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Title: | Koch, Helen Lois. Papers |
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Dates: | 1919-1972 |
Size: | 3 linear feet (6 boxes) |
Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
Abstract: | Helen Lois Koch, child psychologist, professor. The Helen Lois Koch Papers contain correspondence, research notes, drafts and typescripts of articles, reports, lectures, reviews and comments regarding publications, and Koch's doctoral dissertation Also contains records of the University of Chicago Nursery School (1932-1949) including budgets, personnel files, administrative reports and offprints. Much of the material concerns Koch's interests in child development and nursery school training. |
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Helen Lois Koch was born August 26, 1895 in Blue Island, Illinois. She received Ph.B. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago in 1918 and 1921, and began teaching educational psychology at the University of Texas in 1922, rising to the rank of Professor by 1928. The next year she accepted an appointment at the University of Chicago as Associate Professor of Child Psychology.
At that time all courses in childcare, developmental psychology, and preschool education were under the direction of the Department of Home Economics. Koch taught the child development sequence, and also became involved with nursery school education. Appointed to the board of directors of the University Cooperative Nursery School in 1931, she was named director in 1933, which gave her responsibility for the selection of staff, the educational program, and psychological research conducted in the school by graduate students. The school was acquired by the University in 1938, becoming the University of Chicago Nursery School. Koch's title was changed to coordinator, and she also participated on the Committee on Human Development, which administered the school. During World War II, Koch used her experience to develop training programs and teaching techniques for the large numbers of teachers needed in the War Nurseries.
In 1948 Koch was relieved from her duties with the Nursery School in order to devote more time to research. The Home Economics Department was being reorganized at the same time and her appointment was shifted to the Committee on Human Development and the Department of Psychology, as those two bodies took over responsibility for the child development courses. It was during this period that Koch published a number of important monographs on sibling relationships.
Retiring from the University in 1960, Helen Koch remained active, publishing the book Twins and Twin Relations in 1966. She died in 1977.
The Helen Lois Koch Papers contain correspondence, research notes, drafts and typescripts of articles, reports, lectures, reviews and comments regarding publications, and Koch's doctoral dissertation Also contains records of the University of Chicago Nursery School (1932-1949) including budgets, personnel files, administrative reports and offprints. Much of the material concerns Koch's interests in child development and nursery school training.
Series I: Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers |
Box 1 Folder 1 | General correspondence, 1942--1972 |
Box 1 Folder 2 | American Psychological Association, G. Stanley Hall Award, 1967 |
Box 1 Folder 3 | Biographical dictionary entries, 1956--1972 |
Box 1 Folder 4 | Bishop, Leila, Ph.D. final examination, 1959 |
Box 1 Folder 5 | Human Development 421 seminar, correspondence with guest speakers, 1960--1961 |
Box 1 Folder 6 | "Program for Research in Child Development," by a group of eight graduate students, 1940 |
Box 1 Folder 7 | Study on sibling relationships, correspondence, 1948--1950 |
Box 1 Folder 8 | Study on twins, proposal and correspondence, 1958--1961 |
Box 1 Folder 9 | University of Chicago, appointments, 1930--1952 |
Box 1 Folder 10 | Works Progress Administration, child behavior study, reports and correspondence, 1938-1942 |
Series II: Writings |
Box 1 Folder 11 | "The Influence of Extraneous Controls in the Learning Process," by Harvey Carr and Helen Koch, Psychological Review 26 (1919):287--293, offprint |
Box 1 Folder 12--13 | "The Influence of Mechanical Guidance upon Maze Learning," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1921, printed in Psychological Monographs 32 (5, Whole No. 147, 1923), data tables. |
