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A Comparison Of Leadership Potential Between Physical Education And Recreation Majors At Utah State University, Karolyn Carroll

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of this study was to compare the leadership potential of students from upper level division students majoring in Physical Education as compared to students majoring in Recreation. Two psychological tests were utilized to measure leadership potential between these groups. They were the Leadership Ability Evaluation and the Leadership Q-Sort Test, which yielded data in 12 variables.

Analysis of this data revealed that there was significant difference at the .05 level in three of the twelve variables. A comparison of all means for the two tests favored the Recreation majors over the Physical Education majors in leadership potential.

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A History Of The Men's Physical Education Program At Utah State Agricultural College, Frank R. Tidwell

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Physical education has undergone many important and significant changes in its philosophy and objectives since its beginning in the United States in 1861.

A Survey Of The Requirements In Physical Education For Boys In Region One Of The Utah State Athletic Association, Wayne G. Taylor

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

All of the high schools in Region One of the Utah State Athletic Association were surveyed for this study. Region One is located in Northern Utah and included all the high schools in Cache, Box Elder Counties, and one high school in Weber County.

This Region is made up of urban, suburban, and rural districts. Several central towns comprise the greatest part of the total population, but many pupils are transported from outlying areas to consolidated schools in these centers. Communities and cities range in size from villages of a few hundred persons to Logan, which had a population of …