Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
All UNI graduate programs require a culmination work, such as a dissertation, thesis, or graduate research paper, before awarding a graduate degree. This collection includes theses and dissertations submitted electronically.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Two Program Processors for the Preparation of Instructional Materials in Chemistry, Lloyd V. Gayman Open Access Thesis
The Role of the Science Supervisor as Perceived by Elementary and Secondary Science Teachers, Thomas Graika Open Access Thesis
Industrial Arts at the University of Northern Iowa 1957 Through 1968, Allen Harvey Rodemeyer Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
An Analysis of the Class Method of Piano Instruction, Zoe Ann Abrahamson Open Access Thesis
A Comparison of the Effectiveness of One-Minute and Five-Minute Timed Writings in First-Semester Typewriting Instruction, Helen E. Adams Open Access Thesis
Experiences in Scale of Sculpture for Architectural Sites, Maurice Lee Anderson Open Access Thesis
An Investigation of Farm Supply Cooperatives in Iowa: Their Efficiency, the Measurement of Efficiency, and the Attributes of the Most Efficient, Leo Eugene Beebout Open Access Thesis
A study of the esterification of 2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-1,3-cyclobutanediol, Lewis Metzler Naylor Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Development of a Prediction Equation for the Placement of Students in Seventh-Grade Life Science, Lloyd Harley Barrow Open Access Thesis
The Creation of Three Original Junk Sculptures, Norman Bennett Open Access Thesis
County Seats of Northeast Iowa: A Multivariate Classification, William E. Blake Open Access Thesis
A Comparative Study of Three Different Approaches to Beginning Reading Comprehension: ITA, Programmed Reader, and Basal Reader, Helen Ferrier Ristau Open Access Thesis
A Comparison of Results of Two Methods of Teaching Reading in the First Grade, Melvin Wayne Thurston Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
The Use of Combined Printmaking Techniques in Color Collagraphs, Daleanne Anderson Open Access Thesis
A Description and an Analysis of the Results of Using Cadet Teaching as a Method of Improving the Multiplication Proficiency of a Selected Sample of Fourth and Seventh Grade Students, Richard Mark Anderson Open Access Thesis
An Analysis of the Application of Dynamics to Jewelry Design, Eugene Kent Bahling Open Access Thesis
The Prediction of Geometry Grades for Seven Linn County, Iowa, Schools, Bernice Rosemary Barrow Open Access Thesis
Training needs for metal tradesmen in Iowa, Harlan E. Giese Open Access Thesis
Teaching Beginning Concepts in Mathematics, Mildred Dick Pierce Open Access Thesis
The Performance of Grade XI Students of Saskatchewan (Canada) and Iowa (U.S.A.) on Two of the Iowa Tests of Educational Development, Kamal Dev Verma Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
Nature, Man, and God in Robinson Jeffers’ Inhumanism, Chloe Winifred Armstrong Open Access Thesis
The Implications of the Sex Discrimination Provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 upon Seniority at the Rath Packing Company, Waterloo, Iowa, Robert Harry Beener Open Access Thesis
Participation of Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod Elementary Schools in Federal Aid Programs, Marvin Brandt Open Access Thesis
A Study of Faculty Meetings in Selected Elementary Schools in Iowa and Their Implications for the Philippine Schools, Romeo Villar Carleta Open Access Thesis
An Investigation of the Relationship Between Reading Ability and Performance on the Red Glass Test, Ann Mary Dunbar Open Access Thesis
The Development of Criteria for the Evaluation of Student Teacher Programs, Ramon H. Green Open Access Thesis
Perceptions of the Iowa School Counselor Concerning the Value of His Counselor Education in Relation to the Role He Performs, Virginia Larson Hash Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
An Analysis of Personality Characteristics and Attitudes of High School Girls Filing Excuses From Physical Education, Jo Ann Catherine Kramer Open Access Thesis
An evaluation of manpower training in Waterloo, Iowa, Jean Ray Roush Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
A Study of Auditory Discrimination in Lower Elementary Children, Gloria Joan Bahr Open Access Thesis
An Evaluation of Demonstrations on Inductor Theory, Boyd Warner Wasson Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1964
Thou Shalt Keep Christmas: An Operetta for Upper Elementary Grades or Junior High School Performance, Marion Gertrude Arends Open Access Thesis
A Study of Adult Typewriting in the Public Schools of Iowa, Fall 1963, John W. Banks Open Access Thesis
A Validation Study of the Beck Word-Color Association Test with the Minnesota Counseling Inventory, Camilla Russell Bernauer Open Access Thesis
Differences in Class Rank Between Boys and Girls in Graduating Classes of Iowa Public Secondary Schools, Dave John Cook Open Access Thesis
A Study of the Public Relations Program of the Valley Park School, Cedar Falls, Iowa, Puran L. Rajpal Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1963
Your Teen-Ager and the School Counselor: A Handbook for Parents, Donald Lee Bennink Open Access Thesis
The Development of a Handbook for Use in the Selection of Materials on Communism for Secondary Social Studies Classes, Richard Raymond Olmsted Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1962
A Study of Special Admissions of High School Graduates for the Years 1959, 1960, and 1961 at the State College of Iowa, James Gregg Anderson Open Access Thesis
