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2. Teacher-Performance Assessments: A New Kind Of Teacher Examination, Edward H. Haertel

Assessment of Teaching: Purposes, Practices, and Implications for the Profession

During the last week of July 1987,20 fourth- and fifth-grade teachers spent four days at a simulated assessment center in an elementary school. Each teacher completed 10 performance exercises on the teaching of equivalent fractions. The following week, 20 high school teachers of United States history spent four days completing a like number of exercises on the American revolution and the formation of the new government. These field tests were the culmination of over a year's work by the Teacher Assessment Project (TAP), sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, under the direction of Professor Lee S. Shulman at …

5. Teacher Evaluation In The Organizational Context, Linda Darling-Hammond

Assessment of Teaching: Purposes, Practices, and Implications for the Profession

Personnel evaluation in an organization provides a powerful metaphor for what is valued in the organization, how roles are construed, and which goals have de facto priority in the management of organizational affairs. The importance attached to this function says much about the organization's relationship to its clients, as well as the relationships among organizational members. The same can be said about the importance of evaluation in an occupation whose members share a common service mission. Indeed, evaluation plays a particularly critical role in an occupation that claims to be a profession. This chapter explores the role of teacher evaluation …

Assessment-Of Teaching: Purposes, Practices, And Implications For The Profession- Complete Work, Jane Close Conoley, James Y. Mitchell Jr., Steven L. Wise, Barbara S. Plake

Assessment of Teaching: Purposes, Practices, and Implications for the Profession

The Buros-Nebraska annual Symposia on Measurement and Testing are aimed at providing a forum for discussing important issues in the field of measurement and testing. The topic for the 1987 Symposium was "Assessment of Teaching: Purposes, Practices, and Implications for the Profession." This topic was selected because of the current interest in developing, designing, and implementing accountability programs for teaching that are present in many states and education programs. The complex nature of teaching, combined with the unique measurement issues for assessing outcomes in the teaching context, provided the basis for identifying the topic of teacher assessment for the 1987 …

Ec90-219 1990 Nebraska Swine Report, M. C. Brumm, Jan Mohrmann, Larry L. Bitney, Paula J. Fedorka-Cray, Pushpa Srikumaran, Sally A. Breisch, Steven J. Weiss, Gary A. Anderson, Donald G. Levis, Duane Reese, Luis Gama, Clyde Naber, Terry Radke, Edd Clemens, Alyce Zalesky, Dennis Schulte, Gerald R. Bodman, Marcus Milanuk, David P. Shelton, Joe D. Hancock, E.R. Peo, Austin J. Lewis, Mark A. Giesemann, Lee I. Chiba, Gary F. Louis, William C. Weldon, Robert V. Knox, Murray Danielson, William Ahlschwede, Rodger K. Johnson, Gregg Eckardt

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This 1990 Nebraska Swine Report was prepared by the staff in Animal Science and cooperating departments for use in the Extension and Teaching programs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Authors from the following areas contributed to this publication: Swine Nutrition, swine diseases, pathology, economics, engineering, swine breeding, meats, agronomy, and diagnostic laboratory. It covers the following areas: breeding, disease control, feeding, nutrition, economics, housing and meats.

The Law And Psychology Of Jury Instructions, J. Alexander Tanford

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Types of Jury Instructions ... A. Charging Instructions ... B. Admonitions

III. The Psychology of Jury Instructions ... A. Empirical Research about Charging Instructions ... 1. General Comprehensibility ... 2. Timing and Repetition ... 3. Cautionary Instructions ... B. Empirical Research about Admonitions

IV. Sense and Nonsense in the Courtroom ... A. The Supreme Court ... B. Jury Instruction Practices Generally ... 1. Charging Instructions ... 2. Admonitions ... a. Instructions to Disregard ... b. Limiting Instructions ... c. Procedural Default Doctrine ... d. Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Rule ... V. Suggestions for Law Reform ... A. …

"Testing" The Copyright Clause: Copyright Protection For Educational And Psychological Tests, Emily Campbell

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. How Educational and Psychological Tests Are Constructed ... A. Overview ... B. Selection of Test Objectives ... C. Selection of Items ... D. Selection of Item Response Style ... E. Deciding Whether the Items Written Are "Good" ... F. Standardization of the Test ... G. Reliability and Validity ... H. Conclusions

III. The Basis for Granting Copyright Protection to Educational and Psychological Tests ... A. Tests as Writings ... B. Tests as Original Works of Authorship

