The UNL Counseling Psychology program has outstanding resources for its students. The Buros Center for Testing, an internationally recognized organization, has supported advancements in testing since 1938. The Buros Center publishes critical reviews designed to support the informed selection of commercially available tests and provides auditing and accreditation services, performs psychometric research, consultation, workshops, and contractual oversight.
The Nebraska Evaluation and Research (NEAR) Center's mission is to promote sound statistical and research practices. The center serves as a hands-on training program for graduate students in the Quantitative, Qualitative, and Psychometric Methods (QQPM) program and provides, free-of-charge, statistical consultation for our students and faculty.
The mission of the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools (CYFS) is to improve our understanding of optimal ways that parents, teachers and other service providers in family, school, and community contexts can promote the intellectual, socioemotional, and behavioral adjustment of children and youth. CYFS receives multi-million dollar grants annually on studies that focus on the well-being of children, adolescents, and families.
The Office of Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research (OQMMR) is another internationally-recognized organization. OQMMR promotes the use of qualitative and mixed methods research, provides expertise for proposals and funded research projects, and offers support for faculty and, to a limited extent, for graduate students in the College of Education and Human Sciences, who are designing and conducting qualitative and mixed methods studies.
The Center for Instructional Innovation (CII), which was established at the University of Nebraska in 1993 through Regential action, was formed to ". . . apply basic research from cognitive psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science to the design and evaluation of educational practices in the nation's schools." It provides evaluation and research support to projects funded by NSF, U. S. Department of Education, and other government agencies and groups.
The Nebraska Prevention Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NPCADA) was established in 1979. NPCADA develops innovative theory-based programs to address critical health behavior-related issues and then “spins off” these programs to other organizations dedicated to reducing health risks and equipped to carry on programs in the community. NPCADA developed Nebraska’s first alcohol, tobacco and other drug curriculum for middle schools, established the first alcohol and drug information clearinghouse in the USA, produced a series of educational television programs for middle schools and high schools on the immediate physiological effects of tobacco use and social pressures resistance skills for tobacco, alcohol, and drinking and driving, conducted the first school-based surveys of alcohol and other drug use, and developed measures to describe smokeless tobacco expectancies. In the last decade NPCADA has developed indigenous resources to conduct health education development programs in China and Thailand and developed measures to describe alcohol expectancies, alcohol-related self-efficacy, and cultural orientation among adolescents in China.
Other offices and centers are available to our students both through the department and the College. Many of these provide full and part-time assistantships for our students and are a source of excellent academic and financial support for them. For more information on any of the above Program Resources please click on the appropriate link on the left side of this page.
