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What Do We Know About The Impact Of Field Based Programs On Students?, Janet Eyler, Dwight Giles Jr.

Higher Education

The literature on field based education programs for undergraduates is voluminous, but surprisingly unhelpful in answering the most important question of all, "What difference does it make in the lives of students?" In this presentation we have focused on this largely unanswered question, first (1) examining the goals commonly held for such field experiential approaches as cooperative education, academic internships, field components of classes, and service learning then (2) discussing evidence for impact on students and finally (3) identifying critical gaps in our knowledge of how these programs affect students.

Communo Magazine, Fall 1993, School Of Communication

CommUNO Magazine

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Public Law 103-82 [H.R. 2010] September 21, 1993 National And Community Service Trust Act Of 1993, Corporation For National Service

Special Topics, General

An Act To amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to establish a Corporation for National Service, enhance opportunities for national service, and provide national service educational awards to persons participating in such service, and for other purposes.

Summary Of National And Community Service Trust Act, Serve America

Special Topics, General

The national service initiative is designed to address the nation's problems by mobilizing Americans of every background, but particularly young people, in service to our communities and country. The programs support service extending from our youngest elementary students to our oldest citizens, and will fund service ranging from part-time volunteer activities to full-time public service with educational awards.

Community Service Promotes, Marlow Ediger

School K-12

School and society are interwoven. not separate entities. Therefore, the goats of schools should be integrated with those of the surrounding community and society as a whole. Middle school student service helps integrate those goals.

Measuring Citizenship Project, Walt Whitman Center For The Culture And Politics Of Democracy

Evaluation/Reflection

Issuing out of the success of the Civic Education and Community Service Program at Rutgers University, in 1992 the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy embarked on a measuring citizenship project to explore the relationship between community, citizenship, and service learning. The Project's main goal is to develop a working, empirical instrument that will measure the impact of service learning and other forms of civic experience on citizenship. This civic literacy test will determine how service learning and other civic experiences, such as jury service or military service, effect an individual's perceptions and commitments to his …

S.T.A.R.T. Economic Development: An Overview, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

S.T.A.R.T. stands for Strategic Training And Resource Target­ ing-a self-help approach to local economic development. Today's rapidly changing economic climate requires new strategies and processes for managing local economic development. In fact, the successful communities of the future will be those that are able to rely on local initiative and resources to tailor their own economic development strategies. S.T.A.R.T. provides you with the necessary tools to determine your community's strengths and weaknesses, and helps you develop a strategic plan to improve your local economy.

S.T.A.R.T. Economic Development: An Overview, Uno Center For Public Affairs Research

Publications

S.T.A.R.T. stands for Strategic Training And Resource Target­ ing-a self-help approach to local economic development. Today's rapidly changing economic climate requires new strategies and processes for managing local economic development. In fact, the successful communities of the future will be those that are able to rely on local initiative and resources to tailor their own economic development strategies. S.T.A.R.T. provides you with the necessary tools to determine your community's strengths and weaknesses, and helps you develop a strategic plan to improve your local economy.

The Perceptual Weighting Of Speech-Related Acoustic Cues For 3 & 1/2-Year-Old Children Differs From That Of Adults: Results Using Natural And Synthetic Stimuli, Carol J. Manning

Student Work

Previous studies have found that children’s judgments of syllable-initial /s/ and / ∫ / are more related to the vocalic F2 transition and less related to the fricative-noise spectrum than are adults’ judgments [Nittrouer & Studdert- Kennedy, JSHR, 30 (1987); Nittrouer, J. Phon., 20 1992]. These results have been taken as evidence that young children organize linguistic input in units more closely approximating syllable size than phoneme size. Furthermore, such results have led to a model of speech development proposing that children’s weighting of the acoustic cues for phonemic categories changes as they gain linguistic experience, with a general shift …

Community Servicelearning And The Vocational Teacher, Robert D. Shumer

Guides

While many have tried to understand the notion of service-learning, no one seems to agree on one definition or description. A Wingspread conference in 1990 defined service-learning as both a philosophy and a program (Giles, Honnet, & Migliore, 1991). The National and Community I Service Act (1990) contained a four part definition which described characteristics and processes of service-learning, including reflective components which tie service experiences to a curriculum.

