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The Design Of Intellectual Experience, Donald L. Finkel, G. Stephen Monk

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Why Teach?

The Dilemma of Sharing

Sharing Intellectual Experiences

An Example

Eloise and the Philosophers

Eloise's Diary

Sample Quotes

Principles of Design

Diverse Applications

Conclusion

References

Suggested reading list

The Dreaded Discussion: Ten Ways To Start, Peter Frederick

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The conspiracy of silence is breaking up: we are learning to talk more openly about our joys and fears as teachers, our achievements and frustrations in the classroom. As I have listened to my colleagues talk about their students and their classrooms, the one fear and frustration mentioned more than any other, as for Henry Adams, was in leading a discussion. No matter how many articles on technique we read, or workshops we attend, the dreaded discussion continues to bother us more than any other part of our daily teaching lives. Freshman seminar and discussion-based core programs continue to develop. …

Instructional Improvement Through Individual Consultation, Deborah E. Simpson, Kathleen A. Dalgaard, Clyde A. Parker

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Theoretical Bases:

Theory 1: Instructional Interaction

Theory 2: Student Differences

Theory 3: Change

The Approach

An Example:

Step 1: Identify the Instructor's Major Concerns

Step 2: Challenge Instructor's Concepts of Teaching

Step 3: Formulate Alternative Teaching Approaches

Step 4: Evaluate New Approach

Conclusions

References

The Scholar-Practitioner Dilemma, Robert J. Menges

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Purpose of These Papers

The Contributors

Discontinuities Between Preparation and Practice

Undergraduate Reactions To Teaching Assistants, Robert J. Menges, Jeremy Wilson

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

A Survey

General Characteristics of Respondents

Perceived Quality of Teaching

How Time is Spent

How Time Should be Spent

Experience with Other Teaching Assistants

For Further Investigation

University Committee Survey

References

Teaching With Charisma, James D. Milojkovic

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Cold Cognition vs. Hot Cognition

A Profile of the Charismatic Teacher

Developing a Charismatic Teaching Style

Towards Charismatic Teaching

The Challenge of Charismatic Teaching

References

The Path Of Passionate Inquiry: A Comment On Smith, Young, Weathersby And Andrews, Michael M. Piechowski

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The Outsider's Journey

The Shared Journey

Themes in Common: Teaching and Learning

Themes in Tension: Science and Art

Toward Resolution: From Image to Model

References

A Mathematician's Journey: From Applying The Pure To Purifying The Applied, Ronald A. Smith

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

I Searched for the Theory

Some Potholes and Detours

Is Teaching a Science?

Experience: A Better Teacher

I Needed Skills Too

Looking at My Learning

My New Perspective

A Really Good Problem

A Lovable Theory at Last

Does the Model Fit the Facts?

My Research and Practice Married

References

Effect Of A Teaching Consultation Process Upon Personal Development In Faculty, Mary Deane Sorcinelli

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Design

Results and Discussion

Table I

Changes in Teaching Skills and Behaviors

Summary and Conclusions

References

On Doing Intellectual Work: Grasping The Power Of The Gestalt, Rita Weathersby

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

A Transformative Gestalt

What Led Me to These Questions

Research as Perspective Transformation

Gathering and Analyzing Data

Relevance and Cooperation

Standards of Scholarship

Influencing Other Researchers and Practitioners

Protecting Time for Intellectual Work

References

Tanning My Hide With Research, Robert E. Young

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Some Central Intellectual Issues

Some Specific Research Questions

Research Methods

Negotiating with Participants

Standards of Quality

Wider Influence

Getting Everything Done

References

The Bead Game: Response Strategies In Free Assortment, Alan B. Bond

Alan Bond Publications

Subjects were presented with a collection of spherical beads of four different colors and were instructed to sort them as fast and as accurately as possible. The sequence in which the beads were sorted was recorded, along with the time intervals between successive beads. Subjects were observed to sort in nonrandom sequences, producing runs in which a given bead type was taken exclusively. The speed and accuracy of the sorting process was positively correlated with the degree of nonrandomness of the sorting sequence. This relationship appeared to be primarily attributable to perceptual factors involved in the initiation of a run …

Constructing Solutions To The Problem Of Solving Physics Problems, Robert Fuller

ADAPT Program: Essays

In this presentation I will lift up for you some of the tentative answers that have been found to the question of how do people solve physics problems. This presentation is as much inspirational as it is informational. It is the intent of these remarks to provoke you into investigating the current research on how people really do solve physics problems.

