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Consolation And The Work Of Mourning In Angéline De Montbrun, Thomas M. Carr Jr.

French Language and Literature Papers

The dynamics of this foundational text of Canadian literature come from its heroine's drive to resolve her overwhelming sense of loss. Angéline loses her father, her beauty, and the love of her fiance Maurice within the space of three pages against a backdrop formed by memory of the loss suffered at the Conquest. Indeed, reading the novel under the sign of resignation is a commonplace. Critics as diverse as the early Catholic reviewers, more recent biographically-oriented researchers, and Freudian and feminist commentators have underscored Angeline's attempts to resign herself to this succession of losses. To a lesser extent they have …

Collaborative Reasoning: Evidence For Collective Rationality, David Moshman, Molly Geil

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

Reasoning may be defined as a deliberate effort to coordinate inferences so as to reach justifiable conclusions. Thus defined, reasoning includes collaborative as well as individual forms of cognitive action. The purpose of the present study was to demonstrate a circumstance in which collaborative reasoning is qualitatively superior to individual reasoning. The selection task, a well known logical hypothesis-testing problem, was presented to 143 college undergraduates—32 individuals and 20 groups of 5 or 6 interacting peers. The correct (falsification) response pattern was selected by only 9% of the individuals but by 75% of the groups. The superior performance of the …

The Effects Of Conjoint Behavioral Consultation And A Structured Homework Program On Math Completion And Accuracy In Junior High Students, Robin K. Weiner, Susan M. Sheridan, William R. Jenson

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

The effects of conjoint behavioral consultation (CBC) and a structured homework program on math homework completion and accuracy in junior high school students (grades seven through nine) who were at risk for academic failure were investigated. A multiple baseline design across five participants was utilized. Follow-up data were collected approximately one month after CBC was completed, to assess maintenance over time. Four of the five students improved their completion rates during treatment. Accuracy rates increased during treatment, but to a lesser degree. At follow-up, three of the five students maintained or improved gains they made during treatment. One student who …

Chemically Mediated Foraging Preference Of Black Bears ( Ursus Americanus), Bruce A. Kimball, Dale L. Nolte, Richard M. Engeman, John J. Johnston, Frank R. Stermitz

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

The role of chemical constituents in the foraging behavior of black bears (Ursus americanus) was investigated using two field studies. Vascular tissue samples were collected from Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) trees recently foraged by black bears. Samples were extracted and analyzed by liquid and gas chromatography to determine carbohydrates and terpenes, respectively. Chemical data were subjected to correlation analyses and multiple regression to examine if they adequately describe observed foraging preferences. Free-ranging black bears also were offered a choice of four test diets that differed in content of carbohydrates and terpenes. Results indicated that forage preferences were …

Searching For Inclusion: Campus Conversations With People Of Color In Predominantly White Institutions, Maureen Eckloff, Venita Kelley, James Lee Hullinger, Alberta Nelson, Valdez Russell

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 3rd Annual National Conference (1998)

“The purpose of this study is to share perceptions of students of color regarding their perceived acceptance and inclusion in Nebraska’s public schools and universities.”

Summer Research Institute For Diversity In Biomedical Science, Dwight E. Lewis, Detris T. Honora

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 3rd Annual National Conference (1998)

“At Purdue University, we have recently developed a Summer Research Institute with the goal of establishing a new paradigm for advancing minority students toward graduate school and on to careers in research and teaching.”

Critical Moments: A Case Study Approach For Easing The Cultural Isolation Of Underrepresented College Students, Reshell Ray, Diane Gillespie

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 3rd Annual National Conference (1998)

“This workshop will familiarize participants with a cultural diversity case study approach for curriculum reform called “Critical Moments.” The program has a culturally diverse student body and a multicultural curriculum in the social sciences and . . . has won national and local awards for its retention and teaching of underrepresented students.”

An Interactive Model For Exploring The Concerns Of People Of Color In Predominantly White Institutions, Olasupo Laosebikan, Ann Wilson, Carla Triplet, Janet Camp, Neal Bowen, Sonali Gupta, Derise Tolliver

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 3rd Annual National Conference (1998)

“We present in this study, the stories of 22 graduate students of color (nine African Americans, eight Hispanic Americans, three Asian Americans, and two foreign students.”

