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Chapter 1: Piaget’S Theory And College Teaching, David Moshman

ADAPT Program: Essays

We will begin this chapter with a discussion of Piaget's account of general intellectual functioning at all levels of development: the nature of schemes, and the processes of assimilation and accommodation. This will lead us to his equally general (non-stage-specific) conception of how new knowledge is constructed: the processes of learning, development, and equilibration. At this point we will be ready to consider the stages of development that result from the equilibration process, with an emphasis on the state of formal operational reasoning. Finally, we will attempt to better understand the scope and limitations of Piaget's psychological work by comparing …

Agricultural Experiment Station News October 1982

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
FROM THE DIRECTOR'S DESK
Grants, Contracts and Cooperative Agreements - FY 1982
New AES Leadership
SAHS SEZ
EXPERIMENT STATION SEMINAR
INSTRUMENT REPAIR SERVICE
NEW AND REVISED PROJECTS
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
New Experiment Station Personnel
NEBRASKA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION PUBLICATIONS - September 1982

Father Absence And Reproductive Strategy: An Evolutionary Perspective, Patricia Draper, Henry Harpending

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Explanations offered by social scientists for the effects of father absence on children are reviewed; certain aspects of these interpretations are found wanting. Another explanation using theory from evolutionary biology is suggested: children show evolved, sensitive-period learning in early childhood which is linked to mother's pair-bond status or to mother's attitude toward males. As a result of children's perceptions a developmental track is established, which influences expression of reproductive strategy in adulthood. Male children born into matrifocal households exhibit at adolescence a complex of aggression, competition, low male parental investment, and derogation of females and feminity, while females show early …

Dark Adaptation With Interposed White Adapting Fields, Charles D. Bernholz, L. Spillmann, V. Daforno

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

It is proposed that dark adaptation following a moderate pigment bleach may nearly as well be carried out (and more conveniently) under low room lighting conditions as in complete darkness. To test this idea, dark adaptation curves were determined either immediately after the termination of a 3 min, 4.1 log td white preexposure field, or following 10 or 15 min of additional exposure to one of three low-level photopic (2.9, 2.4, 1.8 log td) backgrounds of white light. Dark thresholds measured after the additional exposure fell rapidly and reached the rod plateau of the normal dark adaptation curve with a …

Water Current, Volume 14, No. 5, September/October 1982

Water Current Newsletter

Research Framework Now Available
Overview Highlights Project
Computer Used to Irrigate
Conservation Tillage Studied
Aiken Says Law Vague
Sandhills NebGuides
OWRT Funds Transferred
Federal Funding Possibilities
New Staff Members

Nostalgic Reaction And The Canadian Prairie Landscape, Ronald Rees

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In psychology and psychoanalysis, nostalgic reaction refers to the behavior of people separated from familiar places and familiar pasts. Used professionally, the expression encompasses the entire range of behavior exhibited by the uprooted. It is used here in a limited sense to describe the efforts, both physical and imaginative, made by migrants from Europe and eastern North America to adjust t~ a difficult and unfamiliar landscape. Cut off from their homelands, migrants to the Canadian prairies and to the northern plains in general were forced to make a home of a new and, as one of them put it, "naked …

Women's Studies University Of Nebraska-Lincoln Newsletter, Phyllis Schroeder

Women's and Gender Studies Program: Information and Materials

In the last ten years 350 Women's Studies programs were established across the country. Their common aims tend to cover the following

1. To include the achievements and expenses of women traditionally neglected in the teaching of the widest possible range of subjects from English and Philosophy to Mathematics and Biology.
2. To integrate women's studies into the curriculum throughout the university system, what is being popularly referred to as "humanizing the current curriculum."
3. To increase Women's Studies faculty in areas not currently represented, such as the sciences architecture, and music.
4. To strengthen the Women's Studies program in such a way that …

The Arikara Indians And The Missouri River Trade: A Quest For Survival, Roger L. Nichols

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

By the time the United States acquired most of the Great plains through the Louisiana Purchase, many Indians of the upper Missouri River valley had encountered French, British, and Anglo-American fur traders in their homeland. Most Native Americans in that region seem to have welcomed the manufactured goods these intruders brought, but at the same time some objected to the whites' disruption of earlier trade patterns. Nearly all of the Missouri Valley tribes appear to have disliked some aspects of the fur and hide trade, and many violent incidents occurred. As a village dwelling tribe located along the Missouri River …

Review Of Sinclair Ross By Lorraine Mcmullen, Geraldine Anthony

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Devotees of Canadian and American prairie fiction will welcome this book, the first to treat the entire body of Sinclair Ross's work. Lorraine McMullen has done a creditable job of analysis and criticism. She begins with a biographical introduction and follows with a study of all of Ross's short stories and novels published from 1934 to the present.