IV. Infringement and the Scope of Copyright Protection ... A. Tests as Factual Works ... B. Tests as Discoveries ... C. …

Evaluating Honors Programs: An Outcomes Approach, Jacqueline Reihman, Sara Varhus, William R. Whipple

National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs

The evaluation of academic programs has always been a complex and sensitive issue. Evaluations are undertaken to determine which programs will survive in an era of straitened economic circumstances, to gain or maintain accreditation, or to tell us how our programs can be improved. They may apply some normative standard of quality, 0r address an academic program's unique situation and mission. They may include the following: review of budget, evaluation of staff, description of the program's operation, demonstration of faculty and student satisfaction, or measures of what students have learned. They may use standardized or locally developed tests of achievement; …

1990 Nebraska Swine Report

Nebraska Swine Reports

1990 Nebraska Swine Report

Introduction Of 38th Session Of The Nebraska Symposium On Motivation, Richard A. Dienstbier

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

This 38th session of the Nebraska Symposium on Motivation coincided with the 100th anniversary of the teaching of psychology at the University of Nebraska (1889) and with the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Department of Psychology (1939). The originator of early psychological instruction here, and the person to whom all recent volumes of this Symposium have been dedicated, is Harry K. Wolfe, one of Wilhelm Wundt's first two American students. In part because of the significance of these anniversaries, and because of the identification of this Symposium with psychology at the University of Nebraska, the Symposium Committee and …

Social Anxiety And The Recall Of Interpersonal Information, Debra A. Hope, Richard G. Heimberg, John F. Klein

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Sixty subjects classified as high or low in social anxiety participated in a structured heterosocial interaction under conditions of either high or low social-evaluative threat. Following the interaction, subjects were asked to recall detailed information about the interaction partner’s appearance and the content of the conversation. Socially anxious subjects recalled less information and made more errors in recall than nonanxious subjects. Contrary to prediction, social-evaluative threat did not affect recall. Anxious subjects also reported greater self-focused attention during the interaction. High self-focused attention was associated with superior recall for nonanxious subjects but associated with more frequent omission errors for anxious …

The Early Motor Profile: Correlation With The Bruininks-Oseretsky Test Of Motor Efficiency1, Amy N. Spiegel, Kathleen M. Steffens, John E. Ryders, Robert H. Bruininks

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

A correlational study of the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency and the Early Motor Pro-file with 109 kindergarten children showed a significant relation between these two measures of mo-tor abilities. These results support use of the latter profile as a measure of motor development in preschool age children.

Rationality As A Goal Of Education, David Moshman

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

Abstract Those who believe education should involve more than learning facts often stress either (a) development or (b) thinking skills. A focus on development as a goal of education typically entails a conception of knowledge as organismic, holistic, and internally generated. In contrast, thinking skills programs commonly assume a mechanistic, reductionist perspective in which good thinking consists of some finite number of directly teachable skills. A conception of rationality as a goal of education is proposed that incorporates the complementary strengths and avoids the limitations of the developmental and thinking skills approaches. Rationality is defined as the self-reflective, intentional, and …

On Parasitic Discourse In Till Eulenspiegel: Can We Take It Seriously?, Priscilla A. Hayden-Roy

German Language and Literature Papers

The issue we are addressing here concerns how – or if -- we can take non-serious language seriously, or even legitimate it. Derrida wishes to consider marginal, parasitic, borderline cases, because they give him “insight into the general functioning of a textual system.” If we simply identify and banish the parasite, we will end up retracing the boundaries of convention; if we look at the parasite as part of a whole system, then our perspective goes beyond that of the insider. This has direct implications for how we interpret Till Eulenspiegel. We can retrace the banishments as they occur …

Spatial Memory In Seed-Caching Corvids, Alan Kamil, Russell P. Balda

Papers in Behavior in Biological Sciences

Our purpose in this article is to review the results of our studies of the mechanisms underlying cache recovery by members of the crow, jay, and nutcracker family. In this research program, we have combined psychological and ecological approaches to the study of memory, and the results demonstrate the utility of this interdisciplinary strategy. Unlike most psychological research on learning and memory, this research program originated in the study of how a particular species solves a particular ecological problem. It serves as an example of how natural history and ecology can provide the starting point for a research program that …

