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Acuta Enews December 1994, Vol. 23, No. 12

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Board report

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George Mason University becomes "virtual campus"

Phone fraud at Salve Regina

Campus-wide network at James Madison

From ACUTA Headquarters

Pod Network News, December 1994

POD Network News

POD Conference in Portland

Thanks to Conference Organizers and Other Special Volunteers

To Improve The Academy

Did you Get your POD Mug?

Report on CORE Committee Strategic Planning Session

CORE Committee Decisions/Reports

Enclosures about Upcoming Events

Conferences, Resources and Job Openings

Implementing Scientific Practices Through Case Studies: Examples Using Home-School Interventions And Consultation, Joann Galloway, Susan M. Sheridan

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

Integrating scientific methods into school psychological practice is an essential tenet of effective service. In this article, we present two related examples that demonstrate methods by which to conduct high-quality intervention and consultation case studies with integrity. The present case studies utilized home note and consultation-based interventions to improve task completion and accuracy in mathematics for primary grade students who had demonstrated performance difficulties despite adequate intellectual ability and academic skills. Two sets of case studies were conducted. One involved the use of a home-school note implemented by parents and teachers in conjunction with a self-instruction manual. The second set …

Acuta Enews November 1994, Vol. 23, No. 11

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Board report

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Institutional Excellence Award winners

NANP

Telecome helps Financial Aid at Mizzou

Managing 30 years into the future

Acuta Enews October 1994, Vol. 23, No. 10

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Special Emphasis Toll Fraud

Board Report

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ACUTA President

On the Campus of...

DC at a glance

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network Newsletter – Fall 1994

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network

Content:

New NESEN Coordinator

NASA Support for NESEN

NESEN at Nebraska Association of Teachers of Science Annual Conference

K-12 Earth Science Educational Activities at North Central/South Central Meeting of the Geological Society of America

Earth Science Workshops – Summer 1995

Consulting With Teachers About Girls And Boys, Susan M. Sheridan, Mary Henning-Stout

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

The purpose of this article is to clarify issues of gender relevant to the practice of consultation with classroom teachers. Social psychological and educational considerations are reviewed as grounding for gender-fair educational practices which consultation can help to bring about. Finally, the specific implications of this theoretical and empirical grounding for the practice of organizational, behavioral, and mental health consultation are explored.

Conjoint Behavioral Consultation: A Review And Case Study, Susan M. Sheridan, Denise L. Colton

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

Conjoint behavioral consultation (CBC) is an extension of traditional behavioral consultation in that parents and teachers, with the assistance of a consultant, are joined to identify and address child-related difficulties collaboratively. This article presents a background review of the conceptual and empirical grounds for CBC. A case study of the use of CBC with a young student manifesting an irrational fear of sleeping in his bedroom at home is presented. Specifically, procedures and outcomes of each stage of CBC are described. Considerations for interpreting and using case study results are also presented.

Acuta Enews September 1994, Vol. 23, No. 9

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Just Say Yes

Developing Excellence

Conference photos

The Confident Decision Maker

Positive about Change

Information Highway

Acuta Enews August 1994, Vol. 23, No. 8

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Board Report

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CUPA Administrative Compensation Survey

WSU partnership

Phone registration at SMSU

Pod Network News, August 1994

POD Network News

Portland, here we come!

Oops!!

To Improve The Academy

Teaching Tips Calendar

Photos needed for POD Picture History Book

POD Membership

Some sad news

Enclosures: Directory update, Announcements, Conferences, Resources, Videotapes

Job Openings

From the President

To Do List

POD Membership and 1994 Conference Registration Confirmation Form and Receipt

Acuta Enews July 1994, Vol. 23, No. 7

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White papers/Blue papers

Yale Telecom

The year the lights went on in Georgia

Curtin University

Book Review: Battleground: One Mother's Crusade, The Religious Right, And The Struggle For Control Of Our Classrooms , David Moshman

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

Many church-state controversies of the 1980s and 1990s have involved objections by conservative Christians to public school textbooks and curricula. One of the major legal cases in this area is Mozert v. Hawkins County Board of Education (1987), in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided that public schools need not accommodate parents who have religious objections to aspects of the curriculum. In Battleground, Stephen Bates presents a thorough and balanced account of the events leading up to Mozert and argues convincingly that the case was widely misunderstood and wrongly decided.

Acuta Enews June 1994, Vol. 23, No. 6

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Board report

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White papers/blue papers

TFS takes aim at toll fraud

ITFS Monograph review

Lost on the Information Highway?

