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The Use Of Goal Setting By A Mentally Retarded Woman To Increase Productivity And Reduce Errors In A Competitive Job Training Site, Rita J. Yasson

Student Work

What students who have mental retardation do upon graduation has become a major concern of the 80?s. Over fifteen years ago parents of moderately retarded adults expressed concerns about the quality of life their children experienced after graduation (Stanfield, 1973). Data from 120 parent interviews showed that 40% of their children worked in a sheltered work setting, 2% worked for a family business, 11% attended an activity center and a large portion of them, 44% were not employed or were in a habitation program. Over ten years later, another follow-up study indicated unemployment at a rate of 67% in the …

Mainstreamed Students Doing Community Service: The Positive Effects, Joanne Urgese

Disabilities

Since the enactment of public law 94-142 in 1975, public schools have been searching for ways to extend the opportunities for their handicapped students to receive more of their education with nonhandicapped peers. While looking for ways to do this they have also been concerned with the outcomes such placement would have on the students in such areas as social adjustment and academic achievement. The Shorehan-Wading River Middle School has had a program in place since 1973 which responds to this need. This program, called community service, is most effective in promoting positive mainstreaming in both the area of social …

Instructions To Authors At Caur, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

Instructions to authors of CUAR publications.

Assessment Of Recreational Needs In The Papillion/La Vista/Ralston Area, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

In December 1986, a survey was conducted by the Center for Applied Urban Research (CAUR) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha to assist a community group in determining whether there is sufficient market demand for a new YMCA facility in the Papillion/La Vista/Ralston area of Southwest Omaha. Residents in the area were surveyed to assess their current level of fitness activity, the specific activities in which they participated, their use of existing YMCA facilities and programs, the need for an additional YMCA facility, and the potential support for a new facility. The results presented in this report represent the …

Public Perceptions Of The American Red Cross In The Heartland Chapter's Service, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

The Center for Applied Urban Research conducted a telephone survey in December 1986, to learn more about general public perceptions of the American Red Cross in the Heartland Chapter's service area. This report presents the results of the survey, and provides an information base which can be used to assist the Heartland Chapter in its organizational planning and decision-making efforts.

Microcomputers In City Hall: Case Studies Of Their Uses And Effects, Donald F. Norris, Vincent J. Webb

Publications

Microcomputers first appeared on the commercial marketplace in 1976. Since then, an estimated 40 million microcomputers have been sold and more are being sold each day. A survey conducted in 1982 found that 13 percent of American cities owned microcomputers and that 35 percent planned to buy one or more microcomputers within two years (Norris and Webb, 1984). A follow-up survey conducted three years later found that between 75 percent and 90 percent of city governments owned microcomputers (Scoggins, 1986).

Materials For The Secondary Data Analysis Portion Of The Central City Area Environmental Scan, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

This material has been developed to assist in completing the secondary data analysis portion of your local This analysis is a prelude to your local session for economic development. environmental scan. strategic planning

Resident/Shopper Survey North Omaha Area, Omaha, Nebraska, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

In December 1986, a survey was conducted to determine the socioeconomic characteristics and shopping patterns of residents in an area of North Omaha that is being considered for retail development. This survey is part of a larger study being conducted by Applied Real Estate Analysis, Inc. (AREA) of Chicago, Illinois, for the Community and Economic Development Division of the Omaha Planning Department. The Community and Economic Development Division of the Omaha Planning Department contracted the Center for Applied Urban Research (CAUR) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha to analyze the survey data, compile the information, and prepare a report …

Does Values Education Belong In The Curriculum?, David W. Hornbeck

Curriculum

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am particularly enthusiastic about joining you to discuss values education. It is one of the three most important challenges favoring American public education. The other two, parenthetically, are: (1) Successfully meeting the needs of children and youth at risk of school failure; and (2) The availability of sufficient quantities of quality teachers. Frankly, the three are very much intertwined, but this afternoon I will focus on values education.

Job Match: Together For Good Business - Introductory Guide, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

This training kit was developed to demonstrate to business and industry personnel how individuals with special needs (individuals with disabilities and older persons) can be assimilated successfully into the labor force.