The first critic to provide any details about Ross's life, McMullen illuminates the personality of this enigmatic prairie writer and, incidentally, corrects a few errors in Robert Chalmer's little book, Ernest Buckler and Sinclair Ross. Ross himself has maintained that creative …

Passion And Denial In Marl Sandoz's "Peachstone Basket", Fritz Oehlschlaeger

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The future reputation of Mari Sandoz will undoubtedly rest primarily on her nonfiction, especially Crazy Horse, Cheyenne Autumn, and Old Jules. Although Sandoz published a considerable body of fiction, it has not generally received critical acclaim. Moreover, she consistently expressed doubts about the quality of her fiction and thought her own strongest achievement was in nonfiction. As Scott Greenwell has noted, Sandoz "viewed herself primarily as a historian who only aspired to be a literary artist, and was struck again and again by the inadequacy of much of her fiction." When Virginia Faulkner, the editor of Hostiles and Friendlies, …

A Comparison Of Maternal Behavior In Three Species Of Voles (Microtus Pennsylvania, M. Pinetorum, And M. Ochrogaster) Using A Laboratory System, B. A. Mcguire, M. A. Novak

Eastern Pine and Meadow Vole Symposia

A system has been developed to describe and compare the maternal behavior of three species of microtine rodents within a naturalistic environment. The apparatus consists of two Interconnected Plexiglas-based tables with a peat substrate and hay cover. A pregnant female and her mate are placed within the tables, once the female has shown a thirty percent weight gain and pups can be felt by palpating her abdomen. Maternal behavior, as well as male-female interactions and information on pup physical and behavioral development, are recorded daily for twenty-five days immediately following parturition. Unrestricted observation of female behavior during neonatal, pre-weaning and …

Teaching Vertebrate Pest Control: A Challenge To Wildlife Professionals, Robert M. Timm

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Vertebrate pest control deals with wild animals that create health hazards, damage resources, or become a general nuisance. Some people prefer the terms "wildlife damage control" or "animal damage control" because they focus on controlling damage rather than controlling animals. This is an important principle. Vertebrate animals that cause damage often have many positive values. In dealing with these situations our objective should always be to reduce or prevent damage; this does not necessarily require the killing of animals. I use the term "vertebrate pest control" because I believe it is less ambiguous than "damage control." When I call an …

Wo111en!S Studies University Of Nebraska-Lincoln Newsletter, Phyllis Schroeder

Women's and Gender Studies Program: Information and Materials

This is UNL's first Women's Studies program newsletter. As members of the Women's Studies department, we feel it is important to have strong lines of communication between faculty and students, as well as with the general public.

We welcome readers' suggestions as to what format our next newsletter should have, and we also welcome any articles, book reviews, poetry, or other interesting items pertaining to Women's Studies.

Submit articles for the newsletter to Moira Ferguson's office in Andrews Hall. Your input would be very much appreciated. Thank.

Grab Samplers For Benthic Macroinvertebrates In The Lower Mississippi River, C. Rex Bingham, David B. Mathis, Larry G. Sanders, Eva Mclemore

United States Army: Publications

Data from 24 grab samples, eight each taken with the Standard Ponar, Petite Ponar, and Shipek grabs from a backwater habitat were statistically compared using one-way analysis of variance. Total grabs produced 5696 organisms and 24 distinct taxa. Results showed no difference in catch efficiency among grab samplers for distinct taxa, total densities, and densities of the dominant taxa: Lirceus sp., Ilyodrilus templetoni, Hexagenia sp., Limnodrilus cervix, Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri, Sphaerium sp., and immature Ilyodrilus. The Petite Ponar grab captured significantly fewer immature Limnodrilus. This was attributed to clumped distribution of these worms rather than difference …

Registration Information

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Letter, by Ike Morgulis (Chairman, 1982 POD Conference Committee)

A few last minute details ...

Montebello, Quebec, 1982 Attendees

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

No abstract provided.

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.

Interpretation In Editing: The Gallatin Papers, Barbara Oberg

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

I think I will plunge right in, and propose that not only is interpretive editing all that we can do, not only is it proper, but that it is the best chance we have of producing works of history which will stand as classics of historical writing. I want to use as an example of a good, classic, interpretive, edition of correspondence and published writings, Henry Adams's three-volume edition of Writings of Albert Gallatin. This is the edition of Gallatin's writings which scholars now have, and which they had for about the last century. In 1877 Henry Adams was engaged …

Plains Landscapes And Changing Visions, John Milton

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The plains landscape has always been a dominant factor in the lives of those people who confront it daily. Our recognition of pioneer nineteenth-century landscapes is a fusion in the mind of what we remember from early reports and visual images and our own personal vision of the land as it looks today. That concept of the pioneer landscape remains in our minds even as we respond to the contemporary landscape or through the imagination create our own. One reason, then, that pioneer landscapes are still important to us is that they have influenced our perceptions of the plains in …

Editorial Matter 1982

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Foreword, by Sandra Cheldelin Inglis and Stephen C. Scholl

Table of Contents

Empowerment In Academic Cultures: Whose Responsibility Is It?, Lance C. Buhl

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

I. Introduction

II. The Theme Encapsulated

III. Taking the Cultural Perspective

IV. Development and the Disempowering Paradigm

V. Taking Up the Empowering Paradigm

VI. A Note on Leadership References

The Creativity Of Being Marginal: A Style Of Generating Research In Education, John D. W. Andrews

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Forces That Shape Specific Research Questions

The Combination of Pure and Applied

Interplay between the Personal, Experimental, and the Public "Objective," Aspects of Events

The Clinical and the Experimental

Interdisplinary Interactions

Extending Practiced Skills into Novel Settings

The Creative Process

Theoretically and Conceptually Significant

Applicable and Usable

Of Direct Concern to the Setting in Which I Work

Amenable to Formal Research Procedures

Dissemination and Application

Assessing Student Understanding

Student Participation in Discussion

Transition from Student to Teacher

In Conclusion

References

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

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.

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.