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The Relationship Of Economic Welfare And Perceived Financial Adequacy And Satisfaction Of Omaha Retired Families, Sheran L. Cramer

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

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of economic welfare and perceived financial adequacy and satisfaction of Omaha retired families. Secondary objectives were to examine the relationship between economic welfare and perceived adequacy and satisfaction and selected demographic factors and between income and economic welfare as measures of economic situation. Selected Omaha retirees were asked to complete the survey providing the necessary information to compute the economic welfare measure, background information and items to determine perceived financial adequacy and satisfaction. Background information included marital status, sex, race, age, education, family size, health and living situation. In addition, …

Listing Of Membership Research And Resources

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Introduction, by LuAnn Wilkerson

Publications, Unpublished Documents, and Myself as a Resource:

Adult Education, Administrative Development, Educational Technology, Faculty Development - General, Faculty Development in Specific Discipline, Health Professions Education, Instructional Development, General Education, Organizational Development, Program Evaluation and Needs Assessment, Research Design, Student Development and Retention, Teaching Assistant Training, Teaching Evaluation, Teaching - Skills and Methods, Other

Research in Progress:

Administrative Evaluation and Development, Change, Innovation and Dissemination, Faculty Development Programs, Instructional Development, Needs Assessment, Retention of Students, Student Styles of Learning, Student Ratings of Instruction, Teaching - Faculty View and Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Medical Education, Other

Useful Resources …

Guidelines And Strategies For Conducting Meetings, Joan North

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

The phrase, "We've got to stop meeting like this" is taking on new meaning in higher education as colleges and universities experiencing tighter budgets search for new ways to increase productivity, reduce costs and, as always, raise morale. Traditional collegial governance has in common with newer unionized approaches to decision making one especially notable characteristic-the need for meetings and committees. A conservative estimate of a person spending five hours in meetings per week would add up to 10,400 meeting hours in that person's lifetime. Higher education is probably responsible for more than its share of the 11 million meetings occuring …

Letters To The Editor

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

To The Editor by Stephen C. Scholl and Joan North

Stevens and Marquette Reply: Dear Editor by R. Penny Marquette and George E. Stevens

General News: Pod's New Core Committee Members

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Contributors, Summer 1980

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Designs, Clare Rose

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

The evaluation models described in previous issues of the Quarterly represent some of the major paradigms of educational program evaluation; they have been used to guide many evaluations and they have influenced the thinking of many practicing evaluators. Models provide a broad base for designing evaluation activities by offering a framework and conceptualization that guides both the focus of the evaluator and the orientation of the evaluation. But models do not provide strategies for implementation. Guidelines are provided by the design, which establishes the conditions and procedures for collecting the data required to answer the questions of concern. The design …

Book Reviews, Spring 1980

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

The Scientific Basis of the Art of Teaching by N. L. Gage, reviewed by Charles A. Goldsmid

Toward a Methodology of Naturalistic Inquiry in Educational Evaluation by Egon Guba, reviewed by Lance C. Buhl

Executive Reticulater's Message, Lance C. Buhl

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

The important news of POD is all around what I write here. Elections for new members of the Core Committee will be in process or completed by the time this issue hits the street. Planning is well underway for an exciting Annual Conference in Berkeley, California next October 14-16. The Task Force on Membership is working diligently on membership retention and growth and mix. A Research Committee operates. So, too, a Professional Relations Committee. And Regional Representatives. And an Executive Committee. We've even a journal, by Juno!

The important message in all this is that POD is working relatively efficiently …

Questions And Answers And Informational Exchange (Spring 1980)

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

1. Information Needed on Common Research Interests

2. Information Available on Faculty Self-Analysis Program

3. Information Needed on a POD Membership Research Effort

4. Information Available on The Solution of the Attrition Problem and a Crediting Mechanism for Service-Learning Experiences

5. Information Needed on a Faculty Partnership Program

6. Information Available on a Bibliography on Collegial Evaluation

7. Information Needed on Copies of Policy Statements on Tests and Exams and Test Questions Currently Being Used on Your Campus

