The Effects of Two Semesters of Secondary School Calculus on Students' First and Second Quarter Calculus Grades at the University of Utah

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-60
Author(s):  
William Baker Robinson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Advanced Placement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Board Of Education ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
Students First ◽  
The University ◽  
State Board Of Education ◽  
State Board

The incidence of the teaching of calculus in the secondary school and participation in the Advanced Placement Program in Mathematics has been increasing. The number of students taking the Advanced Placement Examination in Mathematics increased in the United States from 386 in 1956 to 10,675 in 1967 (CEEB, 1956, L967) and in Utah from l in 1962 to 101 in 1967 (Utah State Board of Education, 1967).

scholarly journals Louis Adamic and Vatro Grill: a partnership of equals?

1999 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 69-76
Author(s):  
Mirko Jurak
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
The United States ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
American People ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

In 1956 Anton Melik, Professor of Geography at the University of Ljubljana, published a travelogue Amerika in ameriska Slovenija (America and American Slovenia). The author points out in his "notes" the pride of American people regarding their ·achievements, social and racial antagonisms which exist in the United States, and the fate of Slovene immigrants who must have found it difficult "to establish for themselves an equal position with other immigrants and old settlers due to their insufficient education and lack of knowledge of English".' A large part of Melik's book is devoted to his encounters with American Slovenes. Among them he also mentions his conversations with Vatro Gril, who knew Louis Adamic well and was a close friend of his. Melik says that Adamic and Grill were members of the same generation, they even attended the same secondary school in Ljubljana and they left for America in the same year, in 1913. When they met they discovered that they had the same or very similar views upon problems Slovene immigrants had in America. Melik also suggests that when a book is going to be written about Louis Adamic, Grill is the right person to contribute to it.

Love for the Homeland Is Not an Empty Phrase for Me

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 74-77
Author(s):  
Zdeněk Pousta
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
The United States ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
The Political ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
School Graduation ◽  
The University

Having passed his secondary-school graduation exam, the young patriot Jaroslav Cisař left Brno to study mathematics and astronomy in New York. He reacted to the fire of war in 1914 by his active engagement in anti-Austrian resistance, whose aim was the restoration of the independence of the Czech nation. After the arrival of T. G. Masaryk in the United States, he became his personal secretary in the spring of 1918. Following the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic, he worked at the Czechoslovak embassy in London, from 1927 in the newspaper Lidove noviny in Brno. After the occupation, he left for emigration, where he was involved in the tasks of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After the change in the political situation in 1948, he was released from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was fortunate enough to be employed as an astronomer at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. From the 1970s, he struggled with normalisation authorities over his return to the homeland. That was successfully accomplished in 1980.

scholarly journals Louis Adamic and Vatro Grill: a partnership of equals?

1999 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 69-76
Author(s):  
Mirko Jurak
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
The United States ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
American People ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

In 1956 Anton Melik, Professor of Geography at the University of Ljubljana, published a travelogue Amerika in ameriska Slovenija (America and American Slovenia). The author points out in his "notes" the pride of American people regarding their ·achievements, social and racial antagonisms which exist in the United States, and the fate of Slovene immigrants who must have found it difficult "to establish for themselves an equal position with other immigrants and old settlers due to their insufficient education and lack of knowledge of English".' A large part of Melik's book is devoted to his encounters with American Slovenes. Among them he also mentions his conversations with Vatro Gril, who knew Louis Adamic well and was a close friend of his. Melik says that Adamic and Grill were members of the same generation, they even attended the same secondary school in Ljubljana and they left for America in the same year, in 1913. When they met they discovered that they had the same or very similar views upon problems Slovene immigrants had in America. Melik also suggests that when a book is going to be written about Louis Adamic, Grill is the right person to contribute to it.

scholarly journals Developing a situational judgment test blueprint for assessing the non-cognitive skills of applicants to the University of Utah School of Medicine, the United States

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorie M. Colbert-Getz ◽  
Karly Pippitt ◽  
Benjamin Chan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
The United States ◽  
Situational Judgment Test ◽  
Situational Judgment ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
The University

Purpose: The situational judgment test (SJT) shows promise for assessing the non-cognitive skills of medical school applicants, but has only been used in Europe. Since the admissions processes and education levels of applicants to medical school are different in the United States and in Europe, it is necessary to obtain validity evidence of the SJT based on a sample of United States applicants. Methods: Ninety SJT items were developed and Kane’s validity framework was used to create a test blueprint. A total of 489 applicants selected for assessment/interview day at the University of Utah School of Medicine during the 2014-2015 admissions cycle completed one of five SJTs, which assessed professionalism, coping with pressure, communication, patient focus, and teamwork. Item difficulty, each item’s discrimination index, internal consistency, and the categorization of items by two experts were used to create the test blueprint. Results: The majority of item scores were within an acceptable range of difficulty, as measured by the difficulty index (0.50-0.85) and had fair to good discrimination. However, internal consistency was low for each domain, and 63% of items appeared to assess multiple domains. The concordance of categorization between the two educational experts ranged from 24% to 76% across the five domains. Conclusion: The results of this study will help medical school admissions departments determine how to begin constructing a SJT. Further testing with a more representative sample is needed to determine if the SJT is a useful assessment tool for measuring the non-cognitive skills of medical school applicants.

NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN AGELENID SPIDERS

1937 ◽  
Vol 69 (8) ◽  
pp. 174-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irving Fox
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural History ◽  
North American ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Museum ◽  
American Museum ◽  
United States National Museum ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
Comparative Zoology ◽  
The University

The material on which the following paper is based is deposited in the United States National Museum to whose authorities I am indebted for the privilege of studying the collections of spiders in their charge. Several colleagues have been very generous in lending material and in giving advice. Particular thanks are due to Miss Elizabeth B. Bryant of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Dr. W. J. Gertsch of the American Museum of Natural History, and Professor R. V. Chamberlin of the University of Utah.

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