Standardized Admission Tests And People Of Color: Addressing Avoidance And Stereotype Threat, Jay Rosner, Joseph Brown

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 3rd Annual National Conference (1998)

“This presentation will focus on the issue that many talk about, but very few individuals, universities or academic conferences seem to want to tackle head-on: how to improve the MCAT, LSAT, GRE, GMAT, SAT and other admission test scores of students of color.”

Black Racial Identity And The Search For Self: Confronting Intergroup Stereotypes And Conflict, John Leonard Harris

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 3rd Annual National Conference (1998)

“The reality of internal stereotyping is that its basis is in the Black experience in America. This phenomena, which has its roots in White racism and slavery, has possibly had as much of a negative impact on the Black experience as any other factor.”

Leadership Education Courses And Programs In Departments Of Agricultural Education, Susan Fritz, F. William Brown

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

This national study of post-secondary departments of agricultural education examined leadership and human resource management/development course offerings, course characteristics, future department plans, backgrounds of faculty, and related outreach activities. The majority of the courses were offered for undergraduate credit and were predominately required courses for agricultural education department majors. Nearly half of the departments offering these courses characterized their courses as nontraditional. Departments not offering leadership courses cited a lack of resources, institutional impediments and resistance, and lack of student demand as reasons for not offering the courses. Nearly half of the faculty teaching leadership education courses had traditional agricultural …

Gendered Landscapes Synergism Of Place And Person In Canadian Prairie Drama, Anne F. Nothof

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In an attempt to realize the relationship of character and landscape, recent Canadian Prairie drama has moved beyond the confines of theatrical space through a metaphysical evocation of place and time. The prairies are configured as an imaginative projection of the human psyche, expressed through images that are themselves a reflection of an interaction of human and elemental forces. In the works of three women playwrights in particular Gwen Pharis Ringwood's Mirage, Sharon Pollock's Generations, and Connie Gault's Sky and The Soft Eclipse, character has metonymic resonance: it is contiguous with place and time. The relationship with …

Review Of The Making Of Sacagawea: A Euro-American Legend By Donna}. Kessler, Gary E. Moulton

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The basis for this book is a good idea: to discover the factors that have made Sacagawea a legend and then examine the ways in which the legend has evolved. Indeed, the author has done an excellent job in tracing Sacagawea's changing image, but a series of missteps detract from her laudable intent. The book suffers from repetitiveness, questionable literary devices, and lengthy accounts of the obvious. Squeezing out the superfluous would have yielded a sturdier essay of appropriate proportions.

Sacagawea may be the best known member of the Corps of Discovery after Lewis and Clark. Although she served in …

The Probe, Issue 187 – April 1998

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

Thoughts... Robert H. Giles, Jr., President, NADCA
Vicar Takes Sunday Off to Join Hunt Marchers
Cat Contraceptive Approach Developed by Student Intern Michelle Meister-Weisbarth
California Trap Ban Initiative Submitted
Mourning Dove Debate Heats Up
Constitutional Amendment to require a "super majority" (2/3) vote on any wildlife issue on Utah Ballot
Sportsmen Gain Victory in New Jersey Case
NADCA Honors Wes Jones
WCFA Stands Up for Wildlife Management in New Mexico Case
Berryman Institute Announces 1998 Award Winners

More Reports From 4th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society

The Use and Effectiveness of Various Predator Control Efforts at a Colonial Waterbird …

Campus Racial Climate Policies: The View From The Bottom Up, Michelle Hughes, Rick Anderson, Julie Harms Cannon, Eduardo Perez, Helen A. Moore

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

We review the debates over campus multicultural goals from the perspective of university officials and again from the perspective of the policy target: students. We then assess a sample of student policy opinions and the role of campus experiences and diverse racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds in shaping those opinions. Often descriptive, this provides insights on working with diverse student populations. We focus our research on students because student voices are often unheard in education. Administrators are assumed to “know better” because of their years of campus experience or professional training.