La Memoria Como Potencia Del Alma En San Juan De La Cruz, Elizabeth Wilhelmsen

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

Hace algunos años, Federico Ruiz Salvador comentaba que "seguía abierta la discusión" sobre el número de potencias del alma en el pensamiento de San Juan de la Cruz, y sobre las implicaciones antropólogicas de la cuestión} Aludía el estudioso carmelita a una verdadera polémica habida en años precedentes sobre si el alma, en la antropología sanjuanista, está dotada de tres potencias racionales autónomas - entendimiento, memoria, voluntad -, o si por el contrario, ostenta sólo dos - entendimiento y voluntad -, no siendo la memoria una potencia realmente distinta del entendimiento, sino meramente una función de éste. En el primer …

Attitudes Toward Corporate Responsibility: A Psycholegal Perspective, Valerie P. Hans

Nebraska Law Review

This article examines psycholegal aspects of corporate responsibility for wrongdoing, focusing in particular on public attitudes toward the responsibilities of corporations for harm caused by the corporations. The article draws on psychological theory and method to study the factors that lead people to hold corporations culpable for harms. One aim of the article is to begin to develop a systematic account of such judgment processes. Other purposes are to demonstrate the advances in knowledge about corporate wrongdoing that could be gained by incorporating psycholegal research and theory, and to draw the attention of psycholegal scholars to this fertile and inreasingly …

Table Of Contents, Vol. 69, No. 2

Nebraska Law Review

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Realism In Psychology And Humanism In Law: Psycholegal Studies At Nebraska, Gary B. Melton

Nebraska Law Review

I. The History of Law and Social Science at Nebraska … A. The Growth of the Law/Psychology Program … B. Sociological Jurisprudence … C. Experimental Jurisprudence … D. Social Science in Law … E. Psychological Jurisprudence

II. The Impact of the Nebraska Program

III. This Symposium in Jurisprudential Context

IV. Conclusion: Justice Blackmun as a Model

Appendixes

Dispositional Decisionmaking In The Juvenile Justice System: An Empirical Study Of The Use Of Offense And Offender Information, Alan J. Tomkins

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Historical Overview of Decisionmakers' Discretion in the Juvenile Justice System ... A. The Use of Psychosocial Information about the Offender in Juvenile Justice Decisionmaking ... B. The Use of Legal Information about the Offense in Juvenile Justice Decisionmaking ... C. Post-Adjudication Disposition Decisions: A Particular Case for the Use of Offender and Offense Information

III. Empirical Research on Dispositional Decisionmaking ... A. Previous Empirical Research Efforts ... B. The Present Study ... 1. Subjects for the Present Study ... 2. Measures Used in the Study ... 3. Results ... a. Descriptive Analyses ... b. Bivariate Correlations ... …

Preventing The Detention Of Noncriminal Mentally Ill People In Jails: The Need For Emergency Protective Custody Units, James R. P. Ogloff, David Finkelman, Randy K. Otto, Denise J. Bulling

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. The Jail Experience and Its Psychological Effects

III. Detaining Mentally Ill People in Jails ... A. The Prevalence of Mental Illness in Jails ... B. The Criminalization Hypothesis ... C. Importance of Addressing Mental Health Concerns in the Criminal Justice System ... D. Criminal Justice System or Mental Health System?

IV. Alternatives to Detaining Mentally Ill People in Jails ... A. Secure Mental Hospitals ... B. General Hospitals ... C. Private Hospitals and Mental Health Facilities ... D. Other Institutions ... E. Emergency Protective Custody Facilities

V. Statutory Restrictions for Detaining Mentally Ill People in Jails ... …

Fighting Fragmentation: Coordination Of Services For Children And Families, Mark Soler, Carole Shauffer

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Coordination of Services for Children ... A. History of Coordination of Social Services … B. Coordination of Mental Health Services for Children ... C. The CASSP Program ... D. The Willie M. Program ... E. The Ventura County Model

III. Characteristics of Effective Coordinated Service Programs ... A. General System Values ... 1. Clear Value Statement ... 2. Family-Centered Orientation ... 3. Broad Community Involvement ... 4. Involvement of the Educational System ... B. System Processes ... 1. Accessible Intake Location ... 2. Evaluation of All Needs at Intake ... 3. Case Management ... 4. Service Plan …

The Praise Of Folly: A Defense Of Practice Supervision In Clinical Legal Education, Stephen T. Maher

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. The Common Characteristic of Externships: Field Placement

