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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 Jan 1974

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 Effect Of Preschool Experiences On The Achievement Of Kindergarten Children Enrolled In The 1971-1972 Follow Through Program In Waterloo, Iowa, David Phillip Stetson Jan 1972

The Effect Of Preschool Experiences On The Achievement Of Kindergarten Children Enrolled In The 1971-1972 Follow Through Program In Waterloo, Iowa, David Phillip Stetson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The problem of the investigation concerned itself with the effect of preschool experiences on the achievement of the kindergarten children enrolled in the 1971-1972 Follow Through Program in Waterloo, Iowa, which used the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, model of individually prescribed instruction. The study explored the effects of preschool experience upon kindergarten males and females as contrasted to the male and female kindergarten children without preschool experience.

Two conceptual constructs gave direction and provided the rationale for this study. The first conceptual construct provided research related to early childhood education presented according to the Geneticist, Environmentalist, and the Interactionalist's positions. The second …


Teaching Beginning Concepts In Mathematics, Mildred Dick Pierce Jan 1968

Teaching Beginning Concepts In Mathematics, Mildred Dick Pierce

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to investigate concept development as it relates to the teaching of mathematics in the kindergarten, and to propose a program of activities to be used in developing mathematical concepts with kindergarten children. Basic to determining the strategy to be used in teaching children is a consideration of the background of information the children possess when the teaching begins, and the background of information and the attitudes of the teachers who teach. Since any program which proposes that a different type of learning experience be used implies criticism of the methods now in use, it …


The Effectiveness Of The Mass-Production Technique In Achieving Selected Objectives For Industrial Arts, Michael William Horton Jan 1960

The Effectiveness Of The Mass-Production Technique In Achieving Selected Objectives For Industrial Arts, Michael William Horton

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to answer the following questions related to the mass-production technique of teaching industrial arts:

1. Will two comparable groups of student show a significiant difference in achievement with respect to selected industrial-arts objectives when one group is taught by the traditional method and the other is taugh, in part, by the mass-production technique?

2. Will a mass-production project conducted for a period of six to eight weeks aid in the students' understanding of the problems, processes, and methods fo product development and production in industry?

3. Will students who work exclusively on individual projects …