Job Match: Together For Good Business - Inside And Outside The Corporation: Human Relations Factor, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

The purpose of this module is to explain how a public relations program can facilitate the integration of persons with special needs into the workplace. It shows that persons with special needs have skills and experiences of worth to businesses and industries.

Job Match: Together For Good Business - Workers With Special Needs, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

The purpose of this module is to direct attention toward potential participants in the war k force. They include individuals 55 years of age or older and persons with disabilities--workers with special needs.

Job Match: Together For Good Business - Business Practices And Resources, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

This training kit, job Match: Together for Good Business~ is designed to assist business, industry, and human service agency personnel prepare to employ workers with special needs. Readers should refer to the booklet, Introductory Guide: How to Use This Kit, which explains the contents and purpose of the kit. Four instructional workers who are videotape are also modules address finding, hiring, training, and supporting older or who have disabilities. Audio-cassette tapes and a provided. This volume is a directory of businesses and human service agencies that are actively employing and placing workers with special needs.

Job Match: Together For Good Business - Building Effective Partnership: A Win-Win Approach, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

The purposes of this training kit are outlined in Introductory Guide: How to Use This Kit. This module explains partnerships between businesses and human service agencies. It emphasizes the development of working relationships between the public and private sectors. Thus, the design specifies preparation for using the materials and expected outcomes.

Job Match: Together For Good Business - Accommodating Individuals With Special Needs In The Workplace, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

The purpose of this module is to explain the systematic process needed to successfully employ people with special needs (individuals with disabilities and older individuals). This process may seem most useful to job developers and job coaches whose primary role is vocational training and job development. However, much of the material, particularly the chapters on job analysis (3), job matching (4), and adaptations (5) will be equally useful to employers. This training kit provides information that allows businesses, industries, and employing agencies to work cooperatively to design training and employment programs that meet the needs of individuals with special needs, …

The Classroom Researcher's Research Agenda, American Association For Higher Education

Higher Education

Involvement and critique from educators in dialogue with researchers is a critical element for achieving clarity about what research will benefit educational policy and practice. The AAHE Research Forum is convened annually to involve individuals committed to research and scholarship in higher education. The Forum stimulates educators' involvement in creating a research agenda that speaks to current educational concerns. Since each year's agenda is developed around the conference theme, educators and researchers can continually rely on the Forum agenda as an up-to-date source of research questions of common interest that flow from the year's most central educational issues. The Forum …

Nebraska Conference On Employment Of Persons With Disabilities, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

The conference was sponsored by the Nebraska State Developmental Disabilities Planning Council, Department of Health, and the Center for Applied Urban Research, University of Nebraska at Omaha. The conference convened at the Midtown Holiday Inn, Grand Island, NE, on Thursday, November 13, and concluded at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, November 14, 1986.

Nebraska Policy Choices: 1987, Russell L. Smith

Publications

Nebraska Policy Choices: 1987 represents the work of 14 faculty from the University of Nebraska's Omaha and Lincoln campuses. As last year, the authors are some of the leading experts in the state in their respective areas of interest. The depth of faculty capacity, coupled with the breadth and timeliness of the topics, combine to make Nebraska Policy Choices: 1987 an exciting publication.

Omaha Public High Schools' Graduates Attending Uno, Floyd T. Waterman

Publications

During the 1986-87 school year, the University of Nebraska at Omaha/Omaha Public Schools (UNO/OPS) Liaison Committee requested a study to determine how high school graduates from the Omaha Public Schools were progressing in their college careers at UNO. The author was asked to work with Paul Malcom of the Research Department of Omaha Public Schools to determine how the study might be conducted. Possible research questions were shared with the committee. The author met with Malcom to obtain lists of names of high school graduates.

Earlier, OPS conducted a survey of its high school graduates and developed a list of …

Public Awareness And Telephone Contact With The Mid-Plains Poison Control Center, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

The Center for Applied Urban Research (CAUR) conducted an evaluation of public awareness of poison control services available to Nebraskans by the MidPlains Poison Control Center (MPCC) in November and December 1986. This report presents the results of that analysis.

Dewey's Theory Of Experience: Implications For Service-Learning, Dwight E. Giles

Service Learning, General

Cornell’s Dwight Giles, Jr. relates John Dewey’s concept about education and experience to service-learning. Giles suggest a dialectical interaction between service and learning, which had implications for ensuring quality in service learning programs and for defining service-learning as a philosophy rather than as a type of program.