Review Of Texas Wanderlust: The Adventures Of Dutch Wurzbach By Douglas V. Meed, Cary D. Wintz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Eight-year-old Emil Frederick "Dutch" Wurzbach arrived with his family in Galveston in early 1846 as one of the hundreds of German immigrants who sailed to Texas that year. He spent his childhood in central Texas, first at Fredericksburg, then in Austin, and finally on a farm outside Austin. At the age of eleven Wurzbach began a series of frontier jobs, largely with the army, herding livestock or working as a teamster supplying the scattered frontier posts south and west of San Antonio; he also served a brief stint in the Texas Rangers. He encountered legendary frontiersmen, fought Comanches and Apaches, …

Review Of Better Red: The Writing And Resistance Of Tillie Olsen And Meridel Le Sueur By Constance Coiner & Three Radical Women Writers: Class And Gender In Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, And Josephine Herbst By Nora Ruth Roberts, Linda Ray Pratt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

HARVEST SONGS AND ELEGIAC NOTES

"Writing about living subjects, especially those with whom one feels political and personal solidarity, is a touchy, even painful business," begins Constance Coiner in the introduction to her book on Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. Contemporary directions in scholarship have recognized that interaction and opened up the personal voice in the scholarly study. Putting aside the dream of disinterestedness, the scholar herself may become part of the subject. The traditions of an objective scholarship are especially hard to fulfill, even to honor, when the research is done in cooperation with a living author who …

From Compassion To Compensation: The Effect Of Injury Severity On Mock Jurors’ Liability Judgments, Brian H. Bornstein

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Two studies were performed to ascertain the effect of injury severity on participants’ judgments in a simulated jury task. Participants read a summary of a personal-injury case in which the severity of the plaintiff’s injury was varied: they were asked to judge the defendant’s liability, award compensation, and rate their feelings toward the litigants. In Study 1, more severely hurt plaintiffs were more likely to obtain a favorable verdict, even though evidence of liability was held constant. Greater severity influenced liability judgments only insofar as it elicited positive feelings toward the plaintiff or negative feelings toward the defendant. In Study …

Predictors Of Children’S Risk Appraisals, David Dilillo, Richard Potts, Susan Himes

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

This study explored variables associated with cognitive appraisals of physical risk in a sample of 62 elementary school children. Participants were presented with drawings of persons in three categories of risky situations typical of children, typical of adults, and typical of television plots. They were asked to judge the potential for physical injury in each. Results indicated that children tended to appraise risks in child, adult, and TV-plot risk situations differently, and that each type of situation was predicted by different variables. For the child situations, greater amounts of direct experience with the risk situation itself was found to be …

Computer Intensive Physics, Robert Fuller

Robert G. Fuller Publications

In the abstract packet for the conference is an article of references about ideas from cognitive studies that help us teach physics (Fuller, 1998). There is also a pamphlet of references to innovative physics teaching programs in the United States and many of those programs have world-wide web sites so you can access information about those programs from Portugal (O'Kuma, 1998).

I want to talk about my research project last year, which I now call "Computer Intensive Physics", but it really started out as paper-less physics.

Differentiating Withdrawal Patterns Between Smokers And Smokeless Tobacco Users, Dennis E. Mcchargue, Frank L. Collins Jr.

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

The present study was designed to document smokeless tobacco withdrawal patterns and to examine differential withdrawal responses between smokers and smokeless users. Participants (N = 19) were studied under deprivation and nondeprivation conditions, 1 condition per week. The Withdrawal Symptoms Checklist was administered to assess cognitive and affective changes. Both smokers and smokeless users experienced substantially more withdrawal at 48-hr deprivation compared to the 48-hr nondeprivation condition. Participants in both groups endorsed decreasingly fewer withdrawal symptoms from 0 hr to 48 hr on nondeprivation days. This downward trend suggests a need for stabilizing withdrawal responses before deprivation.

The Role Of Ease Of Retrieval And Attribution In Memory Judgments: Judging Your Memory As Worse Despite Recalling More Events, Piotr Winkielman, Norbert Schwarz, Robert Belli

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Abstract—Participants who had to recall 12 childhood events (a difficult task) were more likely to infer that they could not remember large parts of their childhood than participants who had to recall 4 events (an easy task), although the former recalled three times as many events. This pattern of results suggests that memory judgments are based on the experienced ease or difficulty of recall. Accordingly, the negative impact of recalling 12 events was attenuated when participants were led to attribute the experienced difficulty to the task rather than to the poor quality of their memory. The findings emphasize the role …

Assumptions Of Behavioral Consultation: After All Is Said And Done More Has Been Done Than Said, Thomas R. Kratochwill, John R. Bergan, Susan M. Sheridan, Stephen N. Elliot