8. Information Available on a Diploma in College Teaching

9. Information Available on Team Teaching in a History Survey Course

10. Information …

Female Sexual Arousal And The Menstrual Cycle, Paula Englander-Golden Ph.D., Horng-Shing Chang, Mary R. Witmer, Richard A. Dienstbier

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Self-reports of sexual arousal were significantly affected by conditions under which they were elicited. Such self-reports in women not taking oral contraceptives were congruent with a hormonal basis for such arousal only when the women were “unaware” that the study investigated sexual arousal as a function of the menstrual cycle. The “unaware” condition was operationalized by means of daily self-reports elicited from males and females for 11 weeks under the guise of a study of biological rhythms. A composite of one to three menstrual cycles for 26 women not taking oral contraceptives showed that sexual arousal during the luteal phase, …

Taste-Aversion Learning And Its Implications For Rodent Control, Robert J. Robbins

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 9th (1980)

Although bait shyness has long been recognized as a problem to be overcome in the control of vertebrate pests, it has recently been suggested that the phenomenon might be turned to an advantage and used as an alternative, non-lethal form of control. Unfortunately, this technique has not proven to be as useful as hoped, as the work which has been done on coyotes is inconclusive at best and some recent work on rodents has cast serious doubts upon the method's potential. However, an extensive literature dealing with the formation of poison-based food aversions now exists, and insights gained from these …

Representation And Process In Reasoning About Logical Relationships, David Moshman

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

According to a popular conception of reasoning, the thinker first mentally represents given information and then processes the resulting representations. It is commonly assumed, at least implicitly, that difficulty of the representation step is solely a function of facility with the form and content of the information to be represented, while difficulty of the processing step is solely a function of facility with the operation(s) necessary to meet the task requirements. Within this two-step information processing model, form/content variables and task requirements should thus have an additive effect on problem difficulty. To test this prediction, 72 male students in grades …

An Assessment Dependent Upon Technology, F. Gregory Hayden

College of Business: Faculty Publications

"Technology and Economic Dependency: An Institutional Assessment,"' by Thomas De Gregori, deserves serious consideration because it reaches to the heart of a conflict in holistic economic systems analysis and planning. The major issue in the article revolves around divergent views regarding technology. One is that technology should dominate society by being made the primary determinant of policy evaluation criteria. Another view is that technology should be treated as a system entity, albeit a powerful one, which must be evaluated along with others. De Gregori's conclusions are based on the first view.

This comment will consider five aspects of De Gregori's …

Exploring The Cultural Content Of French Feature Films, Thomas M. Carr Jr.

French Language and Literature Papers

Of the many forms of realia at the disposal of the French teacher, the feature film can be the most engaging and rewarding. Nothing holds students' attention quite like a movie or gives them as vivid an experience of France, short of going abroad. Moreover, movies can furnish glimpses of milieus and personalities the average tourist or student rarely encounters. Instructors have been quick to make use of this potential in the classroom. In literature courses the movie version of a play or novel is compared with the original text. In civilization classes films are used along with supplemental readings …

1979-80 Pod Members

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

No abstract provided.

Ethnicity On The Great Plains: Preface & Introduction, Frederick C. Luebke

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Immigrants from Europe formed a major element in the population that settled the Great Plains in the nineteenth century; their descendants constitute the majority of persons in many parts of the region today. A century ago, as the agricultural frontier moved across central Nebraska onto what is considered the Great Plains, foreignborn persons consistently formed a much larger proportion of the inhabitants on the western edge of settlement than they did in the state as a whole. Some years later the census of 1890 revealed that in North Dakota, for example, 42.7 percent of the population of that newly admitted …

Legal Restrictions On Foreign Languages In The Great Plains States, 1917-1923, Frederick C. Luebke

Department of History: Faculty Publications

A major effect of World War I on American social history was that it focused attention on the nation's apparent difficulty in assimilating the millions of immigrants and their children who had streamed to the United States during the preceding two decades. The national mood, darkened by fears and resentments of long standing and deepened by systematic wartime propaganda, favored the adoption of stringent laws limiting the use of foreign languages, especially in the schools. During the war itself, restrictions were usually extralegal and often the consequences of intense social pressure recklessly applied. After the war, however, many state legislatures …

Ec80-552 Change : An Opportunity For Growth, Jill Jank, Sally Vanzandt

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 80-552 is about change: an opportunity for growth.