Box 1 Folder 14--15 | "The Influence of Mechanical Guidance upon Maze Learning," Ph.D., dissertation typescript |
Box 1 Folder 16 | "Some Measurements of a Pair of Siamese Twins," Journal of Comparative Psychology 7 (1927): 313--333, news clippings, photos, offprint |
Box 1 Folder 17 | "The Influence of Faculty Regulations upon the Scholarship of the Secret Social Organizations in the University of Texas," by the Members of Psi Chapter of Pi Lambda Theta, Pi Lambda Theta Journal 4 (1928):11--18, typescript |
Box 2 Folder 1 | "Some Effects of Nursery School Training upon Orphanage Children," by Koch and Helen E. Barrett, Journal of Home Economics 21 (1929): 365--367, correspondence, typescript |
Box 2 Folder 2 | "Mental Development of the Normal Child," lecture series for Infant Welfare Society, Chicago, June-July 1929, notes |
Box 2 Folder 3 | "Some Factors Affecting the Relative Efficiency of Certain Methods of Presenting Material upon Memorizing," American Journal of Psychology 42 (1930): 370--388, correspondence, figures, typescript |
Box 2 Folder 4 | "Student Honesty in a University with an Honor System," by William Giles Campbell and Koch, School and Society 31 (1930): 232--240, typescript |
Box 2 Folder 5 | "The Effect of Nursery School Training upon the Mental Test Performance of a Group of Orphanage Children," by Helen E. Barrett and Koch, Journal of Genetic Psychology 37 (1930): 102-122, correspondence, typescript |
Box 2 Folder 6 | "A Study of Some Factors Influencing the Interest Span of Preschool Children," by Amanda Herring and Koch, Journal of Genetic Psychology 38 (1930):249--279, typescript |
Box 2 Folder 7--9 | "The Influence of Some Affective Factors upon Recall," Journal of Genetic Psychology 4 (1930):171--190, notes and data |
Box 2 Folder 10 | "The Influence of Some Affective Factors upon Recall," Journal of Genetic Psychology 4 (1930):171--190, typescripts |
Box 2 Folder 11 | "Is Obedience a Virtue in Children or Parents?" radio speech for Chicago Association for Child Study and Parent Education, 1931, typescript |
Box 2 Folder 12 | "Safeguarding the Development of Children," study course for Association for Childhood Education convention, 1937, notes |
Box 2 Folder 13 | "Adjustment in the School and College Situation," by Ethel Kawin, Helen L. Koch, Dorothy T. Hayes, and Bernice Neugarten, Review of Educational Research 10 (1940):421--428, typescript |
Box 2 Folder 14 | "Social Development," in Encyclopedia of Educational Research, ed. W. S. Monroe (New York: Macmillan, 1941), pp. 175--179, correspondence, typescript, proofs |
Box 3 Folder 1--2 | "Social Development," in Encyclopedia of Educational Research, revision for 1950 edition (pp. 190--193), correspondence, typescript |
Box 3 Folder 3 | "Prospect and Retrospect," Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin 10 (1943):22--24, correspondence, typescript |
Box 3 Folder 4 | "Emergency Training of Nursery School Teachers," Journal of Home Economics 35 (1943):621--624, typescript, offprint |
Box 3 Folder 5 | "Nursery Schools," in Encyclopedia of Child Guidance, ed. R. P. Winn (New York: The Philosophical Library, 1943), pp. 261--266, notes, correspondence |
Box 3 Folder 6 | "Nursery Schools," in Encyclopedia of Child Guidance, notes, correspondence, typescript |
Box 3 Folder 7 | "A Study of Some Factors Conditioning the Social Distance between the Sexes," Journal of Social Psychology 20 (1944):79-107, typescript, offprint |
Box 3 Folder 8 | Definitions of terms in the area of child development: social development, in Dictionary of Education, ed. C. V. Good (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1945), correspondence |
Box 3 Folder 9 | "The Social Distance between Certain Racial, Nationality, and Skin Pigmentation Groups in Selected Populations of American School Children," Journal of Genetic Psychology 68 (1946):63--95, correspondence, typescript |
Box 3 Folder 10 | "The Marks of a Good Nursery School," Newsletter of the Association for Family Living, March 1947, p. 3, typescript |
Box 3 Folder 11--12 | "Methods of Studying Behavior and Development in Young Children," Chapter 2 in Methods of Psychology, ed. T. G. Andrews (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1947), pp. 624--664, correspondence, typescript, proofs |
Box 3 Folder 13 | "Bornehagen ved Chicago-Universitetet" (What We Live By), Norsk Pedagogisk Tidskrift 31 (1947):98--103, typescript |