Community Service Program: Evaluation Information System Manual, The Commission On National And Community Service

Evaluation/Reflection

In 1990 Congress established the Commission on National and Community Service (CNCS) under the National and Community Service Act. The mandate of the Act is to test innovative and model programs to "renew the ethic of civic responsibility" through service to the community.

Looking For Help Long Overdue: Where Has Higher Education Been?, Robert Wood

Service Learning, General

For more than a decade, the American public has carped and complained about the condition of American education, Some have gone so far as to wring their hands over the apparent futility of reform efforts, Overall, the nation has found the state of its public elementary and secondary education unacceptable. It has especially lamented the tragic condition of urban public schools, yet it does not seem to know what to do about it.

Maryland Student Service Alliance Teacher Training Manual, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Maggie O'Neill

Guides

The Maryland Student Service Alliance definition of service-learning is:

Making a difference through actions of caring for others, in the school or in the community, through direct service, indirect service and advocacy, with preparation and reflection.

The most important word in the definition is Actions. Service is not intentions or plans or discussing ideas. Service is doing something to make the world a better place.

Service Learning Belongs, Allen Wutzdorff

Higher Education

he field of service learning is rapidly coming in from the margins of education as we move into the 1990s. Across the country, students and faculty alike are examining the learning potential of what is already a socially positive force. This growth is not unlike the growth of college internship programs in the 1970s and '80s, where increasing numbers of college students majoring in disciplines not traditionally associated with "experiential learning" were given the opportunities to test out and apply their knowledge and abilities in work settings. An important result of this move into the "real world" was, of course, …

Looking For Help Long Overdue: Where Has Higher Education Been?, Robert Wood

Higher Education

For more than a decade, the American public has carped and complained about the condition of American education. Some have gone so far as to wring their hands over the apparent futility of reform efforts. Overall, the nation has found the state of its public elementary and secondary education unacceptable. It has especially lamented the tragic condition of urban public schools, yet it docs not seem to know what to do about it.

H.R. 2335, June 8 1993, Committee On Education And Labor Bill, U.S. House Of Representatives

Service Learning, General

To amend certain education laws to provide for service-learning and to strengthen the skills of teachers and improve instruction in service-learning, and for other purposes.

A. Season Of Service: Introducing Service Learning Into The Liberal Arts Curriculum, Benjamin R. Barber, Richard Battistoni

Service Learning, General

We live in times when rights and obligations have become uncoupled. Individuals regard themselves almost exclusively as private persons with responsibilities only to family and job and yet possessing endless rights against a distant and alien state in relationship to which they think or themselves, at best, as watchdogs and clients and, at worst, as adversaries and victims. The idea of service to country or to the institutions by which rights and liberty are legitimized and sustained has fairly vanished.

American Federalism, State Governments, And Public Policy: Weaving Together Loose Theoretical Threads, Dale Krane

Public Administration Faculty Publications

Decisions about the provision and delivery of public goods and services take place within the framework established by America's most distinctive political invention-federalism. Author after author reminds students and scholars alike that policy making can be understood only from an intergovernmental perspective. But to use a term such as ''intergovernmental policy making'' thrusts one into two distinctive analytic worlds which, at best, are loosely woven together.

Mothers' And Fathers' Perceptions Of Parenting One-Month Old Infants With Respiratory Distress Syndrome Or Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia, Nancy Marron

Student Work

Recent significant advances in the field of neonatology have resulted in increased rates of survival of infants who are born prematurely (Avery & Taeusch, 1984). Although mortality rates have decreased, many of these children and their families may be faced with complications related to prematurity, extended hospitalization, numerous lifesaving medical procedures, and a lengthy recovery.

Developing Community Partnerships Through Service Learning Programs, Jay Cooper

Partnerships/Community

Community service programs have existed on college campuses for years but did not fully emerge as they have during the past 10 years. More than 700 volunteer programs exist at colleges and universities throughout the country (Fioerchinger, 1991). National organizations such as the Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL), the Campus Compact, and the National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE) have served to stimulate and firmly establish service learning as a movement and an educational priority in this country. In addition to the emergence of college service programs and national organizations, programs such as the National Student Clean-up for Hunger, Into …

Attracting Primary Jobs: A Guide For Nebraska Communities, Robert F. Blair

Publications

Local economic development can be described as the efforts of community leaders to stimulate business investment and employment to preserve or improve the quality of life in a community. Development objectives are often identified through a formal planning effort, structured public discussion, or other formal and informal processes. Objectives are the specific actions needed to meet broad community development goals. These economic development objectives selected by communities may include diversifying the area economy, increasing opportunities for employment, or expanding the local tax base.

