Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
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Theses/Dissertations from 1969
A Study of Gesture in Elocution and Oral Interpretation During the Years 1870 to 1930 in the United States, Faith Alene Engelkes Open Access Thesis
Individual Instruction Methods Utilized by Secondary Distributive Education Teacher-Coordinators in Iowa, James A. Fowler Open Access Thesis
The Rise and Decline of a Small Midwestern Town, Mitchell, Iowa, Jack D. Frisbie 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
Experiment in Achieving a Tactile Surface Treatment in Serigraphy, Linda Ione Enockson Open Access Thesis
The Analysis and Findings of a Close and Objective Evaluation of a Sample of the Themes Used in the Pilot Phase of a Recent Study, the Effectiveness of College-Level Instruction in Freshman Composition, Donald Earl Fish 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
Guides to Teaching Concepts of Music for the Self-Contained-Classroom Teacher at the Primary Level, C. Elaine Kinsinger Clark Open Access Thesis
The English Second Person Pronoun: Its History and Its Significance in Shakespeare’s Richard II, Mary Janet de Jong Conley Open Access Thesis
The Performance of Trained and Untrained Listeners in Rating Defective /r/ Along a Continuum, Mary Ann Dostal Open Access Thesis
An Investigation of the Relationship Between Reading Ability and Performance on the Red Glass Test, Ann Mary Dunbar Open Access Thesis
A Survey of In-Service Education Techniques in Self-Contained Junior High Schools in the State of Iowa, Robert Dean Eastman Open Access Thesis
Survey of Distributive Education Laboratory Equipment Used in Iowa Secondary Schools, Steven Allen Eggland 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
Investigation of the cis-trans Isomers of Tetrachlorodiaquorhodate (III) Anion, Kenneth Lee Bridges Open Access Thesis
Air Warfare and the Crisis of Conscience: 1936-1950, Gale E. Christianson Open Access Thesis
A Comparison of Beginning Typewriting Student Achievement on Testing Material of Standardized Difficulty and Testing Material of Progressive Difficulty, Donald Eugene Clayton Open Access Thesis
The Speaking of the Honorable Harold Royce Gross in the House of Representatives From January 3, 1949 to August 30, 1964 on the Area of Agriculture: Analysis of Arguments, Evidence, and Style, Bonita Jean Dostal Open Access Thesis
Concept Meanings of Senior Women Students Who Completed Student Teaching at the State College of Iowa, Jean Wilma Downs Open Access Thesis
The Experimental Use of the Marianne Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perception and the Frostig Program for the Development of Visual Perception for the Diagnosis and Remediation of Visual Perceptual Abilities in Young Educable Mentally Retarded Children, Mary Ellen Dreier Open Access Thesis
Group Decision Versus Lecture as a Technique in Changing Attitudes of Junior High Students, Richard Lee Elliott Open Access Thesis
A Diagnostic Rhythm Test for Students in Grades Four, Five, and Six of the Hartley Community School, Russell Jay Elliott Open Access Thesis
A Criticism of the United States Supreme Court: 1935-65, William Ward Ferris Open Access Thesis
Influence of Gibberellic Acid and Indole-3-Acetic Acid on the Morphology and Population Dynamics of Eudorina elegans, Dale Robert Frank Open Access Thesis
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
The Utilization of a Personality Rating Scale to Determine the Relationship Between Peers, Faculty, and Self-Ratings, George Carroll Cordes Open Access Thesis
Paper Chromatography of Proteins and Amino Acids of Pandorina and Morphologically Distinct Forms of Eudorina, Margaret Dean Davis Open Access Thesis
A Follow-up Study of Graduates of the Division of Practical Nurse Education, Davenport Area Technical School, to Determine Their Reaction to the Preparatory Program, Robert C. Dickey 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
A Study of Selected Employers’ Opinions Regarding the Terminal Education Programs of Secondary Schools in Davenport, Iowa, Gerald Dwight Clemmensen Open Access Thesis
Four Compositions for Percussion and Other Instruments, James Arnold Coffin 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 Critical Survey of Recently Published Beginning Piano Methods, Margretta DenOuden Open Access Thesis
A Survey of On-Campus Freshman Women Students Who Withdrew From the State College of Iowa, 1959-1961, Joan E. Meyer Duea Open Access Thesis
The Relevancy of Dr. James B. Conant’s Proposals to a Medium Size High School in Iowa, David Lee Fadness 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 Impeachment and Trial of William Worth Belknap, Secretary of War, Roger Dean Bridges Open Access Thesis
A Comparison of Modern and Traditional Approaches to Problem-Solving in Two Sections of Ninth-Grade General Mathematics, Mary Edith Crist Open Access Thesis
An Evaluation of an Inventory Instrument Designed to Measure the Attitudes of Some Iowa High School Band Students, Joseph Doering Doolittle Open Access Thesis
The Role of the School Counselor as Viewed by Parents and Counselor-Educators, Donald Allen Fleming Open Access Thesis
A Survey of Attitudes Toward Guidance of Guidance Counselors and Graduate Students Preparing as School Administrators, Jan Ness Flickinger 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
A Source of Information About Air and Airplanes for Students With Limited Reading Ability in the Upper Elementary Grades, Bruce Q. Buerkens Open Access Thesis
General Semantics at Work: A Handbook for High School Teachers of English, Georgia Burge Open Access Thesis
A Comparison of Musical Pitches of Selected Compositions Over the Last Three Hundred Years, With Implications for Contemporary Performance, Deloy Davidsen Open Access Thesis
The Relationship of the High School Music Program to the Post-High School Musical Activities of Selected Graduates of Decorah High School, Decorah, Iowa, Classes of 1940, 1945 and 1950, Elton Dresselhaus Open Access Thesis
Evaluating the Elementary Music Program: A Method Based on the Austin, Minnesota, 1959-60 Self-Survey, Leslie Eugene Dunlap Open Access Thesis
A Retail Trade Area Analysis of Fayette, Iowa: 1961, John Paul Dunn Open Access Thesis
Nine Original Water Color Paintings, Richard H. Dutton Open Access Thesis
A Reference to the Care and Minor Repair of Band Instruments, Loran L. Eckroth Open Access Thesis
A Comparison of the Effects of Individual and Group Counseling on the Development of Creativity in a Selected Sample of Eighth and Ninth Grade Girls, Marjorie B. Fish 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 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
Lost Worlds: Three Original One-Act Plays, Alice Hickey Flinn 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 Boy and a Bicycle and Other Stories, Luane Catherine Frank Open Access Thesis
A Follow-up Study of the Graduates and Drop-Outs of the Traer Public High School From 1946 Through 1954, William Calvin Freese 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
A Comparison of Transportation Costs of Public-Owned and Contract School Bus Systems in Iowa School Districts, Ellis H. Francis 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
Handbook of Bacteriology for High School Teachers, David Loring Fagle Open Access Thesis
Federal Reserve Board Regulation of Consumer Credit since World War Two, Donald L. Fett 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
The Formal Science Background of Students Enrolled in General Science Classes in Dewitt High School, Charles O. Foreman 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
Materials and Methods for the Study of Some Common Molds in High School Biology, Milton Forbes Open Access Thesis
A Study of What 1,085 Parents Think of Selected Areas of Mason City Public School Education, Evan Dale Foster Open Access Thesis