Box 3 Folder 14 | "Child Psychology and Development," in Encyclopaedia Britannica (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1947), correspondence, typescript |
Box 3 Folder 15 | "Child Psychology and Development," in Encyclopaedia Britannica (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1947), revision for 1959 edition, correspondence |
Box 3 Folder 16 | Review of Child Psychology for Professional Workers by Florence Teagarden, Social Service Review 21 (1947):276--277, typescript |
Box 3 Folder 17 | Review of Manual of Child Psychology by Leonard Carmichael, Social Service Review 21 (1947):264--266, typescript |
Box 4 Folder 1 | "The Child in Today's Culture," by Arnold Gesell, Robert J. Havighurst, and Koch, University of Chicago Round Table, No. 792, June 14, 1953, notes |
Box 4 Folder 2 | "Child Psychology," Annual Review of Psychology 5 (1954):1--26, typescript |
Box 4 Folder 3 | "The Relation of `Primary Mental Abilities' in Five- and Six-Year-Olds to Sex of Child and Characteristics of His Sibling," Child Development 25 (1954):209--224, correspondence, typescript |
Box 4 Folder 4 | "The Relation of Certain Family Constellation Characteristics and the Attitudes of Children toward Adults," Child Development 26 (1955): 13--39, correspondence, typescript |
Box 4 Folder 5 | "Harvey A. Carr, 1873--1954," Psychological Review 62 (1955):81-82, typescript, proofs |
Box 4 Folder 6 | "Sibling Influences on Children's Speech," Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders 21 (1956):322--328, correspondence, typescript |
Box 4 Folder 7 | "Granville Stanley Hall," in Encyclopaedia Britannica (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1959), correspondence, typescript |
Box 4 Folder 8 | Review of The Psychology of Early Childhood by Catherine Landreth, Contemporary Psychology 4 (1959):14--15, typescript |
Box 4 Folder 9 | "Einige Ursachen von Eifersucht, Bewunderung, Ablehnung und von Überlegenheitsgefühlen, wie sie bei jüngeren Geschwistern auftreten" (Some Sources of Envy, Admiration, Disapproval and Feelings of Advantage Existing between Young Siblings), Psychologische Beitrage 4 (1960):38--53, correspondence, typescripts |
Box 4 Folder 10 | "A Study of Twins Born at Different Levels of Maturity," Child Development (1964), correspondence, typescript |
Box 4 Folder 11 | "Twins: A Study of Their Relationships to Each Other, Their Status with Respect to Single-Borns, and Educational Implications of Their Attitudes," 1965, correspondence |
Box 4 Folder 12 | Twins and Twin Relations (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966), reviews |
Box 4 Folder 13 | Twins and Twin Relations (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966), University of Chicago Press correspondence and publicity |
Box 4 Folder 14 | Twins and Twin Relations (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966), miscellaneous correspondence |
Box 4 Folder 15 | Twin population, ca. 1971, manuscript |
Box 4 Folder 16 | Miscellaneous lectures and writings, undated
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Box 4 Folder 17 | Miscellaneous lectures and writings, undated
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Series III: University of Chicago Nursery School |
Box 5 Folder 1 | Budget, 1932--1939 |
Box 5 Folder 2 | Budget, 1939--1943 |
Box 5 Folder 3 | Budget, 1943--1944 |
Box 5 Folder 4 | Budget, 1944--1945 |
Box 5 Folder 5 | Budget, 1945--1946 |
Box 5 Folder 6 | Budget, 1946--1947 |
Box 5 Folder 7 | Budget, 1947--1948 |
Box 5 Folder 8 | Budget, 1948--1949 |
Box 5 Folder 9 | Building |
Box 5 Folder 10 | Food costs, quarterly statements, 1939--1948 |
Box 5 Folder 11 | Interview of Helen L. Koch by Ida B. DePencier, 1965 |
Box 5 Folder 12 | Report to Board of Directors, 1934--1935 |
Box 5 Folder 13 | Report to Board of Directors, 1935--1936 |
Box 5 Folder 14 | Reports to Ralph Tyler concerning Nursery School policy, 1944-1945 |
Box 5 Folder 15 | Report to the Survey Committee of the University of Chicago Nursery School, 1942 |
Box 5 Folder 16 | Reports, miscellaneous, 1938--1949 |
Box 5 Folder 17 | Staff appointments, 1938--1946, A-F |
Box 6 Folder 1--4 | Staff appointments, 1938--1946, G-Z |
Box 6 Folder 5 | Staff appointments, 1946--1947 |
Box 6 Folder 6--7 | Staff appointments, 1947--1948 |
Box 6 Folder 8 | Staff lists, 1942--1948 |
Box 6 Folder 9 | Miscellaneous business, correspondence, and reports, 1936-1938 |