Broadcast Managers And The No-Compete Clause, Michael L. Hilt

Communication Faculty Publications

The no-compete clause has become an expected part of a broadcast news employee's contract. Covenants not to compete are contract provisions in which the employee agrees not to engage in a trade or business competing with the employer (Carter, 1992). The covenant not to compete is of particular interest to both the station and the employee (Emory Law Journal, 1982}. These covenants attempt to limit the employee from performing specific duties in competition with a former employer for a specific period of time, in a specific geographic area.

Rural Development In The Information Age, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

Workshop Proceedings: Building Partnerships for Community Development-- Rural Development in the Information Age, April 5 and 6, 1993.

The Effects Of Gender Of Observers And Victims On Perceptions Of Fairness In Unjust Situations., Laura Leah Josoff

Student Work

The effects of gender of observers and victims on perceptions of fairness in unjust situations were investigated. Subjects participated in group sessions and were blocked by gender and then assigned to either the disadvantaged female (read a composition concerning a femal who received poor outcomes) or disadvantaged male (read a composition concerning a male who received poor outcomes) group. After reading the composition, subjects completed a questionnaire which was related to the composition. It was expected that the perception of fairness would depend upon the gender of the perceiver as well as the gender of the victim. Specifically, females would …

A Comparison Of The Extroversion-Introversion Scale Of The Mvers-Briggs Type Indicator To The Handwriting Traits Which Indicate Extroversion Or Introversion: A Graphology Validity Study, Steven G. Bode

Student Work

The primary purpose of this validation study was to determine whether there was a significant relationship between the extroversion-introversion scores on the Myers- Briggs inventory and the following graphometric characteristics: handwriting slant, midzone size, space between lines of writing, the space between words in writing, width of left margin, and width of right margin.

Subjects for the study were drawn from a course offered by the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) counseling service. This course was designed for students who were uncommitted to a major. Most students were freshman. A total of 49 subjects were studied. Data were collected …

Educational Requirements Of Omaha Area Engineering, Scientific And Technical Companies, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

Educational requirements questionnaire tabulations.

Community Development Needs In Nebraska: Attitude Survey Results And Local Action Strategies, Russell L. Smith, Robert F. Blair

Publications

Each S.T.A.R.T. Economic Development community administers a community attitude survey to local residents. Generally the survey serves at least two purposes. One is to collect information about the attitudes and behavior of local. residents. For example, respondents are asked to rate a variety· of community services, programs and organizations. The questionnaire also collects information about shopping behavior and local preferences about economic development.

National Youth Service: A Developing Institution, Donald J. Eberly

Service Learning, General

Twenty years ago, it was rare to find students integrating community service with their formal education. The phrase "service learning" had been born only a few years earlier, and was not yet in common usage.

Today, service learning is fairly common in high schools and their surrounding communities. Many high schools and a few school systems have made it a requirement for graduation. And the federal government now supports service learning both with exhortation and with dollars.

Using Csl With Special Education And Reading Resource Students, Barbara Carter Ellis

School K-12

During 1992, as my students and myself created a community service learning opportunity, we were introduced to the fun of researching statistics, to developing our problem-solving skills and to the complexities of geography. But most of all we, as a team, learned ways to improve the ways in which we worked with each other in small groups, in our classrooms and in our community.

Outline Of Legislation: National And Community Service Trust Act, Corporation For National Service

Special Topics, General

The national service initiative is designed to tackle the nation's problems by mobilizing Americans of every background, and particularly young people, in service to our communities and country. The programs extends support for service from the youngest elementary students to our oldest citizens, and includes everything from part-time volunteer activities to full-time public service jobs. The centerpiece of the effort to support service is a new program to offer educational awards to Americans who make a substantial commitment to service.