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Evaluating Effectiveness Of Using Business Education Department Prepared Video Tapes In The Teaching Of Intermediate Typewriting At Utah State University, William C. Lauer

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of this study was to compare the relative effectiveness of teaching intermediate typewriting at Utah State University during the Spring and Fall Quarters, 1971, utilizing a system incorporating prepared video tapes with the conventional teacher presentation method.

There were 60 experimental and 60 control students used in the experiment. Those students in the experimental group received all their instruction via prepared video tapes while the control group received all their instruction in the conventional teacher presentation.

The final measure utilized for comparing learning programs in the two groups was student performance in the following areas: straight copy timed …

A Survey Of The Present Status And The Potential For Future Organization Of Business Youth Organizations In Utah High Schools, Roman S. Salazar

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of the study was to determine the present status and the potential for future organization of business youth organizations in Utah high schools.

Questionnaires were mailed to Utah high school business teachers and to Utah high school principals.

Sixty-six per cent of the responding teachers bad never served as a business youth club sponsor; and 69 per cent of the teachers had never belonged to a business youth organization in high school or in college.

Fifty-one per cent of the teachers expressed an interest in attending a regional meeting to discuss the organization of additional business youth organizations. …