The Effect Of Feedback On Low-Goal Task Performance, Jeffrey David Klawsky

Student Work

This experiment was conducted to study the effect of feedback on task performance under a low performance standard (goal). Fifty-two undergraduate students were presented with the task of mentally summing seven single-digit numbers to solve a problem. Subjects either received a high or low goal for the number of problems to solve in 15 minutes, and continuous feedback or no feedback about how many problems they had solved. It was predicted that feedback would result in higher performance for high goal subjects and lower performance for low goal subjects. A marginal main effect of goal difficulty (p<.067) in the predicted direction was obtained, but no goal difficulty-feedback interaction. Possible explanations for the observed results are discussed along with implications for future research.

Roberts' Apperception Test For Children: Referred And Nonreferred Student Profiles, Evelyn Harm Headen

Student Work

The present study examined a recently published projective test, the Roberts Apperception Test for Children (RATC; McArthur & Roberts, 1982). The subjects were 58 students, grades 1-8, from a midwestern suburban school district. One-half of the students had been referred to the school psychologist for an evaluation, either because of behavioral problems or a suspected learning disability, or for routine three-year reevaluations (as required by law). The second group of students were randomly drawn except for the stipulation that they not have been previously referred for a psychological evaluation. All subjects were given the RATC; in addition, the majority of …

Reclaiming A Needed Resource: Minnesota's Youth, Minnesota Task Force On Youth Service And Work

Special Topics, General

Report and plan of action to Governor Rudy Perpich

The Effects Of Service Activities On Adolescent Alienation, Raymond L. Calabrese, Harry Schumer

School K-12

This research evaluated the effects of involvement of adolescents in community service activities on levels of alienation. It was proposed that alienation could be reduced through the implementation of a model which utilized community service activities to facilitate adolescent access to adult society, development of responsibility, collaborative and cooperative work, and control over planning and outcomes. It is suggested that adolescent involvement in service activities can produce positive benefits, among which are reduced levels of alienation, improved school behavior, improved grade point average, and acceptance by the adult community. These findings also suggest that females respond more positively to school …

Health Services Survey Of Residents Of Lexington, Nebraska, Curtis R. Winkle

Publications

The results of a health services questionnaire administered to over 300 Lexington area residents in April/May 1986 are presented in this report. The sample constituted 6.7 percent of the 4,507 households in the study area.

Primary Health Care In Omaha, Nebraska: A Case Study Of Nine Primary Health Care Centers, Stella G. Limson

Publications

The provision of health care has always been a declared policy of many governments, and every nation in the modern world has a health care system through which its people can get health services. The characteristics of these systems vary greatly with the nation's economic level and political structure.

Preliminary Study Of The Homeless In Omaha-Douglas County, Jeff Luke

Publications

Homelessness is not a new phenomenon. The period between the Civil War and World War I, for example, witnessed a large increase in predominantly male transients who followed an active labor market and formed a highly visible subcommunity called skid row. Today's homeless population, however, includes more women, children, and minorities and fewer single men and drifters than previous populations. In addition to changes in the demographic composition of the homeless population, most experts agree that the problem of homelessness is increasing.

Analysis Of Academic Achievement And Personality Traits Of Adult And Traditional College-Age Subjects, Mary Kay Bevars

Student Work

What was the relationship between personality traits and academic achievement? This study was designed to answer this question by surveying a group of 77 students enrolled in developmental reading classes in a junior college. Subjects completed a self-report personality test which measured eight personality traits and a measure of inherent aptitude. Achievement was measured by criterion referenced tests. Bivariate and multivariate correlations between measures of personality and measures of achievement were examined separately according to race, gender, and age (under 25 versus over 25 years). Results indicated that Vigor was the only personality trait which significantly correlated with achievement; however, …

Survey Of Uno Alumni, Karlo Dorsey, Jyothi Aranha, Vincent J. Webb

Publications

The purpose of this study was to obtain information from University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) alumni regarding their perceptions of various characteristics of the university. Alumni were asked to indicate their reasons for attending UNO, to rate various dimensions of the university, and to rate the importance of their UNO educations to their careers and lives. The questionnaire also gathered information on alumni pride in UNO and about alumni participation in continuing education programs.