Presentation Resources

The Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools has available at no charge one-week loans for several DVD and VHS presentations. These may be checked out by contacting Holly Sexton, Office Supervisor, hsexton1@unl.edu . They may be used in your classes or for your personal or small group viewing. Posting them on a web site is prohibited without permission of the presenter and the Center.

Videos are available to check out from the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools; DVD and VHS copies of the following presentations:

SIGNATURE SERIES: Sponsored by the College of Education and Human Sciences, the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools and the UNL Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa:

• Fall 2006: New Ways of Thinking About Learning Disabilities: Putting Instruction Back Into the Definition by Jack M. Fletcher, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Houston.
• Spring 2006: See Jane Hit: Aggression and the New American Girl by James Garbarino, PhD, Maude D. Clark Chair in Humanistic Psychology, Loyola University, Chicago.

CREATING CONNECTIONS: A speaker series of the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools in collaboration with the Department of Educational Psychology.

• Spring 2007: Education That Gets Results: Social and Emotional Learning for School and Life Success by Roger Weissberg, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Education, University of Illinois - Chicago.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY SERIES: Sponsored by the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools.

• Spring 2007
  • So Your Data Are Not Normal - What's New?
    • Jim Bovaird, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology and Co-Director, CYFS Statistics and Research Methodology Unit
    • Andy Dwyer, MS, Consultant, NEAR Center
  • Approaches for Evaluating Measurement Invariance
    • Michael Toland, MS, CYFS Statistics and Measurement Consultant and Director, NEAR Center
    • Kevin Kupzyk, MA, CYFS Statistics and Measurement Consultant
  • Analytic Strategies for Dyadic Data
    • James Peugh, PhD, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Psychology
  • Single Case or Small-N Research Design and Data Analysis
    • Todd Glover, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, CYFS
    • Michael Toland, MS, CYFS Statistics and Measurement Consultant and Director, NEAR Center
• Fall 2006
  • Item Response Theory: Designing Psychometricall Sound Instruments
    • Michael Toland, MS, CYFS Statistics and Measurement Consultant and Director, NEAR Center
  • Accounting for Contextual Influences: Multilevel Modeling and Intervention Research
    • Jim Bovaird, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology and Co-Director, CYFS Statistics and Research Methodology Unit
  • Guidelines for Utilizing Accelerated Designs
    • Kevin Kupzyk, MA, CYFS Statistics and Measurement Consultant
  • Missing Data: What It Is and What You Can Do About It
    • Jim Bovaird, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology and Co-Director, CYFS Statistics and Research Methodology Unit
    • Michael Toland, MS, CYFS Statistics and Measurement Consultant and Director, NEAR Center
    • Kevin Kupzyk, MA, CYFS Statistics and Measurement Consultant
• Spring 2006
  • Mediator and Moderator Variables in Social Science Research
    • Tzu-Yun (Katherine) Chin, MS, Director, CYFS Statistics and Research Methodology Unit
  • Structural Equation Modeling: Implications for Testing Mediators and Moderators
    • Jim Bovaird, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
  • Research Design 1: Designing Effective Intervention Research
    • Todd Glover, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, CYFS
    • Jim Bovaird, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
  • Research Design 2: Power Analyses and Sample Size
    • Brett Foley, MS, Predoctoral Intern, CYFS Statistics and Research Methodology Unit

YOUTH VIOLENCE AND AGGRESSION IN FAMILIES, SCHOOLS, AND COMMUNITIES: RESEARCH AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS: Sponsored by the Center on Children, Families and the Law and the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools:

• Fall 2005:
  • Childhood Aggression and Gender: Boys Will Be Boys, But What About Girls? by Nicki R. Crick, PhD, University of Minnesota
  • Preventing Bullying Among Children and Youth: How Can Research Advise Our Efforts in a Post-Columbine Era? By Susan P. Limber, PhD, Clemson University
  • Real Boys and Young Men: Hearing Their Voices, Understanding Their Pain, Healing Their Disconnection-From Bystanders to Change Agents, From Violence to Empathy, From Research and Theory to Policy by William S. Pollack, PhD, Director of the Centers for Men and Young Men and the Director of Continuing Education (Psychology) at McLean Hospital; Assistant Clinical Professor (Psychology) in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
  • Bullying and Aggression in Schools and Families: What Works, What Doesn't Work by Andy Horne, PhD, University of Georgia