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The Call To Play, Margaret A. Macintyre Latta, Karl Hostetler

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

This article explores the nature of play and its presence and potential in teaching and learning encounters. Play is portrayed as a movement that can characterize the process of learning and teachers’ reflections on their practice. The exercise of techne and phronesis are found to be key but problematic elements in this movement. The paper is in the form of a conversation, a medium calling the authors themselves to play with the play that might occur in classrooms. Thus, the authors’ play is itself a subject for inquiry. Their interplay warrants considering play to be an elemental activity for reconceptualizing …

Acuta Enews September 2003, Vol. 32, No. 9

ACUTA Newsletters

In This Issue

32nd Annual Conference Highlights

ACUTA Members' Needs and Preferences................ Jeri Semer, CAE, Executive Director

ACUTA Board Report Carmine Piscopo, Providence College

Provisioning: lt Really Has Nothing To Do with Vitttes................. Kevin Tarzillo, Dux Public Relations

New Additions to Telecommunications Relay Services (2).................. Dave Ostrom, Washington State Univ

Winners, Winners, Winners!

DC Update................ Whitney Johnson, Retired, Northern Michigan Univ

ACUTA Member Sites to See

Welcome Mew Members

Unopa Notes, Volume 42, Issue 1, September 2003

UNOPA Newsletters

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Hexapod Herald - Vol. 15, No. 4, September 2003

Hexapod Herald and Other Entomology Department Newsletters

Congratulations

Welcome

Farewell

Faculty news

Graduate student news

From the office

Grants

Museum news

Publications

Travel

Condolences

This and that

Acuta Enews August 2003, Vol. 32, No. 8

ACUTA Newsletters

In This Issue

Key Words for the Coming Months.................Walter Czerniak, Northern Illinois University

Wi or Wi Not? Taking Wireless to the Max..................... Kevin Tanzillo, Dux Public Relations

New Additions to Telecommunications Relay Service................. Dave Ostrom, Washington State Univ.

DC Update..................... Whitney Johnson, Retired, Northern Michigan Univ.

Board Report................... John Bradley, Rensselaer Polytechnic lnstitute

Welcome New Members

Faculty Use Of Student Evaluation Feedback, Yuankun Yoo, Ellen Weissinger, Marilyn L. Grady

Department of Educational Administration: Faculty Publications

This study examined faculty formative use of end of semester student rating of instruction (SRI) feedback. Over 600 faculty from three universities responded to a mailed survey. The majority of faculty reported using SRI feedback on a regular basis. Formative use of the SRI feedback was found to relate to faculty perceptions and values. The use of negative practices was reported by a small percentage of respondents. The results provide support to revised version of Geis's (1991) SRI feedback model.

More On The Role Of The Mandible In Speech Production: Clinical Correlates Of Green, Moore, And Reilly’S (2002) Findings And Methodological Issues In Studies Of Early Articulatory Development: A Response To Dworkin, Meleca, And Stachler (2003), James Paul Dworkin, Robert J. Meleca, Robert J. Stachler, Jordan R. Green, Christopher A. Moore, Kevin J. Reilly

Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders: Faculty Publications

Dworkin et al. comment: We would like to comment on Green, Moore, and Reilly’s article, which appeared in the February 2002 issue of this journal [Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research]. In that investigation, these clinical researchers examined upper lip, lower lip, and mandibular movements during repetitive bisyllable word productions by infants, toddlers, young children, and adults with normal developmental and neurologic histories. Kinematic traces from these articulators were analyzed using a computer-based movement tracking system. Results revealed that these oral structures may have sequential neuromotor developmental schedules, characterized by more mature movement patterns for speech emerging …

Bumble Boosters: Doing Science As A Community Of Learners, Douglas A. Golick, Marion D. Ellis

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

Bumble bees are an excellent organism for engaging high school students in research. They are a recognizable insect and an important pollinator, and much remains to be discovered about the biology of many species. Bumble Boosters was a teaching and research project funded by the Nebraska Lottery’s Educational Innovation Fund. The project began in June 1999 and ended in June 2002.