Reason, Reasons, And Reasoning: A Constructivist Account Of Human Rationality, David Moshman

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

The concept of rationality has its roots in a historic philosophical conception of human beings as creatures of reason. To act on the basis of reason is to act on the basis of reasons, which in turn implies a process of reasoning. An objectivist conception of rationality sees its essence as lying in the use of reasoning processes that conform to appropriate logical norms. A subjectivist conception of rationality sees its essence in the subjective appeal to reasons. It is argued that neither approach alone is adequate. Rationality is best viewed as metasubjective objectivity. That is, the standards that embody …

Acuta Enews May 1994, Vol. 23, No. 5

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Board Report

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VTEL goes to Russia

Video at Univ. of Missouri

DC at a glance

Takin' care of business

Pod Network News, May 1994

POD Network News

1994 POD Conference in Portland

Thanks to Dan and Don

Welcome to Nancy

CORE Meeting in Chicago

POD Activities at AAHE

Future Conference Sites

Congratulations

Screeners for Hesburgh Award

Enclosures

Conferences, Resources and Job Openings

Announcements

Visions from the New POD President

Some things to do

To Improve the Academy: Associate Editor/Reviewer Self-Nomination Form

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network Newsletter – Spring 1994

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network

Content:

NESEN Membership and Resources Directory Available

NESEN to Sponsor K-12 Earth Science Education Activities at North Central/South Central Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America

1994 Earth Science Workshops: A Basis for Lesson Plan Development

Teachers Guide Now Available

NESEN at Nebraska Association of Teachers of Science Annual Meeting

Rock Collecting Field Trip

New Publication from Conservation and Survey Division, UNL

“Earth has a History” – A Videotape from GSA

Thoughts on Earth Science Education

Proposal For Center For Grassland Studies, Ron Case, Dick Clark, Charles A. Francis, Tony Joern, Terry J. Klopfenstein, Lowell E. Moser, Bob Shearman, Ken Vogel, Steven S. Waller

Center for Grassland Studies: Newsletters

Its my pleasure, on behalf of the Grassland Studies Task Force, to forward a proposal for a Center for Grassland Studies for your consideration. The Task Force is extremely pleased with the overwhelming support from a broad base of input. The Task Force has made a major effort through internal and external listening sessions to insure that there was support and in doing so develop a coalition of partners across the University of Nebraska System, state colleges, community colleges, industry, state and federal agencies, public groups, private non-profit organizations and other educational institutions in the region.

Nebraska has a rich …

Acuta Enews April 1994, Vol. 23, No. 4

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ISDN at WVU

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Hold down toll fraud

Takin' care of business

Using Student-Managed Interventions To Increase Homework Completion And Accuracy, Daniel E. Olympia, Susan M. Sheridan, William R. Jenson, Debra Andrews

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

We examined the effectiveness of self-managed individual and group contingency procedures in improving the completion and accuracy rates of daily mathematics homework assignments. A group of sixth-grade students having homework difficulties in mathematics were selected for the study. There was substantial improvement in the amount of homework completed over baseline for a majority of the students, whereas the results for accuracy were mixed. Students who participated in the self-management training made significant gains on standardized measures of academic achievement and curriculum-based measures of classroom performance. Parents also reported significantly fewer problems associated with homework completion following the intervention. Students who …

Acuta Enews March 1994, Vol. 23, No. 3

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Baltimore update

Improvements at the University of Chicago

21st Century technology

Resource Library is growing

Acuta Enews February 1994, Vol. 23, No. 2

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Board report

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What's right...what's wrong? States to develop telecommunications modernization plans

21st century technology

Pod Network News, February 1994

POD Network News

1994 POD Conference in Portland, OR

POD Participation in AAHE

CORE Meeting at AAHE

Welcome to the CORE

Special Thanks

Congratulations, Karron and Nancy

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The Abominable Mystery Of The First Flowers: Clues From Nebraska And Kansas, M. R. Bolick, R. K. Pabian

University of Nebraska State Museum: Programs Information

The plant fossils found in shales and sandstones of the late Cretaceous age Dakota Group in Nebraska and Kansas figure prominently in the "drama tis plantae" of the long-running and still unsolved mystery of the origin of flowering plants (angiosperms). This mystery has many fans because almost all of the plants that humans depend on for food and shelter are angiosperms; half of the calories in the world's diet come from the grass family alone. The Dakota fossils were discovered by western science more than one hundred years ago during the early stages of geological exploration of the western territories. …

Preserving Vertebrate Fossils: Notes From The Laboratory, Gregory Brown, Pauline Denham

University of Nebraska State Museum: Programs Information

The word "paleontology" is derived from the Greek words meaning "the science or study of ancient life". Usually, paleontology does not concern itself with human remains, artifacts or cultures; these are the realms of archeology and anthropology. Paleontologists excavate and study fossils, the remains of once-living plants and animals. By convention, such remains must be at least 10,000 years old to be considered fossils. In North America, there is very little overlap between the sites and materials that are studied by paleontologists and by archeologists because humans are relative newcomers to the continent. A site which produces …

Defining The Field: A National Membership Survey, Sponsored By The Pod Network

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Acuta Enews January 1994, Vol. 23, No. 1

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Board Report

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FCC proposes regulations for toll fraud

Cruising he information superhighway

21st century technology

Acuta Enews January 1993, Vol. 23, No. 1

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Regulatory update

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Grants to network innovators

Monograph honoraria $500

Phone fiber to carry CATV

Director's column