAPT-Iowa Section
--- Student Programs …

The Alumnus, V56n3, September 1971, University Of Northern Iowa Alumni Association

The Alumnus

Inside This Issue:

-- The Kamerick's
-- Holmes Reminisces
-- Reunion
-- Sports
-- In Memoriam
-- Administrative Changes
-- News Notes

Summer Commencement [Program], August 6, 1971, 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.

Mechanical Testing Of Small, Clear Timber, Paul V. Mcclannahan

Graduate Research Papers

The purposes of the research project were:

1. To investigate the technological methods employed in mechanical testing of small clear timber.

2. To discover the uses, importance, and need for mechanical testing within the wood industry.

3. To experiment with the construction and development of various types of testing equipment similar to that being used by industry.

4. To explore the possibility of adapting mechanical testing of wood samples to the junior or senior high industrial arts wood laboratory