Can We Do It With Class?, Marilyn L. Grady, Barbara Y. Lacost

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

We, like Hepburn, are fortunate to be educated-since education opens doors for women. The manuscripts in this issue, all attest to the significance of education in women's lives-education as opportunity.

Manitoba Women And Higher Education: Momentum To Stay The Course, Carolyn Crippen, John R. Mccarthy

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Her education is the same as that of a man ... she is able to unfold and exercise her mental powers and faculties. She chooses her occupation in such a way as corresponds with her wishes, inclinations and natural abilities, and she works under conditions identical with man's. Even if engaged as a practical working woman on some field or other, at other times of the day she may be educator, teacher, or nurse, as yet others she may exercise herself in art, or cultivate some branch of science, and yet others may be filling some demonstrative function. She joins …

Review Of Women In Higher Education An Encyclopedia. Ana M. Martinez Aleman And Kristen A. Renn, Editors., Jean M. Haar

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Women have constituted a majority of students in American colleges and universities since 1979. Women earned more than half of all associates, bachelors and masters degrees and more than one-third of all doctorates (Touchton & Davis, 1991). Even with these numbers, the study of women in higher education has often been overlooked (Glazer, Bensimon, & Townsend, 1993). Women in Higher Education: An Encyclopedia atones for overlooking "almost entirely women's role as shapers and interpreters of the academy" (Glazer et al., p. ix). The editors have created a comprehensive source of information and resources related to women in higher education in …

Emerging From The Academic Pipeline: Senior Women Faculty Members, Florence A. Hamrick

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Twenty-six women with professor rank at a large, public, research extensive university were interviewed for this study in which respondents discussed the meanings and significance associated with full professorship. Major themes included: the promotion event and the accompanying title of professor, anticipated and actual changes in their status and working conditions, and their identities, goals, and contributions as professors. Conclusions address issues such as dilemmas of senior professorship, effective participation in institutional governance, and progress of women through the faculty ranks.

Adolescent Females With Communication Disorders Involved In Violence: Educators' Opinions, Judy K. Montgomery, Dixie Sanger, Barbara J. Moore-Brown, Leslie Smith, Marilyn Scheffler

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

This study focused on increasing the awareness of educational leaders about the relationship between students with communication disorders and violence. A review of selected research on adolescent females with language problems residing in a correctional facility served to support a survey study and extend discussions about the need for educational leadership within this population. Ninety-six speech-language pathologists, special educators, and teachers were surveyed about their training and knowledge on the role of communication in violence. Findings suggested the majority of participants agreed on the importance of planning prevention programs. However, they did not receive training and were uncertain about providing …

Title Ix: Boom Or Bust?, Marilyn J. Mather

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Athletics has been significantly impacted by Title IX through an increase the number of female athletes, the number of teams available, and indirectly, the development of women's professional leagues. However, women in leadership positions in athletics have declined significantly since Title IX was signed into law. A concern about the discontinuation of some men's non-revenue producing sports influenced the Department of Education to form the Commission on Opportunities in Athletics to review Title IX. The process and findings of the Commission are discussed, as well as the possible impact of the Commission's recommendations.

Journal Of Women In Educational Leadership, Vol. 1, No.3-July 2003

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

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Two Profiles Of Women Community College Presidents, Melinda Rhodes

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

This study focuses on the narratives of two women leaders, one of whom continues to work as a community college president and another who made the transition from a community college presidency to the directorship of a continuing education division of a large, state research university. The women were first interviewed in 2000 when they discussed their own career characteristics and views of women presidency leadership issues. At that time, one was considering accepting a post leading a northwest community college undergoing drastic changes in mission, goals and target student population. She served as that college's president in 2002.