Ec80-2055 Why You Choose A Home - Castle, Cave, Or Igloo, Mary Dale Mcgregor, Kathleen Parrott

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 80-2055: Why you choose a home-castle, cave, or igloo.

Pod Directory Supplement, 8/6/80

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

No abstract provided.

Pod Conference 1980 - List Of Registrants

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

No abstract provided.

Sixth Annual National Conference Program

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Managing Transitions In The '80s: Institutional And Professional

Welcome to The Sixth Annual POD National Conference

The Conference Planning Committee

Schedule

Announcement of Featured Speakers

Preston Dickinson 1889·1930, Ruth Cloudman, Norman Geske

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

During the decade before the first World War, many young American artists went to Europe to study. A number of them, deeply impressed by the new movements in European art, returned home to develop their own approaches to abstract form and color. Preston Dickinson was one of these. Although the contributions of these artists to the growth of abstraction in American art have been undergoing a reappraisal for some time, Dickinson's place in these developments has not been evaluated and has remained somewhat unclear. He is best known for his association with the Precisionist movement of the 1920's, but even …

Optimal Foraging In A Uniform Habitat: The Search Mechanism Of The Green Lacewing, Alan B. Bond

Alan Bond Publications

The effects of food deprivation and prey contact on the components of searching behavior in larval green lacewings (Chrysopa carnea Stephens) were examined to test the applicability of optimal foraging theory to predation in a uniform habitat. Variation in foraging intensity was primarily the result of changes in the meander. Modulation of the response to prey contact with increasing deprivation involved changes in the velocity and the response persistence and suggested the occurrence of adaptation to inferred differences in the spatial distribution of the prey. The ratio of giving-up times at different levels of deprivation was in accordance with …

Learning Styles: A Tool For Faculty Development, Daniel W. Wheeler

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Grasha and Reichmann (1975) developed a questionnaire to assess student learning style. This instrument allows the student to identify preferred styles described as Independent, Dependent, Avoidant, Competitive, Collaborative and Participant. This material has been used in various faculty development programs.

Kolb (1976, 1977) developed a self-report instrument, The Learning Style Inventory, to measure perceived learning styles. The instrument uses as its basis the experiential learning model with its origin in the work of Jung (1923) and Lewin (1945).

The Learning Style Inventory has been used to assess individual preference for the four identified learning abilities as shown in Figure 1. …

Editorial Information, Winter 1980

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

POD Quarterly is a publication of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education. POD is an association of people bound together by an interest in improving higher education through faculty, instructional, and organizational development activities and programs. The Network was created in 1976 so that those who share common interests and concerns could exchange information, ideas, and resources; enhance professional skills; debate issues and strategies; and contemplate and plan for the future. The POD Quarterly is designed to further those aims through refereed articles about professional, organizational, and instructional development practice and research. It will also include …

Professional Trade Names: Unprotected Commercial Speech: Friedman V. Rogers, 440 U.S. 1 (1979), James L. Young

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. The Facts

III. Commercial Speech and the Supreme Court

IV. The Friedman Decision

V. Analysis … A. The Underlying Assumptions … B. Trade Names May Mislead: The Court’s Justifications … C. The Paternalistic Approach … D. The Friedman Impact

VI. Conclusion

Medical Malpractice In Perspective: Nebraska Hospital-Medical Liability Act, David J. Dempsey

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Historical Perspective … A. The Causes … 1. The Legal Causes … a. Contingent Fees … b. Res Ipsa Loquitor … c. Jury Verdicts … d. Meritless Litigation … 2. Medical Causes … a. Technological Advances … b. Heightened Public Expectations … c. Poor Communications between Health Care Providers and Patients … 3. Insurance Nightmares … B. The Costs … 1. Insurance Premiums …2. Defensive Medicine … 3. Emotional Distress … 4. Economic Effect upon Patients … C. The Legislative Response

III. The Nebraska Hospital-Medical Liability Act … A. Tort Law Modifications … 1. Limitations on Awards …