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Evaulation Workgroup Initial Proceedings, Learn And Serve America

Evaluation/Reflection

The following sessions are included: Learn and Serve Data Collection; Rolling Up Local Evaluation Results into a State-Wide Evaluation; Answered and Unanswered Questions About National Service; The Disappearing Handprint: A discussion about how to ascertain the impact of Learn and Serve America K-12 when integrated within a system - within an institution.; and Using Community Resources, Especially College/University programs;

Methods Of Evaluating Student Performance Through Service Learning, Kathleen Davis, M. David Miller, Wellesley T. Corbett

Evaluation/Reflection

Service learning* includes a myriad of activities that are currently being implemented at all levels within school settings. But while thousands of service-learning projects involve over one million K-12 students nationwide, measurement alternatives for assessing their impact on students and programs are sparse. The purpose of this document is to try to outline some approaches that might be used in examining the effectiveness of service-learning activities. Effectiveness can include cognitive, behavioral, or affective measures. In addition, effectiveness can be measured for students, classes, or programs. Each of these areas of measurement and units being examined could potentially be measured by …

Index, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Index for volume 96.

Extension Outreach Opportunities Among Segmented Dairy Producers, Robert L. Parsons, Gregory D. Hanson, Ae Luloff, Jr Winsten

Journal of Extension

A survey of 874 dairy farms indicates challenges for Extension educators to address differentiated needs of dairy farmers. Confinement producers will focus on educational issues relating to larger farm and herd size, and higher milk production, to stay competitive. Intensive grazing producers, being somewhat younger, more highly educated, and having recently adopted new technology, are likely to innovate and incorporate formal planning processes to improve grazing performance. Farmers using traditional production techniques present a unique challenge because they are likely to shift toward specialized confinement of grazing systems to improve competitiveness. The low indebtedness of traditional producers is conducive to …

Perceptions Of Corporate Crime: Assessing The Seriousness, Dale J. Ardovini-Brooker

Masters Theses

Many studies have been done concerning the seriousness of traditional street crime. There is a need in the field of criminology to expand our knowledge about how serious corporate crimes are. A key feature of seriousness is how researchers measure it. Using a survey, I analyzed people's perceptions of corporate crime. I had the respondents indicate the seriousness of the crime and harm by using a Likert Scale as well as identifying the appropriate sanction/sentence for the company convicted of the crime. This proved useful in attempting to identify how seriousness is measured by the sanctions/sentences imposed by the respondents. …

Cardiac Rehabilitation: Gender Differences In Factors Influencing Participation, Lani Lieberman, Marta Meana, Donna E. Stewart

Psychology Faculty Research

This study investigates gender differences in the barriers and incentives that are most influential in the coronary patient's decision to participate in cardiac rehabilitation (CRPs) and suggests strategies to counter these barriers. Patient surveys were administered to consecutive English-speaking attenders and referred nonattenders to a cardiac rehabilitation center at a university healthcare system in Toronto, Canada. A survey questionnaire, constructed from a literature review and advice from key informants, examined potential factors affecting decisions to engage in CRPs. One129 attenders at a CRP and 61 referred nonattenders completed the questionnaire. Physician recommendation was reported to be the most important factor …

What Is School For? Dilemmas Of Secondary Education In Bush Alaska, Lawrence C. Hamilton

Faculty Publications

The remote towns and villages of bush Alaska confront dilemmas in the design of secondary education. Systems based on a single statewide boarding school, or alternatively on small schools in each individual community, have both been tried. Debates about these two approaches reflect a more basic question: What is the purpose of secondary education? Should it (A) prepare students to become functional members of their home communities, or (B) prepare them to compete for education and jobs elsewhere? This question has implications for all aspects of educational design, and indeed for the future of rural villages themselves.

A paper presented …

The Relationship Between Organizational Culture And The Practice Of Program Evaluation In Human Service Organizations, Lorraine Marais

Dissertations

There are many obstacles for human service organizations in evaluating programs. Some of these barriers are the difficulty in defining human behavior and the change that needs to be evaluated, human service programs that take a long time to show results, agency capacity to do evaluation, and cost (Young, Hollister, Hodgkinson, & Associates, 1993). Another subtle yet powerful influence on the practice of evaluation in nonprofit organizations may be organizational culture (Schein, 1990). If an organization is going to employ self-evaluation, an organizational culture may be needed that will support such efforts. This study was designed to assess the relationship …

Meaning In Family Mealtime, Ardyth Gunnell Cannon

Theses and Dissertations

This project asks families what mealtime together means to them. The topic of family mealtime appears comparatively infrequently in academic literature, and any meaning that families associate with mealtime has seldom been studied directly. This particular research investigates meanings of the understudied mealtime event by interviewing three or four generations of family members from five different families. Attention is paid to emerging standards of rigor for qualitative research, namely applicability through the selection of families who have a history of practicing a family mealtime tradition, truth value in faithfully representing the interviewees perceptions, and auditability by including detail of the …

Religious Discourse On The Conflict In Nagorno Karabakh, Hratch Tchilingirian

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Locating Traitorous Identities: Toward A View Of Privilege-Cognizant White Character, Alison Bailey

Faculty Publications - Philosophy

I address the problem of how to locate “traitorous” subjects, or those who belong to dominant groups yet resist the usual assumptions and practices of those groups. I argue that Sandra Harding’s description of traitors us insiders, who “become marginal” is misleading. Crafting a distinction between “privilege-cognizant” and “privilege-evasive” white scripts, I offer an alternative account of race traitors as privilege-cognizant whites who refuse to animate expected whitely scripts, and who are unfaithful to worldviews whites are expected to hold.