Intellectual Freedom, David Moshman

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

Intellectual development, the development of the intellect, is the emergence of increasingly sophisticated forms or levels of cognition, the progress of understanding, reasoning, and rationality. We can describe the outcomes of intellectual development by specifying steps, stages, or levels of development for cognition as a whole and/or for various cognitive domains. Fundamentally, however, intellectual development is an ongoing process of reflection, coordination, and social interaction that begins in early childhood and continues, at least in some cases, long into adulthood.
Liberal education, however defined, includes the promotion of intellectual development as a primary goal. There may be specific facts, skills, …

The National Honors Report Vol. Xxiv, No. 2 Summer 2003

The National Honors Report

LEARNING COMES TOGETHER

1. The Age of Discovery and the Age of Transition: Discovery and Research in the New Millennium by William Knox ... l Knox asks us to rethink the idea of discovery in an age when a new discovery one minute becomes old news in the next. What will the future hold in an age of accelerated contact? How are honors programs to respond to such rapid change?

2. Travels with Noah by Brian Adler ... 5 Several journeys with Adler's son, Noah, lead to a discovery about monuments of the intellect as well as existing, physical monuments. …

Acuta Enews July 2003, Vol. 32, No. 7

ACUTA Newsletters

In This Issue

ACUTA Elects New Board of Directors

Congratulations to Milestone Members............................ Jeri Semer, CAE, Executive Director

lnfiniBand Aims to lmprove Data Center Performance........................ Kevin Tanzillo, Dux Public Relations

Comm. College Leverages lT Resources................. Christine J. Holley, lnteractive lntelligence, lnc.

Be a State/ Province Coordinator!............. Harvey Buchanan, Chair, ACUTA Membership Committee

ACUTA Board Report............................ John Bradley, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

DC Update.................... Whitney Johnson, Retired, Northern Michigan Univ.

Welcome New Members

Publications Committee Needs a Few Good Members

Pod Network News, Spring/Summer 2003

POD Network News

President's Column

Across-the-border Cooperation

International News

Bright Ideas

POD Committees: Are You Interested?

Conference Corner

Training

Books by POD Members

Directory Erratum

Some Problems with 2003 Directory

From the POD Office ...

POD Membership Benefits

Contacting the POD Office

POD Bright Idea Awards (BIA) 2003 - Guidelines

Comparison Of Grade Point Average Of Honor Senior Students And College Of Liberal Arts Senior Students At A Florida University, Iwasan D. Kejawa Ed.D

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Attrition rates in theHonor College program division of Florida Atlantic University have risen in recent years. It has been determined that even though a higher high school grade point average is required for admission into the honor program of the university, many applicants to the program were under-prepared to asumme the workload demanded of the students by the Honor College. The requirements for admission into the honor program of the Florida Atlantic University is an overall high school grade point average of 3.5 and a score of 1000 points on the SAT examination while the requirement into the College of …

Assessing The Wraparound Process During Family Planning Meetings, Michael Epstein, Philip D. Nordness, Krista Kutash, Al Duchnowski, Sheryl Schrepf, Greg J. Brenner, J. Ron Nelson

Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders: Faculty Publications

Research and evaluation of the wraparound process has typically focused on outcomes, service providers, and costs. While many of these studies describe a process that is consistent with the wraparound approach, few studies have reported attempts to monitor or measure the treatment fidelity of the wraparound process. The purpose of this study was to assess the fidelity of the wraparound process in a community-based system of care using the Wraparound Observation Form-Second Version. Results from 112 family planning meetings indicated some strengths and weaknesses within the current system. Families and professionals were frequently involved in the planning and implementation of …

Investigating The Acceptability Of Behavioral Interventions In Applied Conjoint Behavioral Consultation: Moving From Analog Conditions To Naturalistic Settings, Richard J. Cowan, Susan M. Sheridan

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

Whereas there exists a vast literature investigating consumer satisfaction ratings of various behavioral interventions, the majority of these studies have been limited to analogue conditions, which may compromise utility and generalization. Additionally, most research has failed to explore multiple-source, multiple-setting data in the investigation of treatment acceptability. This study investigated parent, teacher, and child treatment acceptability ratings derived from field-based conjoint behavioral consultation cases. Data indicate that overall, parents, teachers, and children rated conjoint behavioral consultation–based behavioral interventions as very to highly acceptable. For parents, interventions with a reductive component were rated as more acceptable than interventions using both positive …

Bumble Boosters: Students Doing Real Science, Douglas A. Golick, Diana M. Schlesselman, Marion D. Ellis, David W. Brooks

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

Bumble Boosters was a lottery grant funded cooperative project between the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, Department of Entomology, the Lincoln Public Schools, Science Focus Program, and the Lincoln Folsom Children’s Zoo. The primary education goal of the project was to create a community of learners to conduct authentic research on bumble bees in Nebraska. Participants were actively engaged in collecting bumble bees and placing nesting domiciles. Internet technology was employed to facilitate networking between project participants. Systematic evaluation was conducted during and after the project.