The Beck Word-Color Association Test as a Predictor of Juvenile Delinquency, Janet Ellyn Berger Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1961
The Place of English as a Foreign Language in the Ethiopian School System, Haile J. Abedjie Open Access Thesis
A Drop-Out Study of the Cedar Falls Community Schools, Bruce Roy Amble Open Access Thesis
A Follow-up Study of Ellsworth Junior College Graduates and Students Who Transferred to Baccalaureate Colleges or Semi-professional Schools, Eleanor J. Andershok Open Access Thesis
Guides for the Elementary Teacher in the Playing of Selected Simple Rhythmic, Melodic and Harmonic Instruments, Lorraine Salome Augustyn Open Access Thesis
The status of industrial arts in Hawaii, Teruo Mukai Open Access Thesis
Industrial-arts objectives and course content for the junior high school, William Earl Stock Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1960
An Investigation of the Policies and Practices of the Street Traffic Safety Patrol in Iowa, William Francis Baretich Open Access Thesis
High School Science Achievement as Related to Interest and I.Q. Among Graduates of Thibodaux High School, Thibodaux, Louisiana, and Malcolm Price Laboratory School, Cedar Falls, Iowa, Louis E. Barrilleaux Open Access Thesis
A Program of Curriculum Development for the Secondary Schools of Thailand, Chuang Bejrananda Open Access Thesis
Relationships between Iowa High School Physical Science Programs and Placement Test Scores of Iowa State Teachers College Students, Pauline Georgia Berg Open Access Thesis
The effectiveness of the mass-production technique in achieving selected objectives for industrial arts, Michael William Horton Open Access Thesis
A follow-up study of former senior high school industrial arts students at Belle Plaine, Iowa, Donald E. Wallis Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1959
A Proposed Handbook for Iowa Coordinators of Distributive Education, Orville Lee Allen Open Access Thesis
Empathic Ability Compared as to Environmental Setting and Concept of Measurement, Alice Jane Anderson Open Access Thesis
A Study of the Effects of the 1958 Junior High School Seminar in Science and Mathematics, Iowa State Teachers College, upon the Pupils’ Attitudes toward and Interest in Science and Mathematics, William Richards Babcock Open Access Thesis
A survey of industrial arts in the public schools of North Dakota, Milo Norman Sulentic Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1958
A Survey of Home Visits by Classroom Teachers in the First Class Cities of Iowa, George Pearson Alton Open Access Thesis
A Broader Approach to High School Publicity through Three Selected Media, Donald Dean Ambroson Open Access Thesis
Madrigals Transcribed for Small Ensembles of Brass Instruments, Robert George Ballenger Open Access Thesis
An Evaluation of College Days Based upon Opinions of Iowa State Teachers College Freshmen, Norbert K. Baumgart Open Access Thesis
A Survey of the Educational and Personal Characteristics Required for Initial Employment of Accountants in a Selected Group of Iowa Industries, Leonard Eugene Bennett Open Access Thesis
An evaluation of various methods of teaching industrial arts design on the secondary level, Ronald Dean Bro Open Access Thesis
A study of the extent to which girls were included in industrial arts in grades seven through twelve in the state of Iowa, Walter Haynes Open Access Thesis
A learning index for the Midget Wiggly Block Test for mechanical ability, James Franklin Winegarden Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1957
The Introduction of Contemporary Dissonance to the String Program at the Secondary Level, Gene Thomas Allen Open Access Thesis
A Proposed Citizens Committee Handbook Concerning Methods of Studying School District Reorganization, Edwin K. Barker Open Access Thesis
An Investigation of the Reading Skills Being Taught in Selected Iowa Junior High Schools, Rodrick Bickert Open Access Thesis
Industrial arts at the Iowa State Teachers College, 1904 to 1957, Jackson Lee Logan Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1956
The Use of Lay People as a School Study Group Preceding a Permanent School-Community Organization, Gerald J. Addington Open Access Thesis
The Development of a Reading Program in an Iowa High School, James E. Albrecht Open Access Thesis
The Effects of Antibiotics Aureomycin and Terramycin on the Disease Crown Gall in Tomato Plants, Charles Raymond Anderson Open Access Thesis
Popular Religious Ideas and Attitudes in the United States as Indicated by a Study of Selected Recent Mass Circulation Magazines, Dorothy Paddock Auld Open Access Thesis
Criteria for the Utilization of Teacher Committees in Planning New School Buildings, Robert D. Benton Open Access Thesis
The Democratic Party in the Fifty-Sixth General Assembly of Iowa: A Study of the Role of a Minority Party in a One Party State, Charles Ernest Grassley Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1955
A Historical Study of Forensics at Iowa State Teachers College, 1876-1955, Kenneth E. Andersen Open Access Thesis
Critical Analyses of Selected Works of American Historical Fiction, 1746-1865, for Teaching Purposes in the Seventh Grade, Lois Allene Bergman Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1954
An Elementary String Class Method Using Old and New Technics as Adapted to the Key of C Approach, Anthony Paul Bacich Open Access Thesis
Transcriptions of Early Instrumental Music for Brass Ensemble, with a Style Analysis and Suggestions for Modern Use, William Robert Becker Open Access Thesis