Concurrent Tribal And State Jurisdiction Under Public Law 280 , Vanessa J. Jimenez, Soo C. Song

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.

From Knowledge Extended To Knowledge Created: Challenges For A New Extension Paradigm, Mildred E. Warner, Clare Hinrichs, Judith Schneyer, Lucy Joyce

Journal of Extension

Traditionally the practice of Extension has been described as "knowledge applied" or "knowledge extended." More recently, the research community has begun to recognize Extension's role in creating knowledge. Beyond Extension's contribution in setting agendas for future research, this movement recognizes Extension's capacity to participate as a full partner in the research process. This article critically assesses a research collaboration in New York where Extension agents were full research partners. The unique challenges for both the research and Extension partners are articulated and discussed.

Technological Issues For Improving Access To Internet Web Sites For Rural Users, Scott A. Samson

Journal of Extension

Internet web site developers can improve accessibility to their sites by rural clients through awareness of technological challenges encountered by their potential market. Some rural users, especially those in impoverished areas, face problems with reliability of telephone services and dated computer technology. These technological issues can have an impact on the effective use of the web as a mechanism for data and information delivery. Web site developers can accommodate some of these limitations through simple web page design and less reliance upon relatively more advanced web programming languages such as ActiveX and JAVA.

1998-1999 Operating Budget (Final Printing), Southern University System. Office Of Finance & Administration.

All Southern University System Budgets

The Southern University at Shreveport-Bossier Operating Budget Final Printing.

1998-1999 Operating Budget (Final Printing), Southern University System. Office Of Finance & Administration.

All Southern University System Budgets

The Southern University at Shreveport-Bossier Operating Budget 1998-1999.

School Deans, Department Chairpersons, And Program Directors 1998-1999, Saint Mary's College Of California

Chairs and Program Directors lists

No abstract provided.

The Editor's Notebook, John L. Sorenson

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

Introduction to this issue.

Monitor Newsletter July 27, 1998, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

Trends. Nonproliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction: India, Iran, And The Proliferation Of Dysfunctional Maxims, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses two recent events that underline a cognitive challenge for political authorities engaged in stemming the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Wilson, Ruth Rowe Oral History Interview, Don Nicoll, Rob Chavira, Stuart O'Brien

Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection

Ruth Rowe was born in Waterville, Maine on June 6, 1914. Her parents were Hope [Chandler] and Harry Rowe. Hope was a housewife and Harry was the dean of Bates College. The family moved to Lewiston when Ruth was very young. She attended Lewiston public schools, graduating from Lewiston High School in 1932. She then went to Bates College, where she was active in the YWCA, debating, and student government. She majored in sociology and economics, and took several biology classes. She graduated from Bates in 1936, the same year as Edmund Muskie. She married Val Wilson, a Bates graduate, …

July 22nd 1998, Hispanic News

Inland Empire Hispanic News

No abstract provided.

Coffin, Frank Morey Oral History Interview, Don Nicoll, Stuart O'Brien, Rob Chavira

Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection

Frank Morey Coffin was born in Lewiston, Maine on July 11, 1919. His parents were Ruth [Morey] and Herbert Coffin, who divorced when Frank was twelve. Ruth raised Frank alone on Wood St. in Lewiston. She came from an active Democratic family, her father was Mayor of Lewiston from 1907 to 1912, and eventually she became a Democratic State Committeewoman. Frank graduated from the Lewiston public schools, and then went on to Bates College, graduating in 1940. While at Bates he debated under Brooks Quimby, and majored in economics. He then went off to Harvard to continue his education. He …

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 023, Number 02, July 20, 1998, Grand Valley State University

1998-1999, Volume 23

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Acknowledging The Crisis In Social Liberalism: A Call For A New Approach To Teaching Social Policy, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

A graduate social policy course at West Virginia University has been redesigned by a senior faculty member and lead instructor to recognize advances in political philosophy and to confront the decline of the social liberal welfare state and the rise of populist radicalism, through civic engagement by citizen-professionals.

Madiba 80th Birthday Bash July 18, 1998, Desmond Tutu

Archbishop Desmond Tutu Collection Textual

Speech written by Archbishop Tutu for Nelson Mandela's 80th birthday.

The Ucf Report, Vol. 21 No. 1, July 17, 1998, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

Hollywood discovers professor: Bob Jones' film script honored at film festival; Physical Plant goes on night shift; Campus police embracing new patrol: Officers are walking, biking to get closer to public they serve.

July 13, 1998, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Counseling In Turkey: Current Status And Future Challenges, Suleyman Dogan

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

In this article a special emphasis is placed on the current status and the future challenges of counseling in Turkey. A brief history of counseling in Turkey, current developments, and the basic issues in this field are pointed out. Finally, the future challenges and recommendations to improve the current status of counseling are discussed.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 06/12 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Counseling in Turkey : current status and future challenges / Suleyman Dogan.