Acuta Enews June 2003, Vol. 32, No. 6

ACUTA Newsletters

In This Issue

ACUTA Annual Conference Headliners

The Value of Volunteering......................... Jeanne Jansenius, Univ. of the South

Leg/Reg lssues Matrix ls Available

Contributing Documents to the ACUTA Resource Library................ Dave Barta, Univ. of Oregon

Load-Lightening Technology Carries Heavy Acronym.......................... Kevin Tanzillo, Dux Public Relations

ACUTA Member Sites to See

Northwestern University Announces C-SPAN/C'SPAN2 Broadcasts via lnternet2

ACUTA Board Report......................... John Bradley, Rensselaer Polytechnic lnstitute

DC Update........................... Whitney Johnson, Retired, Northern Michigan Univ.

Welcome New Members

Hexapod Herald - Vol. 15, No. 3, June 2003

Hexapod Herald and Other Entomology Department Newsletters

Congratulations

Welcome

Graduate student news

From the office

Grants

Publications

Travel

Condolences

Relationships Among Relational Communication Processes And Perceptions Of Outcomes In Conjoint Behavioral Consultation, Priscilla F. Grissom, William P. Erchul, Susan M. Sheridan

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

Conjoint behavioral consultation (CBC), an extension of behavioral consultation, considers home and school settings when conceptualizing a student's difficulty (Sheridan, Kratochwill, & Bergan, 1996). A relational communication perspective was adopted to examine interpersonal control (i.e., attempts to influence and successfully influence) and its relationship to CBC outcomes. Consultant, teacher, and parent influence was measured in 20 CBC initial interviews using the Family Relational Communication Control Coding System (Heatherington & Friedlander, 1987), and outcomes were assessed regarding the acceptability/effectiveness of CBC, consultant effectiveness, and attainment of consultation goals. Results indicated that parental influence is associated with less favorable teacher ratings regarding …

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network – Spring 2003

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network

Content:

NESEN Name Change

NATS Annual Fall Conference, Looking for Presenters

AASG Meeting to be Held in Lincoln

USGS Fact Sheet on Lincoln Ground Water

Nebraska Forestry Shortcourse By Christine Meyer

An Exciting New Inquiry-Based Geoscience Field Course at UNL By Richard Levy

Bonnstetter Wins National Honor By Kylee Anderson

NESEN Web Features ‘Sites of the Week’ By Kylee Anderson

Studying disease ecology in ancient cultures leads to lessons in health management By Karen Stork

UNL Leads Program to Help Schools With Pesticide Use By Steve Ress

Governor to Proclaim ‘State Geology Week’ for Gathering of State Geologists By Aine …

Acuta Enews May 2003, Vol. 32, No. 5

ACUTA Newsletters

In This Issue

Board Approves State of Nominees

Bridging the Digital Gap................................. Jeanne Jansenius, Univ of the South

ACUTA Database of University Telephone Numbers Now Available Be a Moderator or Monitor in Hollywood

Speech-Enabled Auto attendants............................. Detta Donoghue, SDC, lnc.

Tech Talk: SDR: Making Radio All That It Can Be.............................. Kevin Tonzillo, Dux Public Relations

Dues lnvoices Mailed Marshall University Chooses Cell Phones over Landlines ACUTA Board Report............................. John Bradley, Rensselaer Polytechnic lnstitute

DC Update........................... Whitney Johnson, Retired, Northern Michigan Uniuv

Member Needs Assessment Coming Soon.......................Jeri Semer, CAE, Executive Director

Welcome New Members

Unopa Notes, Volume 41, Issue 9, May 2003

UNOPA Newsletters

No abstract provided.