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Some Comments On Brée & Coppens’ “The Difficulty Of An Implication Task”, David Moshman

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

In a recent article in this Journal, Brée & Coppens (1976) tested Brée’s (1973) model of performance on Wason’s extensively studied “four-card task.” The Brée model is of considerable interest in that it (a) differentiates comprehension of the proposition to be tested from the hypothesis- testing strategy itself (as do Smalley, 1974, and Moshman, 1977), and (b) is closely related to Piaget’s theory of formal operations (Inhelder & Piaget, 1958) in its consideration of combinatorial analysis (elaboration of possibilities) and hypothetico-deductive reasoning (reasoning based on possibilities rather than facts). Unfortunately, the test of the model is marred both by incorrect …

Acuta Enews December 1978, Vol. 7, No. 12

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Test 1297: Case 2290 Powershift Diesel, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURE General Tractors are tested at the University of Nebraska according to the Agricultural Tractor Test Code approved by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the Society of Automotive Engineers or official Nebraska test procedure. The manufacturer selects the tractor to be tested and certifies that it is a stock model. Each tractor is equipped with the common power consuming accessories such as power steering, power lift pump, generator, etc., if available. Power consuming accessories may be disconnected only when the means for disconnecting can be reached from the operating station. An official representative of …

Chapter 1: Piaget's Theory And College Teaching, C. A. Tomlinson-Keasey

ADAPT Program: Essays

The influence that Piaget's theory has had on the understanding of cognitive development is incalculable. One can look at the establishment of the Jean Piaget Society, the publication of literally hundreds of books that deal with Piagetian theory, and the dominance in professional journals of articles related to Piagetian theory as some indication of the immense impact that this theory has had on the study of the child's acquisition of knowledge.

It is, however. only very recently that college and university professors have looked toward Piagetian theory for relevant and practical suggestions about how to maximize college student learning.

Chapter 14: Evaluation Report Of The First Year Of The Adapt Program, C. A. Tomlinson-Keasey, V. Williams, D. Eisert

ADAPT Program: Essays

Evaluating the success of the ADAPT program seemed, at the outset, to be an extremely complex task. How does one assess a student’s growth in six different content areas over a year’s time? what are the hallmarks of progress which might signal the success or failure of the program? The first step of the evaluation was a clear enumeration of the goals of the program. In staff discussions it became clear that our primary goal was to encourage students to think critically and logically by devising a curriculum which required the students to actively participate in their learning and to …

Chapter 15: Second Year Evaluation Of The Adapt Program, C. A. Tomlinson-Keasey, D. Eisert

ADAPT Program: Essays

The purpose of the present paper is to evaluate the success of the ADAPT program in reaching its goals during the second year. As in the first year of the program, the primary goal was to encourage students to think critically and logically, Secondly, we were interested in providing successful learning experiences that would facilitate personal and social growth. Finally, we hoped that students who were being encouraged to explore a variety of content areas, would feel excitement in learning, and that this would be reflected in positive attitudes toward the whole university community. In short, our goals were to …

Chapter 16: A Sneak Preview Of Adapt's Third-Year Evaluation, David Moshman, Jacqueline Langley

ADAPT Program: Essays

The evaluation of the ADAPT program for the academic year 1977–78 will be based on pre- and post-test data for 19 ADAPT students and 24 control students on four measures—the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Questionnaire, the Self Description Inventory, the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal, and a test of Formal Operational Reasoning—as well as an attitude questionnaire given to both groups at the end of the year. Detailed analyses of the results from both the ADAPT program and the other Piagetian programs described in this volume are currently being performed by Carol Tomlinson- Keasey, who is now at the University of California-Riverside. …

Chapter 7: The Inexpensive Unification Of Clio And Piaget, L. C. Duly

ADAPT Program: Essays

The ADAPT History course at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is still very much in its infancy. To date it has consisted of a two-semester course dealing with the nature of “revolution and other forms of change" in Modern Europe from 1776 to the present. The thematic tone of its title has been kept deliberately vague; its content has tended to stress the origin, development, and change of ideas, institutions, and value-structures within the established chronology, all of which one would likely find in the traditional “Western Civilization” course. The course has not attempted to present the study of man in …

Test 1296: Case 2290 Manual Diesel 8-Speed, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURE General Tractors are tested at the University of Nebraska according to the Agricultural Tractor Test Code approved by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the Society of Automotive Engineers or official Nebraska test procedure. The manufacturer selects the tractor to be tested and certifies that it is a stock model. Each tractor is equipped with the common power consuming accessories such as power steering, power lift pump, generator, etc., if available. Power consuming accessories may be disconnected only when the means for disconnecting can be reached from the operating station. An official representative of …

Acuta Enews November 1978, Vol. 7, No. 11

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Farm, Ranch And Home Quarterly Institute Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, University Of Nebraska- Lincoln

Farm, Ranch and Home Quarterly

In this issue:

From the Vice Chancellor ................... 2

EFNEP Teachers Learn, Too ............................... 3

Learning to Live with Death....................... 4

How Prepared Were They to Teach?............................ 7

Effects of Production, Marketing Choices....................... 9

Close Rows Can Boost Yields .............................. 11

Financial Choices in Wheat Farming ........................ 13

Black Walnut is Prized Crop ............................... 15

Profits Fly Out When Insects Invade Stored Grain ............ 17

Computer Makes Drapery Calculations Easier ................ 19

Acuta Enews October 1978, Vol. 7, No. 10

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Acuta Enews September 1978, Vol. 7, No.9

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Multidisciplinary Piagetian-Based Programs For College Freshmen: Table Of Contents For 1978, Robert Fuller

ADAPT Program: Essays

Cover and table of contents for third edition, 1978.

