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 1961
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 Principal’s Role in the Library Services in Iowa High Schools with Enrollments of 200 to 300 Students, Arthur E. Borwick Open Access Thesis
Introits, Hymns, Anthems, and Responses for the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Donald L. Breshears Open Access Thesis
Informational Materials in the Homes and Achievement in School of Elementary Students at Iowa Falls, Iowa, Kenneth L. Christensen Open Access Thesis
A Survey of Articles Pertaining to Education Appearing in Selected Non-Professional Magazines During the Five-Year Period 1953-1957, Gerald Eugene Dockum Open Access Thesis
Trematodes Recovered From Passerine Birds Collected in Chickasaw County, Iowa, (With Notes on Other Avian Helminths), Charles J. Ellis Open Access Thesis
The “Beatitudes” an Oratorio for Mixed Chorus and Chamber Band, Rupert Hughes Fahnestock 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
A Study to Determine the Feasibility of Using a Time-Penalty Scoring Procedure for Shorthand Dictation and Transcription Tests, M. Elaine Blumhagen Open Access Thesis
The Status and Needs of Guidance Programs in Iowa High Schools, Clarence Stanley Carney Open Access Thesis
The Impact of Usage Studies Upon Recent Grammar Texts, Donald Keith Chiquet 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
Certain Aspects in Change of Attitudes in Delinquent Boys from the Time of Their Commitment to and Release from the Iowa Training School for Boys, Eldora, Iowa in Year 1955-1956, Howard Blandau Open Access Thesis
An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Historical Fiction for Use in High School World History, Franklin D. Carlson Open Access Thesis
A Proposed Guide for Secretaries for Use in Maintaining the Financial Records of a School Lunch Program, Lavern Elmer Carpenter Open Access Thesis
Linear Programming in High School Mathematics, Vernon Earl Cotter Open Access Thesis
A Handbook for the Production of Operettas in Small Secondary Schools, Thomas Eugene Curtis 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
The Fruits of Iowa Progressivism, 1900-1915, William Lavalle Bowers Open Access Thesis
An evaluation of various methods of teaching industrial arts design on the secondary level, Ronald Dean Bro Open Access Thesis
A Comparative Study of Two Methods of Teaching Spelling in the Intermediate Grades, Merle Donavon Bygness Open Access Thesis
The Role of School District Reorganization in the Cost of Financing Education, Gerald E. Carlson Open Access Thesis
The Degree of Acceptance of Certain Major Issues in Business Education by Business Education Teachers in Iowa, George A. Chambers Open Access Thesis
A Seminar in High School Electronics, John Benjamin Daniels Open Access Thesis
A Study of Requirements for and Deficiencies of Beginning Office Workers in Selected Waterloo Industries, Donald Lloyd Davidson Open Access Thesis
An Evaluative Study of Seventh Grade Homeroom Activities at Nathan Weeks Junior High School, Des Moines, Iowa, Harold Eugene Dilts Open Access Thesis
Citizens’ Opinions Regarding Certain Aspects of the Bussey, Iowa, High School Program, Charles Richard Drake Open Access Thesis
Applications of Eighth Grade Mathematics to the Ninth Grade General Shop Program in Iowa, Robert Vern Echelbarger Open Access Thesis
Group Counseling of Junior High School Students With Certain Adjustment Problems, Urma Peterson English Open Access Thesis
Suite for Harp and Orchestra, Avis Evely 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
The Value of Including Chemistry Content in the Study of High School Biology, Ramon Duane Buckley Open Access Thesis
Some Contributions of Literature to Elementary School Camp Curriculum, Harold C. Bunz Open Access Thesis
School-Community Relationships in the Madison School District, Lenore Sorensen Clifford Open Access Thesis
Junior High School Typewriting: A Survey of Current Practices in Iowa and a Suggested Course of Study, DeWayne C. Cuthbertson Open Access Thesis
An Analysis and Evaluation of “Heart of Darkness”, Robert James Dalziel Open Access Thesis
A Guide for the Selection of Kindergarten Equipment Devised as a Result of a Study Conducted in Three Cities in Iowa, Rose Marie Dolan Open Access Thesis
A Study Based on the Responses to a Questionnaire About the Drinking Habits of the High School Students of Floyd County, Iowa, Charles William Edwards 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
Some Uses of an Oscilloscope in High School Physics, John Ray Bolte Open Access Thesis
Some Photographic Materials and Techniques for High School Biology Teachers, Robert L. Calentine Open Access Thesis
Status Study of the Elementary School Principalship in Southwestern Iowa, Roy Keith Duncan 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
A Pre-elementary Method for Cornet and Clarinet, James Croft Open Access Thesis
Factors Associated With the Decision of College Freshman to Prepare for Teaching and to Attend Iowa State Teachers College, Don Dahlke Open Access Thesis
The Role of the Hitler Youth in Nazi Education, Richard Andrew Dugstad Open Access Thesis
The Preparation of a Suggested Unit Using Applications From Physics in the Teaching of Trigonometric Functions in High School Trigonometry, Oliver Warren Eason 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
The Changing Status of the Country Superintendent of Schools in Iowa, Dwight Gene Bode Open Access Thesis
A Study of Conservation Education Presented at the Iowa Teachers Conservation Camp from 1950 through 1953, Novella Dorothy Bredbenner Open Access Thesis
A Method for the Instruction of Class Piano at the College Level, Constance Ann Brooks Open Access Thesis
Recommended Books in Iowa’s Classrooms for Five Year Old Children, Ruth Bernice Collins Open Access Thesis
A Beginning Class Method for Elementary School Children of Varied Abilities Playing Heterogeneous Instruments, Frank Peter Comella Open Access Thesis
A Survey of Sales Training Programs of Selected Department Stores in Iowa With Implications for Distributive and Business Education, Rea Erwin Cunningham Open Access Thesis
Some Methods and Materials for the Study of Insects in the Intermediate Grades, Walter Eugene De Kock Open Access Thesis
The Brass Instrument Class, a Workbook-Text for the Teacher or Student of the Cornet, French Horn, and Trombone, F. Earl Dunn Open Access Thesis
A Description and Exploratory Evaluation of the Clermont-Elgin Reorganization Program, Francis R. Dunn Open Access Thesis
A Supplementary Method for the Teaching of Expression in Music to the Large Ensemble, Hugh J. Eicke Open Access Thesis
Postwar Trends in International Trade, Howard John Eischeid Open Access Thesis
Tonal Balance Within the Concert Band: An Objective Approach to Augment Subjective Theories, John L. Evenson Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1953
A Proposed Design for Utilizing School-Made Photographic Slides in the Secondary School, Everett G. Brower Open Access Thesis
The Character of Robinson Jeffers: A Study in “Inhumanism”, Betty Jean Evans Open Access Thesis