III. A Categorization and Evaluation of Externships ... A. Case Supervised Clinical Programs ... B. Practice Supervised Clinical Programs

IV. The Weaknesses of Practice Supervised Programs ... A. Two Preludes ... 1. The Shift from Service to Education ... 2. Supervision: Changing Perspective ... B. An Evaluation of Other Concerns

V. Designing Better Practice Supervised Clinical Programs ... A. Prerequisites ... B. Course Component … C. Journals and Other Written Assignments ... D. Time and Activity Reports ... E. Placement Selection ... F. Program Materials ... G. Training and Monitoring …

Pathological Intoxication And The Model Penal Code, Lawrence P. Tiffany

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. The Model Penal Code

III. Pathological Intoxication Under the Model Penal Code

IV. Conclusion

Mental Stress And Workers' Compensation In Nebraska, Victoria L. Ruhga

Nebraska Law Review

In recent years, the number of claims for mental injuries resulting from work-related emotional stress—so-called “mental-mental” cases—has increased dramatically. This Comment examines the feasibility of allowing workers' compensation benefits for plaintiffs claiming mental-mental injuries. In Part II, this Comment addresses the origin of workers' compensation in Nebraska and will evaluate Nebraska's denial of relief for mental-mental injuries. In Part III, this Comment explores causation and workers' compensation decisions from other jurisdictions and contrasts the majority and minority positions. In Part IV, this Comment addresses various rules of statutory construction and interpretation and applies such rules to present workers' compensation statutes. …

Bureaucracy, Institutional Change, And Deegan’S Theory Of Core Codes And Liberating Rituals, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

In American Ritual Dramas: Social Rules and Cultural Meanings (Greenwood Press, 1989), Mary Jo Deegan presents a theory of core codes and communitas that implicitly challenges the present organization of sociological practice in bureaucratic structures such as universities. The rituals of modern academic sociology are permeated by the same core codes that Deegan finds in many modern participatory and media-constructed rituals, specifically: the codes of oppression (class and sex codes) and the codes of repression (bureaucracy and time codes). Sociology remains little more than a rationalization for repressive and oppressive social control mechanisms unless it convincingly demonstrates and acts upon …

Excavating Underappreciated Sociologists: A Survey Of Assumptions And Strategies In Archival Research, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Archivally-based research in the history and sociology of sociology (especially the recent work of Mary Jo Deegan on Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892-1918) powerfully demonstrates the central epistemological importance of excavating and rehabilitating the contributions of sociologists who have long been ignored by historians of sociology. Archival experience reveals that uncovering the unknown, the unwritten, or the unrecognized in the history of sociology frequently requires reversing the conventional wisdoms of sociological research. Ten archival research strategies are identified. These approaches are best adapted to long-term rather than short-term research programs. It is concluded that. the …

The Probe, Issue 98 - December 1989

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

THE PROBE National Animal Damage Control Association
DECEMBER 1989
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Spindrift Gazes, Ronald Charles Kurtenbach

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Spindrift Gazes is a collection of short stories that thematically relate to how human dignity is engendered and how that sense of dignity is challenged, undercut, and regained. These fictional constructions are particularly concerned with issues of transformation, how and why change takes place. Of particular emphasis is how differing kinds of human relationships are instrumental in the nature of those changes. Of fundamental concern is to give fictional form to human rights issues.

Advisor: Judith Slater

Assessing And Treating Social Skills Deficits: A Case Study For The Scientist-Practitioner, Stephen N. Elliot, Susan M. Sheridan, Frank M. Gresham

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

The goals of this article were to examine various empirically proven assessment and intervention methods that can be used to remediate social skills problems and to illustrate the utilization of these methods in a case study. The case study concerned a withdrawn elementary child, her teacher, and her parents in a joint consultative intervention designed to increase her interactions with peers illustrated in the course of assessment and treatment. Combining the manipulation of antecedent/consequent events with modeling or coaching procedures constituted an effective multimethod approach to providing psychological services.

Perception Of Climate For Change In The Work Place, Rose Marie Tondl

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This study assessed the perceptions of Extension agents, administrators and board members toward the climate for change identified as the need for change, openness to change, potential for change and participation in change. Age, their sex, years on Extension staff, FTE group, Research and Extension Centers, years served on the Extension board, size of community and site where one resides were variables selected to test research hypotheses formulated for this study. Theoretical concepts used to support this study were the Congruence Model of Organizational Behavior with a model identifying three problems of change based on the components of the organizational …