A Survey Of Employee Perceptions Of Information Privacy In Organizations, Richard W. Woodman, Daniel C. Ganster, Jerome Adams, Michael K. Mccuddy, Paul D. Tolchinsky, Howard Fromkin

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

In this study of employees in five multinational corporations, assessment was made of (a) employees' beliefs regarding the types of personal information stored their companies, (b) the accuracy of those perceptions, (c) reactions to various internal and external uses of this personal information, and (d) evaluations of the companies' information handling policies and practices.

Personal Computers And Behavioral Observation: An Introduction, John H. Flowers, Daniel W. Leger

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Some fundamental aspects of observational data are outlined, and some basic issues in implementation of small computers in observational research are discussed.

Some Simple Apple Ii Software For The Collection And Analysis Of Observational Data, John H. Flowers

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Two general-purpose software packages for collecting and analyzing observational data from a variety of settings are discussed. One package is designed for coding mutually exclusive behavioral states using the Apple’s keyboard as an input device. The other is designed to monitor temporally overlapping behaviors, and it makes use of the Apple II’s built-in game-control button inputs to indicate up to three behavioral states that may occur simultaneously.

Social/Behavioral Science Contributions To Our Understanding Of The Pedestrian Experience: A Brief Review, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Social/behavioral research of the last decade has set the stage for major advances in our understanding of pedestrians and their world. Many of these ideas could radically change our approach to planning for pedestrians. However, full-scale realization of these perspectives during the next ten to twenty years will depend, in very large part, on our receptivity as practitioners to new goals, motivations, and research methodologies which are presently gaining momentum within the social/behavioral disciplines. The discussion here reviews the. emerging outlines of this happy renaissance in pedestrian research and. underscores the philosophical, ideological, and methodological issues which are so central …

Transactions Of The Nebraska Academy Of Sciences And Affiliated Societies Volume X July 1982 Front Matter

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

No abstract provided.

An Idiographic Approach To Organizational Behavior Research: The Use Of Single Case Experimental Designs And Direct Measures, Fred Luthans, Tim R.V. Davis

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

The underlying assumptions of the dominant nomothetic (group-centered, standardized, and controlled environmental contexts, and quantitative methodologies) and idiographic (individual-centered, naturalistic environmental contexts, and qualitative methodologies) research perspectives are examined. An interactive theoretic (i.e., real people interacting in real organizations) for organizational behavior is suggested-a theoretic assumption that lends itself to an idiographic approach. Intensive single- case experimental designs and direct observational measures are proposed as a potentially powerful methodology for idiographic research of organizational behavior.

Response Strategies In The Radial Arm Maze: Running Around In Circles, Sonja I. Yoerg, Alan C. Kamil

Papers in Behavior in Biological Sciences

The effects of the size of the central arena on the use of response strategies by rats on an eight~arm elevated maze were examined. The size of the central arena had no effect on accuracy, but the use of adjacent arms increased significantly with a larger central arena, regardless of the size of arena to which rats were first exposed. These results are interpreted in terms of foraging efficiency.

Spatial Learning As An Adaptation In Hummingbirds, Susan Cole, F. Reed Hainsworth, Alan Kamil, Terre Mercier, Larry L. Wolf

Avian Cognition Papers

An ecological approach based on food distribution suggests that hummingbirds should more easily learn to visit a flower in a new location than to learn to return to a flower in a position just visited, for a food reward. Experimental results support this hypothesis as well as the general view that differences in learning within and among species represent adaptations.

Are There Mental Inferences In Direct Perceptions?, Dan D. Crawford

Department of Philosophy: Faculty Publications

While there is virtually a consensus among contemporary philosophers of perception that some form of direct realism is true, there is less than complete agreement about whether normal, direct perceptions involve mental inferences in any sense. In taking another look at this recurrent question, my aim is twofold: first, to examine some of the arguments and evidences that have been offered in favor of inferences and to see if they can be accommodated within the direct realist framework, and second, to attempt to clarify and defend the insight of direct realism that normal perceptions are noninferential.

The Effect Of Flanking Context On Visual Classification: The Joint Contribution Of Interactions At Different Processing Levels, John H. Flowers, Noreen Wilcox

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Flanking characters that surround a target character may cause either facilitation of or interference with target classification, depending on experimental context. In three different experiments, the patterns of facilitative priming and interference were shown to change systematically as a function of onset asynchrony between flankers and target, illustrating differing time courses of the overlapping processes that each contributes to overall reaction time performance.

