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The Application Of Certain Criteria Of Success To The Adult Education Courses In Box Elder County, Utah, 1938 To 1942, Inclusive, Mont Harmon

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This study is part of a larger project which is still in progress in Box Elder County, Utah. Mr. J. Wesley Norsley, chairman of the Central Sponsoring Committee, makes the following statement of its purpose.

The project described in this report is an educational experiment. It is intended as nothing more. The aggregate of Box Elder County is its laboratory; its people and their resources: the materials.

The experiment issues from realization that democracy, suddenly grown intensely important to Americans, is based in home and family, and that the vitality of this key institution is declining.

The success of the …

A Study Of The Status Of The School Newspaper In The Utah High Schools, Laurence W. Jenkins

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

It is not intended that this paper be an exhaustive study of journalism in the Utah high schools. It is intended that it open up the field and perhaps point the way for further study. Very, little has been done, for instance, in the history of high school journalism in Utah. Very little has been done in this study on the appraisal of papers; only the most general observations have been made. A great deal has depended on the judgment of advisers, and advisers, like all other human beings, differ in point of view and understanding.

An Evaluation Of Certain Tests In Predicting Mechanic Learner Achievement, Eldon Ernest Jacobsen

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Demands for increased industrial and educational efficiency in modern times have necessitated more careful selection and guidance of personnel in preparation for and entrance into industrial activities. As a means to this end, there are being developed numerous tests designed to measure abilities and to aid in prediction of potential successes in various fields. This problem is intensified in the preparation of workers in war industries.

Early in World War II it became very apparent that air power would be a primary determinant in the outcome of the war. The United States, in order to achieve air superiority, inaugurated an …

Predicting Success At The Utah State Agricultural College Naval Training School For Elementary Electricity And Radio Material, Luna Robertson Brite

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The Second World War, often called the Global War, is largely a war of technocracy. The last few decades have seen many discoveries and inventions which, when used in war, have far reaching implications. To a relatively large extent the United States and the United Nations have left many of these discoveries in the theoretical state, thus allowing a large margin of advantage to the Axis Nations who have rather thoroughly exploited, for military purposes, new discoveries at their command. Since the two groups of nations have come to grips it means that survival demands extensive ramifications of all discoveries …