Information Fair, T. Earle Bowen, Jr.

POD Network Conference Materials

No abstract provided.

Acuta Enews August 1978, Vol. 7, No. 8

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Farm, Ranch And Home Quarterly Institute Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, University Of Nebraska- Lincoln

Farm, Ranch and Home Quarterly

In this issue:

From the Vice Chancellor ............................... 2

Good Management Controls Feedlot Flies................. 3

Tractor Day-Something for Everyone...................... 5

How Not to Hit Your Children ........................... 7

Cottonwoods for Nebraska.......................... 9

Agricultural job Openings Forecast ........................ 11

Range judging-An Outdoor Classroom ................... 12

To Expand or Not to Expand? ............................ 14

Dry Bean Disease Plagues Farmers ........................ 16

Pest Center Serves Growers, Gardeners .................... 19

joint Venture Beef Fabrication ............................ 21

Rural Services: Worth the Cost? .......................... 23

Acuta Enews July 1978, Vol. 7, No.7

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Acuta Enews June 1978, Vol. 7, No. 6

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Test 1276: White Field Boss 2-155 Dsl 18-Speed, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURE General Tractors are tested at the University of Nebraska according to the Agricultural Tractor Test Code approved by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the Society of Automotive Engineers or official Nebraska test procedure. The manufacturer selects the tractor to be tested and certifies that it is a stock model. Each tractor is equipped with the common power consuming accessories such as power steering, power lift pump, generator, etc., if available. Power consuming accessories may be disconnected only when the means for disconnecting can be reached from the operating station. An official representative of …

Test 1275: White Field Boss 2-135 Diesel 18-Speed, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURE General Tractors are tested at the University of Nebraska according to the Agricultural Tractor Test Code approved by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the Society of Automotive Engineers or official Nebraska test procedure. The manufacturer selects the tractor to be tested and certifies that it is a stock model. Each tractor is equipped with the common power consuming accessories such as power steering, power lift pump, generator, etc., if available. Power consuming accessories may be disconnected only when the means for disconnecting can be reached from the operating station. An official representative of …

Acuta Enews May 1978, Vol. 7, No.5

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S SNOWBOARD CONFERENCE '78

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GETTING THERE FROM HERE--- AT A DISCOUNT

Memo To Pod Members, April 21, 1978, Mary Lynn Crow

POD Network Conference Materials

Election of Officers

Adoption of a Mission Statement (attached)

Adoption of Bylaws (enclosed)

Other Decisions and Business

Important Notice!

Report from the Professional Relations and Membership Committee -- Global Impact

Report from the Regional Workshop Committee

Report from the Research Committee

Farm, Ranch And Home Quarterly Institute Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, University Of Nebraska- Lincoln

Farm, Ranch and Home Quarterly

In this issue:

A Message from the Vice Chancellor.....................2

Aircraft, Agriculture Still Go Hand-in-Wing ................ 3

Good Life Gardeners Help Save Wilting Tomatoes, Etc. ................... 5

Avoid Failure; Choose Flowering Crabs Carefully..................... 7

Natures's Dyes Can Color Your Home .................... 10

High Prospects Seen for Recombinant DNA .................. 12

That Elusive Something Called Satisfaction! ................... 14

Tie a Knot and Hang On! ................................ 17

Grasses Help Heal Sandhills' Blowouts ....................... 19

Chapter 8: A Place For Philosophy In The Adapt Program, Elizabeth T. Carpenter

ADAPT Program: Essays

Although there are many ways in which the ADAPT program is importantly different from other educational programs in the United States at this mid-seventies time, surely it stands as impressive in higher education by being the only college program spanning six disciplines which seeks primarily to employ the genetic epistemology of Jean Piaget in diagnostic and teaching strategies. It stands as a testing ground for a revolutionary hypothesis about college-level education: the degree of effectiveness of a teaching strategy depends directly upon the logical ability of the individual learner and his place on the developmental continuum relative to the logical …

Chapter 10: Adapt Anthropology, Martin Q. Peterson

ADAPT Program: Essays

ADAPT Anthropology focuses on the discovery of various social “rules” that govern social relationships. These rules are investigated through a combination of observation and participation, a traditional method in anthropology. Students use the learning cycle paradigm, first exploring relationships between people and events, then inventing new combinations of these events as a means of informing the relationships, and finally applying what they have learned to a new set of events. In this essay, I shall consider three elements of my approach to Piagetian learning in anthropology. The first element is the successful use of the learning cycle paradigm. The second …

Chapter 11: Reading And Writing And Piaget, Robert D. Narveson

ADAPT Program: Essays

Like most English teachers I have been skeptical of schemes to reform the teaching of literature and composition. Our experience suggests that for the most part our successes are likely to result from the intangibles of personal styles, developed empirically through classroom practice. As Ross Winterowd has written, "One can only conclude that writing is far too difficult a skill to be taught—and yet we do teach it.” (1975, p.2) Nevertheless, I seized the opportunity to join the ADAPT Program because it seemed to offer a more thoroughly articulated theoretical basis for teaching and learning than I had previously experienced. …

Mission Statement And Bylaws

POD Network Conference Materials

The POD Network Mission Statement

Bylaws of The Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, Inc.

Communication Apprehension And Teaching Assistants, William J. Seiler, John P. Garrison, David W. Brooks, Frederick K. Sikora, Thomas J. Tipton

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

The authors of this note have developed a program aimed at training, providing feedback to, and evaluating the performance of graduate teaching assistants. It includes the use of a tool called the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension, which is reliable and valid.

Message To Pod Members, February 6, 1978, Mary Lynn Crow

POD Network Conference Materials

No abstract provided.