Effects Of Contextual Information On Behavior Of Calidris Sandpipers Following Alarm Calls, Daniel W. Leger, Jami L. Nelson

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Two classes of individuals-signalers and recipients -xist in all animal communication systems (Wilson 1975, Smith 1977). Signals make information available and recipients use this information when "choosing" a response (e.g., Leger and Owings 1978; Seyfarth et al. 1980a, b). Contextual information, which exists outside signals, is also usually available to recipients and may be appraised by them when selecting a response (Smith 1965, 1977). Consequently, to fully understand the responses of recipients we must identify contextual information in addition to signal-conveyed information.

Vertebrate "alarm" signals (signals emitted in the presence of potential predators) may be multi-functional and appear to vary …

Not On Our Shelves: A First Amendment Analysis Of Library Censorship In The Public Schools, Arlen W. Langvardt

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Traditional Control of School Operations … A. Power of Boards of Education … B. Parental Challenges to Local Board Control of School Operations

III. The Emergence of Students’ First Amendment Rights … A. The Tinker and Its Relevance to Library Censorship Cases … B. The Scope and Extent of Students’ Constitutional Rights

IV. Evolution of the Right to Receive or Know

V. The Library Censorship Cases … A. The Minarcini Approach … B. The Second Circuit Approach … C. The Zykan Approach

VI. Implications of the Approaches Taken in Library Censorship Cases … A. The Preferable Approaches …

Prison Disciplinary Procedures And Judicial Review Under The Nebraska Administrative Procedure Act, Josephine R. Potuto

Nebraska Law Review

In October 1976 Ronald Reed escaped from the Lincoln Work Release Center and was subsequently convicted of and sentenced for the crime of escape. His escape also served as the basis for a prison disciplinary proceeding before the Nebraska Penal Complex Adjustment Committee in February 1978. As a result of that hearing, Reed lost all his accumulated good time and was placed in the Nebraska Penal Complex Adjustment Center for six months. The disciplinary committee action was affirmed by the Nebraska Penal Complex Appeal Board. Reed then sued in district court for reversal of the disciplinary committee decision. The district …

Searching For A Liberty Interest: The Prisoner's Right To Due Process: Connecticut Board Of Pardons V. Dumschat, 101 S. Ct. 2460 (1981), David Detar Newbert

Nebraska Law Review

In order to facilitate an understanding of the current state of prisoners' protected rights, this Note first discusses the historical development of those rights. It then examines the Connecticut Board of Pardons v. Dumschat opinion in light of the previous decisions of the United States Supreme Court regarding prisoners' due process rights. Finally, this Note discusses Dumschat's role in the Court's continued narrowing of the threshold criteria required for prisoners to establish liberty interests worthy of constitutional protection.

I. Introduction

II. Historical Rights of Prisoners

III. The Dumschat Decision … A. Lower Court Opinions … B. Supreme Court Decision …

Cuban Women In Popular Culture, Mary Jo Deegan

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Popular culture is, by and large, a disruptive influence on the Cuban goal of equality for women. This rather strong statement is based on a short visit to Cuba, but fairly extensive data sources. These include daily bombardment by muzak, two evenings at nightclubs, five Cuban long-playing record albums, three women's magazines and a popular music booklet, visits to the Bay of Pigs Exhibition, and the viewing of national-sponsored television. In other words, during even a brief stay, the visitor is in frequent contact with Cuban popular culture.

There are two origins of Cuban popular culture: foreign and indigenous. The …

Walking Into The Night – An Exercise In Integrated Pedestrian-Oriented Facilities Design, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Several of the ideas and approaches outlined in the sections above were implemented as exercises in a joint, graduate-level community planning/landscape architecture design seminar at Iowa State University during the 1980/81 winter academic quarter. Students were challenged to approach the environments utilized by pedestrians in an integrated, holistic manner. A specific focus was required for the course, however, and the co-instructors chose to concentrate on the character of the pedestrian environment as it is experienced when walking at night.

A review of the literature would lead the planner/designer to conclude that the pedestrian environment largely disappears after dark. With the …

An Evaluation Of The Nebraska Career Information System, Donnalee Heather Van Zante

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

The specific objectives of this study were to compare the extent of knowledge possessed by students in Nebraska Career Information System (NCIS) schools and those in non-NCIS schools with regard to: (1) work factors as well as a knowledge of the interests and abilities which relate to these factors; (2) postsecondary school entrance and financial requirements, schools which provide training for specified occupations, together with knowledge of employment opportunities available in those occupations; (3) knowledge of working conditions, including work settings, wage scales, and the salary necessary for a beginning wage. Additional objectives were to compare the extent to which …