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

The purpose of our article is to provide a reaction to the article by Noell and Witt (1996) regarding five fundamental assumptions underlying behavioral consultation, as well as react to a manuscript by Witt, Gresham and Noell (1996a) pertaining to their critique of some aspects of behavioral consultation. We provide a reaction to the alleged fundamental assumptions pertaining to consultation, specifically that (a) consultation is a superior use of resources when compared to direct intervention/therapy; (b) consultation is conducted collaboratively; (c) talking to teachers is sufficient to cause them to change their behavior; (d) teachers will generalize problem-solving skills developed …

The National Wildlife Research Center: Providing Innovative Solutions To Human–Wildlife Conflicts

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Welcome to the National Wildlife Re search Center (NWRC), the primary research facility within the Wildlife Services (WS) program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). NWRC provides scientific information on wildlife, its habitat, and its relationship to agriculture and public safety. Here at the Center and at our nine field stations, specialists conduct scientific inquiries into the problems of wildlife damage and look for solutions to these problems.

Adapt: A Multidisciplinary Piagetian-Based Program For College Freshmen, Robert Fuller

ADAPT Program: Essays

At 9:30 am, on Thursday, February 1, 1973, I was sitting in the Trianon Ballroom in the Hilton Hotel in New York City listening to a talk by John W. Renner on "Intellectual Development and Science Teaching", based on the work of Jean Piaget (Renner, 1972). During his discussion of how the world looked to a science student using concrete reasoning I had an "ah-ha" experience. When I got back to the UNL campus, I found out that Renner's talk was based on his earlier paper in the American Journal of Physics, "Are Colleges Concerned With Intellectual Development?" (McKinnon & …

Repeated Testing In Eyewitness Memory: A Means To Improve Recall Of A Negative Emotional Event, Brian H. Bornstein, Lesley M. Liebel, Nikki C. Scarberry

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Participants viewed either a violent, arousing film or a non-violent, control version of the same film. After viewing the film, they made three successive attempts to recall details of the event. Participants who were exposed to the negative emotional event were better than control participants at recalling details of the event itself, but they were worse at recalling details that preceded or followed the violence. Both groups of participants recalled significantly more information over successive recall attempts, suggesting that memory impairment due to arousal can be alleviated by repeated testing. Repeated testing was also associated with a small but reliable …

The Greatest Memory Teacher Ever: Review Of Memory’S Ghost: The Nature Of Memory And The Strange Tale Of Mr. M., By Philip J. Hilts, Brian H. Bornstein

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Although psychologists and neurologists have been familiar with the case of H.M. for years, this small volume makes his story—and what it can teach us about the functioning of memory—accessible to a much wider audience. Hilts has done a good job of piecing together H.M.’s early life, in the absence of any living relatives and all but a few written records. He recreates the life of a very normal youth in the 1930s and 1940s; normal, that is, until H.M.’s first epileptic seizure. In 1954, after several other treatments for the epilepsy had failed, H.M. (at age 27) had a …

Group Rebellion In The 1980s, Ryan Dudley, Ross A. Miller

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

The authors evaluate the ability of four theoretical approaches to account for the occurrence and severity of group rebellion in the 1980s. These explanations for rebellion are state responses and capabilities, relative deprivation, diffusion, and rational actor. Results indicate that relative deprivation and rational actor explanations were most important in accounting for the occurrence of group rebellion. On the other hand, state responses and capabilities and relative deprivation were the best explanations for the level of group rebellion.

Gender-Based Pay Gaps: Methodological And Policy Issues In University Salary Studies, Myra Marx Ferree, Julia Mcquillan

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Methodology is often a point of contention in gender-based salary studies. Although this debate seems at first to be merely about technical issues, it also has an important conceptual dimension. We argue that there are two competing implicit conceptions of discrimination, one institutional and the other individual, that underlie many such debates. We first contrast the preferred methodologies advanced by each side, the policy capturing approach and the flagging approach, and explore the theoretical meaning of their statistical models. We then describe a practical application of both methodological approaches in one specific salary inequity study. In conclusion, we reflect on …

Conjoint Behavioral Consultation And Social Skills Training: Enhancing The Play Behaviors Of Boys With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Denise L. Colton, Susan M. Sheridan

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

In this study, we demonstrate the use of conjoint behavioral consultation (CBC) as a model to join parents and educators in the shared development and implementation of interventions for students. A behavioral social skills intervention was delivered in the context of CBC to enhance the cooperative peer interactions of young boys diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A multiple probe design across participants was used. The mothers and teachers of 3 boys between the ages of 8 and 9 years who were diagnosed with ADHD and who were exhibiting performance deficits in their cooperative play behaviors served as consultation …